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I had an item I had to ship in two boxes and all the tracking info is there. If you send two boxes and two boxes are delivered you are good.
That still isn’t going to stop an unscrupulous buyer who claims something was missing from the box, but I don’t have time to worry about unlikely hypothetical scenarios like that.
I list first for a couple of reasons.
1. I can do everything but the photos without even cleaning the item if that is necessary. Sometimes I’ll batch clean shoes right before photographing. It just flows together much nicer. I’ll also already know the value of the item and can determine to what level I want to clean the items. Not everything needs a very high level of cleaning.
2. If I find flaws I can go ahead and document them in the listing. If you photograph first, odds are high you will forget to document the flaws at least sometimes.
3. I can photograph all my items in the camera app and then upload to the listings at my leisure. I’ll photograph 10-20 items in a session. Then I walk away from my ebay area for the rest of the day. I can upload and post the listing in the downtime of the day – while watching tv, in the checkout line of the store, as a passenger when driving, even while using the bathroom (don’t judge!).
It does not require any “thinking” to upload photos to a finished draft and hit “list item”. I like front loading the real work.
It’s just far more time efficient. I’ve done photographing first before. It just doesn’t work as well for me.
Items in Store 1124
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $472.00
COGS $52.00
Total Profit $420.00
Average profit $23.33
Average sales price $26.22
New Listings 21Another average week. Without doing alot of listing, $400-500 is about what my store makes. When I actively list alot, I can hit $800 a week pretty consistently. I have to list more for sure.
Great yard sales this weekend! I’m able to get alot of stuff in a short amount of time. I only yard sale from 10-1 usually. The local high school has two awesome yard sales each summer – one for the boys soccer team and another for the show choir. I always go in the last hour when they do bag sales – I clean up! Usually these school fundraiser sales suck, but this school REALLY supports their teams. Tons of name brand clothes/shoes, higher end electronics, and plenty of retired school equipment.
Last year I got multiple things I sold for $100+ there, some of them they gave to me for free. This time I got 2 $100 items.The next one is at the end of July. Can’t wait!
Listing wise I’m not getting the listing done that I want to. I did get 21 items photographed and listed. This weekend I got plenty of listings created minus photos. It seems photography is my bottleneck right now.
I had actually planned on getting alot more done this weekend but by some miracle I actually slept in until 9am both days. That is very unusual for me! So I missed out on about 6 hours of ebay work this weekend. I apparently needed the sleep though.
We have a few financial goals that we want to do this year, and I know more listing is the key.
Goals:
1. Zero out balance on both credit cards every month.
2. Pay two car payments and house payment every month with ebay profit
3. Save $3k for vacationI’ve already been able to pay off my credit cards so I am back to maintaining a zero balance on both of them. Tax return helped with that. Sucks that the dog cost me $2500, or else I’d be well into goal #3. I am getting closer to being able to pay car payments AND house payment every month. Lately since I can’t do house payment as well I’ve at least started paying electric bill and car insurance with ebay funds every month to go with the car payments. I have one year left on one of my car payments. It really isn’t worth paying off early – The payoff only saves me $94. No need tying up capital for Those kinda peanuts.
The other goal is saving up $3k to pay for a really nice vacation this year. I’ve never taken a 2 week vacation and I’d like to do it this year.
So there are my goals.
To meet my goals I need to average $700 net profit each week for June – August on ebay. That means I need about $875 in sales a week. I know I can do that if I list good. That number includes a scavenging allowance, but I’ll mainly be pulling from death piles. This week I have to start stepping my game up. My daughter is chomping at the bit to work for me and I will try her out this week.I have set up a spreadsheet to track my summer goal. I’ll add it to my reporting numbers next week.
13 weeks. Can I do it? I’m sure gonna try!Oh yes, yard sales were awesome this weekend. This is usually the first great yard sale weekend around here.
I fill our van for $130. I’ve already created 13 listings from this haul for over $500. I’m only a fraction of the way into it.I only did yard sales from 10-1. I don’t like going earlier because people don’t deal before 10. I may miss out on some awesome stuff, but my theory is much of the awesome stuff is overpriced and won’t sell till after 10 anyways.
If you mean inventory management, I just use ebay and the custom SKU.
I tried Sixbit and did not like it at all. The transfer of my ebay data was very buggy and the support wasn’t to my expectations. I had a 5 day window to implement and too many items were missing. I also couldn’t use my existing inventory system because I didn’t have unique SKUs.Well actually I don’t do everything goes.
