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Total Items in Store: 271
Items Sold: 5
Gross Sales: $351.29 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $236.90 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $66
Cost of “helper” (my kid’s profit): $40
Highest Price Sold: $119 (new dress)
Average Price Sold: $55
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $25
Number of items listed this week: 11Congrats on your great week. It felt like a pretty good week for me. I look forward to doing more listing this coming week since I will have more free time. The coffee shop menu looks awesome. The prices are much lower than here so they seem very reasonable. I bet the people in your town are loving having a great place to go get quality food and hang out.
What I was selling and buying this week. Have a great week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6UhGuZh0LM
Cute kitty up there. We have parakeets and a dog so no cats right now. We go to the cat therapy place to visit.
Wow Amatino you got fancy on me with this challenge thread! Currently, I’m still in transition from the big garage sale purge. I need to put back together our closets and clean up the garage. But I will make it a goal to make the goal sheets. 🙂 I will have more time to myself next week to get to that anyway. First goal is to list any new purchases promptly and so far I’m doing well with that. I just have the Royal Albert tea cups to clean and list. I went all in on almost a complete set so want to get those listed quickly.
@Retro wow I love selling nip vtg sheets but that’s higher than I expected. I also look for Ralph Lauren but even the 1950s-1960s florals do well for me. Great sale!
I only had 6 listings last week and hope for better this week. My daughter is off school and booked solid next week so I hope to ramp up then if I can’t this week.
@Retro I was looking for someone like you to buy all of our CDs. One picker bought a few of my husband’s 80s metal CDs. I scanned them all and none were worth $10. I did find a couple of rare cassettes and listed those. I am in awe of your speediness listing!
I concur! Love it that you guys are still scavenging and willing to connect here with us online.
Total Items in Store: 263
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $203.11 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $116.27 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $34
Highest Price Sold: $52 (new pajamas, paid $28)
Average Price Sold: $46
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $96
Number of items listed this week: 6Got the garage sale done and made over $350. It was very busy and I was more tired than I remember being after the last couple so I guess I’m getting older. My husband was taken aback by the pacing crowd at the start and ran for the hills but my dad helped me and enjoyed chatting with everyone. I told my husband “those are my people” lol. Still lots left over but we take itemized deductions, so I documented all that. Problem is that I go drop off and find a big set of Royal Albert flower of the month tea cups and plates and decided to go in on that. Oops. My daughter is off this week so it’s an easy thing for her to take photos of.
Ebay continues to be slow but listing wasn’t my focus this week. I now have some clean up to do in the garage and one more load to take to the thrift store. I also have 3 bins of clothing to sell on Mercari.
On another note, a clean out / moving company that is well run opened a consignment store in a portion of the defunct Sears mall location near my house. I finally remembered to go in there and check it out. Most of the stuff was pretty large and fussy but I would have bought a few things (art, P Barn throw pillows) at a better price. They had put that the price reduces on certain dates over time and even after the last date it was a little pricey – definitely for resale. They have a space for live music and will be doing auctions. Should be interesting to see how they do. I’m used to better prices but they did have some really cool art in there and I don’t think people are shopping it to heavily. They did not have a lot of smalls, which made me wonder where that stuff went – booth people might be in on the food chain. Also had some designer clothing selling for $75. A reminder that there is some serious money in this town. However, I like what the run of the mill ’50-’60s ranch houses produce.
@Sharon thanks! I’m happy to report that most of my death pile purchases are worth keeping and selling but there are some regrets shown in there – lots of coffee mugs from like 4 years ago. Some of it is my parents’ house stuff that I don’t want to sell on Ebay. Not going to get rich but happy to get stuff out of here.
What sold #8 video, plus what I’m listing, buying, and yard sale prep.
Thanks Steve for continuing to make your what sold videos!
Great job Julie going to help for so long. I’m sure your mom really appreciated that and will remember it always. I’m sorry to hear about your loss. Hopefully EBay will rebound quickly for you once you are listing again.
Can I get back in? I’ve just quit my day job so Ebay will be my only part-time work. I listed 17 items last week. Thanks!
I haven’t been following this thread but see others are slow. I only have about 260 items left in my store now but will be building up. Things have been super slow for a couple of weeks now.
Just dismal sales again this week. I ran the two .99 actions and without many views, they sold cheap. Listed 17 items of Target RA stuff that’s not too available any longer. Sometimes delays can be potentially profitable.
I had turned off promoted listings for a while when I read that Ebay could adjust the percentage. Had hardly any impressions during the time it was off. Is anyone finding the traffic reports helpful? I’m guessing I should probably refresh old listings as someone suggested. I even have a few losers I might add to the garage sale pile. I’ve already tried reducing prices on those.
My H got Covid at work so I had to postpone the garage sale again. I finished last week going through all of the boxes in my garage and scanning sales history for a lot of items. Hopefully neither my son nor I will get Covid and then we’ll have the sale next week and get the garage back. Going through our closets now and have a couple of tubs of better brand clothing that I will put on Mercari.
On a scavenger note, I will say that eating out seems to have gotten really expensive. I had two meals last week – one where we just ordered apps and drinks and was surprised at how much the bill was. These are nice places, but not super fancy. My son is working at a casual restaurant in a luxury hotel ($1600 a night this weekend), and making good tips just bussing. It’s no wonder since the food and drinks are so expensive.
Congrats on the sale. There are some things I pass on just because I don’t want to look at them in my inventory. LOL. They actually look decently painted though. I’ve seen worse.
Normally I don’t run auctions, but my daughter had a mixed lot of Barbie furniture and accessories and I wasn’t sure what to charge I ran a 7 day auction and one of them hardly got any views at all for 6 days at .99! I even paid a promotion of $1.50 on day 6 just to see what would happen and views did go up a little. One of her other active listings has 1 view in two weeks and many of my new listings have hardly any views. I’m pricing with Terapeak so I don’t think I am way off on this. Looks like others here are getting sales so I’m glad to see that.
Zero sales. Ouch. I turned promoted listings on a few days ago. Listed 20 items (good for me). Hope for a better week this week.
I feel like I’m in the business of stuff management as I finish going through everything for the yard sale this weekend. Lots of scanning, lots of items worth selling on Ebay. Guess I’ll have plenty of work cut out for me listing.
Enjoy NYC. That app is such a great idea to reduce waste. I’m glad you found it. We also like the happy hour locator one.
