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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.
For your consideration. It’s hard to wrap your head around it all.
Chain and local restaurants are now selling bread and basic ingredients here, including eggs and flour…
So it turns out our regular carrier is a total tool and close to retirement age. He keeps not picking up my packages. 🙁
Hi Marty 👋. I’m here in SB too (San Roque) selling part-time. I think there is one more local who calls in sometimes.
I like this idea VT. I have about the same amount of hourly work and work for a big firm with little client contact so easy to do from home. My husband has been working a lot of overtime, and a few of our expenses are a bit lower – car insurance, food, gas, plus looks like we will not take that East Coast trip this summer or probably this year. We are sharing some of our overtime pay as food donations in our community. We have time to volunteer with a few food deliveries. We don’t practice organized religion, so I’m pleased to have more time to help as an example to my kids.
I have a bit more time to chill with the kiddos, which is nice. My teens have been getting more of the sleep they really need during the shut down. Some of my son’s pre-college entrance exams are watered down, cancelled or at least delayed, taking pressure off an otherwise brutal schedule this Spring. We take walks daily in the neighborhood and hear the frogs in the creek at sundown. We are getting plenty of rain to remove the fear of drought and hopefully a bad fire season.
I listed 17 items this week, including 8 different retro 70s vintage tin recipe boxes sell similar. My dad brought over some more fabric, tablecloths and vintage sheets. Honestly not too excited about listing the used sheets. Hoping to list more this week but day job has projects. Also this week my son is on spring break and we are going to deliver groceries to older folks – it’s called ZoomerstoBoomers. I’ll walk him through shopping and help him navigate. The addresses are to fairly wealthy homes, but strange how in these times, the virus is an equalizer. Sorry off on a tangent. Have a good week everyone!
Retro I totally agree. Ebay should step up. I like their new slogan “Seriously, we have everything.” Ebay’s army of small sellers is a total advantage right now.
Hi Jay, we’ll see. It’s a great place to get rid of our stuff and lower dollar items I think. The ease of use is really key plus people are on their phones a lot and it’s reaching younger buyers who aren’t necessarily using Ebay. I think Mercari has had to cut back on their Google pay-to-play and sadly had to ditch the cheaper shipping on lower weight items but I still like it.
Yes, and our area was behind the major metros. I think it was actually a woman in one of the Bay Area counties who organized other counties and started the super early shut down. In our area, only the Federal prison is bringing people to the hospital these days. Now what is the question… My understanding is that California is still behind on testing and results.
In my area the other pickers are on Craigslist. They often advertise that they are looking for certain items – Legos, electronics, etc. They don’t like to pay a lot so it might depend on how much you want to unload vs try to make a profit.
On Facebook there are groups for collectors (by brand, type of item eg. Fiestaware, Studio art pottery, etc.) If you have groups of certain types of items you could try that and see if there is someone willing to pick up a lot. Some of those groups allow selling and some don’t so you need to read their rules.
Good luck!
Total Items in Store: 283 Ebay, About 55 Mercari
Items Sold: 13 Ebay, 6 Mercari
Gross Sales: $699 Ebay, $85 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $72 Ebay + $10 Mercari (some items ours)
Highest Price Sold: $153 (Two Norwegian cross stitch kits of cats)
Average Price Sold: $53 Ebay, $14 Mercari
Returns: 1 immediate cancellation $14
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: About $85 online clearance RA
Number of items listed this week: 12 Ebay, 7 MercariSo grateful that you are still doing the Podcast and keepin’ it real. I’m excited about your new business coming down the pike. Makes total sense for your town and future renters. Smart to have partners.
Finally after a couple of weeks of listing my Ebay store “turned back on”. I’ve been sending offers and listing about every other day. The good sales definitely got me even more interested in listing, though I have my day job work to do as well. In fact, I’d rather be listing on Ebay and getting stocked up again. I’m not being super picky about photography. I’ve been listing vintage fabric, kitchenware, and art work lately from the piles. It feels really good to get some of these boxes out of the garage and tackle them. Easter stuff did not move well but I sold a couple of items.
Mercari seems quite active lately. I was hesitant to put items from the piles on Mercari because they don’t get sucked into my bookkeeping spreadsheet and I have to keep my own records. It’s a bit tedious too because you can’t sort the sales by sale date, etc. and have to drill down into orders. But, some of the lower dollar vintage I’m giving a go on there.
Incidentally, I found out this week that extreme couponers are listing on Mercari in case anyone is looking to buy essentials, especially personal care items. I normally buy some groceries and drug store items on Walmart.com but they are sold out of a lot of items and shipping is slower than before.
Have a great week and happy Easter to those who celebrate.
It’s been a while but I finally have some solds to share. This week has been good for sales.
Paid $3-4 Christmas in April at $109! Stocking kit I don’t craft but these kits are my favorite thing to sell. They always sell if at least the size of a piece of paper and so easy to list and ship. Also sold two of these cat kits.
Did not particularly enjoy listing this 80s fabric last week but it paid off. Paid .99-2.99 per piece and the same buyer bought 5 for a total of $112 to make curtains. Pulling more fabric from my piles to list soon, plus I have more of this kind to list. I think I must have looked it up before I bought it.
I fairly often find vintage NOS tablecloths in the package. It was pretty plain but so took a while but sold this one to a prop house for $40. I put prop in the description. The more retro floral ones can really set a 60s or 70s vibe.
I keep an eye out for vintage paper doll books as they fetch about $10.
Have a good weekend scavengers.
