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Listed a puzzle yesterday. Sold within a few hours.
Listed a puzzle this morning. Sold within an hour.I am enjoying putting them together – good way to pass a rainy day.
Aaaaaannnnd…since I last posted a few hours ago, I have sold two puzzles…cutlery and a business case.
Forgot to say what I’m selling. Mostly just generic household goods, but I did sell five backpacks out of 17 total items in the last two weeks – kind of interesting.
With a total inventory of 125-150 items, all used thrift-store goods, I usually sell about one item per day — $1,000/month worth. I’m at about $900 so far this month. Sold about 6 things in the past few days.
We like the White Mountain line of vintage theme puzzles and recently picked up about 5 or 6 from a thrift for about $2 each. Did one, took a photo and listed it. Thinking they may all get done and listed before this is over.
My mom gave us a valuable wooden puzzle — worth about $50-$80 used — that she probably got at a yard sale, so I did that one first. One piece missing :(. I have sold a puzzle with a piece missing before. Vintage Springbok round and very neat, but I think that was a one-off.
I’m taking this opportunity at home to do a rigorous home clean-out. Going room by room and finding items to sell, donate and toss. I have listed about 10 things and have a substantial and growing pile of donation items. Sold one large, space-hogging thing for $44 in a day. Organizing my paint cans and planning to do some touch up work once the decluttering is done.
Mostly, just grateful for all the positives I have in my life. Take good care of yourselves everyone.
It was at a Value Village in the “office supplies” section…I just wonder whether someone would actually buy it.
What a great video and inspiring personal philosophy. Thank you for sharing this. 🙂
Oh, and no. I probably won’t include a note. What would it say? Thanks for the $$$ now and the website forever?
But I think it would be fine if you sent a note of appreciation. Sure!
I have never sold to a big name celebrity that I know of. I have sold to a celebrity’s spouse before – a pair of unusual and cool eyeglass frames. But here’s something weird: I just sold an item to a VERY HIGH LEVEL PERSON at EBAY. (Not Griff). As the kids say, it’s so meta.
I put it on sale a few days ago with a bunch of other bulkier items — I needed to condense my inventory space — and now it’s gone! Thanks, eBay executive person!These are so crazy and great!
A lot of the time, if it won’t take me more than a minute to answer the question and it’s objective and reasonable — is this dry clean only? for example — I’ll answer. More than that, no dice. Because 99% of questioners never buy the thing.
My latest is this: “Is the ac adapter cord still Factory twist tied?” I just said, “It appears so” and since it was still on the table behind me, sent him a photo of it.
I bought the thing at Savers. I have no idea whether someone undid the twisty tie between the factory and when I found it on the shelf, but it looked tight and tidy to me.I figured I’d never hear from him again, but he bought it. And asked for extra cushiony packing. OK – you got it. Thanks for the sale!
I sold something to someone in Saipan this week. First Class to a U.S. territory so it’s going halfway around the world for a few bucks. Amazing. Buyers’ addresses are often so cool. Earlier this year I sold a piece of very tropical printed luggage to a traveling Inuit nurse in a very remote Alaskan village. “Thanks for completing my set!” she wrote. Then I went down the rabbit hole of researching her village and how they function. It was so interesting!
@T-Satt – Sweet score on the programs.
@BethGreen: “There is literally no long term number crunching going on. No questioning of whether the amount of $ invested in the education actually makes sense for the increased income potential, or even whether there are viable jobs in the places you’d want to live in once the degree is earned. Frustrating.” EXACTLY. Why are you (and your parents) borrowing $120,000 to study X? Is it so you can wear a sweatshirt with pride? (I overheard two college girls talking at the thrift store. They were snickering at the rack of various college sweatshirts, saying they must be from people who bought the sweatshirt on a school tour of their first choice and then didn’t get in. Because why else would you get rid of it?)
@Simplicio – I’ll try bundling 5-10 together for a “deal” and see what happens. Good idea! Thanks!Forgot to add cost of good sold: About $55-$60. I try to aim for 10% COGS, so this is almost there.
Looking forward to hearing the On Point episode.
I don’t know that we’ll retire ‘early’ but we will retire comfortably. I feel like we are among the most frugal non-retirees on the block. Almost everyone in my office and almost everyone in my spouse’s office buys their lunch every day. We almost never do. I don’t think many if any of my neighbors would stop on the side of the road to pick up ‘trash’, but I would. We buy used clothes and shoes for ourselves, not sure many other people would. Things like that. The financial choice I see and am concerned about: People’s college funding plans for their kids. Are they saving? I think college debt will derail a lot of people – students and their parents who signed the loans – in the next few decades. Plenty of people I know have $50,000-$120,000+ in debt. I know that university isn’t necessary, and community college is a great start, but the pressure around here to attend a ‘good’ private or out-of-state college and live at it for 4 years seems to have overridden concerns about consequences and will limit future choices – exactly what Mrs. Frugalista is saying, I think.
I use eBay $ to get to certain specific goals faster – paying off a loan, saving for a car, or a trip. My next goal is to use it to max out our Roth IRAs every year. It’s a challenge I enjoy and it doesn’t really feel like work most of the time.
In fact, I’m starting to get hooked. I spend time listing, and pretty soon – cha-ching! Pretty addicting.Week of March 4-10
Total Items in Store: 210ish
Items Sold: 13
Total Sales: $509.90
Highest Price Sold: $60 (candlesticks)
Average Price Sold: $39.20
Returns: 0
1 Global Shipping sale of cooking supplies to England.
$ spent on items this week: More than $60+I found a stash of ~100 of the same new item for 50 cents each, so I went for it and bought them all. Others have been selling them on eBay for about 10 bucks apiece with cheap and easy but “free” shipping. I am hoping for a (very) slow nickel x 100. If I can just sell a dozen, I’m in the clear.
Items listed: About 15
Pretty grateful for this week for my little store. Two of these items sold after I marked them down, egged on by eBay’s “your items are in buyers’ carts” message.
I got it, too. Seven items. I lowered the price on six of the items and two sold the same day.
Is there a way to find out whether items are in buyers’ carts without this notification?
