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Our Store Week October 3 – 9, 2021
Total Items in Store: 2012 – Yay! We broke the 2K Listings Ceiling!
Items Sold: 13
Gross Sales: $551.90 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $293.97 (minus eBay fees, shipping, taxes & Store Subscription of $21.95)Item Sales: 387.40
Cost of Items Sold: $15.86
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price(s) Sold: 49.95 X 2 – Book – The Feasts Unlocked and a Scottish Cashmere SweaterAverage Price Sold: $ 42.45
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $137.26Number of items listed this week: 45
We day-tripped and shopped 4 stores – Spent 82.32 and found 19 items to list for 650.25. A little under my target of 10X my spend, but some nice things. Good Mexican food from a taqueria we’ve never eaten at before and the prospect of another place to try on our next trip (with very good reviews). We are all about the food and junk!
Our Store Week September 19-25, 2021
Total Items in Store: 1965
Items Sold: 17
Gross Sales: $729.48 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $458.15 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $88.29
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price Sold: 59.95 – 19” Fenton Amberina Stretch Glass Vase
Average Price Sold: $ 42.91
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $161.05Number of items listed this week: 22
San Antonio was a good/bad experience…we only got to 7 Thrift Stores because… the car battery died, minus the time it took to get it replaced at Walmart and getting the ABS module checked out at the convenient Chevrolet dealership…which now needs replacing…oh well! But we found 36 good items, ate some good food and came home…I changed the Handling time to 3 days and that’s all packed up and shipped out. Hope to get all the new stuff listed this week!
Our Store Week September 5-11, 2021
Total Items in Store: 1949
Items Sold: 19
Gross Sales: $1066.63 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $720.87 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $31.72
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price Sold: $99.95 – Baldwin Smithsonian Electric Brass Candlestick
Average Price Sold: $56.14
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $38.97Number of items listed this week: 11
We spent all day Wednesday taking one of the cats to the vet and then 178 miles round trip to pick up 20 new Americauna (Easter Eggers) chicks. Plenty of new GOOD inventory to list. Next week a 2 day thrifting trip to San Antonio, looking forward to that and revisiting 3 favorite restaurants and at least 6-8 Thrift Stores from 2009-2012 days. A good week…
Glad to hear you are getting better, Retro!
Crystal & Jules of JulesBijouxVintage
Hey Everyone!
Jay, thanks for your posts. So happy to see a continuance of our community! I’m going to try to be more communicative myself.
We had a good week of sales for us and this weekend has been pretty good as well!
Lots of stuff still to list, a LOT of books and magazines (which I really like) Small stuff and lots of vintage clothing and FLAX shirts.
Our numbers are here:
Our Store Week August 29-September 4, 2021
Total Items in Store: 1957
Items Sold: 17
Gross Sales: $872.38 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $539.49 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $24.36
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price Sold: $120 Sci-Fi lst HC Book – Legends from the End of Time
Average Price Sold: $51.35
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $50.61Number of items listed this week: 50
Retro, Way to go and keep improving! Glad to hear it!
Crystal & Jules of JulesBijouxVintage
Dear Jay and Ryanne,
I echo the sentiments of each and everyone who is a member of this forum. I don’t think that you two realize how influential you’ve been to me and many others but you have and for that, I thank you.
I do have many podcasts to catch up on and I may do that once I get over being sad… I went in and told my kids about y’alls decision to end the Scavenger Life Podcast and they commiserated with me… but its a good day to call it a day and go on with your future.
Good one Craig-rex… Sell trash, be free!
Crystal and Jules
JulesBijouxVintage
Retro – Sorry to hear you and your wife are down with the COVID – I finally talked with my youngest sister about her and her family getting vaccinated, if she ever wanted to resume our thrifting trips. Happily she was open to at least me mentioning it, which is different. Her husband of 43 years passed last month, not COVID related, but she’s coming through it like a trouper. She’s and her family members are the only hold-outs in our family thankfully.
Our adult children are both home and Jules Bijoux Vintage is now the family business. We just broke 1900 items and are rockin’ and rollin’. Daughter continues to work full-time as Asst Store Director at our local thrift and I volunteer there twice a week sorting books…so we have ample Inventory without traveling too far to get it… although I miss the trips.
I’m a big-time lurker but I really enjoy hearing everybody stories about this crazy eBay trip we are on…
Thank you Jay and Ryanne for your podcasts and this group.
Crystal and Jules
Jules Bijoux Vintage
Hey there! We are not in Dallas but are in Texas – Central Texas Fayette County between Columbus and La Grange… looking forward to cooler weather!
Crystal
Jules Bijoux Vintage
Thank you, Amatino! I just ordered some! I’ve been selling lots of magazines these past few days… just drug out the boxes of random issues I’ve been collecting… going to get them up over the next couple of days.
Hey Vintage Treasures! Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I’m about to start planning our trip for this year, we’ll be gone about a week and will hit some old and new towns and locations. It should be fun! Looking forward to it. Also,my son lives in New Jersey so I’m able to do limited thrfiting when I go visit him. I really like seeing the difference in items in different parts of the country…plus it’s nice to take a break from the home-front and always nice to get back! Happy Selling to you as well!
Amazon is long-tail books – anything I think I can get someone to give me 10.95 for as the minimum. I’ll sell craft booklets for less…sometimes but I sold one yesterday, a cross-stitch pattern for Hunting Dogs for 16.95. If an item has a barcode that comes up on Amazon, okay but I’m not un-gated in anything except Collectible Books. I’m really not into RA much – I like the old stuff. I really don’t like shopping in stores except for the Thrift Stores. My husband does all the grocery shopping and so on… I like that.
We have to get rid of a cactus bed for the place I want to put the new building. Any thoughts on solar-powering because I’d like to not have to string an electric wire to the new building?We split the profit 55/45 since I work more at the business. I actually fund the purchases. She works at a local thrift store and brings in a lot of our stock. They have rules so that if a person is interested in something, another person prices it, so it’s a fair process for the seller and the buyer. Also, she does get to look through the recycling and bring things home from there. She’s found some really good, profitable items that way.
I’ve been collecting items to sell on eBay since I started the Amazon business, so there is quite a back-log of items to list there. I have a sister who likes to go thrifting with me and we have made a number of week-long trips over the years and are fixing to go on another trip in a few months.
Its a fun process for us both. I really enjoy listening to you and Ryanne on the podcasts just talking about your business. It’s very apparent that you really like each other and what you are doing in your lives.
I do have a 24 X 32 Morgan Portable building that is dedicated to the business. I’m in the process of convincing my husband that we need another building to house the items that are listed. We are just crammed in here and it’s hard to work because we constantly have to shift things around just to get to them. So, that’s in the works. We live in the country so we have plenty of room for another structure.
AND we just made a really good sale yesterday, 5 Mikasa Margqux crescent salad plates for 55.00 each, so 275.00… getting ready to pack those babies up! 😎 I bought those 02/21/12 for .41 cents each. The didn’t get listed until 09/25/18… I know! But it took that long for Jules to teach me how to list on eBay.. I can list on Amazon in my sleep practically. We have 1700 items on Amazon but I really need to cull…so running out of shelf space…the newest are in boxes on the floor. 426 items on eBay and we have a Premier Store so much work to do!
