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Total Items in Store: 351
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales (ignoring shipping and taxes): $917
Cost of Items Sold: $351
Highest Price Sold: $240 (Clearance bedding set from January, paid $130)
Average Price Sold: $92
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $150 +/-
Number of items listed this week: 0Congrats on the 500 mark. I’ve listened to them all and really enjoy the information you share and also your wit and fun personalities.
Great week for me considering it’s February. Sold new but also some vintage too. Profit will go toward costs of the RA inventory I just bought. Sale is over so paying those January purchases off. Some are backordered and still shipping out. Unfortunately a bit distracted by family stuff and my day job, so didn’t list much last week.
Like your caller I noticed this week that Ebay would send a “final offer” from a buyer so they must have added a toggle for counteroffers on their end, at least on one of mobile or desktop. Ok with me since rarely does going back and fourth 3-4 times result in a sale. I am using that pretty new “automatically send offers” function and I believe that has worked a few times already since my initial offer to buyer #1 would have expired before the sale came through.
Have a great week everyone. Keep on truckin’ J&R.
Listed 20 items this week.
I finished a second death pile box of small art work. I had cherry picked it already so not thrilled with all of the contents and condition issues.
I’m so jealous of you all who have dedicated Ebay workspaces. I’ll circle back around later to look at Amatino’s photos.
Total Items in Store: 350
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $800 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $652 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $249
Highest Price Sold: $350 (5 piece new bedding set, paid $165 this month RA clearance)
Average Price Sold: $65
Returns: 0 – had to eat an extra $5 label due to buyer address problem.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $400+ (RA clearance)
Number of items listed this week: 20OMG you guys crack me up with the super scavenger honesty, and this week with the eggs. We’re not worthy.
So that new sales report is cool. Shows sales are choppy. Currently plowing profits back into RA inventory. Needed to strike while the sale was finally good enough. Tried and true items people will buy during shut downs.
I made it through another box of death pile small art last week and one sold today. Some of it really I wouldn’t buy now so that went to Mercari and it’s getting some looks. Speaking of Mercari, they cut a deal and have $7.99 smartpost shipping for under three pounds. It doesn’t seem to come up all of the time though. I’m still pulling for Mercari to make it since the listing goes so much faster on their app.
I showed my friend Ebay this week. I think she will try it with jewelry, shoes and accessories. I reserved some more advanced things for part 2. As I suspected, she has some uber wealthy clients who might offload good stuff if she mentions it.
Boring time of year. Hopefully people are looking at stuff online this February. Bring on the coffee shop photos. Have a great week!
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Her best bet here is thrifts. Most are open 25% capacity and she can go weekdays at odd hours. Actions are limited here and I don’t think many people are having yard sales even though we have good weather. The estate sales are expensive here generally speaking and there are fewer than normal plus a regular set of people go to those. She might potentially have some very wealthy clients who donate unwanted items to her if she mentions it during their massage.
She’s a cool, pragmatic and stylish lady originally from Holland. She’s not a thrifter but not above it. I think she would have very good self control buying-wise.
For those who do costume jewelry, is the market just flooded with that stuff, vintage and otherwise?
Oops forgot to post Monday. I listed 45 items last week. Those were RA items but I did get one banker’s box of death in too during January.
Unfortunately I have to list in my living room/dining room so no fun pics.
Total Items in Store: 361
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $721
Cost of Items Sold: $309
Highest Price Sold: $275 (New bedding set, paid about $105 this month clearance RA)
Average Price Sold: $72
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $290 RA clearance
Number of items listed this week: 45It was nice to list on Ebay and sales were good for new items and some vintage wall art. My new items usually do well in January and then in quiets down in February in a regular year.
Thanks to Jay for mentioning Dr. Campbell’s Covid Youtube videos before on the podcast. I’m concerned about the variant so I started listening again recently and oof – he predicts a possible wave of the more infectious variant(s). Our numbers here are trending down and the governor relaxed the restrictions a bit allowing outdoor dining, hotels, and haircuts. Might take advantage a little bit before it goes downhill again.
My dad got his first vaccine dose though the hospital, which is doing way better than the County Health’s dismal performance. For older people, it takes longer for their bodies to learn from the vaccine but he should be able to hang out with us again here in about 3 weeks. For my husband he is already in it 2 weeks and should be protected.
