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27 listings. I had my biggest sale ever this week although I’m not keeping any of the money. I sold my aunt’s vintage Reed & Barton sterling silver flatware set. I probably could have made more piecing it out but I was hoping for a quick sale as she’s recently widowed and could use the money. Unfortunately it took over a year to sale for $1,049 for 30 pieces. I started it at $1,999.99 but the market dropped so I kept lowering the price. Someone got a great deal. Now fingers crossed they leave positive feedback soon and don’t end up returning it or claiming they were the victim of some kind unauthorized ebay hack and pursue a chargeback down the road.
@VintageLacy – What a nightmare! Having to rent a uhaul just to dump the damaged items sounds painful. Thankfully it sounds like it was all unlisted inventory and not listed.
16 listings. I also ended a bunch of stale listings, fixed the titles and item specifics & sold similar.
I wasted a lot of time going to two thrift stores in town this week. I don’t know why I even hit them up anymore, there is rarely anything good at them these days. Both of them have started listing the good stuff online and charging crazy high prices on what they keep in store. I know this will sound like a broken record but Goodwill has gone crazy with their prices! Stuff is spilling off the shelves onto the floor because none of it is moving. If they’d put a reasonable price of the stuff, they could get it out of there but even on half price day it’s too expensive. Thank goodness for estate sales.
36 listings.
I guess the one positive to having a dismal sales week is there’s less shipping so more time for listing. Historically low level of sales on Ebay for me lately. Bah humbug!
Good morning, Everyone.
25 listings for me.
For anyone who sells on Mercari: They have a promotion right now. If you list 30 items by Oct 29th, they’ll send you a $20 Mercari gift card. It was easy for me because I have ten times as much stuff on eBay than Mercari so it was as simple as crossposting. If you can’t get 30 items, they also have $5 gift card and $10 gift card levels. I don’t love Mercari but toys, books & figurines tend to do okay for me over there.
Good afternoon, Everyone.
This week I had 0 but the week before I had 13.
I’m 7 days post op from my surgery and finally starting to feel like I can sit and list pain free. My surgery was easier than most fibroid surgeries due to the type of fibroid and placement. But I’m still tender and taking it easy. I’m definitely letting my husband do ALL the chores. 🙂 I’m going to milk that for awhile. Although he did buy groceries by himself a few days ago and I don’t know if we’ll ever financially recover from that one grocery trip, hehe. He vastly overestimated how much food two people can possibly eat.
Saturday night I turned my Poshmark and Mercari stores back on but I have left my ebay store off for now. The reason being the items I have listed on Posh and Mercari tend to be small, lightweight items that I’ll have no trouble shipping. Plus, sales on those platforms are rare. I have had two total sales since turning them on. On ebay I have all kinds of stuff listed including heavier items that I definitely don’t want to deal with shipping this week.
Thank you everyone for your well wishes the past few weeks.
Oh no Amatino! As if you weren’t feeling bad enough, may as well thru an allergic reaction on top of it. Scary!
19 listings for me. I have doc appts two days this week and my fibroid surgery is next week so I think I’ll try to take tons of photos so I can work on listings if/when I feel like it when recovering next week.
Jay and Ryanne – you got a shout out during one of the break out sessions at today’s eBay open. Specifically, the panelist quoted Ryanne for saying “I am not my customer.”
40 listings. I was surprised at that number because it certainly didn’t feel like I listed that many. That’s probably because it wasn’t all clothes. Books and other hard goods are so much easier and faster to list.
Hello everyone. I’m back from a 3 week trip visiting my mom in Iowa. We did a lot of thrifting and I found some okay stuff but no home runs.
7 listings this week.
Have a good week!
Whoops, I forgot to post yesterday. 32 listings.
I’ll be visiting my mom for a few weeks so I might not remember to post for a few weeks.
Is it just me or does there seem to be more clothing hoarders as of late? The last two weekends in a row the estate sales I went to both ended up being borderline clothing hoarders/ clothes shopping addicts. Saturday was closets and closets and closets full of NWT Talbots clothing being sold for $2 to $5 a piece. The weekend prior was a NWT Chico’s and Berek sweater hoarder. I cleaned up at both. The irony is I went to both sales looking for hard goods because I already have a great source for clothing and quite frankly, I’m a little burned out on clothes.
In 2021 I went to the estate sale of a lady who had an ebay auction addiction where she bought mostly obscure ’90s european designer clothing. I’ve profited over $15K from that sale so far. I wish I had gone back on the last day of the sale but by then I was overwhelmed with the amount of clothing I already had to list.