Clothes just go with clothes – its much more efficient that way. I do try and break it up though. For example, I want jeans spread out across all the bins. It sucks looking for a pair of jeans in a bin of ALL jeans. It’s much easier when every clothing bin only has a couple pair of jeans. When loading a bin I set it up on its side and stack the clothes in with the tag side towards the top. Once the bin is full I set it right side up and it is very easy to thumb through the items to look at tags without pulling items out.
Shoes are typically kept with only shoes. That is mainly because I like to batch process shoes.
I clean a bin, I list a bin, I photograph a bin. I have a couple bins in storage where I’ve combine shoes with random hard goods and toys. The bigger mens shoes typically go in the bottom of the bin and then I fit womens and kids shoes into the cracks and crevices so that the bins are as full as possible.I also have my metal shelving set up so that the bottom two rows are a bit taller so I can overfill my shoe bins. I don’t use lids on bins.
Now everything else gets put in random bins. Toys, electronics, plates, books, DVDs, games, etc. I like to mix all that up.
The older machinery’s handbooks are so well made – many people want them for their durability. The majority of the information does not change.
I have the 29th edition on my work desk and reference it often.05/31/2019 at 11:12 am in reply to: Study: “What You Need to Know About the Modern Online Shopper” #62733Oh it’s definitely at the top of the list. Some people are happy with the illusion that they are getting “free shipping”. Others (like me) will shop around for the seller who is legitimately absorbing the cost of shipping and giving true free shipping when compared to other sellers.
Either way both buyers try to avoid paying for shipping.
I keep my unlisted items in bins, just like my listed items.
I put an unlisted bin to the right of my listing table and pull items one at a time from that bin. Once I create the listing for the item I place it in a new bin to my left.
Once I have a bin of created listing items, I place it to the right of my photography station. As I photograph items and complete the listings, I place them in a new bin to the left of the photography station. I’ll keep 2-3 bins here so I can sort if need be. Once these “listed” bins are full, I assign inventory numbers to the items and place the bins out in my inventory storage building.
To be time efficient, I’ll usually fly through a bunch of photographs with the phone camera app, and then upload the photos to listings throughout the day in the “dead space” of the day. I’d rather be productive than play games on my phone. I actually don’t even have any games on my phone anymore – I deleted them all.
So basically it is like an assembly line process, one bin at a time. If I want I can follow a single item down the line, or I can (typically) batch process at any point in the process.
He’s mainly ebay from what I have seen. Also branching out into posh, etsy, etc. Also does local sales on offerup and other local marketplaces. Basically he’s willing to do any form of scavenging through any platform and video document the process.
Here’s a cool example video:
He started a brand new store and is doing a “marathon challenge” to help people build up to listing $1k worth of inventory a week. Full transparency of everything he’s doing.
It is definitely a bit odd to sit at my well paying Engineering job that I went to school for years for….and day dream of just sitting at home and thoroughly enjoying scrubbing gum off of the soles of some strangers shoes.
But…. I DO!!! 😀
It worked fine for me for a while. I’d get a handful of sales a year. Then one day something went wrong and all of my previously sold listings went active. I closed out the store at that point because it wasn’t worth the headache of dealing with.
In my opinion, don’t waste your time with it.
I’ve watch his videos occasionally. He’s actually pretty transparent about his processes. Alot of good, positive information there. He also has other people come on and share information.
He’s learned a lot in a very short time.In that video he explains that he now has a full time helper who lists and picks for shipment that he pays about $600 a week. If he doesn’t have enough work for the helper, he pays him to scavenge from a specific list of things.
His own time is dedicated to scavenging and doing his youtube/mastermind stuff.
Some people want to pay someone to be their guru. He’s capitalizing on that. Don’t blame him.
Facebook has all but destroyed marketplace. They barely even let me see local stuff – it’s all brand new junk listings and advertisements. I can’t sell anything on there to save my life when I used to sell everything I listed.
Then if I search for something specific they clog up my feed with similar items for the next month.
If my own personal frequent marketplace searching and browsing is any indication, the problem is definitely that people simply can’t see my item in an organic browsing fashion.I’ve watched a couple vids on youtube about amazon returns unboxing. It is definitely a mixed bag and way too expendsive for the risk.
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