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Whoops, sorry, I see you said active listings, and I gave you orders. Not sure about that.
Go to your orders page. There is a “Manage all orders” section, followed by a “Results” section. On the other side of “Results” is “download report”. I think that is what you are looking for.
They won’t charge you to downgrade your subscription if you do it when you are up for renewal. If the benefit is taken away at some time in the future, you won’t be charged to upgrade.
Yes, the USPS seems to have righted itself, although it still isn’t fixed. All of my delayed packages from last year have been delivered. The one Christmas brooch that was purchased on Dec 2 and delivered on Dec 28 has not been returned yet, and I hope it stays that way. I had someone open up a case yesterday asking why they haven’t received their first class package (purchased Jan. 6, opened Jan. 18), and I want to say “You have no idea, this is not late at all”, but I gave my regular answer about delivery issues and pointing them to the USPS tracking site that provides more information.
I’m also wondering about this new business venture of yours. With your helpers for eBay, cleaners for AirBnB, and, eventually, your partners with the coffee shop, you two are becoming more like managers that still do some of the grunt work. Some day, perhaps, you can arrange your businesses to run without you (the topic of last week’s podcast), and then you can be freed up to be globetrotters again.
Anyway, an average week for me:
Week of Jan 10 – 16
Total Items in Store: 1445 eBay, 27 Etsy
Items Sold: 21 eBay
Cost of Items Sold: $24.75 + $33.50 Commission
Total Sales: $438.68 eBay
Highest Price Sold: $51.90 for 4 decorative globe lightbulbs; $50 for 1960 Gillette adjustable safety razor
Average price: $20.89
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 21During the summer, I found that many of my delayed packages made it to a NJ sorting facility and sat there for a few days to a week or so before moving again.
During the post Thanksgiving shipping frenzy, I found that most of my packages made it through the NJ sorting facility just fine, but waited somewhere else for days or weeks before showing movement.
This experience seems to be contrary to what I’m seeing on the maps. It shows NJ as one of the worst affected states in December, while the mid-west/west looks a fraction better. So, either their data is wrong or it was just the roll of the die for my experience.
I listed 21 items.
I completed two death piles. One was the one that I finished up from last week, and the other was a pile of stuff that I accumulated in my dining room.
I’ve started on a bag of ties that I’ve had for about a year and a half. The problem is that I have a bin in the garage that I really need to tackle. Even if just to bring it in and clean up the items in it. These are things that require testing and research, so I grabbed an easy to do ties. BUT the ties don’t make much money, while this box of electronics will do much better even in parts/repair condition. I am posting this to keep myself accountable.
Finally, there was also a photograph your setup challenge. Here is mine. It’s in the hallway from the front door to the kitchen, so I have to put it up and take it down as I need it. I’m doing those ties, so the lights are set up high because I am photographing everything against the white poster board. On other occasions, I bend the poster board so that I can photograph an item against a white bottom and background.
Funny. We recently had to purchase a new carafe for our small coffee maker, and I had noticed it defines a cup as 4 oz. We were just making coffee:
I guess a cup of coffee is whatever the company wants to define it; it is different than a measuring cup.
I didn’t see a way to do it. I’ve been inputting the information in manually.
I use the bulk shipping tool, so, when there is more than one item purchased from the same buyer, it allows me to combine it under one shipping label. But, yeh, people try things.
There have been two times in the recent past where we’ve bought something from Amazon, and they told us to keep it. Both times, I’ve sold the item. One was a damaged lazy susan, which was still usable. And the other (which was only a month or two ago) was a furnace filter pack where they sent us the wrong one. We ended up repurchasing it from a totally different site.
Both were Amazon sellers, and not Amazon itself.
Gotcha, Amatino. I think you once had a challenge where the death piles had to be around a year old, but I can work with this better (not that I don’t have stuff older than a year 🙂 ).
I also want to thank Amatino for my challenge gift I received yesterday! This will be great for future online auction pickups. It might not show so well on the photo, but the ends of the shoes and hat are little balls! So cute!
The shipping label is specifically for your address. She cannot use it to send it somewhere else. My guess is that she is hedging her bets so that, if the curtain doesn’t sell on auction, she can ship it back and get her refund.
There is always the possibility that she is planning to ship something back that isn’t the item you sent her.
I would copy the item number of her auction and save that link just in case. Then, report her to eBay. Even if her auction doesn’t end up in a sale and she sends back the item, what she is doing is not right.
I sold a large number of items this week, but they were mostly lower cost. I expect that people are spending those $25 gift cards they received during the holidays.
Week of Jan 3 – 9
Total Items in Store: 1441 eBay, 27 Etsy
Items Sold: 29 eBay
Cost of Items Sold: $80 + $21.80 Commission
Total Sales: $463 eBay
Highest Price Sold: $59 for 2 sets new Charles Heidsieck ice bucket + empty champagne bottle
Average price: $16
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 18My high COGS are due to the two ice bucket & empty champagne bottle combos I sold. I paid way too much for them, about $20 each, during my first or second year of selling on eBay. Glad they’re gone, though.
Yes, this is something that is frustrating with eBay. I buy my labels using the bulk shipping page, so all the label costs get combined into one price. If you buy your labels one at a time, you can find the email for when you bought the label off eBay.
If you can’t find it, do you remember the dimensions and weight of the box you shipped? You can put that information into eBay’s shipping calculator with your and your buyer’s zip codes, and then you will have what the cost would have been.
https://www.ebay.com/shp/Calculator
Then, print out the tracking information into a PDF file. The fact that it shows a package sent priority mail means that it was insured. I suggest using the USPS tracking rather than what you see on eBay. Just cut and past the tracking information into goggle, click track package, then “View details on USPS”. The tracking information there is the most detailed, and the product information will say that it was sent priority.
