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I listed 36 items, all from my piles. I worked on full box of M A Hadley dishes, a box of meh coffee mugs that just needed photos, and some Pyrex. I find that I enjoy listing the art, now that I give myself permission to give up after 10 minutes on finding out if the artist is famous or not. Still avoiding the fabric and I didn’t list the armpit item. I’m not so great with the mini challenges.
There are still boxes on the floor to list from at this point so I hope to reach that goal in a week or two. Happily though the right side is starting to be replaced by listed instead of unlisted inventory. The left side is all listed so I’m physically seeing progress now on the piles.
I also went to a few garage sales, an ending estate sale, and a really disappointing church sale. Nice to go out but hardly bought anything. Ended up getting some storage bins for free or cheap that will fit on top of the bankers boxes on my built in garage shelves. Later on I will do some reorganizing of the unlisted stuff.
Good luck with kitty Julie.
Well I guess I’m glad it’s not just me, thanks. I’m not the type to give up on this but I’m literally blocked from contacting them.
I missed the armpit challenge. I had a curb pick up that is two large midcentury art panels with fragile pieces. I’ll work on that one this week.
Agree. It just spoke to me. With this item and another recent one I initially thought they might be unique but found them on Google lens while listing and they are not that rare. Still both sold in a few weeks on the higher pricing end of solds, so I’m happy.
Total Items in Store: 679
Items Sold: 9Gross Sales: $245.55 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $167.01 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $12
Highest Price Sold: $37 (Vintage toy treasure chest)
Average Price Sold: $27.28
Returns: 1 broken item (refunded, filed claim)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: under $20
Number of items listed this week: 38Right there with you selling unremarkable lower dollar items but grateful they sold. I’ve been digging into my piles and finding some cool things (Midcentury artwork) but then did a box of random coffee mugs (bought in 2014!) that I either decided to keep at garage sale time or missed :(. I kept thinking of what my picker friend said about this stuff not being worth my time. But, I already culled a bunch of the piles and it is nice to just grab a box of junk and finish it off. It’s not as satisfying as it once was because I feel like I used to get a more immediate payoff of sales once I got cooking with listing. This is kind of strange because with Terapeak and best offer I should be pricing more accurately than I was back then.
I hope it’s a decent week for all. Have fun birthdays R&J!
I listed 38 items and have more that just need pictures. Yeah!
Good for you Amatino! I hope you enjoy working in your newly organized space.
As I get into listing the piles I am able to consolidate a bit and soon everything will be off the floor of the garage and fitting onto the shelves. I’m excited about reaching that goal.
Pretty excited about these items I thrifted last week. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235040346524 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/334901951987 These fish plates are highly collectible.
It was a very lower dollar kind of week but this was a fun vintage item I sold. I love to buy nautical stuff. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334797718341
There is definitely cool stuff on Goodwillfinds and it gets marked down. Most of the items I like are coming from the Pacific Northwest location. I was hoping people would forget about the site but about half of my liked items are selling when I check back at prices higher than I would pay. You can’t return, ask questions and the descriptions aren’t good – it’s a bit of a risk.
Not yet. I have one other picker friend who I had told about the podcast, but he’s mainly an antique booth guy.
Luckily, they are looking for different items with some overlap with me in vintage smalls. I told this friend he can have the shoes – I can’t stand the smell. He said I’m welcome to the linens.
He’s an experienced Ebayer and this is his store below. He said he has had an antique booth before but doesn’t like to pay the high rent here. I think he does some Facebook Marketplace as well. Also interesting about him – at one point he got a job at Goodwill probably to cherry pick. I should ask him about that sometime.
This is an interesting observation about promoted listings. I’m still at 4%.
Total Items in Store: 642
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $338.01 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $199.60 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $70
Highest Price Sold: $89 (set of four new plates)
Average Price Sold: $56.34
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $9
Number of items listed this week: 47It felt slower than this. At least half the days without sales. A bit concerning that several of the items were from my now scarce RA inventory. I got back in the Ebay saddle with listing and it used to be a couple of years ago that would result in good sales a day or two later. Not so much lately. Should have good listing time the next couple of days. I’m also not shopping and really getting into the randomness of my piles. It’s nice to have a variety of items to choose to list. I’m embarrassed to say that I listed things this week with stickers from 2014! I’m moving items from one side of the garage wall to the listed side gradually. We are having an extended period of heavy marine layer without afternoon clearing that is making it difficult to take well lighted photos.
I have become more friendly with an old time picker. We were talking at Goodwill and he invited me to run over to the newly wheeled out cart with him lol. He is irked by difficult customers and likes to share briefly. He always reminds me that there is so much here, though I have found thrift store pickings to be pretty thin lately. He says the estate sales are generally overpriced in our area and he sticks to the thrifts and garage sales. It’s always interesting to talk to local resellers. I told him some of my piles are $15 items I wouldn’t buy now and he said “you are better than that”.
Have a great week!
