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05/11/2021 at 8:29 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88632
Nothing like a fun find to renew the scavenging battery.
You make a great point. I think this last year has made my scavenging muscle weak. Online buying jut isnt the same.
05/11/2021 at 8:23 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88631You make a good point. I’ve always done a rough profit/cost estimate because eBay never made it easy getting numbers.
But Managed Payments has made it very easy which I like. I love that eBay now just pulls out all the fees/taxes/shipping before they send the profit.
I will say that we’re mainly just selling lower dollar items this month. But we have these items listed so we’ll take any sale!
05/11/2021 at 8:06 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88630I think $15/hr is going to become a reality sooner than we think. I know we’re talking about it as a small business as a way to keep good employees.
05/10/2021 at 12:00 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88609Totally agree. We really follow the advice of another Scavenger who said he just photos the label with the measurement. Thats all any modern clothing store provides. If someone is worried about something fitting, they should buy in person.
When I buy clothes online, I know my measurements and havent had any issue. (Though I know men may have an easier time with clothing sizes?)
05/10/2021 at 11:13 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88607That really sucks. These commercial shippers are held up as examples of the efficiency of capitalism, but these are bad stories when it goes wrong.
So the buyer is refusing to pay customs fees and accept the package? How does it work when you ship Canada Post?
05/10/2021 at 11:07 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88606Not sure how it is across the US, but our town is experiencing a mini-boom. Housing prices are going crazy. People are building new houses regardless of the sky high construction costs. Even our downtown properties are switching hands and getting renovated after decades of stagnation.
Might be the federal money flowing into the population, which is doing exactly what its supposed to: stimulate the economy.
05/10/2021 at 11:05 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88604Yeah, the Florida governor has decided to run a huge health experiment by lifting all precautions and not pushing vaccines. I guess its survival of the fittest in action.
05/10/2021 at 8:07 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88597We’re kind of neighbors and its been cloudy/rainy and cool here too.
05/10/2021 at 8:04 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88596It’ll be interesting to see how life is after things open back up.
05/10/2021 at 8:03 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 513: On The Thought Train with Past Jay and Future Jay #88595Could be. How are your sales doing this month?
People ask “What should I do to get more sales” and I look at their listings and they’ve got maybe 45 listings, all one offs. They often don’t want to hear it, but the best advice is “List more” Sure, they can run a sale, or send out offers, or use Social Media, all that can help, but nothing can really replace “list more” LOL
Yeah, this is well said. Obviously everyone can sell how they want, but unless you spend ALL YOUR TIME scavenging for the best of the best, it’s a numbers game. Most listings, more consistent sales.
Even with it being slow now, we’re still selling items everyday.
I guess the thinking is for some sellers “If these 50 items havent sold yet, why would I list more? Sell these first.” I’ve never seen this logic work.
But it make me wonder how big the gap is between me and , say, #1? If my sales are “x” in that category, are #1’s sales 5x? 10x? 100x? 1000x or what?
This is a very good point. Who knows if the #1-100 sellers are hundred times bigger than us.
I have a feeling we’re rarer than most sellers with a storage building behind our house, but there are the sellers that have twenty employees and a giant warehouse with truckloads of stuff coming in every day.
05/08/2021 at 8:52 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 512: Want To Hear A Sad to Happy Story? #88571Without provenance, they ended up going for anywhere from $50 to $200 each and it took a few years for them all to sell. Too many fakes out there.
This is very true. But I also see provenance as “really good marketing”. Like at an auction, they’ll tell some story about where it came from and that’s good enough to make it more valuable. That item could be just as fake as anything else. 🙂
05/08/2021 at 8:50 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 512: Want To Hear A Sad to Happy Story? #88570Fun to watch your sports sales. What perfect timing to have all that inventory. Do you feel any cooling off of the frenzy around sports cards?
As you’ve probably read, cold brew is just a process of making coffee. Instead of pouring boiling water, you let the coffee grounds steep in cold water for a longer period of time (we do 22 hours). Its a much smoother, clean taste.
All our coffees can be made into cold brew at home. or we make our own cold brew and sell in our stores. Currently we don’t ship.
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