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I managed 38 listings this past week. I’m listing much faster these days, I think mostly due to having a steady stream of things I don’t have to test. I also think I have a faster process, but I do see a mistake or two here or there. Nothing significant, but I do make them going faster.
I did test some electronics this week against my challenge, but haven’t listed them yet.
@vintagetreasures – I think that sometimes the sales from listing are delayed, and sometimes not. End of winter/beginning of Spring is a known period of slowness, so sales can be unpredictable. I’ve been trying to make my listings consistent as well, but I can’t say that I’m seeing a difference.Steve – BTW, I use the bulk shipping tool to buy all my shipping labels at once. It is just more convenient. I select all the orders I want to ship, then shipping – buy shipping labels. If there are any purchases from the same buyer, it gives me the option to combine at the top, and I can still buy the labels for other buyers as well.
Steve – If you have a buyer that purchases two items but doesn’t pay in one transaction, you can still combine shipping. You need to select the two (or more) purchases, select shipping-buy shipping labels, and the Bulk Shipping tool will come up. You will see an option to combine shipping to the same buyer at top.
This unused bottle of hydrating wash was part of an online action where I purchased the contents of a bathroom closet. I believe this is a MLM type company. It sold for $40, and I paid less than $1 when you divide the cost of the auction among all the goodies I found there.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185138759599
I’ve been selling a number of items for my neighbor who’s wife passed away earlier this year. As I mentioned before, she must have been the type who shopped for fun or therapy. So many things are NWT, it’s incredible. Here are a few of those items. For the new in box shoes, I just pulled off photos from the internet.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185290832607
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185289032145
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185321241560
A friend recently gave me a set of silver plate flatware that had been his mother’s. I did some polishing and then posted them in sets. One buyer bought two listings, 4 knives for $24 and 4 forks for $20. (I used the bulk shipping tool to send them together in one box).
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185305557141
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185305564872
Then the box sold to someone else for $34:
I listed 34 this week, one more than last week’s total.
My challenge this month is to list the electronics that take me so long to get organized. I did much of it in January, but I wasn’t able to complete all of it. So far, what I’ve done is had a conversation with my husband about it. Yup, there is a reason they call it “challenge” right?
Week of Mar 6 – 12
Total Items in Store: 1446 eBay, 38 Etsy
Items Sold: 15 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $12.15 + $37 Commission
Total Sales: $324.72 eBay; Includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $50 for Kenneth Jay Lane KJL Rose Flower Brooch Pin (commission)
Average price: $21.65
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $54.96
Number of items listed this week: 34I sold mostly lower value items last week, and it started off poorly with a no sale day on the 6th. Still, it was better than last week.
Thanks so much! This jives with other A&G pamphlets that I was able to get prices on (after I made this post): $100 for good condition, $50 for one with issues. Of course, I’ll start with $99 best offer.
I see no one has an answer for you so far. My suggestion is to create a search in eBay to see similar bats, and then use a filter to see sold items, and then only the used ones. Click on a few to see how the seller handled it. Look for photos where the bat doesn’t look in pristine condition.
If there are no sold bats with chips in the finish, well, there’s your answer.
Kind of like NFTs, but in the real world?
Doesn’t sound all that exciting to me, but I’m sure eBay knows what it is doing.
Have you considered signing up for business policies? I find it works better. Whenever someone has an issue with shipping settings (and it happens every once in a while), it never affected my account.
Woo hoo! I guess it was worth the barrage of listings on Sunday 🙂
Amatino – Good luck with your trip. Other than WW3 brewing, I think everything else is starting to normalize, and you should be OK. Are you going to put your store on pause? Or do the Jay & Ryanne thing and let stuff sell?
As far as INADs and returns, I would handle them as I normally do, and then either take it out of future payments or just now consider it my own item and take the profit as it resells. I think it happened once in the past, and I just resold it as my own. This hasn’t happened for me often enough to make a concern.
Yes, once upon a time when I first started a commission for a family friend, I decided to write up an agreement explaining the fees, timing, and all sorts of details. I was concerned about there being differences in opinions on value, payment, and so forth.
I’ve only done this sort of thing for friends, and ones who were really loosy goosy about the process. Stuff like “I just want the stuff to be used by someone, and I like the idea that you are making money off of it”. My neighbor is totally like that, so I’m good with the situation.
I updated the agreement and brought it over to him. I’m not sure he read it, but he is a lawyer and was very impressed that I even had one.
Week of Feb 27 – Mar 5
Total Items in Store: 1428 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 13 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $11 + $52 Commission
Total Sales: $278.56 eBay; Includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $40 tie between Tuxedo (pants & jacket) & Arbonne NutriMin hydrating wash
Average price: $21.43
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: 0
Number of items listed this week: 33Slower week than the past two weeks, plus one rare return.
I started working the auction haul from a week ago, which resulted in a pretty big listing week for me. I’m still listing for my neighbor, so my commission expenses are up. I need to write my first check for him soon.
I try to consistently list a few things every day, but my part time job and timing sometimes get in the way. Yesterday, I thought I should hold off on some listings so that I could list consistently this week, but then we have this challenge. I wanted to list more in case I have enough to win.
So far it is working. I listed 33 items last week.
