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My high dollar sale was that Nirvana album, which I really didn’t want to let go but priced high where I would let it go.
That’s the name of the game in my life now. I’ve lost all sentimentality for material things.
A couple months ago I sold my two prize arcade games – Paperboy (very rare) and Tron (demand far out paces supply, so somewhat rare). I always said I would never sell them, but I put “i can buy another one later” prices on them and waited. Sold both for premium dollars even in unrestored condition.Everything is for sale except my family for the right price.
I TOTALLY feel the same way about feeling like an adult, Ryanne! I’m 37 (I think…I don’t pay attention anymore) and I’m just now starting to be mentally aware of being an adult in work situations. Is that a product of our latch key upbringing in the 80’s/90’s I wonder, or is this just the way things are for everyone?
I’m trying to raise my children to be aware that they don’t have to wait until they are “adults” to follow their dreams. They can absolutely do it now. Oh to be a child with the vast amount of connectivity and information that is available today…
I’ve went through all the orphan brands and haven’t seen anything like it.
I suppose it is possible it is some after market hub cap.
I sent an email to that guy. Hopefully he can help me.
I wonder, what is the point of smart post now?
I haven’t used it in a long time. Usually it costs MORE than FedEx ground which makes no sense.
Items in Store 1179
Items Sold 16
Total Sales $411.00
COGS $50.00
Total Profit $361.00
Average profit $22.56
Average sales price $25.69
New Listings 71SUMMER GOAL:
Week Goal Actual Difference
6/10/2019 $875.00 $411.00 -$464.00Not a great start to my summer goal. I did get alot of items listed though so that should help going forward. This week I have a stack of VHS and combo dvd/vhs players I will get listed. Those typically don’t take long to sell and should boost my numbers.
I knew this was going to be a tough goal that I may not meet, but I’m gonna push myself hard to make up ground. If I hit a couple home runs this month I’m right back in it.
Scavenging was fun again saturday at the yard sales. The highlight was a 1974 Schwinn Voyageur Road Bike. It’s in excellent condition. I brought it to work today so our resident bike expert could give it a once over, and possibly recommend me a local buyer in his biking circle so I don’t have to list it.
Have a great week everyone!
I would totally list those one at a time. It is worth the effort. They are SUPER easy to list/ship.
start every one as an auction starting at $24.99 and list 20 or so a week.Tough luck for them. Ebay will require them to print a label and return the item. Paypal will also require them to return the item. Neither place will require you to mail the buyer a label. If they don’t return the item then both places will eventually close the case.
I had a buyer try to pull this once. I politely told them they could always use their local library.
In the end that is exactly what they did.
I LOOOOVE yard sales.
It is a great way to practice your negotiation skills and also great to expand your knowledge.
Julie, I challenge you to do yard sales tomorrow and do a few exercises:
1. Low ball an offer. Bonus points for the higher the price tag is. It doesn’t even matter what the item is. Pick something out you are on the fence about that is priced $5-10. Then without emotion, ask the seller if they’ll take a buck. Make it a statement rather than a question. Say “I will give you a dollar for this.” Note: I regularly offer $1 on $5 items and get them for $1. This past weekend I got a $10 item for $1.
2. Instead of doing a drive by of a bad yard sale, get out say hello, walk through, say thank you, and leave. These yard sales you know you don’t want anything make it much easier to be able to walk away empty handed, and also makes it easier to perform exercises #1 & 3, so try them out occasionally too on your way out.
3. Make a firm offer and walk away if they balk. Bonus points if you combine this with #1. Try this one a few ways. Make a firm offer, if they counter then look the item over real good. Take your time looking it over – at least 30 seconds. Silence can be a great negotiation tactic. After a good once over, restate your original offer. If they don’t take it then just walk away.
Another way to do this exercise is to make an offer and walk away without a delay if they counter. Find another item and make a firm offer again. You’ll have primed the seller to know you are stating a firm price.
These skills are applicable in other areas of your life and are important to cultivate. It develops condifence, negotiating skills, and people skills.
And remember this – you aren’t being sleazy doing any of these things! Get that thought out of your head! It is simply not true.
The completely removed the condition field on mobile app. Why would they do that???
I have a paid membership with Everlance. It works decent. It isn’t perfect by any means but better than having to remember to turn the app on every time I drive.
