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Items in Store 1078
Items Sold 30
Total Sales $594.00
COGS $68.00
Total Profit $526.00
Average profit $17.53
Average sales price $19.80
New Listings 34Since I’ve been on the kick about how we should not forsake low dollar items lately, this week is a PERFECT example of why. I only sold one item for $50 – everything else was low dollar. I sold a lot of items though, and still got up to almost $600 for the week.
If I did not list low dollar items, I would have only had a $50 week!Having a diverse store in items AND price creates more consistent sales.
Now hopefully this week I can sell some more of those $50+ items. I have a potential buyer for a pinball machine which will net me about $1300, so this week should be good.
Jay if I ever want to see a person’s head full on explode Scanners style, I’ll invite a Six Sigma Black belt over to your place for you to show off your inventory system.
DAMN YOU!!!
I’ve spent the last couple years trying to forget all those terms. Lol!
Still, the fundamentals of the process are sound and some of the tools are useful as long as they are applied with a HEAPING shovel full of common sense. I found the common sense to be totally lacking when it came to most Black Belts I interacted with.
Ah you beat me to it. I just came here to post the same thing!
The very basics of regional rate:
If it fits in a Regional rate A box, it is 2 lbs.
If it fits in a Regional rate B box, it is 5 lbs.Use this to your tactical advantage as needed.
have a coat that is 2lb 2oz? Put it in a regional A box and ship as 2lb.
Even better, if it fits in a padded flat rate envelope put it in there for cross country shipping.
Oh and about that top left quadrant. Basically, if you have any items at all in death piles that fit in this category then you need to leave this site IMMEDIATELY and do not return until all of these “low hanging fruit” are listed. What are you waiting for?
I’m selling 2-3 things a day this week, but small dollar sales mostly.
So far I’m at 8 sales for $142 total, and this is the halfway point of the week.Here’s to hoping for a phenomenal weekend!
I just went through a missing item this week. It was a large wooden bowl – 15x12x6 – hard to miss kind of thing. I kept putting off putting in my inventory system. It sold and I checked place #1 I was sure it was at…no dice. Ok…check where I put listed items that haven’t went to storage building yet…nothing. Ok…maybe it got knocked off a shelf or something… ::clean/organize entire garage::
ARGGGHHHHH!!I came home last night and tried a little longer to find it. I checked my storage building and didn’t see it anywhere. As I was getting ready to message the buyer of my failure, inspiration struck me. I had this tote of awkward items like baseball helmets and such – it is likely with them…but where is THAT tote?
Armed with my new clue I went to the storage unit and easily found that tote with the bowl sitting right on top. YAY!It turns out I had brought that tote to my storage building with the intention to assign SKU’s and properly store the items, but I got called away in the middle of the work so I set the tote up in a shelf with other listed totes instead of leaving it on the floor. These are items I do NOT put in totes in my storage area – awkward items go on specific shelves not in totes.
So this tote blended in with other totes and I never even considered it.
It takes some labor, but you could hole punch your paper and then hang it all on nails on the wall. Then just rip down a sheet at a time.
It wouldn’t take too long to punch a set of holes in one end of a stack of paper. It doesn’t have to be neat or perfect.
01/09/2019 at 7:38 am in reply to: This company pays $25 a piece for old Polaroid 600 cameras #54822I’ve sold to them before.
I agree with Jay. polaroid cameras a couple years ago sold like hot cakes. Now, it takes FOREVER. I think it has to do with the fact that you can buy brand new polaroid style cameras at Walmart again.
01/08/2019 at 4:27 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 393: Happy New Year and Returns Happen #54798No sales since 12/30. I would be going nuts! You appear to have some good items with good pricing. The thing that jumps out at me is the photography.
One thing I’ve always felt set my shoe sales apart are my photos. I stick to a fairly rigid style for my shoe photos. I always ask top dollar for all my shoes and I do very well. I’m always looking at the photography of other sellers who get high dollar for used shoes. Your shoe photos are kind of all over the place. Different angles, random poses, not centered, different backgrounds, corners of a room in the background that is offset and shot at odd angles in relation to the item and the camera orientation.
Maybe it is personal preference, but I am not a fan of your choice of main photos for your items. They are offcenter, angled, and zoomed in on a portion of the item. These are traits I associate with lower priced items from amateur sellers.
I went through some of your items and it seems you always have a an “overall” photo that shows the whole item and is centered/straight. I’d recommend you use these photos for your items main photo. There is a reason why retailers show the whole item in their main photos. Do what they do!
01/07/2019 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 393: Happy New Year and Returns Happen #54705I did feel vindicated by her methods though. I’ve been preaching the “make a pile” method of cleaning for years. It is by far the most efficient way of dealing with messes. I couldn’t get anyone else in my house to buy in even though I’ve demonstrated how effective it is over and over.
All the sudden a tiny Japanese woman tells them to do it and they buy in instantly? Hey…whatever works. I’ll take it.
01/07/2019 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 393: Happy New Year and Returns Happen #54704Marie Kondo show is AWESOME!
Oh me, I don’t care either way. But my wife and daughter watched a few episodes and then stopped to go into the kitchen and completely clean out the spice cabinets and organize them. They did an excellent job and were very quick with it.
A show that motivates my family to clean/reduce/organize spontaneously? YES PLEASE!!!
Yes, its a good idea to either expire/renew your campaigns or edit them to add new items occasionally to readjust these rates. I’ve been going in every 2 weeks and adding new items to promoted listings and updating the rates. Sometimes the rates go down, so it’s not always trending up!
This pricing crap is automatic when creating listings on the phone. It is ANNOYING!!
It defaults everything to a cheap auction price. I then change to fixed listing and it auto fills in a super low price there too.And now my listing preferences are all jacked up even more since they’ve started changing things. Now all my listings on computer whether started from scratch or sell similar will default to no returns, no Best offer, no sales tax, and local pickup only.
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