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[Simon]

Here are my numbers for the week:

Total Items in Store: 3192
Items Sold: 39
Total Sales: $784.86
Cost of Items Sold: $92
Average Price Sold: $20.12
Average Cost of Item: $2.37
Highest Price Item Sold: $59.95 Salvatore Ferragamo Black Patent Leather Shoes
Number of items listed this week: 70
YTD Sales: $27993
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +12%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 392
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 290
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 130
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.22%
Hats sold this week: 27 (69% of sales) worth $460.41 (58% of sales $)

I didn’t sell any high-value things this week which had a big impact on my numbers. Otherwise, things have been pretty good and I’m still running ahead of YTD sales numbers.

Hope everyone sells lots of junk this week 🙂

[Simon]

@Mark S : Do you have a link that you can share to the anchor store offer? I’m at 3,176 listings now so I’m also on the verge of needing to upgrade to an anchor store also.

[Simon]

Here’s a message I recently received that was lost in translation.

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I wonder if that cold be something like Monkey Pod? It seems like a pretty choice for bowls and the pattern seems similar to other examples. (I’m not a wood person btw).

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How much did the typewriter sell for? We got out of selling them a couple years ago because the market price fell so much.

I haven’t sold it yet. (I need packing peanuts to finish my pre-packing job before I list it). It’s a red IBM Selectric II. They typically sell for over 100 plus shipping in working condition.

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Here are my numbers for the week:

Total Items in Store: 3167
Items Sold: 36
Total Sales: $870.52
Cost of Items Sold: $98
Average Price Sold: $24.18
Average Cost of Item: $2.74
Highest Price Item Sold: $69.95 Canon PowerShot A650 Digital Camera
Number of items listed this week: 45
YTD Sales: $27208
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +13%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 384
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 142
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 69
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.14%

Kudos to Jay on educating us about stuttering. I found the discussion very interesting. Though not quite the same thing I can relate a little. I have a slight lisp. Not great for someone with the first name of Simon as it’s something I have to think about every time I introduce myself. It’s something kids teased me about for a while in school. I’m not sure if anyone really notices these days. Certainly nobody has said anything to me about it for years. If you ever want a topic for a new podcast, a podcast on stuttering might be a valuable one for a lot of people out there.

Random story. A couple of months ago I bought a huge typewriter. I haven’t listed it because I was concerned about packing it. I finally put it on the top of my to-do list to pre-pack it before listing it so that I wouldn’t get stressed when it sold. I googled “how to ship a typewriter” and Google returned one of Ryanne’s old videos about packing a typewriter.

eBay topic : Does anyone else find the photo uploading and editing processes on eBay to be unpredictable. I regularly get broken images (while cropping, lightening on the website) or if I upload images through the app and don’t wait long enough they get dropped. I find I constantly have to work around eBay’s quirks.

Hope everyone has a productive and profitable week! 🌻

[Simon]

That’s funny. With the number of pages eBay has I guess it doesn’t surprise me too much that they have inconsistencies. I hope scheduled listings do end up being free but I’m not seeing it yet. It sounded like some people are seeing free scheduled listings though.

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Regarding the fee for scheduled listings, I still see the 10c fee mentioned on the eBay site:
https://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/schedulingfaq.html#7

When I attempt a scheduled listing, the fee still appears.

[Simon]

Thanks for the podcast! After a long weekend, it was good to have your podcast to listen to on the way to work this morning.

Here are my numbers for this week:

Total Items in Store: 3159
Items Sold: 43
Total Sales: $1476
Cost of Items Sold: $223
Average Price Sold: $34.32
Average Cost of Item: $5.19
Highest Price Item Sold: $229.95 Scotty Cameron Studio Style Newport 1.5 Putter (paid $30)
Number of items listed this week: 66
YTD Sales: $26337
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +14%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 378
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 193
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 42
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.36%
Hats sold this week: 26 (60% of sales) worth $459.99 (31% of sales $)

The end of the week (Sunday for me) was very strong which pushed my numbers above this week last year. I sold a couple of high value golf clubs which boosted my numbers so I’m happy wiht how the week turned out.

On the subject of Reddit, I’ve been active on that site for years (since Digg collapsed). I like using it and I’d join a SL subreddit though I think you’d find the amount of time necessary to moderate it would probably be greater than what you do now if it was public. Maybe it’s worth setting a subreaddit up and see what happens. If it’s successful, shut down this forum, otherwise shut down the subreddit. You’ll have twice the moderation duties for a while.

Different topic: I’ve recently crossed the 1-year-from-retirement countdown mark. I set myself a goal 2 years ago to retire from my day job next June. I’m on track to do that. I plan to sell part time on eBay and do lots of traveling and probably volunteer work. Lots to look forward to.

Hope everyone has a great week!

[Simon]

So there’s a fee for people with a store and free for people without? If true, that doesn’t seem very fair. I’ll try one on the weekend.

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>Scotty Mailers

I think you mean Scotty Stuffers.

This is a bit off-topic because I wouldn’t use them for hats but I bought Scotty Stuffers a while back but I rarely use them now as they are pretty expensive. I’ve switched to using regular 8x5x4 boxes now as they are the largest regular boxes that can fit in a padded flat-rate envelope. They are about half the price of Scotty Stuffers: https://www.ebay.com/itm/50-8x5x4-Cardboard-Packing-Mailing-Moving-Shipping-Boxes-Corrugated-Box-Cartons/141893303535?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

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Half of the things I sell every week come from eBay purchases. I buy and split lots and sell thing individually. I currently watch for 4 types of lots. I should probably branch out more but I haven’t put the time into it.

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I think it’s a rumor that offering free returns means you never get negative feedback. There’s no reason why eBay would want that. I’ve seen this same rumor mentioned in multiple places now.

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For wide brim hats like that I use boxes that are 10 inches long by 8 inches wide by 4 inches tall. (I use 4 inch tall boxes because that’s the tallest that can be dropped in a curbside collection bin). I use the ecoswift boxes from eBay which are extra light and ship under 8 ounces. If you’re not dropping packes in curbside bins, using boxes that are 5″ tall might be good.

For regular curved & structured brim hats 10x6x4 boxes will work. I get mine from ecoswift.
For floppy “dad hat” style baseball hats, I use the ebay-branded 8x6x4 boxes.

Some people stuff hats with paper or bubblewrap and ship them in padded mailers. I always ship in boxes.

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> Terminal 99 is another person we’ve interviewed who’s on youtube

Yep. I watch him regularly too.

Another guy that appeared in my YouTube suggestions recently is Blue Bus Dave: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqBDgN_d5avMDx7icxZiWA/videos

He is pretty prolific with videos and buys a lot of stuff I wouldn’t touch.

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