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Items in Store 1603
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $861.00
COGS $60.00
Total Profit $801.00
Average profit $40.05
Average sales price $43.05
New Listings 50
Items scavenged 30
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 46
Sourcing Allotment 12Did a bit of impromptu sourcing this week – some retail arbitrage at Walmart, and I won a few auctions from a local thrift store that does facebook virtual auctions.
My sales are really cyclical – my sales chart looks like a sine wave (nerd alert!). Yesterday I only sold 2 $25 items. Boo! It sucks when my sales trend toward a $1000 week all week long and then the weekend craps the bed – only 5 sales on saturday/sunday.
Oh well, keep on listing – the sales will come.
I’ll take a photo next time I do it.
when the two sets of flaps meet up, one side of the inner box flaps will dig into the corner of the outer box set of flaps. I just shove in the flap that is getting stuck in each corner which forces the “inner” box to bow in a bit and let’s it slide inside the outer box without ripping the seam.Here’s a BOLO for you guys:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265379920843
I could have made more if I pieced it out but when I listed it before Christmas I was just wanting a quick sale for everything. It took a bit longer to sell than I expected, but I got what I wanted for it.
So you used this with another size box accordion style?
I do accordion style packing all the time with identical sized boxes. You have to tuck the 4 corners a bit when they go together but it works quite well without ripping.
eBay for business is broken sadly. I tried them, got the new spammy “authentication” link. I did end up using it. Then no response for several days. When they responded they just said “sorry for the delay. Please authenticate” I said I did and they said “it’s expired. Here’s a new link”.
Ugh…it was a great thing while it lasted.
This is a guy I enjoy watching on eBay. His challenge for 2022 is to become a vintage toy expert outside his personal favorite collectors items.
To summarize the video, in order to become an expert he decided he needed to physically put his hands on as much stuff as quickly as possible to build up his knowledge. He bundled up all his acquired random low value video game stuff and sold it as a lot for $1200 cash to free up capital. Then He went to a big time toy dealer and said “load me up with vintage toy junk for $1200”.
he’ll earn back his money plus plenty more while doing the research on this big lot plus gain an invaluable amount of hands on knowledge. Pretty smart!
Yep. 40 is the number I settled on for this year as well to meet my goals.
40 a day is pretty doable in a single person operation if you have a good process. The 46 I did this weekend from start to finished published listings took about 4.5 hours.
Items in Store 1590
Items Sold 29
Total Sales $1,083.00
COGS $82.00
Total Profit $1,001.00
Average profit $34.52
Average sales price $37.34
New Listings 46
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 49
Sourcing Allotment 21Well that was a nice rebound after the abysmal week last week. Nothing sold over $100, but alot of things over $50. I put my nose to the grindstone and cranked out my 40 listings on the weekend. It feels kinda good to have that goal. On Saturday once I crossed 40 listings created I could walk away satisfied and enjoy the rest of the day with the family. On Sunday I had a clear goal of photographing everything listed the day before. Now I just need to get better at creating a few listings here and there throughout the week so I don’t have to do all 40 on the weekend.
No scavenging again this week. The omicron virus is CRAZY in WV right now and we’re staying home as much as possible. I’ve isolated myself at work by moving to a temporary desk in an out of the way corner of the shop floor (in a huge high ceiling warehouse style building) rather than being in the 20×20 tin can with 5 other people in the engineering building. At one point 2 weeks ago more than 25% of our facility was out with the virus. The “safety” protocols are a joke now too. They have people come back to work after 4-5 days from onset of symptoms and half-ass wear a mask. So to recap – during the lockdown when literally NOONE here was sick at all, they enacted work from home protocols, shifted schedules, spread out breaks/lunches etc. When we are TRULY in a severe outbreak…they do nothing.
Check your emails for your shipping confirmation. That’s the record I trust when something funny happens on eBay.
Weird Al basically writes the soundtrack of my life. Been a fan since I was a wee lad.
If you ever have the opportunity to see his live show, you won’t be disappointed. The whole band does complete costume changes for every song.
So about those pogs….They are all sold except one small lot and I’m $200 richer.
did I say that was painful and felt like a stupid waste of time? I meant I knew they’d sell quickly and for good money. It was a calculated plan. Yep. That’s what I meant.An oldie but a goodie.
Now to complete the scavenger music challenge, have you seen/heard this?
Interesting statistic on that low average profit for this week. Since I started my detailed spreadsheet in September 2018, this is only the 6th time my average profit per item has dipped below $20!
My overall average profit per item is $32.36. I gotta put down the spreadsheets now and turn off the nerd as I’m strangely feeling motivated to do some statistical analysis and calculate my standard deviations. It can’t be healthy to do standard deviation calculations….purely for….FUN!
Items in Store 1573
Items Sold 23
Total Sales $498.00
COGS $53.00
Total Profit $445.00
Average profit $19.35
Average sales price $21.65
New Listings 53
Items scavenged 0
Listing weekly Avg 50
Sourcing Allotment 21My average sale price took a nosedive this week as I sold a bunch of low dollar items and had zero $100+ sales. On the flip side, if I didn’t have those low dollar items listed my sales would be REALLY low! It really hurts to go from 1400-1500 weeks down to less than 500. I had two days this week where nothing sold. Saturday I sold 10 items and was excited for Sunday to really save the week…only for Sunday to be one of those no sale days.
I was expecting some drop off as I usually do have a dropoff in the 3rd and 4th weeks of January.
Yesterday I challenged myself to list some things that I REALLY didn’t want to. I had these big lots of pogs that I regret buying. After I bought them I did alot of research to determine the best way to list them, got discouraged, and tossed them in a death pile. It wasn’t going to be the mega profit generator pipeline that I was hoping for. So yesterday I beared down, sorted & photographed, and listed them. It sucked and I felt like an idiot the whole time because it took FOREVER. There were ZERO complete sets.
On the bright side, I quickly had an international buyer offer me $26 for just a small portion of one of the lots. I’ll edit the pictures and repost the lot and happily take the $26. I feel better about the time spent already! Lol!
I also listed a bunch of old yugioh cards. It was a good example of how efficient I can be when I get in the zone. I was able to sort and assess them quickly, look for any high value cards, and get them listed in lots. Oddly, about half the cards were in spanish. There was only one card worth listing separate. The rest I lotted up with photos of every card and started 7 day auctions at $19.99. We’ll see how that goes.
I maintained my 40 item listing average and improved it as well this week to 50. It took more time than I wanted though as my daughter reverted to typical lazy teenager who just wanted to play video games and draw. That’s fine. She has a lifetime of work ahead of her. I’ll just have to take what I can get from her when she’s motivated.
but all I want to do is respond, “What’s the absolute most you will pay for this item?
i did that once. The lady told me I was rude. Lol.
eventually it won’t bother you. Just stay the course. I can tell you that if someone asks me that they never get the best price than if they just outright negotiated. They’re likely not going to buy anyways.
