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WOW Julie, that is a big number! Something I’ve only managed once or twice.
I listed 33 items this week.
@Amatino, oh, sure, a witches flash mob. Something we all do every once in a while. 🙂Much better week for me, selling 18 items vs 8 the previous week. Things really picked up during the weekend. Like most things eBay, I have no explanations.
The new listing tool is OK, but the biggest thing it is lacking is the pre-inserted item specifics. I think that they are working on it because every once in a while I see something already there.
Week of Oct 23 – 29
Total Items in Store: 1785 eBay, 32 Etsy
Items Sold: 18 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $8 + $112 Commission
Total Sales: $406.46 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $54 Spanx Nude Slim Cognito Bodysuit
Average price: $22.58
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 33Correction: One is a Macintosh SE, and the other one just says Macintosh, but the model number is M0001. Also, I spelled Macintosh wrong.
I attended a Harvest Festival last weekend. I saw a booth with all sorts of crocheted things for sale. I think that crocheting & knitting these days is mostly for the pleasure of doing it and not as much for the actual use. I didn’t see many customers at that booth. Personally, if I want to buy something, I look for useful items. I found someone who was selling spices, and I found a guacamole spice mix that I had been looking for.
Anyway, today I “scavenged” in my neighbors attic. It was hard work. I found not one, but two Macintoch SEs with a printer, a briefcase full of Lionel train parts from the 40s/50s as well as a modern (cheaper) train set that is new in the box, and some Spode Christmas ceramic pieces.
Steve – That’s a neat story about the sunburst clock. From all your stories, I’m getting the idea that you like to buy things that are interesting to you for your home. After a while, you rotate new stuff in and sell the old.
I’ve not had very good weeks of sales and not much to mention, but here’s one. I bought a bunch of vintage magazines a few years ago, mostly Sport Illustrated from the late 1980s/early 1990s. I had originally didn’t bother listing a group of miscellaneous mags that I finally picked up a month ago. They are mostly automotive related and actually selling well. This group of Off Road from the early 1990s sold for $26.
On another subject, I’ve been purchasing from the Too Good To Go app that I first heard about on this forum in the spring. I’ve bought a few things here and there, but mostly from an organic grocery store / co-op that is a 15 min drive from my house.
Recently, the app added in new restaurants in my area while some seem to have disappeared. After seeing it come up several times, I finally reserved a surprise bag of pastries from a coffee shop, which I picked up this morning. The shop kinda reminded me of Broad Porch, but not as expansive of a menu. I did not buy any coffee.
I was a initially shy about buying because of: 1. the drive (a bit over 20 min) where I had to be at the beginning of the 8:30-10:30AM window so that I would be back to eat breakfast and make a business call at 10AM and 2. the possibility of getting gushy sugary donut type things. Boy I was wrong. I ended up with 2 blueberry sour dough scones and 2 cheese breads. Holy Cow they are tasty. I gave my daughter a cheese bread (after I took a bite), and she was also head over heels. I’ll be back.
@djett83 – I don’t care for consignments, and I don’t look for them. However, when they come to me and they make sense, I will agree to it. The deal is that the owner must not be emotionally attached to their stuff, and all they care is that they get something for it. In this particular case, my neighbor’s wife was a “low grade” hoarder, and he is using the money for his charities. He is a friend as well as his wife before she passed.
My commission is simply 50% after eBay fees are taken out. If he had lots of real valuable stuff, I’d consider a lower commission. However, much of it is $15 to $30, and I won’t list much less than $15. I will reject anything less than $10-$12.
I’m a casual eBay seller since I started my “day job” about 2 1/2 years ago. If I was doing this seriously and trying to make a decent salary out of it, I would reject more of the lower value items and pay a higher commission for valuable items like the fur coat I mentioned in my post above.
If you are more serious about consignment, someone on the forum here started a You Tube channel and a Facebook group called Consignment Chats. I’m sure there is better info in there. Their videos come up in my Facebook feed, but I haven’t watch them.
I haven’t been scavenging much at all this year due to my commission selling off my neighbor’s stuff so that he can downsize and move. This past Sunday, I pulled out this fur coat from his wife’s closet (she passed away in January).
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185631335822
I wouldn’t ever buy or wear one myself, but I will sell them used.
You have all sorts of tech to solve vintage problems (TV signals, phone lines, etc)! We still have our POTS (plain old telephone service) line, so I can still test them.
I managed 44 listings this past week. The high number (for me) was due to some preparing the week before, listing a decent quantity of similar items (mostly vintage clothing and purses), and having very few sales to get in my way. So, good and bad.
Steve – How did you test the phone? I recall you saying that you no longer had a standard phone line.
I got nothing to show for this week. All standard stuff, and mostly lower value.
If you have to provide a label from one customer to another, then buying a label from eBay probably won’t be the right thing to do. eBay will want to sell you a label from your home address to the correct buyer. This may not end up in the correct postage.
I suggest Pirateship.com so that you can put in the correct address of the one wrong buyer to the correct one. You can download it into a PDF and send it to the wrong buyer that has to ship it. You might want to substitute your name in the from address.
I do not know about Quimper styles, but I would call the cup either a shot or juice glass.
Sounds like you sent them through eBay’s Global Shipping Program if they went through Kentucky.
Yes, your customer needs to open a case and select never received item. Then you need to contact eBay and get them to take care of it. Make sure that the customer rep doesn’t try to convince you otherwise. That’s part of GSP. You get it to Kentucky, and they are responsible for the rest of the trip.
