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Total Items in Store: 364
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $468
Cost of Items Sold: $164
Highest Price Sold: $238 (4 new plates)
Average Price Sold: $67Returns: 1 $60 (wrong item in packaging)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $38Enjoyed the podcast. Sounds like you are getting closer on the coffee shop. Do you have an estimated opening date / month? Also enjoyed looking on Insta at some cute homes in your area. Stunning the price per sq. foot out there.
Ebay was completely dead for me for six! days, then I got a flurry yesterday and a good multi-item sale. I have not been listing unfortunately. Work might be less busy this week and I might be able to catch up a bit on some Ebay before we take a short trip on Saturday for our anniversary. At this stage of Covid, I’m have days that I am excited about catching up with old friends or the holidays coming, and then other days when I feel in a bit of a Groundhog day funk. Most days I just don’t feel as productive as I should be. I’m serving as my son’s college counselor and we are in the thick of that too. I cannot wait for December on that front. Just like with Ebay, I got an excellent free education online and in a forum about admissions. The internet is a wonderful thing.
For the second time in my Ebay career, I have a return involving a new pillow sham that has the wrong item inside the packaging. Unfortunately I didn’t check and used stock photos this time, so I have no way to know if it was the Ebay buyer or someone else who swapped it out and returned it to the retailer. Last time I reported the buyer to Ebay because I knew. Bummer and lesson learned.
Have a great week everyone!
Total Items in Store: 364
Items Sold: 5
Gross Sales: $159
Cost of Items Sold: $56
Highest Price Sold: $49
Average Price Sold: $32
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $20
Number of items listed this week: 19Thanks for the Podcast. It’s exciting to hear about you raising up your small town. It would be fun to see a video after you open the coffee shop.
Slow sales but I was away over the weekend on a short trip with extended handling time. I did quickly flip two items I sourced on Mercari, so that was cool. They were poorly described so they weren’t even what I expected but it worked out great. On my trip I sourced a few small new items at great prices. They probably have awesome thrifts where I went but didn’t have time to make it. Also missed a thrift store pod storage sale last weekend and skipped waiting in a huge distanced line for a grand reopening at another. Sigh.
I’m all backed up on my listing even with new summer clearance items but have day job projects. Happy the kids are back in school (remotely).
Have a great week! Happy fall.
@Simon congrats! I hope you enjoy your retirement and growing your Ebay store. Since we are both under heavy CA Covid restrictions, thought I would mention that the half of our independent thrift stores that have been closed are finally either reopening with extreme limitations on shoppers or having outdoor storage container sales. Might be a good way to ramp up on inventory if you have that going on.
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.
