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Total Items in Store: 309
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $532.77 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $373.33 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $89
Highest Price Sold: $90 (New gamer headset – we got to keep an extra for free when my son’s Xmas present was late years ago)
Average Price Sold: $59
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $75 (RA and thrift combo)
Number of items listed this week: 16It was a good week for me even though I listed fewer items than last week, which wasn’t great. I am doing all of the things – taking and making offers, running a sale, etc. but haven’t yet ended and done sell similar on my sale stuff. A lot of my items are selling based on offers. This week was a mix of old and new listings selling, but generally I’m noticing newer listings moving for the past few weeks since that views change. I have a hunch something is up. I’ve got three weeks of my daughter being in camp to hopefully grind out new listings, then August will be tough until school starts.
Happy 4th to everyone. Seeing everyone running around in their patriotic gear makes me hopeful we can come together for a bit and be grateful. I made a listed and sold video last week and I think Steve must have had the week off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qki1hco-sEM
Sounds good. Always great to sell overlooked but useful items!
Thanks! I thought this week would be better than I think it will turn out, but we’ll see. Sales are still darn slow for me.
Yes, rummage sales. We have a lot of experienced pickers here but it seems like many go for different niches so it’s not a total bloodbath in our small city at those sales thankfully. If it were I would pass. The estate sales can get pretty crazy though because of the confined spaces. I haven’t been to many of those yet.
P.S. I think someone in this thread mentioned updating their store logo and pictures. I just did that for free too. I like the logo but I ran out of patience designing the border. Anyway, it’s better than what I had.
Luckily nothing was ruined but it will be a huge mess in the house for a bit.
So proud of myself with 37 listings. Yeah! My daughter starts a performance camp so it is four weeks of good listing time for me coming up.
Number one, thanks for keeping the Forum going. I really hope you continue on Ebay and in the Forum. Next, interesting re the restaurant closure. You already have the fab place Jay dreamed of to connect with people and it’s super successful. I imagine that you are pretty busy with all of the current balls in the air. Wondering if you are finding enough quality employees locally to help keep it all in the air. Miss the podcast guys!
Total Items in Store: 317 – back over 300! 🙂
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $281.81 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $183.16 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $32
Highest Price Sold: $100 (two sets of Flower of the Month Royal Albert tea cups and plates – paid $14)
Average Price Sold: $32
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $65
Number of items listed this week: 37Sales a bit anemic for how much I started listing the last couple weeks, but I’m taking and making offers to get at least some sales. I’ve been ignoring my stale old items and not looking at their views. I don’t seem to be able to sort the column by views. But, I’m thinking I might end and sell similar on those and see if it helps as someone suggested on the Forum. I should have some good listing time this week, so look forward to that.
A couple of items from the college recycle sale sold, and I paid like .50, which is unheard of pricing around here. I love rummage and church sales the most! Yard sales definitely take more time and I haven’t been doing that though I would enjoy it. I’ve caught up on a tiny bit of RA and recent thrifting purchases. Now need to get another dent going in the piles.
The excitement this week is that we had a leak in the upstairs bathroom above the garage. The testing is finding all kinds of ’70s hazards so we will gut it soon and part of the reno will be covered by insurance. Bad news is everything must come out of the garage either this week or next week. That’s all my listed and unlisted inventory, packing materials, etc. Oof. Good opportunity to reorganize but lots of chaos.
Wishing you all a great summer week of sales. Saw the Elvis movie with my daughter and loved it. We are waiting for the end of Stranger Things.
I listed 22 items and only have photos left for a few more. Was hoping for better but have some life chaos going on.
Amatino – better some than none. Nice reno. We just had a pipe break and might be doing the last bathroom (kids’). Not the timing I would have chosen but oh well.
Total Items in Store:
Items Sold: 4
Gross Sales: $59.83 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $39.84 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $12
Highest Price Sold: $36 (Three new Williams Sonoma 4th of July kitchen towels (paid $12))
Average Price Sold: $13
Returns: 0Unpaid items: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
Number of items listed this week: 22Terrible week for sales on Ebay. I was happy to get some stuff listed and I have more items cleaned and drafts done, so just need photos. This week will be tough to make time for listing with my daughter home and some other appointments and chaos.
Attended the college clean out sale and got a huge bag of clean bubble wrap and a handful of saleable items, a year’s worth of tin foil for us, and lots of other random practical goodies for $40. Super fun every year and I love to look for the overlooked value. I was looking for perfume and new in package bedding but could not find that. It definitely smelled of volunteers being able to pre-shop, but nevertheless, totally fun.
I don’t have immediate payment on because in all of my listings I ask buyers to look at my store and load up their cart for combined shipping. Since most of them rarely do purchase multiple items, I think I might change this moving forward. On a podcast I heard someone else say playing devil’s advocate that Ebay might want to encourage buyers to make offers to multiple sellers, since they have to wait potentially 24 hours for an answer or counter.
Have a great week everyone.
I saw just the opening of a reseller “meet up” podcast discussing this. One also said her sales died after dropping promoted. She has been doing 3% across the board. Another had been doing flat 10% but recently switched to recommended rate or higher if the recommended is 2-3%, capped at 11%. She pointed out that she gets her items so cheap (1/10 the sale price) she is able to comfortably do that higher rate and wants chance at more sales. I don’t generally get my items super cheap plus I have on best offer and run small sales, so I would never do recommended rate for the reasons stated above. A third seller waits 3 weeks and then promotes the item.
I had been doing 2% to attempt to be above all of the 1%ers, so I just upped everything to 3%.
@debitendcredits – I’m having trouble with my internet but the sales box is located on my desktop listing page right under the “payment options – payments managed by Ebay” and the box for requiring immediate payment BIN.
