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Items in Store 1064
Items Sold 17
Total Sales $320.50
COGS $33.00
Total Profit $287.50
Average profit $16.91
Average sales price $18.85
New Listings 36I did sell an arcade game (Tron) for $1600 this week outside ebay, but I didn’t include it in my numbers – it skews my data.
I’m getting alot of listings up and sales are not improving. I’ve listed over 30 items a week the last two weeks, and I added a bunch of items to promoted listings. My highest item was $35. Slow sales combined with low dollar sales sucks.I really need my ebay sales to pick up because I have several house projects I want to do this spring/summer. If I can make enough I will be able to hire out some of them to insure they get done.
04/08/2019 at 7:59 am in reply to: Buyer claimed "missing parts or pieces" Return item – How should I handle it? #59854The worst thing you can do is nothing. If ebay steps in and closes the case with a refund for you that defect is worse.
That is a “case closed without seller resolution”.04/05/2019 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Buyer claimed "missing parts or pieces" Return item – How should I handle it? #59805My best advice:
No not really. I’ve never noticed any change in my store in relation to returns.
March is just a bad month for me. I’ve also become very unbalanced in what items I have listed. I am pretty much only listing clothes and shoes. I used to list a bunch of odds n ends across a bunch of categories and would sell most of it. I have a few totes of these items I’ve been eyeing in my death pile and I think I need to list them soon.
Well I’m listing AND accepting offers, yet I’m only getting 1 sale a day in completely unrelated categories one to the next.
Explain that one!Honestly I don’t think you’d be off base chiming in and saying “If you two aren’t able to work out a deal I’d be happy to buy the item.”
I could have swore you guys were already married. I also thought for some reason she had a standard job. How did I get all this so mixed up??
I was incorrect. My racks are 60″ wide, so I can fit up to 1500 clothing items in 15 linear feet of shelving floor to ceiling.
I also just checked the last two totes I filled with clothes. One had 20 items and the other had 26.
I put everything that isn’t a coat into them, so each tote has shorts, shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, pants, Sweaters, and light jackets. I load the totes with the tote on its side and stack the clothes. Once it is packed full I can access the tags/labels of every item from the top.I put my shoes in the same totes, and can usually do about 12-15 pair of mixed mens/womens shoes. per tote. So I can store up to 300 pair of shoes per rack.
The totes I use are the cheap $5 clear ones from Walmart.
04/02/2019 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Batch convert photos to square with borders for Poshmark on iphone. Finally!! #59629There are desktop and web based programs that batch process. You typically gotta know a little about what you are doing though. I take all my photos on my phone though, so now being able at the end of a photo session be able to bulk change all my photos to square is a game changer when it comes to poshmark.
It takes me less than a minute to set it up and then I just let it chug through all the photos and it dumps them all in a new folder.
I have noticed I sometimes sell products from certain categories in waves as well.
I’ve proposed my “rolling blackout” theory here before and I’d suspect that more than I would ebay rewarding a sale.
Ebay does not supply enough analytics data to prove any of this.
I guess I’m confused… Doublythumbs partner?
I can put 20-25 clothing items in a tote folded. Each rack holds 4 totes on a row and has 5 rows.
That is 400-500 per rack. I currently have 3 of these metal racks, so that is up to 1500 clothing items on what is the equivalent space of 18 linear feet of hanging rod. I’m using floor to ceiling space due to the racks which is far more space efficient.Ballparking it looks like your clothing racks are about 8 feet long and you have 3 for 24 feet of hanger rod. How many clothing items do you have on it?
I’m definitely team totes/racks for standard clothing. I have two dedicated hanging rods for coats/jackets.
I’ve gotten pretty good at making myself uncomfortable and have went all in multiple times. This one just wasn’t meant to be. With the baby coming and my wife feeling pretty miserable at this point in the pregnancy, it just wasn’t in the cards. We thought about going this weekend but she didn’t feel like doing the drive.
Oh well. I’ve decided to go the opposite direction and forego scavenging at all in April. I need to work on the backlog and get my workspace cleared out. Hard to do if I keep bringing more stuff in!
I’m very happy not dealing with the stress of bringing in a large amount of inventory right now.
What Disney movie did you sell for $51?
I’m 37. There’s a weird thing going on now IMO. People that are in the 35-50 age bracket right now are definitely fueling the 80’s/90’s collectible market. But the weird thing that hasn’t really happened before is that so is the next generation!
Take a look at in Forever 21 in your local mall. They are stocked with retro themed shirts from the 80’s 90’s.
In the arcade/pinball collectors scene, millenials have driven prices and demand through the roof!
For more than 10 years now, young people have been buying all their stuff virtually. So people who are in their mid-20’s now have never physically owned stuff. They don’t know the adrenaline high of finding the last copy of a hot new release at Blockbuster, or the thrill of buying a physical CD that you’ve been digging through used music stores in hopes of finding.
They are now realizing that all that virtual stuff…well…sucks. There is a magic to the smell of an old book, or flipping through the lyrics pages of a cd or cassette booklet.
This is why all of the sudden my local Books-A-Million has a HUGE used vinyl and dvd movie section. There are businesses everywhere now that sell nothing but vintage video games and collectibles. They aren’t selling to people my age – they are selling to teenagers and twenty somethings.
The question is, how does this all shake out 10-15 years from now?
What comes to mind is a favorite quote from Frank Zappa:It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. Eventually within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. At that point, everything stops. Death by Nostalgia.
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