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I had a sudden week of great sales when I sold a total of 8 pairs of cashmere socks to 4 buyers within 24 hours of listing for $258! I paid $18 for all of them. If only I had more!
Decided yesterday that I’m getting a new ebay space in my house. We’re having some rooms remodeled and while preparing for the contractors we were moving all kinds of furniture around and decided to make the largest room that is in the back of the house my new ebay room. It will actually end up freeing up a room so we can have a guest room again. The “new” ebay space is much larger, 25″ x 11″. It used to be our “movie room”. It was always an awkward space for a couch and chairs with it being so narrow so this will work out great. Before we move stuff in there, we’re having it painted, new trim installed etc. That’s going to cost a bit so I’ll be listing, listing, listing like crazy this week to earn some extra $$$.
I’ve noticed this going on for over a week. It’s happened even on items I offer free shipping and have no way for the buyer to select another option than what I listed (i.e. media mail, first class, etc). After the first few days I assumed ebay was trying to get me to upgrade the shipping for free and shipped however I pleased.
10/09/2019 at 10:46 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 431: Top 10+ Scavenger Life Lessons #68808Great episode! I listened it to it more than once.
My line in the sand is I won’t sell fur. But I’ll sell leather. I don’t know why one seems so much worse to me than the other.
One of my scavenging rules is Always Be Scavenging (Hoarders should ignore this advice). Anytime I’m in a store I always check the clearance section for items to flip. I’ve sold stuff that I found washed up on the beach. I’ve dug brand new pepsi lapel pins out of the trash after my boss threw them away. I just sold a PBS television lapel pin that was being handed out free at the State Fair this summer. Even my husband who doesn’t resell brought me a Louis Vuitton luggage tag that he found on the ground in a parking lot. I sold it for $25. I was so proud of him.
Hi Trish,
I lived in DC 7 years ago and I’m constantly kicking myself for not getting into reselling while I lived there. For over a year I lived in an apartment 2 blocks from a small thrift store in a wealthy area by the National Cathedral that undoubtedly would have had occasional high end clothing and who knows what else. It would have helped take some of the sting out of paying those high DC rents!
My advice on shipping for people new to it:
1. If you don’t already – buy your postage through ebay, rather than taking your items to the post office. It’s so much cheaper! A good postal scale can be purchased for $15 online or at Harbor Freight.
2. If you get into clothing – ship in poly mailers instead of boxes
3. When shipping, compare rates between the post office and Fed Ex ground. You’d be surprised at how much difference in pricing there can be, especially for heavier items.
4. Learn about regional flat rate boxes (Reg A and Reg B) if you ship items over 2 lbs and flat rate padded envelopes. All are available for free by ordering them from USPS website.09/26/2019 at 9:59 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Large duffel bag, Faribo blanket, TV trays, Harley boots, Catheters #68274That is a pretty chill dog to let kitty sniff around his food bowl. My dog gets VERY concerned when one of the cats shows interest in his bowl. He whines and looks to me for help even though he’s 5 times their size.
I’ve been on a listing frenzy lately but all of my sales have been basic bread and butter items. No “large” sales except some Giles & Brother drawer handles. I sold 13 for $156 total, which was a little over twice what I had into them.
I went to a cosmetics hoarder’s estate sale last weekend: Gucci, Dior, you name it. Most of it had been used once or twice so I couldn’t buy any of it for resale but I did get 4 sealed bottles of Wen shampoo which sold within a day for $21/bottle.
I’m technology-challenged so when I saw how simple the Rollo thermal label printer was, I bought it. Love it! Compact size, super fast & I was able to set it up without any issues. I’ve had it for 2 or 3 years now and haven’t had a problem with it yet. https://www.rolloprinter.com/
They will fall off of Google after awhile. Back when ebay mysteriously deleted a ton of sellers’ listing photos, I had to search for my listings via google cache to find the old photos to save and input back into my ebay listings. My oldest listings, while still active on ebay would not come up via Google search. For that reason alone, I end my listings that are over 16 months and list via sell similar. It’s also helped me find mistakes I’ve made in my original listings. If you have any multi-quantity listings that you want to do this to, make sure you write down how many of the items you have left because if you do a sell similar, the original quantity will populate into the new listing.
