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Had a very good week, this week however, very bad.
Total Items in Store: 15,672
Items Sold: 135
Gross Sales: $2,570.17 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1612.59 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)Cost of Items Sold: $135 (approx)
Highest Price Sold: $458.48 (Tuner Preamp)
Average Price Sold: $19.04
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $250
Number of items listed this week: 371For context, these were my 5 best selling categories for the week:
Consumer Electronics > TV, Video & Home Audio > Home Audio > Receivers & Amplifiers > Amplifiers & Preamps
Collectibles > Holiday & Seasonal > Villages & Houses
Music > Vinyl Records
Movies & TV > DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
Video Games & Consoles > Video Game Consoles
Total Items in Store: 15,502
Items Sold: 171
Gross Sales: $2,094.73 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1050.78 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)Cost of Items Sold: $171 (approx)
Highest Price Sold: $60.88 (PS1 Game)
Average Price Sold: $12.25
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $254.56
Number of items listed this week: 492For context, these were my 5 best selling categories for the week:
Music > Vinyl Records
Movies & TV > DVDs & Blu-ray Discs
Music > CDs
Collectibles > Postcards & Supplies > Postcards > Topographical Postcards
Video Games & Consoles > Video Games
Average but decent week; listing a little slower but still grinding away.
Total Items in Store: 15,247
Items Sold: 176
Gross Sales: $2,289.43 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1339.28 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)Cost of Items Sold: $176 (approx)
Highest Price Sold: $133.38 (Ipod Classic)
Average Price Sold: $13.01
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $80
Number of items listed this week: 400For context, these were my 5 best selling categories for the week:
Music > Vinyl Records
Music > CDs
Video Games & Consoles > Video Games
Music > Cassettes
Consumer Electronics > Portable Audio & Headphones > iPods & MP3 Players
Very, very slow week for me as well. Sold more items than last week but were lower priced items.
Total Items in Store: 14,900
Items Sold: 193
Gross Sales: $1,905.76 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $954.06 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)Cost of Items Sold: $193 (approx)
Highest Price Sold: $47.5 (Wii console)
Average Price Sold: $9.87
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $350
Number of items listed this week: 499Mostly media particularly records. For context, these are my top 5 categories I’ve been selling in for the year so far:
Vinyl Records
Video Games
DVDs & Blu-Ray
Action Figures
VHS Tapes
I have now been venturing into smaller items, such as postcard, as I have in effect ran out of room in 2-car garage (exclusively used for Ebay).
Slow week for me:
Total Items in Store: 14,674
Items Sold: 154 (same as last week, what are the odds?)
Gross Sales: $2,096.88 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1,175.71 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)Cost of Items Sold: $154 (approx)
Highest Price Sold: $202.32 (another Hot Wheel car)
Average Price Sold: $13.62
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $470.53
Number of items listed this week: 483Thanks! I will continue to post them. I had an unusually higher than normal week due to a high value Hot Wheel, but I’m trying my best to make those numbers the weekly average.
I have never put up my number but I’m always lurking as it’s very interesting seeing everyone’s numbers.
Good week:
Week of June 11-17, 2023
Total Items in Store: 14,200
Items Sold: 154
Gross Sales: $2,799.43 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1667.06 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)Cost of Items Sold: $154 (approx)
Highest Price Sold: $400 (vintage Hot Wheels motorcycle)
Average Price Sold: $18.18
Returns: 1 ($11.33)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $135.54
Number of items listed this week: 579This is very bizarre. I sell quite a bit of games and have never encountered such a message.
@goomba478 Disc based console games are typically not counterfeited
@Sharyn Original Xbox games did not come with codes of sort.I think eBay is going the Amazon way and restricting used video games sales. I know Amazon received pressure from Nintendo and other video game companies to restrict some of those sales. I wonder what you used as title, maybe something in the title triggered this? Regardless, this is certainly concerning if it is going to become widespread.
Wow, thank you for this, Retro Treasures, I use Pirateship exclusively for shipping and this would certainly help. I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind. 1) Can the points be redeemed for cash? I don’t travel much so if they can only be used for hotel or such, I wouldn’t benefit much from it. 2) Is the extra reward points for shipping pretty stable? What I mean by this is, I know some credit cards rotate the extra points occasionally to different categories, will the extra points on shipping pretty much be permanent? Thank you for your time.
09/02/2022 at 12:05 pm in reply to: Poll: What do you put in the description box as your standard practice? #97538I always use condition description for any flaws or condition issues and just use a generic template for text description, such as “very fast shipping.”
That’s an impressive # of listings. May I ask what type of items are you listing? Seems like you can crank them up in quite a bit week after week.
Yikes, thank you for the heads up. I will need to go back and check up on this.
Wing it for me, however I do try my best to set a schedule but operating out of the house is very difficult as there are too many distractions. My ideal scenario would be to have a warehouse where I do business out of and can go and “clock in” 8 hours a day then “clock out”. Knowing that there is a clear separation, if I am at the warehouse it is work, when at the house it is family/personal time.
You should check out “My Boring Reseller Life” on Youtube. As of today, he is reaching 31,000 listings on eBay. He is a one man show, although he mostly sells media (records, CDs, cassettes) and hats which would make shipping a little bit faster, but it is doable going at it alone. I think he sells about $1,000 a day on average.
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