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Zero for me. Was out of town and have some distractions. This week will be challenging and then next week should be better.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/295529866607 (not my listing) I paid .49 apiece for a large lot of theses books from the 1970s – I had these in my childhood though my kids didn’t really love them. I had never seen the hardback version before.
Total Items in Store: 676
Items Sold: 4
Cost of Items Sold: $17
Total Gross Sales: $169.94, Net $106.49
Highest Price Sold: eBay $71 (Bauer pottery Midcentury vase)
Average price: $42.49
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
Number of items listed this week: 0Sales very slow which is typical for this time of year but zero sales during my time away most of this week.
I spent three days in Fresno, California (inland, central California) while my daughter performed at an all state event. Let me tell you it was a thrifting bonanza in that city! I actually didn’t buy too much but visited like 15-18 thrift stores plus a flea market and was throughly entertained. (Our city and the adjoining one only have 8 thrifts.) In that city it was a variety of thrift flavors – large supermarket size stores, Goodwills, fancy run-by-old-ladies boutique thrifts, small independents, hipster thrifts with large cool graphic painted walls, antique/thrift blends. I met a indy thrift shop hoarder who invited me into her back storage (her prices were too high on the good stuff). There was even a big rescue mission thrift that resold used cards. In the same area are a lot of antique stores and I can only conclude that despite the expansive number of thrifts there are a lot of buyers heavily shopping them. I just found a handful of items to resell. The flea market was very low end with fabulous veggies but not a lot of great vintage items in good condition. Amazing Mexican food at the flea market though and people were very serious about reusing old clothes and items so that’s totally cool. Anyway it was super fun to hunt and I didn’t spend much or add too much to my death piles, so all good.
Only 8 for me. Plan for better this week. Ordered some Folex online and Amazon broke it in transit.
Sadly I don’t recognize any of the Sears exclusive outfits for Barbie from my youth. I do have some single pieces from some early black label outfits. Some of the items are pretty ripped up.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234885777764 This was the best item I found at the church sale. It is new with musty odor from storage. I decided to keep as new rather than washing and disclose the odor. Hope I don’t get a cranky buyer. Paid like $2. I love church sale pricing!
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.
