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Steve – I did buy a few things from Goodwill Finds, and I listed most on Ruby Lane. Nothing has sold yet.
Here’s a pair of shoes sold on commission for my neighbor at $54 in new condition.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185669932136
Another of my neighbor’s things; a local rescue squad commemerative mug for $23. It sold to someone about 2-3 miles from my house. I could have dropped it off, but that would have been kind of stalk-ish.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186080049195
This wood toy gun was left at the curb by a different moving neighbor. Someone sent me an offer for $11, which I declined. But, I think having an offer brings the item up in rankings. It sold full price for $22.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186241136160
This ring is deformed and is missing stones, but it is 14k gold. This is the second piece of jewelry to sell from a $1 auction win. No one had bothered to open a box that was sitting on a bookcase. Sold for $75.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186359900481
This 14K gold necklace is on commission for a family friend. The pendant part seems to have been soldered into the chain with not the best of skill. Also, I have no idea if the gems are crystals, cubic zirconia, or diamonds. (I doubt diamonds). It sold for $130. I might be selling this gold jewelry too low, but I don’t feel like I can ask for too much if I don’t really know what I’m looking at. Let me get something, and let a buyer who knows more to get something as well.
Retro – I’m with Jay. Go for the addition. It will increase the value of your house as well as providing room for your very large family.
Week of Mar 17 – 23
Total Items in Store: 1643 eBay, 28 Etsy, 43 Ruby Lane
Items Sold: 9 eBay, 0 Etsy, 0 Ruby Lane
Cost of Items Sold: $0 + $90 Commission
Total Sales: $249.63 eBay
Highest Price Sold: Tie-ish eBay $55 Gold Chain Necklace with Unknown Pendant & $54 Skechers DLites Sneakers Women
Average price: $27.74
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 8I listed seven. All but one item were part of my death pile of jewelry. I’m not going to be able to finish all the jewelry, so it will have to extend into April.
@ChristineR – Hang in there. Things will right themselves.
For shipping, I make sure that the post office scans in each item. I use a scan sheet when I have more than two items, and I’ll use the automated machine in the post office lobby if I show up after hours. I use the UPS store or the Walgreens for FedEx. Whatever way, I make sure to get that scan.
He’s basically giving the full broadcast away in the video, but I think it is great advertisement for his business.
I thought I’d mention something I heard about on Facebook. A local historian and his brother have a restoration company of vintage media. I believe it was his brother who purchased a video tape from 1969 on eBay that had a recording of the moon landing. It was one of the first home TV video recorders. He was successful in recovering the video off the tape.
Below is the link to the eBay listing and a link to the article. In the article, you can find a link to his video. It shows how he cleaned up the tape and then he shows the full video of the moon landing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296231008457
https://www.extremetech.com/science/apollo-11-moon-landing-broadcast-rediscovered-after-55-years
I have noticed changes here and there on eBay; mostly on the app. I found it particularly humorous that they lifted my selling limit. I can now list billions of dollars on eBay! I’ll be right on it …
Another humorous thing that happened; several weeks ago I was doing my weekly shopping at Trader Joe’s and saw a new canvas bag for $2.99 that was maybe half the size of their regular ones. I thought it was cute. I hesitated; thought about it; but I couldn’t justify a purchase. I really couldn’t see a use for it. Ends up it went viral or whatever and people were lining up to buy them. I could have resold it for $20 or more! Not a big deal really, but I was that close.
I’m still super busy at work due to our new contract, so I’m not listing much, and it shows. It is also a slow time of year for eBay, so the combination resulted in two weeks of low numbers.
Week of Mar 3 – 9
Total Items in Store: 1654 eBay, 29 Etsy, 34 Ruby Lane
Items Sold: 8 eBay, 1 Etsy, 0 Ruby Lane
Cost of Items Sold: $22.43 + $15.73 Commission
Total Sales: $277.66 eBay; $17.79 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $169 for 14k Yellow Gold Bracelet Herringbone Flat Chain
Average price: $32.83
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 6——————————————————
Week of Mar 10 – 16
Total Items in Store: 1651 eBay, 28 Etsy, 37 Ruby Lane
Items Sold: 6 eBay, 1 Etsy, 0 Ruby Lane
Cost of Items Sold: $0 + $13 Commission
Total Sales: $77.40 eBay; $74.73 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: Etsy $74.73 for Set 5 Blue Ridge Southern Potteries Luncheon Plates
Average price: $21.73
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 6I listed six items again.
My part time job continues to be more than part time, and I’m just not able to list as much as I want to. I have some work tasks that I need to complete today and tomorrow, and maybe then I will free up. Listing on Ruby Lane does take a bit longer as well.
Steve – I’m with you on those small, local books or pamphlets. I’m always amazed with your refurbished turntables and other older audio equipment.
