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It has been a slow 30 days. Really slow. i keep listing, churning the items out, and sells still slump. I honestly do not know what it is. As a primary clothing seller, I think it is my asking price. I am likely pricing too high and list it and forget it w/ best offer is maybe not the best way to go for this particular niche. Many clothing sellers have gone to auctions. What ever it is, I will keep plugging away. The good news is my FBA is really picking up steam. I see real potential in it. I recently opened an etsy store for old trucker hats and ties I find at my weigh and pay. No sells yet but we will see. Hopefully sells will improve. If not, i will sell my ebay store and go all in on FBA. Maybe I need to go back to dumpster diving more and leave the clothes alone.OMFUG, have you or anyone else considered using the 5R website to hire someone for 5 dollars to do social media marketing for your store? I have considered it but don’t want to waste my time / money. Maybe it would be helpful to get store watchers and more buyers doing slow spells?
Retro you probably won’t like what I do with my shoes then lol. I use a brown paper bag from the super markets and roll it down onto the shoes and place them in a large priority / shoe box priority / or eBay box to ship.
I find small bill cash once in a while. One time when I was dumpster diving I found 4 or 5 big black bags full of some really cool computer / tech stuff. The guy was an airline pilot who had been relocated and left all kind of trinkets (including his air force id) in a bed bath and beyond dumpster. There was lots of old software games, a key chain collection, video games, older recording and video equipment, and more.
In response to the clothing sells saturation, I see it to. I have seen steady sells but very little growth. One reason I don’t post my numbers on here as much is because every week it is between 650 – 750 dollars without fail. Yet I keep listing and the item count in my store keeps growing. I have started looking for niches within clothing, such as hunting clothes, and also I have tried to move towards more NWT clothes and higher end clothes when I can find them. I have always kept about 20% of my store in non clothing items so I have some diversity if the clothing slows (and it does this time of year for me based on last year clothing sells were down until right after Christmas when people got gift cards and money). One thing I have been looking at is repairing jewelry broken higher end jewelry. It is a slow process to learn and then you have the fear of authenticity strikes / vero. Otherwise I plan on streamlining my store and moving out some of the old bad pics and dead stock and going from there. Thanks for the podcast!
I called eBay this morning and got a neutral feedback removed. It was a 4XL NWT Brooklyn express vest. The buyer gave me a neutral and did not return it. I even included measurements. The rep said it was clearly buyers remorse and subsequently removed the neutral. Thanks to Scavenger Life blog I knew to call!
I have thought of something similar. I have considered buying a donation box and placing it at a college (especially at end of semesters). I know that the boxes are supposed to go to support a cause so I could just offer 10% of the sell price as a donation on eBay. A used donation box would probably cost a minimum of 500 dollars, and I could paint it. Then I would have to get approved somehow by property managers to strategically place the box.
I started sourcing all the items in my store by dumpster diving. I have since moved mostly to sourcing from thrifts and the occasional estate sale, but I still dive once in a while. I usually only stick to retail dumpsters, I avoid residential due to people’s fears of id theft. Some of my finds include a new in box rifle scope from a D ick’s sporting goods dumpster, 15-20 high end hair care products from a beauty supply dumpster, a high end Japanese shintoku knife from a cooking store, tax software and office supplies, vitamins and supplements, and tons of clothes from a franchise clothing chain store in my area. I also occasionally do my food shopping from the dumpster, usually only in the winter months. Doughnut scores are always a good place to score a bag full of doughnuts. I source from Dunkin Doughnuts and Krispy Cream several times a year when I get a craving for doughnuts.
It was a slow week for me, but that is part of eBay. I made 450 dollars, down from my usual 600 – 700 dollars. I did not list as much, and what I did list did not seem to get many views. I sell mostly clothes and if it is like last year Thanksgiving and Christmas gets slow for me until right after Christmas when people have money and start buying clothes again. Also, many of the casual sellers are going all in right now, so more competition on eBay could also be the reason for the slower sales. Thanks for the podcast, I am off to fulfill and list.
Hello Jay. I do indeed. I have a couple reliable routes that i check once or twice a week. I hit a local vitamin store, local office stores, a storage dumpster, and sometimes behind strip malls. I have had good success and enjoy doing it. I routinely find new / unused nutritional supplements that I can sell for good $, and I have a couple clothing retailers who toss sometimes. It took me years to develop the routes I have.
