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I’m not excited about splitting the suits (both of the last two photos are three piece suits), but I will do the research. I think one was marked as a 5/6, which I think is juniors size. Perhaps I can give a modern equivalent as something like a 0. I won’t actually get to these for a few weeks, so I can think about it and do the research.
That’s a good point about St Patrick’s Day and the t-shirts. I already rejected them and he put them in bags for donation. I don’t know that I will have time to go through them. Let’s see what happens for this coming weekend.
Thanks for all your help!!!
LOL. NJ is not the top beauty of the country, but it isn’t the armpit that some like to think it is.
I hope that the coffee tasting was worth it. Sounds like fun, only second to wine tasting.
Seems to me that Steve Shultz once mentioned he lived in the Plainfield area, maybe a few decades ago.
So, how did you find that the pipe had been ruptured? Something started to smell bad? Gross stuff flowing up through the ground? I’m coming up with all sorts of crazy visions.
Last week, I had a good number of sales, but they were all small. I had my whole store on sale for the first week of September just as an experiment or push to start the month off better. So, even the higher sales weren’t so high. The week before was better.
I had a non-paying buyer where I had accepted a counter offer, but, after no payment, I checked and found that the buyer had bad feedback. You know, when the seller selects positive, but writes something negative. I’m glad it didn’t go through.
Week of Sept 4 – 10
Total Items in Store: 1676 eBay, 32 Etsy
Items Sold: 15 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $4.25 + $56 Commission
Total Sales: $266.38 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $28.76 for 2 NWT cardigans (on commission)
Average price: $17.76
Returns: 0 (1 NPB)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 9Week of Aug 28 – Sept 3
Total Items in Store: 1679 eBay, 32 Etsy
Items Sold: 14 eBay, 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $9 + $75 Commission
Total Sales: $334.14 eBay, $34 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $45 for Vintage Naaman Vase made in Israel
Average price: $24.54
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 40Nooo, South Plainfield isn’t the nicest NJ has to offer. Ryanne was only 35 or so min drive north from where I live. Whenever I have a chance, I prefer to drive south rather than north.
I finished maybe half the hanging clothes yesterday. They were in nicer condition than I had thought they would be. Good thing Pikapop told me to keep the dresses. Seems my neighbor’s wife saved all her dresses and nice clothes from the past forty years or so. I took a few pictures, see the bottom of this post. The last two photos show very nice women’s three piece suits. The last one is wool, has tags, and (I think) was made in the USA. They are junior sizes, so that might reduce their value.
I have a follow-on question. On the floor of the closet are a bunch of boxes, all full of clothes, but these are more used with more wear. I went through one and found lots of t-shirts, vintage, many made in the USA. I’m assuming that even those t-shirts aren’t worth anything unless they are in good condition and have interesting decals. I saved one Epcot Center shirt even though it had been through the wash a few times. There were several shirts from an Irish festival or something, but I only saved two kids shirts that she must have bought as gifts (they never had kids) because they were in good condition. Am I on the right track? I assume a Bermuda or Club Med vacation souvenir or something from old festival in greatly worn condition is of no interest.
I listed 9 items this week. I had the time, but I was distracted by various things. One of them I documented here on the forum, see below. I did do some photography over the weekend, so that should help jumpstart the process; however, new distractions have come up and old ones have not gone away.
eBay sold FedEx label for a APO address but FedEx doesn’t ship to APO
@VL – I watched the first of your videos. I’m surprised that the seller allowed you to do all that recording. I don’t watch many scavenging videos, but the ones I’ve seen have always been on the sly.
@Julie – Sorry to hear of the continuing effects of your illness. I’m sure that just getting stuff to the PO is work enough. Rest and get better. Maybe end and sell similar if you want to keep sales moving.@VT – Did you delete existing listings or ones in drafts? If you deleted existing ones, they should appear under “Ended”.
I have canceled the sale and reported the glitch to eBay for Business on Facebook. Does anyone have another method of reporting software glitches? I just want to make sure that they know about it.
Actually, that is a gold mine of information. I do recall seeing a dress. I’m not sure whether these are 90s or older. I will find out on Sunday and report back.
Steve – People do like those old printer drawers. I guess they use them to display small figurines or whatever. Only once have I been able to buy a couple at a decent price.
My biggest sale last week was a vase made in Israel. It was free to me and has been in my inventory for a year or two.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185509176882
This teapot sold for $30, bought for a few dollars at an online auction earlier this year.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185339729782
This set of Fragonard prints was from an art haul last year that I’ve mentioned before. Sold for $27, paid some small fraction of the $5 I paid for the whole lot.
@steve-list – To be clear, I was reposting this for C.T. because his post was eaten up by the famous Scavenger Life glitchy glitch. I’ve found a few things here and there in my neighborhood, but I don’t do the dumpster diving that C.T. has perfected. Hopefully, he will see this and post some photos.
I subscribe to all the forum categories as well as the firehose. For quite some time, the firehose emails seemed to be hand scheduled since they showed up at different times of the day; whereas, in the past, that email always came out sometime during the night so that I had it in my inbox when I sat down for breakfast. A few weeks ago, they disappeared altogether.
My guess is that there is a glitch with the firehose email, and Jay or Ryanne got tired of dealing with it every morning. They’ve got lots going on in their business recently hence no weekly number post this past Sunday.
I listed 40 items this week.
For my challenge, I did go to an estate sale that was walking distance from my home. They had very interesting vintage & antique stuff, but their prices were super high. I didn’t buy anything. The nice part was walking there and back with my son.
@vintage-lacy – Post a link to your You Tube channel when you upload a video!I should correct my explanation above. He wanted to pay $25 total, so I priced the camera at $17.50, which added up to about $25 total.
My sales last week were pretty poor. However, I wanted to mention this one Polaroid camera (untested) that sold for $25. I had three Polaroids in one listing, and the buyer asked me to pull out this One Step out for him. I recognized the username. They run a website on vintage electronics, including Polaroids, which I learned about on this forum. I have used their website to get information on cameras I’ve sold in the past.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185546360869
Website: https://retrospekt.com/
