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39 listings for me.
We’re entering the dog days of summer early this year. Hopefully that will keep me inside, in the air conditioning listing, listing, listing.
30 listings for week ended June 2.
I emptied a death pile bin that was in my basement. It wasn’t one I was intending to work on but I had to organize my basement a little bit and that bin had only a few very large items which I decided to just donate. I still have this horrible DP in the corner of my eBay room and I think I’m going to just bin it up and put it in the basement or donate it because I just can’t seem to get through it.
33 listings. I surprised myself, I thought that maybe I’d listed 10.
Have a nice week, everyone!
There are so many brands of clothing that were hot for a minute that now I either won’t touch at all or I’m very selective: Tommy Hilfiger, Lilly Pulitzer, White House Black Market, most Anthropologie brands, Madewell, Robert Graham, Tommy Bahama, Vineyard Vines, Cabi, Lululemon. Oh and let’s not forget the flash-in-a-pan Lularoe. I remember a reseller I used to follow getting so excited at finding Lularoe. Now thrift stores can’t seem to give Lularoe away.
I’m dating myself with these two: fancy china dishes & Boyds Bears. There are some china patterns that still do well but its few and far between.
10 listings for me.
I had a sourcing honey hole for the last 3 1/2 months but it dried up yesterday. I’m devastated! I was profiting almost $1k/month just from the stuff I was getting from that one spot. Everything was cheap, new, easy to list, quick to sell and with consistently great profit margins. But the liquidator changed their business model. I’m hoping they will reconsider soon.
0 for me. Today I get home from my 8 day trip. I had 37 items sell while I was away! Fortunately approx 30 of those are clothing so shipping won’t be too much of a nightmare. I’m really happy so much sold. My total revenue for the week wasn’t that much less than a typical week when my store isn’t on vacation so that was a surprise. None of my buyers requested to cancel when I messaged them regarding the extended shipping/ebay store being on vacation mode. I guess Ebay must be making that more clear up front prior to the buyer making their purchase.
Sorry, I forgot to post. I had 34 listings last week.
I am currently traveling. I left my store on but with vacation mode/extended handling turned on and I had 10 sales on the first day! It has slowed considerably since then and I’m currently at 14 sales that I’ll have to ship once I get home. I’ve been messaging my buyers to let them know about the extended handling. Everyone has been really cool about it and no one has yet requested to cancel. I love making money when I’m on vacation.
53 listings up. Looking back at the weekly spreadsheet and I’ve only hit my 10 listings a day goal once all year so I need to refocus my efforts at little more.
Today I finished emptying one of the TJ maxx totes from my deathpile of doom that has been haunting me for years from the corner of the room. I didn’t allow myself to post here today until I got everything in that tote either photographed, tossed or donated. Now “all” that is left in that corner of doom is 1 scary Ikea bag full of stuff, a rubbermaid tote that I think only has a few large items in it and then 6 random items scattered around the perimeter.
106 shops! Holy smokes, Amatino. How long did it take?
I got 51 items listed this week.
Last week as soon as I posted my weekly numbers here I attacked a bag in my current death pile and completed or donated everything in that bag so I’m going to try doing that again today. Some bonuses from doing that are I now have an ikea bag freed up that I can use for taking stuff to the post office and I found a missing tape measure! At one time I had 3 but have been down to one for ages. I’m constantly looking for it so I like having more than one around.
61 listings. I think I could have broken my listing record but we started binge watching Shogun on Hulu which is mostly in Japanese. I can’t list and read subtitles at the same time. We are caught up on the episodes so hopefully this week I’ll be able to beat my listing record.
Even with all those listings, my DP still sits largely untouched. I’m going to go thru one bag right NOW and put most of it into the donate bag.
Have a great week, everyone!
Omg that would be terrifying! I sometimes think about how Ebay can shut down my account at any time and how that would be like ripping the rug out from under me.
I’m glad you have it settled.
29 listings for week ending March 31st. I had one of those weeks where I was just down in the dumps, which happens every once in awhile so I didn’t get much done. I’m much better now.
I barely made a dent in my March deathpile so I’m going to break it up into smaller pieces. For April I’m challenging myself to do just one bag from the pile. All the bags in the pile are Ikea-sized bags. They’re great bags for taking stuff to the post office but they can also hold a lot of unlisted inventory and when I’m absent mindedly tossing stuff into them to deal with later, it adds up.
You missed the largest fee of all: service fee. The fees sellers used to pay are now being charged to the buyer as a service fee. This fee is in addition to the payment processing fee of 2.9% + $0.50. The service fee is up to 10% of the purchase price but Mercari is refusing to release what fee percentage is being applied in each category/brand for some reason. This fee is not on every listing at the moment only new listings and listing that seller’s have edited since the terms of service change on Wednesday. However, soon the fee will be applied to even those listings. That may explain why you saw only a 1.5% service fee.
For smaller dollar items the service fee may not seem like much but it quickly adds up. For example on a $250 item, the final price ended up being $317.55. The math: $250 purchase price + $13.17 shipping + $25 service fee + $9.44 payment processing fee + $19.94 tax (which is applied to all of the fees) = $317.55.
As a buyer, I would abandon my cart after seeing that large of a difference but I guess time will tell what the rest of the market thinks.
My tip is I’m trying to consistently list 10 items a day. I don’t quite make it as I haven’t hit 70 listings in a week yet but I’m getting close. I’ve been photographing in the day and listing on my laptop in front of the tv at night. I try to have several extra listings ready to go in my drafts for those days when I know I won’t be able to list. I’ve heard a few influencers say they try to have 2 weeks worth of drafts ready to go at any given time and I just don’t see how I could ever that that many! At most I’ve had maybe 7 drafts.
