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Nice! On Saturday the Southeast Michigan Salvation Army stores had two different color tag for $1 per item sale, it was pretty great.
Yeah, West Bloomfield is the Orchard Lake Road store. Of the Salvation Army locations I frequent that one gets shopped the hardest, but it regularly gives up some pretty high priced items.
I can make it a bit easier then guessing, it was at the Clarkston store. I tend to cycle between Clarkston, Pontiac, West Bloomfield, White Lake, and Highland. What’s your home area?
Ended up being 154 items at $225.05, so just under $1.50 an item. It’s odd, I almost always see 3 or 4 resellers in the Women’s section each time I go out shopping, but I never see anyone buying Men’s clothes, more for me I guess.
Vintage is anything over 25 years old, so anything from 1999 or before can be sold as vintage. It’s the capital E on the red tab that will be your primary marketing point on this particular jacket. I’m certainly not an expert, just that I would sell it as vintage as I see nothing on the jacket that indicates to me that it isn’t at least 25 years old. But I’ve been known to be a bit reckless at times, so take my advise for what it’s worth.
It sure looks like a pre 1971 Type 3 “Trucker” jacket to me. As far as I know even the reproductions dont have the capital E on the red tab. I’d sell it at a premium price point as vintage with almost no reservations in doing so.
Here’s a link to the best guide I know of to verify and date Levi’s denim jackets.
Hello fellow Michiganders! Lived in the Lansing area for a little over 10 years, I wish Quality Dairy would come to Detroit.
You can just edit the policy you want to change and it will update the handling time for everything listed using that particular policy.
Speaking for myself, knowing that I never have to walk into another factory and spend 8+ hours a day for 6-8 days a week is all the motivation I need to stay on track. The one true benefit of the 15 years I spent working in manufacturing facilities is that I’m well ahead of the curve when it comes to process and efficiency.
I’m guessing that they mean 1000 active listings, which would 400 + everything they sell between now and then. Definitely doable in my opinion, as long as your process is in order and you have enough free time. Since the last week in February, when I started my business until now I’ve managed to list 1239 total item, 655 current active listings and 574 items sold since then.
I source mainly thrift stores for men’s clothes, I actively monitor the day to day sales that all my local stores put up on facebook and have my process down to not paying more then $2 for any one item. I can’t speak for where you live, but being in a major metro area affords me a huge access to cheap inventory. It’s been a learning process for me, but had I known what I do now at the start I think I’d be well over a 1000 active listings already.
As an avid disc golfer living in Michigan I can say with absolute conviction…poison ivy is the devil! I lose more discs then I’d care to admit in the summer because my willingness to go into the woods to look for a bad throw evaporates the second I see a patch of the stuff in the area I need to search.
Been a minute since I’ve shared, I’ll try and get back in the habit of doing so…
07/30/18 – 08/05/18
Total Items In Store: 665
Items Sold: 28
Cost of Items Sold: $69.09
Total Sales: $611.94
Highest Price Sold: $ 39.64 (Napa Valley Box Company CD Rack)
Average Price Sold: $ 21.85
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $55
Number of Items listed this week: 75Good-ish week for me. The real bonus was last Friday the Salvation army’s in my area ran a 10 for $5 sale on all color of the week clothing items. Managed to pick up 100 pieces of inventory for $50, so hopefully in the end it will end up being between $2000 – $2500 dollars worth of new inventory.
For me, 75% of sold comps for BIN price with best offer turned on for everything. I go a step further of setting an auto-sell best offer price of what would be the lowest I’d be willing to accept, I do so to automate the process to the best of my ability. As far as sales go, I run 10% off $24.99 and under and 15% off $25+ sale all the time. I run the sale for 2 days, and restart it every morning after it ends at midnight pacific time. I just like the rundown timer that gives people a sense of urgency to buy to get that certain price.
Where as I can understand the point of pricing low to increase sales, I’d rather maximize the monetary reward while still keeping a pretty high sell through rate. But I still believe that sourcing quality is the main factor in doing so.
