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Total Items in Store: 452
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales, Ebay: $567.64 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $381.76 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $134 (Two were items I bought full price for my kids)
Highest Price Sold: $100 (4 x 2 sets Williams Sonoma Halloween Cocktail Picks (Paid $8 for my own use))
Average Price Sold: $41
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $29 (Rummage sale + 1 yard sale)
Number of items listed this week: 72 (ebay and Mercari)Having good sales on Ebay, and sold two high dollar items in the two days after this period and some items on Mercari. Shipping today will be annoying. A high number of my sales are make offers, with only a quarter of my recent sales coming in without an offer. 60%+ are buyer initiated offers, wow. I haven’t gotten around to sell similar yet on my really old stuff but I think the 4% promoted may be helping. After watching that video I referred to in my recent post, I think I may go back and fill in some item specifics for old listings as well. Hard to tell if the recent pinning on Pinterest was helping much.
I had a depressing thrift store run. One of my indy favorites has hired a bunch of college kids who look absolutely everything up on Ebay and price high. Then, the manager starts the really good stuff there and drops the price over a long period of time. That store gets really unique estate sale type items. Our regional chain volume stores are also pricing high again and stopped running color tag sales. So, obviously they have a lot more people shopping. This is consistent with the long lines at my favorite honey hole that started during the pandemic. On the other hand, Goodwill is churning stuff out, other than the smalls that they ship off to corporate. The current manager there is keeping prices low and things turn over super fast at that location. Happily I went to a small rummage sale and did well. I have an alert on Craigslist for rummage and church sales but there have not been many.
I experienced a glitch this week with the new listing format. I start on the desktop and when I switch to the phone, the price seems to revert to the trending price instead of the higher price I entered. Luckily it’s usually lower than the auto decline so it gets flagged and I caught it I hope for all of them.
@Anna I liked your video. 🙂 I also plan to watch Sarah’s video on reading your numbers / analytics.Yeah! I listed 73 items. A bunch were on Mercari, which is much faster listing. Mercari gave me a $20 credit too but the fine print says I have to buy a $50 or more item. That’s ok because I do find some things to source on Mercari usually sold by people living near the Pottery Barn outlet.
Negative. Check out 1:40 in the video and more like minute 3:00 for that point. Good thing is monthly for unique vintage items would not be necessary and maybe harmful for Google search.
Is anyone comparing desktop v iPhone with the new listing tool? I’m considering an experiment starting to list on my phone. I think it may require fewer item specifics. You still have to type and then hit the + to confirm for everything, which annoys me on desktop but it’s easier to click on the phone. It also keeps losing my low end offer amount when I switch to the phone to take photos.
Sharing this YouTube video about sell similar. Apparently this person spoke with executives at EBay while prepping for the Open and confirms harm to stale listings.
Along with the multiples issue I would need to repin my items again in Pinterest. I just started cleaning up over there and immediately sold a stale newly pinned item.
Mercari is giving out $20 for listing 30 items by Sunday so clothing it is.
@Sharon you can customize your active listings space and add sold quantity (which is currently not working for me) but also available and initial quantity and then sort them that way. Then exclude anything with solds from your sell similar.I was listening to the Ebay for Business podcast recently, which I don’t normally do. One host was like, “where are we with that autopay for buyers’ offers business?” and the other guy is like “I don’t know”. Would have liked to see an update on that.
I feel like there must be a downside to the switch from GSP. I don’t take international returns so I wonder if that is still ok with the new program. I definitely don’t want to call Ebay about feedback ever even if they promise to remove it.
An awesome curb alert find! I never see anything good but yeah! for this one.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234634434890
This is not a high dollar sale but my favorite item that I sold. It sold quickly and I paid almost nothing for it at an indy thrift.
36 listings for me. I hope you guys have a better week this week outside and inside Ebay.
Total Items in Store: 465
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $542.49 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $336.18 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $93
Highest Price Sold: $179 (My last set of Williams Sonoma clearance plates, boo)
Average Price Sold: $68
Returns: 1 ($50)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week: 36 (Ebay and Mercari)A pretty good week on Ebay for me. I think I might be able to hit 500 Ebay listings this week or next, depending on which platform I focus on. I have a few bins of better brand used clothing of ours I really want to get out of our bedroom that’s going to go largely on Mercari. (I prefer not to sell clothing on Ebay unless it’s flawless and due to returns.) Since I got a run through the Halloween stuff, I’ve shifted focus from thrifting to listing, as it should be.
I randomly went to an estate sale on morning 2 of a 3 day sale after driving by. The woman had really interesting vintage stuff but had researched everything and was going for only a bit off the Ebay price. I was tempted to ask her to come back after the sale was over and pick but I have too much stuff already to list. I bought an empty Shiny Brite ’50s ornament box that’s already sold and paid for my small bundle of items.
The news is grim but people still keep buying stuff. Personally, I’m looking to pare down rather than accumulate stuff. That’s mainly from leaving my job, though groceries were extra expensive here before the pandemic even so that’s got my attention.
I read an interesting article by the Auction Professor about a monthly + sell similar strategy to fight declining sales of vintage items. He apparently has connected with many other Ebayers and concluded that there were adverse algorithm changes last October. I have been adding some item specifics and changing some prices on old stuff. I’m also doing 4% promoted and sales, offers to watchers, etc. I may start doing sell similar too.
I do miss my office coworkers a bit but it’s really nice just doing Ebay at home. Yes, agree it gets a bit to quiet sometimes and podcasts definitely help. I’m not a person who can do tv and list. Now that I have more time for Ebay I appreciate the Forum even more.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334499691691
Paid $35 last year because I was thinking of keeping them for myself. We’ll just use our plain white plates or wedding china and pass these on. This pattern from last year is very popular yet it made it to clearance around January or February. I have very little of this new stuff left hanging around unfortunately.
