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I assume it would just be me. I looked at airline ticket prices to switzerland. Ouch…
I would spring to bring my wife since we’ve never done a trip to Europe. Bring all the kids at $2-2.5k a ticket? Nope!
Items in Store 2016
Items Sold 15
Total Sales $198.00
COGS $31.00
Total Profit $167.00
Average profit $11.13
Average sales price $13.20
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 2
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 19What a brutal week – for sales and for real life. I survived. Yay! I was so insanely busy that I struggled to even get things shipped. I was late on multiple packages. Oh well.
That ASP this week – oof! Definitely the lowest by a mile in the history of my business. Only 4 sales over $20 – the highest being $26. Time or not, I have to start having some activity on my store. I’m going to start ending/sell similar my oldest 10 items every day again. That is quick/easy and I can do it on my break at work.
This week is only slightly better – we have at least one baseball game all 7 days of the week.
At my day job I was nominated for an Innovation award. If I finish in the top 3 I will get to go to Switzerland to the corporate headquarters for a ceremony. That would be a cool trip!
I’m really hoping at some point that ebay provides some form of free accounting package to produce a complete sch C for your ebay business for store subscribers. Their current reporting capabilites is sooooooo close. Just need to include a COGS functionality. I’ve submitted this to ebay for business and been told it allegedly was being worked on.
Imagine how cool it would be if you could input COGS as a hidden item specific right next to the custom SKU directly in the listing that would show up in reports.
Cow Print Wooden Clogs Made in Holland Shoes 25cm EU 39 Women 9
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265693452525
What a fun item! Can’t beat selling things like this.
Sony SLV-789HF Hi-Fi Stereo 4 Head VCR VHS Player Recorder W/ Remote & Manual
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266098066463
This was the VCR I thought was a new open box $400 dvd/vcr. Boo! But hey, if a ‘dissapointment’ is still a $100 sale I’ll take that all day!
My oldest is 16 so I have at least another couple years. It’s a prom for homeschool kids and they let middle schoolers go too, so my oldest son wanted to go this year. There will be about 200 kids there.
Items in Store 2029
Items Sold 11
Total Sales $288.00
COGS $46.00
Total Profit $242.00
Average profit $22.00
Average sales price $26.18
New Listings 2
Items scavenged 2
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 20Part of me is glad I’m not listing right now. I’d be freaking out if my sales were dead and I was actively listing. My items sold and total sales are down 35% year over year so far, and that’s with 20% MORE active listings this year!
I’ve created 314 new listings so far this year. At this point last year I had created 812 new listings. That leads me to believe that active listings don’t mean much compared to continuous new listings.
This week is a prime example of why I’m not listing right now. Two of my children have birthdays, we have 8 baseball games, and two of my kids have prom.
I did survive doing taxes. I learned that I don’t need godaddy or any other software. The reports from ebay, my business credit card, and my bank account take care of pretty much everything in a neat fashion. Honestly I think it was easier as Godaddy was such a mess the last two years.
Bottom line, gross sales are down, COGS are up, expenses are up. So yay to less taxes, Boo to less profit! I’d rather proudly proclaim higher business income as I’m getting less and less mileage out of a dollar every year.
I think the same thing about listing more/better when I see Jay’s numbers. They’re almost at 10k listings and making equal to or less than when they had 7500-8000 items.
COGS are higher, shipping is higher, fees are higher, sales prices are lower on most commodity items such as shoes/clothes.
While that sells doom & gloom, it may push out low quality sellers and those with tighter margins, and/or higher overhead. There will still be a market for individual sellers with high quality listings, items, and service.
Adapt, improvise, improve. Keep on listing.
Items in Store 2037
Items Sold 10
Total Sales $497.00
COGS $38.00
Total Profit $459.00
Average profit $45.90
Average sales price $49.70
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 21A $300 saved my week. Another week of doing the bare minimum. I’m going to have to start getting some listings in even if it is just 5-10 a week.
In other news I’m down 20 lbs, feeling better, and a bit more energy. I’m going to start exercising this week and can hopefully leave all my health issues in the rearview mirror.
Motorola DYNA TAC 8000S Vintage Brick Cell Phone UNTESTED
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266139500629
These kinda items are what keeps ebay selling interesting! I happily took an offer of $300. Paid $5 at an awesome former antique store estate sale. Initial research showed I’d get $30-50. I actually waffled on getting this as it didn’t really meet my purchasing matrix. I finally just said “when am I ever gonna find another one of these brick phones? Just get it.” Boy am I glad I went with my gut!!! Once I researched the actual model number, I was floored. I knew I’d get $250 easy but I wanted to hold out for at least $300. Took just under 2 months to sell.
Why is it worth this much? Who knows. Some people must collect them.
Items in Store 2046
Items Sold 12
Total Sales $356.00
COGS $64.00
Total Profit $292.00
Average profit $24.33
Average sales price $29.67
New Listings 1
Items scavenged 25
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 22Ooof, slow week. A $100 toner sale this weekend saved me from total doom/gloom. I did do a bit of ebay work this week. I ended/sell similar 10 old items – a couple sold too. When I did that I realized that ebay just ended a listing instead of deleting it for a listing violation. I was able to fix/relist. Yay! It was for some RA beetle traps. Ebay now requires the EPA info on the packaging to be entered as an item specific. They didn’t require that when I initially listed the item.
Went to Columbus this weekend before baseball takes completely over. Did some scavenging but didn’t find anything earth shattering – mainly just shoes. I was extra picky above/beyond my scavenging rules this trip since I’m not really listing right now.
The shipping guy at my day job gave me four GIANT rolls of 6″ wide bubble wrap. They’ve been sitting on a shelf in their warehouse for a long time and he was spring cleaning. These rolls are about 3′ in diameter.
Now I just need to sell more stuff to use all this bubble wrap.
I was excited to see this as I figured I’d nail it first try.
Unfortunately I have no freaking idea what I’m looking at! It appears that the face has been removed and poorly painted back on. Draw a blank on autograph as well. The body style doesn’t look like one of the main toy lines I’ve ever seen for wrestling figs. Looks more like a Dollar Tree knock off.
Are there any date or manufacturer markings?
Send it to these guys:
https://twitter.com/MajorWFPod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
You’ve been incredibly generous with your time on this neigbors stuff. An online auction will still be alot of upfront work. Then arranging pickup will be alot of worse. If you do shipping – ouch.
At some point I’d recommend you just cut bait and let a local estate sales person handle this guys place.
