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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.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266669757619
PRADA Men’s Driving Loafers Brown Leather Moccasins Slip On Shoes Size 9 UK
I suspect these are fake, but I could be wrong. Prada just does not have great quality even with known authentic pieces in my opinion. I went ahead and listed them and priced to sell. Sold on offer for $75 within 24 hours. The markings just seemed off and the prada indention marking was not quite right – you can’t see the middle piece of the “A”.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266406505471
Vintage Sony Watchman FD-20A Handheld Portable TV Television
Just a fun little sale of a piece of vintage A/V history. You would have been the COOLEST kid on the block if you had one of these back in the day. I’ll always pick these up to sell.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265616559496
Women’s Vintage Sleeveless Pink Dress Union Made Size 10
Vintage clothes are always a great BOLO. Sold for $38 on offer. This would have been $4 when I bought it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266407128152
Lids Off Black & Decker Automatic Electric Jar Opener JW200 White
If you can find these complete or new in box, it is a BOLO. I’ve sold multiple of these in box over the years. Sold this for $50 on offer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265846141648
Guess Jeans Denim Vest Large Print Made In USA Size Large Vintage 90’s
I lowered the price of this item when I was reorganizing storage a couple weeks ago. Sold for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266371625369
St James Wallpaper Pineapple Pattern Lot of 5 Rolls 300 Total Sq Ft
Occasionally I’ll find a couple rolls of nice wallpaper and it always works out well. Sold this on offer for $100. Definitely a BOLO
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266577085907
NES Original Console NEW 72 pin installed 2 Controllers cords tested works
I paid $2 at a yard sale this past summer. I was the first person at a Friday yard sale that I went to on a whim. It just worked out perfectly for me. I would like to do more Friday Lunch time yard sales this year once yard sales come around again. I replaced the pin connector which isn’t hard but does require disassembly of the NES. Took an offer of $118.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266389492076
Polo Ralph Lauren Marlowe Button Down Shirt Rayon Geometric Men’s XXL
From the hoarder collection. Sold for $127 offer. Man I love these sales!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266618188114
Bowron LambsWool Rug 4 Pelt size 36×76 Off White Cream color New With Tags
Also from the hoarder collection. I paid $50 for this.
I only scavenged one item this week, but it’s an item right up Jay and Ryanne’s alley. I feel like I recall a podcast where Ryanne talked about repairing one of these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266681815228
Jura Ena 9 One Touch Automatic Coffee Center Espresso Cappuccino Latte Maker
It was $15 at Goodwill. At $15 I couldn’t go wrong even if I parted it out.
I tested it when I got home and it wouldn’t take water – a common issue for these coffee makers if they aren’t maintained/descaled. I would fix it myself but the replacement part is $50…and I really don’t want to. I just need to keep churning through my death piles.
The STR is pretty much instantaneous even in the “for parts/not working” condition category. I put it up at $250 and will hold out for $200+.
This machine was $1500 new!
https://www.1stincoffee.com/jura-ena9.htm
Someone is gonna get themselves a real nice machine after a quick fix.
Side note: I saw a Herm Winningham card in there. I saw him hit a home run in ‘91 against the Dodgers when he played for the Reds. Turns out that was his only home run in 1991. I saw HISTORY be made!
yep, that bit of knowledge is probably worth about as much as those cards.
but a person with that kind of memory would be who would give you a $1 for that card on eBay for a bit of nostalgia.
Weird cards? Nothing new. I had a sealed box of Desert Storm cards that I figured would be worth a mint one day.
not to mention every summer movie that came out in the late 80’s/early 90’s got a card set.I mean, what kid WOULDN’T want to trade a Maid Marion for a will Scarlett from the Robin Hood card set with their buds on a Saturday afternoon?
