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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.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234700322267
I hardly ever find Scandinavian glass around here. I love these but will pass them on. Only one other listed so I matched that price. A larger lot of balls sold for more but again, not many listings for price guidance. Paid $5.99 at GW.
Total Items in Store: 440
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales: $515.24 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $347.42 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: About $110
Highest Price Sold: $152 Retired New Williams Sonoma Plates from clearance last year
Average Price Sold: $55Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $60
Number of items listed this week: 21This is one of those weeks when I am glad I looked at the numbers. It felt so incredibly slow this week. I did get back to listing though there are some distractions going on here. I also had fun shopping the newly stocked saved up Halloween stuff at my local thrift stores, though I didn’t really find any home runs. Most of my items selling are RA items even though a growing majority of my store is used items now. I don’t have the capital to invest much in RA and my favorite brands did not have good sales prices or an extra % off sale over Labor Day this year. So, I’ll just keep throwing up the used pile items.
Today I decided to up my promoted listing % from 3 to 4 as an experiment after seeing someone report results in a Facebook group. According to that group sell similar on stale listings is working for some people. I went into some old listings and cut a few prices as well as filled in some missing item specifics.
In other news, Mercari gave me a warning about hitting $300 in sales this year and they want my info. So good they are warning casual sellers about the new rules.
I listened to a couple of old SL podcasts this week while listing with my pumpkin candle on. 🙂
My 16yo daughter and her friends want to go the bins this Saturday in a nearby city. I’m like, really?
I’ve just been forced to join you in the new listing tool. I don’t mind it too much except if that you have to click to add (confirm) what you just typed in as a custom answer to item specifics (or else it gets deleted on exiting and you have to retype it). Also having some weird issue so I can’t set an auto decline amount, just an auto accept. The shipping method boxes functionality is kind of annoying as well. Finally, I’m not seeing required vs. recommended specifics like before and the list seems shorter but that’s not a bad thing if they don’t bug me for more.
Total Items in Store: 421
Items Sold: 10 (Many were clustered on Labor Day)
Gross Sales: $356.21 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $213.33 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $39
Highest Price Sold: $59 (Royal Albert flower of the month tea cup and plate set, paid $8)
Average Price Sold: $26
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 1R&J missed you too. Your long weekend fun ties with my friend who has Covid and luckily a guest house but without air conditioning – it’s been super hot here – over 100 where she lives inland.
My store has been really dead but had a good day on Labor Day. Our power is out today but hope to list in earnest this week. I’m hoping to get to the thrifts right after they put out Halloween.
I love this old Halloween line from Williams Sonoma. I bought these for myself on clearance and have another set already, so decided to sell. Found in the garage clean out. Probably could have held out for more but I took an offer since I’m kind of desperate for sales. https://www.ebay.com/itm/334545166505
Back in the good old days, the employees would be lazy and not put things out on the floor and then you could go in when they were clearanced out and ask them to look in the back. They are more efficient now sadly and our store is small and well shopped.
@Julie I hope you begin to feel better this week. I also had a variety of symptoms for about a week and then another week of lying around with fatigue. I still felt like not doing much physical activity for another 1-2 weeks.
After a big week last week, I fell down to one listing this week.
@VT you look fun to shop with! Thanks for sharing.
