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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.
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.
