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Oh man, that’s crazy. Mine has been normal. You should call Ebay. There must be a problem with your account.
I have a neighbor who I am selling for on commission. He was widowed earlier this year. His wife was a serial shopper, so I’m listing lots of newer items that I normally don’t have in stock. If I wasn’t doing that, I would have sold two items all of last week.
I just heard back from eBay for Business. You can set a flat shipping rate for your store at the following link:
<span role=”gridcell”>https://www.ebay.com/ship/prf</span>
I’ll save this to my Microsoft Notebook program. If I ever decide to do it, I’ll be able to find the setting.
I listed 38 for the week.
I submitted a question to eBay for Business on Facebook about whether I could build a store with only a single shipping cost. This has to do with my challenge for this month. I doubt it will come to anything. I did look around at other postal stamp listings, and you either need to use just a stamp to ship and take the risk, or have something large and valuable enough that the trackable shipping cost is worth it.
Week of May 1 – 7
Total Items in Store: 1611 eBay, 36 Etsy
Items Sold: 12 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $3 + $159 Commission
Total Sales: $376.42 eBay, $0 Etsy; Includes fees but no shipping
Swap.com $22.13
Highest Price Sold: eBay $133 Bissell Crosswave Pet Pro Multi Surface Cleaner (on commission)
Average price: $37.64
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $10
Number of items listed this week: 38My store peaked up over 1600 listings today!
Sort of funny story: I went to a book sale today and picked up two Jewish religious books. Hebrew is written right to left so books start at what we would call the back and finish at the front. These books have both Hebrew and English. I picked up two of the books and saw a price written of $3; however, when the guy was ringing me up, he opened the book from what he thought was the front and saw a $2 price written there. It was half price day, so it was only a $0.50 savings each. I just thought it was funny.
I sold many items on commission this week, so my fees are very high. I guess I would have had a very poor week otherwise.
Exactly. It’s not like the recycling company is going to come to the guy’s house “Hey, you bought a porcelain cup from the US. The seller says that the packaging weighs 10 oz. Now give us the packaging, and we’ll weigh and then recycle it.”
…..most people weren’t even wearing pants for the past two years, let alone suits and ties.
Hilarious! I listed some ties during the pandemic, and I don’t think I’ve sold one.
According to what I received from Etsy, they are pushing the responsibility for the law on the sellers. However, I haven’t received any information from eBay. The article I posted seemed to say that eBay was going to as well, but who knows?
eBay could cover this charge the same way that they pay state sales tax. They could charge the buyer a fee maybe based on weight or size. Then, eBay would submit the fee to whatever German recycling company that they chose. That would cover small sellers who use GSP.
Otherwise, I agree with @retro-treasures-wv. Germany can shove it.
Not leather. I’ll set the price in the high $50s and see where it goes. I think 12 is a complete set. Someone has a set of 11 for sale at $70.
Funny, but I feel I need to be “thrifty” with posts sometimes. I don’t know why.
The tobacco album above is still for sale. I had two offers of $20 and $28.88 (ha) that I declined without counteroffers. Both from NY, so I think maybe the same person. I’ll wait.
I have a 1950s set of 12 books in very good condition. Per Terrapeak, two different sets sold in auction listings for $25 and $36 in February. Seems very low to me. I’m wondering what and when this full set sold for:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/classics-set-12-volumes-j-little-ives-1834327313
Steve – I really appreciate your videos each week. I don’t get bored of doing this, but no one seems interested in posting consistently. While I occasionally sell something interesting, it would be nice to see more variety.
This went fast. I bought a working battery operated vacuum cleaner in an online auction. It didn’t come with the charger, so I decided to part it out. Here is the third and last part that sold for $42. I paid about $6 for the whole closet and just these three parts sold for over $100.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185357689571
This is a commission sale for my neighbor. I grabbed two older cookbooks I found in his house. One was worth maybe $2 (so I gave it back to him), and this one from the Nebraska Czechs sold for $28 in a few hours.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185406022458
Another of his items (well, his wife who passed away), an unopened box of Gucci perfume sold for $225.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185348089398
An uninteresting buy in an auction lot for $1. Looks like these were never used. Sold for $19.
I’ve never had that sort of scavenger sixth sense. However, I do often buy online auction lots for minimum bids and find items that were hidden and not advertised. Some examples: two mink hats in a bag found in a bathroom closet and a WWII packet listing the stars & stripes someone was entitled to wear at the bottom of a box of ordinary photo frames. Of the many similar purchases I’ve made, a very low percentage had nothing of interest.
VT – Maybe your challenge should be to research one listing service so that you can make a faster informed decision after you move.
Good luck to both of you in your move. My husband and I talk about selling our home when we become empty nesters in a few years. It will be rough. I will definitely sell off a large chunk of my eBay store as well as some of our no-longer-needed furniture and belongings in an online auction or two. I’ll want to pare things down even before we put the place on the market. It will be a mess.
Those $10-$15 items are definitely something to think about. If you sell them at in a garage sale for say $5, then you are out $5-$10. You don’t have to spend the time taking photos, listing, and shipping. That might definitely be worth the $10 you lose by not selling them on eBay.
Maybe you put them out during the garage sale, but not take $1-2 offers. If items are left over at the end, then you go ahead and list them. You just need to decide whether the item didn’t sell because it is uninteresting, or was it a very specific item that requires the right need or collector to buy? Then just list those items that require a global audience to find that right person.
