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Items in Store 1204
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $791.00
COGS $73.00
Total Profit $718.00
Average profit $35.90
Average sales price $39.55
New Listings 0$265 of my sales was from facebook marketplace this week.
My best sale was scavenger level pro! A couple weeks ago I saw a neighbor had a big pile of privacy fence panels with a “free” sign on them. He delivered them to my house even since they were already on his trailer. I decided not to use them as they were a bit more worn than I liked. I listed them on facebook for $175 and got BOMBARDED with messages. A couple of flakes later the fence panels were gone and I have a free $175 in my pocket.
Still no listing this week. I’m knee deep in a massive overhaul of my garage ebay space that has everything junked up. The end product will be worth it though, even if it is affecting my summer sales goals due to not listing.
I had an unexpected “all in” scavenging purchase Friday. The local Dicks Sporting Goods has a tent sale every summer. Last year they expanded to also have a Field & Stream. Last year I went all in and bought over 200 pair of Smartwool socks at this sale for $3 a pair. I’ve made a ton of money on those so far and still have more than half to list this fall.
This year I spent $280 on high end shoes and boots at the tent sale. Brand new Keen Boots, Justin Boots, and a few Nike and Adidas I’ll do decent on. Many of the shoes will sell for $100-150. I paid $20 a pair for the $150 boots. As I was leaving I noticed a rack of hunting camo that was 75% off. I took a glance, checked my paypal and business account balances, took a deep breath, and warned the cashier I was about to drop a load on him. I cleared the whole rack out.
I got numerous pairs of Scentlok Cold Blooded camo pants that will sell for $150 a pop!
A ton of Under Armour Cold Gear Camo pants, shirts, and pullover jackets. It was all very high dollar stuff that will sell for $50-$100+ per item.I spent $640 clearing out the Camo, so my total spend was $920.
The whole deal was made sweeter because Dicks had an unrestricted 20% off coupon this weekend. The cashiers were shocked at what my final cost was. One commented that I basically stole from them. Lol!
This week, I HAVE to finish the ebay space reorganization and get back to listing.
You know it is quite sad that in a group of “adults” that you even had to deal with that kind of elementary crap, Jay. Kudos to you for taking the high road! Me, oh I have plenty of not so high road things I’d like to say to Mr. Anonymous. I hope he enjoys his massive serving of humble pie when he listens to the podcast today.
I think it is awesome that you are going to a therapist that is helping you embrace yourself and to ditch that toxic stress.
I worked side by side with a coworker who had a studder for 5 years and my reaction to his studder was as you recommended – I just made eye contact and waited and moved on like nothing happened. Why? Because nothing happened! It was no big deal. Noone had to teach me to react that way – it’s just common sense. I would never in a million years even consider making fun of someone or try to “educate” them just to make myself more comfortable over something that person has no control over. This ain’t grade school!
It is even worse than that though, because Amazon is a direct competitor and they frequently undercut private label sellers.
07/12/2019 at 8:07 am in reply to: Seller Makes an Offer to a Watcher and a New Offer Comes in from a New Buyer #64819The last time I bought something with make offer, ebay actually recommended an offer price.
The line was something like this:
“This seller is more likely to accept an of $x.xx ”
I wish I would have screen shot it, as I had never seen ebay make such a specific recommendation like that before.
07/10/2019 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64763Facebook is what you make of it. My wife and I share an account. We only have like 50 “friends”. Any family or acquaintances that are not value adding aren’t on there. Noone can friend request us unless they are already friends with another friend.
My wife likes to post some family photos on there. I use facebook to stay up to date on local homeschool news and events, communicate with neighbors in my subdivision, use marketplace to buy/sell, and communicate with ebay for business (way better than phone support!).
We’re about to the point of erasing our page and starting a new anonymous one minus pretty much all friends but keeping the groups we use for important communication.
The social aspect of facebook is just soooo toxic and so wasteful of valuable time.
07/09/2019 at 11:22 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64719I would absolutely have no problem with ads here on the forum. They are everywhere else I go and I don’t mind them there either.
If having ads would cover your cost of the forum and some basic tech support, then by all means do it!
I tried to experiment with a macbook and a Canon t2i in the eos utility. I got frustrated and went back to my iphone. This inspires me to try again!
I agree that using a crop body makes things more complicated. I can’t use my 50mm lens because I’d have to get too far away from the item. I suppose I could buy another more appropriate prime lens…but I’m cheap. I’ve considered getting a 24mm 2.8 lens, which is fairly affordable. What lens do you use in this setup?Also, how do you manage and upload your photos?
Yes, phone cameras LOVE natural lighting.
Once you get out of that natural lighting though, you gotta have good light.
I do alot of my photography at night or very early in the morning. Natural lighting is not an option most of the time.07/08/2019 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64651Oh man, so sorry to hear the new info on your wife’s treatment.
You may already know this, but make sure to research intermittent fasting before she begins her treatment. It can help with the radiation sickness symptoms.07/08/2019 at 1:13 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64648I love your plan of listing 10 more than you buy. Great idea!
07/08/2019 at 11:56 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64642Upload your photos to any online photo hosting site.
Get the actual URL of the photo – not BBS code or anything. Just the URL link that ends in the name of the photo.
Copy the URL and click the “img” button on your post here. Enter the URL and you are golden.07/08/2019 at 9:51 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64625-I believe a lot of people like posting on this forum because it feels “private,” even though it’s not. Exposing insight on what you sell is one thing when a place feels private, but when you’re just out in the open with any would be “flipper” lurker hanging onto your every word, a lot less can be said.
Yep. This site is more of a low key tight knit group of folks and we’re all comfortable enough to share pretty speciifc details about our stores.
I avoided reddit for a long time as reddit had a wrap for basically being the “toilet of the internet”, but recently spent some time there reading on the keto subreddit.
I agree we’ll probably lose many of the high quality posters here, possibly me. There’s alot of trash on reddit, and I really don’t want to sign up for a site that is “anything goes”. This site is a very specific forum with minimal off-topic content. That is the big appeal for me here.
It is highly unlikely at this point that I would sign up for reddit if the forum moved there.
07/08/2019 at 9:37 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64622My daughter will be doing photography for me during the day while I’m at work. I’ve tested her out doing a few things and she is legitimately interested and is doing good work.
I have never had a buyer complain that I did not refund original shipping on a return because the customer changed mind, didn’t fit, etc. Their expectation is to not have any shipping refunded.
07/08/2019 at 9:19 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64618Items in Store 1218
Items Sold 21
Total Sales $719.50
COGS $60.00
Total Profit $659.50
Average profit $31.40
Average sales price $34.26
New Listings 0I had a $200 sale right before midnight last night to save my week. Score! It was the Seiko watch I picked up at a yard sale a couple weeks ago for $20.
It was a short week, so no listing. Went out of town for the holiday weekend. I did a bunch of organizing and rearranging of my ebay spaces. I have a pressing need to get my workspace fixed up nicely because my 12yo daughter has proven she is very capable at being my helper. This week will also likely be light on listing as I work to have a more functional “two person” space.
Summer Goal: Under weekly sales goal by $155.50. Running total is under pace by $565.
Eh, it could be alot worse. Once I’m up and running as a 2 person operation this month I hope to gain some ground on my sales goal. -
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