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My wife and I are super excited! As we keep adding to our amount listed and variety our sales continue to climb. Thanks to you all for being so open with you knowledge and help. Onto the sales of the week.
New in the box Oster food steamer: Paid $10 Sold $55
Vintage Disney read along cassettes with books: Paid $3 Sold $25
New in the Box Netgear 8 port 10/100 switch with firewall: Paid $5 Sold for $51
I have decided to list them seperately as AdventureE said. The reason I was coming up with the 4′ box in the first place is I really did not want to risk the delicate shades (the reason these lamps seem to have such high value) being side by side. That is why I thought of shipping them stacked in a box with a layer in between the top of one and the bottom of another. Looking at costs and ease of shipping I believe it is just easier all around to list them as singles with a quantity of two available and use a smaller box to ship them seperately if someone wants to buy both. Thanks for all the advice everyone.
Most of our sale are through offerup, 5 miles, and similar apps. We are just beginning our ebay journey so I will definitely do some research on furniture sales on the site. Thanks for the advice.
We definitely don’t do it as a full time job but more as a second income stream. I know making $50 profit on a dresser isn’t a huge margin ,but that is our bare minimum profit. On the ones like the pintrest piece we make about $200 profit on average. The amount of furniture we move surprises me sometimes. Hopefully we will be adding to our sales with other things we find at thrifts/garage sales and the like. We just sold out first piece of clothing (anything really) on ebay. An English Laundry embroidered shirt for $15 that we paid a dollar for. Diversity and making your money going in like they say is key.
Sorry for the double post. I threw together a pintrest page of some of our work I still have pics of on my phone. I thought you’d like this Board on Pinterest… https://pin.it/egPba5X
So our rough rule of thumb is if we can’t make double it isn’t worth out time. Our bread and butter is just basic flipping of solid wood dressers. The popular ones here being french provincial and mid-century modern designs. Never pay more than $50 for a solid wood dresser and those are the brands people desire like drexel is very popular here. We organize our sales into 2 categories quick flips where we want to make at least double and free up space and then the ones we work on we want to make approx. 5 times our investment. We try to limit our time on a piece to 5 hours as a maximum. We source 90% of our materials from Craigslist, apps, or garage/estate sales. The only thing I think we find ourselves buying at hardware stores are sanding discs and tack cloths. I will work on the best way to show off some of our recent work on here briefly.
So our rough rule of thumb is if we can’t make double it isn’t worth out time. Our bread and butter is just basic flipping of solid wood dressers. The popular ones here being french provincial and mid-century modern designs. Never pay more than $50 for a solid wood dresser and those are the brands people desire like drexel is very popular here. We organize our sales into 2 categories quick flips where we want to make at least double and free up space and then the ones we work on we want to make approx. 5 times our investment. We try to limit our time on a piece to 5 hours as a maximum. We source 90% of our materials from Craigslist, apps, or garage/estate sales. The only thing I think we find ourselves buying at hardware stores are sanding discs and tack cloths. I will work on the best way to show off some of our recent work on here briefly.
My wife and I do all the work ourselves. I sand and repair while she does the painting/staining and listing. For storage we have two 10×12 buildings in the back yard which is the maximum the city allows. We are pretty selective on which pieces are worth the time and effort to restore or upcycle. A lot of our business is just effort of being early to yard/garage/estate sales or jumping on Craigslist ads first. Don’t know how many maple dressers I have seen sell for $30. Way under priced so we just flip things like that.
