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Nice sale! We always do well selling art (that’s interesting). I do hope things pick up this fall/winter. We’re ready for it.
Two weeks of vacation is a good amount of time! Fewer Americans seem to have that luxury so hope the eBay sales helped make that happen.
I personally trucked away four loads of garbage and junk. Then we had a backhoe load up two construction dumpsters of those old out buildings.
With a project like this,its best to just strip it all away and start fresh. There was no “lets just remodel” to be done.
Welcome back! Taking care of an older relative is never easy.
With handmade (“studio”) pottery, sometimes designs dont make sense. This doesnt look like any kind of traditional creamer. Just one person’s special take on it. Maybe an extra side hanld eto help you pour more carefully?
@Jay if you had purchased a haul like this with the storage you have in place, would you get aggressive with pricing (low end of sales history) or price everything high end of Terapeak & up and wait for that perfect buyer to come along?
I think Retro’s experiment shows that a lot of buyers with deep pockets are more price sensitive than we might think, and my own experience with these types of items has shown that as well.
Youre are 100% correct. If we scavenge “current commodity items”, then we price competitively. These are items are produced in current factories or where the same exact item is for sale in great number. Like shoes, tech items, etc.
With commodity items, the only difference between my item and another sellers item in price (and maybe condition). All things being equal, price is the determining factor because there might be hundreds/thousands of the same item for sale.
Many of the items we scavenge are not “current commodity items”. They’re vintage, weird, not produced anymore items. Items that have no brand. Maybe handmade. The quality of the items vary significantly. There’s less than 50 online. Often less than 10. We may be the only one onine. We can risk pricing higher because our target buyers are willing to pay more for something rare.
I assume it’s no different than a baseball card. Some specific cards are extremely common and there’s a clear price that people will pay because there’s so much competition. Other cards are very rare, expensive, prices go up and down, and quality is extremely important.
I think Retro is 100% being the best seller on the shoes. Commodity items that he purchased cheap. Sell them fast!
congrats on your son’s college experience. I know that was a lot of work getting him there.
No doubt. Framers are skilled and have specialized tools. We appreciate them.
Usually its not just the frame but also the matting, glass…. In a perfect world, we try to find art that is alreay framed!
Nice. Yes, all the small press books or niche media always do well for us. Often the items you cant fined digitized.
How many pairs of shoes do you think will sell in this price range.
5 pair for $1200 is more than $200 a pair!
Amazing to see how many books/music libraries are getting as donations that they dont need. Excited to hear how much you actually took home!
and a nice haul which I will post about shortly.
Im excited to hear about it!
We find the artwork at yard sales, auctions, and estate sales. We’re always looking and collecting. The most expensive thing is professional framing. We probably spent over $1000 framing all the different artwork in the house. Yikes!
We went to one of their last in-person events in Philly in 2011 (?). The seminars were dull but it was very very helpful to talk to eBay employees. Some were stationed at laptops where we could ask questions about our store. Got several issues solved and learned about things we didnt know possible.
Fun to talk to other sellers and learn how they did things.
We also got to talk to vendors who made services for eBay. How we learned about Outright (before it was bought by Godaddy).
I haven’t posted my kid’s ebay numbers in a while. Why? Because they did what teens do: lost interest.
This is like 95% of anyone who starts on eBay. The hardest thing is staying interested.
This week already has a great start – sold two pair of hoarder shoes this morning for $575 total.
Insane! You really hit a home run with that stash.
