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02/04/2019 at 9:04 am in reply to: Regional Rate A is now more expensive to ship than a 2lb priority package???!?? #56359
I could have sworn it was the same price as 2lb for me. I just started using regional rate last year.
Items in Store 1088
Items Sold 24
Total Sales $836.00
COGS $70.00
Total Profit $766.00
Average profit $31.92
Average sales price $34.83
New Listings 17I really look forward to my Monday morning numbers and philosophical overview of my business. Thanks again J&R for encouraging sharing of numbers in this format!
I had a cancelled sale on a $200 pair of shoes. That one hurt. Oh well, I knew this one wouldn’t end well due to buyer behavior after the sale (asking condition questions after payment), so better for him to get cold feet BEFORE I shipped the item.
Combine that with another cancelled sale and a few offers that were just a bit lower than I could accept, and I could have had a $1200-1300 week.Much like the title of this weeks podcast, there is also a Scavenger Offer Equation. This is an equation I am in flux on. I’ve started to accept more and more lower offers, especially on long tail items I’ve never had an offer on. Like I said above, I turned down a few offers that just weren’t quite up to snuff. I am also starting to better identify my items that quite literally may only have one potential buyer in the universe. Should I risk running them off with a counter offer? With the offers I did not accept this week, I know I can do better than the offers that were presented to me. On the other hand, I really want to move product. Also, at the end of the week I could have had a $1k week if I would have accepted some of those offers. Maybe I should have just accepted them…I still would have made an absurd profit margin.
The recent shipping increases have also affected my offer equation. Shipping increases happen every year and they’ve never bothered me until this year. This years increase feels like it crossed a tipping point that will majorly affect my offer AND scavenging equations. More and more buyers are paying $10+ for shipping now. All buyers are now paying more than $8 for priority mail.
01/28/2019 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 396: Guaranteed Delivery? How is that working? #56029I have my childhood Star Wars C3PO toboggan listed for sale on ebay for $100. I don’t really want to sell it, but I’d take a stupid high price. It hasn’t sold since I listed it almost 2 years ago. Lol!
I also want to get to where all of our belongings are temporary. It is very freeing.
That arcade machine was one I never intended to sell. The thought that it would break down was really bothering me. We only play the games a handful of times a year, which doesn’t justify the cost of repair. I told my wife I wanted to sell it, and told her what they go for based on condition. She then set her sale price significantly higher than that. LOL! It took a couple months but I got that too high price. I still have a couple more machines to sell. I’m very much looking forward to all the cash + all the space.
01/28/2019 at 1:21 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 396: Guaranteed Delivery? How is that working? #56014Yes. It is annoying.
This weekend I FINALLY got the credit applied to my account. They actually followed through for once. Also, the lady who resolved it sent me an email recapping everything. I’m in shock, I had given up hope that ebay was truly capable of providing customer service.
01/28/2019 at 10:17 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 396: Guaranteed Delivery? How is that working? #55994Items in Store 1095
Items Sold 28
Total Sales $3,416.15
COGS $252.00
Total Profit $3,164.15
Average profit $113.01
Average sales price $122.01
New Listings 23My sales are heavily skewed due to the sale of two arcade games. One I sold for $2500 and the other I sold for $350. I paid $50 for the first one many years ago, and $125 for the second one. The second one was non-working and I didn’t want to work on it anymore, so I sold it non-working. Working I could have gotten $800+. Oh well – I wanted it gone.
Take those two items away and I had just over $500 for the week.
Man, I NEEDED that huge sale. FU money feels goooooood.
Have a great week everyone.
Nike – JUST DO IT!
Buttons and joysticks are cheap. Crappy JAMMA arcade machines are cheap, though not as cheap as they used to be. There are arcade auctions still in some areas, as well as arcade/pinball trade shows where you could get a complete 2 player machine for super cheap. Then you just need a JAMMA adapter to allow you to interface directly to the controls and monitor.
Something like this:
Holland Computers Jamma AdapterI’ve made a few MAME machines over the years. I became quite fond of the 60/1 multicade boards and sold several multicade machines. I’ve made some real nice ones, as well as a few junkers I just slapped a multiboard in.
It blows my mind that they lost that much money. Management and overhead expenses from bloat and bureaucracy must be absolutely unreal.
As for the allure, if she didn’t experience it then it is hard to explain. It’s the total experience: lights, sounds, smells, that giddy feeling when a new game showed up in the arcade, etc, etc.
I don’t even have to play my games to enjoy them. I just like having them all turned on with the lights out and music playing while other people enjoy them. I’m recapturing a moment in time. Alas, I no longer want to maintain them and I don’t want machines breaking down on me anymore. They’ll just sit instead of getting fixed and that, to quote Marie Kondo, would not spark joy.
Get out your wallet for paperboy – that is what I just sold. Very rare machine, especially on the East Coast.
Also spelling errors
The only fake nikes I’ve come across have model numbers that aren’t real. If you research the xxxxxx-xxx model number on the tag and look for obvious fakes, I think you’ll find they are real.
I just sold an arcade game for $2500. Score!
What did I pay for it? About 10 years ago I bought it non-working for $50. I had to re-route one wire to get power to a board and it has been great every since.
It’s an option, hence why your location shows as Texas. Not everyone wants to be that forward with info, which is fine by me.
01/24/2019 at 1:21 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 395: What Lifestyle Is eBay Supporting For You? #55781Just make sure your school will allow her to enter 5th grade next year. I’m in one of the worst states for homeschooling. Here, they can refuse to accept your homeschooling and make them repeat the previous grade.
Once you get to high school here, they will make them start at 9th grade if going back into the school. So people have to decide prior to 9th grade if they will commit fully to homeschooling all the way through high school.
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