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There are still some Uggs worth money but they have to be REALLY special.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266416056055
GRAN TORINO great SCOPE movie trailer on 35mm film 2008
Sold another one of the film trailers. I paid $10 for a big bag of these film trailers. Still have plenty left.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266420777075
VINTAGE SPENCER AMERICAN OPTICAL AO HB HEMOGLOBIN METER Vintage Odd Medical
Another medical do-hickey from the vintage medical equipment haul I picked up this past summer. I still have a ton to list from that haul, but I’ve already sold a couple things that has me at about $200 profit on a $20 purchase.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266565919580
Tommy Hilfiger Chunky Wood Platform Clogs Pink Women’s 8 M Vintage 90s Y2K
This is an item that from a ton of experience I knew would do well. Vintage chunky wood clogs = good purchase. Sold for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266681815228
Jura Ena 9 One Touch Automatic Coffee Center Espresso Cappuccino Latte Maker
Bought for $15 at Goodwill. Tested and it wouldn’t pump water. The fix requires a $50 part. Sold on offer for $200 3 days after listing. Not bad! I was really looking forward to THOROUGHLY testing this coffee maker. I did get to try out a couple JURA coffee makers at a store called Sur La Table this past weekend so it worked out. Neat machine! If you ever come across a Sur La Table store check it out. Very cool store – and you can get some free premium coffee.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266296277520
Danner Acadia 200g Insulated boots Black Leather 8.5 EE Gore-Tex 69210 USA MADE
Sold for full price. Danner boots are always a BOLO.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266522636124
Mikasa Maxima HIGH SPIRITS CAK12 Cup & Saucer Lot
I felt obligated to buy this set because they were so freaking awesome – I’m a sucker for 80’s/90’s looking stuff. I took an offer of $36….and then I had to pack/ship. Ughhh!!!!! Rough. Why do I do this to myself!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266461562156
Ronco COMPACT SHOWTIME + ROTISSERIE & BBQ OVEN 3000 White ST-PCQ8
A successful end/sell similar item. When I bought two of these I was expecting to get $100+ for each. Didn’t happen. Sold for full price $50 though. Shipping wasn’t too bad as I had a perfect box and I used packing peanuts.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266344393686
Scholastic Cassette & Book Lot of 7 Matching Tapes & Books All New & Sealed
Sealed new kids scholastic books – BOLO. I took an offer of $35. Easy to list, easy to ship.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265515131434
Pokemon Battle Revolution (Nintendo Wii, 2007) Case and Manual ONLY NO Disc
Pokemon video game stuff is BOLO material. Not bad for an empty case. Some pokemon empty case or manuals for gameboys can go for stupid big money.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266339568626
brady idexpert handheld labeler Keyboard Layout In Box – tested
Bought at an estate sale for $20. Sold on offer of $120.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266471190887
LAVON Petite Windbreaker TRACK SUIT MEDIUM Vintage 90s Black White Padded Jacket
Another successful end/sell similar item but still took 4 months after relisting. Better than 4 more YEARS though!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266328714416
Armani Jeans Vintage Button Fly Size 34×34 Lichen Denim C-2605B USA Made NWT
From the premium collection. Sold on offer for $85.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266644185268
Carhartt C26 211 Canvas Quilted Lined Full Zip Work Jacket Mens Sz Medium Tall
Carhartt work coats are almost always a BOLO. I’ve sold a few special ones for $250+
Also, those Hokas are gonna be a hard sell at $95. If you want to move them quicker I’d recommend $59.00 – $69.99. I would take offers down to $50 but I don’t know what your COGS are.
The STR in that size is high but the shoes that are selling in that high STR are between $30-60.
Born sandals and kid’s converse in clean minimal wear condition are a quick $20 sale. Put ’em up for $19.99 each and they should sell quick. I have my shoe photography down to a science. It takes me 30 seconds to take the 8-10 pictures needed for shoes. Up to a minute if I have to tie laces for insert toe box support. Feel free to copy my format if you want, but you have a great eye so you can probably come up with something better.
The Ugg bubble has popped. Price those at the lower end of comps to ensure a quicker sale.
Now I’m gonna troll your clothing/shoes section each week to check for these listings so you better get on it! LOL!
Additional note – I see you use alot of copyrighted images as your main photo in your clothing listings. Have you ever received a VERO? I have for smartwool socks so I don’t use them. If I do use them I put it at the end of my photos at least 7 photos deep.
