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05/01/2018 at 8:12 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 358: Knowing What You Know Right Now, Would You Start Your Business Today? #38836
I like my customers too much to torture them by making them call ebay. I avoid that route at all costs.
04/30/2018 at 3:23 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 358: Knowing What You Know Right Now, Would You Start Your Business Today? #38806Items in Store 923
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $557.49
COGS $62.25
Total Profit $495.24
Average profit $27.51
Average sales price $30.97No listing again, so I’m staying around $500 in sales a week and haven’t listed consistently in about 2 months.
While I haven’t been really listing, I have been organizing. I tackled my enclosed trailer this weekend. In the fall when I converted my garage I devolved to just throwing and stuffing stuff in the trailer until I couldn’t enter it. Now it is organized with large items stacked properly and everything else in tubs that are stacked neatly. Soooo…. much….good…stuff in there! I kicked myself repeatedly for not having it all listed!! Such is life.
Why am I not listing? Well between Saturday and Sunday we had 5 baseball/softball games at different venues to be at. I coached 3 of them. This week we have two games each night at completely different locations that my wife and I need to split up to cover. It’s complete madness but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Baseball gets us out of the house and at community parks having fun and being active as a family for hours on end.
I’m just trying to organize and clear up space when I can in preparation for the big summer listing push. Once June hits I plan on doing 1000 listings in 3 months. I’ll add it to my weekly metrics to track it. approximately 13 weeks in the summer for us June-August, so 77 listings a week to hit my target. Very attainable if my two helpers (wife, daughter) follow through on their promise. The reward: being able to afford a Florida Vacation to Disney and Universal in September.
I second the Dymo 450 turbo with off brand 99019 labels. I use the MESA labels on amazon that are about $7.75 for 150 labels. $.05 per label
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003F2Q7CU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1The printer is so fast and easy! You have to play with the print settings to get the right contrast on the barcode. The default settings won’t scan consistently.
If it were me, I’d write the individual and ask why they left a negative feedback. In my life experience, folks like this guy who passive aggressively attack always backpedal when confronted.
I’ve received two negatives and I’ve called them both out on it. Both folks apologized and revised their feedback.
04/24/2018 at 8:13 am in reply to: Guilty Purchases – what do you buy for yourself for fun on eBay? #38231I buy my steel toe work shoes on there. The pair I’m wearing now are Timberland Pro and they look like a pair of Sperry Top Sider Boat Shoes. $50 brand new – originally $150.
I also buy our vacations on there. I buy a timeshare week at the beach when we go to the beach.
You may want to invest in a used iphone 5. They are cheap now. I’ve heard plenty people on here say the app stinks on Android devices.
Doing photography in the app on an iphone is pretty quick.
I personally do everything except photos on a laptop and do pictures on iphone.
If you live there, go for it.
If you want to go to Vegas anyways and are looking for an excuse to make it tax deductible, go for it.
If you are planning a major trip to go to this purely for listening, learning, and networking then save your money.There are limitless podcasts, youtube channels, and private groups that you could get plenty of help and community from.
You can’t get square in the app. You can crop and drag straight up & down to get the photo almost square after crop. I do that a lot.
other than that you just need to take photos in phone app in square mode and then upload in the app all at once. The benefit to this method on an iphone is that even deleted photos are held by the phone for 45 days. So if something goes wrong you have a temporary backup.
I used to use an airprint laser printer and print labels directly from the app. Now I use a Dymo hooked directly to a computer because it is much faster.
Another tip is that you can view the normal ebay full site in your browser. Go to ebay.com and then scroll all the way to the bottom and click on “classic site”. Occasionally when you click links it will go back to mobile site. Again just scroll to bottom and click classic site to switch back over.
I keep classic ebay bookmarked in my browser so when I go to ebay it shows my items I need to ship. I take my phone with me to storage building on this page so I can see my ship date and inventory SKU #’s to use it as a pick list.
You can also use the classic site to do all the things the mobile app won’t let you so you can be more productive while “out & about”.
I went in the local Toys R us last week. It was a joke. 90% of the store was 5% off, with just a few things 10% off. Their signs said “up to 30% off”. I didn’t see a single item in that store with a 30% sign.
Items in Store 936
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $552.00
COGS $73.00
Total Profit $479.00
Average profit $26.61
Average sales price $30.67No new listing this week, but I did create about 30 hat listings yesterday that I will photograph at work this week. Hats are quick/easy to list with templates and a head mannequin.
Yesterday morning was nice out so I dove into my enclosed storage trailer. In the fall I had devolved into just shoving/throwing stuff in there while prepping the garage conversion to all ebay. I was able to properly store and organize a little over half of the trailer, which is a huge improvement.
Baseball is taking up a lot of our time right now but that is fine because these are the FUN parts of having lots of kids. It gets us outside as a family for hours on end. For the rest of spring I will work to get my ebay garage cleaned up and organized. I have a better idea of what kind of stations I need to be productive. Once school is over my wife and 11 year old daughter will tackle clothing during the day. It’s a lofty goal, but if I can get the area set up correctly I think we can get 1000 items listed this summer if they truly buy in. Yes, I have at least 1000 unlisted items.
Stuff I sell doesn’t get washed unless it needs it. Most donated goods are from long term storage in a closet already laundered. Not many people reach into their dirty clothes hamper or take shirts off their back to donate. I don’t buy dirty clothes or shoes unless they are very valuable.
We’re pretty much at the point that all of our clothes come from thrifting. Stuff we keep for personal use gets bleached. We lose a couple things this way but it gives my wife and daughter peace of mind. We might lose 1 out of 20 things due to bleach damage. I’ll take those odds.
You just go in to an independent jeweler (avoid mall jewelers) and tell them you inherited it from a family member and wanted to confirm the story that came with the ring.
Those sto and go middle seats are painfully uncomfortable. Really, all the seats in the Chrysler suck. Go sit in the back seats of a Honda Odyssey and you’ll see the difference. I have an Odyssey and it’s pretty easy for the kids to get into the back row with the slide forward middle seats. They even changed the design a few years ago that makes the middle row middle seat full functional for an infant car seat or even an adult. We comfortably go on trips with 3 adults and 4 kids regularly.
I used to put shipping options on items. I never had anyone use the second option. I would even state in the listing that “west coast shoppers please consider my additional shipping options for cheaper shipping”.
So now everything gets USPS priority or 1st class. I use padded flat rate envelopes or regional A boxes where I can. Light weight items and clothes get 1st class.
Any heave items I list that would be cheap to ship USPS on east coast and cheap to ship FedEx to west coast, I now prefer to just use free shipping and bump up the listing price to include shipping. 9 times out of 10 a West Coast person will be the buyer on those items.
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