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Oh yes, yard sales were awesome this weekend. This is usually the first great yard sale weekend around here.
I fill our van for $130. I’ve already created 13 listings from this haul for over $500. I’m only a fraction of the way into it.I only did yard sales from 10-1. I don’t like going earlier because people don’t deal before 10. I may miss out on some awesome stuff, but my theory is much of the awesome stuff is overpriced and won’t sell till after 10 anyways.
If you mean inventory management, I just use ebay and the custom SKU.
I tried Sixbit and did not like it at all. The transfer of my ebay data was very buggy and the support wasn’t to my expectations. I had a 5 day window to implement and too many items were missing. I also couldn’t use my existing inventory system because I didn’t have unique SKUs.Well actually I don’t do everything goes.
Clothes just go with clothes – its much more efficient that way. I do try and break it up though. For example, I want jeans spread out across all the bins. It sucks looking for a pair of jeans in a bin of ALL jeans. It’s much easier when every clothing bin only has a couple pair of jeans. When loading a bin I set it up on its side and stack the clothes in with the tag side towards the top. Once the bin is full I set it right side up and it is very easy to thumb through the items to look at tags without pulling items out.
Shoes are typically kept with only shoes. That is mainly because I like to batch process shoes.
I clean a bin, I list a bin, I photograph a bin. I have a couple bins in storage where I’ve combine shoes with random hard goods and toys. The bigger mens shoes typically go in the bottom of the bin and then I fit womens and kids shoes into the cracks and crevices so that the bins are as full as possible.I also have my metal shelving set up so that the bottom two rows are a bit taller so I can overfill my shoe bins. I don’t use lids on bins.
Now everything else gets put in random bins. Toys, electronics, plates, books, DVDs, games, etc. I like to mix all that up.
The older machinery’s handbooks are so well made – many people want them for their durability. The majority of the information does not change.
I have the 29th edition on my work desk and reference it often.Oh it’s definitely at the top of the list. Some people are happy with the illusion that they are getting “free shipping”. Others (like me) will shop around for the seller who is legitimately absorbing the cost of shipping and giving true free shipping when compared to other sellers.
Either way both buyers try to avoid paying for shipping.
I keep my unlisted items in bins, just like my listed items.
I put an unlisted bin to the right of my listing table and pull items one at a time from that bin. Once I create the listing for the item I place it in a new bin to my left.
Once I have a bin of created listing items, I place it to the right of my photography station. As I photograph items and complete the listings, I place them in a new bin to the left of the photography station. I’ll keep 2-3 bins here so I can sort if need be. Once these “listed” bins are full, I assign inventory numbers to the items and place the bins out in my inventory storage building.
To be time efficient, I’ll usually fly through a bunch of photographs with the phone camera app, and then upload the photos to listings throughout the day in the “dead space” of the day. I’d rather be productive than play games on my phone. I actually don’t even have any games on my phone anymore – I deleted them all.
So basically it is like an assembly line process, one bin at a time. If I want I can follow a single item down the line, or I can (typically) batch process at any point in the process.
He’s mainly ebay from what I have seen. Also branching out into posh, etsy, etc. Also does local sales on offerup and other local marketplaces. Basically he’s willing to do any form of scavenging through any platform and video document the process.
Here’s a cool example video:
He started a brand new store and is doing a “marathon challenge” to help people build up to listing $1k worth of inventory a week. Full transparency of everything he’s doing.
It is definitely a bit odd to sit at my well paying Engineering job that I went to school for years for….and day dream of just sitting at home and thoroughly enjoying scrubbing gum off of the soles of some strangers shoes.
But…. I DO!!! 😀
It worked fine for me for a while. I’d get a handful of sales a year. Then one day something went wrong and all of my previously sold listings went active. I closed out the store at that point because it wasn’t worth the headache of dealing with.
In my opinion, don’t waste your time with it.
I’ve watch his videos occasionally. He’s actually pretty transparent about his processes. Alot of good, positive information there. He also has other people come on and share information.
He’s learned a lot in a very short time.In that video he explains that he now has a full time helper who lists and picks for shipment that he pays about $600 a week. If he doesn’t have enough work for the helper, he pays him to scavenge from a specific list of things.
His own time is dedicated to scavenging and doing his youtube/mastermind stuff.
Some people want to pay someone to be their guru. He’s capitalizing on that. Don’t blame him.
Facebook has all but destroyed marketplace. They barely even let me see local stuff – it’s all brand new junk listings and advertisements. I can’t sell anything on there to save my life when I used to sell everything I listed.
Then if I search for something specific they clog up my feed with similar items for the next month.
If my own personal frequent marketplace searching and browsing is any indication, the problem is definitely that people simply can’t see my item in an organic browsing fashion.I’ve watched a couple vids on youtube about amazon returns unboxing. It is definitely a mixed bag and way too expendsive for the risk.
I just checked my clothing returns. In the last 18 months I’ve had 13 returns on clothing.
1 was because there was a stain I missed.
1 was a false INAD that I fought and got refunded the shipping on.The other 11 were standard returns due to fit. The buyers all happily paid return shipping and I don’t refund original shipping.
I don’t have a great way to easily identify all clothing items in Godaddy bookeeping for that time frame, but just using keywords I see 315 clothing sales in the last 18 months. So I have just over 4% return rate for clothes. That sounds worse than it is though. I’ll gladly take 13 returns in order to sell over 300 items.
Yep just had this happen yesterday on a vintage coleman water pitcher. I had it on sale and didn’t realize I had free shipping on it. A buyer in Washington low balled $8 for it. I declined it without thinking. They offered again at $12 and I looked at the item. It was on sale for $14 free shipping. Shipping to Washington would have been more than the BIN price at the size/weight. Ouch!!!
So thanks cheap stranger. You gave me the time to decline your offer and relist the item out of the sale.
In most cases it isn’t a problem, but do remember that if you do not have the manufacturers permission to use those stock photos then they can have you taken down with a VERO claim.
I used stock photos with some Smartwool socks and they took all my listings down that had the stock photo. I don’t use stock photos at all now. It sucked recreating those listings.
