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I had three well past 30 days that were still open – the oldest was opened in APRIL!
I started a chat with ebay and requested all three be closed. They closed them all no problem.I LOVE the ebay chat customer service. It is most excellent.
This is about the only subject I feel I could write a legit book about, but it isn’t on my list of things I really want to do.
My wife thought is finding herself as a writer. She is almost finished writing a novel, and my scavenger exploits are part of the plot so that’s something! I admire anyone who is capable of writing a full length book. That is an amazing accomplishment!
Man I hear ya!
Between my home project commitments and my exercise goals, I’m finding it VERY hard to do anything other than shipping on ebay.
I really miss working from home during the lockdown. I had all the time in the world!Thanks Jay!
This week I was looking for something to buy in the app and frequently scrolled through a banner of my own sponsored listings. I do 2%. Hopefully, it will pay off as some sellers forget about it or refuse to pay more fees.
Oh yes, I’ve noticed the scrolling banner on the screen that features only MY listings. Lame…
I just gotta remind myself that buyers don’t have listings, so that banner is full of things they might actually buy.Items in Store 1461
Items Sold 33
Total Sales $955.00
COGS $89.00
Total Profit $866.00
Average profit $26.24
Average sales price $28.94
New Listings 8Well I fell under $1k finally. It was a good run! I’m still WAY up (more than double) compared to this time last year. I also haven’t been listing for 3 weeks which cost me the $1k number this week for sure.
We did go out to yard sale this Saturday. Social distancing was definitely NOT a thing. I suppose there is an unwritten agreement that if you are hosting/attending a yard sale that you aren’t worried about the virus. Several of the people having the yard sales said the traffic was as heavy as trick or treat! I got some awesome stuff, but the highlight was this one yard sale that had records. Normally I avoid records like the plague due to the high junk to treasure ratio, but this one started off with the guy saying “records are a dollar except for Bob Dylan and the Greatful Dead.” Then another person asked him how much for a nice copy of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album. Oh crap! I better dig in!
I put together a pile of 10 and brought them up to him expecting him to change have sellers remorse and charge me $5+ for each of them. He flipped right past a very nice MJ Thriller album, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, some AC/DC like they were nothing. When he got to the Beatles White Album I found he hesitated and asked for $10. I had NO PROBLEM with that! It was original, complete with headshot photos.
After seeing he was legit with the $1/record thing I went back to his rack and bought a bunch more.
Most of the ones I got will sell for between $10-20 so I won’t get rich, but it was sure fun! Preliminary research on the White Album I think it will sell for between $50-80 (high serial number…boo!)Items in Store 1486
Items Sold 39
Total Sales $1,168.00
COGS $105.00
Total Profit $1,063.00
Average profit $27.26
Average sales price $29.95
New Listings 0Bizarro world continues – 10 day handling time most of the week and THIS is a slow week now at almost $1200 gross? I’ll TAKE IT!!
So my day job has set some deadlines for us to use up vacation time. I was forced to burn a week of vacation by the end of May. It just so happened that South Carolina was far enough along in opening that beach resorts had their pools in service. It also happens that due to the CRAZY good sales on ebay that I am flush with cash right now. So instead of sitting at home for a week, we went and “social distanced” on the beach. We scored a great deal on a 2BR condo and we had an awesome time. It is always so fun to go down to the beach/pools for a few hours, then come back to the room to see I sold multiple things. It feels like I got paid to play! Everyone there at the resort handled social distancing quite well – it was never a problem.Due to the way handling time issues, I had a couple sales that still had 2 day handling that sold. Thanks to my inventory system and revamped and organized workstations in my office, I was able to recruit my 74 year old mother-in-law to pull 2 items, pack them, and ship them. I guided her through it via facetime. She handled it like a champ!
Now that I’m home I have to face the music: I have 50 things I need to pack/ship tonight. Ugh…
Last night I pulled all of them but didn’t have the energy to do any actual shipping.Items in Store 1525
Items Sold 48
Total Sales $1,832.00
COGS $203.00
Total Profit $1,629.00
Average profit $33.94
Average sales price $38.17
New Listings 59I was out of town so getting caught up. I set my handling time to 10 days starting Thursday and still had decent sales throughout the weekend. Ebay has been doing good fixing things lately, so hopefully the handling time thing will get fixed at some point this year.
I did do well selling on facebook yardsale this week. Last weekend I picked up two power wheels kids toys at a yard sale in my neighborhood for $5 each. I replaced the batteries with decent ones I had on the shelf already (I have ALOT of kids). Then flipped them quickly on FB for $75 each. I also sold off many of my extra mannequins.
I have never heard of a single one of those brands. I suppose I’ll have to look into it.
True designer stuff doesn’t pop up very often in my neck of the woods.This is the tape I typically get:
Very thick and very sticky. Love it.Having said that, I procured 3 huge cases of tape at a Kmart that went out of business a few months ago. I’m good on tape for quite a while.
I ordered a small bag of the starch peanuts to experiment with. Less than $12 shipped for 30 gallons? That’s worth the test.
I typically get plenty of bubble wrap from work in receiving, but it has been drying up. fewer and fewer vendors are using bubble wrap.
I always substitute if the delivery times are equal or better. Usually it is the other way around (switch to USPS), but FedEx has really upped their game on price lately.
Items in Store 1514
Items Sold 60
Total Sales $1,701.00
COGS $183.00
Total Profit $1,518.00
Average profit $25.30
Average sales price $28.35
New Listings 51The weekend closed out the week much slower. I was really hoping to crack $2k sales. Oh well – can’t complain! Hopefully this was just a blip and not the end of these crazy awesome numbers I’ve been getting the last 7 weeks.
Jay, you were speaking my language in regards to slacking at school and on work projects. It’s like I simply don’t care unless I have a vested interest. I also tend to work at a significantly higher efficiency when under that last minute pressure. It is a blessing and a curse.
The new chat is AWESOME! They even send you a log of the chat session in an email once complete.
This is a very welcome change at ebay that gives me hope.Oh yeah, the clothing death piles…ugh!!! They were worth sooooo much more when I bought them! Mens dress shirts…the worst! Can’t even hardly give them away now.
I’ve been mainly hitting the high dollar unique items in my death piles for the double bonus – high selling price and they take up the most space.
I want to reduce and compartmentalize as much and as quickly as possible. I dont want to avoid sourcing forever, so I have to be prepared when the time comes again.Items in Store 1523
Items Sold 52
Total Sales $1,749.00
COGS $168.00
Total Profit $1,581.00
Average profit $30.40
Average sales price $33.63
New Listings 14So this weekend I completed my reorganizing trilogy- I tackled my garage office. Now I have three dedicated stations – listing, shipping, and photography. It hurt my listing numbers this week destroying my workspace for a few days, but it was worth it. Now instead of surviving chaos, I’ve set myself up for long term success with clear systems to crank through my backlog of unlisted inventory.
Sales volume slowed down this weekend, but I have several big sales to make up the difference. Today it has already picked back up though, so let’s keep on selling!
