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0 for me this week, with life crisis and distractions. Looking forward to better and cooler days in Fall…
Total Items in Store: 354
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $415
Cost of Items Sold: $78 (a few items ours)
Highest Price Sold: $110 small vintage painting of Paris (paid $0 (my parents’))
Average Price Sold: $58
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
<div id=”powerpress_player_9307″ class=”powerpress_player”>Well the week of sales started out well but has been very quiet the last few days. I’m just sitting down to list for a bit and start a sale so hopefully will get a bump. Look forward to listening to the podcast. It’s strange having Ebay dumping money weekly into my account.
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<div>Our dog became mysteriously very ill (and is now improving) and there is another crazy heat wave so it was a crap week where I got nothing much done on any front. Lots of day job work to start catching up on tomorrow. Both kids back in school this week, so might help with the chances for listing after that. I’m kind of getting excited about Fall.</div>Yeah! I bought some Target clearance inventory to flip from other scavengers that is not available here.
I listed 15 items this week, 8 were textiles. Weird that it’s Fall and we are still in lockdown. This week will be super busy again with work and college apps but I think next week should be better for listing.
Total Items in Store: 355
Items Sold: 5
Gross Sales: $138
Cost of Items Sold: $13Highest Price Sold: $35 new plate, paid $9 a year ago
Average Price Sold: $28
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $150 summer clearance + thrift run
Number of items listed this week: 15Congrats on the big art sale, that’s awesome. It’s fun hearing about preparing to open the coffee shop, but I can’t wait to see photos.
Slow week on Ebay but I didn’t list until Sunday. I did sell my 2010 minivan too though for $9500. I’m still pulled away by other work but that should lighten up maybe by next week when both kids are back in school. I look forward to a day when I just just sit and list on Ebay.
This week I went to the thrift shops to check out the Halloween they just started putting out (mainly looking for high quality stuff for us). Two stores had cute college girls in pairs buying up my kind of stuff. Also this week Youtube suggested https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEDLDyuTial0Jtb3IHCab9A these girls (the Recycled Life), who are having a lot of fun together and reminded me of the ones I saw. Earlier I saw college boys doing it and they would talk out loud and it was clear that they had no idea what they were doing. The girls are a bigger threat. So more competition, but there is lots of vintage stuff around here and I have loads of piles still. Secretly I’m hoping these college kids don’t have the patience to stick with it.
Have a great week.
Hi all,
Only 4 new listings, all textiles. Super busy outside Ebay. Hang in there Julie. I miss having a full just Ebay day.
🙂 We always wait until 10/1 to decorate but I look for used deals starting in August.
Total Items in Store: 347
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $308
Cost of Items Sold: $75
Highest Price Sold: $69 new sham, paid $36 July summer clearance)
Average Price Sold: $39
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0New listings: 4
Still need to listen to the podcast. Busy with day job and my poor son on his college apps. He will apply broadly due to all of the uncertainty and has to do a lot of essays. I’m desperately trying to keep him motivated. No listing time and energy last week. Sales were actually better than I thought but came in spurts.
I don’t have a lot of holiday items to list but our family have started to look forward to Halloween and decorating. I’m wondering if people will buy holiday decor, but fewer presents. More presents online I suppose. Perhaps people will buy more unique gifts since they have more browsing time – EBAY listen up and advertise. I was going to do a little Fall retail arbitrage at Target after my successful experiment but everything is sold out in the local stores and online in the brand I like. So much for that. No time for a thrift run this week but I’m backed up even on summer clearance that arrived.
We have put my old minivan up for sale and are hunting for a newer car. We always buy a lease return with all of the extras on it that someone else paid for. I hope someday when I’m scavenging I don’t miss the huge van. I can’t see ever doing furniture and larger items. I think my husband would object in a major way.
Have a great week everyone!
You’re welcome! Most of the time we get cooled off by the ocean a mile away and don’t need it, but each year seems like we have more and more hot spells. For a little over $400 at Costco we got a great unit that cools the kitchen and family room area. Worth EVERY penny. They also have smaller window units right now for about $300 but those don’t work with our windows.
Wanted to say I was so relieved when vacation rentals started doing well after the initial absorption of the crisis. Happy for you guys.
Already they have replaced the two replacement mailboxes I mentioned above with one giant new antitheft one. The new excuse for removal was anti-theft, but then why put the two standard ones in for two days? Nutty times.
Hi sorry for the late entry. I had zero last week and 1 this week. Super busy with my day job and kid stuff. Have a good week you guys.
Total Items in Store: 340
Items Sold: 4 but one $180 sale buyer hasn’t paid, so 3.
Gross Sales: $121
Cost of Items Sold: $52
Highest Price Sold: $58 new top, paid $26 summer clearance
Average Price Sold: $40
Returns: 1? Defective product, offered late return but buyer went quiet (or maybe was not defective).
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 1For the first time in a long time, I didn’t listen to the podcast right away. It’s so interesting what happened with the post office. Upsetting older, reliable voters waiting on checks and prescriptions, may have made them reverse course (among other reasons). Locals were totally in a snit and on the horn with our congressman when a popular box went missing, then two days later they put two in its place without special modification and no straight answers from authorities. Nuts. I think some people underestimated how attached people’s lives are to the postal service.
Part of the week I was on a short trip and in vacation mode. Sales have been slow and I am very busy working outside Ebay so listing also at a halt. I got my first VERO from Williams Sonoma for a Pottery Barn item stock photo, so I need to back and take a few photos for their clearance items. Monday I started on managed payments. I’ve really been meaning to get a separate account and credit card for the business. I’m going to make myself do it by January 1.
In other news school is starting for my younger teen remotely so that will be a help. Our Covid numbers are down low but the college kids are starting to return with some new cases. We are having a terrible heat wave and were too cheap to put in central air conditioning. We did spring in May for a portable unit from Costco thank goodness. We closed on our refi. I was able to renegotiate after locking for no additional fee, which was awesome. We ended up with an amazing 2.875% rate and closed so we don’t have to pay that new .5% fee starting in September.
Have a great week!
@Doubly congrats!
Total Items in Store: 353 Ebay, about 100 Mercari
Items Sold: 4 Ebay, 1 Mercari
Gross Sales: $200 Ebay, $9 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $64
Highest Price Sold: $79 (4 new plates, bought on summer clearance this month for $22)
Average Price Sold: $50 Ebay
Returns: 0 – two immediate offer cancelations.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 4Slow sales this week but only one was very low dollar. I have been really tied up with my day job and son’s college search and apps so basically not listing or running a sale. One day Ebay let me send out 28 offers and I didn’t even get any counters.
Hope everyone has a good week. Perhaps people are being cautious since the Federal relief has stalled out. I’m wondering if people will be extra excited about some Halloween and Christmas items this year since they are cooped up. Obviously might be less gatherings and travel but the holidays are a nice change.
@spinachetr you have very good timing. Rates are especially good right now.
@Retro just fyi our refi was taking a while and interest rates dropped after we locked. I found out that you are able to walk or ask for a float down (where they will sometimes lower the rate for a fee). They ended up offering us half of the difference in rate, which compared well online so we took that.
