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Wow that app sounds awesome. I can’t be the only one who wants some details on the best stuff you got.
instead of “what sold this week” , I wanna see “what stuff we ate this week”Yeah it was very concerning to see that 1200 of my 1700+ listings had no page views in May when I ran the traffic report last week.
After the terrible beginning to last week, I had a phenomenal weekend and Monday. Tuesday I had three sales in the morning before 10am. I’ve had no sales since then , so more than 48 hours now without a sale, even with me listing 40 items since Monday evening! Ebay is a glitchy rollercoaster right now. messaging was messed up on the app and I had to upgrade to the new nested messaging system to get it to work. They’re working on category item specifics and page views. Something they’ve done is messing things up for some people.
Month over month my impressions are down 9%, page views down 6%, and items sold down 22%. My store size is pretty much the same and I even added a bunch of promoted listings.
I have a decent eye for valuable dvd, VHS, and video games.
Since I mainly do thrift stores most of the time, I rarely get video games. I only check the DVD/VHS occasionally. This time what caught my eye was a lineup of about 30 discs with similar side labels. Once one of these sets shows up, odds are good there are more so I went through the whole section and filled a cart. The crappy part is that they cost $2 per movie so my COGS get pretty high. I put back some stuff like dragonball GT and some Yugioh (they aren’t high dollar vs the cogs) Still, it’s easy money even at 3x-5x profit vs cogs for various lots.
The yard sale score was crazy. I lost count when I was counting the discs, but it was over 400 – all complete sets. Even better, I only paid $45 for over 400 discs. The downside – no cases. They just had multiple massive cd cases sitting out because they had thrown out the cases years ago and now went digital. The anime stuff was only about 20% of what they had. The thought occured to me that it could all be fake while picking out the anime stuff, but if they are they are darn impressive fakes. It’s not unusual for anime collectors to have massive DVD collections such as this.
The third score was at the same thrift store as the first. Apparently after I cleared them out the first time that made room to bring out a bunch more. I suspect that if I go back today there may be even more but I think I’m good on anime for now. Lol!
1. Unless they are badly damaged, discs work. plain & simple. I have returns if it doesn’t, but I have no concerns on that front.
2. codes are mainly for older computer games. Depends on the software license. Some softwares are good for several installs.
Items in Store 1766
Items Sold 22
Total Sales $750.00
COGS $140.00
Total Profit $610.00
Average profit $27.73
Average sales price $34.09
New Listings 51
Items scavenged: LOL…why bother! At least most were small!
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 46
Sourcing Allotment 20So Monday through Friday I had 8 sales for $180. I had ZERO sales on Friday. My impressions data – specifically for promoted listings – tanked during those 4 days. There was a 30% drop day over day Monday – friday – just down, down down. It was odd for sure. On Thursday I added 300 new items to promoted listings. Friday I had no sales, but mid-day on Saturday the spigot was turned back on.
Maybe it was a category related hiccup? Who knows. Either way that’s one heck of a recovery on the weekend to save my week from total disaster.
It was an interesting week scavenging. On three separate days I came into MASSIVE Anime DVD hauls. Most of these will be listed in lots so even though it’s alot of discs – the amount of listings will be much less. I have HUNDREDS of anime discs from these scores. On 3 separate days I came across high end youth golf club sets. Saturday was the first time we’ve went to yard sales this year. Actually the last time since early august last year due to my extended illness. There were some great sales and scored some great stuff. My favorite sale was actually friday night. A neighbor of mine already had everything set up as I drove past coming home from work. I asked if he was “open” and he said come on over. I got a massive pile of shoes and some American girl dolls and accessories. I went back the next day when he had everything else out and got even more including some nice Dewalt power tools in original boxes.
Did I buy too much which is counterproductive to my death pile reductions? Yep. Do I really care at the moment? Nope. I’ll keep working on my 40+ items a week listing average and it will be what it will be.
