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Better from Covid but not feeling super energetic or enthused about listing. I only listed one item, the guidebook from my vacation. Need to get going for sure to catch the better season.
Vacation week
Total Items in Store: 353
Items Sold: 4
Gross Sales: $337.23 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $232.33 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $51
Highest Price Sold: $195 (New discontinued Williams Sonoma Serving Bowl, paid $35)
Average Price Sold: $69
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0These are numbers for last week while I had time away on. This week is completely dead but that was ok because I’m pretty sick with Covid, my Florida vacation souvenir. I was one of very few people wearing a mask indoors there on vacation, but it finally got me. I was hoping I was one of those rare people who didn’t get it but no.
School starts on Friday. I look forward to feeling better and growing my store. Looking forward to hearing about your secret project R&J.
Zero for me. I’m in Florida returning from vacation.
I hope that I didn’t miss the thrifts putting out their Halloween. I don’t have much in my inventory because it sold super well last year. On a personal note it’s still my favorite holiday even though the kids are grown and we are in the right neighborhood but not the right street for trick or treaters. I’m hoping some of my older neighbors move on (but not pass on!).
Good luck with your move and house sale VT.
I stopped short of making featured categories since the pics are in my phone and hard to find. I guess I could just pull screenshots from the web but it was taking longer than I had. My banner is super simple but better than what was there before. The logo is cool and was easy. It looks better on mobile.
Fell off the wagon with only 4 listings. Thanks @Julie for responding.
Total Items in Store: 365
Items Sold: 5
Gross Sales: $293.58 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $174.76 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $19
Highest Price Sold: $109 (1980s art plaque, paid $3.99)
Average Price Sold: $49
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 4Fell down on the listing this week as we had family in town and hosted an event yesterday. Sales were ok considering and had a few yesterday. Leaving on vacation next week and will do time away. I look forward to seeing what I can do when school begins mid-August.
I don’t have the capital to do RA at the moment but it seems like in might be a good time for the right stuff. I was disappointed with the summer sale offerings from my high end RA favorites. It is interesting mixed messaging on the media re the recession. I also read about more people thifting in general for their own use, but I’ve only really noticed that with the college kids and clothes the times I’ve been out.
@Julie thanks for the info. eBay has been sending prompts for me to share certain listings. There seems no rhyme or reason to which they choose but I just comply (Pinterest).
Did he say or imply what effect stale listings have on sales?
@Julie keep us posted. It would be interesting if the person was willing to talk about recent charges. There is a lot of speculation going on in seller groups. I’ve seen Kathy on YouTube and besides her romper room approach there is also very little real content.
Just 14 for me this week. I was volunteering and we have family in town.
We put almost everything back in the garage except at the plumbing problem area. Now all of my listed boxes are together and I have a little warehouse isle on a gorilla rack and bookshelf. My husband is not thrilled with the cardboard boxes and packing materials. I told him some of that just comes with the territory unfortunately. On the upside, I’m working on the piles. My kid is not in camp this week so not as temping to go to GW after drop off and buy anything new. I probably have about 40 boxes and bins of stuff to list here. It will be nice to see it further reduced.
Total Items in Store: 384
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $321.24 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $199.47 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $16
Highest Price Sold: $100 (’60s cat gravel art picture, paid $3.99)
Average Price Sold: $35
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $3
Number of items listed this week: 14Solid week on Ebay but I didn’t break 400 listings unfortunately. Should make it this week even with my daughter off. I’m trying to get up a handful of listings each day to keep my account active. I have a few boxes of RA left in inventory but recently listed vintage is mostly what’s selling off now.
Last time I used time away it did cut my sales and then I got a little short bump on expiration. If anyone can find treasure lying around NYC it’s you two. Happy Hunting!
I haven’t tried Charish but they can handle pick up. My college roommate is a professional stager in Palm Springs and Seattle – she buys from them. I just looked at their site for the first time in a while and it looks like they along the lines changed from running everything through them to having sellers list directly. Also interesting this Pink Book of solds (like Terapeak) https://www.chairish.com/pinkbook
Busy right now, but I wonder how this would compare to Ebay. Maybe somebody on the forum knows. Charish has a smaller audience but shoppers who are used to paying high prices.
Steve that patio set is SO desirable out here! I wonder if you could pluck out of your “fly over land” things like that and sell via Chairish? https://www.chairish.com/maker/paul-frankl
When I make my variation listing on the desktop, I put in a photo of the actual single item for each variation. Unfortunately, I think currently in the mobile app that is not shown to the buyer. So it might be best practice for us to specifically put “ONE
pack xyz” in that area. However, you will still get someone like this from time to time and all of the same comments above still apply. There are always people who don’t read/in a hurry, etc.First of all, yeah I totally get bugged initially when something like this happens, but it’s rare. I can usually see one or two ways I could have made something clearer. However, I would totally do a variation listing on something like this. Alternatively, I might lists lots though as a buyer I would like your flat shipping and quantity discount. In any case I always just refund or partially discount at buyer’s option under $25/30 and move on. The minute I get a whiff of aggressiveness I start returning or refunding. I consider it a cost of doing business on EBay. My lack of negative feedback is worth more to me than being right or the time and frustration to contact EBay. Listening to SL helped give me this mentality.
