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Curious to hear this too. I think there are younger buyers on Mercari, who EBay has struggled to attract. However, I find people are cheap on Mercari unless it’s a very hot brand, like Patagonia. Buying-wise, I really struggle on Mercari with sellers just not measuring and weighing the item and my strict post office just sends it right back.
Items in Store 280
Items Sold 6
Total Sales $192.53
COGS $38
Total Profit $112.85
Average sales price $21
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 0Happy to have any sales at this rate. I’m shutting my store off for a few days due to a health issue. Happy that I didn’t stockpile a bunch of xmas since I haven’t been listing. Thinking about whether to keep selling on Mercari in 2021. It’s our stuff that I sell over there (mostly clothing) for about 2-4x yard sale prices. Hope all who celebrate have a very happy Christmas.
Total Items in Store: 275
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $298.51 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $173.67 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $80
Highest Price Sold: $40 BO set of Midcentury brutalist candle holders
Average Price Sold: $25
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Cruising along without listing. Lots of highs and lows in my non-Ebay life. Struggling teen. Send good coffee. LOL.
I would dearly love to get a New Year’s podcast if you would consider that update R&J. Happy holidays everyone.
Welp, short report for this week: “We couldn’t find any sales in the selected time period. Try changing the date range or filters.” ouch. No listing again for me but I don’t think I’ve had a week without sales anytime since I’ve been selling. I started a sale today. Hope to list a handful of items at least. Have jury duty on top of it all. Oye.
It looks like the holiday shipping cutoffs are pretty early. I like to shut down right before xmas because Ebay will sell FedEx and then not let me buy a label. Also I just don’t want to deal with the last minute buyers. Then I open again on the 24th. Let me know if the post office is running especially behind this year. Thanks!
Goose egg for me again. I’m under water with outside life. Luckily, I have not much Christmas to list but loads of other stuff.
Decor matters to a lot of people, even for a temporary stay. Experienced renters will also like all of the extras you thoughtfully include.
Total Items in Store: 294
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $211.93 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $140.65 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $8
Highest Price Sold: $99 (Pottery Barn Halloween item (ours))
Average Price Sold: $70.64
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Nice listing R! Glad to hear things are going well. I wonder what effect the new Airbnbers will have on pricing. I always look at ratings and filter.
Well, Ebay is still on the back burner. Really enjoyed having family here including my son home from college finally. Putting the seat belt on for the new variant business.
I posted this last week but if anyone knows how Ebay will be reporting sales and expenses vs. before managed payments, would love to hear about that.
Goose egg for me the last two weeks. I have a lot going on and I’m pretty overwelmed. Luckily I don’t have much unlisted Christmas. Unfortunately I had a couple handfuls of Thanksgiving that didn’t make it on to Ebay. Oh well.
Total Items in Store: 294
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $232.16 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $165.94 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $36
Cost of helpers: ?
Highest Price Sold: $60 (two new advent calendars, paid $18 xmas clearance)
Average Price Sold: $27
Returns: 1 item broke cost $9 plus shipping refunded.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Very busy and challenging life outside Ebay. My 15 year old highly creative daughter likes to go to the thrift store occasionally now and she wanted to help take photos for me. She did a great job, had fun picking out the background paper, and added graphics to show a chip. Some potential but I don’t think her interest will last. Still cool that she got to see the process from start to finish. The item sold very quickly. She would like the entire profit as compensation, I suggested a Starbucks hourly rate, and we haven’t settled up yet. lol
Can someone tell me if there has been information from Ebay about tax reporting with managed payments? Unfortunately I snoozed on getting EZ auction tracker and will have a lot of work to do, though I’m hoping Ebay reports the net profit. When Ebay has just paid, my shipping comes from Paypal. I’ve got to get up to speed on this. My sales will be lower this year but still a pain.
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone. Meet your challenges head on.
6 items listed for me. No textiles though I have many. I really need to get my few items of Thanksgiving up. It’s been hard to find time and energy to list.
Congrats on the marker sales! I think I remember you went back the next morning to get the rest. Good thinking!
Dismal sales for me this week. I listed a multi-quanity legos RA and that’s it. Very busy at the day job so that’s good. I also got my booster on Friday so kinda killed my energy this weekend.
Sold 4 items $183.45 gross, only $56.84 net? Hm. Some large subscription fees I’ll need to look at. I haven’t read all the postings but it sounds like some others had high fees last week too.
Also noted this week and some items at the store seem to be very low stock. My daughter’s iphone broke and the Best Buy guy said they have basically no phones and haven’t been able to get any unlocked phones from Apple for a while. Went to a restaurant that said they don’t have some food items right now… Seems like the squeeze is on. Not sure what is happening down in Long Beach. I have a friend who lives there and can see all the boats off the coast from her house.
