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Signed LP’s you just gotta get the right buyer. I sold an autographed Terry Reid album for $400. I had no real basis for setting the price that high. I just knew my ideal buyer was a person who wouldn’t care about price.
I had a couple people message me to tell me I was crazy for listing that high. I ignored them and eventually sold it for full price.https://www.ebay.com/itm/266047278662
Handheld cameras can still sell for good money for people who want to offload their old home videos.
I typically pick these up during yard sale season. They usually don’t make it to the racks anymore at thrift stores.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/264739386723
I took a $75 offer on these just to get a sale and move on. If you can, get your hands on some real shell cordovan shoes so you can know what it looks/feels like. They can be worth ALOT of money.
Items in Store 2104
Items Sold 25
Total Sales $596.00
COGS $80.00
Total Profit $516.00
Average profit $20.64
Average sales price $23.84
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 3
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 30Just wasn’t feeling it this week. I planned to get some work done this weekend but a severe wind front came through and knocked trees over on power lines on our street Friday night. Spent the weekend without power.
I’m thinking prepay a couple months rent would be a great ‘reference’.
Just a thought if you can swing it. I’ve also never had to do this.
Every business has to start somewhere. You just need to talk to the landlord and hash it out. If you can’t hash it out, then that is not a landlord you want to do business with anyway – landlord isn’t the only party who should be pre-screening.
I’m of the opinion that this is small potatoes compared to big tech as a whole and for ebay specifically. Their 4Q numbers were not that bad.
It’s a perfect storm of I think some of these tech companies got greedy and thought the 2020 numbers would continue.
They also realized they were pretty overstaffed with alot of bloat once everyone started (and still do!) work from home.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266131931658
I took an offer of $60 to just get this thing out the door as I had another bose dock to list. The value on these units has been dropping the last few years. They used to command $100+. If you sell one of these remember that you have to use ground service due to the lithium battery.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266126430191
I sent aggressive offers one day this week since I wasn’t getting sales – sold for $20. The interesting thing about this one is that the goodwill was selling ziplock baggies of trains – some thomas and others. I really only wanted the Thomas and thought these were generic Toys r us brand. Turns out the ‘generic’ ones were vintage Lionel wood track engines and cars. I didn’t even know Lionel ever made Thomas wooden track compatible trains. These things are built like tanks too – forward and reverse and both axles drive. The have lights and sounds too! I’ll end up making more off the lionel than I will the thomas trains.
Items in Store 2127
Items Sold 19
Total Sales $644.00
COGS $161.00
Total Profit $483.00
Average profit $25.42
Average sales price $33.89
New Listings 72
Items scavenged 2
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 33My daughter crushed doing photos on clothes this weekend doing 46 items. I’ll have to do some more clothes since she did the photos so quickly.
Unfortunately, my store did not crush it in sales. Sales were SLOW, I had a $180 return for fit, and two items were pulled by ebay. One for a photo vero and the other they claimed was a prescription medical device (it isn’t). It isn’t worth the fight to show ebay it is not a restricted medical device. It’s a fetal heartrate monitor.
Oh well, dust it off and keep on listing.
Picked one of these up for $5 complete in box. It looks like it was used once. Most of the accessories were never even unpacked. 100%+ STR and probably around a $250 sale. NICE! I’ll get it listed tonight. I was in the flow with listing clothing this weekend and didn’t want to switch gears.
Here in the states the prop buyers typically provide their own express shipping label. Even better, they still pay the shipping cost! I’ve had this happen twice over the years.
I’d never ship with express postage without the buyer paying for it in advance through an adjusted invoice.
You can set up a promotion of “buy x quantity and get free shipping”. Then add all the listings to the campaign.
I did this for the art markers I sell:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265575557719I offer tiered discounts on quantity 2+ AND free shipping if you buy 4+. I didn’t want to offer free shipping if a person just bought one or two as that would crush me on profit or screw the buyer if they bought a ton.
I still get the single marker buyer (and I love them because its the highest profit margin).So in my case I have two different promotions set up – a shipping discount promotion and a volume pricing promotion.
I kind of have a way to determine the traffic my new listings are generating. I ran a listings traffic report and filtered out all promoted listings. I promoted everything at the beginning of this new adventure, so anything not promoted is a new listing.
Current non-promoted listings: 183
Page views for these listings in the last month: 1198
Total page views for my whole store in same period: 7016
So 183 (or 9% of my store) new listings accounted for 18% of my page views.
New items impressions: 85512 vs 2.43 million for entire store
So while I am getting 18% of my page views from new items, I’m only getting 3.5% of my impressions from the same listings. More page views per impression on new items even without promoted listings.
Whoo boy, where to start?
