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Items in Store 1493
Items Sold 45
Total Sales $1,196.00
COGS $125.00
Total Profit $1,071.00
Average profit $23.80
Average sales price $26.58
New Listings 20I’ve cleared $1k in sales for 6 weeks in a row. A man could get used to this, but I know the crash is coming sometime in February/March. I’m a listing machine right now, so maybe I can stave that off a bit this year.
Last week I started considering storage improvements to consider this year. I got the idea to use rolling storage carts. I started researching, but the ones you can buy at big box stores are trash that I wouldn’t consider safely putting 50lbs on.
Then I got on facebook and saw a listing for EXACTLY what I wanted – industrial grade rolling storage carts. Another K-mart is going out of business, which is where these were at. I ended up buying 9 of them, but I can’t pick them up for a few more weeks. They are heavy duty welded construction, 4 shelves 4′ wide and 2′ deep. The beauty of rolling carts is that I can stack them all up next to each other – no aisles needed. These kind of carts cost hundreds of dollars new. I got them for $50 each.So after I dropped all that cash on the carts, I had to offset the costs. Enter shopping the rest of the fixtures/equipment stuff. I did quite well. I got several new in box Sloan flush valves, heavy duty door closers, a bunch of HVAC and lighting parts, New in box large toner cartridges. All the selling inventory I got will bring in about $800-1000.
They also had really nice mannequins at this sale for super cheap. I got a male, female, and a “well endowed full figure” female. All with the nice magnetic pose-able arms. I paid $60 total for all 3. I’ll be purging alot of my mannequin collection soon since these are so much nicer than the ones I have on hand. If anyone here is interested in mannequins, I can ship them!
My favorite buy though was tape. They had sealed boxes of 36 rolls of tape for $20 each. I bought all 3 boxes. I am set on tape for YEARS.
I’ve recently gotten into watching Craigslist Hunter videos on youtube. That dude is MORE than fair and straight up with everyone that comes in. He pays way more than he should for many things, but he deals in volume.
Then you read the comments…the reseller haters come out in force.I’ve had MANY calls with ebay like this that make me question the general capabilities of humanity.
ignorant customers are few and far in between. The overwhelming majority of my customers are great. Even most returns go quite nicely.
I can count on my fingers the times I’ve had a truly terrible customer that I feel was taking advantage of me.
I documented one of my INAD cases here in regards to a broken for parts camera. I had it in the title, description, condition, category, everwhere you could possibly have it. I even detailed exactly what was wrong.
All of it didn’t matter a bit. Buyer opened an INAD saying it was broken and returned.Oh but it got better. The buyer took out the BRAND NEW expensive battery I put in it as well as didn’t return the lens opening cover.
I tried to fight it all, got lied to as usual by customer service multiple times…very frustrating affair.
Since it is just a message, reply by telling them you clearly detailed the non-working as-is condition in the listing and hope for the best.
I signed up and they immediately put me in the beta ready to link ebay, etsy, posh, and mercari.
They have a video that shows how to get everything set up and start listing.It appears you create your basic listing including photos right on Vendoo, then it creates indiviually modified templates for each site for you to edit.
While it may be my work internet service acting up, loading the signup form took FOREVER.
Now I tried linking my ebay store and it is also taking forever.
No other site I am going to acts like this.So I can’t actively try out their service yet. I may try again this evening.
For me to ever do any cross listing I have one big condition: They must have a built in ability to add white bars to all of my photos to make them square. I simply refuse to photograph in square format UNLESS the square format is complementary to the subject matter. Square makes ZERO sense for clothing and shoes. I don’t understand why Posh uses it! I have asked their Customer service if they would consider changing their default from “crop” on non-square photos to “add white space” and they said no. Ebay does it with color matched bars automatically. Why can’t they?
This is one of the many reasons I absolutely don’t use Smart post. It is terrible in every way.
You’re doing everything right.
At some point you are going to need to determine how much time is worth investing. You may be better off refunding customer and washing your hands and chalk it up to lesson learned.Walmart sells them. They are made by a company called Arcade 1Up.
They are pretty neat little machines. I was quite impressed with their 4 player Ninja Turtles machine they featured this holiday season.The bose subs sell very well on ebay if you are willing to ship it. I’ve sold two. They sell very fast.
Amex has charge card options, but they are limited. No, this is not a charge card.
Actually my sales died once I had most of those listings up. Ebay is a weird beast…
Weekends typically suck for me. Monday-Thursday are my biggest selling days.I listed a mannequin for sale. A female mannequin AND I had a sports bra on it in the photos. They flagged it. I appealed and even pointed out the sports bra in the appeal. They denied my appeal.
Oh my gosh, what a nightmare!!!
This is the scary thing about online sales. My entire store could be shut down with the press of a button and it would be entirely out of my control.Emulators have been around a LOOOONNNGG time now and if anything it makes the 2nd hand market hotter.
I used to be big into repairing/collecting pinball machines. I real nice app came out for iphones/tablets that emulated real pinball machines quite well. That app made the real pinball machine market blow up. Everything doubled/tripled in value. Tons of new pinball manufacturers were going into business selling direct to consumers. Pinball collecting went from niche/cheap to being a rich man’s game.
Basically, the emulator is cool and all but the real thing is better. Same with Ninendo. People get all excited when they realize they can play every game ever made on their computer. Then eventually they get the urge to acquire the real thing.
