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That’s a cool critter! I sold a cool ashtray of his with crackle glass in the bottom. Took a long time to sell.
Great video on storage This person is super organized and she did pay up for some equipment, but I especially like her rolling cart idea.
I don’t stuff it with unrelated keywords but usually I don’t have trouble coming up with enough keywords to fill it up. Perhaps though I could just revert to leaving some of those words to the item specifics, like color for example.
14 for me, 12 unique. 3 boxes of piles finished on the June challenge. Hoping to list this week. I was kind of fatigued as I haven’t been sleeping well. The knowledge that the spikes could have been avoided, plus some other stuff is kind of weighing on me I think. I hope those of you have struggles are doing better this week. I listed some cool vintage linens and I think I will work on art next. I think most or all of my Christmas is already listed.
I just remembered some inventory cost. For the first time I bought some art (lot of 3 for $72) to flip on Ebay. I was browsing the big city GW Ebay auctions on my phone and a promoted banner came up with a lot of paintings. Strangely, I searched for them separately and could not see them. Weird.
Total Items in Store: 400 Ebay, 115 Mercari
Items Sold: 11 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Gross Sales: $350 Ebay, $28 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $103, some items ours
Highest Price Sold: $80 (two new pillow shams, paid $45 recently on clearance)
Average Price Sold: $32.67
Returns: 2 cancelations – one buyer mistake, one listing mistake
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 14It was a slow week with a better finish. I hope to get more listing done in advance of the holiday weekend but I did make it back up to 400 items in the store last week. Lots of piles to sink my teeth into. For RA people, the Fourth sales are already starting. So far, not too much I’m interested in for resale and not enough extra % offs yet for home goods.
I enjoyed the podcast. I think Jay might like to see the bin hoverers involuntarily thrown into the Alone woods. 🙂 That would make a good show and I’d bet they would do quite well. Hope you find a good helper soon.
We are on the orange list coronavirus-wise but so far our community is not spiking. Everyone has their eye on the tourists from LA, who are now supposed to have to wear masks while visiting. We went North to a town where the numbers are super duper low and everyone was wearing a mask. It was great to be out but still you feel uneasy and lots of the bathrooms were closed. It was a strange experience but nice to get away from home for a day trip. Some of the thrifts are limiting the number of shoppers, but GW is not. I’ve only been a couple of times and did not go this week. I found it to be pretty picked over so the scavengers must be going out in force. My very favorite charity thrift has all very elderly volunteers. They said on Facebook that they are working on plans to reopen and I’ll have to decide if I want to go but I’m leaning no since it will be well attended.
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!
