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I have an interesting find this week. I haven’t actually bought one yet, but plan to soon and I’m bidding. I was cruising on Ebay for a niche that I like to buy in and discovered this incredible modern impressionist artist running .99 actions. I went to following him on Insta and there he was live doing a painting. He’s young, talented and promoting himself on social media and through these inexpensive auctions. https://www.ebay.com/str/jtrujillopaintings21
I’m no art expert but I know what I like and I can tell if something is well done. I like certain of his works better than others (the ones with more fine details and without people.) This guy already has quite a following and someone is already flipping his small works over on Mercari for $75. He’ll keep churning stuff out so I don’t plan to get rich but just may get what I like and display a couple here. @Jay and @Ryanne you might like to check out his rural works and coffee / food still life works.
Glad you are feeling better. I fell down last week with only 10 listings. My daughter had time off school and my husband was out of town. I also just took a night to binge watch The White Lotus on HBO while she was at homecoming so that’s unusual for me. Hope to very much get back on the wagon this week.
@Jay I also love Amazon returns as a buyer. We take them to Whole Foods. My dad takes his to an Amazon locker. Most of the retailers in the news were smaller but yes, if Amazon quit that would be good for sellers.
I got my order yesterday from both locations. So it took 11 days and came Fed Ex Ground. Packing was great. Considering the price I paid with the incredibly cheap shipping, I’m pretty happy. There were some defects that were not disclosed – both of these just really had photos only, which is very hard to see flaws on your phone and the pictures weren’t great. The quilt smells very clean. I think it created some wear when they or the donor washed it so they listed it at $12. There are some other marks, but overall it’s a great price for the item, which I will keep and repair. The painting has some looseness to the canvas.
I’ve been hawking Goodwill Finds but anything I’d buy at a really cheap price is taken before I arrive. You can sort by new listings. Scavengers are on it. Someone got an awesome Murano glass bull for $10. Some locations are more sophisticated and putting things up higher now for sure. But, still fun to look around. I’m watching a few items to see if will lower the price later. It’s also interesting to see what they know about – all the stuff I hear about on Youtube is showing up and it makes me hope that all of the locations don’t have a master list of goodies.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334589029493
My favorite item from last week was this French completed needlework canvas. These are sleepers – the canvases alone with no yarn, etc. still sell high in some brands. This one was in an awful 1980s frame and glued on to cardboard with some hard core old school brown glue. I removed all of that and disclosed and pictured the residue. Purchased in the cheap art bin at my favorite indy thrift for $3. They put it straight in there along with another humble crewel piece that I listed for $24.
Total Items in Store: 499
Items Sold: 23
Gross Sales Ebay: $648.34 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $403.52 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $73 + 1 item ours
Highest Price Sold: $90 New hardware (quantity 12 items)
Average Price Sold: $28.19
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: About $45 (RA and thrift)
Number of items listed this week: 36Congrats on the success of the coffee shop once again! I see on Insta how gorgeous the fall colors are back East and hope to see it maybe next fall. Not in the cards for this year.
I have been reading in the news about people getting cautious about spending. It will be an interesting fourth quarter. I’m happy with my sales but have a bunch of low dollar Halloween stuff that hasn’t sold on Mercari and Ebay. After tomorrow I should have good time to list this week. I kind of let myself source quite a bit and need to get back to the piles. I made it up over 500 items on Ebay for the first time but fell below again.
Have a great week!
What sold #13 flea market, thrift haul and some solds
https://youtu.be/VZQYPOWmca0@Craig I’m not sure. I believe they do make repros of some labels but these are vintage. I only did a quick Terapeak search and they’ve been going generally $10-20. I will ask more probably for the ones that have animals, cowboys etc. and maybe $20 for the standard fruit and floral types. I’ll also probably look and see what people are asking on Etsy. Our kitchen is all glass and cabinets or I’d frame a couple. I know this was popular a few years back but still good probably with Farmhouse style hanging on.
Love Charlie Harper art.
My favorite find was a lot of vintage produce crate labels that came from an estate clean out. paid about fifty cents apiece. Will probably take me forever and a day to get them listed as is this case with ephemera and flatware.
@workhorse I had this problem today as well. It won’t process my card.
@Mark I find the buyers on Mercari to be cheaper than those on Ebay generally and maybe also skewing younger. But I do feel like my items get seen over there and you can promote and keep it active for a while. I don’t crosspost but instead use Mercari for damaged and low dollar items or our used clothing and kids’ / teen items.
Yes it was that one. I also sold this Murano boat. https://www.ebay.com/itm/234682241767 So a great week for art glass. I found both of these in the case at Goodwill, which normally just has some in box junk and technology stuff. You know I’ve been checking that case ever since.
Total Items in Store: 482 (closing in on 500 for the first time)
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $1,566.08 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1,150.19 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $72
Highest Price Sold: $795 (Large art glass with flaws, best offer, paid $14.99 at Goodwill)
Average Price Sold: $156.61
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $108
Number of items listed this week: 44 (Ebay and Mercari)Congrats! I’m also on an Ebay high with the best sales week ever for me. I pray that the highest dollar item does not get returned. There were significant scratches on the item that were fairly difficult to capture on camera, but it was a very desirable artist and I took a lowish best offer. In fact, 100% of these items sold on best offer. One of the items sold was a vase I bought for $2 around the corner from home at a junky garage sale, listed it and it sold like the next day for $40. I told my dad that is pretty addictive stuff. When I’m listing I picture myself spinning these cast offs into green on a spinning wheel. Should be able to do a good bit of listing this week.
I finally got around to doing sell similar. I cut it off at the end of 2021. It was super quick and easy but I should have and didn’t take the time to go in and fix up the listings yet and add cheaper USPS methods of shipping (parcel post). Good news: Ebay is reset my quantity on sell similar to the remaining quantity, so extra easy. After doing this I was able to make offers on some of these items to the new watchers so they definitely got refreshed. I sold just one of the items so far in the last few days. Unfortunately I will need to go in and fix my Pinterest boards, which I had recently started redoing.
I really need to get back to the piles. I did a few shopping runs this week. I have only one box of Christmas and it’s mostly listed now. I have a small amount of Thanksgiving I need to locate. One of the larger thrifts just put out Christmas already so I will check their sister store across town as a treat to myself this week. Have a great week.