That is entertaining. Everyone seems orderly. I wonder what it’s like the second they open the doors and if fist fights ever break out. I notice a lot of giant Ikea type bags. I wonder how much of the stuff people buy ends up back on Amazon.
My cousin was telling me about these great stores (mostly located around Kansas City) called It’s $5. All Amazon returns and everything is $5 on the first day. 2nd day everything is 2 for $5, 3rd day it’s 3 for $5, etc. Anyway it sounds like the Goodwill bins on steroids and people have found ChromeBooks, dashcams, Leatherman pocketknives, etc. All are returns to Amazon. The strangest thing my cousin found was a dental mold press for making crowns and teeth! And of course someone bought it for $5!
Am interested to hear if anyone else has been to the It’s $5 chain yet. The closest to me is in TN about 3 or 4 hours away. I may have to try it but I bet the place is chaos the first day of each new week.
09/02/2019 at 2:34 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 426: Our Financial Lives Are Tied To The Mysterious Whims Of A Website #67261Random
My current listing motivation comes from a thread I saw on Reddit where someone asked “in your hobby, what could you turn $1,000 into?” Responses were along the line of: I could brew this much craft beer, or make this many quilts, etc. Since my hobby is selling on eBay I wondered what I could turn $1,000 into. I could easily go back to my spreadsheets of prior sales and figure it out but instead I’m keeping a running total of what each item cost me as I create new listings, until I get to $1,000 spent. For some reason, trying to get $1,000 (cost) in new listings is more motivating than trying to get past a certain # of items in my store.
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I wondered that too because shouldn’t there be space between the item and the side of the box? What if it tips over? I’m stressed out just thinking about shipping something like that.
I used to follow a few mid-century modern groups on Facebook. There are tons of FB groups catering to every type of vintage aficionado: Mid-century modern kitsch, DIY Farmhouse vintage, Vintage Junkies, Vintage Linens, Vintage 80s toys. You name it, there’s a FB group. Try joining a few if you’re on FB. some of them have a ton of posts each day so you might want to join them but not follow them (to keep them from cluttering up your FB timeline). It was educational to see what people are in to and what they get excited about buying.
This post reminds me of when Christie’s auctioned Marilyn Monroe’s makeup case back in 1999. It contained all kinds of used makeup. If I recall, the auction house did not expect many bids. I can’t find it now but I think I remember Christie’s estimating its value at something like $5K. It ended up selling for $266,500! People wanted the stuff that had touched Marilyn’s face. So BOLO, I guess – har har.
08/22/2019 at 2:10 pm in reply to: Macy’s brings the thrill of thrifting to South Florida department stores #66738A discount store in the South called Bargain Hunt has or had a deal with Thred Up to sell their rejects. The stuff was usually garbage and I didn’t like searching through racks of new clothes and finding stained, heavily pilled Thred Up rejects. But Bargain Hunt is nothing like JCP or Macys. They sell returned merchandise and everything that Target couldn’t sell.
I am guessing that the Thred Up items going into the JCP/Macy’s locations will be a little better quality but who knows.
I also wonder how this works when people send their clothes to Thred Up to sale. I’ve seen a lot of people online complaining that Thred Up rejects their clothes, only to turn around and sell it in their reject lots to customers.Cyndia from Amazing Taste was interviewed on a podcast in Jan 2017. I haven’t listened to it yet but some of her advice back then is included in bullet points (for free) on the podcast’s webpage. I don’t think she’s doing anything different than most of us (other than posing her clothing photos at an angle to stand out). She and her husband are just grinding it out in their garage. The interview https://soyouwannasellonebay.com/shownotes/cyndi-zlotow
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