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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.
Hi Jay, yeah I don’t miss the day desk job one bit. I’ve been listening to a lot of music and getting outdoors more. It’s been only a couple of weeks without Covid or company and summer is coming with shorter days for my daughter, so I don’t feel the full effect yet. It was nice to get back to listing again this week but I really need to get back to the clean out. I can see enjoying regular listing after I accomplish the purge.
Thanks for reporting on this Sharyn. I’m interested to see the replies. I don’t go back into the desktop after taking photos in the app. However, for some reason my condition notes disappeared after photos this week so now I’m questioning whether or not I need to. I’d love to discover a faster way.
Total Items in Store: 215
Items Sold: 4
Gross Sales: $200.99 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $146.86 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $32
Highest Price Sold: $48 x 2 (new Pottery Barn towels)
Average Price Sold: $39
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 5Pretty quiet during the week. We are housebound with Covid and my daughter took some photos of her stuff while I listed it. We found that a lot of the toys were missing pieces. We have some Barbie lots still to photograph. I have some older ’60s ones that were handed down to me, one of which is probably worth over $100. The clothes are in horrible condition so will lot those up. All kinds of stuff around here. Will get back to the garage sort and purge this week and hopefully also a few listings as well. I can’t get my international shipping preference to stick and I won’t do anything but global shipping program so I need to watch that. Also had the condition notes disappear from draft.
I hope everyone has a good week on Ebay and otherwise. Fingers crossed I stay negative for Covid. I feel ok but definitely was exposed.
@Retro hope you can get some relief soon! My daughter was pretty sick with bad cold / flu symptoms. She tested negative for days, almost to the day she started feeling a lot better. Finally tested positive on the morning of the show. A whole bunch of the theater kids got it and one of the teachers.
Update: Arg. Covid finally caught up with my family so we need to postpone the yard sale. I’m probably about 75% done with going through all of the boxes and bins in my garage. There was a lot more stuff from my parents’ house than I thought. Many items I inherited were broken, repaired, or defective in some way. I’ve put some lower in carnival glass, all of the mildly chipped items, etc. into the sale for cheap and threw out some things. I did find a solid silver bowl from my grandparents that might to go for a few hundred dollars and some Murano glass that’s cool. I caught up with a couple of boxes I can identify as a period of me being junk drunk on my favorite independent thrift store after I first discovered it. <Shakes head> But, that’s a cheap lesson. All in all there is PLENTY here to list that’s worth selling. It will be pretty organized when I’m all done.
I’m the smallest sample size ever but basically no sales for two weeks and then sold the only item I listed the next day. Hm. Only mentioning because of the comments about random things selling the next day.
Poor week of sales. I turned off promoted listings because someone posted that they can raise the percentage rate without your permission. We had company and I’m still cleaning out for the garage sale so didn’t list much. Looking forward to unlisted items being more organized. Went thrifting with my cousin while she is visiting and she found some great deals on clothing. I didn’t buy anything to resell but it was fun to look.
Yard sales are well attended here though I’m not sure I have a lot of high dollar stuff and we don’t have any furniture, etc. Most of it will probably end up being donated. I shut down at 11 since few sales happen after that.
I think I’m kind of a slow lister, except on Mercari. I might try to get used to listing on Ebay on my phone.
