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Items in Store: 2845
Items Sold: 24
Total Sales: $885.00
COGS: $147.00
Total Profit: $738.00
Average profit: $30.75
Average sales price: $36.88
New Listings: 10
Items scavenged: 15
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 27
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,405.39
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $43.21
2024 projected total sales $73,080.35I sound like a broken record, but I spent all week busting my butt on home projects. We have some family visiting this week and we want to make things look nice. I am over 200 drafts awaiting photos with the work I do during breaks/lunch at work, and this week I WILL get those listed. School is done, baseball will wrap up this weekend with the last of the playoffs, and all the house projects are (mostly) finished.
Yard sales were disappointing this weekend. There were lots of sales but prices were sky high or everything was junk. Sometimes both at the same time! I also just wasn’t really feeling it this weekend and was mainly looking for home runs. My favorite find was a personal item. I really wanted to get an edger to make my sidewalk look nice. I was going to buy one but was holding out hope I could find one at a yard sale and I did! I picked up a corded edger that I immediately put to good use.
Something I REALLY want to do is empty out my garage/office into the driveway and fully organize everything. That will be a MAJOR project but one that must be done for me to take things to the next level. I need to get to the point I have good functional space as what I have now is bare minimum functionality. This is a project that will need a couple days without rain so I can leave some things out covered with tarps if needed. I have a vision for what I want and I think I can get there.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 7 items for $404.
A good assortment of sales this week from shoes and clothes. No super big sales, but they all have to sell eventually. I sold a pair of shoes right off the bat this week for $215 so I’m off to a good start.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266109208780
Patagonia Women S Stellar Blue Turtle Shorts Little Flippers Baggies Drawstring
Last summer I bought a bunch of patagonia shorts and tank tops at Dick’s Sporting Goods on 90% off clearance. So I paid like $3 for these shorts. I’ve sold quite a few pair of these and I have a couple pair left.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266505281026
BJU Bob Jones 5th grade MATH 5 3rd Ed COMPLETE SET Distance Learning SEE DESC
This was from the large lot of homeschool curriculum I bought at a yard sale last year. Summer is the best time to sell school books – a great way to offset some of the summer slowdown.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266836320859
Cricketeer Mens Sport Coat Blazer Sport Jacket Two Button Measures 36R Vintage
I wanted to get alot more for this originally, but I did an end/sell similar a bit ago with a reduced price and then took an offer of $30 on top of that. Fine with me! Still a great profit. Gotta get this stuff out the door!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266641546170
Berne Bib Overalls 42×28 Unlined Workwear Denim Jeans B910SWD NWT
I’m always on the lookout for NWT clothing at Goodwill. I paid $10 for these and sold for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266492104016
Vintage ITT Rotary Dial Wall Telephone Beige Tan
Yard sale find from last year. One item of many in a box for $5, so my buy cost was less than $1. Sold for $50 on offer.
I didn’t buy very much this week after the glut of hoarder stuff last week. I was only looking for homeruns.
I bought a couple outfits from this super entertaining older woman at one sale for $3 each. They are WILD designer outfits from parties she went to at the Greenbrier Resort over the years. That lady brings da party wherever she’s at – what a hoot! Each outfit will sell for $100+ based on comps but will likely be long tail. One’s a pink leather & crochet set. Another is a Cowgirl set that looks like something Dolly Parton would wear.The last sale of the day I scored two pair of women’s riding boots for $15 each – Tory Burch & Burberry. SCORE!! The Tory Burch boots will be listed for $100 and the Burberry ones for $200.
At Goodwill the buy of the week was an aquarium water filter system that sells for $100-150 in used condition.
I’ve had this thought sooo many times in small businesses. I always compare it to my eBay business. I make $100 a day and have next to zero overhead costs.
I go into or pass small business that have employees, rent, bills,etc and think “there’s no way they are doing more than $200 in business a day!” They might even barely do $100 in business on some days. How is this even feasible!
<p style=”text-align: center;”>IThe transformer went in a box with packing peanuts.
