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Too busy with work and a family event during Memorial Day weekend. I listed 0. I did some photography and list creation, so I will definitely have something for next week.
And it doesn’t say anything about Etsy.
The price would come to $240 a year, which is over $100 more expensive than GoDaddy Bookkeeping.
Their price is also $20/month if you want them to pull down your eBay sales.
I also received the email and will have to figure something out. I did do some quick research at one time, but didn’t come up with anything conclusive. There is QuickBooks, but there is also Quicken. I heard that you can no longer buy it as a stand-alone product. It is now similar to QuickBooks and requires a subscription. Is this true?
Week of May 15 – 22
Total Items in Store: 1614 eBay, 36 Etsy
Items Sold: 15 eBay, 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $26.50 + $112 Commission
Total Sales: $501.22 eBay, $23 Etsy; Includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $142 Gucci No 3 Eau de Toilette Spray
Average price: $32.76
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 6I continue to have good sales because of the items I am listing on commission, but then what I owe on fees is higher.
I will be very busy with work, family, and home improvement for the next several weeks. I don’t expect to be listing huge numbers.
I listed six items last week. I’m now in the mist of a very busy work schedule as well as trying to get some house projects completed. We have family events coming up next weekend and later in June, so I’m not expecting to large listing numbers for awhile.
I did list three items from my stamp collection, so I think I can consider May’s challenge closed.
My higher sales continue to be from my commission/neighbor.
This is a vintage Fendi key ring. It sold for $69 to someone in New Zealand. It hasn’t arrived yet.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185371859334
This is an antique tobacco pamphlet. Instead of a card that came in a pack, the buyer had to save box tops and send them in through a catalogue. In my research, I found that ones in really good condition sold for $100, and those with condition issues were closer to $50. This one did have some issues, but was a little better than the $50 ones I saw. I felt that the $60 offer was reasonable.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185339708820
Here’s one of my own sales. I bought a bookshelf full of older automotive repair books in an auction in April. I finally got them all listed, and this one sold right away. They aren’t worth much, but I paid $11 for the whole thing. This is a Mitchell repair book from 1960 that sold for $15. It covers some pretty cool car brands that are no longer around.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185424172441
Back to my commission sales. This is a vintage popcorn maker for $37.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185293817930
And another new/sealed bottle of high end perfume for $142. Interesting thing about these perfumes. I priced them a bit higher than what I found on Terrapeak assuming the buyers will want a bit off the top, but they are selling at full price!
Yes, I’ve noticed it. They list views only for the last 30 days, and they are blocking views that aren’t made by real people.
I’m used to seeing my items viewed almost immediately when they are posted. If those views were bots and not real, I should be happy that I’m not seeing them anymore. However, I feel upset that some have views of 0. It will take some getting used to.
@antique-frog – Thanks!! I had an aspic spoon and didn’t know it. I updated the listing and increased the price. Bet you it sells much faster now. I had listed it as a sugar spoon because I couldn’t figure it out 🙂
My two concerns about video games are:
1. How do you know if the game works? Unless you have the right system to test with, you don’t know for sure.
2. If it has a registration code, will it work for a new person assuming the previous owner already activated it?
BTW, this csv template is not to be confused with a listing template. Those are standard listing formats that you can create for a particular type of item. However, you still have to create a new listing for each item, and it doesn’t help with uploading many at one time.
Week of May 8 – 14
Total Items in Store: 1614 eBay, 36 Etsy
Items Sold: 18 eBay, 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $15 + $108 Commission
Total Sales: $419.09 eBay, $50 Etsy; Includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $69 NOS 1980s Fendi Brown Key Chain (on commission); $50 long rusty chain (Etsy)
Average price: $24.69
Returns: 1 (not shipped yet)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 19I actually had a decent week. I tend to sell lower priced items compared to Jay & Ryanne, so I sold as many but my total is less. One of the reasons I had a decent week was because of my commission sales. Those items are more contemporary and less funky, but I get less profit because of the commission. The funky takes longer.
I did a test this past week with eBay templates. I wanted a faster way to create listings when I have a large number of similar items. I think that this was at one time a function that Turbolister provided, but is no longer available. I downloaded a template from eBay and then used it to create 10 or so listings at once. I still had to add photos via the iPhone and then open each individually on the computer to finish up the process.
It was in no way perfect. The listings initially opened up saying that the category did not require a condition, but then wouldn’t list without it. I had to change to a random category and then go back into the original in order for it to come up. I also couldn’t find a way to upload a number of standard pre-selects like a condition statement, shipping policy, zip code, etc.
Does anyone know of a standard template that can be used to upload listings faster/better? I did find it to be faster than my standard process: sell similar, opening each listing on the computer to update the title, saving in draft, uploading photos via iPhone, and then reopening on the computer to finalize everything. Using a template, the listing only needs to be opened once on the computer.
For reference, here is where I started. It is under seller hub – reports – upload:
I listed 19 items last week.
As part of my challenge, I did pull out a few items from my old stamp collection to list. It is crazy that I will not be able to sell many of these items for much more than what I bought them for. That is a loss considering that I purchased them in the ’80s. At least my hobby as a kid is something that I can sell rather than money that just went out the door.
Yup, they fit in a flat rate padded envelope. Now that you reminded me, the person way overpaid for shipping because I forgot to put that as an option. I had planned to refund him, but forgot and he/she left positive feedback. That makes the sale something like $10 more profitable!
Ah, yes, the life of a kitty. Mostly, it consists of sleeping except for when you are trying to hold a remote meeting. During that period of time, they are meowing for attention.
The previous week, I listed some new, never used hangers on commission for my neighbor. I started with maybe five listings, some of which had multiple quantities. I am now down to one. They are called Huggable Hangers by Joy Mangano, and they are sold by HSN and a few other online companies. One person wanted all the suit hangers from several listings, so I combined them for her. The other ones I sold were regular shirt hangers.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185413508947
Another one for my neighbor. This is a combo vacuum and floor cleaner for $133.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185416818809
This set of 2 – five pound weights I bought in an online auction lot. They were attached to a ab roller. I gave the ab roller away. I paid less than $1 and sold for $19.50.
