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https://www.ebay.com/itm/334587732610 Paid a super low $11 for this new item last year online RA. I haven’t been seeing that kind of pricing so far this year but will keep checking through March. I think I even got free shipping.
Total items in Store: 674
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $232.85 (w/o eBay fees, shipping, or taxes), Net $147.81
Cost of Items Sold: $25
Highest Price Sold: $72 (New Rejuvenation door knocker)
Average Sales Price: $38.81
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $9
Number of new items listed: 8The usual slow February numbers, not helped by my lack of serious listing. Today should be a good day listing for a change. Congrats to those of you having strong February numbers! This is always the worst month for me, even worse than summer.
In the last couple of weeks I did a small amount of online RA. The prices are still not low enough generally speaking. No thrifting so no adding to the pile at least.
This morning there is an article in the Wall Street Journal about owing taxes selling on Ebay and how more and more Americans have a side hustle. I’d link but seeing a paywall.
Yeah! I priced it higher than all the solds so happy with that.
I got this art tile https://www.ebay.com/itm/334732328648for $1.25. Similar sales are between $65-125. I recognized the name MacKenzie Childs on the back. Personally, I like this item better – paid $5 at the flea market. https://www.ebay.com/itm/234885689838 Some Holt Howard fetches incredible prices but these boards not so much.
Congrats Retro on selling your oldest item. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334568304552 I sold my daughter’s used baby tee for double what we paid. Nice. Not really exciting sales this week, especially vintage.
21 items. I should have good listing time this week and hope to put up a lot.
I’m laughing because I too have some vintage Barbie clothes and a few dolls in my death piles. Our neighbors with older girls gave some of these to me to play with back in the early ’70s so they are well worn and I don’t have complete outfits but there are some cool pieces with the black label. I recall a grand pink cape and a gold jacket with fur cuffs in particular. I think only one of the Barbies with a helmet head was worth a little bit. I also have Marie Osmond, Cher, and my favorite – the Bionic Woman – hanging around. Julie please let us know if you find there are very many pieces that are worth good money.
Total Items in Store: 535
Items Sold: 14
Gross Sales: $564.30 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $340.32 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $132
Highest Price Sold: $100 (5 new dishtowels)
Average Price Sold: $40.31
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $40
Number of items listed this week: 21Kinda dumb of that car buyer to try to renegotiate after driving all that way. Someone else might have told him to hit the road with no car. Sometimes I feel like buyers have too high of expectations for used items even though they’ve seen pictures, etc.
Ebay felt slow. I felt guilty for attending a church sale and then finding another rummage sale so I finally got back to listing on Saturday. I get the cast off in a week and a half and I am really looking forward to that. My hand gets sore if I spend a lot of time typing. I got sidetracked with helping my son do his study abroad application for Denmark. He’s got a lot going on so I was helping him get some research together. I wish I would have traveled to Europe as a young person. Now I need to really get in gear and finish my recently purchased pile. The church sale was a huge Ikea bag for $20 – I already sold an item today for more than that. Amazing price for around here. I love love church sales.
@Jay agreed. There is plenty of stuff for everyone. I’m grateful Gen Z is into reusing things.
I don’t expect to source a lot but I kind of think of it as education time. I’m seeing interesting items I haven’t found here then I can just toggle over to EBay and easily see comps. My last purchase was a piece of midcentury Scandinavian glass and I don’t find much if that in my area of the country.
Since the site launch, some of the locations got the message to charge more but only about 20% of my saved favorites are selling at full price so I’m hoping for mark downs. Some locations seem to be more sophisticated than others like Pacific Northwest vs. Colorado / Wisconsin.They definitely seem to be getting a healthy discount from the post office as a nonprofit.
Eek only 3 items listed last week. I just need to do photos on a few more. Need to motivate and no shopping until I list my recent purchases.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334643120491 Brown glaze is not my thing but sold these cute Hull pottery gingerbread men. Thrifted them separately back in the day. There were quite a few listed so I’m grateful to have sold them.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234871858732
I bought this on Goodwillfinds.com. for about $6 plus shipping. No dimensions were given and it was much larger than I expected when it arrived. Some of this potter’s larger bowls (more colorful) have gone for hundreds and they are mostly auctions starting at $9.99. I don’t really trust auctions having been burned before so I started at a pretty high price and haven’t got any bids. Still, should be a good profit when it eventually sells. For $1.49 I promoted the auction but that hasn’t resulted in many additional views.
Total Items in Store: 553
Items Sold: 8Gross Sales: $273.09 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $168.58 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $35 + a few items ours
Highest Price Sold: $35 (Vintage flower power vinyl fabric, paid $2)
Average Price Sold:$34.14
Returns: 1 threatened
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $120 RA, $40 thrift
Number of items listed this week: 3Congrats Ryanne! You are so impressive on many fronts. Happy for your strong sales too.
Not a great week of sales for me but I didn’t list much. Finished my tax stuff and due to the strong end of the year and selling more used items I made more profit than last year even with higher fees. I wasn’t doing much at all on Ebay in the first third of 2022, so this year should be better. Have some ongoing family stuff going on…
I did go out thrifting one day last week. At one of our larger thrift stores, a random guy mentioned the prices being way too high, which I completely agree with and this chain has swung that way before. I was happy that I had sold several undervalued items from that store for good prices last month. I didn’t share that part with him but just said “you really have to know what you are doing to find things worth selling at this place.” I’m grateful to Youtube and myself for being able to still find things to make a profit on. However, Youtube is a double edged sword and I am now seeing many more University students at the thrift branching into the hard goods and not just in the clothing. Luckily I have lots of piles and we have a lot of elderly and wealthy people in our community donating. Speaking of piles, I plan to hit listing hard today and finish the recently purchased pile sitting next to me right now.
I have purchased 6 items now on Goodwillfinds.com. All came packed really well and the shipping was very reasonable. At slow times in life I hunt in there to save favorites and will wait to see if I can get them later at better prices. The first two items I bought were right after site launch and were crazy low prices. Three items I bought during their extra % off sale post-Christmas sale, and they are all now listed on Ebay. They have some really interesting items so it’s also a little bit of an education – I can quickly compare on Ebay. The trick is to search a bunch of keywords and then filter by category. The search is primitive, descriptions are sparse, and the titles posted by some of the locations are unsophisticated and anemic. I’m hoping people forget to shop there and they start discounting things. I can’t imagine that they are going to get a lot of sustained traffic from regular people at Ebay prices.
Have a great week!