At one point last year I went like 3 months without opening the app. Near the end of the year I spent a couple hours categorizing every single trip I drove for three months. If I didn’t pay for the app I would have lost several thousand dollars in deductions.
Being able to forget about mileage for 3 months? That is worth the $5 a month fee.
The problem with non-business expenses is that Godaddy hides them in the app. Grrr…
Why? I have no idea.
I like to upload my receipt images and I have to download the images to my computer and do it there.
I had an item I had to ship in two boxes and all the tracking info is there. If you send two boxes and two boxes are delivered you are good.
That still isn’t going to stop an unscrupulous buyer who claims something was missing from the box, but I don’t have time to worry about unlikely hypothetical scenarios like that.
I list first for a couple of reasons.
1. I can do everything but the photos without even cleaning the item if that is necessary. Sometimes I’ll batch clean shoes right before photographing. It just flows together much nicer. I’ll also already know the value of the item and can determine to what level I want to clean the items. Not everything needs a very high level of cleaning.
2. If I find flaws I can go ahead and document them in the listing. If you photograph first, odds are high you will forget to document the flaws at least sometimes.
3. I can photograph all my items in the camera app and then upload to the listings at my leisure. I’ll photograph 10-20 items in a session. Then I walk away from my ebay area for the rest of the day. I can upload and post the listing in the downtime of the day – while watching tv, in the checkout line of the store, as a passenger when driving, even while using the bathroom (don’t judge!).
It does not require any “thinking” to upload photos to a finished draft and hit “list item”. I like front loading the real work.
It’s just far more time efficient. I’ve done photographing first before. It just doesn’t work as well for me.
Items in Store 1124
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $472.00
COGS $52.00
Total Profit $420.00
Average profit $23.33
Average sales price $26.22
New Listings 21Another average week. Without doing alot of listing, $400-500 is about what my store makes. When I actively list alot, I can hit $800 a week pretty consistently. I have to list more for sure.
Great yard sales this weekend! I’m able to get alot of stuff in a short amount of time. I only yard sale from 10-1 usually. The local high school has two awesome yard sales each summer – one for the boys soccer team and another for the show choir. I always go in the last hour when they do bag sales – I clean up! Usually these school fundraiser sales suck, but this school REALLY supports their teams. Tons of name brand clothes/shoes, higher end electronics, and plenty of retired school equipment.
Last year I got multiple things I sold for $100+ there, some of them they gave to me for free. This time I got 2 $100 items.The next one is at the end of July. Can’t wait!
Listing wise I’m not getting the listing done that I want to. I did get 21 items photographed and listed. This weekend I got plenty of listings created minus photos. It seems photography is my bottleneck right now.
I had actually planned on getting alot more done this weekend but by some miracle I actually slept in until 9am both days. That is very unusual for me! So I missed out on about 6 hours of ebay work this weekend. I apparently needed the sleep though.
We have a few financial goals that we want to do this year, and I know more listing is the key.
Goals:
1. Zero out balance on both credit cards every month.
2. Pay two car payments and house payment every month with ebay profit
3. Save $3k for vacationI’ve already been able to pay off my credit cards so I am back to maintaining a zero balance on both of them. Tax return helped with that. Sucks that the dog cost me $2500, or else I’d be well into goal #3. I am getting closer to being able to pay car payments AND house payment every month. Lately since I can’t do house payment as well I’ve at least started paying electric bill and car insurance with ebay funds every month to go with the car payments. I have one year left on one of my car payments. It really isn’t worth paying off early – The payoff only saves me $94. No need tying up capital for Those kinda peanuts.
The other goal is saving up $3k to pay for a really nice vacation this year. I’ve never taken a 2 week vacation and I’d like to do it this year.
So there are my goals.
To meet my goals I need to average $700 net profit each week for June – August on ebay. That means I need about $875 in sales a week. I know I can do that if I list good. That number includes a scavenging allowance, but I’ll mainly be pulling from death piles. This week I have to start stepping my game up. My daughter is chomping at the bit to work for me and I will try her out this week.I have set up a spreadsheet to track my summer goal. I’ll add it to my reporting numbers next week.
13 weeks. Can I do it? I’m sure gonna try!
