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Items in Store 1405
Items Sold 27
Total Sales $766.00
COGS $83.00
Total Profit $683.00
Average profit $25.30
Average sales price $28.37
New Listings 68
Good week getting alot of things listed and organized. I condensed 12 totes in my inventory storage so I have plenty of room now to list. Lots of family stuff and did some traveling to visit family as well this weekend. I jumped off a 30 foot waterfall yesterday which was pretty awesome!
My plan is to grind away at listing as much as possible this month so I can enter 4th quarter at my highest ever listed inventory numbers. 1578 is my highest inventory number, so I want to be at 1600 or better by the end of the month. I’ll need to list about 300 items to get there.
While not wireless, many wifi routers have the ability to network a printer for wireless function.
Items in Store 1364
Items Sold 29
Total Sales $950.00
COGS $107.00
Total Profit $843.00
Average profit $29.07
Average sales price $32.76
New Listings 57
Man I picked a GREAT week to start listening to “We’re Alive”. My Monday would have been empty without a new SL podcast but I’ll be good now. If you haven’t ever heard of We’re Alive, you should definitely add it to your podcast list.
I’m still working on blasting through listing all of my shoes backlog since my daughter is doing such a great job cleaning and photographing shoes. We’ll finish this week and hopefully she can transition to coats and jackets.
Regarding managed payments, I find it quite irritating that they don’t release funds for payout until I ship the item. On the other hand, it is motivating me to stay on top of my shipping.
I’m feeling the pressure to get as much listed as possible. Yardsales were a complete bust this past weekend as expected. As much as it pains me to not shop, I’m going to shut down sourcing in September and focus on listing and inventory management so I can enter 4th quarter high on listed inventory, well organized, and flush with cash. All the unrest in our country has triggered my anxiety to make me want to fill my cash reserves as much as possible.
Typically in cases such as these, the buyer supplies me with contact info so we can talk.
We’re blocked from sending that info but they usually are not.
Ah, those days of $20 amazon credit for being even the slightest bit unsatisfied were awesome.
I wonder if Walmart is including their grocery app in their online sales. Their store pickup shopping has BLOWN UP since the virus thing started. My local walmart dedicated like half the parking lot to employee parking – most of which are doing the store pickup shopping stuff.
Normally I get irritated when people are already doing Halloween in August, but this year everyone gets a pass from me. Gotta have something to look forward to!
With all the crazy big stuff you buy/sell, how do you NOT own a liftgate pickup truck?
Items in Store 1336
Items Sold 24
Total Sales $642.00
COGS $96.00
Total Profit $546.00
Average profit $22.75
Average sales price $26.75
New Listings 74
Man it felt good to get back into listing items! My daughter did pretty good this week cleaning shoes and taking photos – she processed 60 items. Hopefully when I hand her that wad of cash tonight for last week that will spur her on to do even more this week.
Yard sale season is pretty much over in this area. The volume and quality of sales drops off quick after the first Saturday in August. There’s still a few gems, but almost not worth the time. I did pretty good this summer and got plenty of good stuff. I think I’m going to take a break from Scavenging for September.
As for your helper and the folks that messaged you about him, it is pretty lame to look at a single case and declare an entire generation is worthless. Every generation fits a bell curve for work ethic – to think that any previous generation is superior is just dumb. I’ve had the pleasure to work with many amazing “millenial” interns and Co-Ops at my dayjob over the years.
Our neighbors moved from NOVA and they didn’t bat an eye at paying $260k. No offer, nothing – full asking price.
Affordable housing is disappearing quick in our necks of the woods unfortunately – I think mainly due to people moving in from higher priced areas.
Yep, this is a big issue and ebay doesn’t care. You are expected to refund within 2 days no matter what.
My advice is to message your buyer, explain the situation, and advise them to NOT contact ebay.
I was on chat with ebay about this issue this weekend as I had two returns that opened shortly after going to managed payments.
I contacted both customers and asked them to be patient as I worked with ebay to figure it out.
On return that showed up first, ebay put a 3 day hold on the return. Then the rep sent me an email with “instructions” on how to refund the buyer. They told me to directly send the customer paypal funds, document the transaction, and send proof to a provided ebay email address.
That’s great….but ebay and paypal BLOCK the actual email address of buyers!!! I literally couldn’t do this. So next I sent funds from my bank account to my paypal account. After I did this I got a message that it would take 4-5 business days before the funds were available to use.
The day after I did this ebay closed the return and refunded the buyer in full (should have not refunded shipping costs due to return reason). Ironically ebay had no problem auto debiting my payment method to get THEIR money back. I argued to no avail with ebay – they said it wasn’t able to be appealed.
I’ve again messaged the other return buyer and requested they don’t escalate the return and that I’ll refund them as soon as the money shows up in paypal. I transferred the money last Tursday morning and it STILL isn’t available.
So long story short: You are basically screwed with any return that was purchased prior to managed payments implementation. It will be impossible to get the money back into your paypal account quick enough to avoid issues. Your only option is to clearly communicate with the buyer and hope they don’t go ahead and escalate the case after 2 days.
Items in store: 1286
Items sold: 20
Total sales: $762.00
COGS: $143.00
Total profit: $619.00
Average profit: $30.95
Average sales price: $38.10
New Listings: 24
I finally was able to spend some time cleaning/organizing my eBay space after the home renovations. I’m back on the listing train baby!
Yesterday at the local goodwill they had a TON of sealed new D&D style game sets. All priced cheap. I bought all of them. Nothing extremely sought after or valuable, but will average $30-40 an item.
This week I want to really start cranking out the listings. I hope to hit 100 new listings come reporting time next week.
