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Items in Store: 3039
Items Sold: 41
Total Sales: $2,258.00
COGS: $300.00
Total Profit: $1,958.00
Average profit: $47.76
Average sales price: $55.07
New Listings: 215
Items scavenged: 19
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 35
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,410.37
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $43.27
2024 projected total sales $73,339.26I was a listing MACHINE this week. My daughter did well photographing shoes – 126 pair. She calls it the “sensory deprivation chamber” due to the lights and white background. LOL! My draft bank is down to 70 items.
I’m getting back on track to building my ideal store – 45 listings a week, 45 sales a week, $45 ASP. That there is a $100k sales business that is manageable in about 15-20 hours a week. Sounds like a get rich quick scheme doesn’t it? Well it’s not ‘rich’ or ‘quick’, but it’s a pretty darned impressive single person side business.
Still no baby yet. Little fella wants to play games and keep us guessing I suppose.
My numbers are still getting dragged down by selling off old low dollar items. My low dollar sales were 11 items for $89. Ewww…. Still, that’s $89 in my pocket and an $80 profit off $9 COGS. If I filter those low dollar items out my ASP was a most excellent $72.30
A lot of these low dollar sales was from ending/sell similar of old items. I still have a lot of items that were basically dead listings because I still had 1<sup>st</sup> class shipping on them. I adjust price, rework the title, and update the shipping on all of my old listings. This past week I did 30 old items every weekday. I do this relisting in my down time at my day job. The perks of being an engineer – Sometimes I get to sit around and wait for someone to ask me a question if I have all my routine tasks done. Currently my oldest listing is August 2022. This week I’ll break into 2023. My long term goal is to keep my oldest listing at 12 months. Then every month I end/sell similar the items that fall in the 13<sup>th</sup> month. I have about 500 old listings to go in order to be caught up to the 1 year mark.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 12 items for $1510.
Hopefully this number stays high for a few weeks after my listing blitz. I NEED the money. I believe I have all of the newest hoarder shoes listed now. I’ll be processing through the newest clothing for a while.
Bummer today as I had a pair of NWT Prada Jeans I took a chance on with the latest batch. Even if they weren’t real, it was worth the risk to spend plenty of time studying the jeans. Alas, I settled on fake. They are old and are definitely from 2004. One tag appears legit, but there was way too much variance in different Prada fonts between the price tags, the main back tag, and the inner tags. Still, it was fun to do a deep dive studying the item and reading up on various websites on vintage Prada.
Would they still sell? Yes. Am I willing to risk it? No. I may put some photos up on Reddit just to confirm.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266884795067
Jimmy Choo Men Slides Sandals Blue Leather Size EU 44.5 Thong Flip Flop
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266884833216
Christian Louboutin Sandals Slides Buckle men’s size 41 black white
Both of these are from the latest premium hoarder haul. First time I’ve sold either of these brands. Paid $20 each.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266684997370
Tods Blue Black Leather Slip On Moc Toe Penny Loafer Dress Shoes Mens Size 8.5
This pair was a Goodwill find for $6. Tods is a great brand that is BOLO.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266402913760
W65 MSA Self Rescue Carbon Monoxide Respirator Rescuer Mine Mining
Just a cool item I found at a yard sale for $1. Sold on offer for $35.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266740116463
LEE Riders Corduroy Pants Mens 40×31 Blue Vintage Union Made USA Straight Leg
I love finding vintage corduroy! Picked these beauts up at Goodwill for $4.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266889510179
Dansko 39 Tiffani Wedge Black Sandal Comfort Mary Jane Professional Ankle Strap
Dansko can be hit & miss today. The market/value of the nurse clogs was flooded, but unique shoes and the newer tennis/walking shoes do very well. These sold on offer for $75. Paid $6 at Goodwill.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266886728686
Konica Minolta TN512 CYM Toner Cartridge Set C454 C454e C554 C554e
This is one of the toner sets I picked up recently from the state surplus center. I paid $10 for each cartridge. Sold for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266471202764
TALKING CORKY DOLL CRICKET’S BROTHER BOOK/TAPE LET’S PLAY AT MY HOUSE IN BOX
Sold for $25 on offer. I paid $7 at an estate sale of an antique shop. I’ve sat on this long enough and was ready to move it. In the past I’ve sold the actual corky dolls. SUPER creepy!
Those 10 card lots are pretty cool. Rookies, specialty cards, current players, and a team legend.
