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I’m not going to the museum tomorrow, but I will get back to you regarding the scope of the collection-hopefully Weds.
I go back to the museum on Tuesday. I will look at them and try to give you a better scope of what they encompass. Half of them are definitely related to architectural elements. They have been living in a museum since the 1940s, so they are well preserved. The donor died in 1934, so they are all prior to that date.
I think it could go FedEx. They sell a guitar box that should fit it. I probably shouldn’t assume if they sell the box they would ship it too.
I have a very large framed cross stitch 48×18 inches I am thinking about listing. It’s probably going to be 15 pounds boxed. I’m thinking I will need to add a handling fee to cover the extra pain caused by the size. Any suggestions?
12/22/2020 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 493: eBay Helping Buyers Understand Shipping Delays #84572Definitely had a slow week last week and this week isn’t shaping up to be any better. I have never had great sales the two weeks before Christmas. I won’t bore you with the details, but last week I sold 5 things for $59.10. I went from Friday until late Monday night without any sales, which makes my sales for this week $10 so far…..but I am slogging my way through the death pile with the rule list it or pitch it.
I know things will pick up again next week. Usually my after Christmas sales are pretty good and with the stimulus checks going out people may feel more like spending money. I’m not worried-except about gaining weight-I’ve replaced shipping with baking lol!
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Peaceful Solstice, Merry Festuvus or whatever you chose to celebrate to all my fellow Trash Elves! HoHoHo!
Hey gang! Thought I should stop lurking and chime in a bit. Things have slowed down for me too. I’m used to the occasional day with no sales, but last week I went 3 days! Then I had a really good day followed by another day with no sales. It, pardon my language, sucked!
Here’s my two cents on auctions. I generally avoid them, but recently I have been doing more of them. Sometimes they work great, sometimes not. I generally auction things that I’m finding a wide range of prices on, for instance a sterling fork/spoon set Sandringham by Shiebler. Prices ranged from $5 to hundreds of dollars. So I debated with myself and decided to ask $19.99 for them and was still doubting my price. So I put them on a 5 day auction with a starting price of $19.99 and ended up getting $28 for them. My other auction scenario- I have an item which doesn’t seem worth much, but can’t find anything to compare it with so I start it at an auction for .99 with the buyer paying shipping. It’s only costing a bit of time since I have 500 free auctions and with the pandemic, time I have in spades. Occasionally I make out quite well and if it doesn’t get any nibbles after a couple of tries, it goes in the Goodwill bag.
My theory on the slow down is that stimulus money is running out and people are lying low until after the election. These are scary times between politics and a pandemic. I also did a bunch of sourcing this past weekend, so I’m ready to hunker down and list, list, list!
Happy Halloween y’all!08/12/2020 at 9:23 pm in reply to: Console record bucket, Jugoslavia soccer hat, Durango taillight, Panasonic #80628Steve-sell those keys! I have always gotten really good sales on old keys, especially the skeleton ones!
08/12/2020 at 9:05 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 475: Spotting Problems, Solving Problems #80626Took me a bit to find where I saw this but here’s what they sent me…
Reminder on Simplified Fees:
Starting August 12, you will pay only an updated final value fee, consisting of a category-based percentage of the total amount of the sale, plus a $0.30 fixed fee per order. You will not pay separate payments processing fees.Fixed fees will apply to each order, rather than each individual item in an order, saving you money when buyers purchase multiple items from you.
In the event of a refund or cancellation, the variable portion of your final value fees will generally be returned to you, and eBay will retain only the per-order fee.
Final value fees, and select fees associated with the order will be automatically deducted at the time of the sale, and the rest of your proceeds will be paid out directly to your bank account.
You can cover the costs of refunds from your linked bank account or credit card when your pending payout is not sufficient to cover the refund amount.
Watch a short video on fees here or for full updated fee details, click here.08/11/2020 at 9:02 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 475: Spotting Problems, Solving Problems #80596Just got an email from eBay today-simplified fees start August 12. Can’t come soon enough, because I got a huge honking July bill. I honestly wasn’t too sure when I started with managed payments in June, but after I finally got everything directed away from PayPal to my new bank account, things are flowing pretty well. Every time I thought I had switched everything, something else would pop up. Hit a new high today in my store-1,300 items!
07/20/2020 at 10:12 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 472: Biggest Sale, Biggest Scavenge #79803Just thought I would peek out of my Covid hidey hole and check in with y’all. Ryanne I’m still chuckling about the ‘origami boxes’ every time I put one together! The week of the 4th was dead-3 days in a row with o sales. It’s picked up since then. The consignment stuff I’m selling for my friend has been fun to unpack, research and lucrative to sell. I wish I had such great stuff fall in my lap all the time! Stay cool everyone!
