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The younger generation seems to be all about video. I looked into Depop last week to see if I wanted to list some of my cooler 90s vintage clothing labels over there but the site, which promotes itself as the fashion marketplace app for the “next generation” allows only 5 photos and strongly encourages 1 video for every single listing. The Tik Tok generation has no problem shooting and editing a quick video. As for my 40+ year old self, I noped right out of there.
I don’t usually post my numbers but I just finished my best month ever. I hope each month is more profitable than the last (not an easy feat since my sales tend to drop after March each year)
March 2021
Total listings as of today: 1,359 (459 are cross posted to Poshmark)
Items sold: 178 (148 on eBay; 30 on Poshmark)
Sales: $6,407.17
Highest price sold: $184 Johnny Was Dress
Highest profitable item sold: $129.99 a Hitler book I bought for $1
Average price sold: $36
Cost of items sold: $1,266.56 / Average cost: $7.12 each
Approximate new listings in March: 202 (eBay only – not counting Posh since those are crossposted)
I normally don’t break $200 in sales on Poshmark but thanks to an epic clothing haul, I currently have a lot of higher end labels which do better over on Posh. I had $1,613 in sales on Posh in March. Ebay will always be my #1 platform but I like Poshmark for clothing because I get higher prices and returns are only allowed if the buyer was misled about the item condition.Wow Amatino! You’ve had quite the year. At least you have a nice shiny new computer now.
50 items for me. I don’t know how it isn’t more than that because I didn’t source at all during the week.
0 MCM.
It looks like Part 3 of the House Bill is the specific area where you’ll find it, according to this quote that ebay sent in it’s email.
“As a long-time eBay seller, Part 3 of HB 327 has me really concerned. This bill could require that sellers of all sizes provide their personal info – like name, street address and phone number – in every single listing. This could jeopardize my privacy and my safety and that’s not OK. If you’re a Georgia resident I urge you to join me and tell your state legislators to amend this bill and protect sellers who make a living online.”
Here is the intro to the email I received from ebay. It mentions the House Bill 327. However, it also mentions that the language was removed from the House Bill 327 but has now been added back into the Senate Bill. I don’t know if the House Bill and Senate Bill are the same thing/number.
“eBay’s purpose of enabling economic opportunity has never been more important as e-commerce is keeping America connected during COVID-19. But, even as the country is relying more heavily on online goods, unprecedented legislation is moving through your Georgia General Assembly. This bill would negatively impact Georgia small businesses and individuals who sell products online. Though the Georgia House removed the harmful language from House Bill 327, big box retailers have aggressively lobbied to have it added back into the bill in the Senate. ”
What irks me somewhat, is that the “big box retailers” are pushing for it. It almost feels like they want the little guys to get bullied out of the marketplace. They don’t have to worry about their personal phone and address getting published since they have headquarters, offices, departments, warehouses, etc. While us small guys are working out of our homes.
I just checked and I’m still being offered padded flat rate for $7.76. I’ve got Top Rated Seller Status so perhaps that is the reason.
Amatino, I started having trouble listing yesterday and it continues today. I even updated the software, etc on my laptop. But today I got an error message from ebay that said, “it’s not you, its me. Our servers are down” Or something to that effect. Hopefully that’s the same issue you’re having and it will be resolved post haste.
Gargolfer – I’ve been to an estate sale like that before. The first thing I saw was a dining room table with a $6,000 price tag. My mind couldn’t even process that an estate sale price would have that many zeros on it so I assumed they must have meant $600. They did not. Since no one was buying anything, they put up a sign telling people to make offers. None of us were making offers because based on their starting prices, we knew that any reasonable offer would be shot down. How do you offer $300 on something that the owner priced at $6,000? The owner and the person running the sale were completely perplexed. I don’t think they’d ever ran a sale before. Or they mistook small town Georgia for Beverly Hills.
