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Thanks Scavengers! He is starting Fall 2021. We are also tossing around the honors college at UV, but that’s even more weather. His favorite weather is Seattle – just cool and drizzly, but we just didn’t find the right fit school up there.
I’m on a forum with other ’21 parents and at first everybody just assumed it would be more or less controlled by their kids’ freshman year. Reality is setting in now. We are asking him to apply broadly and then in spring we will sort it all out. Schools will learn from this year but not all of them will master and invest in good testing and tracing if still needed.
@Sharyn I hope she is managing to enjoy the gap year. 🙂 Our CA State colleges already announced over a month ago that they are online in the spring. I really want a residential experience for my guy as a freshman. It’s kind of the dream.Does anyone know how MA is handling the virus? My impression is that it’s pretty conservative. The objective may end up being to get out of the total shutdown areas of the West into a school that is heavily and wisely testing and at least hybrid.
Applying early to UMass Amherst and WPI. Considering BC (quite a reach), Williams and Tufts (a reach).
He hates being hot but isn’t experienced with snow. He’s a big nature guy so I imagine that he will like it but it will be an adjustment for sure. Originally we had MN, WI, etc. on the list, so MA is better weather-wise than that I guess. It would be nice if we could have visited in the winter but obviously that’s not happening. It’s a tough time to be applying.
Total Items in Store: 341
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales: $235
Cost of Items Sold: $87
Highest Price Sold: $69 (RA new pajamas from summer clearance)
Average Price Sold: $34
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Thanks for the podcast. This week I listened to it while I waited for my teen and her friend to take selfies at the pumpkin patch. LOL. So much for listing while you listen.
@Simon, congrats on your early retirement. I can’t wait to see how you ramp up Ebay even more. It’s been impressive and you always have been really organized with your numbers.I’ve been alerted by the day job that it will be a busy week. Between that and obsessing about my son’s college app and search, Ebay is just really on the back burner. Mercari is super dead, everything is pretty much listed for their minimum $9 now and once and a while an items sells. Sometimes someone will ask me for a break on the $9 and I’m like it’s not even worth the effort to get up and pack it! Since Mercari’s shipping went up, it’s a bummer for my typical 1-2 pound items. Have a good week!
Total Items in Store: 329
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales: $293
Cost of Items Sold: $58
Highest Price Sold: $69 (Tie, vintage Sascha Brastoff bowl and new Rejuvenation door knocker)
Average Price Sold: $42
Returns: 1 (I sent the wrong item and they repurchased, took a shipping hit 2 ways)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $4
Number of items listed this week: 0We are in the thick of college application season but I’m now starting to sleep a little better so really need to kick into gear. I have some seasonal fall RA that NEED to get listed this week. Went thrifting one time. A favorite indy thrift has opened a new location I avoided the opening for multiple reasons but still found two little items later in the day. They also got rid of my nemesis older redhead pricer and have college kids working there now. They had the coolest vintage coffee bin sort of like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/60657926201380339/ that made me think of you guys and your shop.
@RetroTreasures stitchery kits are my favorite thing to sell. Not the most exciting to pick but they are such reliable sellers, easy to list and ship, and sometimes worth great money. Also overlooked by some scavengers in these parts. The few times I make it to garage or estate sales, I always check that out.
Have a great week.
Ditto. I’m seriously suffering covid unproductivity but might manage to ramp up still.
Made it back on board with 15 listings, no paper. I went to the thrifts once and have some retail arbitrage backed up so I really need to get moving!
These are awesome. At least until my son goes to college I have to pack on my washer and dryer in the garage.
Had to lose the mom-mobile at this time, but the new car is so modern and computerized. Makes me wonder if we will starting hitting repairs sooner? We always choose a reliable model and brand so we’ll have the best shot possible for longevity without major repairs. Since the Volvo certified car has such low miles we will get another year on the warranty, which is nice. My dad argued for getting an older car and just sucking up repairs, but I don’t tolerate the extra stress of an unreliable car in my life well.
Thanks Steve. I love Donna Summer!
Dropping in to say I just love those moments when you are sourcing and can’t decide on something so you look it up and then solds come up over $100. And you’re like “whoa!” and then grab it and run to pay.
Bolo this 1980s Nancy Thomas folk art https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=nancy+thomas+folk+art&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1 I just pick up 6 of these plaques at Goodwill for $3.99 each. The first one (October) sold even though it’s all rusted and scratched up.
Zero for me last week. Not a great time of year on Ebay to be busy with other things, but that’s life.
Total Items in Store: 364
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $114
Cost of Items Sold: $25
Highest Price Sold: $80 (set of Xmas Pottery Barn Plates used)
Average Price Sold: $38
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Well slow sales but I haven’t listed in weeks. Busy outside Ebay with day job and son’s college app process. Also bought a new to me car this weekend on a trip to LA. We bought a car that some spendy person leased fully loaded and took the hit on, barely drove, then returned for a brand new one. Also negotiated several thousand off the used blue book “fair” price because I’m not driving that much and was super ready to walk out and wait. I feel like it was a fun exercise in scavenging. We hold on to our cars for about 10 years and do not trade in. Had no trouble selling my minivan quickly even with Covid.
Excited about the coffee shop. I’m sure that you have a great plan and don’t really need input here. 🙂 I would say though that food is key IMHO to driving people in during non-peak hours and expanding the amount they will spend. When traveling I often prefer to eat at Starbucks vs a sit down place and I sometimes grab a lunch in the morning on my way to work. Also, many restaurants, hair salons, etc. here sell art, though it’s usually cohesive by one artist and sometimes based on local landscapes or scenes. Vintage art could be fun and give people something to enjoy without the shop looking cluttered.
Have a great week!
@ Retro Good thinking. I feel like I’m not depressed but strangely less productive. I prefer to compartmentalize my time and office work. Here there is always a number of other things I could be doing and greater temptation to slack off.
When we bought our first house here some friends said it helped them decide to move to Tennessee. It was a total fixer for the price. LOL. But it is a nice community and we do have some awesome local coffee shops https://www.handlebarcoffee.com/pages/our-story. This one has the most amazing avocado toast. Of course because I’m cheap I get our coffee at Costco usually and we are using a crappy Keurig. So expensive real estate but cheap coffee, that’s what we get here.
Ugh zero for me. Part non-Ebay busyness and fun friend time, and part laziness to be truthful. I feel a bit of the Covid blahs. Worst part is that I went thrifting one day and have a pile of retail arbitrage to catch up on. Usually I always get my RA items listed right away.
