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it’s an interesting breakdown, but we still sell a variety of stuff on ebay every day. here is what we sold today–
Vintage Salt Pepper shaker, Vintage Drag Racing hat, Vintage 1979 Tea Towel Calendar, Vintage Worlds Fair glass tumblers, Vintage jacket, jeans, nike shirt, vintage wood box.
so there is a good mix of items with some clothes thrown in there too. i feel it’s just all about listing and being willing to change things up time to time when you start to get bored.
love that show (series)! “you’re a metal detector?” “no, i’m a metal detectorist”. YES!
12/12/2017 at 1:09 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 338: Rich Scavenger, Poor Scavenger #28664update on Santa payment, buyer messaged us (after unpaid item claim opened and personal appeal email sent) saying he would pay today. as of 1pm no payment, but i’m hoping that changes!
12/11/2017 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 338: Rich Scavenger, Poor Scavenger #28626another lost post!–
sigal wrote:
While I was listening to the podcast you will be happy to know I was meal prepping. We eat 99% at home. Cabbage (both green and purple), is totally scavenger food. Cheap, filling, super low carb (We do low carb), and high in nutrients. I make a huge salad (with my super cool 4.00 garage sale spiralizer) which does not wilt and I make my own dressing. And we shop locally grown at the farmer’s market because it’s VERY high quality food for which you would pay much more at Whole Foods, saves on doctor bills and helps local farmers at the same time — totally scavenger!
Christine R, we are in Sylmar and had to evacuate for the fires last week. Are you in the SF Valley? Just curious. It was crazy here for several days but we managed to get things shipped.
We sold a pair of vintage windows this week for $90.00 that we got for free on Craig’s list. The buyer is picking them up tomorrow. I picked up four more free vintage windows last night, we’ll see how they do.
And this weekend I picked up a cast iron boot scraper cat for $3.00. I could not find anything I wanted but in the garden was this rusty cat so I asked it was for sale. Guys says, “sure why not, 3.00.” I get home and it turns out to be an antique worth about $300.00. I listed it right away. Now we will see how that goes.
Thanks for your podcast and your amazing help.
Good health to all of you,
Sigal
12/11/2017 at 1:35 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 338: Rich Scavenger, Poor Scavenger #28619yes asking for a return is opening a case. that sucks! i didn’t know that was possible. hmmm
12/11/2017 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Case opened for item not received, though tracking shows it was delivered #28618just add the tracking number to the case and then call ebay to close it.
hey, as soon as this guy pays, i’m more than happy to custom make a box for this 36″ item, for sure!
dang, that’s pricey! but yeah, big items need a handling charge, even if you are packing them yourself. i’m still learning this lesson, trust me, i forget too.
12/11/2017 at 11:42 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 338: Rich Scavenger, Poor Scavenger #28592that’s good to know, thank you. weird!!
12/11/2017 at 10:41 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 338: Rich Scavenger, Poor Scavenger #28581sorry, not sure why when you edit, the forum eats your posts! i need to troubleshoot that.
12/11/2017 at 10:40 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 338: Rich Scavenger, Poor Scavenger #28579simplicio wrote:
I had a decent week on eBay even without counting my biggest sale ever. I am pretty elated.
Sales: CAD$4,180, 11 items, avg $380/item
COGS: $665
Expenses: $332
Net profit: $2,557
Hours: 11, hourly rate $232/hr
Listed: 13 itemsSo on Tuesday I finally met up with a guy on kijiji selling 25 beat up old barcode scanners (for warehouses etc.), after trying to arrange a meetup for a few weeks. Eventually I had to just duck out of work for an extra hour on my lunch break.
Guy’s basically an older picker who used to sell locally, now he has storage lockers full of stuff that he’s trying to unload. We settled on $560 for what turned out to be 39 scanners (plus some other odds and sods like chargers) after a bit of testing and tire kicking. I put up a listing for 2 of them to test the waters and got a message from a buyer who refurbishes these scanners. After a bit of back and forth we settled on $3,000 for all 39 scanners. So my profit comes to $2,000 after fees. Could have got more by selling them in smaller lots, but honestly I wanted to get some cashflow this week. Still have 44 batteries and some chargers to sell, should bring a few hundred more.
I am still in contact with the guy I bought from, so I may buy up more stuff from him if it looks good. He has more big lockers full of stuff and seems motivated. Also moved a couple toner cartridges for $460, they cost me $40. And some old odds and ends that I am pleased to have off my shelf.
It has not escaped my notice though, that that single sale accounts for 1/7 of this year’s profits and it only ate about 6 hours of my time (total hours clocked year to date: 363!). If that isn’t motivation to try to move up a weight class, dunno what would be. If only I could find these things every day.
I have decided to try a new SOP. Because storage is getting to be a critical problem (I’m now taking over a guest bedroom in addition to my basement storage room), I am going to set a goal of purging one item per month. At the end of each month I will choose a bulky item that needs to go, and give myself the next month to dispose of it by any means necessary – slashing the price & selling, or failing that donating/throwing away. Obviously I wouldn’t do this for items I know have great resale value, more the “for parts” listings etc. This month I am getting rid of a broken IBM Selectric.
Oh, and I learned one thing recently that doubtless all of you guys know, but maybe there’s somebody else out there mixed up like me. I do calculated shipping on everything, but I was always confused about what to do when a buyer asks for local pickup, as that’s not an option in the listing unless you do flat shipping. I now know that it’s as simple as invoicing the buyer and changing the shipping method to “local pickup”.
not sure how they are able to Name their store something other than their URL, that might be a new thing. their URL is
http://stores.ebay.com/Sitogeur
while yours is the name of your store–
http://stores.ebay.com/Toni-s-Treasure-Trovenot sure how that works these days, we’ve had our store for so long, i don’t know if they’ve changed how people can name them.
12/09/2017 at 10:20 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Playing cards, Diecast banks, Log basket, Cosco stool, Photo album, Crib mobile, TV lamp #28438they buyer has not said how they found it, how would i know if they were from Pinterest? i wish we had ebay stats like that.
we want to try and get our county to have a salvage “free” section to the dump. we see so many usable things in the trash bins. if only we were able to put them aside for people to get first. right now it’s against the rules.
12/08/2017 at 9:40 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Playing cards, Diecast banks, Log basket, Cosco stool, Photo album, Crib mobile, TV lamp #28394as you know, i won’t believe it’s sold until they pay, i pack it, it gets delivered, we get positive feedback. but hopefully that all goes smoothly!
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