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Honestly, I made a series of poor choices in my late teens and early twenties that left me in a position where when I found out I was going to be a father forced me to take whatever type of gainful employment I could find to help provide for my family. The problem with non-skilled labor is that, for the most part anyway, it’s pretty tedious and mind numbing shit…
I spent 20 years hating each and every job I had. Underpaid, overworked, understimulated, and over caffeinated is a terrible way to spend a third of your waking hours. I spent nearly a decade working 3rd shift just so didn’t have to deal with overwhelmed asshole bosses, at least at night nobody is around and work can actually get done. So, last job ends and I do what I always do, start looking for something new. But this time, instead of just looking for a new job I also started doing research on working for myself. Fast forward a year, and I’m making more money, my boss in only and asshole occasionally and I’m infinitely less miserable. I’ve always been a self starter and have the work ethic to make it work…and so far everything is going swimmingly. Plus, my new boss is always willing to let me go play disc golf when the weather is nice, looks the other way when I decide that a 3pm beer is a good idea, and never minds when on Friday I work really hard until about noon and then spend the rest of the day smoking a joint and messing around on the internet.
Week of 2/25 – 3/3
Total Items in Store: 1122
Items Sold: 54
Gross Sales: $1372.57
Cost of Items Sold: $106.92
Highest Price Sold: $72.80 (NIB Vintage Interpur 4pc Stoneware Covered Onion Soup Bowls With Ratan Bases)
Average Price Sold: $25.41
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 70Officially my best week ever, also my one year eBay seller anniversary!
While I totally agree that it is totally possible to do this on the side, part time; there’s some wonderfully freeing about doing for one’s self. I like being the master of my own destiny, as it were. There’s really no job that I’m aware of, where my employer isn’t making more money off of my efforts than I am, and that’s just not something that I can abide! Add on top of that the environmental and moral concerns that helped lead me to deciding that this type of business was something that I wanted to be a part of. There’s no question in my mind that I made the right decision, though there’s definitely some things I would have done differently I could start over again.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read my rambling thoughts! As always…good scavenging, good listing, and good sales to all.
P.S. Congrats on 401 episodes Jay and Ryanne, as I somehow managed to miss the 400 episode mark last week…
If you plan on really getting into selling clothes I would suggest getting a steamer, it’s by far the quickest and easiest way to deal with wrinkles.
As for washing and drying, honestly, unless something had a stain that I’m trying to remove I never wash or dry the clothes that I sell. In over 1300 clothing items sold in just over 10 months I’ve had no issues at all. Though I will say no cigarettes are smoked in my house, but nobody has ever had an issue with the thrift store smell.
Put my google skills to good use…
here is a link to the Superintendent Myron Reyher’s son obituary. Which gives a location of New Buffalo.
New Buffalo, North Branch, and New Baltimore are the three Michigan cites with N.B. initials that come to my mind.
Thanks for the info!
All of the lots will be single brand, single size, single style. I’ve been buying for my stockpile to do this for a few months, just seemed like a waste to pass up all the descent shirts I see on dollar tag day sale because they’re not really worth listing to sell individually. My buying, folding, and shipping game is pretty strong, so I’m not really concerned with that part. I’m pretty sure I can nicely package 5 nike golf polo shirts and fit them in padded flat rate envelope, but I’ll have to do a bit of testing to make sure before I put any listings up.
Total Items in Store: 1105
Items Sold: 32
Gross Sales: $813.02
Cost of Items Sold: $57.88
Highest Price Sold: $50.44 (Green Plaid Levis 511 Jeans)
Average Price Sold: $25.40
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $135
Number of items listed this week: 70Was having the slowest sales week I’ve had since last summer, but then the weekend came around and Saturday and Sunday were absolutely killer days.
I’ve been buying a lot of shirts lately to do some experimental lot selling with, so that’s going to be my new adventure for the next week or two. Does anybody here on the forums have any experience selling lots of 3-5 shirts or anything similar? Just looking for any tips or tricks.
As always, hope everyone has a week of great sales, sourcing, and listing!
Is it just me or does that also imply that you’ve been wearing the same underwear your entire life? Because to be completely honest I’m not sure I believe anybody could fit into their underoos as an adult…
Tinfoil hat or not, all of my data suggests to me that there’s definitely something to it. As always the caveat that correlation doesn’t prove causality definitely applies, but until I see better information that demonstrates a more profitable path I’m definitely sticking to this method.
A day late to the party, but here’s my numbers for the previous week…
Total Items in Store: 1034
Items Sold: 35
Gross Sales: $792.75
Cost of Items Sold: $68.25
Highest Price Sold: $35.75 (Lucky Brand Jeans)
Average Price Sold: $22.65
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $155.68
Number of items listed this week: 70Took a bit of a hit on my average sales price this week, but moved a bit of old inventory that I purchased before I really knew what I was doing…so that’s a plus. Also, two straight weeks with no returns; which always make me a happy reseller!
Just wanted to take a second and give a big thank you to T-Satt, your evangelizing of consistent listing got me rather serious about trying it out. After switching to listing 10 items per day consistently as opposed to my old method of as many as possible until I had nothing left to post, the jump in sales is undeniable.
Anyway, hope everybody else has a great week and sells as much as possible!
Here’s a decent primer that might help point you in the right direction.
https://estatesales.org/thegoods/jadeite-jadite-jade-ite-guide
Total Items in Store: 999
Items Sold: 30
Gross Sales: $835.92
Cost of Items Sold: $57.50
Highest Price Sold: $45 (Orvis dress pants)
Average Price Sold: $27.86
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 70Was just one of those nice easy balanced weeks for me. Haven’t been doing any sourcing, but that’s because I actually got a fairly sizeable death pile built up. Though in my defence it had way less to do with not getting enough done, and everything to do with some great post Christmas thrifting tips that resulted in more work then I could get through. Also, unless sales go completely crazy this week I’m going to hit 1,000 active listings for the first time…feels like a bit of a milestone to me!
Soapstone is definitely soft, as far as rock goes anyways. If it’s soapstone you should be able to scratch it with a fingernail as well. Also, it should be cool to the touch even at room temperature the same way that jade is.
The fish look like either cichlids or angle fish to me, and the artwork has a distinctly indigenous feel to it. Are they heavy or light for their size? They definitely look like wood, can you make a small indentation on the bottom of one with a finger nail? Not being able to see them in person makes it hard, but they look like some type of soft wood to me, if they are really light and you can press into them I’d think that they are balsa wood.
