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What Sold #5 with a tiny haul and some Youtube referrals.
Total Items In Store: 382 Ebay, 117 Mercari
Items Sold: 14 ebay, 1 mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $70 + a few items ours
Total Sales: $511 Ebay, $13 Mercari
Highest Price Sold: $94 (my son’s AP bio textbook)
Average Price Sold: $37
Money Spent on New Inventory: $0
Number of items listed: 0Busy week and I got good and tired of being at the computer so I worked on some cleaning out of our garage, where my Ebay stock is located. Man, there are a lot of piles. I have to admit that I’m now creating some death piles out of the piles. Not sure I won’t have to end up donating some the smalls and duds later. I’m definitely looking at things with different eyes three years down the road.
I have decided to use Mercari to liquidate some $10-15 items from the piles. Sometimes low end items do better on Mercari if there is more quantity on Ebay, so it’s more novel on Mercari and because some sellers use auctions ineffectively on Ebay and create low comps. Also in Mercari notes, they have upgraded their desktop version and now you can see stats, including your own response time, etc. They also now allow you to relist items. I’m hoping for more enhancements.
Lots going on this week outside of Ebay again, but I’m now looking forward to getting back to Ebay listing. Thanks for the podcast.
Cases are up in our neck of the woods, were we have enjoyed having hardly any cases originating in our City until recently. It’s a tourist town and they opened up the downtown so we are getting visitors from places with more cases and it’s inevitable.
Hi all, unfortunately I didn’t list anything this week. I did work on cleaning and organizing my garage, including some ebay inventory consolidation. Needed to move instead of working at the computer. However, I did already list two death piles boxes of mugs in June.
Amen Jay. It’s like you don’t have the right to decide to go into the store with no pants. This is more important to society at this point than wearing pants! We don’t know everything about this virus but there is a ton of evidence that masks cut down on transmission.
This is nuts. I think Ebay needs to keep cleaning house. Allegedly they had trouble in the past hiring good talent.
@Amatino I hope it was a better week for you.
I was super into listing this week and did 59 listings, 55 unique. I did make one mistake that I know of on shipping somehow with weight, so I hope I don’t find out about any more of that since I use Terapeak and then sell similar a lot lately.
Total Items in Store: 386 Ebay, about 75 Mercari
Items Sold: 10 Ebay, 7 Mercari
Gross Sales: $326 Ebay, $100 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $129 + some Mercari items ours
Highest Price Sold: $107 (two new pajama pants bought this month, paid $65)
Average Price Sold: $33 Ebay, $15 Mercari
Returns: 1 candle melted, sold on Mercari and not sure how CS will handle.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week: 59It felt slower than the numbers reveal. I’m happy to report that I did a lot of listing and ran out of non-Christmas Starbucks mugs from my newbie death piles. Unfortunately my day job has become pretty slow, but I’m thrilled to tackle some piles. Now I’m making a couple of boxes of true death piles, mostly smalls. Also finding some fun vintage stuff to list. I’m not doing much RA either since I’ve stocked up and the retailer sales aren’t as good at the moment.
Downtown reports are that people are not consistently wearing masks and tourism is coming back, so hope we continue to be ok here. I went to an uptown outdoor distanced patio with large tables to eat and have cocktails with friends once. It was a treat and their outdoor situation felt safe. It was a pricey, newer place so we could even distance from each other. Also went once to the thrift store because I donated items. It had opened earlier and seemed picked over but the thrift store was limiting the number of people inside and providing sanitizer. There is an awesome charity sale outside today that I’ll be missing. Back to the piles this week.
Have a good week. For those of you sourcing stay safe and enjoy it!
@OldDad I suggest buying the lightweight Ebay stickers then and reselling them as a lot after a while. Free money!
@Steve swooning over that lamp. Amazing picks and I’m in awe of your shipping skills and efforts.
@Ryanne thanks for posting this. It works and I just bought something new Flat mail jackets for paper goods
@Retro are you only seeing your items in the banner? I’m seeing some other sellers’ listings as well. Possibly you are the only one promoting. My search is pretty broad so dunno.
I listed 21 items, 20 unique. I didn’t take a photo because it’s all Starbucks mugs, so not that interesting. I have three more to go from the death pile box and another box of that lined up. It feels really good to get traction on the piles.
Total Items in Store: 351 Ebay, About 70 Mercari
Items Sold: 12 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Gross Sales: $700 Ebay, $32 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $346 Ebay, $5 Mercari
Highest Price Sold: $200 New bedding
Average Price Sold: $58
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $15
Number of items listed this week: 21Happy birthday to you guys! I hope you enjoy a chill birthday celebration. I was thinking it would be cool to blow up some old town postcards for your shop decor, though I’m confident that you already have already planned or found some amazing wall art.
An old friend once said to me that very few people get to do a job they really love and the rest of us just have to suck it up and that’s why they call it work.
This week my sales fell off a cliff mid-week and vintage did not moving well for me. However, I did get a whole box of death pile Starbucks mugs listed so I’m happy with that. I’m going to wait until I have fewer RA repeats to post another video with unique vintage. Thanks to people for the nice comments. It feels really good to get to some piles listed – still much more to go. The kids are demanding more of my time but I’m hoping to knock out another box this week and I think that would be all but the Christmas Starbucks.
Finally, a word about promoted listings. I have a story actually. I was a finance major and we had an mid 80s computer simulated group project to launch a business. We met regularly to discuss strategy, but as the weeks went on spent less and less time. At the end our team won first place! It turns out that the person in charge of turning in our weekly tweaks had steadily increased the advertising budget while everyone else was snoozing. This week I was looking for something to buy in the app and frequently scrolled through a banner of my own sponsored listings. I do 2%. Hopefully, it will pay off as some sellers forget about it or refuse to pay more fees.
Have a great week. Hope it is a healing week in many ways. Masks are required here in businesses and have apparently worked well. We are grateful to our neighbors for making the effort and to the business and local government for requiring this. The culture here is wearing is caring.
This reminds me of this character.
