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Nice sales for you. Glad to see you have a helper!
Yes, it is tough pricing retail items these days with the ever changing inflation. We’re trying to keep our prices very reasonable and still make money. Come on over and get a salmon toast.
I dont think we’ve explored eBay’s new video feature. Do you like the process?
(and I’m all about the corny jokes 🙂
 In 2020, I purchased a large lot of art that I listed over the following few months. This week, three pieces from it sold including my highest sale!
Nice! what kind of art is it?
Appreciate this. Only other scavengers can really know how hard we all work to make this happen. It’s been fun seeing your business grow and flourish, especially since you;re one of the masters of the long tail!
Its definitely a cool piece. I can see why you picked it up.
I’d say it’s some kind of “ethnic art”. Maybe slavic or from the Russian federation? Looks like a guy in ceremonial dress.
This site is always our secret weapon: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/
Jeez…glad you guys are okay and were vaxxed. I can’t imagine walking around without the vaccine. Lots of guys I know who are unvaccinated and then get really sick tell me: “I had no idea how bad it’d be!.”
That’s incredible. So its just like a QVC show where you show off each lot and then people bid? Assume people text chat you questions and you answer? How do people pay? Any issues with returns?
I dont know what kind of items he had, but that’s a pretty good price for a firesale, especially if its just clothes.
here he is: https://whatnot.com/user/dailyrefinement
is this like a low-rent QVC website?
Whatever happened to Chris and his inventory. Did he liquidate his huge eBay inventory?
It was a weird purchase. I assume it was an Acqui-hiring:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring
Describes the process of acquiring a company primarily to recruit its employees, rather than to gain control of its products or services.
Typically, a company that performs a talent acquisition does not show an interest in the products and services of the target, which results in them being discontinued upon the purchase (so that their staff will focus exclusively on incorporating their knowledge into their new employer’s projects) or some time afterward.
Welcome. We’re also on the bandwagon of scavenging the items that even other scavengers don’t want. We like the very very low risk of holding onto inventory we pay nothing for that we think will eventually sell.
I’m also seeing a lot of older party glassware like serving trays and punch bowls / glasses that are going for next to nothing. People may not be having parties now but maybe that will change in the next 5 years
As long as you have lots and lots storage + are very organized, it’s a doable model. But we are very careful to make sure we are only getting items with brands/marks or have a very unique look. Especially with glass/pottery, it’s very easy to get boxes of literally junk that will never come into style.
We celebrate the long tail, but we acknowledge that garbage does exist 🙂
The one shining positive for us is our low Cost of Goods Sold. We’ve spent very little money this year buying inventory because we’ve been able to find stuff cheap/free. But then again, a lot of this new inventory is extremely long tail. It’s a balance.
Whats weird is we’ve received very few if no offers the past month. Not even low offers. Usually we’re getting at least one offer a day.
Some restaurants really loaded us up with food and was well worth the $4-6. Others gave a small meal for the same price. We just experimented.
Download it and see if it works in your area. Their website doesnt make it very clear how extensive their range is. I found this in one article “Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, the D.C. area, New York, parts of New Jersey, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, Providence, Seattle, and a few more parts of the country.”
Seems like basically food that a restaurant or grocery store would throw out at the end of the day. We got a grocery bag of bagels, entire pizzas, lots of pastries, empanadas, salads, Chinese food, BBQ. Basically normal food that’s a fraction of the cost.
It feel like dumpster diving but getting it before its thrown in the dumpster 🙂
Wave is free: https://www.waveapps.com/accounting
But it can have its own quirks.
