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Much better week. Best so far as a Premium seller.
Total Items in Store: 414
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales: $199
Highest Price Sold: $43 Obermyer Preschool Snowsuit
Lowest Price Sold (Gross): $12 Mississippi Bulldogs Cap
Most Fun: Lakeland Tigers Minor League Vintage Program. Sold it as warped, hope it doesn’t come back to me
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $2 Trying to replace a vintage knob on my Gma’s furniture. Asked at a thrift if they have any drawer pulls. Ended up going through a box they keep in the back.Hope you both feel better
3 weeks into my Premium (1000item) store. I couldn’t make myself post last week’s numbers. On the 2nd week I sold 1 whole item for a whopping $12. At least this past week I made 5 times that. Going upwards. Just had a $70 saled
So not what I had hoped. But I had 407 items listed, more than ever before. I’ve been very occupied with family-3 major moves of immediate family this month. One hospitalization.
Goals met- 1)More listed at the end of the week than ever before
2) I sold my cheapest item for $3.50! An unused preschool book that I almost pitched so many times. I decided to lower the price until it sold. Now I won’t do that with my long tail R&J type of items. But the things that I’ve had up since 2015, that I would not buy again, lowering the price. Two other items-small sized J Jill and Columbia shirts have been in my longest 10 item list. They both sold within 24 hours of lowering the price. So worth it to get the bottom stuff out of my closetsTotal items in store 392
Items sold: 2
Total Sales: $53
Average price: $26
Cost of items sold: $4
Gross profit: $49
Highest item sold $35 Quacker Factory Cardigan
Would have just sighed, listed more and said soft week. BUT, I have just taken the big leap (for me) and upgraded my store to Premium. This was my first week at the new level. So those numbers hurt.
On the plus side I picked up 2 sets of Tony Lamas and 1 Lucchese. Time for Cowboys.Total sales $40
Best sale J Crew pants for $20
Average sale $8 Holding my nose, but glad of the sales
Since spring my family has been dealing with some major medical issues. But now I’m starting to get back into listing-and I want to keep growing. I have a basic store 250 items-BIN 250 “free” auctions per month. I’m eyeing the next lever store, the premium level
So at what point should I move up? Basic is $22 a month, premium is $60. Each BIN over 250 costs me 25cents I think I break even at 402 I already have 370. If I do move up does it make any difference when I move? Should I do this on the first of the month if I do pull the trigger? ThanksTotal Items In Store: 356
Items Sold: 1
Total Sales: $ 0 They never paidMoney Spent on New Inventory This Week: $ 11 Piazza Sempione & Thomas Pink
Number of Items listed this week: 25Yeah, the dreaded made $0 week
Weird thing that I have seen over and over again-When I come back from time away I get home, change my shipping time back to normal and get listing. Then, after doing those positive things I usually have a precipitous fall in sales. No idea why. One would expect an uptick. Bracing for continued soft month. Hubbie has a conference this week and I’m going with. So I’ve got 5 day handling as of today. We’ll enjoy ourselves, but June numbers will be very sad. Maybe July?Wonderful use of Ebay store and soft week, but I do not care.
Total Items in Store: 345
Total Sales: $76
Highest Price Sold: $40 Il Palio horse race scarf
Average Price Sold: $25.30
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
So why wonderful? Because I earmarked several months of Ebay $ and went to London with my daughter! Planned it out and paid almost everything in advance. Researched and crunched numbers then bought British Airways flights with extras. Stayed in Bloomsbury hotel and a Wimdu(like European Airbnb) with ensuite. Bought London Pass and went to Dickens House, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, in Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey,British Museum, Hampton Court Palace, Handel/Hendrix House, Cutty Sark, Queen’s House, Chelsea Physic Garden-favorite, National Gallery…. Daughter had a tiny inheritance that she spent on London. Ebay payed the under $1600 that I forked out for 8.5 days. Now back to work and listingOh, the $3 became $2 cuz he was having difficulty with the register. I questioned it to make sure and got it for $2
Half way through the podcast. Vented to my husband about the return policy. So I guess I have a few more days of discussing if not downright complaining. Will probably do what I usually do-let you pioneers with the bigger stores figure out what’s going on before I jump in.
