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09/28/2018 at 9:31 am in reply to: Asking for your advice – I'm In Over my Head with a Shipping Request to China #49293
Thank you Jay, Ryanne, and Almasty for your replies.. You guys are right – I have already spent WAY too much time working on this one… I just cancelled the sale. He should have just bought the book Priority Mail International if he wanted it, but was overly concerned about saving $20. No thanks.
Anyway, I was attempting last night to create a new listing for him through GSP – which is another story for another post… I was wondering why this listing didn’t go through GSP in the first place because I have GSP enabled on every listing. (I don’t think GSP allows antiquarian books – especially to China) However in working on this … late last night I did a search on my active listings with “Global Shipping Program” = “Enabled” and only 129 of my 1150 listings showed GSP “on”… even though they are all marked for GSP.. clearly a bug going on! I need to call eBay Technical Support. My shipping policies are so jacked up – I can’t ship to Hawaii or Po Boxes or US protectorates, and now my GSP is “on” but not really available for most of my listings. No wonder my sales are down. Anyway, thanks for providing some sanity… I honestly prefer asking here than calling eBay customer support, but I have had a handful of growing shipping glitches for a long time now and I keep finding more – it is so frustrating.
09/27/2018 at 8:10 pm in reply to: Asking for your advice – I'm In Over my Head with a Shipping Request to China #49276Good advice 🙂 And thanks for responding.
From what I am reading (not much online) Registered Air Mail seems to be like First Class International (It is for under 4 lbs) you can pay to “register” (which provides a form of tracking – but eBay doesn’t recognize it – no seller protection now.) I think I need to cancel this sale – or pushback and explain I am only set up for Priority International and ask him if he wants to proceed. I’m going to sleep on it and figure out the best way to respond (or not) tomorrow after seeing if anyone else has any advice. Thanks again!Hi Stock21,
I think it may be a pipe stand…
Totommyto, I understand completely! There are some things you just really have to be in a good mood (and listening to a fresh Scavenger Life episode) in order to pack… 🙂
Yeah, I was thinking of you when that sold, I thought that was ironic, as we had chandeliers on the brain last week! Maybe you will sell your other one this week!
My Store Week Sept 16-22, 2018
Total Items in Store: 1155
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales: $151.84
Cost of Items Sold: $7.50
Highest Price Sold: $40 (Lot of Vintage Chandelier Crystals 🙂
Average Price Sold: $21.69
STR: 2.6%
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $47
Number of items listed this week: 13Well after getting excited about “higher sales” (relative) last week, I went ahead and had my 2nd lowest week of sales since tracking numbers…Ouch! I hate posting these low numbers. Oh well, back to the drawing board – I need to list more… my sales drop when I don’t keep pace with the previous week(s) of listing. Hope you all did better!
Check out your FedEx options – they will take larger packages than Parcel Select / USPS…
09/18/2018 at 8:19 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48872T-Satt – Sorry, I meant opposite of you – I had slightly less sales but a higher price.. I was up waayyy too late last night!!
09/18/2018 at 2:07 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48865Troy, This information is all great.. Thank you very much. I fell like it is the “Cliff Notes” Economics MBA class I always wanted.
So let me get this straight… for academic purposes…
I’m going to look at my current weekly sales compared to 2017.
In 2017 –> $376.31 Sales, 18 sales, $20.91 ASP
In 2018 –> $509.44 Sales, 16 sales, $31.84 ASP
This is a $133.13 increase in revenue vs. last year.
Volume Variance = (16-18)*(20.91) = -$41.82 (unfavorable due to less sales)
Price Variance = (31.84-20.94)*16 = $174.4 (favorable due to higher prices)So, like you … the higher pricing has made up for slightly lower volume. Last year my STR was 8.8%.. today it is 5.9%. Trending downward…
OK, Now back to listing! 😉
09/18/2018 at 1:31 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48864totommyto, thanks for the good laugh – If a mystery shoebox appeared in my husbands top closet shelf, I would
probablydefinitely look in it! Did you send out the chandelier? That is a beautiful piece. You reminded me I bought a 1960’s chandelier 7 tier, hollywood regency style for $7 at a thrift once.. it was amazing! But, I plugged it in and it started smoking – scared the heck out of me. Also I did not want to pack the darn thing and didn’t want to store it for a local pick up… so I ended up taking off all the crystals (89 total) and lotted them up in groups. I am still selling them! They do sell.. both individually and in groups. I made about $100 so far off various crystals and then I sold the base sans teardrops … that sold for ~ $100 (probably could have gotten much more but I was hungry for a sale) and it was much easier for me to ship that way.09/17/2018 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48840Retro, that is too funny… sorry about your Buzz Light Year! I completely agree – NOTHING IS SAFE 🙂 There have been numerous times when my little kids decided to just “pop some tags” off … well yeah.. whatever it is that I just photographed and listed… Arghhh.. now you just diminished the value by 50%!!!! If you really want to get me mad.. they know better than to not mess with my ebay stuff now. (But they still do it given the opportunity.)
One bad day I was at a garage sale with my kids trying to negotiate for something and then my 4 year old runs up and says “Mom, you gonna sell that on eBay?” (instant deal killer there…) Then my 12 year old, after I had said “Oh, man, I only have $1.50 in my pocket…” pipes in …”Well, you have $20 in the glove compartment..” (double deal killer)… as we were hurrying away down the looong driveway…. my son walks into our van with a large car in his hand that he didn’t pay for and I had to have him walk back up the driveway to return it and apologize to the owner. I don’t like scavenging with my kids in tow, but as a stay at home mom, I usually don’t have a choice so just have to roll with it and do the best I can.09/17/2018 at 11:00 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48797Thanks, totommyto! Also, congrats on your Chandelier find – that is pretty awesome you sold it for $400 and someone just threw it out… You had a fantastic week! Does your niece listen to SL? Tell her to join us!
09/17/2018 at 10:39 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48795My Store Week Sept 9-15, 2018
Total Items in Store: 1154
Items Sold: 16
Total Sales (Not inc. shipping): $509.44
Cost of Items Sold: $52.24
Highest Price Sold: $98 (Hand Knit Sweater)
Average Price Sold: $31.84
STR: 5.9%
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $100
Number of items listed this week: 21Well, can’t wait to listen to the Podcast (tonight) “T-SATT For President”.. 🙂 In the meantime, posting numbers before my son goes off to kindergarten. He likes to “sneak” into my eBay storage room to take out any toys for sale.. right now we are playing with a vintage light brite.
Looking over my numbers, I am excited because I can see I had my best week of sales ever. (First $500 week.) May not sound like much, but I would like to start seeing more weeks like this and upwards in the future. At the beginning of the year I made a commitment to start sourcing higher priced items, ($30 and up) and as you all know, it can be hard! Earlier in the month I was scanning racks of clothes and came across a sweater that looked well made and “different” somehow – I bought it for $4.00 and took it home and realized that it was a hand knit one of a kind sweater. I listed it for $200 best offer and thought “no way in hell…” but low and behold.. someone offered me $98 so .. yeah! That was a great sale! I also had a “Zero Sale Day” but a fewer higher priced sales were able to compensate for that. I had 1 high dollar return also (and another coming), so I am not liking free returns at this moment in time!
Hope everyone has a profitable week on eBay!
Just wanted to add – looking at a search of sold “Richard Petty Signed” it seems like you could have pulled in anywhere from $50 – $150 at auction based on the some of the other signed items I am seeing – (Some of which have COA’s) … i probably would just send it out and not beat myself up over it. Did you see the actual TIRE that sold for $85.00 ?
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