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Yep, my thought process in these cases is “thank you for sparing me a headache problem buyer after I ship.”
I have no problem at all cancelling and delisting.
The one I finished up yesterday was red matter. It was awesome.
We do have beat saber which everyone loves.
I’ve had to build up my VR endurance for the big challenge: resident evil 4.enjoyed playing that in ps2 many years ago. Can’t wait to do it in vr.
I’m also gonna get the ping pong game. Reviews say it is as close to the real thing as it gets.
Items in Store 1495
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $580.00
COGS $62.00
Total Profit $518.00
Average profit $25.90
Average sales price $29.00
New Listings 3
Items scavenged 0Had a wonderful Christmas. My wife got me an Occulus Quest for Christmas and wow, it is FAR better than I expected it to be. It is every bit the VR we 80’s kids always dreamed of and more! I figured it would be good, but admittedly I didn’t know much about it and so I did not know it was capable of tracking your position in a room. I wish I had a bigger room now!
Sales were down as expected. This week started out good though with a $250 sale. Still keeping to my no ebay work December (with the exception of shipping). I will likely make this a yearly tradition.
My solution was to just start using UPS in most scenarios. Once upon a time, UPS was not competitive. They’ve stepped their game up lately and they beat Fed Ex on price around 75% of the time.
This baffles me. Do you mind sharing your store?
It makes no sense how you could barely be selling anything with that many listings.I offer the discount with Fed-ex shipping to be competitive for West coast customers. I do not offer the discount on USPS packages. The difference in the USPS cost helps offset alot of my selling fees since we are charged fees on shipping as well.
While I put Fed-ex shipping on my listings, I will choose either Fed-ex or UPS to actually ship, depending on who is cheaper. The drop off point is the same either way for me.
Items in Store 1512
Items Sold 22
Total Sales $969.00
COGS $88.00
Total Profit $881.00
Average profit $40.05
Average sales price $44.05
New Listings 4
Items scavenged 4Looks like the “too late to buy anything online” Christmas slowdown struck this weekend. After a very steady week, Saturday and Sunday took a nosedive.
Picked up a few video games at Walmart Clearance and listed them while in store. The profit margin is not great – just 2x money – but they are just so easy to list and ship. It’s basically free money.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone!
So when you applied for this grant, did you have to make a video, submit a plan or something? How did they select you? Do you have to update them later to show what you did?
I remember seeing this but I never applied since I assumed I would need some kind of reality show style backstory and make videos and the like.
As for what I would do with it? Hire an employee to do my death pile listing. $10,000 in free labor would break down like this:
$10000 divided by $15/hour = 667 hours
Assume 1 solid 40 hour week of training to get the person to the point they could do all the work necessary to do everything needed to create a listing except for the price.
That leaves 627 hours.
Assume on the low end that they can do 4 listings an hour – photograph, minor cleaning, measure, weigh, title, item specifics.
That is 2500 listings they could create in roughly 31 part time 20 hour work weeks. I estimate I have 2500-3000 items in my death pile so it would require no scavenging on my part (Don’t judge – it was all by plan to go full time – it’s just that my day job career turned out better than I planned)
My historical average of net profit minus COGS (not including ebay fees which are partially offset by net positive shipping income) is $34 per item.
So that $10k in part time labor over the course of about 8 months will list my entire death pile (which is already organized and permanently stored where it would go in inventory I might add) for an eventual income of $85000.
Items in Store 1531
Items Sold 31
Total Sales $1,044.00
COGS $106.00
Total Profit $938.00
Average profit $30.26
Average sales price $33.68
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 2Sales continue to consistently come in even though I haven’t listed anything since 11/7. I can’t think of anything really worth mentioning last week ebay wise. I did sell a Geosafari for $180. That was pretty cool.
Regarding the case thing for a legitimate GSP INAD, I have a real hard time acting on faith that when the case is escalated ebay will side with me and screw the buyer. I guess they just make buyer and seller whole?
Typical operating procedure when a case is escalated because a seller took no action is to fully refund the buyer and give the seller a transaction defect. Why would this be any different?
Having said that, in all the years I’ve been doing this I have had only one GSP INAD and it was legitimate. I fully refunded the buyer. Aside from that I’ve never even had a return request for an international order. I think most international buyers understand they are taking a calculated risk.
9 time out of 10 when I try to get a quote for a buyer when they complain about GSP costs, I am not able to beat the price GSP given to them that INCLUDED customs fees. About the only way you can beat GSP is shipping to Canada with simple export rate on light items. Once upon a time I added 1st class shipping to light items for Canada only. It did not result in significant extra sales so I quit doing it.
The last time I did kick an item out of GSP was when I sold a large lot of star wars toys to a person in the Netherlands. I was able to find a shipping quote that was cheaper than GSP, but he ran the risk of getting absolutely slammed on EU customs fees since the total package value was over $200 and his package delivery was significantly delayed. He was willing to roll the dice in hopes he didn’t get charged.
Well he did and ended up paying more than GSP quote. He was still happy though, so all’s well that ends well.
I think buyers are realizing that the customs/duties loophole is closing rapidly and are more open to GSP.
I’m not sure of your setup as to why you need a wireless thermal printer, but you might consider using it as a network printer if you can locate it near your router or if you can run ethernet cable to a router or to a network booster.
Items in Store 1558
Items Sold 29
Total Sales $1,011.00
COGS $116.00
Total Profit $895.00
Average profit $30.86
Average sales price $34.86
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 13First week back at day job work was a mixed bag. Waking up to an alarm clock again really stinks. I just didn’t feel like listing. I may not list at all this month. I worked really hard once I got back on my feet in mid-october to build up my listed inventory and well, I think I deserve a break to enjoy the holidays with my family.
Instead of listing I’m hanging out in the hot tub or playing video games with the kids. It is nice.
I still have to ship of course but I’m trying to keep that to a bare minimum thanks to my 2 business day handling. Tonight I have to ship…ughhh. But I won’t have to ship again until Thursday so yay!
Always verify twitch the uk or eu sizes on tag. Every manufacturers website has a size chart to cross reference the sizes.
If there is no international sizes, sometimes they’ll have a length cross reference on the website you can use.Chalk it up to lesson learned and move on.
Items in Store 1585
Items Sold 29
Total Sales $940.00
COGS $99.00
Total Profit $841.00
Average profit $29.00
Average sales price $32.41
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 0Sales were weak Wednesday-Friday, but this weekend I sold almost 20 items! Hopefully that high volume continues this week.
I’ve been selling more low dollar items as I clear out old inventory. Any time an old shoes or clothing item comes across my “send offers”, I’ve been sending substantially good offers. I’ve been selling alot of $10-15 shoes and shirts.
No listing or scavenging this week. Since it was my last week home before returning to work today, I just focused on resting and spending time with my family.
Now it’s “back to the grind” of work. While being near fatally sick is NOT fun, I must say that I greatly enjoyed being home for a few months.
