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11/19/2018 at 1:25 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #51961
Holy cow, Amatino!
Does your husband also sell online, or does he have a brick & mortar store? How did he buy so many sewing machines?
For the belly dancing costumes, did you just add lights onto what you already had? I’m assuming you didn’t have to create new ones. And … which dancer were you?
Yes! I bought mine used off eBay last year. It’s been working great for me. It took a little time to load the first time, but I’m a pro now!
A number of my bad buys over the past few years have been associated with a an auction that sells overstock, refused, or returned items. I had kept going back to them because I had some very good buys, but the bad ones stink so much that I’ve stopped going. I still check out their upcoming auction photos and, if I see an auction with some good stuff, maybe I’ll go again, but, for the most part, I’m done. They have these auctions right in my town, so I wished it was a better deal.
At the beginning of this year, I bought a large lot of new women’s pants, all the same style and brand in different sizes. I figured one listing using the variations functions, and I’m done. I decided to include shipping (there and return) to spur sales. Well, I’ve only sold about five or six and two or three have been returned for size.
They are really well made with a lining, and my price is good (I have them listed for $24, but I constantly have them on sale for about $18-20). My current sale just ended, so I’ve got to start one up again:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/18317576535811/19/2018 at 11:17 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #51940Another gang-buster listing week! I managed to list 42 items. No death piles.
Similar to last week, I was able to copy and list quickly because of breaking down sets. This week was antique flatware where 4 or 5 like items would go into one listing; like knives, forks, serving utensils, etc. This morning, someone bought four listings that totaled up to a little over $100! I had accumulated all my silver plate from the past few months and polished them up earlier in the week.
I initially use Tarn-X and then will get out the regular polish if I don’t like the way something looks. Tarn-X is not good to use when something just needs a little shine up, but most of what I buy is very tarnished. I think people pass those up thinking that they will be polishing for days, but you put stuff in a bowl, pour Tarn-X over, pull the stuff out and wash real quickly, and then reuse what is in the bowl until everything is shiny.
Week of Nov 11 – 17
* Total Items in Store: 1258 eBay, 11 Mercari
* Items Sold: 13 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $14.32 + $0 Commission
* Total Sales: $263.07 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $34 Book on US patents from 1857
* Average Price Sold: $20.24
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $5.75
* Number of items listed this week: 42I still feel that sales are slow. One of the topics in the forums is about promoted listings and how more sellers are using them now that they show up on your active listings page. I’m thinking to add PL to my older stuff to see if that spurs sales or not.
With the holidays around the corner, the bidding at auctions is much more competitive. This will go on through February or so based on my experience from last year. I was at an auction on Thursday. All the stuff I was interested in was selling too high. I bought one box lot of books for $5. We had an early snow storm that day which ended up being worse than they predicted. After looking out the window a few times, I decided to leave with only the one box.
Once I got home (and it did take about two times longer than normal), I looked through the box in more detail. At the bottom were two Sears catalogs from 1970 and 1973. The one from 1973 is in very good condition and, OMG, the fashion! The bell bottoms! I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to list it this week, but we will see.
I don’t think that the 1970 catalog had quite the fashion as 1973, but I didn’t get as good of a look at it. Someone had pressed fern leaves every few pages, which warped the book somewhat. I’m not sure if I should sell it with the fern leaves or not. My mother says yes, I’m thinking no.
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Sharyn.
Earlier this week, I sent offers on the five or so things that were available on my page. I did not sell any of the items, but I did get a low ball offer on one of them. I’m guessing that it was one of the watchers that received my best offer. It did not show up as a counter-offer, so I assume that he/she had to go back to the original listing to make the offer.
I’m pretty sure this does not show up on the main Seller Hub. I believe this is a future upgrade. We only know about it because millionairedojo happened to stumble upon it and then created this topic.
For me, it first shows the items I need to ship. I didn’t see the send offer option when I first clicked on the link until I scrolled down a page or two. I guess I had a lot to ship at the time!
Steve – The background sounds when you were walking the dogs, the footsteps, the birds, the wind, etc, sounded very sharp and distinct. Must be that iPhone X you bought.
This velvet blazer had about 13 watchers when it sold. I think the interest might have been due to the size as well as the brand. It was added into a scheduled sale, which reduced the price to $24.60. When I saw the number of watchers, I thought about raising the price, but I let it go. I got it for free.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183471605452These fishing waders were purchased in an online auction where I bid for all the items on a shelving unit. It was in the photos, but not called out in the description. This is what I look for in online auctions. I paid about $3, sold for $49.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183287823377I don’t know what it is about these vintage manual meat slicers. Do people use them, or are they just decorative. All the ones I’ve sold have at least some rust. Anyway, I bought this one at a rummage sale where I filled up a box for $3. So, the slicer was about $1, and I was pleasantly surprised that it was worth more than the other ones I’ve sold. It sold for $44.
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Sharyn.
Hum, well, looking back at Jay’s comment, I think he was talking about other people on the forum who haven’t bought into a third party software or haven’t been tracking sales with a spreadsheet. Unless they report their numbers here, they won’t have details. I think that eBay will provide high level number on sales. I haven’t really checked, but I know that they compare how you are doing this year vs last year in Seller Hub.
Mike – There should be an easy way to get this information off GoDaddy Bookkeeping. I signed up with them two years ago, and I know that I can get monthly sales reports (I just normally use it for the weekly numbers). Anyway, when T-Satt sets up a forum post for numbers, I’ll figure out how to do it with GoDaddy.
11/14/2018 at 9:54 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #51668Amatino – I’m lagging on points because of my war on death pile items earlier in the year, which included throwing out or donating a bunch of stuff right off the bat. This left me with not so much stuff left for the rest of the year. What I do have left requires repair and/or testing, so I can’t do more than one or two items per week.
So, I can chug on the stuff that’s recently purchased and ready to go, but last year’s stuff gets done just little by little.
I am getting better on not holding on to stuff that is low value or too difficult to test or repair. I sort through right away and get that stuff out ASAP! I think that this challenge has helped me with that.
I recently purchased some sockets and cords to rewire three vintage bar signs that have been sitting in my basement for over a year, maybe close to two!! If I can get my ass in gear, that will help me get some extra points. Otherwise, Vintage Lacy may pull out!
The race is on!
If you want to see what the best offer was on the trinket box, try this link:
https://www.flippertools.com/tools/ebayOfferHistory/ebay-best-offer-actual-price.htmI once had a buyer through GSP give me a negative feedback of something like “bad quality”. These were just your average napkin rings. Nothing particularly bad or good about them. I was wondering about what to do, so I checked the feedback. Like your buyer, he left numerous negative feedbacks, and several had a seller comment of something like “serial giver of bad feedback”. My guess is that the good feedback he left was when a buyer offered him money back.
Rather than deal with the buyer when he was obviously fishing for a refund, I just responded in the same way and just took the negative. I probably should have pressed that link and reported him.
I don’t know that it is worth your while to call eBay. I doubt that they will remove the feedback. Once, when I called about a buyer trying to fish for money (different than the one above), the customer service rep said that she pressed the button for me and reported him. Nothing different than what I could have done on my own.
Your buyer’s excuse for not wanting to return the item sounds pretty lame, and I think he is just fishing for a refund. Unless it would make you feel better to call, I would just report him and leave a response to his neutral feedback.
Yesterday, I made five offers. A few of the items have make offer available. I received a low bid for one of the items I sent out. I countered $10 less than my original, so I don’t think I’m going to make a deal here. But, at least I have some action. We’ll see if anything else happens.
Although, I should add that their products are expensive, as you said.
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