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Total Items in Store: 309
Items Sold: 4
Gross Sales: $290.59 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $207.10 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $23
Highest Price Sold: $132 (Halloween mask)
Average Price Sold: $61
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 8Happy Halloween! First one I’ve been home for in 20 years I think or more. Very quiet Ebay week until the end. Had one day to jump on and do some Ebay listing for a bit. Life might be slower until Thanksgiving week possibly. I gave my friend a Midcentury modern Swiss set of snack plates, cups and saucers from the death piles this week and she loved it. A win. Need to order more coffee.
Hi Amatino, I had zero this week unfortunately, though I did make some drafts and just need to add photos this week.
Total Items in Store:
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $131.60 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $92.70 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $8 (one item ours)
Highest Price Sold: $32 (Jim Shore Halloween water globe, paid $4)
Average Price Sold: $27
Returns/ Issues: No payment on my Scream mask auction – sold for $145. So bummed. I had to wait four days to cancel and then could no longer do second chance?
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $15
Number of items listed this week: 0Busy week outside Ebay and dismal sales. I have a number of autumn and Thanksgiving things I really want to get up hopefully in the next week and a half, including my parents’ wild bird themed English china set. Fun wig party in Palm Springs to look forward to next weekend (I’m wearing an Amy Winehouse tribute) but will not get anything listed of course that weekend. For a long time I wasn’t in the mood to list but now that I am I just have good problems of increased day job work and spending time with family. Today I should get a window for listing while my daughter has some outings.
Total Items in Store: 272
Items Sold: 5 Ebay, 4 Mercari
Ebay Gross Sales: $380.99 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $261.59 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $75
Highest Price Sold: $78 (New pillow shams, paid about $25)
Average Price Sold: $58
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: +/- $100
Number of items listed this week: 4Slow week (dead this weekend) but pretty good APS. I did a little online scavenging of clearance items at retailers. The new items help keep my store active. I’m totally in the mood for listing but spending a lot of time supporting my teen lately and working the day job. I have a few Halloween items left I want to clear out. Fun auction running on 1990s Scream / Scary Movie mask https://www.ebay.com/itm/234230909977 I happened to get lucky and hear these were worth money on a Facebook group page and then found one for $4. Hope the winning bidder pays.
I listed 10 items, no paper. Amatino you beat me this week! Day job very busy but I really want to list my parents’ Gumps china before Thanksgiving and have a bit more Halloween to get up.
Total Items in Store: 290
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $114.48 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $80.15 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $23
Highest Price Sold: $48 (Two preowned pillow covers, paid $8)
Average Price Sold: $29
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $65
Number of items listed this week: 4 Ebay, 6 MercariSlow week on Ebay. Listing our old costumes on Mercari to move. Trying out Mercari Local, where a delivery person will make the run between buyer and seller. Cost $7 and up to the buyer.
I lost my TRS status I think because of my low sales volume during my sort of break. Hoping to get it back again soon. Had a nonsensical message from a buyer who maybe has dementia. I avoided an out of stock with a generous partial refund sending a similar item she agreed to, then she got it and is like “where’s my original item?”. I offered to refund but she’s gone quiet so hopefully no bad feedback will appear.
Miss the podcast. 🙂
Only listed two items last week. Hoping for better this week. I have some Halloween stuff I really need to get up.
Total Items in Store: 286
Items Sold: 10 Ebay + 2 Mercari (our stuff)
Gross Sales: $614.95 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $402.65 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $105 (+Two items ours)
Highest Price Sold: $89 (My son’s AP Calculus Textbook)
Average Price Sold: $42
Returns: 1 (Couldn’t find an item in shipping, refunded, then found it right after :()
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: +/- $85
Number of items listed this week: 2Good sales this week but not the weekend. I was hoping to get some more items listed but had a cold or reaction to my flu shot then spent an entire day looking with my daughter for a homecoming dress (not fun) in our city where a lot of retail has closed. I also got off work early and had some fun thrifting on my birthday instead of listing. Oops.
Our city moved up to the 4th highest cost of living on some survey. Good reason to keep reselling on Ebay and supplement the income.
Looking forward to 4th quarter. Really hope to have more opportunities to list this week. Have a great week everyone.
