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Total Items in Store: 615
Items Sold: 21
Cost of Items Sold: $62.20
Total Sales: $829
Profit: $766.80
Highest Price Sold: $200 Marantz audio recorder
Average Price Sold: $39.48
Average Profit: $36.51
FBA items sold: 10
Total FBA sales: $402.86
FBA COGS: $111.25
FBA Fees: $115.90
FBA Profit: $175.71
FBA Average profit: $17.57It was a great week on Ebay and Amazon. My Toy RA purchases are finally paying off on amazon. Ebay is steady. One thing I noticed this week was that my sales were very balanced based on category. I sold a little of everything: shoes, shirts, jackets, hats, toys, books, electronics, and oddball items. It definitely pays to diversify your inventory!
Hey J&R, I know you all are feeling down right now. I just want to send you some positive vibes. You’ve made a difference in many people’s lives with your story and your positivity. I don’t think I would have had the confidence to keep going with this business and fully commit if I didn’t happen upon your website. Along with many people here, I look forward to turning on your podcast every Monday. Stay positive and keep listing! 🙂
After I read this I wondered about the last time I called ebay. It was last week on Monday around 4pm. On Tuesday I had an outrageously awesome $400 in sales day. I’m going to call today about an issue. I will pay attention to what happens with sales now. Interesting theory!
I don’t know if it is just me, but these preferences change randomly for me even when I have them set. I think it has to do with the fact I go from mobile to the pc during the listing process. I DO NOT trust preferences. I don’t even trust my draft that I know is correct.
The typical things that change are the duration, Buy it now, and even accepting paypal drop off randomly.
Now before I list anything I do a bulk edit of drafts to catch everything.
It is very easy to block a number on an iphone.
Sounds like the guy is very lonely.I beg to differ. I used to keep bread in a cabinet drawer at my office to make sandwiches. One day I went to get my bread only to find out a mouse had chewed a hole in the end and then hollowed out the loaf to make a sweet little house.
Another co-worker has had a jar of peanut butter have a hole chewed in it that was in a file cabinet drawer.I have put 1st class int. to Canada on many of my listings. For a while I was putting it as an option on everything. I’ve never sold a single thing that way to Canada.
I have sold numerous items GSP to Canada. Canada is such an anomaly.I just had another Canadian potential buyer ask me to do 1st class intl on an item the other day. I went and revised the listing, messaged the buyer, and then crickets. To date I’ve never had a Canadian buyer follow through with purchase after asking to be exempt from GSP. I know it isn’t universal, but for me Canadian buyers are deadbeat buyers when attempting to do traditional international shipping.
On the flipside, I’ve had plenty happy Canadian buyers that have bought through GSP no questions asked. They pay full price and promptly leave glowing feedback. Every single one of them.
I sent a request for your group. That is a very interesting proposition to cross list to etsy.
I am 100% perfectly fine with the majority of Americans not knowing how to negotiate. Let’s keep it that way! More of my overpriced items sell Buy it Now than sell with the offer system, even though I take offers on all items. It always baffles me that people don’t make offers.
As for yard sales, if the person isn’t willing to haggle then it’s no sweat off my back. Onto the next yard sale. I let my back do the talking if they completely balk at my offer with no counter as I walk to my car.
Exactly, or they can write “firm” in the notes. I think I’ve had one person ever counter back with the same amount. I appreciated they did this…but I still declined it. Lol.
I just had an item ( Lego fairies set) sell out quickly. I priced high at $60. I’ve been checking every day on price. It shot up very quickly and I was out of stock just like that.
It is pretty cool when that happens.i do wish Amazon would alert me when I have a tentative sale though – that way I can check price and maybe raise it.
It stinks ebay won’t work with you on this. Put it behind you, but next time you call in bring it up when they ask if there is anything else they can do. If they don’t help that time then ask for a supervisor and make a stink about it. That is a definite retaliatory feedback.
For the last few months I’ve approached the offer system like a robot. If someone makes a decent offer but I want more, I’ll counter. Some folks make a low end but maybe acceptable offer, and they immediately decline my counter. I never understand these individuals, and I had come to terms that they just were tire kickers.
Yesterday I had one and after a few hours I sent a message stating that I was not aware his initial offer was a firm offer, and that I would have accepted it if I had known. I said I would accept if he was still interested.
He wrote me back, thanked me, and then promptly resubmitted his offer. Twas an interesting experiment that actually worked out.
