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People who buy vintage clothing know to go by measurements. There’s chest (often called armpit to armpit) and maybe sleeve length or shoulder to hem length (the bottom of the shirt). For pants, the measurement across the waist (I usually give the measurement across and then double it for full waist) and inseam. If you give a waist measurement, you might want to mention that their personal waist measurement should be an inch or two less than the pants.
You can try Googling women’s current sizes and say something like “in today’s sizes, this would be about a women’s size 10” or whatever.
My one buyer that is making a stink just opened a dispute with their credit card. I know eBay understands the USPS issues, but I don’t know about her credit card company. They want me to close it by the 20th. I certainly hope it arrives by then; otherwise, I’m out $89 plus shipping. Fortunately, I guess, this is an item on commission, so I will just not pay if I lose. I will be out the shipping cost.
@Amatino – Yes, the two of us are fine now. Just needed money (for the car) and time (for me). Thanks for asking 🙂
I also have one of those buyers who is anxious about a late delivery. She keeps messaging me every day about the late shipment. Nothing nasty; just annoying. I first messaged her about how USPS was experiencing delays, then I told her I opened an inquiry, and then I messaged her that a USPS employee called from her local facility and explained how their sorting facilities were swamped or closed down due to lack of personnel. But, she keeps messaging me every day “my item still hasn’t arrived”. Today, I just said something like “Please read my last message. There isn’t anything more I can do at this point”. I think I will just copy and paste the same message when I get another message tomorrow (unless I see movement in tracking).
Week of Dec 6 – 12
Total Items in Store: 1436 eBay, 27 Etsy
Items Sold: 20 eBay, 4 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $17.20 + $43 Commission
Total Sales: $417.47 eBay, $115 Etsy
Highest Price Sold: $46 Vintage Knox hat on eBay; Vintage Glenfarclas whiskey pitcher on Etsy
Average price: $22.20
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $81
Number of items listed this week: 24Decently strong week, and four items sold on Etsy, which is a record for me. I should list a few more things there.
I’m not really sourcing right now. My garage is filled with stuff, but I want to be able to park there. I did buy some of the soaps Dan posted about a few days ago. Since biting insects seem to have some kind of natural attraction to me, I have an interest in a natural product that will help to ease the itching. I’ll save a few for me and sell the rest.
I listed 24 items.
The popup challenge helped get the ball rolling with the first 15, but I had some challenges this week between my car breaking down (ended up replacing the radiator) and a bad reaction to my dinner on Friday evening.
Whether you get a form or not, your sales are taxable. If you have been not paying taxes in the past, that just means that the IRS didn’t catch you 🙂
You should get your records separately from eBay and PayPal, and then make sure to deduct all your expenses.
I don’t have much, but I’ll throw out the two listings I have.
I almost forgot to post. I was lucky because I had taken photos the previous two days. I managed 15.
Steve – I’ve never seen a Trippensee Planetarium, but yet you’ve sold two and have one of your own. I’ll keep my eyes out for one.
Some of my best ROIs is with incomplete dish sets. Someone requested a combined purchase of salad and dinner plates with this stoneware set from Target. I think I paid maybe $3 for the whole set? And, I’ve already sold a good bit of it already. I sold a total of 12 plates for $84. I’m mostly left with mugs now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184559352343
This Swarovski pin is one of my commission sales, which sold for $89. Unfortunately, it is one of my packages stuck in the USPS backlog of deliveries. I’ve submitted an inquiry because the buyer is anxious, and I want to look like I’m doing something.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184206529063
This ashtray was purchased in a large lot of vintage tools. I paid maybe $12 for the whole lot, so let’s say $1 for this one item, and it sold for $50.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184555200932
Here is another item from that same lot that sold for $30, so maybe allocate another $1 for the sale. It’s an antique nail puller.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184553878976
I recently purchased a the contents of a closet full of drapes and other linens for the starting bid of $1. I made sure to get this Christmas tablecloth listed quickly. It had several stains. I tried a few stain removing products, but some did not come out, so I soaked it in diluted bleach solution overnight. It worked! I disclosed that I had to remove stains in the condition statement, and it sold for $20.66. I have many, many more items yet to list from that $1 online auction purchase.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184551939570
I purchased the contents of a bathroom closet in an online auction for a few dollars, and it included a several unopened cosmetic products. This product is sold via one of those home sales companies (I assume MLM). It sold for $40, and I have a similar product still listed.
I’m not aware of any way to get that information unless you use one of those services, like Ink Frog or GoDaddy Bookkeeping, that pulls and saves that information for you.
I tried looking at Terapeak, but they don’t give you a way to search by seller.
You will have to go through your emails one by one. I don’t know of any other way.
The next time you go to buy a label, scroll down, and you will see something like this:
Select how to pay
Paying with your pending payouts. Change to PayPalHowever, yours will say Paying with PayPal, and you will need to change it.
Once I changed mine, it stayed that way.
I just listed some full perfume deodorant, but I noticed that some listings say “new 90% full” or some variation thereof. I guess that is true; the stuff that is left is not used otherwise it wouldn’t be there, right?
I have some partially full perfume bottles that I moved to the Other Perfume Collectibles category when I heard about the change in policy. None of my listings have been taken down.
