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Businesses in my area are majorly desperate for employees. Even before Covid hit, it was hard to find employees that could pass a drug test and show up for work. Now it is much worse.
Many places around here have giant signs advertising well above minimum wage starting pay AND healthy signing bonuses. Even McDonalds is offering $10+ an hour starting pay!
The only clothes I provide very detailed measurements on is suits, as they are tailored and have seam allowances that need to be known.
Pants get rise, inseam, waist.
Shirts get chest, length
Occasionally I’ll do sleeve and shoulder measurements if it seems to be something other than standard.
Womens clothes that appear to be cut to form I will add hips and waist as needed.
I also don’t answer oddball size requests unless I’m really in the mood to go the extra mile. They generate a sale maybe 1 in 10 times. Most of the time the person doesn’t even acknowledge the extra effort.
We’re going back to Universal Studios the last week of this month. It’s gonna be culture shock for sure. They removed temp checks and lessened social distancing to 3 feet. So basically, there is no more social distancing.
Items in Store 1464
Items Sold 32
Total Sales $1,191.00
COGS $127.00
Total Profit $1,064.00
Average profit $33.25
Average sales price $37.22
New Listings 9
Items scavenged 32I’ve been really struggling to find time for ebay lately. I make time to ship, and we still go out and scavenge on Saturday and Sunday. That’s about it. I got a couple records photographed and listed this weekend.
Our Governor just set a date for dropping masks in our state – June 20th. Who knows how that is going to work out. Will businesses keep the requirements? Who knows!
Nothing much else to report. Ebay is kinda a backburner thing right now that I hope to kick into high gear in June.
On the pro wrestling stuff, if you ever find vintage wrestling merchandise from the late 90’s and before, it is BOLO for sure.
I sold a hot pink late 80’s Sting hat to a buyer in Japan for $100+ a few years ago.
There are lots of wrestling fans with DEEP pockets, especially overseas. There is even a new show on A&E where the executives of WWF/WWE are hunting down old collectibles from wrestling’s yesteryear.
Oh I did want to make a TV recommendation for you guys.
So for close to 2 years we’ve pretty much only watched K-dramas. Netflix had a few, but I actually got my wife a subscription to Rakuten Viki so my wife would have a larger selection.
Well Netflix is going all in on K-dramas. They’ve been making a few big budget shows. Currently we are watching Sisyphus. It’s time travel K-drama. If you’ve never tried a subtitled K-drama before, you should try it out. You get used to the subtitle thing pretty quickly.
Oh we’ve pondered the passenger van. I strongly considered getting a 9 passenger Suburban, but it was cost prohibitive for a new one and I’m not spending that much money just so my mother-in-law can come on trips still with us. I also didn’t want to buy an older model with miles/years on it and have to deal with costly maintenance issues popping up.
I’m not quite ready to say 6 is our limit, so maybe in a few years I’ll have to move to a passenger van. Lol!
Items in Store 1487
Items Sold 25
Total Sales $543.00
COGS $64.00
Total Profit $479.00
Average profit $19.16
Average sales price $21.72
New Listings 3
Items scavenged 25
Sourcing Allotment 2Plenty of sales, but LOW dollar this week. The good news is that I sold a bunch of the 3+ year old items that I’ve aggressively discounted. This is my lowest ASP since April 2019.
I’m not gonna get too down on the low sales, because this time of year is historically slow. I’m actually gonna take this as a positive as it is a good sign we are getting closer to being back to normal! I’ll GLADLY take lower sales if it means we can soon ditch masks and live life freely again.
This week already started off better with a $200 sale this morning. Let’s keep that big ticket item sales trend going!
I didn’t really do any listing this week again. Life is very very busy. I did decide to buy a new Toyota Sienna hybrid minivan to replace my car. If anyone is interested in a really nice single owner Chevy Sonic, hit me up!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265145824583
Ebay pays for itself, my main family car payment, vacations, and occasionally the house payment if sales are good. My ebay account grew this past year and I actually put away $2k into savings from my ebay account on top of all multiple vacations. Now ebay will pay for two car payments. The Sienna gets 36mpg and it can fit all of us – it’s important that our backup car also seats 8 since we will soon have 6 children.
Never in my wildest dreams as a youth did I think I’d have not one, but TWO minivans when I was an adult. Here I am with my two minivans and I’m perfectly happy about it.
Speaking of profits, I just looked at your AirBnB’s as we’re looking to do a different type of vacation in May. Holy schnikes, how long have you been getting those kind of prices? Is this a temporary bump due to the current travel surge? Ya’ll are making BANK!
You might try Mercari.
Facebook yardsale will be a no-go. They are flagging/restricting machines over there.
Items in Store 1509
Items Sold 28
Total Sales $1,295.00
COGS $82.00
Total Profit $1,213.00
Average profit $43.32
Average sales price $46.25
New Listings 9
Items scavenged 10
Sourcing Allotment 2I had some great sales this week – six $100+ sales! Also of note, my local Goodwill opened back up after being closed for a couple months. They expanded into the two empty storefronts adjacent to them in the strip mall they are in. The new store is HUGE!!!
Not alot of listing this week – family time, car troubles, home improvements, and busy day job stuff took up my time. That’s the beauty of this business though – I can take a week off and still make a bunch of money because the work is already done!
Congratulations on opening the shop! I raise my fresh cup of Broadporch Cameroon coffee to your success. Cheers!
I personally think you are correct to be leery still. Ebay has a long track history of not knowing their own rules, improperly enforcing their rules, and even making up new rules on the fly.
I would not put it past them at all to arbitrarily suspend you even if a CSR told you it is ok to share contact info after the fact.
My own policy is that I do not share my contact info, but if the buyer does then that is fine.
If I need them to pay, I find a way to get them to send me their address so I can send an invoice.
I used it back in February and it worked perfectly. It dynamically updated my handling times.
I have given up on getting ebay to recognize my correct time zone. I have set it many times – they still apply pacfic timezone to my items.
I had a 12×20 gambrel roof shed with a porch built in less than 5 hours from the time they pulled in the driveway to the time they left. Probably the same people I had build mine. They had to make a new foundation because the ones they brought were the wrong size.
The only thing preassembled were the roof trusses.
It was incredibly impressive to watch.
