Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
@Retro you made me smile with your Cheap Girl Summer comment. My ASP was way down last week so I can relate. A couple of sellers on Facebook we’re suggesting focusing on listing more low dollar items. For someone like me with lots of unlisted inventory on hand to choose from, I might consider that approach. Someone else pointed out that wealthy people are still buying but in my experience with both businesses, those people do slow down too on spending when something of this magnitude evolves. It is always a bit weird when some totally random unnecessary item sells high during times like these.
Great costumes. I was hand sewing trim on corsets for the Little Mermaid camp musical yesterday. I know just enough to be dangerous and I was quite slow.
I listed 53 items but a few were multiples. I’m listing like a mad woman when I get into the grove. Tearapeak really helps. I’m so grateful for that feature.
Total Items in Store: 372
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $235.36 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $142.27 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $24
Highest Price Sold: $54 (Small original watercolor by regionally known artist)
Average Price Sold: $26
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $10
Number of items listed this week: 53Sales were meh compared to my listing efforts. Hoping to hit 400 items this week, should be a good week for listing as my daughter is getting ready for her camp musical. We had to empty most of the garage for the demo and I did discover some things were no longer listed. Also just a few RA items I never listed. I even have a few items left from that long ago Ebay hiccup deleting all but one photo. So some inventory check, maintenance and sell similar is in order at some point. I feel like I’m getting a little bit sloppy about cleaning and photographing items in my zeal to just get stuff up. I was also better about not shopping much this week but Goodwill just also didn’t really have tempting things. I was on a streak there going mid-day until this week.
Have fun in NYC. Easier to walk the streets in the summertime. 🙂 I’ve been lagging on booking plane tickets for August and the prices just jumped way up. 🙁
Indy thrifts are great. Unfortunately I’m seeing a lot more people thrifting though during the pandemic. There is now a 45 minute wait to get into my favorite at opening. A lot more high school and college kids shopping clothing.
We only have one Goodwill and it’s in a really central location. Stuff really moves there. They have a couple of better brand clothing and shoe racks and they do send stuff to corporate I think. However, I really have noticed that it depends on the manager and staff has a huge turnover. The current manager seems to like to keep things moving. Also it’s easier to just throw stuff out on the floor, especially breakable items which I deal in. I do notice though that they never have good smalls – zero jewelry, lighters, belt buckles. I bet they just ship all of that out to corporate.
The regional chain seems to go through large swings in pricing. Right now demand is high so they have really hiked their prices. At other times in the past they had to advertise lowering of prices to get people back in.
27 items for me. Not ready yet for goals/challenges. I’m just kind of grabbing what is recent / in the way at this time.
Total Items in Store: 322
Items Sold: 5
Gross Sales: $204.89 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $122.52 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $6
Highest Price Sold: $45 (3 Skeins of yarn, paid $1.5o)
Average Price Sold: $30
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $15
Number of items listed this week: 27Sales were slow for me this week but I found my second best item ever – https://www.ebay.com/itm/334496986587 this fancy art glass for $14.99. Battle story – I went in to Goodwill and it was in the case, I looked at it but didn’t have time to wait in line and pay or even look up the signature before I picked up my kid. I went back two hours later and it was still there! Unfortunately it has some surface scratches which is a real bummer but hopefully I’ll get an offer. Hoping for stronger sales and listing time should be quite good this week.
Had to move in the inventory as the garage will be worked on this week. Kind of a good opportunity to find some things that weren’t listed and reorganize. Hope everyone has a good week!
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.
