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The big red wasps are generally harmless and don’t pay any attention even if you are actively killing them.
Those yellow wasp/hornets? Ooooh, those little buggers are NASTY. Why do they always go right for the face??? It’s like the know exactly how to inflict max damage and insure you can’t run away too fast.
There are other issues at work here.
1. National coin shortage
2. Talk of pennies being eliminated from minting.
Also keep in mind that
1. You use the flat measurements of the bag. I occasionally do cheat and fold over some excess on the bag and use the smaller dimension.
2. The max length is 18″ to get the cubic rate. I heard you mention using 22″ polymailers – that won’t work.
And since we’re talking shipping, I tried out shippo last week to ship an item for my Father in law. It worked great. I also used it to ship a 120lb paper shredder. Their UPS rates are the best you can get it seems!
Items in Store 1479
Items Sold 36
Total Sales $1,184.00
COGS $81.00
Total Profit $1,103.00
Average profit $30.64
Average sales price $32.89
New Listings 30
Took the whole week off for holiday. I think this is the first time I’ve ever taken the whole Thanksgiving week off! It was nice but flew by way too fast.
So I’ve been cleaning/organizing my ebay spaces for a few weeks now off and on. Every time I’m out of space, I magically seem to find more by organizing. Anyways, we got a portable hot tub a couple weeks ago and hadn’t put it up yet. We were really struggling with how to winterize it on the deck. My wife mentioned we should just put it in the garage. The garage is my ebay office. Surely I don’t have room out there, as I also have my 8’x8′ lifting platform in that area!!!
Well challenge accepted. I completely revamped the space, took organizing to ANOTHER new level, and now we have a hot tub out there. And oooohhhhh it’s NICE!
I did have to get rid of one table that I didn’t really need. I upgraded my photography area as well with a new table and I hung the lighting from the ceiling.
I can’t recommend a portable hot tub enough. Growing up I had a full size hot tub and I’ve used many hotel hot tubs. I can say for sure that I prefer this portable one over all of them. It is incredibly comfortable and the jets are surprisingly strong.
I’ve noticed lately that the auto unpaid item system is not working. The cases are not closing. Anyone else having this issue?
Sales are definitely hitting holiday levels. The first 3 weeks of December are usually super busy for me, so here’s to hoping for an awesome week this week!
Items in Store 1485
Items Sold 38
Total Sales $1,331.00
COGS $112.00
Total Profit $1,219.00
Average profit $32.08
Average sales price $35.03
New Listings 24
I took last week off for the holiday. Here’ s my late numbers. I’ll post more info on current week’s numbers.
To expound on what Temudgin said, the two big rules are
1. The max length of the bag is 18″
2. It must actually still be a bag. You can’t slice the bag open and simply tape it tight around an item.
Everything else is fair game. I make extra money shipping big coats and boots via this method to west coast.
I have started extending the discount to customers by manipulating my shipping weight. Let’s say a pair of boots weighs 5 lbs but I know I can ship them in a poly mailer. I’ll just put in 2lbs for the shipping weight and I’ll put in dimensions below the dimensional shipping numbers. The west coast buyer will pay $12-14, but my shipping cost will be around 9-10. If I would have put in box dimensions and actual weight, their cost would have been over $20.
Yep, shipping from east coast to west coast can save you a great deal using cubic shipping.
Another tip – keep some 18×16 poly mailers on hand. Slightly bigger boxes can be put in those and with poly mailer dimensions you can get back into cubic rates.
It seems like you just bought a year or so ago, so I doubt refinancing would do much for you. Since you’re in WV, I’d recommend a friend of mine:
https://www.loandepot.com/loan-officers/rdegroff
He is legit awesome at his job and won’t BS you.
We did have some conversations about what the process would have been like if I didn’t have a full time W2 day job. It wouldn’t be easy that is for sure, especially if you don’t have a long track record.
Yes the rates went up…for us. Ebay has chosen to not increase the rates to the customer. I have brought this up to customer service 3 TIMES. They just don’t care.
Items in Store 1499
Items Sold 34
Total Sales $1,354.00
COGS $139.00
Total Profit $1,215.00
Average profit $35.74
Average sales price $39.82
New Listings 39
Last weekend, I was dangerously out of space in my inventory building. I took an hour and reorganized and magically I had plenty of space. Yesterday I was dangerously out of space in the garage/office. I spent an hour or two cleaning and organizing and magically I have a TON of space.
The lesson learned: STAY ORGANIZED!!!!
Sales were excellent this week – no slowdown here. I do have one sale that is concerning. I have a large paper shredder that is listed pickup only, with a description that says customer can arrange their own shipping. After I accepted their offer I messaged them to arrange shipping – no response. Then yesterday they paid. I messaged again, still no response. I’m hoping it is just a weekend thing and that they will contact me today once they are “back in the office”. I REALLY want that thing gone – I took a significantly lower offer than list price.
I’m having trouble finding time to work on listing since the time change. Typically on the weekend I wake up at around 6-6:30 and my family doesn’t wake up until around 9. This is the bulk of my listing time each week. Since the time change, I have been sleeping in until 8 on weekends and most of the family is awake BEFORE me! So instead of working for a few hours I’m rolling right into cooking breakfast. We’ll get this thing sorted out eventually.
Next week I’m off from work, but we decided not to book another vacation due to the uncertainty of increased virus going on. At any time states are gonna start locking back down. around here we joke that they’ll wait to lock down until High School football season is over. We’d love to go to columbus to see the Zoo lights, but that will have to be a last minute decision.
Either way, I’ll have plenty of time to get some serious listing done.
This is why I exclusively use the chat function now. They email you a transcript after every chat so I have it on record.
So last night I had another one. A pair of rollerblades to Hawaii. Buyer got free shipping and when I checked the purchase shipping option, fed ex was “free” for me too. Oh you know fedex will bill me so don’t buy that free bullcrap!
I reported it again. After the rep tried to tell me I had free shipping on the listing (I didn’t) they did look in the bug report and technical does have this as high priority to patch. It appears to be only Fed Ex shipping options to hawaii and Alaska that are affected.
They told me I should expect a callback within 24 hours, and that they will credit me shipping on this order so I can still fulfill it. I will be shocked if they actually call me back – they never do.
Use the calculator in the listing to figure your worst case scenario for each box, add the numbers, and then charge flat rate shipping at that price. Put a note in the listing that item will come in two boxes.
Also, in shipping restrictions you will need to exclude Alaska and Hawaii or use the new tool that lets you charge a surcharge for those two states. I’d just exclude them though.
