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Last week I was on vacation part deux! So, I listed 0 and proud of it!!
I’ve got two more weekend trips this month, so not sure how much time I will have for listing. I might prioritize items that need work and not worry about listing in quantity. I know that I have a stereo system that I tested last year because of this challenge, and it is still sitting in my basement. I might list it as needing repair and take the hit in price.
I hope everyone is having a great summer. I’m certainly traveling a bunch!
Here’s how I find the number of items I have listed over the past week.
Go to seller hub, scroll to the right to find the column “start time”. Click at the top of the column. It will re-order your listings from oldest to newest. Click on it a second time. It will order your listings from newest to oldest. You have to know the last item you listed from the previous week, but then you can go and count the number of listings you have created. I keep track of the last two items listed from the previous week because one may sell.
Lastly, you have to check your solds for the week to see if there is anything that you listed and sold in the same week. If you forget, you can click on the item and the sale date is listed at the top.
In case you don’t get through, or for future reference, try the “eBay for business” group on Facebook. They take about a day to get back to you, but they seem to know their stuff better.
I listed 20, and six met the challenge. That makes a total of 17 for the challenge.
Took me a second to understand the cat reference, but, yes, our cats are always taking over my boxes.
I tried this for the first time earlier this week, but with a huge box. Didn’t come out so well. I think it is much easier for smaller boxes like he showed. I was doing rectangle to square, but I don’t think that makes a difference.
I finally have some decent sales to talk about.
I sold a vase from the one commission I have. She must have collected these because I have had maybe six or so from the same artist listed at one time or another. The artist name is Robert Eickholt. This one sold for $90.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184020278011
This is a set of photography lights and umbrellas. I have a similar setup, but this one was from a neighbor moving away. It belonged to her son. Not sure, but I assume he was selling online.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184222354306
This is a mid-century wood lamp shade. When I listed it, I decided I would set it up at an angle in a 20x20x20 box. However, I had just used my last one, so I tried taking a used large box and cutting it so it was more square. It came out lopped sided, and I wasn’t sure if it would make the coast to coast trip intact. I finally just went to Home Depot and purchased a 24x24x36 wardrobe box and cut it down to size. I was able to pack the shade flat. So, my $34 was reduced by $13 for the box and about $2 in extra postage. Oh well.
There is this page as well:
https://export.ebay.com/en/fees-and-payments/taxes-and-accounting/vat-eu-2021/
From 1 July 2021 the VAT collection regulations on e-commerce in the EU changed. From now on eBay collects and remits VAT on goods which are sold in the EU based on seller location, consignment value and item location.
I had box-maggedon this past weekend. I had a sale of a very large wood lamp shade on Friday. It has about a 23″ diameter at the bottom.
When I listed it, I had planned to ship it diagonally in my largest 20x20x20 box. However, I had just used my last box the day before. In addition, the buyer is in CA, so it has to go coast to coast. I decided I should ship it so that it sits horizontally.
I tried to change a box I had in storage to different dimensions (someone had once posted a video of how to do that on the forum). Because the box was so large and unwieldy, it ended up being sort of lopped sided, so that wasn’t going to work.
I finally purchased a 24x24x36 wardrobe box for $13 at Home Depot and cut it down to size. Shipping ended up being about $3 more as well. Boy, I better not get a return on this one!!
Sales were better this week.
Week of July 18 – 24
Total Items in Store: 1377 eBay, 42 Etsy
Items Sold: 11 eBay + 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $6 + $69 Commission
Total Sales: $329.97 eBay + $18 Esty
Highest Price Sold: $90 Eickholt Vase (on commission); $46 photography lighting kit
Average price: $29
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 19I had a good week for listing. Listed 19 items and 11 met the challenge.
Yes, only one week left of July, and I am so unprepared for the August challenge of items requiring repair or work. I think this one was my idea because I need it so bad, but I have SO much planned for August. Plus, I think I will need to order parts if I’m really going to do it right. Maybe I’ll buy the parts in August and do it later, but then I won’t meet the challenge. Such is life, I guess.
@VT – Yes! Very weird roller coaster on eBay these days.
@Jay – that is kind of what I written so far, but I wanted to see if anyone had a name for it. Most wine coolers are open, or there are the ice buckets that have full lids.
@Amatino – I did find a link or two to something similar to mine, but the ones I found also didn’t say anything in the description. Weird. I’m pretty sure it isn’t an ice bowl serving dish because there is so much room for ice and so little space for serving anything.Sure, go ahead and put it up. I feel like I’m doing too much work for not a very expensive item, but sometimes I go in these rabbit holes because I wanna know!
This happens to me when I leave a listing open for awhile and come back to work on it later. I haven’t had issues with that in the past, but, recently, it seems that eBay needs to be refreshed every once in a while.
It couldn’t have been pre-1935. From Wikipedia:
For many years the company did a strictly “five-and-ten cent” business, but in the spring of 1932 it added a 20-cent line of merchandise. On November 13, 1935, the company’s directors decided to discontinue selling-price limits altogether.
I thought that tags read “Woolworth” and not F.W. Woolworth”. My memory could be wrong, but I wonder if there is a way to find out. I did a quick search and did not find an answer.
Enjoy your vacation in NY. I know that many New Yorkers bought homes in NJ and other surrounding states in the past year plus many people are making up for lost vacations, so I’m sure that’s why it’s a bit quiet. For a while, a few Facebook groups in my central NJ area had many posts complaining of NY drivers on our streets. Many weren’t accomplished drivers or were driving in the suburbs using the same methods that they did in the city. It seems to have quieted down now.
This past week sales were miserable. However, I had sales on Sunday totaling over $150, so I’m already 300% ahead 🙂 .
Week of July 11 – 17
Total Items in Store: 1378 eBay, 43 Etsy
Items Sold: 3 eBay
Cost of Items Sold: $1 + $0 Commission
Total Sales: $40.86 eBay
Highest Price Sold: $16 for 5 vintage/antique children’s books
Average price: $13.62
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 5I listed five. I was busy catching up with work and unpacking. None of listings met the challenge.
At the end of my vacation two weeks ago, I drove up to my parents’ home to pick up items that their downsizing friends’ gave to me to sell on eBay. My parents have agreed that they will only take stuff that they can bring up on their own, and they will not take any more clothes.
In the meantime, however, I brought more clothes home, and I have clothes from their last trip. To free up space so that I can get the hard goods listed faster, I’m just going to send them into Swap.com. I may save some clothing for my store; depends on how fast the boxes fill up. So, that is my goal for next week, but hopefully I will list some hard goods as well.