It seems like this is a real conflict for ebay. They want to adopt the amazon model of having a catalog that relies on UPC’s. Many times a stock photo is attached to those catalog listings. BUT, you can get a VERO for using these stock photos. Are you getting the photos directly from Anthropologie’s website or are they in the catalog listing? Be careful either way!
Sales seem poor for all but the very active live sellers.
This seems to be true at most places where you are basically selling yourself THROUGH selling products. Whatnot is a great example of this. The big “youtube celebrities” could literally sell dog turds for premium prices over there while the little guys get ate up and spit out.
I’ve sat in on some of the reselling youtubers whatnot sales and the prices they get consistently blows my mind – higher than ebay prices. They’ve created quite a FOMO atmosphere. And you know what – I commend them. One of the resellers I follow is Chase After the Right Price. They experimented on Whatnot and you could tell they were skeptical at first. Things have escalated to the point they’ve basically abandoned ebay and went all in on selling everything on Whatnot. They regularly do $50-100k shows now. Who are these people buying all this stuff?!?
Over and over and over people bid up stuff you can readily get on ebay for prices higher than the ebay average selling price.
Hairy Tornado sells junk that would take me YEARS to sell on ebay instantly on whatnot for prices typically better than I could get on ebay.
Even the 10konthebay/daily refinement guy is now a major Whatnot seller. He churns through hundreds of items every show – typically at better than ebay prices.
If I didn’t mind putting myself out there online I’d definitely do it as well. To be able to pick up 10 shirts for $50 at Goodwill, go on whatnot and sell them immediately for a a $50-100 profit in a 10 minute show? AMAZING!
I DO mind though – I like my little secret anonymous ebay world that noone knows about unless I give them little glimpses on my own terms. I like that I can carry around $10k+ of inventory in my van and noone would ever know. It just looks like a cluttered van that noone would have any interest in. I don’t want strangers to come up to me at a yard sale and know who I am when I have absolutely no clue who they are. I darn sure don’t want strangers to know who my kids are because I’ve put them out there on youtube for random people.
Whew, that was a good rant! I’m done!
LOL nope!
I figured we’d have two children. Plans change. Every child we have is an amazing blessing!ebay lets me have my cake and eat it too. We get to have all these children and still do a lot of fun and or frivolous things. Many people we know with this many kids don’t even take vacations.
And now this weeks numbers post:
Feb 19-25:
Items in Store: 3041
Items Sold: 56
Total Sales: $2,125.00
COGS: $308.00
Total Profit: $1,817.00
Average profit: $32.45
Average sales price: $37.95
New Listings: 42
Items scavenged: 0
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 45
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,598.63
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 37
2024 ASP $43.50
2024 projected total sales $83,128.50So yeah…I hit my number of sales goal. I had 10 items sell for $11 or less, so that pulled my ASP WAY down. Take those items out and I’m at $45 ASP – where I want to be. Hey, gotta move these old stale listings no matter what price they sell at. I’d rather get $5 than just toss them out!
Anyways, 8 sales a day is ALOT of sales for me. It’s so fun while the sales are rolling in. The large daily payouts – also awesome. Then I realize at 8pm after I’m exhausted that I have to go gather it all up and ship it before midnight. Ugh…rough…
BUT, then I haul out all these packages to be gone permanently to my van – back to the happy feelz!
I was out of town this weekend with my wife… JUST my wife. It’s the first time we’ve EVER spent a night away from our kids. We’ve been having kids for 18 years and have never been away for a night except for when we were both in the hospital with COVID (not gonna count that nightmare).
So what was the special occasion? I suppose I can share now. We’re going to have another baby – this was our babymoon! Yes, that will put us at 7 children. Wooo boy! I have to get a new kid hauler van and everything. We had an AMAZING time in Columbus without the kids, but back to work today. My wife is 20 weeks along this week. It’s a boy.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 8 items for $630. Sold a couple $100 pairs of shoes. A couple $80 pair of jeans. I have a pending sale for a $170 pair of jeans not included in my numbers but it’s pretty obvious that the buyer isn’t gonna pay. One of those buyers that asks a dumb question after I accept their offer and then they ghost communication. Then I had another person cancel a sale of $50 jeans because the misread the size. I really hope ebay starts changing these unpaid bidders to prepay. At this point EVERYONE should be pre-pay. Why are we still dealing with this crap?!?
I can’t read the article due to a pay wall, but from the small bits I could read before the website stopped letting me catch glimpses I gathered enough to form an opinion of the upper crust administrators of that library. That opinion has words that aren’t fit for printing here.
