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Not a big week for sales, but I’ll pick out a few:
I purchased this vintage lamp with a ship lantern nightlight at a church rummage sale. Towards the end of the sale, you can buy a box of stuff for $5, so the lamp cost less than $1. The buyer offered $50 without the shade, so I accepted the offer and then immediately sent an invoice with the reduced shipping. Worked out well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183950317714Every year, my son needs a new suit, and I sell his lightly used one to help offset the cost. Boys suits and jackets sell well in general. I got $26 for the pants, jacket, and shirt.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184079492679This copper pan with lid was from an auction lot of older pots & pans. I’m assuming that the buyer will use it for decor, not actual use. I paid about $2, and it sold for $21.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184006355886I remember hearing that the Crabtree & Evelyn Sandalwood (or something like that) fragrance went for really high prices. I didn’t know that other products of theirs also do well. I don’t run into their products much, but I’ll have to keep my eyes open!
I also received this email today. It looks similar to the eBay Send program, from what I see.
In looking through Etsy’s detailed description, the program is only good for packages under one pound. I do not have anything listed in Etsy that is under one pound, so it won’t help me. I wonder if they will ever expand it to the international first class shipping limit of four pounds?
“Sales tax collected” also includes tax I was collecting at the beginning of the year and remitting on my own before eBay took over. So, I do have a positive amount that is offset in the Expenses category “Sales Tax Submitted”.
Also in “Sales Tax Submitted” are a few days of taxes in November where eBay just started using PayPal to collect and remit the tax. They must have changed the way they reported the numbers, so it just looks out of place.
I can see the sales tax come in and go out in Go Daddy Bookkeeping. Go to the Business Income page and select “Sales Tax Collected” from the categories and press filter. I can see a positive and negative for each amount.
Well, except for one charge on Jan 10 that doesn’t seem to have a negative for it. Not sure about that.
Last week, I talked to an eBay rep and got three defects removed. I will be a TRS again for the next rating period. I’m happy!
About Forever 21 mentioned in the podcast – The company is having issues in general and is one of the chains expected to go under within a year or two. My daughter bought a few things there in her younger teen years. The store has a bad return policy. You can only get store credit for something within the first week of purchase, then they won’t take it back. I would think that their return policy has something to do with their issues, but they probably can’t have a better policy because of their fast fashion business plan. Sort of a catch 22.
Slow week, but I haven’t been listing much:
Week of Jan 5 – 11
* Total Items in Store: 1501 eBay, 34 Etsy
* Items Sold: 14 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $31.15 + $7.30 Commission
* Total Sales: $245.77 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $50 vintage ship table lamp
* Average Price Sold: $17.56
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 5Two or so years ago, I sold some napkin rings through the GSP. I received the feedback “Bad quality”. I looked at his feedback left for others, and I found that he had the same negative feedback for most of his purchases with a few positive “good quality” thrown in.
For the buyer feedback, many said “serial leaver of bad feedback” or something similar. So, the buyer was basically leaving bad feedback, and, if the seller worked with him (probably give him some money back), he would change his feedback to positive.
I just left the same sort of feedback and moved on. I don’t remember if I reported him, but that would have been the right thing to do. These days I leave feedback right after I print the label, so the only way for me to do anything is report a buyer.
The only way I know is with a small shelving system like an in and out box set up. I currently have an metal office type shelving that I put on top of a bookcase. Most of the “shelves” lie at an angle, so it isn’t the best solution, but I got it for free. The really large polymailers have to be folded in half. No getting around it.
I listed five this week.
Better than last week, but still low. Daughter is still home from college for the next two weeks, so I’m not expecting to list high numbers. Kids, even college age, are work.
If you are talking about the newer send offer to buyers function, I don’t think that there is a way to prevent it from happening. I have one item that shows up there all the time, and I just have to ignore it.
When I google “Rooster folk art” and look at images, I see some similar styles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rooster+folk+art&rlz=1CAXLEN_enUS730US731&sxsrf=ACYBGNTmT9zTD3QkfpFKe5CA3Ur-k5xvFQ:1578694474075&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid5deah_rmAhUnUt8KHf1KAMkQ_AUoAXoECAsQAw&biw=1242&bih=539I sold a similar Napa Valley cassette holder a year or two ago. I found it in one of our closets. It had been my husband’s. Best way to source!
This inside micrometer set is one of the last big items from an auction my husband and I went to a few months ago. My husband also cleaned it up for me. I bought it for $11, and it sold on offer for $84.76.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184012806209I was talking to one of my old work buddies about all the vintage radios I bought at auction. He mentioned that he used to repair old tube radios. He gave me this book of circuit diagrams from 1931/32. It sold for $20.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184011496989I paid a bit too much for an online auction lot of four decoys. I paid about $10 for this hand carved LL Bean goose. It took over 1 1/2 years to sell, but it did go for $49.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183722970109I paid about $5 for this small German made jar with lid. It is a honey pot for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah or New Years. It sold via GSP to someone at the Jewish Museum in Munich for $36. I wonder if the guy was buying for himself or if will be part of a display?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184080015239Mike – I also “stalk” their store and noticed the move to free shipping & free returns. Maybe they will make that the subject of one of their podcasts.
I actually have some information for you. I gave you the Facebook link to an inexpensive bubblewrap supplier recently. I started getting emails from a different company that had the same business name at the bottom. I verified from Facebook that this company is a partner of theirs, and they sell the same product. I bought both the small and large size bubblewrap for less money than the Facebook price, so I thought I’d give you the website for when you need to order again:
ghalys.com@Mallybills – I hope that you monitor your old topics, but I wanted to say that the one nit-picky thing I mentioned in my 11/7/19 post has been fixed!
After I pay for shipping using the bulk shipping tool, I can print out three other things in addition to the labels themselves: USPS Scan Sheet, pick list, and billing summary. The Pick List was what I was looking for! It was just added yesterday.
Information for each purchase is printed out in rows and has things like listing title, purchase price, buyer’s address, and tracking number. I cut out each into a strip and use it to match the box with the label. Then, I throw the strip in the package before I seal it. It acts as a small packaging list.
I don’t know that you had anything to do with that, but thanks!