Ebay July 12-18
Sales $208.31. (Commission $39.99). Net $168.32. 19 items, average sale $10.96. COGS $5.59
highest priced items $35 WWII silk scarf, $27.99 Black & Decker lithium rechargeable battery
Three things I wanted to comment on from this week’s podcast. The first is regarding managed payments. I just signed up last week and I have spent more time on the phone with EBay in the last week than I have in the last year lol. They have been extremely helpful-I just had tons of questions. The lag between things switching from PayPal to my bank account has been a bit painful but the funds have finally started to flow today. What Jay said about fees with managed payments is correct, but they informed me that it won’t start until the July billing. In the meantime there is around a 2% fee per transaction. You also need to make sure you switch paying for your shipping labels to the held funds. I don’t keep a lot in my PayPal account and I almost drained it dry before I realized I needed to change my method of paying for labels. It’s a learning process.
As for selling magazines, I have never hesitated to list them, but I have found they either sell quickly or become very long tail. You can make some good profit on them though if you do your homework.
Lastly, for all of you scavengers in Ohio, you can access the Sanborn Fire Maps FOR FREE through online access of your local library. You have to have a library card, but if you are a scavenger you should already have one lol. If you aren’t in Ohio, check your local or state library website and see if they have them.Haven’t done much scavenging because a friend had three boxes of stuff from the 1920s-1950s that had belonged to her aunt. I’m selling them on a 50/50 consignment. It’s been great fun-like having carte blanche at an estate sale without having to pay any money! My sales had been pretty steady until last week, I’m hoping it’s a one week glitch but it may be the summer slow down.
I just wanted to check in and let you all know I haven’t dropped off the planet. My dad passed last September and my dog died a week later and I was a hot mess for a while after that. Kept EBaying through all of it. I have finally caught up with the podcasts and just today signed up for managed payments. Ironically while I was signing up for the managed payments, the lawyer’s office called and said they are ready to settle dad’s affairs.
Anyway, I have been lurking and selling and scavenging. Now that I’ve caught up I hope to be on a bit more. Hopefully this managed payments thing will turn out ok. I have been seriously dragging my feet about signing up.
Thanks Jay and Ryanne the podcasts! They help keep my eBay self grounded and usually somehow manage to conveniently answer questions right when I have them!
Cheers!Hey gang. eBay is on the back burner for me right now because my husband has been in the hospital for 10 days. Thank goodness I have enough listings that things can go on auto pilot for awhile and all I have to do is pull and ship. Anyway, I have had a lot of time to read and ran across an interesting article today I wanted to share that fits right into the discussions here. The Washington Post did an article on one couples venture into retail arbitrage.
I’m relieved to hear that other sellers are having periods of days not selling items. I was starting to think I was doing something wrong. There are always occasional days when nothing sells, but recently it’s become so regular and stretches into 2-3 days that I get a little freaked out. That being said, I did have a good week. I sold a consignment item for a friend of my husband that boosted sales quite nicely!
For me, sourcing always sucks in Jan. & Feb. weather has definitely been a big factor this year. Hopefully Puxatawny Phil will be right for a change and spring will come early along with garage and estate sales. Haven’t been doing much listing for a couple of reasons. My pile of things to list is getting pretty meager and I am in the process of trying to find my dad a new assisted living place so I’m spending much of my free time on the phone. I have spent some time tweaking my active listings-ending low priced items and revising some older listings.
Question-is there a place on eBay that allows you to run a yearly report with sales information you can use to prepare taxes? I was looking, but could only find quarterly reports.
eBay Jan. 27-Feb. 2
Total sales. $326.32 (less commission $367.32)
Average sale. $13.60
# sold. 24
# listed. 8
# in store. 1,098
Rets/unpaid. 0
COGS. $19.08 + $59 commission &78.08
$ spent on new. $5.97
Highest sale. $100 Wm Barclay 16 vol. Study Bible (commission item)
$24 Siam Sterling cufflinks & tie clip01/29/2019 at 3:02 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 396: Guaranteed Delivery? How is that working? #56089On the late delivery issue, I don’t know if any of you remember late last winter and early spring when I lost my top rated status because I had the mailman from hell. He was replaced a little over six months ago and I am finally back to my top rated status. It’s taken a long time to get there and even though my new carrier picks up stuff faithfully, I still see the occasional late delivery regardless of me shipping on time and the carrier doing his part. I have just come to accept that it’s going to happen periodically and to do my best to dispute them with eBay.
Is anyone else really annoyed with eBay now popping in the item title, condition and shipping status in the description? It’s been doing it for me for a couple of weeks now and they can stop anytime. Just one more step to take it out so I can put my description in place. Good news, bad news….. I am coming to the end of my stash of stuff to be listed. The weather has been so crappy-tomorrow’s high here is supposed to be 0-that sales have been few and far in between. I’m starting to eye things around my house as potential listings. The stuff I have left to list isn’t all that exciting, so it’s been a bit of drudgery to make myself sit and list them.
eBay Jan 20-26
Total sales. $143.51
Avg. sale. $10.61
# sold. 14
# listed. 21
# in store. 1,114
Rest/unpaid. 0
COGS. $19.33
$ spent on new. $7.15
Highest sale. $21 on vintage wooden cheese and quackers duck bowl -
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