I wish my kids would have taken an interest in pro sports so I could get them one of these lots, but they have ZERO interest in any pro sport.We have a local pro team that used to be a minor league team a few years ago.
https://dirtybirdsbaseball.com/I saw Oneil Cruz play a bunch of times when they were a single A minor league (WV Power) team and I knew he’d be special.
I went to a ball game 2 weeks ago and was surprised to see that Clint Frasier and Delino DeShields Jr are on the team. I always got a kick out of Clint Frazier since he combined my two passions – baseball and awesome shoes.
https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/ben-felderstein/clint-frazier-new-york-yankees-sneakers-cleatsAnd for the record – Clint was wearing a sweet pair of Jordan Concord 11’s at the game.
Scavenge of the week was from a yard sale in my neighborhood.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266893649770
Color Street Nail Polish Strips Sealed In Package Lot Of 315 Mixed Lot
I saw a plastic bin full of these nail kits sitting there with a $2 each price on the bin. I looked them up and saw that the STR was actually really good. I went up to pay for 2 pair of shoes and asked if they would want to sell the whole bin of nail kits. They said they would take $100 so I handed over the Benjamin and hit the road.
My initial plan was to create a listing selling random lots of 3 or 5, with a discount structure if the buyer buys more than 1 bundle. But then I noticed some sellers had luck selling large lots.
I decided to try and unload everything at once instead of creating a pipeline. I have offers turned on above $1200. I checked the listing and someone made an offer of $1000 that was auto declined. I figure I’ll get my minimum $1200 sometime this week. Shoot, I may just message that buyer and tell them my minimum is $1200.
Either way, this was one heck of a yard sale score!
I tried out the new “enhance” function in the eBay app for photos.
whoah! The AI enhance is pretty awesome! I suggest you check it out.
I only include the UPC for items where it is likely the buyer might scan a upc to price shop on eBay.
You could always get a tablet to do ebay in browser on the go.
being able to touch some of the buttons rather than mouse clicks and combining that with dictation can really get the speeds up.
It was all in a zip lock bag. I use a box at least 2” bigger on all sides, put down some heavy duty bubble wrap, throw in bag, wrap over bubble wrap and top off with more.
it gets there just fine.
As for the horror movie, I have no clue what it’s about! I just knew it was worth listing individually. The buyer t left me positive feedback.
I figure the buyer would either be an obscure collector or someone who worked/acted in the movie.
Items in Store: 2865
Items Sold: 30
Total Sales: $1,039.00
COGS: $133.00
Total Profit: $906.00
Average profit: $30.20
Average sales price: $34.63
New Listings: 60
Items scavenged: 35
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 28
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,377.77
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 32
2024 ASP $42.70
2024 projected total sales $71,644.00Weird – a weekend with ZERO activities or commitments. I took naps!
Well I got tired of waiting around for cooler weather and tackled my inventory shed this weekend. I set up an array of fans and as long as I stood in that fan vortex it was ok. If I took a stroll down one of the aisles even for 10 seconds I came back DRENCHED in sweat. I was able to get all of my listed items into inventory and cleaned up the front of the storage area that had become quite cluttered.
After that I organized all my draft items and did some general cleaning in the garage/office. I needed a workflow space so I can process through photographs and funnel items towards the inventory shed. I was able to do 60 items this weekend and want to get the rest (225!) done as well. Meanwhile I’ll still be creating more draft listings at work this week so the number won’t go down super quick. I’d LOVE to hit 200 new listings this week to kick off my big listing push.
So far I’m really knocking out the listings this week too – I’ve already done an additional 60 as of today. Oh man…I dread moving 200 new listings to inventory…
Saturday yard sales were pretty dead until I hit one in the ‘rich folk’ neighborhood. This neighborhood can be quite hit & miss. These people had the GOOOOD stuff! They had a huge pile of nicer men’s clothes – Buckle jeans, fancy golf outfits, NWT shirts. I made a huge pile. The lady go tired of counting it up and just said “this is taking forever – do you just want to do $100?”. Of course I do!
I also had some NWT baby clothes for the new baby, some transformers, and a like new Stetson hat that is worth $150-200 in that pile. They wanted $25 for the hat originally so that made everything else $75. Woot!
Baby is not here yet, much to my wife’s dismay. Poor thing – she is so miserable. I figure she’ll go into labor likely on Friday.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 5 items for $478.
