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Ebay
Total Items in Store: 9338
Items Sold: 108
Cost of Items Sold: $153
Total Sales: $2183
Highest Price Sold: $165 (My Scene Dolls)
Average Price Sold: $20.21
Returns: 5 (Clothing, DVD, Books)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $146
Number of items listed this week: 89Another good week on ebay, haven’t experienced a slow down yet. Actually clothing, shoes and hats have picked up. Top sellers this week 6 NIB Myscene dolls for $165, 17 NIB Little Pet Shops for $127 and Inuyasha Manga book set for $102. Not counted above but on amazon we sold a surgical text book for $210, Works of Benjamin Walters 7 vol set for $170 and a John Wayne GI Joe for $175.
Was lining up to be a huge yard sale weekend, then it rained three days straight.
I do not use any additional services for ebay but for amazon I use several. Amazon is a different beast than ebay and the services are needed for faster listing, automatic pricing adjustments and cross platform listing. I tried a few shipping services for ebay and honestly there is nothing easier than just doing it straight from ebay.
Has Jay never shipped an item?
Ive ran thousands of generic labels through our 4XL and 450 Turbo without problems. You should be safe.
I group up Hanyes manuals whenever I can pick them up. BWM and Harley service manuals are no brainers when you can find them.
I’ve watched a few of his youtube video. He set the number at 10k because he runs through the math and at 10k listings he hits the set amount of money that he wants to make per month. He sells primarily mens dress shirts. He bases the projected model from his current small inventory. I tried this last year with limited success, we stopped at 5k clothing listings because sales didnt match our growing inventory.
Starting fresh is nice though, he does a great job listing to everyone out there and applying their methods to his business model. He has a good stream of inventory coming in and a good inventory management system. His next hurdles will be storage and someone to help him pack if he truly wants to push out 100-150 packages a day.
I have too much time on my hands…
Never had it happen to me before. Have a few sales ending tomorrow will see if the sale price sticks.
Jawa,
I am glad you found something. I have been to Wyoming several times and figured there had to be some good outdoorsy stuff around somewhere. Keep looking for camping gear, equestrian equipment, ski’s and boots ect..
Did you ever check your local government for auction, schools, water authority etc? We have had some great finds buying surplus government material.
I saw a few instances last year but I guess it blew up around Christmas time. More concerning are a few forum posts that say the scammers are sending emails with the fake tracking number link that leads to malware, not exactly sure how since it goes through the amazon message system. So they already have your name, address and phone number plus whatever information they collect from the link..times thousands of unsuspecting customers each day.
Amazon prime items are safe. Just do not buy anything from just launched or low feedback sellers who have prices too good to be true.
Not sure you would want to ask her why she hasn’t started her own business yet. I know you have gone over the reasons your not worried about it before but it seems like a loaded question.
Simon,
I love when I bump into old workmates or even neighbors who I don’t talk to much. They know what I did in the past and don’t understand why I would give up a high paying job in D.C. to sell junk on ebay. I never go into specifics on what I make or how I make it, I like to leave them scratching their heads as to what the heck is going on. I love driving my big junky gold colored 15 passenger van, usually full of crap, into our neighborhood. I try to park it right next to the shiny benz my neighbor leaves out on the road.
Yes, that looks like the one. They closed it down for awhile and it recently reopened last year. My brother-in-law went to it as a seller and said the layout is nice.
Heavy duty boxes make sense when I ship in DVD/CDs I only use new heavy duty from lowes or home depot. A single box can add up to 2k.
Seems like you have found a nice niche!
Use the fba fee calculator to plug in all of your associated fees and costs. It will spit out the profit. Look at the monthly storage fee cost in there, it was .10 when I ran through the numbers. At 336 packs thats going to be $33.6 in storage fees a month.
Is your cost $3.99 per pack or per case of 4?
There are three other packs of similarly title items with different ranks. The ASIN you posted is in an odd category, the
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,316 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)
#1929 in Health & Household > Health Care > Incontinence & Ostomy > Protective Briefs & Underwear
Lastly, check other sites. I see Jet.com and Walmart are selling the 12packs for 11.99 and 12.99. Going to be hard to compete at $20.85
My personal opinion is pass unless you can locally fulfill and ship.
Ebay
Total Items in Store: 9190
Items Sold: 123
Cost of Items Sold: $187
Total Sales: $3,137.85
Highest Price Sold: $285 (GIJOE Toy Set)
Average Price Sold: $25.50
Returns: 3 (VCR, Clothing)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $145
Number of items listed this week: 52Good week on ebay and amazon, highest item sold was an exclusive set GiJoe toy for $285. Other higher selling items on ebay, PFAFF sewing machine $208 and a Mormon LDS book set for $231.47. On amazon we sold a Charleston AFB history book for $201, Any Warhol Index $205 and a Nightmare on Elm street poster for $90.
I love flea markets and yard sales. I skip over all of the new junk/knock off items and coupon resellers, unless I need something for the house. I usually look for people who are clearing out their houses or doing a once a year yard sale. They typically want to sell as much as possible because they don’t want to re-load their car. I do several flea market sales throughout the year just to clear out some stuff that I do not want to put on ebay, I usually source more during the sale than I sell.
Jay, I go to the toll gate flea market what is other one is in your area? Have you gone to the reinstituted Charlestown flea market?
Went to the Goodwill pay by pound while I was in Baltimore last week, scary place, makes my local pay by pound look like a Saks 5th Avenue.
I agree, list them now. We sold two pairs of ice skates, winter jacket and two pairs of insulated snow boots this week.
Between now and say November you will end up spending .25 in listing fees on each item. Or free if you don’t max out your free monthly listings.