Hope to see photos of the new place soon. Your coffee is great. It was a pretty dull weekend and I looked forward to the podcast while I listed.
Total Items in Store: 326 Ebay, about 75 Mercari
Items Sold: 4 Ebay, 5 Mercari
Gross Sales: $431 Ebay, $74 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $167 Ebay, $0 Mercari (our stuff)
Highest Price Sold: $295 (New bedding set, paid $160 last month RA clearance)
Average Price Sold: $107 Ebay, $15 Mercari
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 31Thanks for the podcast. Your old “Equation” episode was my all time favorite. As a new and used seller, I enjoy both the faster listing on the new end and the cool vintage stuff with low COGS on the other end. I will not enjoy listing all of my death piles though as my standards have changed over the last 4 years. Got back into listing this week and hope things continue. There are some changes in my day job that may result in more of that work after this month but in the meantime I’ve been enjoying listing again. I hope you share pics when you have the shop all set up. Have a great week!
@mycottage @temudgin Thank you both!
15 for me. Working on a box of death pile bookends. Feels kinda slow listing these…
Great job Julie.
Total Items in Store: 221 Ebay, about 70 Mercari
Items Sold: 5 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Gross Sales: $225 Ebay, $48 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $71
Highest Price Sold: $79 (New jungle animal art bamboo tray, paid $36 in June) Ebay
Average Price Sold: $45 Ebay
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $400 +/- (Hitting good clearance sale today online RA)
Number of items listed this week: About 15 on Mercari (ours)Sitting down to list and thought I would throw my numbers out there. Today I’m doing some online RA. The retailer was pretty stingy over the Fall/Winter with sales, but a lot of items were cut loose early this morning. Some of the orders might end up getting canceled but a pretty good haul of reliable sellers and free shipping.
Now, back to the death piles. All of my son’s college apps are done! and it’s quiet while we wait for more answers. I will need to start on my COGS and other bookkeeping. I use Easy Auction Tracker which I like, but I *#@$%! forgot to load the numbers for one month on time. So annoying that Ebay doesn’t keep more than 90 days. February has historically been my worst month of sales but maybe this year will be different.
Our community has been doing relatively well with Covid until quite recently. We are only 1.5 hours from LA, so it’s concerning even though supposedly hotel and restaurant tourism is fully shut down. The locals are pretty good about staying home and wearing masks compared to other communities so I am hopeful that it’s just a holiday spike that will trend down, unless we get what my son calls “Super Covid” up here. My husband and his coworkers get their second vaccine dose tomorrow. Stay safe everyone!
I have to say that the events of last week really affected me and I was doom-scrolling too much and not working basically. All of the political and social media stuff was really distracting for my older teen this semester as well. I feel better today and hope the month finishes without more violence. Fingers crossed.
Happy New Year. I’d like to be in but with the understanding that you’ll just enter zero for me if I don’t post numbers. My goal is 10 a week. In theory will be more time for Ebay early this year. Thanks!
We are under lockdown and I’ve not been sourcing at all but over the last few years, it has become much, much easier to walk out of a store empty handed, more quickly, and to pass over under $30 items. Also I remember to some degree the very longest tail items I have stocked. So, a few years of sales experience is so helpful in being able to avoid picking up lower dollar, longer tail items. I don’t feel the same urgency to buy anything that I know I can sell for a profit and I’ve become quite picky. Thank goodness as I am not a power lister it seems.
Well a dismal week with 3 small Ebay sales plus one on Mercari. Mercari did change their shipping input up to make it easier again if you choose suggested weight. Not sure if they are still at high rates though. I listed some of my family’s better clothing there and took a run to the thrift store before the end of the year. I turned Ebay back on on the 24th as usual.
A lot of distraction in 2020 but it looks like I sold about as much gross as the year before surprisingly. The first stimulus checks were a good time for sales, but I’ve had a poor listing year. I still love selling on Ebay but have lost some momentum in 2020. Hope to get it back in 2021. Also looking forward to Ebay simplifying the app based listing. If I can do it completely on my new phone I will make more progress on the death piles.
It was a wonderful buzz to go back to drip coffee and I love the roomy BP hoodie.
