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I didn’t even make it halfway to my goal last year but I was insanely busy with my FT job at the time. And let’s also blame it on 2020, just because.
I’m going to aim for 35 a week. Kinda high but I need the motivation.
The Amazon return stores here in my town are 99% cheap private label crap that was sold on and subsequently returned to Amazon. I believe most of the items are returned because the buyer couldn’t tell from the photos, just how cheaply made most of the stuff is. It’s become a crap shoot to purchase anything from Amazon because we can’t tell if what we ordered will be a decent item, or a piece of garbage. Shopping the local Amazon return stores has really hammered home for me just how much of consumption/waste problem we have here in the U.S.
Oooh!! Thank you for thinking of me and reaching out! Chattanooga is actually a much quicker commute for me. I did not know they had an outlet. I know those can be hit or miss but I’m excited to give it a try. I can hardly wait to go. Thank you!!!
Thank you Junque Redux for your kind post. 🙂
55 listings for me. I feel like I killed it this week on listings and it’s paying off in sales. I have fourteen items to take to the post office this morning from sales that happened from midday Saturday to now.
Did week 53 end yesterday since it was the last day of the year? If so, I’m at 32 for the partial week.
Amatino, A big thank you for all the work you did in this group, this year. This was my first year participating in the Listing Challenge threads. Posting my weekly listing totals to a group really did help me to list more! I also love that I can look at the Google Doc excel sheet to see how my year progressed, listing-wise. Thank you Amatino!
Received mine a few days ago. Haven’t tried it yet but it smells amazing! I could smell it as soon as I opened my mailbox.
If the buyer funds their paypal with a credit or debit card, it can take up to 30 days for Paypal to process the refund. If the buyer already had a paypal balance it would have likely been refunded on the same day.
I would ghost him. If you know what item it is that he’s interested in purchasing, you might think about ending that listing for awhile and putting it back up in a month or waiting even longer. I’ve done this before to prevent a problem buyer from causing me future problems.
38 listings for me this week – not bad for a holiday week.
I did some major retail arbitrage online shopping last night. I’ll be listing like crazy the next few days so I’ll be ready when the 100+ arbitraged items arrive at my house. I found deals online last night that were better prices than I’d find at thrift stores. I probably should have bought twice what I did but it’s scary spending that much money on inventory, especially during a pandemic.
Have a good week everybody!
According to eBay’s metrics, my sales are up 111% over last month. I need that trend to continue upward. My best sale of the week was a 24 pack of discontinued cat food. I bought it for $5 and sold it within a few days for $99.99. It may have been the last of it’s brand anywhere on the internet. I would have priced it higher but it’s best by date was back in October (which I disclosed in the title and the listing) so I didn’t want it sitting around long.
Historically the week after Christmas is always great for finding amazing things at thrift stores. But I have to miss it this year because we’ve been exposed to Covid. I feel fine but I don’t want to be a Typhoid Mary infecting others, so I have to sit at home until we’re cleared. I have plenty of stuff to list but it’s killing me knowing that I am probably missing out on all kinds of NWT unwanted Christmas presents at the thrifts this week.
Finally, on the chili dog debate – I’m with Ryan. 🙂
YES! Dropping off pre-labeled packages into the package bin at my post office when the line for the service counter is at least 45 minutes long is a good feeling.
My post office even has one of those self checkout machines where people could measure & weigh their package and pay for a postage label themselves but no one uses it. They wait in line all afternoon instead, I don’t get it.
No regrets leaving my corporate job but I do need to get my consulting website up and some consulting gigs booked because I am not going to be able to make ends meet on reselling alone. I have plenty of savings to last me quite awhile but it is alarming to see how fast the bank balance shrinks.
I don’t have access to enough cheap sources of inventory. It’s pretty much Amazon Liquidation stores (which aren’t bad but aren’t consistent), Goodwill (overpriced), the occasional estate sale and a little retail arbitrage. I may need to spend a day or two each week driving 2 hours into Atlanta to source each week. We’ll see…..
In a way, I may have profited from the Post Officapocalypse. About two weeks ago Ebay for Business’ FB page had a Hustle for the Holidays post. All we had to do was comment on how we are hustling to make holiday sales. A random commenter would win a $200 ebay gift card and I won! My comment on the post wasn’t clever in any way. The odds were just very much in my favor because out of the 200ish comments, at least half were sellers complaining to ebay about the escalating shipping issues. Since they didn’t answer the hustle question, their comment wasn’t in the running for the $200. I’ve spent $50 of it so far but now that I have free eBay money, I can’t think of anything I need or want – a good problem to have. HEY! Maybe I’ll treat myself to a bag of Broad Porch!