I’ve started photographing/listing the new shoes and clothes that I’ve had sitting in draft state for a few weeks. Hopefully my sales explode over the next couple weeks. I’ve put up some HEAVY hitters, so there is money to be made! I’ve already sold a few pair this week.
I seem to remember at one point they were offering up to a certain dollar amount free each month for those ads. Maybe you set it up to get that free amount and then they changed the free amount? The ol’ “opt in bait & switch and hope they forget about the auto renewal” approach.
I’ve never signed up for them and don’t intend to. The very thought of pay per click makes no sense unless you have a brand or widget you are wanting to get over.
I’ve tried it and it is easier with more refinement tools just to open terapeak in the browser.
The #1 absurdly basic missing tool for terapeak in the app? You can’t filter used/new! How do you miss that?
It’s been several years since ebay said they wanted to streamline listing in the app and the website so they are pretty much the same. Still not even close. There are things you can do in the app you can’t on desktop, and vice versa.
You STILL can’t lock down preferences for many of the fields.
You STILL can’t use templates in the app.
You can create copies of drafts in desktop but cannot filter/search drafts.
In the app you can filter/search, but cannot create copies.
Meanwhile they keep updating the app to require MORE clicks to do simple things that used to be one click.
I will list shoes and misc hard goods in the app all day, but the lack of templates in the app makes clothing a no-go for me – desktop only.
I had alot of uninteresting low dollar sales this week. It’s good because those old crappy items are selling, but it sucks because it kills my ASP. Here are a few of the more interesting sales:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266682192469
MXS Die Cast Motocross Dirt Bike Rider LOT Road Champs
Took an offer of $100. I paid around $5. This is one of those scenarios where I did about 10 minutes worth of research into individual pieces and just decided to list as a lot.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266361243411
Burberry Brit Steadman Men’s Jeans Slim Black Size 40 x 32
A premium Hoarder item. Sold on offer for $150. Why would anyone buy Burberry that isn’t wool plaid? Eh, whatever. They’re happy and I’m happy.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266860601345
The Butchers (DVD) 2014 Horror Movie
I always pick up crappy random Horror VHS and DVDs if cheap. You never know when you’ll hit paydirt. Sold for full price.
The scavenge of the week was this hat:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266886728157
Stetson Angus Cowboy Hat 7 3/8 R 49 Granite Gray 6X Felt
I filled a giant trash bag with higher end mens clothes (ASP will be around $50), got a few NWT baby outfits, a small box of transformers, and this hat for $100 at a yard sale. It was awesome.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266820326256
Dribble Up Smart Soccer Ball Size 5 App Enabled Ball Training Ball Only
Paid $1 at a yard sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266825288626
Crocs Womens Sandals Size 6 Cyprus IV Black Heels Strap Open Toe Summer Slip On
The Crocs ‘normal’ shoes have been doing real well for me. Sold for full price. Paid $5 at Goodwill.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266683646141
Nike Zoom Shox Elite Womens Size 9.5 Black Basketball Shoes 316685-011 2007
Nike Shox are a good Nike bread n butter shoe to keep an eye out for. They sell pretty well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266819800885
Over and Back Strawberry Pie Dish Keeper Made in Portugal
Found this at Goodwill for $6. Sold for full price. I went WAY oversize on the packing box after my latest USPS insurance debacle. They just straight up don’t pay claims now even after jumping through all the hoops and having the postmaster tell me “oh yeah this is about as cut & dry as it gets. This will surely be approved” as they took the package from me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266866474973
Gerber Variable Scale Engineering Slide Rule Model TP007100B w/ Case Vintage
Took an offer of $115. I got a whole box of vintage drafting/map tools at a yard sale for $5 a year or two ago. This was one of the best items.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266404129713
Polo Ralph Lauren Catch & Release Vintage T Shirt Long Sleeve Men’s Size XXL
Sold on offer for $70. This was a premium hoarder item. Why was this use shirt worth so much? Who knows! Buyer is happy though, that’s all that matters.
I am of the mindset that you should never stop scavenging – just increase your standards for items. Avoid the slow selling low ASP stuff and focus on the unicorns. You may walk away empty handed more but:
- The mileage still counts!
- You can’t get the once in a lifetime finds if you aren’t there to start with.
I’ve mentioned it before but I’ll mention it again – I WASN”T going to go to the premium hoarder yard sale! I wasn’t going to go scavenging at all that day because I wanted to focus on death piles. Anytime I say that, my wife always encourages me to go anyways since you never know what you’ll find. (She’s an enabler – LOL!)
