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My actual December sales for 2018 are on par to my December sales for 2017. However, I have 25% more items in my store this December 2018 and most are on a promoted listing.
I looked at my sales in December from 2017 and this coming week was by far the best week of the month. Let’s hope for a good next week.
Mark
2018-25-18 – 2018-12-01
Total Items In Store: 2609
Items Sold: 23
Cost of Items Sold: $70
Total Sales: $ 712.68
Highest Price Sold: $ 49.99
Average Price Sold: $ 30.99
$ Listed $ 2549.95
# Items Listed: 59
Money Spent on New Inventory:Gut Sales Report for the week: It doesn’t feel like the busy season at all. This was just a slightly higher than average week for me. Yes, there were some great spikes in sales, but then there were also stretches of nothing. Very eratic sales.
Challenge of the week: List as much as I can to get the sales up as much as I can.
Scavenge of the week: This was a couple of weeks ago: I bought some vintage wood working bar clamps because they looked cool. I have sold 2 sets within 2 days of listing them for good money. This will be a new bolo for me. However, I don’t think I have ever come across these before. I have seen a lot of clamps before, but not bar clamps.
Mark S
antarestar.
Thanks for the video, I watched most of it.
Those were some good ideas on hiring a photographer. I think I just need to tweak it for me.
I don’t think I could handle getting 200 resumes. However, I do have quite a bit of experience in interviewing people and I do know what to look for. I will have to come up with my own strategy when I am ready. Thanks again for the video.
Mark
List like a madman My goal is a lofty one and is on the verge of out of reach. I want to hit 4000 listings by the end of 2019.
Complete the new area in my Basement I need to take some personal containers to the storage unit and buy some more clothes racks. This should be very doable. This will create room for over 1000 more items in storage.
Hire someone This has proven to be difficult. With sales down since October, it has not be feasible to hire someone. Also, finding a good person at a reasonable rate will be time consuming.
My idea is to create some sort training videos on various topics. Then interview 3 people and have them watch the training videos and then put it into practice during the interview. I will pay them for this exercise, but then only select those who can follow directions and produce great results.’
Get all my vintage listings on Etsy This should be doable, I just have to allocate the time.
Buy great items I will do my best to get the highest end items that make sense. I really want to raise my average selling price and raise the level of quality of my items.
Mark S
ebay Christmas tissue paperOk, I just realized that I don’t really like this new ebay Christmas tissue paper. The blue and purple shades are ok, but that green is gross! I wish they would go back to all red like they had last year.
Any thoughts from others out there on this topic?
Mark S
Retro,
It was not a Postal employee that said that about Carter, it was a customer. Still, not a good thing to say.
Mark
Just heard at my Post Office a few minutes ago that the Post Office will be closed tomorrow on Wednesday 12/5/18 for a National Day of Mourning for George W. Bush. The Post Office lady said they always get the day off when a former President passes away. Someone at the Post Office then said, “Isn’t Carter like close to 95 also? Maybe he will die soon.”
Mark
T-Satt\Mike,
Thanks for those answers Troy.
I have about 700 vintage listings in ebay, so that may be worth it.
What do you put for the “Tags” manual entry in Etsy?
Mark
Mike,
Yes, those are questions I also need answered. If there is too much manual work, it may not be worth it for me. I can handle some manual work, but if it starts to suck a lot of time, then it defeats the purpose.
Troy: Looking forward to your answers to these questions. Hopefully, you have the answers.
Mark
Mike,
Now I am thinking of keeping Wonderlister and adding Sixbit, but I didn’t know the high cost of Sixbit. However, if I can gross in the $750 range per month as you are doing on Etsy, it may be worth it.
I will have to consider this move. Please let me know how much effort is involved with syncing your ebay store with your Etsy store using Sixbit. Does Sixbit take care of the Etsy tags that everyone talks about?
Mark
Mike,
Yes, I don’t want to miss out on the Etsy sales either. But I don’t want to do it manually because that will take away from my ebay time.
Can you tell me the cost of the new product that you are going to use? If the cost is not too high, it may be worth it for me to buy it and get on Esty and stop losing sales.
I hear what you are saying that you are getting full price on Etsy. My Ebay store has a 15% off sale running and a 5% prmoted listing promo which is very similar to yours.
Mark
Here is some imperical evidence (for my store at least) for a slow November 2018 that I got from Wonder Lister:
2017 November
Had 2079 listings
Sold 76 items for $2686.89 or an STR of 0.0365560365560366
ASP was 35.352018 November
Had 2572 listings,
Sold 85 items for $2902.35 or an STR of 0.0330482115085537
ASP was 34.15Base on November 2017, I should have grossed $3323.68 for November 2018 or 15% more. Plus now, I have most items on promoted listings, so I was expecting a boost from that. So this is not a good report for November 2018.
Mark S
Mike,
Thank you for the detailed reply. Not the news I was expecting, but it is what it is.
I still think that Wonder Lister is a good program, it is just that it appears that they have some issues on their side.
I don’t think I can make the transition to another program right now, so I will have to wait it out.
From what you have said, it appears that I may be lucky to get an Etsy interface from them by the end of 2019. Again, not what I wanted, but that is probably the reality.
I really think I could make as much as 10% on Etsy (of my gross ebay sales ). That is a good chunk of money, but will have to wait for now.
Thanks again for the update Mike.
Mark
T-Satt,
“I thing Poshmark/Etsy/Mercari are taking a bite into the used/vintage markets, and I think that many clothing retailers are lowering their prices for new items to such an extent that people can buy new, and on Amazon, for so low, why would they buy used?”
Troy, I think you may be on to something there. The business that those 3 sites are doing has to be taking away at least some from ebay. I don’t know if that is the whole reason, but now that you mention it, my clothing sales are down. That is why I am glad that I am very diversified. I haven’t been hit as hard as some sellers, but I am still feeling it too.
Mike: Do you know how long before Wonderlister releases their interface to Etsy?
Mark
