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02/27/2017 at 11:49 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 299: What Control Do We Have as eBay Sellers? #13430
You likely have a clog way on down the line. Hire a plumber to come power auger the lines. It will cost you $100-$200 but the plumbing issue will be solved.
I fought a slow drain issue for over a year before I could finally stomach the idea of hiring a plumber. I wish I would have done it sooner.
02/27/2017 at 11:25 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 299: What Control Do We Have as eBay Sellers? #13426Total Items in Store: 607
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $42.50
Total Sales: $217
Profit: $174.50
Highest Price Sold: $40 Under Armor football cleats
Average Price Sold: $24.11
Average Profit: $19.38This week I started the long awaited Inventory reorganization project. Yay! I am going through all of my listed items and labeling the consolidated tubs with a new, better system. I’ll make a post over in storage for the details. What has really intrigued me are two things:
1. I have already filled a tub with things I KNOW were listed, but were gone from ebay. Most of them were buyer cancelled sales that I verified through my ebay email history. I ALWAYS relist these, so I have no idea how they are consistently disappearing. It is truly concerning to see this trend so far.
2. I mainly worked on shoes this weekend – about 16 totes worth. I wasn’t listing new items – I was just assigning a new custom SKU to items directly through the active items list. Maybe a coincidence, but I sold 6 pair of shoes this weekend after doing this work. That is an unusual trend for the level of sales I’ve had over the past couple months.I can’t wait to finish this project as it badly needed to be done.
In other news, I had a contractor come by to measure my yard for a privacy fence. The quote will come in this evening. I have to get back on the listing wagon to pay for this fence!
02/27/2017 at 11:10 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 299: What Control Do We Have as eBay Sellers? #13425My daughter has a large lot of LPS she wants me to help her list. Do you have any good resources for researching and identifying the pets?
I think most people would still prefer cash at meet unless shipment is involved.
FB seling is pretty much dead to me. It is flooded with people. About a year ago and before it was great for buying and selling.
Uship has boxes that are great for guitars. I bought a pack to sell guitar hero guitars… and then I realized I really don’t care to sell guitar hero guitars. Lol
Getting interested in clothes and shoes helped me to strand a ton of large and awkward to pack inventory I don’t really want to mess with.
Set your price so that if someone accepts your terms, it is very much worth the hassle. I agree 100% with 50% of profits. I’d also not pay out until after the return window is closed. If the things you are commissioning are breakable, susceptible to counterfeit, or return fraud then avoid like the plague.
Also, you don’t owe an explanation to anyone. If they question you simply state it is your time and your time has value.
I would think for some of the higher priced ones, there is additional requested photos. The more photos, the higher the price. That’s my assumption.
But you gotta think, for every buyer, you have to “entertain” dozens of tire kickers.
I haven’t gotten around to messing with my mannequins yet, but the plan is to make “body suits” for them. We’re going to put a form fitting tshirt on the mannequin and then wrap it in padding to get the size/shape we want. Then place another tshirt over top of it and then sew the tshirts together. Think of it like one of those muscle suit costumes that kids wear at Halloween. This way between our two female mannequins we can have small and large men/women.
02/23/2017 at 2:12 pm in reply to: Daily Listings or Listing One Lump Sum Weekly- Does it Matter? #13187You can’t sell if an item is not listed. The only time I would space listings out is if I would be flood the market with a specific item. Otherwise, just try to meet a weekly goal. It’ll help keep your sanity.
02/20/2017 at 1:24 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 298: The Scavengers and The Collectors, A Love Story #12924Total Items in Store: 608
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $29
Total Sales: $236
Profit: $207
Highest Price Sold: $50 Pair of Supra camo fashion sneakers
Average Price Sold: $26.22
Average Profit: $23A week like this is why I like doing my numbers. It felt like a horrible week, but still over $200. Considering I haven’t listed in 2 months, I’ll take it!
I spent time over the last week getting all of my unlisted clothes and shoes organized and into totes or wardrobes. Next I’m going to get started getting all listed inventory assigned to a SKU so I know where everything is.
I have all of my photography gear in hand now (studio lighting, light box, etc). I’ve only had a chance to use the light box. It works well. I’m just using my iphone 7 with it and the big difference is that the phone never needs to adjust focus. I actually think I will use my old 5s to take photos because the 7 has too narrow of depth of field due to the wider aperture. I also want to try out my DSLR camera on manual mode on a tripod with a remote shutter release. Photos would speed way up that way.
Anyways, I’m back to listing. I’d like to push myself to 1000 items as quick as possible. I have a fence to pay for!
02/20/2017 at 11:48 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 298: The Scavengers and The Collectors, A Love Story #12914I was thinking more along the lines of a young Bill Pullman.
Baby wipes are great for cleaning leather shoes. They also work as a quick polish for dress shoes. Wipe thoroughly with baby wipe and then buff with dry cloth. Clean & polish in one step.
I use the foaming cleaner for sneakers. It really works to restore the white in shoes.
Typically though, I only buy clean shoes. They have to be worth $50+ for me to invest time in cleaning.
8-10 years ago, my wife decided she wanted to sell her hair. She has long, extremely thick natural blonde hair. I researched doing this online and alot of it seemed legit. I made a listing and started getting interested buyers. The questions and requests started getting weirder and weirder. They wanted her to shave her head, wanted to watch the cutting live on video to “confirm it was cut right”. They wanted to wire a money order immediately after watching the cutting. As the conversations got weirder I started researching what was really going on. There were many stories of women who had been conned into cutting their hair on video…
Yeah, we were never gonna get that money once the “money shot” was complete. Ugh….
Needless to say she ended up donating her hair.
I could see doing the pictures with feet in the shoes, but no way could I stomach the interaction that is required to “sell” the shoes.
That’s a good tip!
Though Sperry’s still do sell. Mens sell easier than womens. I typically research the exact model as some sell better than others.02/14/2017 at 3:42 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 297: Being Frugal vs Running A Business #12567You can also many times by a BETTER product than new when scavenging.
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