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The other two rainbow brite dolls are also rare. Tickled Pink is a $150+ doll and Dress Up Rainbow Brite with the rainbow hairpiece is also a $150+ doll.
Message the buyer and tell them explicitly to NOT return the item and to dispose of it as they see fit.
That’s what I do after one buyer returned the item after I refunded them. They don’t know they are costing you money – they’re just trying to do the right thing.
Yeah it was already turned on for me as well. Another thing I noticed is that eBay gave us more control over blocking buyers who have had unpaid items. I don’t recall having this much control over those parameters in the past.
of course, I’m not sure eBay even flags buyers with unpaid item dings since they broke the unpaid item system.
Do you track your hours? On the surface I look at your numbers and think “Holy cow thats alot of work!!!”
Then I crunched some numbers: Assuming 3 minutes total time per item for shipping and 5 minutes total time per item for listing, that’s right at 40 hours. Is that about right?
Well you always make the most money selling them piece meal. Specialty pieces I almost always list individually even if they are $5-10. Spare parts from the same set are super easy to list quickly with templates. Those $5-10 sales add up over time.
the highest price I’ve ever done was a rare roundhouse I sold for like $300.
Individual trains don’t sell for as much as they did a few years ago. I’ve sold a bunch of trains in the $20-30 range.
some individual specialty track parts I’ve sold for $25-90
random parts and track lots I’ve sold for $30-100.
complete sets I’ve sold for $25-150.
my best haul of Thomas was one day I was donating junk to goodwill. A lady pulled up with an suv LOADED with totes of Thomas. I talked to her briefly and she offered it all to me. I’ve made a bunch off of that score.
Thomas stuff can be quite lucrative. I look things up and list the valuable pieces and sets by themselves. Then I lot up everything else in mixed lots.
some pieces are SUPER valuable.
I’ve made quite a bit off of Thomas the train over the years.
My gateway into serious eBay selling was a yard sale I did NOT want to do. My wife wanted to have a yard sale. A yard sale in my house means I wake up at 5-6am, and do everything myself. Around 9am I get criticized for doing everything wrong. At 1pm I get to clean everything up and donate the rest.
All this for less than $100 usually.so one year I said “how about I pick out the valuable stuff, list it on eBay, then donate everything else. “
I committed to the eBay listing and made ALOT of money.
so those $10 items – let’s say you list 20 of them on eBay. That’s $200 and if you do quick and dirty listings you might have 2 hours in it. Odds are you’ll have multiple items worth considerably more than $10.
thats alot more money and apt less time than sitting out in the heat for 6+ hours.
Keep it short and simple – don’t get in a conversation.
“yes I accept returns but you will be responsible for shipping costs.”Items in Store 1712
Items Sold 29
Total Sales $1,162.00
COGS $123.00
Total Profit $1,039.00
Average profit $35.83
Average sales price $40.07
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 47
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 45
Sourcing Allotment 2A short week for me as I was out of town until late Tuesday. I did alot of shipping this week but no listing. Yesterday I did do a bunch of organizing and moving listed inventory into storage. Sometimes I need to go on a cleaning/organizing run in order to get myself in the mood to do listing. I always feel much more motivated once my garage is clean and organized.
This week I should be able to get back on the wagon and get some listing done. I have a big bin of the stuff I have sourced the last 2 weeks that I’ll knock out first. Then get back to clearing up some death piles.
Or maybe you’ll lose track of some inventory and find it again down the road. I wouldn’t recommend it, but sometimes you’ll get lucky.
i’ve had that happen a few times. I’ve bought something thinking it will sell for $25. I throw it in a death pile and pull it out 2-3 years later and now it’s worth $100+!
I always make sure to show my wife the sale and say “ see! Procrastinating DOES pay off!” Lol!
What the…I went from having awesome sales every day since Thursday last week to not a single sale today – not even an offer!
Items in Store 1741
Items Sold 26
Total Sales $1,081.00
COGS $102.00
Total Profit $979.00
Average profit $37.65
Average sales price $41.58
New Listings 1
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 48
Sourcing Allotment 2I had a $200 and two $100 sales this week that really helped me out. I didn’t list because it was a CRAZY week! Two of my children had Birthdays (they are 3 days apart), we had a major audit at work which I’ve been preparing for since the beginning of the year, and we left on Friday so I could go on a work trip to an industry expo show for 4 days. I take my family on these trips so in the evenings we can have some fun in the big city.
We got back last night and I had to do a bunch of shipping because I had a great weekend of sales.
This week of sales got off to a very nice start as well – 14 items for $458 in sales on Monday & Tuesday.
I still use 2010-2012 computers for everything in my house with no end in sight.
For standard desktop stuff, the requirements are still pretty low.
So eBay knows that a large amount of sellers use the custom label…and they left it off the new listing screen. That is sooooo eBay….
