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Last Thanksgiving I processed a huge bulk lot of legos I got from Goodwill. I didn’t sort by color, but I did sore by type.
Specialty bricks, technics, standard bricks, curved bricks, star wars gray plates, regular plates, bricks with stickers or art, and flat pieces. May have been one or two more styles, but that is about it.
I also ended up with 3 lbs (yes lbs!) of minifig pieces, partial figures, and complete figures. I started to piece together figures and listed 20 or so. I’ve sold all but 2 of them over the last year for prices from $5-20 a figure. The minifigs is where the money is at if you have lots of patience.
Once the holidays were over I kind of lost interest. The bulk stuff I was gonna sell for about $10 a lb. I had total over 50 lb of bulk. It’s all neatly sorted and stored. I really need to get it listed. Still conflicted on if I should try to complete/identify more minifigs. It was really fun, but time consuming.Well apparently I survived Armageddon Wednesday. My boss gave me the nod just before lunch that they were all done letting office people go. What a crappy feeling. I feel bad for those let go. Some people don’t recover from something like that and one of the ones let go really worries me.
Needless to say, it is hard to concentrate today.
Thanks for all the great info!
As for enjoying listing suits, that’s why I want to experiment. Once I sell one for $250, I KNOW I’ll enjoy the hell out of it. Lol!
I’d be more than happy to keep 10-20 $250 suits in my inventory at all times.
Thanks for the tips. Brooks Brothers will be one I definitely look for going forward just to get me in the game.
Another question: Pretty much every listing has a dress shirt and tie in all the photos, but it appears only the jacket/pants/vest are included. It isn’t stated anywhere in any listing I checked that the shirt/tie are not included, but they also don’t have size info for the shirt.
Is it just understood that the shirt/tie aren’t part of the sale? I would think customers would be upset when the shirt/tie isn’t included. Or are they included?
I like the skinny 450 turbo labels. Unfortunately, they work great at one post office and won’t read at all at another. I’ll have to play with it to see if I can adjust the print.
Total Items in Store: 921
Items Sold: 13
Cost of Items Sold: $35
Total Sales: $392.90
Profit: $357.90
Highest Price Sold: $100 Snowboard Bindings
Average Price Sold: $30.22
Average Profit: $27.53Still no listing happening, but sales keep happening in spurts. The Snowboard bindings sale came in just as I was getting ready to drop about $80 on an inventory purchase, so that was nice.
Last week some of the union shop machinists were laid off at work. The rumor is that HR is coming in middle of this week and some office workers will get the kibosh as well. My boss vaguely alluded to the fact I’ll be okay, but I’ve heard that before.
I swore to myself that I would not keep doing this to myself and if I ever got laid off again I would go full time ebay and reselling in general. Truth be told, the thought it might happen is scary as all get-out. I’d have to make ALOT more money reselling to match my day job income.
So my plan is if I do get laid off, I’ll hit it hard and fast on my ebay store for 2-3 months during unemployment and see where I’m at. This is what I’ve been preparing for 2 years now. The inventory, the storage buildings, the systems, etc. I’ve been slowly building all of this to eventually go full time. Stay tuned until next week…
10/06/2017 at 3:24 pm in reply to: Irregular Oversized Large Packages Ship through eBay or PayPal ? #23664Important tip:
How to deal with a buyer who makes a lowball offer AND complains about shipping costs…..….RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
This is the kind of buyer you cannot make happy in any way shape or form. They will find something to nit pick and will make your life miserable. I recommend you check what kind of feedback they leave for other sellers. I’d bet money they leave negatives somewhat regularly.
About shipping in general, your paypal account is linked to your ebay account so the discounts should be similar. I highly doubt paypal is cheaper, but I’ve never really checked. I only use paypal shipping for Bonanza items. If you have another item that has sold, play with the shipping by changing the address and package details to this potential buyers zip code to see what your ebay shipping discount would be. I’ve had packages in the neighborhood of your package size be discounted 50% on ebay.
10/04/2017 at 8:56 am in reply to: Sales Data Chart – Which $20-$50 Mens and Womens Jeans Sold #23593Your charts are not showing up for me.
Did you have a mullet too? Your avatar totally has a mullet and it has always cracked me up.
10/03/2017 at 11:08 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 329: 200+ Ebay Sales To Pack. We’re Not Complaining. #23570I’ve tried explaining to my wife why many men love a movie called “The Princess Bride”, even had her watch it. She just doesn’t get it.
Love the movie. The book is awesome as well. I was totally “worked” by the book. If you’ve read it then you know what I mean. If you haven’t read it and you love the movie, go read the book!
10/02/2017 at 9:52 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 329: 200+ Ebay Sales To Pack. We’re Not Complaining. #23504Items Sold:18
Cost of Items Sold: $46
Total Sales: $450
Profit: $404
Highest Price Sold: $75 Vintage Hot Wheels Nascar youth jacket
Average Price Sold: $25
Average Profit: $22.44My sales come in stops and starts. I’ll go days without sales and then get 4 offers on totally random items within minutes. I did no listing this week. Fall baseball/softball lasts till mid-October and after that I’ll get back in the groove of things.
The women’s clothing section is an overflowing sea of “meh”. I typically only look for wool and LOUD color schemes indicative of 80’s/90’s vintage in the women’s shirt section. My wife will shop for herself and bring me anything that is of interest to research.
A couple weeks back for unknown reasons, the free shipping check box was defaulting to checked for an evening of listing. After I caught it, I noticed there were several other odd things changed from my defaults. Very strange – just that evening. It is back to normal now. Luckily I caught it while still listing.
09/28/2017 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 328: Chaos vs Stress, There is a difference in life and business #23388I would love to be able to build up enough capital to do this. This is where I consider gutting my 401K and flip a house or two. I KNOW I could double my investment in short order and in the long run have even more money and just snowball it – it is what I do in every venture I partake in but on a smaller scale.
Conventional “wisdom” (don’t touch 401K) that has been beat into my head keeps me from making that dive.
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