On Friday I saw some estate sale signs posted on my drive to the post office during my lunch break. I stopped by to find the sale was inside this old antique shop that had been there in town my whole life. I had never been in there. There was a TON of amazing stuff from so many different categories! I spent an hour browsing and checking things. Everything was priced at around 60-80% of ebay prices. Not enough meat on the bone for me without waiting until 50% off day. I talked some to the sale runners and they encouraged me to put in some silent bids at $1 over 50% price on anything I wanted and if still available I’d be able to secure them prior to 50% off day on Sunday. I got everything I silent bid on except for a pair of lineman boots that sold. I wanted those boots, but not for $40. In hindsight I should have just paid the $40.
I showed up about 20 minutes prior to open yesterday to see what else I could get. I ended up spending $177 on my haul. There was so much more I could have got, but I stuck to the things I knew, the higher sales price items, and the quick sellers. I also decided to not come back at closing as I felt I had enough stuff. I didn’t need a death pile or really heavy large items out of this sale.
Here’s some of the things I have already listed:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266139504789
There are no similars I can find on this phone, so I just put $50 on it. Probably high, but the right buyer will come along and make an offer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266139501677
Not high dollar, but a cool item!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266139500629
Now this one was a surprise. This was in the kitchen area. Initial research showed it would be a $30-40 item so I threw it in my bag. When I went to list it, I found it was a bit more special than I thought! I’m priced high, but should sell for $200-250.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266139500020
This was the item I wanted that pays for almost the whole purchase. I paid $37 for it. Should sell for $170, but I’m always hoping to get a buyer that pays up a bit.
I have a BUNCH of guitar hero stuff in my inventory shed in the loft. I really need to get it all down and get it listed!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266139491677
Another big surprise! They had 3 star wars figures from 1982 in a case along with this indy figure. I wanted the star wars figures even though I knew they weren’t really high dollar. The indy figure was just a “yeah sure I’ll take that too” item I figured I’d get $15 for. Boy was I wrong. It is in very good condition compared to comps so $150 is a realistic sales price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266136649742
I LOVED mad balls when I was a kid! I paid up for this one – $25 on Friday as I didn’t think it would still be around on half price day. They had $33 on it originally so they did work with me a bit on price.
I have plenty more to list – complete in box Teddy Ruxbin outfit and book/tape sets. A Cricket/Corky NIB Book/tape, some old gun books, and few more toys.
It was sooo much fun to lay hands on soo much vintage stuff!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266097537222
A few months ago we were at my mother-in-laws house. She’s a bit of a hoarder and used to shop at thrifts constantly. Her toy room was dangerous for our kids to go in (precarious stacking), so I cleaned it up for her. In the process, she let me go through and take anything I thought would have some value to sell. I took this woody thinking maybe $20 or so. It was alot more than that! I told her if I made any money of significance I would take her out to a steak dinner. Well it’s time to go get that steak.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265772706332
This sale is significant because the buyer bought 6 pair! That’s quite a chunk of change at $19 per pair. I’ve covered this smartwool haul before, but long story short I bought 200+ pair at $2.50 a pair on clearance.
Items in Store 2074
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $806.00
COGS $138.00
Total Profit $668.00
Average profit $33.40
Average sales price $40.30
New Listings 41
Items scavenged 25
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 28So I have a month’s worth of Sales data since I started daily listing. I’m trying to post the table below – the forum will likely butcher it.
<table width=”384″>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width=”64″>Year</td>
<td width=”42″>items</td>
<td width=”38″>sales</td>
<td width=”80″>Items listed</td>
<td width=”160″>Items listed Month Prior</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2022</td>
<td>104</td>
<td>$3997</td>
<td>185</td>
<td>196</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2023</td>
<td>85</td>
<td>$3594</td>
<td>189</td>
<td>34</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
So last year I did most of my actual posting of listings on the weekend. I listed almost the same amount of items, but my sales were lower year over year. The only real difference was that in the month Prior of 2022 I was listing a BUNCH compared to this year. Either way, this does not bode well for the idea that daily listing has a major impact vs batch listing.
Regarding Year over year traffic data, the same period last year had almost DOUBLE the impressions AND Page views that I have this year. That is….not good!
The next two weeks will be very telling as I had great sales last year the last week of Feb and 1st week of March.
I’m also not seeing any increasing trend in my traffic. My traffic goes up and down in a sin wave throughout the week The overall trend over the month is flat. I saw the same kind of trend when I batch listed on the weekend last year. I always thought that trend was because of all my weekend listing – turns out it is not!
The worst part is that my impressions are down month over month. How’s that possible with MORE listings, more sales, and more activity? I wasn’t freaking listing for MONTHS! I’m going to call it an anomaly since the previous 30 days includes some Christmas traffic.
My scavenge of the week isn’t something to sell. I scored 2 GIANT 60 gallon contractor bags of biodegradable packing peanuts from work. I’ve been getting some pretty good scores on packing material lately from work. Now I just need to sell some of my big items to put it to use!
