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I listed 24 items this past week.
I didn’t do anything towards my challenge. I will be busy the next week or two.
Better for sales to be annoying than not have any! Can’t wait to hear what 2023 has in store for your business.
Week of Jul 31 – Aug 6
Total Items in Store: 1653 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 13 eBay, 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $15.25 + $13 Commission
Total Sales: $225.83 eBay, $10 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $42 Old wood barrel
Average price: $16.85
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 24Steve – Such neat sales, from little knobs to vintage stereo equipment, and some really neat ephemera thrown in!
This book was part of a large online auction lot, so the price paid per book was very low. The subject of bull fighting is interesting. Sold for $18.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184904363336
This Lladro figurine was difficult for me to research, so I finally listed it without understanding what it is. The bottom has all the normal Lladro information, but also has “BDG 62”. I assume it was a “reprint” after the design had been retired. It doesn’t seem to have as clear lines as others I saw listed. It was given to me for free, and it sold for $26.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185503377140
I purchased this BSA belt at a thrift store for $3 a few years ago. I sold the buckle right away, but the belt took much longer. Not sure why, although, it would have to be for a rather large BSA leader. Sold on best offer of $25.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185509176869
This Tumi briefcase was given to me by a friend. She used it for one trip and then never again. I had it up for best offer, but the buyer paid full price of $155.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185246564412
This Toyota Celica repair manual is readable but not in great shape, but it is rare or desirable enough that I was able to get $47 for it. I bought a large lot of repair manuals for $10 in an auction earlier this year, and they are selling one by one. This was one of the more valuable ones.
I googled “what is the marketing banner in ebay”. I found the following:
Create a clickable marketing banner
You can add a clickable marketing banner to your storefront to showcase a listing or store category. Buyers can then select the banner to browse the listing or category.
Here’s how to create a clickable marketing banner:
- Select the Store tab in Seller Hub.
- In the Start using a Marketing Banner section, select Add a banner.
- Under Choose a banner destination, select Store category or Listing.
- Choose the Category dropdown, or Select a listing and select your category or listing.
- Select Add a banner image to upload your image.
- Enter a title and description to display on your banner.
- Select Save banner.
Your storefront starts with “Featured categories”, and each category has a picture. Did you select those pictures? From the above description, that is what the marketing banner seems to be.
Hum, I thought I made sure to subscribe to my own topic. Apparently not.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I’ll try photo editing software and see if it helps. If not, I’ll just move on.
Yes, sometimes I bury the manufacturer photos, but sometimes I use them as the main photo. Maybe not the right thing to do, but, if the item is years old but NWT, I do it anyway. Mostly to save time.
@Jay – You are looking at mostly pre-owned items. When I use Terrapeak to find something closer to this particular jacket, I find that two preowned sold in the past year for $16 and $13. Hopefully this works:The ones I have are NWT, size 1X, still sealed in the bag. I’m hoping for around $30 each, and I’m going to put all three in the same listing. I’ve taken photos now of one that was a size XL, and I’ll put that in a separate listing since it was removed from the bag for photos.
Sure, QVC stuff doesn’t sell for huge numbers unless there is a following. Much of the clothes I’m selling for my neighbor are going to Swap.com. I’m not thrilled with Swap, but that is another story.
Let me try the link again though:
I double checked the link, and the product did not come out. If you type in A1734 into the search field, it should come up for you.
Here’s my challenge #6: 6. Put together BOLO list, items not requiring much testing, easy to pack, decent ROI.
Should be pretty easy. Just put together a list. If I do something with it, who knows?
Steve – Those are really nice Facebook marketplace sales for such a slow week. I don’t really have much to say for my sales, so I just wanted to come by and say hi. 🙂
I listed 35 items this week.
Most of them were from a huge number of polo shirts (over 100 maybe) that my parents’ neighbor gave to me. The story is that the wife would just buy shirts for her husband. Shirts upon shirts. He might have worn them once or twice but had so many that they just piled up. I guess she needed more room to buy him more shirts, so I got them.
Week of Jul 24 – 30
Total Items in Store: 1640 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 15 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $5.10 + $30.50 Commission
Total Sales: $426.60 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $155 Tumi Laptop Briefcase
Average price: $28.44
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 35Yes, this was a better week. I also had two solid weeks of listing, so that helps.
I made a bit of an embarrassing mistake. I’m sticking my head in the sand at this point, so I guess it won’t make a difference unless the buyer complains (which they haven’t so far). I was in the mist of helping someone buy two of an item, one in a silver color, and the other gold, with combined shipping. I saw the two purchases come up, one right after the other, but I told her that she bought one with the wrong name and address. I assumed that she was using someone else’s account, although I didn’t really ask. I canceled the sale so that she could buy it correctly.
Funny thing, though, I realized later that the first sale was under a different username. So, two people were looking to buy it at the same time, and I didn’t double check. Too much of a coincidence for me to think through, plus these items have been in my inventory for a month or two. It was also Saturday, and I was relaxed, thinking about how I wanted to spend the day, and not really looking at the details.
I was worrying for too long about how to make it up to the original buyer, and I never contacted her. She hasn’t said anything, and I’m crossing my fingers that she just buys it from someone else.
Week of Jul 17 – 23
Total Items in Store: 1620 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 13 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $8 + $51 Commission
Total Sales: $196.36 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $25 POLAR A1 Heart Rate Monitor Watch (on commission)
Average price: $15.10
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 30I ended and did a “sell-similar” for about 200 items this past week. It did help generate a few sales, but all were low value. In all, it was a very slow week.
I don’t see the types of things you find in NYC, but occasionally I find a thing or two in my neighborhood. Yesterday, I picked up a wine bottle holder and a vintage projector. That particular neighbor has a famous (A-list) actor son. I don’t remember what the father does, but I believe he is pretty successful and works in NYC. I’ve picked up stuff in front of their house before. I’ve heard that they bought another house and will be moving this year or early next. Maybe they’ll have an estate sale or just keep putting out more for free.
I can’t believe, though, that your sales were below $1k and you have over 9000 items in your store!
I listed 30 items. I did dig into some deathpile stuff, so I feel good about that.
@julie-b: I’m interested in knowing which consultant you will be speaking with. A few years ago, I took a free online class run by Kathy Terrill. The catch at the end of the class was membership in a group with a very expensive monthly fee where she offered a consultation or two and the ability to ask questions. Her thing, I think, was mostly to use social media to generate more sales.