In short – what do they think the function of a local library is other than to get books into the hands of the community?????
Here’s last week’s numbers post:
Feb 12-18
Items in Store: 3055
Items Sold: 40
Total Sales: $1,685.00
COGS: $228.00
Total Profit: $1,457.00
Average profit: $36.43
Average sales price: $42.13
New Listings: 55
Items scavenged: 1
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 45
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,523.43
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 34
2024 ASP $44.81
2024 projected total sales $79218.29So my goal was to sell 6 items a day this week. I did that all but 2 days. Sometimes there just isn’t much you can do. The important thing is that I did the things necessary to create an environment where 6 sales are likely: Ship on time, end/sell similar oldest items, list often, send offers. Over the next couple weeks my end/sell similar listings will reindex in search and google so sales should pick up on the older stuff.
I’m trying to do better with photographing and listing 6 items a day as well, but the pile of items I have listed but not moved to inventory is getting pretty big. Have I mentioned I hate winter and the early darkness in the evening?
Boy it would be really nice to hit a sweet spot where I list 40 items, sell 40 items, and have a $40+ average sales price every week. That is a store size I can easily maintain part time and keep it in that ‘hobby’ time investment range. That’s not a $100k store, but it really seems that is what this will come out in the wash to be for me. Do I REALLY want to ship 50+ items a week while also listing 50+ items? I don’t know. 25-30 items a week is pretty easy. It doesn’t sound like alot, but I definitely notice the increase in shipping when I get over 40 items. If they are all shoes and clothes it isn’t that bad. It’s the bigger things that eat up time/energy. My listing and organization time is what I sacrifice when I start shipping more. But at the same time, I don’t think I can do just clothes/shoes. I NEED those weird and interesting items to keep me entertained and engaged. At the end of the day this really is just a fun hobby for me. A hobby that earns me quite a sizeable side income.
As for end/sell similar, I’m doing 25-30 items a day Monday-Friday. This will get me caught up to where I don’t have an item older than 1 year in about 6 weeks. That is the goal going forward – every item gets ended, re-evaluated, and relisted after one year. Will that make a difference to the ebay algorithm? I hope so.
My war on the mice is going well. I’ve caught 4 so far. I’m also making good progress clearing out the death pile I built on my weight lifting platform since I got sick in 2021. I can’t wait to get back to using that area! The mice won’t be getting free reign of that area anymore.
Another small annoyance from last week is that I’ve noticed an up-tick in items sitting unpaid. I even had one big ticket shirt ($128) go unpaid and get relisted. I’ve become quite spoiled with the automatic payments on ebay. To have multiple items go unpaid for more than 24 hours in such a short span really strikes me as odd and make me think that ebay made a change.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 9 items for $828. The big items were a pair of Louis Vuitton Flip Flop Sandals and a lambswool rug.
I didn’t scavenge anything last week, but today I stopped by Goodwill and bought some shoes, clothes.
The highlights in shoes:
Xero barefoot shoes – $50+
Tony Lama Boots – $100+
Dansko Paisley shoes 2 pair – $50+ each
A pair of vintage Ball Band duck boots. These are a wild card. They are true vintage 50+ years old and in amazing condition. There isn’t alot of info out there on these boots. They could be $50. They could be $150+. There is no comp for these. I’m probably going to put $200 on them and see what happens.
The late shipping metric used to be a year of data. Now it is 3 months, so if you had a bad day it only messes you up with TRS for 3 months now instead of the absurd year it was before.
Ah we gonna talk food now huh?
Craig, if you want the ABSOLUTE BEST fried chicken you have ever had, go to CM Chicken in Philly. Authentic Korean Fried Chicken among other goodies. There are 3 locations in Columbus and we make sure to hit them up at least once every time we are there.
You can tell it is Grand Opening week up in here!
I’ve had my numbers post drafted all week itching to get it posted.
Anyways, I already sold this coffee machine for $200. This is about as good as it gets for sourcing a broken item!
Some cards you should keep an eye out for are Pokemon and Magic The gathering. If you can get a handful for a buck or two of either one, you can make an easy $10-20 even if you know nothing about them. Just lay them all out and take overall photo and then a bunch of close ups so people can see detail on every card.
Make a listing and start it as an auction for $9.99 or $19.99. See what happens. The buyers will let you know if you have something valuable.
If it doesn’t sell as an auction, just put it out there as a BIN listing with offer.
I’ve sold lots of 50-100 Magic cards this way and always get $20-30 even without anything special and not great condition.
