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We always love (hate) doing a big reorganization. Helps us see things we forgot we had.
Just today, Im bringing out six boxes of stuff we had stored away of things we found. It’ll be like shopping all over again. It’s exciting.
Just don’t use the word Persian. Unless its som extremely valuable antique rug where its important to know its from Iran, most people are just purchasing because of the design/material.
It’s great that consignment selling has become the big bulk of your income. Though your eBay sales are still incredible considering you have a very small eBay inventory.
It also sounds like you’re having a lot of fun doing something you love.
I know it was a big outlay of cash, but I’m glad to see you got as much as you could from the premium hoard. Might have been a once n a lifetime.
Now its just getting down to business. You eat an elephant one bite at a time 🙂
We have a bunch of furniture on Facebook that sells slowly. Good when it does sell.
Sorry to hear about the dogs. I know you loved them.
That Premium Hoarder has really driven your store the past year so I’d go all in if the rest of the items are of the same quality.
We hear you are spending down your reserves. It’s our story of the last decade: we often risk safety because a real estate deal is too good. So far it’s worked out.
Best way to tell is to try and list something from a well-known brand and see if you get an error message.
Will do. We don’t usually list fancy brands. More interested if eBay limits views of our existing items. I think you mentioned in another thread that you suspected that was happening to you. But maybe that wasn’t related to this case.
It was because we were selling them as vintage Chanel bottles. People collect them. Just a bot protecting the brand. But Im always curious what a VERO strike does.
How is your store performing a month later after eBay lifted the “guardrails”?
We received two VERO’s (for selling vintage chanel perfume bottles) and suddenly it feels like our store is in slo-mo. Could be coincidence since it has been slow overall.
Is  eBay for Business on Facebook the place you’ve found most helpful?
This is a good topic. It’s why we are always selling everything and finding new things to sell. I cant imagine selling just one kind of thing because 1) taste change 2) saturation.
Over the years we’ve sold lots of things that did well and then sales fell off a cliff. Typewriters, vintage fedoras, black pirate boots, old mac software, patches, trucker hats….
We used to find vintage trucker for cheap and sell the for big money, They sold all the time. Then other sellers started doing the same thing. One seller was even here in our forum and exclusively sold old trucker hats that he’d purchase by the hundreds. Saturation.
Another guy started a store that just sold vintage patches. I think he had like 10k at one point. The market dropped out for us and we no longer seek out old patches to sell. I always wonder what happens to the people who build a store around a single category over the longterm. You really have to know that market
Our goal is to keep seeking out overlooked items. Tastes are always changing.
We can tell how old an item is based on the location of the photo. I used to take photos for eBay on our kitchen table. If you ever see an item on a white sheet with bad lightning, that was fifteen years ago! I hope all those items are sold.
Yes, we had a nice furniture sale. I wish they happened all the time.
