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I occasionally do board game parts. I’m currently creating quick listings for Mouse Trap parts. I buy the game for $1 and then list every part individually. I just search completed listings to sell similar to save time. I can crank through a batch of listings pretty quick that way.
I have a stack of Yu Gi Oh cards I may get around to some day for more filler listings.
I have had several items over the last 1.5 years on which I will get no action at all, but I’ll get an offer. I’ll go back and forth once or twice and then another offer will come in or the item will be bought outright.
My theory is that there was some social media blip or web story that caused more people to be looking for that specific item at the same time. That is much more plausible than ebay forcing your stale item down a casual buyers throat due to your one item out of billions getting 1-2 extra views.
What would be far more useful for me would be to create “clickbait” facebook articles with a link directly to a section of my store. For instance, Timberland boots are coming back into style. I could create a clickbait article stating how vintage Timberlands are a great fashionable deal and share pictures from my store of the ones I have for sale. If I could get a few thousand people to view that article I bet I’d sell a few pairs of shoes. If I could get a million people to view it, I bet I’d sell every pair I have within minutes.
In Godaddy, the fee is recognized when it is charged – not when ebay bills it. You can do it either way you want – by actual date of fee or by ebay invoice. The key is consistency. It all works out in the end.
I take all of my USPS packages to the post office. I have a post office 2 miles from my home, and .75 miles from my day job.
Why do I take my packages to the post office? Two reasons.
1. They always scan the packages when I drop them off. I drop off mid-day on the last day of my handling so I want that scan.
2. I do other errands on the trip, but the main purpose of the trip is to go to the post office. So….mileage claim! 🙂 I loves loggin me some tax deductions!I’ve definitely cut back on shopping trips. I do the goodwill by my work once a week, and the one by my house once a week. Sometimes I might go once more, but that is definitely not every week. I spend about 30-45 minutes at each place. I used to go multiple times a week to both places.
Even with that very reduced schedule, I can walk out with a cart load every time. I’ve got shopping these two locations down to an artform. I’m an engineer – process improvement is what I do! 🙂
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You’d see that message ALOT more if USPS took over liability at the handoff. It is a rigged system that is set up to encourage Fed Ex employees to go ahead and hand off an obviously damaged box. There is no responsibility of the USPS employee to refuse any package.
It will not change because that would be the end of smart post. It is cheap because there are no damage claims, even when purchasing insurance!
Just keep in mind that it is effectively sandpaper and you are removing material and possibly scratching/dulling the surface. Always test in a inconspicuous area.
I’d love to, but I don’t want to miss out on great inventory. I am trying to avoid larger items though. I’ll buy good shoes and clothing items all day long because they are easy to list/store/ship. I’m being more picky with bulky items lately. Just yesterday I decided not to purchase this sweet Rock-a-santa thing. The box was just too big for me to justify storing it for up to a year.
I can always just raise my minimum list price to reduce my purchases. I already pre-research every item before purchase so I’m not exactly buying dead inventory.
Magic erasers are melamine foam, not bleach. It is effectively a 2000+ grit highly pliable sandpaper that can get into microgrooves. Magic Eraser is a miracle worker in the pinball restoration community – it allows you to restore vintage playfields that have horrible “swirl mark” damage. I also use them all the time to clean scuff marks off of toys I sell on ebay.
12/28/2016 at 9:30 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 290: Experimenting with your eBay Store #8962Weekly Numbers:
Total Items in Store: 637
Items Sold: 12
Cost of Items Sold: $46
Total Sales: $513
Profit: $467
Highest Price Sold: $80 pair of Puma high top shoes
Average Price Sold: $42.75
Average Profit: $38.90
FBA items sold: 10
Total FBA sales: $254.51
FBA COGS: $61
FBA Fees: $84.52
FBA Profit: $108.99
FBA Average profit: $10.90Considering that sales died for several days of the week, I’m pretty happy. I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed right now. I’m still trying to get some listing done every week, but I’m not sticking to my inventory system. I list and then…just throw it somewhere until that gets in the way and I move it elsewhere. It’s a horrible habbit, but I’m just plain exhausted. The cold weather and the fact it is dark by the time I get home from my day job just compound the issue. I’m still buying, and that is also making things worse. Death piles just keep growing… We’re going to be working on making some changes to our general family daily processes to hopefully add some more structure and organization to our home. Wish me luck!
You just have to experiment. Some marks come off easier than others. I just did two pair this weekend and I just used a black marker to block it out.
12/27/2016 at 9:34 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 290: Experimenting with your eBay Store #8867There is a lot more that goes into that equation. How big is the item? How much time spent cleaning/testing? How difficult is it to pack and ship? How long do I think it will take to sell? What is the risk of a return?
More expensive items are a no-brainer if they are easy to pack and I know they will sell quickly. I’ve paid $15-20 for shoes at a goodwill if I know they’ll sell very quick and for $50+.
Size is also a controlling factor. Walmart has started their clearance sales. They had a stack of Pioneer car radio kits for $60 each. They sell for $100-120 on ebay, but I passed. That’s a lot of money to tie up into inventory that takes up a lot of space for less than 100% profit. The time it takes to sell is also questionable. The market might get flooded soon.
I definitely no longer want “stuff” for Christmas. It was very hard for me to shop for the kids this year. We already have SO MUCH STUFF!! We don’t need anything else. It’s all just empty filler. In the end I still bought stuff, but I made sure that anything I got the kids was something I could spend time doing with them.
I remember Christmas when I was a kid: Everyone opened their stuff, ate, and then went their separate ways for the remainder of the day/week to enjoy their new stuff privately. I don’t want that to happen in my home.
Any time I have ever tried to edit all 500 at a time, the process will lock up and never finish. I have tried on several computers and different networks – even in different states! It does not matter . Every single time it locks up and will stay that way for hours. I have to do 200 at a time, which is one page, in order for the bulk edit process to finish.
I have heard of many other folks encountering this issue as well.
Really there isn’t a lot to think about there. You sold 3609 units at an extra cost of $4079. Assume you spent 5 minutes per item locating it, packaging it, making the label, etc. That’s $13.60 per hour to do it yourself. This is not even considering the time and energy it takes to manage the storage facility for that many items. I mean just acquiring and stocking that many bubble mailers is a task in and of itself!
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