One fun item I bought at a yard sale was a pile of video games. Nothing special but all were complete in box but 2 of them. I paid $20 for 22 games. Alot of people don’t like doing video games because many are low dollar – $5 profit. I always pick up complete in box games if they are cheap and disc is in good condition. It takes me about 90 seconds to research and create each listing. I timed myself on photos this weekend and it took me an average of 45 seconds to photograph (7 photos each item). It takes about 1 minute to upload photos to each listing and submit. Some of the games were $5 games but some of them were decent at $20. So in total it took me about 70 minutes to do everything and those 20 games (2 were too scratched up to list) had a list price of $282. Most of them will sell within a year. That’s good money for really easy work.
Something went wrong for sure this week. eBay must be “fixing” things. My traffic plummeted further and further each day Monday – Thursday for no reason.
this weekend things have spring back to life.I have had several coworkers test negative 2-3 times and then test positive – week after symptoms onset.
My whole family was sick last week. My wife and I still have some lingering issues from it. I was tested for COVID and was negative. I did some research on COVID testing and omicron and based on when I was tested the odds of a false negative is pretty high.
Why do I suspect COVID now? Because the last couple days I thought I was going nuts because I smell cigarette smoke CONSTANTLY. Yeah, that’s a post COVID thing some people get. Nice.Its gotten worse and worse. For the last 24 hours I’ve felt like I was living in a cig smoke cloud.
I’ve never experienced this on eBay but this is the norm on pirateship.
My overall impressions are down about 9% and page views is only down 2%.
So I guess this is normal???Items in Store 1737
Items Sold 21
Total Sales $596.00
COGS $41.00
Total Profit $555.00
Average profit $26.43
Average sales price $28.38
New Listings 46
Items scavenged 74
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 45
Sourcing Allotment 2So far this year sales have been a strange rollercoaster. I’ll have 2-3 weeks of strong sales, then a week with half the sales. Rinse, repeat.
I scavenged WAY too much this week, but at least I got some listing done. My local goodwill continues to increase their prices. They’ve went all in on pricing up their shoes they think are valuable. It started with just a pair of nikes here and there. Today they had some mens sperrys and polo ralph lauren boat shoes – all priced at $19.99.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. I adapt and move on. If the numbers make sense, I still buy shoes. They still miss quite a few valuable ones.
In the past I’ve had this kind of relationship with thrift managers. One manager would see things he knew I’d want and save them for me. One time I came in and he went and grabbed a big box of Mens size 15/16 shoes – high end brands – for me. I made a mint on the box.
Unfortunately, turnover is so incredibly high at most of the thrifts even in management that maintaining that relationship is almost impossible.
The place I got the rainbow brite stuff is a church thrift. I went back the next day to see if anything else came out , but I really was going in to develop a relationship and make a cash donation to “grease the wheels” as they say. That’s when I found out that they rarely have the same person working. It’s a bunch of volunteers at the church. I don’t go there near enough to develop a relationship with over 50 people! Lol!
We might be overthinking this one for GSP. technically I don’t ship anything to Germany – eBay does. The importing recycling thing would fall on eBay, and they’d likely just add that cost to the German customer.
Speak of the devil, Just sold a lot of Thomas trains.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/264566829768there wasn’t anything really special in this lot, so to make things simple I just did a bulk listing.
Not Thomas, but an example of breaking down a set into individual pieces.
I picked up a hot wheels Mario kart track last week. I set it up to test it and make sure it worked. It was complete, but one piece of track had a busted connector which rendered the whole track unusable.
the complete track was going to sell for $50-60.
There is a pretty good market for the parts for this track. I was able to create all the listings for parts in about 15 minutes with my nose to the grindstone. Photos takes about 5 minutes total.
the total list price for all the parts? $363.once I sell 5-6 individual parts I’ll make more than I would have if I sold the set whole.
replacement parts can be quite lucrative if you are patient.
