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Glad to hear that you and Susan are still alive and kicking!
Online selling has certainly continued to evolve over the years. When we were all here in 2010, there weren’t as many places to discuss things. Now I see online selling being discussed in multiple places through forums, reddit, youtube, tik tok….
I do miss our big weekly discussions. I believe Troy stopped selling on eBay and took on a full-time accounting job.
We just keeping plugging away. eBay continues to keep out daily expenses paid, which buys out time, so we can use our other profits to invest in fun projects. It’s a simple formula for us.
ChristineR wrote:
Total Items in Store:Â 534
Items Sold: 17
Gross Sales: $587.98 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $323.92 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $110
Highest Price Sold: $79.20 (Patagonia puffer vest, paid $15)
Average Price Sold: $34.59
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: +/- $120
Number of items listed this week: 52Wondering if R&J are doing any sourcing in Vermont? @Retro glad your family is doing better. Covid is ticking up here and I’m hoping my dad’s vaccination isn’t worn off.
Sales were slow but then picked up last weekend. Lots of smaller sales. I can tell the difference from previous years having more new RA in my store at this time of year. That also really helped me in past Januarys when people are buying for themselves.
Had a good listing week but got drawn into sourcing again. A church sale happened. I went back on the beginning of day 2 and made a deal on the remaining art pottery items, some Irish and some originally overpriced for that sale. I love love church sales and most of their prices are super reasonable but even the old ladies are starting to look certain things up. There was some guy adjusting prices down in real time and the ladies at the register were having a fit. 🙂 I volunteered to leave a piece of art behind, but got two cool Midcentury owl paintings for $5 apiece. It was fun. Then I took out our Christmas stuff to decorate and found a whole bin was unlisted Christmas and mostly low dollar – groan. I did get a large part of that listed this weekend and kind of wondering if that was even worth it. Just when I thought I was done with listing Christmas… In January I think I will try to work on listing vintage fabric.
I’m noticing some Ebay changes and having some listing glitches listing but nothing too terrible as in years past. Still, probably they should have waited until after Christmas. Also noticed labels is not combining items going to the same buyer.
Our carrier picks up from our home, so she scans them on pick up. Its part of her job so its all good.
The rare time we take packages to the Post Office, we always stand in line and have the PO worker scan the packages in front of us. Only way to be sure it’ll get done.
Getting my Etsy items listed is a grind. But, here is what I keep telling myself. I will make about $9,000 a year after this is done. It will only take about 60 hours of concentrated cross listing to do all 1800 listings. That means that I can think of it as getting paid $150\hour for doing it. And, that isn’t just for 1 year, that is for this year and every year after that. So, that is good news to me and it keeps me motivated to finish this and move on to doing Poshmark.
Good to have a plan. Once your current inventory is on etsy, etc….whats the process to get all new listings on those platforms? Did you sign up for that software that does it for you? How well does it work?
Agree with Retro. If you improve your scavenger game, you’ll be able to find good items for cheap. Then you keep all the profit.
As you said, once you start selling for someone, they often start acting like you work for them. No thanks!
Your friend should make sure to click “buyer asked for a cancellation”. Fees should be refunded.
I does look like a cake plate. Im surprised there’s no markings. Usually Fiesta ware has a logo ike this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144795134369
 “The vintage items will have an inkstamp on the bottom that says “GENUINE fiesta,” with Fiesta all lowercase.”
If tracking says delivered then you’ve done your job. Personally, I’d go silent. Now it’s between the buyer and the post office. eBay will back you up.
Agreed. We list just about anything. The key is to not purposefully scavenge low dollar items and challenge ourselves to scavenge the gems.
You showed a great example with that wood planer. You’d have to list and sell 50 items for $15 to make the same amount of money on that one item. That’s working smart.
What a great feeling! Yeah, all we can do it get items online. You never know what and when people will be searching for what you have.
Did you figure out how to list all your items on every selling platform? How have the results been?
