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Week of April 4 – 10
Total Items in Store: 1351 eBay, 44 Etsy
Items Sold: 14 eBay
Cost of Items Sold: $6.24 + $49.85 Commission
Total Sales: $278.57
Highest Price Sold: $75 Antique Royal Worcester Pitcher (on commission); $40 Reproduction art painting
Average price: $19.90
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 5Yeh, slow week for me as well.
I don’t have my numbers ready yet, but I thought that I would make a few comments.
Similar to you guys, I have jars of screws, but they were given to me by my grandpa years ago. Every time I find a strange size bolt or screw in one of those jars, I think about him. He passed away over 15 years ago.
I temporarily forgot that they changed the 1000 listings from premium to basic, but eventually screwed my brain on correctly and downgraded my store.
I found that my company has two bins in the back of the building where people throw bubblewrap from incoming packages. I now have a new constant supply of packaging.
Your talk of backflips reminded me of a story I heard in college. It’s not exactly the same as backflips, but it is about positive thinking. The story takes place in the early half of the 20th century. A math student arrives to class late and sees several math problems on the board. He writes them down thinking that they are a homework assignment. He comes to professor a few days later and says that he was only able to solve two of the problems. Ends up that the problems were not an assignment, but examples of equations that were considered unsolvable. I googled the story, and what is online is a bit different from what I heard. Not sure which is correct, but it at least gives the name of the guy.
I listed five. I had more in the “hopper” but didn’t get to them.
I looked back at all my listings from the start of April, and I had one gold colored frame to count towards the challenge.
I followed a link when I was sending an offer today, and this is what it says about automatic offers:
Automatically send offers
You can save time by enabling offers to be sent automatically to interested buyers. After you send an offer, you can change the settings for your automatic offers by going to Offer Settings within Active Listings. Here you’ll be able to:- Enable or disable offers from being sent automatically
- Adjust the automatic offer amount
- Turn on or off counteroffers
- Change your message
I don’t do automatic offers. When I am going to be away, I stop sending out offers about two days before the day I stop shipping. Can you turn off automatic offers temporarily?
Someone recently posted that they were given an offer to provide eBay feedback (or something like that). I’ve not heard of Limitless or a similar eBay offer.
I continue to increase my ROI on a $1 online auction purchase of a closet full of linens. This drapery set sold for $55.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184665053550
I purchased a large auction lot of radios 1 1/2 years ago. I had finally listed the last of it at the end of last year. I took four bedside radios that didn’t work and sold them as a group for $26. The buyer will either fix them or use them for parts.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184622979194
This lamp was large and unwieldy requiring a large box for shipping. I don’t like to include the shade, but sometimes they just belong with the lamp. Sold for $37, and the shipping was around $40 from NJ to VA. No wonder it took so long to sell.
I had kept this post open for when I finally got around to my GDBK in order. I contacted GoDaddy through the chat function to get that manual reset done. The customer rep had no idea and thought that a reset would delete all my data. I had to email a screenshot showing that my FedEx fees on eBay didn’t show up on GDBK, and someone from their technical team did the reset. They also gave me instructions for importing those fees with a CSV file.
I did do an import with a CSV, but it took quite a long time because of all the data manipulation I had to do. I hope that it was less time than doing it manually.
I do see that the fees are importing properly now, and it was retroactive 90 days.
BUT, WHAT A PAIN!
Now I gotta do my taxes.
I have used it several times, although not the real cheap rates to Canada yet. If someone asks me about direct shipping, and the item is 4 pounds or less, I will modify the listing for that price plus insurance.
Are you searching in a sub-category? Try going to ebay.com and start over.
I thought each separately looked like the bottom part of an oil lamp. I found bases, but nothing with a tube coming out the top.
When I started, I created an LLC right away. I guess I didn’t realize that I could just be a sole proprietor and have pretty much do the same things with the same tax benefits.
I listed 18 items this week.
I think that I had input to the gold, silver, and metals challenge idea, but I’ve been working on getting the artwork listed. The artwork consists of much bigger items compared to the jewelry I have which would meet the challenge. Hum …