Total items in store: 381 Personal high number of listings
Items sold: 9
Total sales: $170 Better than most weeks last month
Highest price sold: $37 Eileen Fisher pants. Lower than I like, but I’ve had it for years. Good to be gone
Average price sold: $18.90
Returns: 1 I had her donate They were size AAA shoes that I would never buy again
Money spent on new inventory this week: $2 I treated myself to a round at the Bins. Only 2nd time this year, since I’m working on death piles. I had some oddball items and asked the clerk for prices. He said $3. FOR THE CART! That included a bread machine which I’m keepingSlow? My numbers are 1/10 that of last week
* Total Items in Store: 375
* Items Sold: 5
* Cost of Items Sold: $9
* Total Sales: $79
* Highest Price Sold: $21.99 Tie for a ResMed cushion & Max Factor Primitif perfume. Perfume was $1 at an estate sale
-Lowest Price Sold: Also a tie at a whopping $8.99 Replacement Conair Curlers-my last lot of these. And more Gymboree sox. These are part of an overlooked box of vintage Gymboree clothes. My early Ebay life involved clothing my kids in marked down Gymboree, then Ebay listing their outgrown clothes. I would always make enough to pay for the clothes and covered my kids for free.
* Returns: 1 I knew this would fail. She asked too many questions. But has left me good feedback
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $3 Vintage Pan Am bag
Not worrying about the slowness. I had more items listed than every before. Going to up it this week too.Total Items In Store: 368
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $160 (around)
Total Sales: $682
Highest Price Sold: $622 McIntosh Tuner $117 Vintage Sabena Airlines scarf
Lowest Price Sold: Dr Seuss Mug $13
Average Price Sold: $113
Returns:0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $ 0So I have been having weeks of selling less than $100 I knew that the vintage McIntosh would bring in $, so I jumpstarted my store. When listing I followed my instinct and put it up for auction. Comps showed around $500, but I knew that this would command interest. So I set the auction at $500 and sat back. Multiple bids later it was well over the comp price. I wanted the sale quickly, cuz things have been dragging.
The scarf was a great candidate for BIN cuz of its size It was up for many months. I think it was the scarf that the stewardesses wore in first class. The entire menu was printed on it. You used to be able to order Roquefort and 6 other cheese while flying the Belgian air line. It’s now flying back to Belgium
Total Items In Store: 363
Items Sold: 5
Total Sales: $80.76 (not incl shipping)
Highest Price Sold: $25 Women’s Talbots Modest Dress
Average Price Sold: $16.52
Returns/Refunds: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of Items listed this week: 11
I have a great new Ebay toy. A Jeweler’s loupe! Using it to do detailed checking of my last Estate Sale finds. Finding hidden words. STERLING and 12KGF are my favorites. So listing these old jewelry eyeglasses and hiking the price.Total Items in Store: 352
Items Sold: 6
Total Sales: $135
Highest Price Sold: $37.50 Doc Martens Last of a small pipeline
Average Price Sold: $22.50
Most Fun: A ridiculous vintage computer tie from 80s/90s Had for too long. Goodbye for $14
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $51 I stumbled onto an estate sale on the way to a shower. Noted it and returned after the shower. I thought it was weird, because I has looked up estates on estate.net, and no there weren’t any estates in our county this weekend. Asked them where they advertised. In the newspaper and on their mailing list. Yes I signed up for the list! An old lady had passed away. She had inherited her mom’s estate a few years ago. They only took cash and I spent every dollar I had on me.Thanks Kenny for sound logic and good examples. I use auctions for the low value junk that I wouldn’t buy again. I move it out of the BIN when it’s been there for a year and no one seems remotely interested. Reduce the price every other time and it starts crawling out of the store.
Also I love having the free listings, because I always go over 250, but I’m not ready for the 1000 yet.
I also will do this for a week or two if I’m unsure of the value. If there’s no interest I figure I’m free to BIN
With the good, rare stuff I stick to BIN and wait
MarieTotal Items in Store: 244
Items Sold: 1
Cost of Items Sold: $.50
Total Sales: $8.99
Highest Price Sold: $8.99 Curlers and Pins
Average Price Sold: $8.99
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: 0
Yes, that week-one sale. Last week I had 10 sales for $440. I could see this coming. My mom had a heart attack 2 weeks ago, and has been in and out of the hospital. When one of my family needs me, Ebay goes out the door. I did better listing in Feb, so that helped with the previous sales.
One fun thing with the curlers. I had a working Remington pageant style set. But the top was nasty translucent instead of clear plastic. Instead of trying to sell it for $10 maybe $15, I parted it into 2 lots of replacement curlers and pins. The first one sold for $9 in a few weeks. I’m sure the 2nd will go too.
