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Selling individual books is not all that profitable unless it is something rare. Dune is a well known series, and there are no shortages of those books. I think having a full collection will definitely make it more interesting to a buyer.
Media mail, which is a discounted rate for books, is quite affordable. I just checked, and 20 pounds will cost only $13.
I’d put the shipping as an additional cost, but if you wanted, you could include it in the price of the listing (“free shipping”). Then either have a fixed price or make sure to take the shipping into consideration if you add best offer.
Week of Feb 23 – 29
* Total Items in Store: 1466 eBay, 35 Etsy
* Items Sold: 21 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $34.50 + $17.87 Commission
* Total Sales: $430.11 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $65 for 1924 Book “Laws of Ma Chiang” (Mahjong)
* Average Price Sold: $20.48
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 33I noticed in GoDaddy that sometimes the sale price included shipping and sometimes not. I’ll keep a better eye on that because I might have been over-reporting my numbers. I did have a decent week. The value of that book was a surprise.
I wish they would just move to DST and not bother going back. If the change in hours helps with energy savings, sales, whatever, just stick with it. I hate the change in time.
I feel good about the January challenge because it did inspire me to get moving on some big and/or heavy items. However, I didn’t do anything with that food grinder. I did decide not to list it. I plan to give it away, but I have to take a photo and post it to a Facebook group or two.
I tested a large electronic dart board that I bought in March last year, but it didn’t work. Out it went to the garbage, and I can at least say that I met the challenge.
I did test and list two older iMacs and an electronic Smith Corona typewriter. One iMac I just listed today. None of these items have sold yet, but at least they are now available for purchase!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184171096295
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184191819463
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184183505662I did get that email, but didn’t look too closely. Thanks for sharing the article.
I have 35 items listed on Etsy and haven’t sold anything since the holiday season. Having additional exposure is OK for now, so I’ll watch to see what happens. I suppose having something sell with the fee is better than it just sitting there until the next holiday season.
Etsy is OK, but it has its limitations. I went to list two things yesterday and ended up moving one item to eBay because the item was too big to get a reasonable USPS rate. Etsy doesn’t provide FedEx as an option.
Most of what I have listed there are whiskey pitchers. I had so many because of a large lot I purchased, and I didn’t want to list all of them on only one platform. Etsy is serving a purpose for me, but eBay remains my main focus.
Sonia – Yes, I was the Dansk ivy seller. My mom lives in an active adult community, and, when one of her neighbors needed to move into a nursing home, his son left a partial set on the curb. I have five listings left.
I went to an auction in the first week of this month and bought a bunch of vintage tube AM radios. I listed them through the following week, and three of them sold last week. I paid $11.50 for six of them.
A GE radio, untested because the cord was brittle and falling apart, for $28.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173242048A nonworking Sentinel (never heard of the brand) for $32. I had removed all my tube radios from GSP because of hazardous materials restrictions in some countries, but a guy from Mexico wanted to buy it. However, even when I put it back into GSP, he couldn’t buy. eBay gave him the name of a forwarding service.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173258392And a Sears Silvertone radio, untested because its cord had been cut off, for $22.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173274335From a previous radio purchase, I sold a nonworking Zenith Trans Oceanic 3000-1 for $44. I’m thinking of buying an adapter to see if any of my other remaining radios actually work even if it doesn’t work with batteries.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173627271From my non-electric departments, I sold a few things I thought were so cool that I put them up really high, but didn’t sell until I grossly reduced them. I bought both at least two years ago. The first is this Pik Nik peanut butter container that sold on offer for $15. I paid less than $1.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183985268505And then there is this 1959 package of garbage bags UNOPENED that sold only for $13.50 on sale. I think I ponied up $5 for it, but I was a new-ish seller then. I’d still buy them now, but for much less. I just think it is cool that someone bought it new, and it sat in their kitchen for 70 years.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184022584347I should also throw in this set of 8 fruit spoons from the First Love pattern for $32. My mom purchased the set for me at a flea market in Florida. Funny, she is mentioned twice this week. I’m sure I get my sense of a good buy from her.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184128459299My husband works for a cosmetic company. Their business relies on getting new and different products out before anyone else. A project he is working on is delayed because of their vendor’s factory shutdown. It keeps getting pushed back, and they aren’t sure when it will start up again.
I was imagining a leather working tool where it would put holes for the thread. But, I’m not sure what object would be in that shape. Maybe it was for one part of a larger thing? Just a guess.
I accidentally ran into this feature a few days ago. Whatever photo I was looking at had two items. It automatically whited out the background except for the area in between the two things. When I tried fixing it manually, some parts of the item were whited out. So, it didn’t work properly for whatever I was listing at the moment. Maybe there’s a zoom feature that would help? I haven’t tried it again.
Sometimes I use white poster board for the background, which gets dirty especially when I’m photographing old dusty items (even if I dusted them off). I can see this feature being useful because I push to use the poster board for as long as I can.
Maybe also when I photograph larger items in my hallway. I wouldn’t mind getting rid of the doorway or outlet when I absolutely can’t take the photo without them in there.
Otherwise, I see no reason to get rid of a nice wood floor or black background. I’ll have to try it a few more times
“New Terapeak features coming in early spring
Unsold listing indexing and sell-through rate
Aggregate metrics for active listings
Listing report for active listings”Terapeak is going to give us the sell-through rate. You will no longer have to compare solds to unsolds to decide if something is desirable. HOLY COW!!
I have this problem, too, but I received the item and refunded the buyer. It still shows up on mobile, but not on the desktop. Possibly, I deleted the notice after refunding the buyer.
I just listed something as high with make offer – kind of what Jay & Ryanne did with the antique shirt, but at a much lower scale. I bought a vintage Detecto baby scale, but what I can find on eBay are all older models. I did find one of the same model, but it is missing the tray. It sold at auction on eBay for $8. The one I have doesn’t work properly, but, still, I don’t see anything similar. I’ve listed it for $59 or best offer. Does anyone want to venture as to whether I’ve priced WAY too high, or if I’m doing the right thing?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184184954482Week of Feb 16 – 22
* Total Items in Store: 1452 eBay, 34 Etsy
* Items Sold: 20 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $32.75 + $16.43 Commission
* Total Sales: $388.80 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $44 for 1960s Nonworking Zenith Trans Oceanic Royal 3000-1 radio
* Average Price Sold: $19.44
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $57.50
* Number of items listed this week: 20I went to an auction on Thursday. I bought a wood walking stick for $5, but they accidentally charged me $50. I did not include the extra amount in the “money spent on new inventory” above assuming that they fix the problem quickly. There is no way that I bid $50. I had to pay the bill, and they will refund me the money after they check their video.
It’s just annoying because, at the smaller auction in my area, they will immediately fix the problem. It happened to me once, and they watched the video and fixed my bill before I paid.