I keep several box sizes on hand that are my go to sizes for toys, electronics, and misc items: 6x4x4, 8x6x4, 10x8x6, 12x12x8, 15x10x6, 18x12x6. The two larger ones also work great for boxed shoes.
those box sizes cover me for pretty much everything that doesn’t go in a poly mailer or is just super big or awkward.</p>
I’ll list the next shirt like that at $200 again. I have to find it first. LOL! I’m buried under death pile mountain.I’m focusing on the shoes right now as they have highest ASP. I want to get that investment back as fast as I can.
Here’s two good examples from this latest haul I got listed this morning.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266847189794
Louis Vuitton Brown Damier Hair Square Toe Slide Loafers Size 9.5 UK
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266847191546
Allen Edmonds Sea Island Slip-on Loafer Navy Size 11 D USA Made New In Box 69133
I want to do 5 a day until I get about half of the new shoe haul listed. That will put around $10k of value into my store in just 50 listings.
I did some organizing this morning so I could get back to photography sooner. Then next week my kids will be freed up to get the 180+ drafts photographed for me.
Wow, a near 10% weekly STR is amazing!
you really have your finger on the pulse of what people want in cards and memorabilia.So first off, I made a sale that isn’t ebay or business related that was fun. I bought two of those egg chairs off of Amazon that were on a special sale. My cost was $250 for two ($300-50 in amazon rewards points from my CC). I got the chairs, and one had a broken wicker wrap on one of the pieces. I contacted the seller, sent them a photo and they said they would send me a replacement piece. Well they sent me an ENTIRE new chair! At that point you’re darn right I’m going to repair the broken one. So now I have 3 chairs. I built the first one, sat down to relax after that hard work in the heat….and immediately HATED it! Dang… that stinks. I couldn’t sit back in it to relax – only a person my wife’s height could comfortably sit in it, and even then it wasn’t great. To make matters worse the only thing the egg top part really did was give birds a place to perch and crap on the cushions! I never even took the other two out of the box. I listed them on FBMP and began the frustrating process of dealing with tire kickers and dead beats. Once it was all said & done I sold all 3 chairs for $500. So a happy accident netted me $250 profit. Scavenger life for the win!
Now onto ebay sales:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266826357598
Fisher Price Disney Baby Finding Nemo Soothing Sea Soother Crib Toy Music Lights
Death pile item I got at some point for $2. Sold within a few days for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266320972660
Axe Element Fastpitch Bat 31″ 19 oz MX8 HyperWhip Endcap L151H Official Softball
This was one of the items my kids sourced when they did the broke homeschoolers challenge. I bought them out and absorbed their items into my inventory when they lost interest. Sold on offer for $40. Now I get to teach them the valuable lesson of investing – I made a huge profit because A: I had cash, and B: I had patience.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266319472103
Lew Magram Sweater Snow Leopard Leather Turtleneck Size M Vintage Shoulder Pads
One of the first Premium hoarder items I bought at the first sale I went to. Paid $7. I actually have 2 of these but only listed one. Sold on offer for $100 just to move on from it. There was no market – I just put a price to the moon on it. I’m not turning down a $100 sale right now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266822500187
Transformers Voyager Class Lugnut Complete 2010
Sold on offer for $180 – paid $ at a yard sale a couple weeks ago. I was completely shocked when I looked this one up initially. I was expecting $30 or so when I bought it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266450496812
Polo By Ralph Lauren Corduroy Button Mens Blazer Jacket Green Size XXL
Another premium hoarder item. Sold on offer for $150.
I ALWAYS check corduroy jackets at Goodwill hoping to find Polo Ralph lauren ones. I’ve found several in the wild over the years. They are BOLO for sure.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266819841676
JVC Everio Digital Camcorder Model GZ-MS110BU w/ Battery & Charger
Paid $5 at a yard sale a couple weeks ago. Sold on offer for $40.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266824190381
Rudis KS Turbine Adult Wrestling Shoes Purple Cosmo US Men’s Size 12 In Box
I love selling wrestling shoes. Picked these up at a yard sale 2 weeks ago for $20. They included a head gear I also have listed that will cover the COGS. Sold on offer for $75.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266708586213
Xero Prio Zero Drop Barefoot Running Sneaker Shoes Women’s 8.5 Blue Minimalist
This is a BOLO brand. Pretty much any minimalist shoes are BOLO and have really good ASP. I paid $6.
