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04/06/2020 at 8:20 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 457: Is it a good week or a bad week? #75892
Items in Store 1517
Items Sold 47
Total Sales $1,358.00
COGS $138.00
Total Profit $1,220.00
Average profit $25.96
Average sales price $28.89
New Listings 80Well my store woke back up in a HUGE way this week. I believe 47 sales is my all time high for a week.
We’ve settled into a pattern at home. It is nice to have so much family time right now. Also knocking out a bunch of improvement projects at home.Every year I basically “survive” winter because I don’t like spending time in my inventory shed due to the darkness and cold – Unorganized chaos EVERYWHERE. Once Spring hits, I’m like a dragster shooting off the start line and I make ALOT of progress in a very short time in listing and organization. Now that I have all this extra time at home too, I’m SUPER excited to see the progress I’ll make this year.
This week I have some organization work I’d like to get done. I need a more organized shipping supply area and I need to rebuild some shelving in my storage shed. The original shelving I built is stout, but it isn’t big enough to hold 3 bins on each shelf. I’ve remodeled a few of them previously, and this week I want to finish off the biggest one. My goal over the next couple weeks is to have everything organized and optimized so I can basically start an assembly line of listing just one bin after another.
J&R, I hate to hear your story of having your air B&B shut down. I understand why things are happening the way they are in our world right now, but it is DEVASTATING to small businesses everywhere. So many businesses aren’t going to recover from this. It hits more close to home now that I’m a part of the small business community.
This is not going away any time soon I fear for your rentals. They’ll open you back up and shut you down again likely several times over the next year. It may be worthwhile to consider short term leasing of your properties. Surely you would be allowed to rent them out on say a 6 month lease.04/06/2020 at 7:57 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 457: Is it a good week or a bad week? #75890The local governments have shut all of our parks down because MORONS were not social distancing and they had increased vandalism.
Why should a rural county with only 6 cases stay in lockdown?
You open up a single county, people in other counties are going to flock there like flies on poop.
You really want that?They’re not wiping them out, they’re just not downgrading your rating for 2 months. Your rating is based on 12 months of data, so if you get a ton of defects you’ll be hosed in month 3 and for the forseeable future.
Oh Absolutely. I NEEDED to do this. In the process, I pulled out some new in box stuff that was in there that I am listing today. Several $200 items! One of them is a lego set I bought on clearance a few years ago. A rare occurence where procastinating in a death pile is benefical – now it is worth $200!
I have two unopened containers of clorox wipes. It is sooooooooo tempting to list them as auction, but ultimately it is not worth endangering my store.
Items in Store 1484
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $514.00
COGS $41.00
Total Profit $473.00
Average profit $23.65
Average sales price $25.70
New Listings 20So this weekend I did a BIG thing I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I emptied out my 14′ enclosed trailer, moved it, then built shelving throughout and put everything back in. I worked from 6:30 am until 10:30 pm. I am STILL sore and tired! Yes I’m ashamed to say I have a 14′ enclosed trailer that is full of unlisted inventory, but I’m working on it! Getting this job done was critical to convert this space to a useful area. Now I can begin to list it all and put it right back where it was as a controlled inventory.
I’ll be working from home for the foreseeable future so I’ll be getting alot of listing done. “Working from home” mostly means I’m at my computer and phone waiting for someone to send me a drawing to work on or someone to call and ask me a production question. There is ALOT of downtime. So I’m putting that time to use!
eBay make sense? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I recommend you create a dummy account and give your helper access to that account. That way it is always in helper mode. Photos will have to be downloaded to pc and uploaded in browser.
Last time I attempted to mess with user access, there was no rhyme or reason in how to switch between your own activity and going over to employee access. So if your helper actively uses their ebay account, they may have trouble switching over to work mode.
I’ve asked ebay about this and there is no mobile support for employee access.
Well two things just happened:
1. Our inept Governor just declared the stay at home order.
2. My boss informed me that we are considered essential because of our role in the supply chain of oil/water/gas.So I’ll keep on working from home most of the time indefinitely.
Items in Store 1484
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $490.00
COGS $38.00
Total Profit $452.00
Average profit $25.11
Average sales price $27.22
New Listings 32Not bad sales all things considered! I’m working from home most days now, which is nice. I only have to go into the office 1-2 times a week. I fully expect our governor to shut down our state at some point this week. I don’t know how that will affect me yet. I’m operating on the expectation that at some point in the next 2 weeks I may not have a paycheck anymore.
I’ve always just eaten it. If my main sourcing place was an auction house I would definitely do use one, but since I mainly do thrift stores and yard sales it doesn’t help me much.
Where I work, they want all employees with the capability to work from home, to work from home effective immediately. I only have to go physically be there every third day as part of a shop floor support coverage rotation with 2 other coworkers.
I’m gonna get soooo much ebay work done.
03/17/2020 at 1:06 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 454: Being Frugal During A Global Pandemic #75227We have a friend who returned to China to visit her mother for the holidays. She is stuck there until at the least some time in April.
The ad on my screen is for asiandate.com.
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