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Items in Store 1527
Items Sold 22
Total Sales $857.00
COGS $103.00
Total Profit $754.00
Average profit $34.27
Average sales price $38.95
New Listings 46
Items scavenged 18
Sourcing Allotment 15I listed alot of big bulky items this week. I need space so I’m focusing on those kind of listings right now. It feels good to move big bulky things out the door!
The person I work with at my day job the closest tested positive for covid this past week. His 4 year old got it from his teacher at day care. I had to quarantine and get tested – thankfully negative. We wear masks and try to stay socially distanced at work, but in a loud foundry environment, social distancing isn’t always possible in order to hear each other talk.
This week I’m gonna keep on focusing on the bulky listings. Hopefully that reflects in my numbers as alot of these items are $100+ listings.
Have a great week everyone!
Ah, but it’s not the shoes that they’re paying for. It’s the story behind them. If you’re willing to play the game and describe in detail how you don’t wear socks and you are really sweaty when you’re playing tennis in the shoes and such, yes you can make bank on these people. Oh and don’t forget the photos of your feet in the listing with the shoes. That’s the money shot.
Wants examples, search “well worn shoes”.
As for me, I’m willing to stick with my $30 ASP dealing with normal people who just want a quality pair of shoes.
Items in Store 1503
Items Sold 27
Total Sales $1,167.00
COGS $105.00
Total Profit $1,062.00
Average profit $39.33
Average sales price $43.22
New Listings 93
Items scavenged 15
Sourcing Allotment 28So March is typically my worst month of the year. Crappy weather, post holiday blues, empty bank accounts from paying off holidays – I assume that is why March sales suck. This year though, March ruled for my store!
March 2019 March 2020 March 2021
Items sold: 67 Items sold: 65 Items sold: 97
Sales: $1690 Sales: $1695 Sales: $3679
I worked from home some this week, which freed me up to get a bit more ebay work done than I usually can. Hopefully the extra listing pays off this week as I listed lots of big ticket items from the power wheelchair part out.
In other news, with all this extra ebay money, absurd stimulus money, plus pay increase at day job I’ve started planning a home addition. I created scale floor plans for my house in AutoCAD, and have started to design the addition.
The 2 story addition will take us from 2050 sq ft, 2.5 bath, 3 br to 3000 sq ft, 3.5 bath, 5 br. I plan to contract all the framing, roofing, plumbing/HVAC/electrical rough-ins and do all the interior and some of the exterior work myself to keep costs down.
We simply love our neighborhood and location, but our house is simply too dang small. We’ve winged it long enough since our kids are small, but that ain’t gonna fly much longer.
Great job meeting your goals!
About how long does it take for you to create a listing?
I’ve stored my clothes in my shed for years with zero issues.
The only place I’ve had issues is anything stored on the concrete floor in my garage. those things will develop mold/mildew.
The only issue in my shed is stink bugs getting into things.
Yep! I knew that item would be valuable, but I considered valuable to be $50-60 at the sale. Never would have thought it would be worth that much!
So be aware, the star wars Pixar Cars crossover toys are definitely BOLO. I wish there would have been more of them!
So this just happened:
I had it listed as an auction and a buyer messaged me an offer. We agreed at $225 and he bought immediately. I REALLY wanted to let the auction run it’s course but he was offering me WAY more than all the researched prices were showing. Bird in hand, as they say. I think it is unlikely it would have reached that price at auction, but we’ll never know now.
$7.76 here.
It will go up if you lose top rated seller. Assume anything told to you by ebay CSR is complete BS.
Well here’s a tip. If you ever talk to someone about ebay and all they say is how ebay is a scam company and all buyers/sellers are scammers – know that the person you are talking to is most likely the real problem.
Either they are a scammer themselves, didn’t want to pay their clearly stated fees, or they are simply incompetent.
Sure issues happen but they are REALLY rare. Businesses would KILL to have the shrink rates that we have as ebay sellers.
No. Odds are the person found your listing from outside ebay and registered to buy it.
Well scratch that idea. I’m gonna have to take a deep dive this week and see if I can put together complete sets. I just cracked the lids on all of the geotrax to take a look (I didn’t open any of them at the sale except the one with all the cars). Right off the bat I found the complete train and all the big track pieces of this set:
It sold for over $300 during the holidays on terapeak.
It’s entirely likely I will only list the geotrax cars/trains and just offload the rest in bulk on facebook.
The research is all pretty straightforward as there is model numbers on most everything. Paint variants are what to look for on the Pixar cars. I have this one Mater that the normal one is a $10 car, but the one I have is the oil stain variant and it sells for $85 consistently.
Items in Store 1437
Items Sold 27
Total Sales $1,008.00
COGS $122.00
Total Profit $886.00
Average profit $32.81
Average sales price $37.33
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 2
Sourcing Allotment 2So I had a pretty crappy week. Wednesday night, an electrical burning smell I couldn’t locate in ebay room (garage). Couldn’t sleep all night for fear of house burning down. Thursday night, thunderstorm and power freaks out in house – partial power loss. Power company came and showed me that power coming in was fine, so something wrong in my panel. I was up at 3am probing my panel to diagnose the issue – found the unlocatable burning smell…
Friday found an electrician to replace my entire electrical panel. Spent Friday evening and all of Saturday installing new panel. I put my family in a hotel for 2 nights while it was all done. Once done Saturday night had to spend a couple hours verifying circuits. Needless to say, I haven’t slept much in many days, and ebay ground to a halt.
In other news, I did stop by a yard sale Saturday that was near my house. It was intended to just be a mental diversion to burn a few minutes, but it ended up being one of those unicorn sales. Toys as far as the eye could see!!! First thing that caught my eye was an ENTIRE STORAGE TUB of Pixar Cars Die cast cars. These can be big bucks. I bought the whole thing for $60. I’ve already created 40 listings that total over $1k list price, and that is only a fraction of what I have. Some of them sell for $100+
When I showed interest in the Cars stuff, they showed me a Cars Geotrax tub. Sure I want that. One problem, they weren’t sure it was all in that one tub…then they pointed at this wall of tubs that was all geotrax. 8 GIANT storage tubs. They wanted $200 for all of it. Ugh…I didn’t really want that much. Then they opened one of the tubs and it was full of nothing but the motorized cars and remotes. I have sold many of the remote controlled cars and even the common ones sell for $40+ each and they sell fast. There was over $1000 of easy money in that one tub, and I had seen numerous other RC cars with remotes in the Cars tub.
So yeah, I ended up loading up my car and the guy brought the rest over to my house in his SUV.
That’s where I drew the line at that sale. There were 4 giant overflowing storage tubs of Hotwheels. There were 3 50 gallon tubs overflowing with nerf guns. I didn’t even ask because I already have a bunch of nerf guns in my death pile, and the hotwheels would be way too tedious for me to mess with. Still, there were $1000’s in inventory there for the taking.
I talked to the people – an only child/grandchild with parents with a ton of money and grandparents with tons of money. He’s a teen now and they had kept everything. All of that stuff for one single kid. Crazy!!!
I’ve had a handful of these. I always tell the customer to contact their local post office and that the post office has the GPS coordinates of where the package was delivered. I also tell them to check with their neighbors as the package was likely delivered to the wrong address or the postal carrier accidentally kept it on the truck.
9 times out of 10, they get their item.
