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Hey Julie, thanks for the comment. I’m happy your sales are good and so admire you for taking on a huge lot of bathing suits. I love RA selling but that was pretty brave as far as returns go in my book. Wish I had been able to stock up my store before this happened, but unfortunately I was actually having to take a break earlier this year.
My first what sold video No home runs or super cool vintage items, just bread and butter. A function of what I’ve been listing lately. Last in, first out.
@Jay it’s going to be “totally cringe” as my teens would say. Feel free to give video tips.
Way to go Libby. I listed 29 all unique. Hope for more this week.
Total Items in Store: 321 Ebay, 60 Mercari
Items Sold: 20 Ebay, 3 Mercari
Gross Sales: $501 Ebay, $24 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $101 + a few items ours
Highest Price Sold: $79 (One yard of French fabric, paid $5 at garage sale)
Average Price Sold: $25 Ebay, $11 Mercari
Returns: 1 – Sold a damaged item (as described), allowed buyer to keep instead of return ($14)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $35 online RA
Number of items listed this week: 27I listened to the podcast while cleaning the house today. Not as much fun as sitting by the fire. I liked the discussion about how an item has to have a hook even if it’s not your taste. There does still certainly seem to be a lot of uncertainty about what to expect through the end of the year. Not sure what my younger teen will do during summer. She’s thinking about helping me photograph for Ebay but wants a lot of $. If she’s bored enough she might come around.
It was a busy week for me on Ebay while Mercari was quiet. I sold a lot of fabric. There is a big box of vintage fabric in my garage that I need to dig up. I’m hoping to get more listed this coming week from the piles.
This week for fun I’ve been working on making a what sold video to share with you trash elves on Steve’s Wednesday forum post. My first time on IMovie, so bear with me friends.
@Amatino Wishing you and your family peace and healing.
Just wanted to share a tip from a Facebook group that scarves are selling well for face coverings. I sold an old listing for a Vera scarf and have quite a few unlisted ones.
@Sharyn it was meant to be a $10 item so maybe I just typed the offer wrong. Doesn’t sound like the same thing. I do this often right in the morning over coffee. Probably needed more coffee.
@Simon happy for you that you will be traveling more probably when this is done and you retire. Big kids are expensive and it is expensive to live here absolutely. It’s a bit hard because I want to travel with the kids now before they are off living their own lives. But, we do usually manage to take one big trip a year – until Covid. Was going to be NYC and Cape Cod area, which I’ve always wanted to see. We are lousy at planning ahead so now we have plenty of time to look at that and don’t need to cancel.
VL Thanks – I needed that. This morning I sold a yard+ of French fabric for $79!
Total Items in Store: 300 Ebay, 60 Mercari
Items Sold: 9 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Gross Sales: $231 Ebay, $26 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $67 Ebay, Mercari items ours
Highest Price Sold: $40 Four new nut bowls (paid $26 on clearance)
Average Price Sold: $26 Ebay, $13 Mercari
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: +/-$100 RA clearance
Number of items listed this week: 29Thanks for the podcast. Again this week I sat and listened by the fire. I could get used to that. I feel like we are ok with delayed gratification but will wish we had traveled more. My husband and I were just revisiting our travel memories during this shut in.
This week’s sales were ok, not as good as last week. I’m still enjoying working through the piles but did get a little burned out on listing by Sunday. Hat’s off to those of you who do it full time. I’m extremely grateful that I became efficient on Ebay before this happened so I can work this morning.
No projects from the day job yet for today so I’ll be listing again. I think I’m going to switch up to another category. I did a bit of consolidating and found a couple of RA gems that fell off Ebay – I swear it happens! Sold one last night. Also started sharing pins on Facebook again this week and cleaned up my boards. I have agreed with myself to list some of my lower dollar vintage on Mercari and keep the bookkeeping up.
Package pick up is not going well. Twice he has left them behind. Also I don’t seem to be able to add additional purchases to the pickup effectively.
Have a great and safe week!
Sharyn, I’m so glad that you mentioned this. I had this happen and assumed it was my fault. It was a low dollar item so I just sold it for a buck.
Hi everyone. Hope you had a productive week. I listed 29 items, 27 unique. I made it back over 300 items in my store, so that’s nice. Worked on art, table linens, and kitchen stuff. I found the fabric tedious to list but really should get back to that.
I’ve talked to the manager about him before. He asked who was on our route and when I described him he was like “oh, yeah forget asking him for help.” He’s that guy who doesn’t even wave back from his truck. Luckily he doesn’t seem to be on our route every day, but now I’m worried about Ebay dings. I guess I’ll have to return to 2 day handling so I have time to go in.
