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Retro T WV – While eBay hasn’t told exactly how things work, it’s safe to assume they are trying to make as much money as they can so they have to balance showing the most relevant promoted listings against the ones that are being promoted at the highest percentage. Someone could offer to pay 50% for as a promoted listing fee but if it’s not relevant to the buyer’s search, there’s probably no point showing it. Where 2 items appear basically identical to their algorithm they are likely to pick the one that’s going to be most profitable for eBay (final value fees + promoted listing fee).
Thanks Jay!
One of the good things about selling hats is you can store a lot in a relatively small space :- about 65 – 75 in an average size tub/tote we probably have about 25 tubs of hats.
Hats are still our “bread and butter” items. Normally they account for about 60 – 70% of our sales and sales $ but this week they were 50% of the sales (18 of 38) but only 20% of the sales $ ( $300 / $1500) which was unusual.
At this time of year, I spent my Saturdays at yard sales and estate sales sourcing anything I can find. The non-hat sales generally reflect what I’m lucky enough to find on Saturdays.
Regarding promoted listings, they give you some stats to show if it’s generating traffic to your site and if it’s generating sales. At a 1% fee it seems like a worthwhile experiment
I’m late to the party but here are my numbers for last week:
Total Items in Store: 2600
Items Sold: 38
Total Sales: $1510
Cost of Items Sold: $147
Average Price Sold: $39.75
Average Cost of Item: $3.87
Highest Price Item Sold: $369.95 Orbi Netgear RBK53 AC3000 Tri-band WiFi System
Number of items listed this week: 25
YTD Sales: $38756
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +20%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 330
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 177
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 69
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.46%I had a very good week. One of my best for the year so far. My biggest sale of the week was some home networking equipment mentioned above that I picked up from a yard sale on Saturday for $20, listed and sold the following day for $369. I’d love to get one of those flips every week.
Jay – I’m glad you had a chance to try the scooters while in SF. The photo you take at the end of the ride is to prove you didn’t leave it somewhere stupid like in the middle of the sidewalk like some people had done in the past. That was one of the complaints about the scooters when they first rolled them out.
Have a profitable week everyone!
10/23/2018 at 3:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 382: Treasure Hunting with a Fishnet #50616I’ve never read / heard of helmet laws being enforced. I doubt it ever is unless someone is doing something dumb and the cops want to punish them to the max.
If you can swing it with your schedule, taking a spin across/around Crissy Field might be fun on a scooter.10/23/2018 at 11:58 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 382: Treasure Hunting with a Fishnet #50613R&J – I just finished listening to the show. Hope you try out those scooters like you talked about on the podcast. They are a lot of fun. Definitely recommend it. I even bought my family into the city a few months back and we rode those scooters around the waterfront. It’s cheap fun. I’d recommend installing the apps in your hotel room rather than doing it on the street as there are a few steps to go through : Scoot and Skip are the ones on the street right now. There used to be several other companies out there but the city decided that they were an annoyance and removed all of them for several months. They did a permitting process and only returned a couple of weeks ago. There are a lot less of them out there now.
10/22/2018 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 382: Treasure Hunting with a Fishnet #50552Hi R&J
I haven’t listened to the show yet as I’m having a long weekend and I’m saving the podast till my Tuesday morning commute. Hope you got/get to enjoy some warm weather while you were in the SF area. (It was certainly nice and warm outside of the city itself this weekend but the city has it’s own microclimate.)
I don’t think I’ve posted my numbers for a couple of weeks but here they are for this week:
Total Items in Store: 2613
Items Sold: 39
Total Sales: $809
Cost of Items Sold: $69
Average Price Sold: $20.73
Average Cost of Item: $1.79
Highest Price Item Sold: $64.95 Monty Python’s Flying Circus Complete Megaset DVD 16-Disc Set
Number of items listed this week: 53
YTD Sales: $37231
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +18%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 320
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 194
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 147
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.49%Sales have been steady but I haven’t found too many higher-value items recently so my numbers for this week were good but not amazing. No complaints though.
My big score from this weekend was a box of 20 new, old stock Tourneau ladies watches. I got the whole box for $25 and hope to sell each one for more than that. Only problem is that I need to replace the battery in all of them. It will be fun to see how that works out.
Hope everyone has a good week!
Yes. They’ve been gradually rolling it out for a month or two based on the comments I’ve read. It’s been showing up for most of my sales recently. For changes like this I just push through and learn how to use the new page design. It’s likely that this (or something very similar) will be the permanent shipping page as soon as it has all the features (like Fedex) so I figure I may as well get used to it unless it completely blocks something that I need to do.
An item that was ordered on August 29th probably wasn’t received till a couple of weeks later. THe 30-day period starts on delivery. It’s most-likely within the 30-day window.
I think the default is no-returns accepted for international sales. I’d speak to eBay. I wouldn’t encourage the buyer to just buy a plug unless you’re sure it will work. Not all appliances are designed for multiple voltages.
Thanks for the tips @totommyto and @doublythumbs. I hadn’t thought about using a regular scanner for any part of the process. I might try that first and the may the homemade slide view will be plan b. @doublythumbs – your listing really helps give me some ideas for presentation.
My lantern slides do have some handwritten descriptions. I haven’t looked at them for a few weeks (as I’ve been procrastinating) so I’ll need to take another look. There were 2 boxes of them at an estate sale I picked out all the interesting ones and left all the photos of museum visits behind. The whole collection dated to the early 1900s but the military photos were so interesting that I wondered if they had been taken of someone elses photos. They looked like photos from a newspaper photographer, not like photos of a tourist (like most of the rest of them).
My sales this weekend were pretty strong. I made about a third of my sales for the week over the weekend. (The weekend is often very slow for me). For the month of September I was up about 10% over the same month last year.
In regard to the seller hub stats that @T-Satt asked about, the Hat & NCAA/college “market” is down 3% in the last month and down 3% over the same period last year.
I’m interested to hear how you photograph slides. Do you take photos from a slide viewer or do you have another technique?
I’ve got a box of glass latern slides from the early 1900s. I’m looking for ideas on how to photograph/list those. Some of the slides are from WWI Europe with military scenes. Almost too good to be true. Hopefully they are not photos of photos.
I can sympathize on that return. I’ve had an unusually high number of returns recently but nothing of that magnitude.
Funny story – i received a return on a dvd player remote last week. The buyer said it didn’t work. When I checked the battery compartment today I found they had inserted the batteries around the wrong way. doh!
I’m doing my day job from home today so I’ll save the podcast for my commute tomorrow but here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2567
Items Sold: 41
Total Sales: $1183
Cost of Items Sold: $110
Average Price Sold: $28.85
Average Cost of Item: $2.7
Highest Price Item Sold: $279.96 POQET PC “CLASSIC” MODEL PQ-0164 Portable Handheld Computer (paid $5 at an estate sale).
Number of items listed this week: 62
YTD Sales: $34794
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +18%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 328
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 169
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 106
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.6%I had a pretty good week. One of my best for the year so far. Those pocket computers are definitely something to pick up in you see them. They look like old calculators and apparently have some collectors out there. I found and sold a similar one a couple of weeks ago (for a lower price than this).
Congrats on the big 50 @ChristineR. That’s certainly a milestone worth celebrating (or worth forgetting with a lot of alcohol if you prefer). 🙂
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