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Sounds good. We all need to choose the way scavenging works in our the life we want.
We havent seen Mikey and Wendy in a long time, but we’ve spoken some online. They’re doing well and always into new things. They have tons of energy and always curious.
As you show, buying stuff is easy. We can get a easily truckload of stuff anytime we want at an auction or a series of thrift stores. These days we try to keep unlisted inventory to a minimum and stop buying when we need to catch up. Keeps us sane. Plus we seem to always find stuff on the street that we bring home for listing.
Hope you’re feeling better.
First week of January. We have a porch full of boxes we still need to photograph and list. Our helper has been working sporadically so hasn’t been working through boxes this month. We still have draft backlog to list. We definitely dont scavenge full time like we used to.
How often are you scavenging these days?
My concern is that in five years there will be too much housing and a vast additional number of kids in the schools. I’m thinking it will pull down the house prices due to an over abundance,
This is the point to be fair. It’s crazy that little crap houses are selling for as much as they are. In my rural area, rundown houses are selling for $250k. That’s nuts!
Obviously this is great for current home owners since the value of their homes keeps going up, but its not good for society. Home prices are so high because the demand is high. When the demand is high, there needs to be more supply.
Well said. Our inventory is large enough where we should be able to coast for a while, but eBay does seem to like daily activity.
I have friends who work in the trades (construction, plumbing, electric, hvac). They easily make six figures but likely work 60 hours a week. Some drive three hours a day to where the big money jobs are. Its all a trade off.
Houses are almost twice as much in our area. We just need to build more housing across the country. Everyone is competing against fewer homes/apartments.
It has been a busy life week but eBay has been very slow for us. We’ll see how numbers are tomorrow.
Random side note: we’re starting to see houses in our area that were purchased during the pandemic go back on the market. Just a trickle now and prices are still high but I think it’s going to pick up. Lots of buyers remorse from investors thinking starting an Airbnb would be easy. (Hint: its not and no rental is guaranteed income)
Ah! I misread. That is nice to make a steady stream of $3k a month by sending in cards to that site. Is it scalable? Can you just buy more and more and send them all in?
So great to see that your auctions are going so well. An average of $46 for each auction sale is good!
I’ve replaced that with consignment trading card sales, where I only handle the pricing.
I dont know if you’ve spoken about the consignment. Who are you selling for? Whats the cut?
Whats a successful experiment where you have the same exact inventory on both eBay+ etsy? Double your sales?
I assume there’s an increase in costs and time to manage.
In the 1990s, you could buy a Geo Metro for a short period of time until they discontinued it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_Metro
Rednecks still love this car and buy them used because they got great gas mileage. There’s a huge underserved market for little compact cars that get 40+ miles a gallon.
If your daughter consistently photographs 30-50 items a week, you’ll be blown away how your store will grow and deathpiles shrink. Having a helper take photos and start drafts was a game changer for us.