I have a little rant. I had an amazing clothing haul from an estate sale last weekend. Due to the size of the sale, it was scheduled for 2 weekends. There was very little parking so the Estate Sale company asked that only bulk buyers shop the first weekend and to make an appointment. There were lots of shoppers there but as far as I could tell, I was the only “bulk buyer.” After shopping 4 hours and accumulating 100s of items of clothing I asked them to give me a price, expecting them to give me a bulk price. Nope. They sat for over an hour and went thru each item one by one. Clothing had set prices unless otherwise marked (ex. all shirts $5, pants $6) however, the lady started changing all of the prices on me. She would say, “well this is Save the Queen and all of those are $15” etc. even though there were no signs whatsoever to that effect. I was really annoyed but I was so exhausted at that point that I didn’t want to just abandon everything and leave. The stuff was so plentiful and the brands so good that I went back a second time but made sure one of the hourly employees tallied up my haul instead of the lady running the sale. Even after purchasing probably 500 items, I didn’t even make a dent in all of the clothing they had. I texted them earlier this week and offered to buy all leftover clothing after their last day (which was yesterday) because otherwise they were going to donate it all to charity. The lady wouldn’t even give me a price. She said that she needed to get her client a good tax receipt from the charity. Then why even sell any of it in the first place? I think she just doesn’t like resellers. At least I came away with some good stuff to list, even though the experience kind of left a sour taste in my mouth.
Hey Y’all,
56 listings for me. Clothing takes a lot of time to list but I found a hack that is speeding up my process slightly – I’m taking measurements while photographing the clothes and writing the measurements directly onto a whiteboard which I take a photo of to include in the listing’s photos. In the item description I simply say, see photos for measurements. This probably saves me a couple of minutes per listing over how I was doing it before. Hopefully I’ll also get less questions now from buyers who ask for me for measurements even though it was already included in the item description. I think most buyers look at all photos but not all buyers read the description box.
0 for the MCM challenge.
Lauren – I’ve started using ListPerfectly this week because I have a huge clothing haul that I want to post to both Ebay and Poshmark. Since ListPerfectly makes crossposting so easy I’m thinking maybe I should start using it to sell other places. Facebook seems like the obvious choice to start as a 3rd selling stream but I’ve never sold there. In your experience, what types of things sell on FB? Is it more like collectibles? Vintage? Clothing? Kids stuff? Or is it pretty much anything?
So much of the private label garbage ends up at the Amazon liquidation stores like the one here where I live. The private labels all have really bizarre names as if they randomly picked tiles from a scrabble bag and made that the brand name. It amuses and amazes me that a lot of the people shopping at the return store are resellers who are going to relist the item once again on Amazon. It’s a weird cycle where one single item could be making money several times for a number of people. And each time that single item gets sold/resold, Amazon gets their cut.
What was her reason (besides having some kind of mental issue) for contacting you again after you left feedback?! I haven’t had an eBay encounter with someone like that in years, thankfully.
I scored a mega clothing haul over the weekend that I’m chomping at the bit to get listed but my husband herniated a disc so I’m spending a lot of time driving him to doctor appointments out of town. By the time I get home, I have enough time to ship and maybe get just a few items listed. I’ve probably listed about 1% of the haul so far and after zero sales over 24 hours I was almost panicked. But then the chi-chings started. Sold a belt for $100 and 4 pairs of jeans for $120, $60, $50 and $50. I paid $4.64 for the belt and $6.18 each for the jeans.
Since my clothing haul is so massive, I invested in a listing tool, List Perfectly. I post to one platform and then List Perfectly will cross post to up to 10 other platforms. For now I’m only having it cross post from eBay to Poshmark. It’s $29.99/month for the plan I chose. That gives me unlimited crosspostings. It doesn’t have as many bells and whistles as other cross posting systems but it’s simple, which is the most important thing for me. And there isn’t a contract so once I get these clothing items listed, I can cancel it.
“1800s rancher wife” LOL! Sorry for your troubles Amatino but at least you’re keeping a sense of humor about it. Running tap water is going to feel so luxurious after all of this.
50 listings for me. I spent 2 days at an estate sale buying the most epic haul of my life. I won’t have to thrift for several months so I’m expecting my listing numbers to go up, up, up for awhile.
0 for MCM and pop up challenge.
