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Yeah, I’m making enough to cover the bills comfortably. I don’t really have a number in mind as long as I make enough to save some each month. I would like to see the numbers keep going up though and I thought I would for the rest of the year at least lol. My goal is to become financially independent, so I’d like as much excess cash as possible to throw in index funds and towards our mortgage. I’m thinking by the end of 2022 my stores are going to be cranking out some serious cash. I plan to double the number of patches I list every day, starting in January.
Weekly sales 11/28 – 12/4
Random Item Store
Total items 1446
Items sold 29
New items listed 70
Gross sales $662.31
Net sales $397.00
New buyers 29
Repeat buyers 1Patch Store
Total items 4361
Items sold 69
New items listed 140
Gross sales $522.87
Net sales $343.46
New buyers 58
Repeat buyers 3Etsy
Orders 24
Gross sales $215.00
Net sales $182.75Gross sales total $1,400.18
Net sales total $923.21Things are not going as expected. I figured that more people on eBay for holiday shopping would mean more sales even if my stuff isn’t quite gift worthy. I at least thought my sales wouldn’t go down any but they have a little. Oh well, I’m still in the process of building my eBay business into what I want it to be and have told myself to just keep at it and see where I’m at by the end of 2022. I’m about to start devoting 5 days a week to it in January so my stores will go up in listings dramatically. My patch store will anyways as that’s what I want to grow the most.
Random Item Store
Total items 1399
Items sold 34
New items listed 70
Gross sales $616.48
Net sales $375.31
New buyers 30
Repeat buyers 1Patch Store
Total items 4273
Items sold 74
New items listed 140
Gross sales $588.30
Net sales $449.47
New buyers 58
Repeat buyers 3Etsy
Orders 31
Gross sales $282.00
Net sales $239.70Gross sales total $1,486.78
Net sales total $1,064.48Better than last week, but a bit disappointed with my random item store’s performance. Patch sales continue to rise though and that’s my long game focus anyways.
Zillow says my house has appreciated over $60k since we bought it back in MARCH and I thought we were paying top dollar then. I think we’re at peak craziness in this economy and it’s about to blow up…
Weekly sales 11/14 – 11/20
Random Item Store
Total items 1363
Items sold 31
New items listed 70
Gross sales $602.82
Net sales $356.97Patch Store
Total items 4206
Items sold 78
New items listed 140
Gross sales $558.53
Net sales $429.43Etsy
Orders 27
Gross sales $231.00
Net sales $196.35Gross sales total $1,392.35
Net sales total $982.75Sales have slowed down a bit for me this week. Just gonna keep listing and hope for better numbers next week 🙂
They’re new old stock that I bought from someone who had been storing them. Not sure if they have anymore but they might
What I have on Etsy is a few patch listings that have multiple quantities. So I don’t list anything new, just keep fulfilling orders as they come in.
Weekly sales 11/07 – 11/13
Random Item Store
Total items 1329
Items sold 47
New items listed 70
Gross sales $905.33
Net sales $552.71Patch Store
Total items 4102
Items sold 63
New items listed 140
Gross sales $455.41
Net sales $352.89Etsy
Orders 28
Gross sales $451.00
Net sales $383.35Gross sales total $1,811.74
Net sales total $1,288.95A decent week for me. Going to stop working with my dad in January so it will be interesting to see how much more I get accomplished with two more days devoted to eBay every week.
