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@Amatino thanks!
You guys are getting me excited for garage sales but I need to stay clear and continue to work the piles I think mostly. There is a small school rummage sale next weekend and the big college recycling event coming in June. I plan to let myself go to those.
Amatino – looks great.
Steve have you ever found any Witco art or furniture? I’m guessing one day you will score it and the person won’t realize what they have. Thanks for continuing to post tye whet sold videos. I try to watch on YouTube and like.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234990994447?ViewItem=&item=234990994447 Not the most exciting item but it sold immediately so that makes me excited. Also I thought it was wood and when I went to list discovered it was plastic but someone still got excited about it.
Total Items in Store: 608
Items Sold: 4
Gross Sales: $150.69 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $84.79 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $8
Highest Price Sold: $45 (New Slip sleep mask)
Average Price Sold: $37.67
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $15
Number of items listed this week: 20Well not a great week. I did have a good day yesterday, thankfully. I’m noticing that some things that used to sell regularly for me are very slow – like craft kits.
Went to Bed Bath and Beyond this week to check out the clearance and it was as I expected very disappointing on the discounts. I heard they were going to liquidate quickly but Christmas was only 20% off and most things 10%. Surprisingly a lot of the shelves were already clearing. Not a good source for me.
I’m a bit frustrated as a couple of the thrifts have adopted new labels that are super tough to get off most surfaces. Apparently people were trying to switch tags. No thanks to them for this nuisance. The thrifting has not been great lately to say the least, and I’m almost to the point of being glad for the piles but still have too much backlog. However, things are looking better and better around here. I debated and then decided to go in to the neighborhood garage sale. I am going to sell some stuff I don’t want to store anymore or ship (vintage light fixtures, big pillows, some large art) and some $10-15 items. We also have some cat damaged Crate and Barrel leather furniture and a rug that I’d like to update and hope to find quality replacements for on Facebook Marketplace. I know we won’t get much at the yard sale but it forces us to make a change. My husband must be coming around because he suggested I get all new bins and he got rid of his giant boxing bag in the garage. Yippee!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334854372850 This was fun to research and I finally found one of the same shape with a totally different paint job. Very unfortunately it has a repaired chip but easy to miss it as I did originally. This is exactly the kind of item I would love to be finding and listing on the regular, but instead I am adding some mundane stuff to my store as well.
20 items. This week could go either way listing-wise as I am still organizing and getting ready for the garage sale. I’m going to get rid of some old purchases I don’t want to ship – vintage light fixtures and glass ceiling covers, a few large pieces of art work, and some low dollar stuff.
Thanks for that list. I see my drafts problem in there. Hard enough to get to a solid listing time and then to lose draft work is really frustrating. It’s been better lately thank goodness.
Agree. I hit up one non-regular guy selling off his family stuff. There is also a lady who gets big estate sales and sometimes due to her quantity brings some good stuff.
Today I was waiting in line at my favorite thrift and the antique booth regulars were discussing how Google Lens is ruining everything because inexperienced people can quickly determine if things are good or not. Also discussed was the pricing at thrifts and lately a lack of great items. I’m kinda grateful for my piles for now.
Total Items in Store: 639
Items Sold: 13
Gross Sales: $607.39 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $386.25 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $56
Highest Price Sold: $99 (Fabric, paid $4)
Average Price Sold: $46.72
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $12
Number of items listed this week: 25Better week for me as well with some great days and days with no sales or offers at all. Very swingy. Huge congrats to Ryanne!
There is a larger flea market here on the weekend that I haven’t been to in a while. The smaller one during the week is not on because of the fair prep. We also have specialists. Not enough clean out people or just random people selling stuff at the midweek one. Many are dealers trying to unload less desirable merch. It’s kind of fun to see how they display things. I’ll have to see if I can try the Saturday one soon as it’s much larger. There are definitely more college kids at the thrifts these days and people with their phones out at the thrifts. They mainly seem focused on clothing but I am also seeing more women my age looking at vintage hard goods. Used to be almost all men, metal and record hounds. Makes me wonder if the antique booth people are having a harder time sourcing.
I spent some time consolidating my inventory and organizing. I’m definitely into listing my death piles and purchases that got shoved somewhere. The garage is looking better than ever. I think I am going to go ahead with the neighborhood garage sale in early May and shed a little more undesirable inventory. Some larger meh paintings and $10-15 items. I did pretty well last year.
Have a great week everyone!
Good luck with the shoes Craig Rex. I personally steer clear though it’s good money.
I just love love the vintage graphics on this fun 60s man cave fabric. I priced it high just because I like it so much. Couldn’t find a comp.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234980972542
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334586092999 I’ve been selling Halloween this month. I feel like it’s almost as popular as Christmas and sells all year. Our thrifts hoard the Halloween until September but I’ll be looking for it. Unfortunately the little Easter stuff I have made it through another holiday without selling and I don’t think anyone thinks about Easter until it’s almost upon us sadly.
I’m happy I listed 25 items, including some more March Madness annoying fabric. Also got into some other death pile hard goods stuff today.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234971367901 The flea market is overpriced for resale but I found one guy selling off his mom’s interesting stuff. He gave me prices like $2-3 and threw this in for free with my other items. Sweet. This price is strong for the mini and I’m likely to take a bo.
Also for those who follow this thread, I did figure out my iphone camera zoom problem. Apparently there must have been an update at some point that requires you to use your fingers to spread and get it to zoom in if super close. I’m not a fan of that change and it took me a bit to clue in.