IIRC, you don’t have a car. What you could do is order boxes on demand from Walmart and have them delivered. Just cross the free shipping threshold and you just pay for what you need – no need to order boxes in bulk. The best part is that you’ll likely get same day delivery by a driver.
Items in Store: 2859
Items Sold: 29
Total Sales: $981.00
COGS: $115.00
Total Profit: $866.00
Average profit: $29.86
Average sales price: $33.83
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 560
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 27
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,429.05
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $43.42
2024 projected total sales $74,310.36Well I bought a BUNCH this week. I got the call to come back to check out the final load from the premium hoarder haul. I had to do a lot of reorganizing to get my van emptied out. The first day I completely filled my van. Then the next day I filled my wife’s van! I can leave mine full since I just drive to/from my day job, but my wife’s had to be emptied pronto. So, turns out my van wasn’t completely full. I managed to fit most of the rest in there and moved the rest into the garage. So YAY I managed to get everything a place. My work space is a disaster though. I have paths to all my stations in the garage but that’s about it. Due to all this work (plus some honeydo’s) I didn’t have time to get listings done. I have over 160 drafts awaiting photos! It’s a good problem to have but at some point I have to get those photos done. I’ll probably hit 200+ this week. I have some drafts that will expire in about 2 weeks.
In other sourcing news, yard sales were plentiful on a beautiful 1<sup>st</sup> weekend of June. I picked up 2 junior sets of golf clubs that I will sell on FBMP. The highlight of the day was some SCUBA Gear for $10 and a pair of vintage made in USA converse sneakers. Then an unexpected find once I started creating listings. I picked up some vintage hats at a sale for 50 cents each. Good sellers, and some possibly $40-50 hats. One of them was a Seinfeld hat. I thought at the time it would be a $20 or so hat. Well… here is the same hat: https://www.ebay.com/itm/135084748910
A long tail item for sure, but there have been solds in terapeak at that price. I’ll probably list for $100 and take offers.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 2 items for $250.
Welp, I bought a bunch more. I did not make an offer on the entire garage. I cherry picked everything with higher profit margins and left a bunch of stuff that either was too low of sales price, had a longer STR, or just didn’t “tickle my fancy”. I skipped on a lot of bread n butter used Ralph Lauren stuff.
In total I bought 408 clothing/misc pieces and 113 pair of shoes. There were 9 pair of new in box shoes left I paid $25 each for. For the non-boxed shoes I paid $20 a pair. I went through every pair and left the common low value shoes which was a giant tub full – probably 60-80 pair – I left behind.
In the end I paid $12 average per item this haul- $6320 total. The lady was definitely not charging me tag price on a lot of things as it should have been closer to 17-18 average, especially with the shoes. She threw in a few nice items for free as well. My total cost for everything I have bought from this estate is $18761. I am quite happy with what I have. They will do a few more yard sales this summer as there is still a ton of stuff left. I will swing by and maybe change my mind on a few items.
In the meantime, I am at MAX capacity and need to start selling this stuff ASAP! I would like to start listing the higher dollar stuff and get my summer average weekly sales back up over
Items in Store: 2887
Items Sold: 34
Total Sales: $1,003.00
COGS: $133.00
Total Profit: $870.00
Average profit: $25.59
Average sales price: $29.50
New Listings: 50
Items scavenged: 28
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 29
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,450.38
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $43.82
2024 projected total sales $75,419.81Just plugging along. I front loaded the week with work, which is good since I spent the holiday weekend either working hard on yard work or suffering with a bad migraine and the aches/pains of doing too much yard work.
So far this year I’m on a pace WAY above anything I’ve done before. I’m more than double items sold and total sales $ of last year. I’m even at a higher total sales $ than 2020 so far (though I did sell more items in 2020 at this point). The goal was to increase my ASP and that I am doing. My historic ASP was $35 and I’m at just under $45 so far this year. I just need to keep doing what I am doing.
Last night I got a message from the Premium Hoarder lady. I’ll be doing a private pick on Friday of the stuff left. Do I have room for it? NO! Do I have the free Capital to spend right now? NO! Am I gonna do it anyways and make it work? YES!
