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Amatino – I was just thinking of 10 for the month. I just wanted to introduce the concept I use to get rid of old, less desirable inventory, not to start a large purge of everyone’s stores! If you want to do much more, then just mark the ones that are part of the challenge in the custom label column. I used an * to mark the ones I added since I still have the 40 or so that I haven’t been able to donate.
BTW, congratulations on your big listing binge last week! Looks like your eBay she-shed is really working out!
The two auction houses that I normally go to have moved online temporarily. I’ve considered bidding, but the prices have been way too high. I’m sure that there are many more collectors bidding compared to when the auctions are in person. I just hope that the auction companies don’t think “we are making so much more online, why go back?”.
Week of April 26 – May 2
* Total Items in Store: 1395 eBay, 33 Etsy
* Items Sold: 19 eBay, 1 Etsy
* Cost of Items Sold: $19.25 + $63.80 Commission
* Total Sales: $641.40 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: eBay $124 Zenith Trans Oceanic radio, Etsy $108 for 9 Crawford’s whiskey pitchers
* Returns: 0 (but one broken item -$21)
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 10I had another great week. My big Etsy sale took about 3 or so weeks of back and forth messages to get sold. The buyer’s last name is Crawford, so they are either related to the original Crawford whiskey founders, or they just collect things with their last name. She bought out the four I had listed separately on Etsy plus the ones I hadn’t listed yet and one I had on eBay. She wanted them all!
My big eBay sale was another Zenith Trans Oceanic radio. I have three more left. One doesn’t work, but the other two do and one of those is in really great shape. I’ll list that one even higher!
I listed 10 items.
I’m thinking that I should reduce my challenge down to 10 a week. Even when the quarantine ends and I have the house to myself again, I did start this part time job that is probably going to add more and more hours as the weeks go by.
@Amatino, I recall when you said you got rid of a bunch of stagnant inventory during your move to the new space. I’m like, crap, I should have kept the challenge in April! Oh, well.
I did add 10 more new items to my “rotating” auction pile so I can play along. I marked them as being part of the challenge. At the beginning of June, I may put the stuff on Freecycling as I’m sick and tired of it hanging around!
According to Instacart, one of the CVS in my town has it at $6.59 a 12 can case. I have not been there recently to verify this. Amazon doesn’t have it, but says that each weighs 9.4 pounds. Let’s say I get two, then I would have to ship a 20-22 pound package. That won’t be cheap, but NJ to VA is not too long a distance.
I have an email sharynjunk at yahoo.com. Send me a quick message with a code word in it. Then, post here with that code word under your SL username, and then I know it is you. We can then email back and forth.
I’m willing to help out with a small favor like this. I’ll check out the CVS when I am on my way to do other things, so it might take a day or two.
Ha! I just bought a styling cape so I have added to one of those statistics. I am coloring my hair at home and not doing a very neat job of it. Amazon had it on backorder.
Here is the Facebook page of Jordan Sweetnam, a general manager at eBay. He has a post from yesterday that gives a graphic of the managed payments fee structures and lists FAQs. I’d link directly to the post, but I’m not sure how to do that.
I believe that the information they need are things like your bank information where your money will be deposited and your SSN or company EIN depending on how you do your taxes. If you don’t give that information to them, they probably can’t disburse money to you.
My guess, at least. I haven’t registered yet, so I don’t know for sure.
Here’s the key sentence, Jay:
“your account will be activated for managed payments starting late July”and:
“You are required to register for managed payments by July 15, 2020.”Nothing there about having a choice.
Thanks Amatino! I was lucky that I happened to be listing jewelry on commission this month!
Here’s my May challenge should you like to play along. This one’s not about listing, but rather about getting rid of inventory that you just don’t want anymore.
What I like to do is put those items up for a weekly auction at a reduced price (maybe half), and, after the auction ends, I put it back up for another week. I do this for several weeks until it sells or I donate it. In other words, I spent all the time photographing it, so I’m willing to let it go one way or the other, but I want to make room for better inventory.
I wanted to do this in April because my town has a freecycling event where I will take those items once they were given a chance. Now there are no places open for me to donate, so I have grown to about 40 auctions going on every week.
Here’s the plan. Pick 10 items that you really don’t want around. Put them on auction this weekend. Earlier on Saturday is better because you might not be at your computer when they end, so you re-list them a bit later and later as the weeks go by.
At the end of the month, count how many sold. I usually sell zero, one, or two a week. If someone bids, but doesn’t pay, count it anyway.
After that, you can donate, continue with the auctions, or put it back in stock. Up to you!
My interpretation of the email was that they were moving me over to managed payments in July. They wanted me to give them information so that the transition was smooth. But, I didn’t see that I had a choice.
That’s what I think they are saying. I could be wrong.
This is the list I normally use to find restrictions to other countries:
https://pe.usps.com/text/imm/immctry.htmHowever, I didn’t see anything about used clothing to Mexico in the restrictions.
05/01/2020 at 10:41 am in reply to: 5th burner, Train books, Large Backgammon board, Kitchen clock, Magazine rack #76889ChristineR – Going back a few years, I tried putting together a few What Sold videos. Yours is definitely tons better than what I did. That is why I just do links.
A few years ago, I purchased a large lot of alcohol related signs. Some of them were electrical, and few were non-working or had outdated wiring. Finally, about a year ago, I installed new wiring in three of them. Since I did all this work, I put them up pretty high. This Miller High Life one sold on sale with make offer on top of it, getting it down to $40. I paid maybe $4 for it, and the new wiring was another $5 or so plus the additional work.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183829858777This bedspread was part of an auction lot that no one wanted. I paid about $1 and it sat in the guest room for months until I finally photographed it and a few other linens. It sold overnight for $34.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184261533782Another vintage Zenith radio from my purchase last year sold on offer for $32. I paid less than $3.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184092122157Right before the quarantine started, I bid in an online tool auction. During pickup, the auctioneer (who works many of the live auctions I go to) told me about one of the items, which is a copper lightning rod. I paid $2 and it sold for $35. Unfortunately, it seems to be stuck in USPS hell because tracking has not been updated since April 23 when I shipped it out. I will be opening a missing item case if nothing happens by Saturday afternoon, and I might be out the money if they never find it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184209847769I listed 6 more gold items for a total of 16.
I’m supposed to do a May challenge today, but I think I should give folks a chance to get their April challenge totals in. I’ll post later tonight.
@Kentucky Picker
I guess I meant that you can chose to partially refund if you feel the customer was abusing the INAD process, and eBay will back you up. If you don’t offer free returns, then you have to refund the full amount. I’m in the latter category, although, I should rethink it.
I will say, though, that eBay did remove some defects for me several months ago. I had lost Top Rated seller because I couldn’t find a two things that sold (my stupid mistakes, they were there) and then I had a grumpy buyer with an INAD return, but I did all the right things.
My impression was that they were being more lenient these days. Of course, this was well before COVID (might have been at the end of last year or beginning of this one), and I was speaking directly to a customer rep.
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