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Just closing the loop on this post. The Allen & Ginter Tobacco Album sold for $60 about a month or so ago, and the set of literary books also sold for $60.
From my neighbor, his wife purchased this ponytail, but never used it. I sold it on commission for $50:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185276177025
This embellished Levi’s jacket was give to me for free. I sold it for $39.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185228660606
In the beginning of 2021, I purchased a large auction lot of art. They’ve been selling little by little, but, last week, three pieces sold. These two were purchased by the same person and shipped to a swanky condo in DC:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185126314120
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184699654551
Then this one sold to someone else. It isn’t art really, but was part of the auction lot:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184727319506
This vintage book set sold for prices in the $20 to $40 range, which I felt was low. I decided to list it at $60 and negotiate if needed. Apparently, it wasn’t needed. This is also a commission for my neighbor.
When sellers had to collect tax for their state, the toggle box was used to indicate whether an item was required to be taxed or not. For instance, clothing is not taxed in NJ, so I did not have those listings set to add tax.
Now that eBay does all the tax collection, it would have to tax clothing in CA, but not in NJ and many other states.
I had kind of wondered whether eBay automatically determined whether tax is required or not based on the category no matter how you set the tax toggle? I assume so, but I haven’t done any checking to find out.
I don’t know much about Hull, but this looks more like a hand thrown pottery mug. It’s a bit more fancy than the basic thrown mug. Usually, the mark on the bottom is an etched signature. It might be a small company (name starting with an H) that had matching sets. You can see this type of pottery at all sorts of festivals, so it might be hard to find the company or artist name.
That’s my guess at least. My parents have collected this type of pottery and have a mismatched set of plates, bowls, and mugs. Larger companies like Hull used molds rather than a pottery wheel, or whatever you call that setup for throwing clay and making dishware.
Thanks for this explanation. I’m saving the information for later.
I have a stamp collection from when I was a kid. I have been thinking of selling it in small groups or one by one, but I would want to encourage multiple purchases. I still want to ship with tracking, and the best way to have a buyer interested in making a purchase with the higher shipping is to have that discount.
Jay –
It was a varied lot from small to large, prints to paintings, one offs to mass produced, new to old, and damaged to good condition. I listed the good stuff piece by piece. I took out the prints and glass from damaged items, and lotted up the frames to sell as a group. It was about 70 pieces, which ended up in 56 listings.
I just looked up in my records, and I bought it in Feb 2021 (not 2020). The auctioneer initially auctioned off pieces that people specifically requested, and then just auctioned the rest of the stuff altogether. No one wanted that much, so I got it for a $5 bid plus $0.75 premium. I’ve made about $800 total, which will be about $980 once I add in these new sales.
I wonder, but the previous owner must have been a seller (maybe online, but probably flea market or second hand store) who left the business or passed away.
I listed 21 items this past week. I’m pretty sure that will be my highest for this month unless I go gangbusters during the last week.
My son graduates from high school on the 24th, and we will be having visitors for a few weeks. First though, my husband is finishing up our master bedroom project in the next day or two, and we need to move back in. Otherwise, our visitors will not have anywhere to sleep since we have been using the guest bedroom for the past few months.
@julie-b – So sorry for your loss. I hope you get back to “normal” soon, whatever that will be.Week of May 29 – Jun 4
Total Items in Store: 1609 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 11 eBay, 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $5 + $83 Commission
Total Sales: $409.61 eBay, $14.30 Etsy; Includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $101.60 Commemorative Bicentennial Framed Print
Average price: $35.33
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 21Glad to hear your coffee shop is doing so well. When I checked it out last summer, I saw several coffee shops on that main road, but only one or two had a crowd. Broad Porch was one of them. It’s a wonderful, classy place, and I’m happy for you two that it is doing so well.
I signed up for a Broad Porch coffee subscription a few months ago, but then my husband brought home some coffee that a coworker didn’t want. We are now swimming in coffee beans, but the alternative would not be good, so I’m not complaining!!
I also had a good week. In 2020, I purchased a large lot of art that I listed over the following few months. This week, three pieces from it sold including my highest sale!
I get what you are doing, and I’m sure that you are checking each CD to make sure it matches the cover and that it isn’t scratched up. Any time I had VHS tapes or cassettes, I felt as if I had to test each out, so they take way too long. CDs and DVDs are different, so just a quick check would work.
For the percentage discount, are you trying to do this across listings? I thought that type of discount could only be done for a single listing with multiple items unless you set up your whole account to provide it. Or, is there something I don’t know about?
Let me see if I understand this. You have a bank account where eBay & Etsy sends your money. This is your profit after all the shipping and fees are taken out. Then, you manually put in your expenses like you would in GoDaddy, things like mileage, COGS, cost of boxes and tape, and so on.
If so, this could work for me. I use a personal credit card for my business expenses, so I would only pull in my bank account information and do the rest manually.
Steve – I remember those Un Candles, and I know I spent a good amount of time in Spencers as a kid. Never owned one, though.
Wow @ChristineR – That looks like a BIG garage sale! I’m sure you will do well. Thanks for putting the video together.
I didn’t have much in sales last week to talk about, and looks like I accidentally pulled the best sale into the previous week’s discussion. I’ll have more next week.
and? and? Amatino, you are hilarious!
I was hoping for an easy challenge because I’m going to be very busy this month, but my #1 is to list as many death pile items as possible. Maybe not so many are possible because of my schedule? Love how I worded each one to get me out of having to do too much work but still say I completed the challenge :).
@Amatino – Maybe I’m the only one here who is following the challenges, but it is a new month!
Steve – What a week you had! Some huge sales in there.
I know about vintage metal coolers from Steve’s videos in the past. This Coleman one was owned by my neighbor. I thought it was not leakproof, but later figured that the cap was not on right. I meant to test it again and update the listing, but it ended up getting swept up in one of my sales and sold for $41. I did decline two $30 offers.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185391538265
I listed a huge bunch of ties back in 2020, when I knew that they wouldn’t sell. I’m finally seeing some sales. This group of four sold for $18. I got them for free.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185399274290
This Harley Davidson repair manual was from my automotive manual purchase a few months ago. It sold for $47.
Week of May 22 – 28
Total Items in Store: 1597 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 11 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $7 + $55 Commission
Total Sales: $237 eBay, $0 Etsy; Includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $47 for 2006 Harley Davidson Dyna Models Service Manual
Average price: $21.55
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0My one return was for Huggable hangers that are sold on HSN. After receiving them, the buyer realized that the gold tone hooks on the ones I sold didn’t match the silver tone ones that they had. Horror of horrors! The hangers resold only a few days after being relisted. My neighbor (whose wife had bought them) found another box in his garage, so I will have more to list soon.