Weekly sales 10/31 – 11/06
Random Item Store
Total items 1295
Items sold 32
New items listed 70
Gross sales $747.41
Net sales $311.21Patch Store
Total items 4008
Items sold 73
New items listed 140
Gross sales $549.53
Net sales $309.17Etsy
Orders 20
Gross sales $299.00
Net sales $254.15Gross sales total $1,595.94
Net sales total $874.53Gross sales were alright this week but I too am a bit surprised at my net sales after fees. I did see that my patch store got charged for October and November’s subscription fee this week so that was $120 and then another $60 on my other store so without that I would have been about the same as I have been the past month or so at a net of $1000+. Not sure why eBay waited to charge me for October’s subscription this week but I did go back and see that they didn’t charge me at the beginning of the month last month. Oh well, still making a lot of profit on this old junk I sell 🙂
Weekly sales 10/24 -10/30
Random Item Store
Total items 1255
Items sold 46
New items listed 70
Gross sales $987.96
Net sales $654.73Patch Store
Total items 3921
Items sold 72
New items listed 140
Gross sales $564.82
Net sales $432.48Etsy
Orders 12
Gross sales $107.00
Net sales $90.95Gross sales total $1,659.78
Net sales total $1,178.16Another solid week, hope it stays like this for the rest of the year and hope you guys keep having good sales!
Weekly sales 10/17 – 10/23
Random Item Store
Total items 1233
Items sold 27
New items listed 70
Gross sales $586.26
Net sales $362.81Patch Store
Total items 3825
Items sold 73
New items listed 140
Gross sales $554.99
Net sales $426.16Etsy
Orders 32
Gross sales $267.00
Net sales $226.95Gross sales total $1,408.25
Net sales total $1,015.92My Patch store has started taking off in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully it will continue to do so. I just broke the $2000 mark in gross sales in my 31 day total. Just gotta 10x my store to hit $20k 🙂
I’ll put on my conspiracy hat for a minute and say the consistency with eBay isn’t a coincidence. I think eBay is such a big website that they’ve had to build some things into the algorithm to manage the sellers. If you get things right, the algorithm gives more traffic and sales, if you do something wrong, you get penalized with less traffic and sales. We all know you sell more if you list more. I think that’s because eBay likes to know we’re active and able to fulfill orders if we make sales. They aren’t going to give you sales if you haven’t logged into the website in a month.
Weekly sales 10/10 – 10/16
Random Item Store
Total items 1196
Items sold 34
New items listed 70
Gross sales $776.90
Net sales $474.41Patch Store
Total items 3740
Items sold 50
New items listed 140
Gross sales $381.34
Net sales $297.34Etsy
Orders 39
Gross sales $285.00
Net sales $242.25Gross sales total $1,443.24
Net sales total $1,014.00Sales were down a bit this week but I’m surprised how consistent my numbers have been for the past month or so since I started listing the same amount of items every day.
My father-in-law builds sets for movies here in Georgia and he is in IATSE. He was expecting to be part of the picket line starting today but thankfully didn’t have to since they came to an agreement.
Weekly sales 10/3 – 10/9
Random Item Store
Total items 1165
Items sold 42
New items listed 70
Gross sales $819.77
Net sales $474.37Patch Store
Total items 3661
Items sold 53
New items listed 140
Gross sales $429.04
Net sales $326.23Etsy
Orders 48
Gross sales $366.90
Net sales $311.86Gross sales total $1,615.71
Net sales total $1,112.46Another day another dollar… Seems like I’ve created a decent money multiplying machine just gotta keep building it!
I guess that’s all eBay really is, finding items and relocating them to a new owner for a fee lol. The bulk of the packages on Monday were patches so just had throw them in envelopes. I finally sold out of one of the types of USPS patches I had. Sold 1,000 of them in about a year with just one listing and turned $500 into $5000. I would look for more of them but I think you’re not technically supposed to sell USPS stuff so I’m glad to get rid of them
Weekly sales 9/26 – 10/02
Random Item Store
Total items 1148
Items sold 41
New items listed 70
Gross sales $920.94
Net sales $558.46Patch Store
Total items 3542
Items sold 67
New items listed 140
Gross sales $454.21
Net sales $352.04Etsy
Orders 63
Gross sales $505.05
Net sales $429.29Gross sales total $1,880.20
Net sales total $1,339.79It’s officially Q4! I’ve got 70 orders to ship out this morning between my 3 stores…