Thanks! It’s kinda cool because I did take photos for a couple of years of my death piles and they are a lot better than they once were. I also have a number of empty and half empty bins. Still plenty left, mind you but I’ve made a dent anyway. Hopefully we can put our heads down this fall and list away.
I’m also working on the tail end of catching up on all of my medical screenings from the pandemic. As a PSA I encourage everyone to do this. Had a friend get some serious news and had to have major surgery.
Hello! Congratulations to Vintage Lacy on getting married!
I’m back from basically a big Ebay break. I didn’t shut my store down but basically didn’t list for months and months. My son was applying to selective colleges in the worst year ever to do so and I was serving as his counselor and took a deep dive into that world. All of the uncertainty about whether he would have a fairly normal college experience plus the arbitrary nature of 2021 test optional admissions last year was all consuming. Happily, he is at a pretty good school this fall and thriving. I won’t say it went completely perfectly but I’m happy he is in person, residential and able to socialize at a vaccine mandate school. Since we dropped him off I felt enormous relief. I haven’t even cried I was just so glad it worked out ok. Just when I started getting back into Ebay the podcast was canceled! Boo.
So I just glanced through the thread and noticed you were talking about the time it takes to get a listing up. When I started 4-5 years ago I was kind of trying to be fancy about it – not quite to the level of an Etsy shop – but being particular about photos and writing some brief descriptions. I also struggled a bit to price vintage items. With the awesome addition of Terapeak I have a year’s worth of sales and tend to price on the high side of that and take offers. Also the app is better than it used to be, but I still start on the desktop and then add photos on the phone. My strength is finding good items in my location I think so it’s just a matter of getting more things listed. During my break I continued to watch a couple of youtubers who barely describe the items and list simply.
Sourcing has become more competitive here during the pandemic but it’s still not to the level of other cities. I still have loads of death piles, about half of which I would not buy now but some cool stuff too. These days I am in and out of a thrift store almost as fast as the record hounds. I have made a dent in my original death piles for sure but there is a lot more to get through. So I’m getting on board again. My day job is busy and I still have my high maintence kid at home, but I’m not a person who sits around watching Netflix. I prefer treasure hunting and flipping.
Amatino, no need to track my numbers really. I’m just looking for a group to help motivate.
Total Items in Store: 311
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $667.46 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $442.44 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $115
Highest Price Sold: $109 (set of three new plates (paid $48)
Average Price Sold: $49
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $+/-25
Number of items listed this week: 13Another fun week for me getting back into Ebay and looking for Halloween decor. Still didn’t find much Halloween as I feel it was really picked over except for costumes. My own Pottery Barn Halloween stuff is doing well on Ebay so I have a search out on Mercari and Ebay for similar underpriced. My daughter and her friend asked to go thrifting today so Gen Z is getting in on the action. She got a couple of clothing and accessory things for herself. That was fun.
Also went to an estate sale around the corner from my house. The dealer had good taste and I went late but went back second day and bought a couple of midcentry Ikebana Japanese art pottery vases and steel frogs at half price. There was a really cool third one but a dealer got there before me on day 2.
Getting into it with Ebay again feels good. I’m straight up getting kind of loose with the photos and just want to get stuff listed. I love having Terapeak, as it makes it so much easier to price. I wish I could just list on my phone but really I need to work on the computer still. It does help to use a similar listing on Terapeak with a lot of the item specifics filled out. Then I add photos on my phone.
Total Items in Store: 296
Items Sold: 5 (All but one were recent listings.)
Gross Sales: $422.13 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $320.33 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $95
Highest Price Sold: $101 (set of new Halloween William Sonoma plates from clearance last year)
Average Price Sold: $72
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
Number of items listed this week: 3People are in the mood for Halloween this year. Sadly the one store with Halloween out had clearly been picked when I got there. Had some nice sales. Also flipped that Strawberry Shortcake vintage stationery (almost free) from the dregs of the estate sale for $65. My husband jokes it’s elder abuse. 🙂 Remembering why I love Ebay. Happy Fall.
Agree. Half of the job listings seem to be hotel housekeeping. Certainly reselling is more appealing. My son made great money bussing tables last summer but he picked a really busy restaurant during peak season. It will be interesting to see how many of the newer pickers stick with it.
