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Interesting note: Last night this buyer had some crow for dinner, and messaged me an apology. I unblocked him and let him buy the item for the agreed price. Turns out he really needed my item as he is buying up all of these jackets he can to give as gifts to his employees. It is a vintage Firestone Firehawk bomber jacket.
12/07/2016 at 8:58 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 287: How Is the Holiday Selling Season for You? #7463Yesterday was a dream ebay day! I sold 12 items for $460! Oh how I wish every day was like that…
With any iphone, you just have to have very good lighting and it will take excellent pictures. Any camera will struggle with poor lighting. Better cameras are capable of having higher ISO levels to compensate for poor lighting, but higher ISO is always a tradeoff. High ISO always equals grainy pictures.
I have heard the new iphone 7 is supposed to be much better at lower light level photography.
As an aside, I recommend anyone who takes photos as part of their living (ebay sellers) should learn the basics of photography. Once you can take a DSLR camera into full manual mode and rely on the light meter to take properly exposed and focused photos, you will have the general knowledge to know when your light is good enough.
I always chuckle a bit when I get an “I love your item!!!” lowball offer. If that were actually true, why would said person be lowballing? Shouldn’t you be hitting the BIN button? I’m not annoyed per se, but it definitely puts me into robot seller mode.
Food for thought, consider messaging the buyer again. Start off by saying you are sorry that they appear to be upset that the options you offered were not acceptable. Then ask if there was something else you did, or if the feedback they left was just because you did not give them more money back.
If you can goad them into responding any form of yes to that question, you should easily be able to get the feedback removed.
After that, it is at your discretion if you want to gloat to the buyer that they gave you what you needed to remove the feedback. Lol!
I’ll start with the first one.
A couple days ago I was going back and forth with a buyer on a vintage jacket. We went back and forth a few times and the buyer countered with an offer which I was getting ready to accept, but a new message alert popped up before I could hit the button. The following was their message:Hi
I will but your used jacket with holes in it and know the shipping will be far less than your shipping price in a flat rate package.
Please consider my final offer after this email.
ThanksWell I couldn’t help myself and responded in as robotic business tone as I could muster:
Hello,
This jacket does not fit in a flat rate. I was going to accept your offer until I read your message. There is no reason to be rude. Have a great day.And then I promptly declined his offer. Why do buyers do this? I was so thankful he did, as he identified himself as a problem buyer that I want nothing to do with. Doesn’t change the fact that original insulting message really ticked me off.
12/06/2016 at 11:43 am in reply to: Once case is opened the buyer has how many days to return? #7317It is most definitely 5 business days. If you go into your returns center and click on the details for the return, there will be a line at the top stating something like “We have asked the buyer to mail the item no later than (insert date here).” That date is 5 business days after you accepted the return.
12/06/2016 at 10:42 am in reply to: Once case is opened the buyer has how many days to return? #7309I currently have a pending return on a $200 item. Buyer said it didn’t work, and I didn’t test the function that they say isn’t working because I didn’t have an accessory required to test it. I believe them and want them to get their money back, but they didn’t respond to my message and they haven’t mailed it.
Today is their last day and I’m conflicted if I should reach out yet again or just let it expire and close the case tomorrow. I just know their ability to communicate will magically be repaired within minutes of the case being closed.What would you guys do in this case? I think I’m going to send them a reminder so my conscience will be cleared.
EDIT: Message sent and I feel a lot better. I would have felt like such a scumbag if I closed the case without messaging one last time. My greed to hold onto that $200 almost got the best of me!
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Don’t get discouraged at thrift stores and their pricing. Use it to motivate you to BEAT them! When the goodwill near my house started jacking up prices, I started sourcing other types of items. When those items start going up, I find something else to source. Rinse & repeat. Eventually they’ll have turnover in the back where they price and they’ll start missing things.
Bottom line, I walk into the “Gucci” Goodwill and while others whine and complain about prices I walk out with a cart full of great inventory. I could have gotten discouraged and quit, but I just worked to improve my own skills.
12/06/2016 at 9:53 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 287: How Is the Holiday Selling Season for You? #7303You have some awesome toy inventory. Are you selling from a personal collection or is that stuff sourced? Your numbers are simply amazing!
12/05/2016 at 1:10 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 287: How Is the Holiday Selling Season for You? #7201No I’m not going to use brick link – just ebay. I’m going to do a mix of small lots of desirable parts, by the pound lots of generic parts, minifigures, and bulk lots of minifigure parts. I’m listing my first batch of minifigs today.
It’s crazy because I spent 2 hours yesterday morning sorting and assembling minifigures with my wife. After we were done (and she felt like we had wasted the time), I added up the list prices of the completed minifigs we made and it was over $400. It was just a small percentage of what we have too!
Assembling minifigs from a pile of disassembled crap is much more rewarding than doing a boring old regular puzzle.
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Vintage Woolrich is great. Even their modern clothes are very nice.
I forgot to comment on blazers. I don’t do blazers at all. They are mostly a dime a dozen even 100% wool ones. I’m sure there are some diamonds in the rough, but I can’t afford to spend my time in the weeds when there is so much more easily source-able and sellable stuff to go through. I’d have to be getting pretty desperate to dive into the blazer/sport coat category.I buy good quality 100% wool sweaters, but pretty much nothing else unless it catches my eye as a cheesy 80’s/90’s item or has large print of Nike, Tommy, etc on the front or back.
I also will buy vintage LL Bean clothing or Lacoste whenever they turn up. Everything else is a dime a dozen. I only want clothing items that will sell for $30+I am in awe of people like amazing taste who can sell tons of run of the mill mall brand polo and button down shirts.
12/05/2016 at 10:56 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 287: How Is the Holiday Selling Season for You? #7175Total Items in Store: 600
Items Sold: 17
Cost of Items Sold: $76
Total Sales: $513
Highest Price Sold: $65 pair of Adidas shoes
Average Price Sold: $30.18
Average profit: $25.69
Items sold on FBA: 10
Amazon sales: $200
Amazon FBA profit (after fees & COGS): $72.50
Total combined profit: $509Business picked up this week with more sales but mainly bread & butter items. I had a great scavenging week at a local goodwill at which someone dumped a TON of nice and barely worn mens and womens shoes. I bought over 30 pair of shoes!
I haven’t done much listing because I’ve been spending time sorting Legos. It is so much fun! I could literally sort Lego all day every day – I just have that personality type. I hope to get all my lego listings done this week. That $20 purchase is going to make me well over $1000. My list price of just single complete minifigures will be over $600 easy.Have a great week everyone
Camera was iphone 5s with no flash. I was like 3-4″ away from figure.
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