I do actually have the cash but I just have these minimum balances in my accounts that I REALLY don’t like going below. Mentally it’s as if that money doesn’t exist. Kinda arbitrary numbers but it gives me peace of mind to know that money is always there. I feel like if I break below that barrier I’ll never get back to where it was.
Anyways, she said they have a bunch of Polo stuff priced. We’ll see if they’ve jacked up their prices in the time since I last was there. I should have a great update next week.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 3 items for $305.
Eeesh, not much sold. I have 368 active listings in the premium hoarder store category, so 1% a week is 3-4 items. Historically I’ve sold 383 items from this collection. I sell 25-35 premium hoarder items a month. So having a monthly STR of 8-10% isn’t too bad. I haven’t been listing new items to this lot so of course it will dwindle back down to the 1% weekly STR.
A sampling of sales for the week:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266450497403
Alan Flusser Blazer NEW Linen Blend Cream Sports Coat XXL Jacket Vintage
A hoarder item. Sold on offer for $80.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266606417339
Geri’s Game VHS Tape Pixar Short Film A Bug’s Life Vintage 1998
Picked this up at Goodwill for $2. Sold on offer for $20.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266371211741
Verbatim Imation Multicolor 3.5 Floppy Disks Lot Of 81 New
Paid a couple bucks at Goodwill. Sold for full price. Obsolete unused media is always a great pickup.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266801020103
Camel Lights Joe’s Place Metal Permanent Match Striker Cigarette Lighter Bustah
I picked up a bag of lighters at a yard sale a couple weeks ago for $10. I’ve sold a couple of them already – not big sales but they add up. I love little pipelines like this. I listed/photographed them all on break at work at my desk.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266595098388
Izod Chino Shorts Mens size 32 White Flat Front Saltwater Casual Stretch NWT
I don’t buy a whole lot of clothes right now but I always buy NWT clothes of the nicer brands. Paid $4 and sold for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266321087607
Memento Shelby Leonard 2-Disc Special Edition Case File w/ Slipcover
I always scan DVD and VHS section for things that jump out at me. This is one of those items. Paid $1. Sold for full price. This is an AWESOME movie if you’ve never seen it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266827997493
Tupperware Lunch Box Set Pack N Carry Vintage Lot Red Orange
Paid $1 at a yard sale last week. Sold quick for full price. I have no interest in piecing out tupperware on a per item basis, but a lot like this was a no- brainer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266819797510
SKIL SC118 9.6V-18V Volt Power Tool Battery Charger Genuine OEM TESTED WORKING
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – tool chargers are a BOLO. Paid $3 at goodwill – sold for full price in a week.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266804311039
Back to the Future: The Game 30th Anniversary Edition Microsoft Xbox 360
Most Xbox games are a dime a dozen, but this one looked like it would be a good one. I bought two games at a yard sale for $1 each. My hunch was correct – this was a good one. Sold on offer for $20.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266828003306
Wild Wonderful West Virginia State Trucker Hat Blue Cap Vintage Patch
I bought a handful of vintage hats at a yard sale a week ago. I’m really torn on hats. They are SLOW sellers but I get a kick out of selling them. I have a bin in my inventory shed dedicated to hats. I try to keep it full so I limit my sourcing on hats so I don’t go past that one bin. This hat surprisingly sold quick for full price.
My favorite scavenges this week were some vintage Mickey Mouse Mr. Christmas decorations. The lady said that when she bought the house the previous owner left a TON of mickey mouse stuff. There was a whole bunch more mickey stuff there that I passed on.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266832925619
Mr. Christmas Mickey Mouse Brass Band Animated 21 Carols 1995 Vintage WORKING
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266832892858
Mr. Christmas Disney Mickey’s Clock Shop Animated Musical Complete Vintage 1993
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266832891892
Mr. Christmas Mickeys Holiday Skaters Skating Rink Village Tested 1996
The best part of this scavenge is that I paid $44 for these 3 plus a few more items. One of the items which was basically a throw in item was an N Scale train car that I knew would be enough to cover the whole purchase. After I got home a created the draft listing I was correct – it sells for $50+ dollars. I always love when I scavenge and can hedge my costs for an entire lot on one item.
Topps is doing a limited run of negro league cards right now. They just added negro leagues records to the books and now Josh Gibson is officially recognized as the greatest hitter in baseball history.
you might want to check those cards out.
