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Total Items in Store: 594
Items Sold: 22
Gross Sales: $874.26 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $465.89 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $153
Highest Price Sold: $83 (Vintage owl art on wood, paid $5)
Average Price Sold: $39.74
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $150
Number of items listed this week: 11Happy with the sales this week. I am seeing over 30% final value fees (not counting promotions). This seems so much higher than I remember them being a couple of years ago. Wondering what others are seeing and recall? Total fees are pretty high (I’m promoting at 4%) so I guess it’s good I’m selling more used items now that I can source at a lower COGS.
I did do a little RA this week and a little bit of thrifting here and there. Sales have been aggressive at my favorite retailer so I figure it will be slim pickings by the day after Christmas when I traditionally go. Didn’t get a lot listed last week unfortunately. Should be flipping that equation this week but will have more family time. I also need to do some organizing of inventory.
Hope all are having a good holiday season!
Hi Amatino, you sure are good at motivating.
I’m thinking a little smaller than this but here goes.
Diet. Started app tracking, eating more veggies and less wheat a couple of months back. It’s helping but need to add in more regular exercise.
Mindfulness practice. I’m so lousy with this but under quite a bit of stress so need to remind myself.
Ebay. I have some listed and unlisted stuff living inside two of my living spaces that needs to get put in the garage. Keeping up with any purchases. In the new year, I plan to start with listing the love-to-buy-but-hate-to-list-but-it-sells-well linens and vintage fabric. I also need to Marie Kondo my personal closet and list that stuff on Mercari.
Bathroom Remodel. We have our insurance settlement and I need to pronto get on choosing a vanity. I’m trying to be cheap and don’t really want to deal tbh. Needs to happen. Then I get lost in the tile process. I love love tile but can’t choose and pick expensive tile.
Total Items in Store: 581
Items Sold: 23
Gross Sales: $1,023.31 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $637.46 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $144
Highest Price Sold: $135 (atomic starburst coffee mug)
Average Price Sold: $44.49
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $22
Number of items listed this week: 48On paper this looks ok but I feel like I’m working a lot harder and making a lot of deals to make less money without the RA items. Plus I’m trying to raise money for Christmas gifts. Will need to work hard at listing. Lots of life ups and downs but keep on truckin’ as they say.
On a podcast they discussed working harder to make the same money. I also ran into a really experienced local reseller who said this is his worst year ever and higher dollar items (60+) aren’t moving as well as usual. He said he tracks his packages and USPS is doing very well so far.
I listed a lot of Christmas and nearly finished. I’m a bit sick of Christmas stuff TBH. It will be nice to switch out to something else. I haven’t decided yet what I will pull out from the piles.
I got burned one year with not being able to buy a Fed Ex label on Ebay for a large gift order right before Christmas. I went ahead and ate it in the spirit of the season but then started each year after that to turn off my store on the USPS shipping cut off day until Christmas Eve. I think this year I’m going to go ahead and leave it on. Fingers crossed.
If you want to consider an occasional podcast, I wouldn’t complain about that. 🙂
@Zach you are inspiring me to list my vintage wrapping paper. I had heard it wasn’t selling well anymore…
48 for me. I’m pretty sick of listing Christmas items. Still have like maybe 5-6 linens left then I think I’ve covered it all…
@I typically price at the highest Terapeak solds then allow make offer of roughly 15%-20% off (with a $ floor). I also try to remember to run sales 10-15% off but then don’t take offers on the sale price unless I’ve had it listed a long time or want to get rid of it. I include all of my items in those sales. For damaged items I’m more flexible since pricing is harder to get right on that.
That sounds like a cool book. It would be fun to look at the clothes and hair. I’m picking up a lot fewer coffee mugs than I used to since the shipping is up, but there are definitely some worth selling. I have quite a few in the piles.
This week I picked this item out of the piles and found another in the wild. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334661080844 I was surprised to learn it’s the original Department 56 snow village. This one has some condition issues unfortunately but they can go over $100 for these 1970s early crude ones. They had paper sticker labels that can be missing but now I can recognize them.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234773202995
It’s opportunistic. I’m in Target and see that Starbucks has some smaller city mug line Across the Globe. Check Ebay app and only a couple of other locals are on to it. I bought a couple and figured I could give them to relatives as gifts if they didn’t sell. Sold before my sale for $39 plus shipping.
Runner up is this cool graphic kids bedding. A brand I never heard of. Paid $10 apiece at a small school fundraiser rummage sale and took best offer of $60. God I love rummage sales. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334578888675
I saw 24 but not today. Glitchy today unfortunately. Lost a bit of work mid-list. 😑
Tried to post my numbers and edit but lost it. If you can fix or let it know I’m not a spammer, thanks.
For sure it’s this atomic starburst piece. $135 for one coffee mug. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334625135845
I’ve been lucky to find here and there a piece of this pattern and it’s popularity has really exploded. On Facebook I’ve seen people post that they found a whole set. Amazing.
I listed 52 items this week. Determined to finish Christmas
I bought a box full of studio art pottery for $40 including this Irish vase https://www.ebay.com/itm/334653612872
I’d kind of like to keep it but really don’t need another vase.
I had one this week and have personally experienced the delivery company saying it was delivered up to 12-16 hours before actually delivered. Must be tempting to the driver to meet some metrics. I told the person to wait one day and then contact me again if it didn’t show. If it hadn’t I would have contacted Ebay but not refunded unless a super cheap item.
UPS is usually the premium, more accountable carrier though.