I sold two older college books. I sold a 1939 yearbook from Pratt University for $22, but it took me several years. On the other hand, I sold a 1969-70 Rutgers college catalog for $19 that I listed in October. I guess the students from 1939 are dying out while the 1969 students are retired and reminiscing about their younger years?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185832876772
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186106604592
I thought this antique nail puller would sell much quicker, but I’ve had it for several years. The buyer asked for more pictures showing the tool closed to see if it could still pull a nail. I wonder if he was really thinking to use it? Maybe he just wanted to see how much wear it had. Sold for $32.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185766281689
Someone bought a vintage Epcot t-shirt for $22 to wear at their next trip to Disneyland!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186300416588
Here’s my big sale from last week. Last year, I bought an online auction lot for all the books plus a accordion style wood sewing box sitting in a bookshelf. I figured the box would be at least $20 so I bid the $1 minimum and won. Ends up that the box had jewelry in it. Some of it costume and some actually sterling and gold. I’ve listed a few items now, and I listed a gold bracelet on Saturday evening for $169 with make offer. I first got a $100 offer even before the email confirming it was listed came in. Then I received a $145 offer, and then someone bought it outright for $169. With all jewelry in the box (fine & otherwise), I think this will be one of my best ROIs. I’ve already sold a vintage belt buckle for $23.
The buyer sells jewelry on eBay, so I assume they will clean it up better and take much better photographs, and then sell it for maybe $100 more? Good for them. I have never really learned how to take good photos of small items.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186336840659
I suppose it is also a good thing that I’ve never been all that interested in jewelry. I know that my mother or sister would have kept it.
I listed 6 items.
I had tested all the gold & sterling jewelry items the previous week, and I thought I’d get more done. However, my career job was very busy again, and the jewelry is taking more time for research than I thought. Even with me planning to group the costume jewelry in lots, I’m not sure I will get all of it listed by month end.
Yes, Swap.com was like that in the beginning for kids clothes. It was growing when I started doing resale. I was going to the local Goodwill, buying bunches of kids clothing, and sending it in along with the stuff that my own kids grew out of. I was doing very well and it helped start my reselling journey.
Over time, the fees kept getting higher, and it was no longer cost effective. Over time, they started taking in adult clothing and dropping kids toys.
When my neighbor asked me to help him sell off all his stuff, including clothing that his wife had bought and never wore, I decided I couldn’t do it all myself. I sent a good bit of it in to Swap, where it basically disappeared. In the end, the company was bought by someone else, and I had to file a grievance with the BBB. They paid me something like $200, which was a pittance compared to the several boxes of new or like new stuff I sent in.
Whatever … I think that they and their competition put themselves out of business. By adding in online clothing thrifts to eBay and other reselling websites, they added to the oversaturation of used clothing available for sale.
Hum ,,, I was very busy with my career job this past week – actually past two weeks – and I spaced out on posting my numbers. I suppose it was not a hot week for sales, and I didn’t list anything.
Week of Feb 25 – Mar 2
Total Items in Store: 1670 eBay, 30 Etsy, 30 Ruby Lane
Items Sold: 11 eBay, 0 Etsy, 0 Ruby Lane
Cost of Items Sold: $2 + $86 Commission
Total Sales: $278.07 eBay; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $78 for Orrefors Isabella Crystal Bowl Signed Numbered
Average price: $25
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0WOW Great sale on that tube radio. I’ve really enjoyed selling them myself, but I never had the time to learn how to fix them. And I hear you on the tube tester. I believe they are kind of expensive. I’m sure I could move the ones I have if I had a tester.
So, going back to Feb 8 …
Big sale for $180 on Macintosh software from 1988. This was on commission for my neighbor.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186101416154
My son went to buy a work stool, but they accidentally sent him this very large creeper instead. He wanted to return it, but he never received the return label. He kept putting it off. He’s got to learn. Anyway, I sold it for $150 to someone in Wisconsin who had to pay quite a sum to have it shipped. This reminds me that I still owe my son his portion.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186260647161
Here’s another commission for my neighbor. I knew this jumpsuit was going to sell, but I kept sending offers with no bites. Finally, I got a counter offer of $25. True vintage in a bright lemon yellow!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186253184842
A few years ago, I bought a bunch of designer teddy bears and toys. They had sold very fast, but this one had stayed on. I wasn’t sure why. I finally got a $35 offer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185938822529
Seems many catalogs don’t send you the right product. My husband ordered brakes for one of our Mazdas, but the wrong part was sent. He made sure they sent the correct part, but they didn’t ask him to send back the wrong one. Sold for $65.
I did not list anything this past week. I was very busy with the career job.
I did get a bunch of preparation done for my March challenge, which will be jewelry. I had become bored and never finished jewelry from my family friend consigner. In addition, I have jewelry from an auction lot I purchased last year and from my neighbor consigner. The box of stuff from my neighbor is mostly costume. I’m either going to group stuff together or donate to the friends group at the local library. They are having a jewelry sale fundraiser at the beginning of May.
@Amatino – Are you going on this Shop Hop as a seller or buyer? Either way, have fun!@VT – Have fun on all your travels! I hope you get some DP listed.
