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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.
Carhartt J97 PTL Detroit Trucker Blanket Lined Jacket Stone Gray Large
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266097536020
I talked about this one in the scavenge of the week a few weeks ago. I took a best offer of $325. Definitly a BOLO item.
Items in Store 2055
Items Sold 19
Total Sales $728.00
COGS $78.00
Total Profit $650.00
Average profit $34.21
Average sales price $38.32
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 1
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 24I can relate with being busy. We have 4 kids in baseball right now and it is getting hectic.
The last two weeks the weather has SUCKED and caused us to get sick again. We always get sick when the weather goes bonkers in the transition to spring. I hate this time of year in this area so much.
Ebay is 100% on the backburner right now. I’m thankful my store keeps churning out 20 sales a week even without my input.
The reality is that ebay will stay a backburner thing until the end of May. Baseball is going to occupy pretty much every day in April/May. We’ll also be in crunchtime for getting school done with the kids. We haven’t done sports since before Covid. While I’m thankful we’re getting the kids out and doing fun sports with their friends, it is OVERWHELMING!
I have 2 day handling. I don’t want to set it to 3.
I was expecting my shipping rates to go up on ebay and was ready to use pirateship for everything. Did they do away with the shipping penalty for not being top rated? My rates did not go up. I still used pirateship since I was there and mentally prepared. Was able to use cubic rates on a few packages I normally wouldn’t. I also get all those extra bonus points on my credit card. Win win!!
Items in Store 2071
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $595.00
COGS $61.00
Total Profit $534.00
Average profit $26.70
Average sales price $29.75
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 25Had some sick kids this week and alot of baseball practices. The time change left us in a daze all week as well. ebay wasn’t high on the priority list.
It looks like I will lose my top rated ranking for a month as my late shipment rate is at 3.05%. Have I done anything wrong – nope. It’s just that my total transactions over the last year have dropped. I’m selling less so the percentage goes up. LAME!!! There is no reason why that metric uses a year worth of data.
I have another week of shipping and patiently waiting for better weather.
BACKGAMMON SET Vintage Tournament Complete in Portable Leatherette Case 18×23
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265250179375
Backgammon sets can be good pickups. If you’ve never seen them before, check out vintage crisloid bakelite backgammon checkers:
I found an incomplete crisloid bakelite set years back and sold them for like $200. I think it was only like 12-15 total checkers too.
Corral Wings & Cross Snip Toe Western Ride Boots 8 M Black & Red Leather A1996
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266130455854
These boots aren’t even in great shape and still sold for $80 on best offer.
While I don’t buy nearly as many shoes as I used to, they will always be a sizeable part of my business. Shoes are probably the easiest commodity to source and maintain a $50+ ASP. Super easy to ship too.
6 of my 21 sales this week were shoes. My ASP was $43 ( 2 were blowout clearance old items which drove my ASP down)
I picked up 3 interesting items this week. I haven’t list them yet.
The first is a Columbia PHG wool hunting outfit – jacket and pants. It has some wear, so I think it will sell for $125-150.
Next is a jacket nearly identical to this one:
I really don’t want to buy coats/jackets anymore but this one should sell quick for $70-80.
The last item is hard to find comps for – a Bose AWCS-2 Cannon woofer.
If you’ve never seen a Bose Acoustic Wave cannon before, google it. What an amazing piece of over the top audio equipment!
My local goodwill had just the woofer for $55. The cheap scavenger in me had a real problem paying $55 for this. It isn’t even tested. In the end the cost isn’t relevant as I also picked up a power tool battery charger for $2 that will sell instantly for $60.
My plan is to list this on auction starting at $250. There is one comp for an AWCS-1 woofer in Terapeak that sold for $205 BIN. There is a whole DIY scene for building copies of the bose sound cannon, so I bet there are plenty of people with search alerts set up on ebay for just the woofer.
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Perrin Air/Oil Separator Kit (TMIC, Wrinkle Red) for 08-14 WRX & 08+ STihttps://www.ebay.com/itm/266013142947
Bought this at Habitat for Humanity restore a few months ago. I had to pay up at $150 but it was still a no-brainer pickup. Sold to a Subaru dealer – my target customer.
Mattel LEARN THROUGH MUSIC Touchscreen Console 7 Cartridges
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266012308145
I knew the value as soon as I saw it because I’ve sold one before. Took an offer of $150. If you find one of these be sure to test the cartridges because they can be finicky. The grease in the plastic gears has likely dried up.
Herter’s Fishing Hunting Catalog 1968 #78 Gunsmith, Trappers, Guides, Police
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266140887034
I’ve developed a soft spot for old catalogs in the last year. Hunting, fishing, cars, etc. They are always cheap and are always good for for a $10-20 sale fairly quickly.
Items in Store 2090
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $1,116.00
COGS $261.00
Total Profit $855.00
Average profit $42.75
Average sales price $55.80
New Listings 5
Items scavenged 7
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 28I had a monster $700 Tuesday. The rest of the week was ‘meh.
Man I hope spring weather settles in soon. This wishy washy bullcrap in the weather has just zapped the life right out of me. At least we have daylight in the evenings back now. I soooo hope that is made permanent this year.
I only promote items quarterly. That gives me 90 days to sell items before I start promoting them.
2. Had a clothing item that someone was interested in buying. But, as I tried to answer their questions about it, I was finding holes and other issues. I told the buyer it had too many issues, so I delisted. But, they insisted that they still wanted to buy it for a discount. So, I relisted and sold it to them for an agreed on price.
Once you’ve put the effort into an item, might as well list it. Even if you list it at cost.
I’ve sold some really crappy clothing items. One was a pair of ugly green pants that were my wife’s. They were a crappy mall brand and had a big bleach stain I didn’t see until after I had created the draft. I went ahead and listed them for $9.99 and they sold fairly quickly.
I’ve sold moth hole ridden pendleton jackets for $10-15. T-shirts with holes, stains, and shoes so worn I have to disclaim they are for looks only and can’t be worn for real activity.
The item has to either be really bad condition or odor, have an abysmal STR, or I catch the issue before I start to do the work of listing for me to toss it. If I catch the issue after I create the draft or start the pictures, it goes live with a lower price.
An example of a recent one:
I didn’t buy much this week. The only item of note was a pair of steel toe ankle boots:
almost 100% STR and an easy $50-75 sale.
