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I’m at 0 again.
Busy with life and part time job, but also had to help out my son this week. He hates writing, and he’s had to do several essays for his history class. I ended up spending most of Sunday helping him fix the one last essay he had to do. This is after I had him take two days off of work to get it done on his own. I hope that his college essay career is over now. 😂
Hey Jay – the title for your Dec 10-16 has Dec 3-8 instead (dup of last week’s title).
I haven’t been listing for a few weeks, and it shows. I have created listings, and I’ve copied in photos, but just haven’t done the last bit of checking the details and adding in measurements. Just busy with the part time job and life in general.
Week of Dec 10 – 16
Total Items in Store: 1714 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 13 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $40 + $47 Commission
Total Sales: $283.02 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $44 Gorham Sterling Silver Christmas Ornament
Average price: $21.77
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0@ChristineR – I hear ya! Some testing will be needed come the new year.
I believe this week proves that promoted listings is a much better bet than running a markdown sale. This week I ran a 30% off that included much Christmas stuff, but it was not nearly as good as last week with PL.
I will start next year without sales (except for one) and the rest PL.
Week of Dec 3 – 9
Total Items in Store: 1728 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 14 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $14 + $45 Commission
Total Sales: $273.66 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $35.66 Vintage Trafalgar Suspenders
Average price: $19.55
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Zero again this week. I did some photographs, but none listed. Lots of other things going on. Year end is never a good time for focusing on eBay!
The Flinch game looked familiar. I looked it up in my emails, and I sold one in 2018 for $13. Good idea to wait!
This oiler I sold for $20 was from an auction lot a few years ago. The interesting thing about it was not the price or ROI, but the feedback I received “This oil can is almost a dead ringer for the Tin Woodsman in the Wizard of OZ can’t tell you how long I have been looking for this. Thank you!”.  LOL
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185887575253
You would think very old yearbooks would be great collector items, but I’ve had four from Goucher College in my inventory for several years. This is the second one to sell. It went for $19. I think that the style is really very interesting.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185639037368
The Gucci perfume I had sold really quickly, but this body lotion has been up since April. Sold for $78 on commission.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185869629479
I was looking for more room in my kitchen cabinets. I hadn’t used this set of walnut salad bowls for years. They had been my grandma’s. I have lots of things to remember her by, so I sold these for $29. Only took a few weeks.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186169977708
A group of 15 old Hardy Boys books sold for $42 on commission.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185740232578
This is not really an interesting sale except that I had removed it from a bin in order to take it off eBay and give it away. It had been in my inventory for years and wasn’t worth much. A few days later, it sold for $7.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185639037299
Suspenders sell well, probably because they are not made in quantity. These I purchased at a rummage sale a month ago along with a few others for $1 each. It sold for $35.66.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186171121846
Google image has really improved. I was able to quickly find that this pedestal cake stand was made by Anchor Hocking. Really, glass doesn’t sell well unless you can find the manufacturer. Sold for $31.
I have had issues in the past where eBay notified me that a buyer was bad, but not lately. Sounds like you got some bad customer reps as well. I still refer to eBay for Business on Facebook when I have a problem, but they do not respond right away.
If they kicked the buyer off eBay, why was he/she able to message you? Sounds like something is a bit off.
My promoted listings experiment was successful. So successful that I am rethinking my eBay store as a whole. If I have to give up another 9% (or more) it doesn’t make sense to sell items under $25 or so. I have lots of items under that price point, so maybe I should be getting rid of them? Right now, I have a 30% off sale of Christmas stuff, and only the really good stuff is going. I’m thinking that some rethinking is needed.
Week of Nov 26 – Dec 2
Total Items in Store: 1741 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 20 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $3.50 + $180 Commission
Total Sales: $563.76 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $78 Eau De Gucci Perfumed Body Lotion Sealed
Average price: $28.19
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0I’m here with you, Amatino. I did not list anything last week.
I recovered quickly from my computer issue; however, I did not have much inventory that was ready to be photo’d and listed. I’m in the middle of washing some vintage clothing. I have a few items that just require a cleanup or quick work for photos and listing. I’ll have something for next week.
I allowed someone to install a malicious app on my computer on Monday, which messed up a lot of my free time for the following day or two. I’m very good about being vigilant about possible scammers, so shows you that anyone can be a victim.
I turned off my computer quickly and got it right over to Best Buy, so I should be OK. They are copying my hard drive to an external drive, so I hope I don’t lose much. However, I didn’t have my spreadsheets with me to calculate my COGS for last week. I am using my laptop in the meantime.
Ebaymom suggested that I try out promoted listings, so I set something up last week that ends today. I already had markdown sales set up for December, so I didn’t want to keep it going. I do think it made a difference starting on Sunday, so it isn’t part of my numbers for last week. I could decide each month whether to do promoted listings or markdown sales, but I don’t like doing both at the same time (which is what I have set up for this experiment).
Week of Nov 19 – 25
Total Items in Store: 1750 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 10 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $5-ish + $70 Commission
Total Sales: $268.29 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $50 Gorham Sterling Silver Ornament Mount Vernon Dove
Average price: $26.83
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 13I listed 13 items this week.
Malicious code was installed on my computer. My guard was down, but I got it to the Geek Squad right away. I’m in process of changing all my passwords using my laptop. Not sure how much listing I will do this week. Ugh.
I have not seen this, but I haven’t had a case where a buyer didn’t return what they purchased.
Several years ago (pre-pandemic), I had a buyer submit a never received case right after the tracking information could no longer be looked up online (I think 3 months; I’m not sure whether it stays up longer now or not). I had to submit a case to the USPS, and they sent me a printout of the tracking information, which I scanned and submitted to eBay.
I think that the USPS now keeps track of weight. I think they started doing it because people were low balling their packages and sending them with not enough postage. You might want to call the USPS and see if you can get both shipped and returned weight for the package. If you have to open a case, they might take a couple weeks to get it to you, but that would be really excellent evidence to show eBay.
I did cap everything at 9%. Seems like their suggested ad rates are higher, but I can’t see paying that much!
