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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.
Only 11 for me. Was working day job Monday so 0 for that. I have lots of textiles I can pull out of the piles, plus some summer clearance I have just purchased. Since Friday I listed 7.
Total Items in Store: 354 Ebay, 109 Mercari
Items Sold: 8 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Gross Sales: $521 Ebay, $24 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $189
Highest Price Sold: $295 (Duvet and shams set, paid $128 in May)
Average Price Sold: $65 Ebay, $12 Mercari
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $250 (Summer RA Clearance)
Number of items listed this week: 11Thanks for the podcast. Great art sale and I really like the piece. I agree that getting hooked up with estate sale company or other connections would be a good way to increase access to higher dollar items but I’m ok with rolling out the multitude of bread and butter items readily available.
I also do not double box. I hate peanuts too since they end up all over the place. So I use large bubble and also some dish foam sheets as cushion. I do appreciate Ryanne’s earth-friendly method.
Ebay was pretty quiet this week most days. My day job has been in a busy cycle and honestly I’ve been kind of in a weird, less productive state for about a week and not sleeping that great. Also obsessing a bit over my senior son’s college search and apps. So, not a big listing week. I feel like I need a really good “just focus on Ebay listing” day. Probably would be good idea to stop watching the news and reading Facebook.
Have a good week everyone.
I have textiles in my piles too. Hope you are all doing well.
I listed 18 items. My day job has gotten busy again and my younger kid is out of camp and school for three weeks. I have been trying to cram in at least a few listings every other day in spurts.
Hope to list more this week, but I also need to do some organizing of unlisted and listed items plus used boxes. That sounds really fun actually since I’ve been sitting at the computer so much lately.
Total Items in Store: 402 Ebay, 101 Mercari
Items Sold: 10 Ebay, 3 Mercari
Gross Sales: $531 Ebay, $33 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $184 Ebay, Mercari stuff ours
Highest Price Sold: $212 (New duvet and sham set bought in late spring; paid $100)
Average Price Sold: $53 Ebay, $11 Mercari
Returns: 0, 2 cancelations
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $150 RA Summer Clearance
Number of items listed this week: 18Busy week outside Ebay, sales doing ok. Went to a thrift store once (with my N95 mask on) but no great scores. Went by a retailer having a clearance and it was surprisingly busy even though I could not go at opening. I was in and out of there quickly and already sold one item from that trip.
Haven’t listened to the podcast but look forward to it. Still hitting the piles. It’s hard to read and watch the news these days. Things are weighing on my mind. Stay safe everyone.
@Amatino yes, USAA has been great the couple of times my car was hit. They apparently pay well and you use their approved shops. Rates for the rest of us seem good, but my new teen driver is very high. Also they way overestimate the value of the contents in our home and it’s tied to the home value so I couldn’t cut it. After the fires, they dropped some locals but luckily we are in a different zip code.
We have a refi in progress – unfortunately just missed the bottom, but still good. We really need to shop around for my teen son’s auto insurance. He’s hardly driving at all. We have USAA.
Yes, I should have included the last part. Since she likes to write notes, I expected her to respond over the weekend. Anyway, hopefully she will be happy. I’ll be looking for that feedback.
Yes, luckily (I hope) a street address. I’m at the deadline so will just send it Fed Ex and hopefully she will be happy with it. I had the only complete item, so hope that counts for something and she would want it even with the calculated shipping she already paid.
She also asked for careful packaging. I wondered if she was a seller who knows we get a discount but if she sells it’s not on Ebay with this account.
Ugh just lost a big blog post. Quick and dirty version: Ebay $484, Mercari $103, COGS $98. listed 13. Lower dollar going to Mercari, better goes to Ebay at high Terapeak solds with best offer. No cross posting. Day job picking back up. Kids out of school in the Fall. College admissions scary. Great sale R&J and you saved it from the dump too!
