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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). 🙂
I’ve heard about enough exclusions and issues with the new payment system that I wouldn’t touch it with a 50ft pole right now. There would have to be a sizeable, immediate reward for me to even consider it and, even when it’s fully functional, I haven’t heard of anything that’s really going to encourage me to give it a try.
Here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2569
Items Sold: 43
Total Sales: $1003
Cost of Items Sold: $105
Average Price Sold: $23.32
Average Cost of Item: $2.45
Highest Price Item Sold: $89.95 SHARP Pocket Computer PC-1500 (Paid $10 at an estate sale)
Number of items listed this week: 72
YTD Sales: $33591
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +17%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 324
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 220
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 126
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.67%It was a decent week for me. Lots of smallish sales that added up nicely. I hope it continues into the holiday bump.
I had one of those fully-automatic expresso makers for a month or so. It was a starbucks one that cost me $3 at a garage sale. I wanted to test it thoroughly as they seem very prone to breakage. After we got through a bag of beans of use I decided it wasn’t going to be an essential part of our lives (and my wife wanted her counter space back) so I sold it for $144. Happy to take that profit.
I’ll have to re-listen to the show, I had it on during my commute but I had a nap (on the bus) and missed some of the show. (It’s a reflection on Monday mornings and not on the quality of the podcast).
Have a great week!
I’ve heard about that Marshmallow experiment before and the way it can be a predictor of success later in life. I bet that the ability to delay gratification is a great predictor of financial well-being in particular. Impulse purchases, in particular, cause a lot of people to get into poor financial situations.
Any tips on how to identify flatware patterns? I’ve avoided them in the past as I didn’t know where to start.
> I might tweak my prices or photos here and there, but pretty much my plan is to leave it alone. Good until canceled. “so basically you plan on a 100% sell-through rate?”: … Well, yes, I guess I do. Is that realistic?
With 720 listings on eBay, the chances are pretty high that you’ll have some number of items that are just not wanted / mis-priced / poorly described.
I start dropping prices around the 2-year mark and I’m removing items that have been listed since 2015. I’m running out of storage space so that’s a factor for me. If you dont need the money and have plenty of space then you might be able to wait longer than me.
Thanks for the podcast!
Here are my numbers for this week:
Total Items in Store: 2532
Items Sold: 38
Total Sales: $981
Cost of Items Sold: $87
Average Price Sold: $25.82
Average Cost of Item: $2.31
Highest Price Item Sold: $139.95 Eero – Home WiFi System 2nd Generation Router
Number of items listed this week: 53
YTD Sales: $31656
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +18%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 319
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 261
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 138
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.5%Nothing particularly remarkable this week but decent sales numbers by my standards. I hope this level of sales continues into and through Q4.
Have a great week everyone!
The latest Android App update also has problems. Lots of complaints coming in on the ebay forums: https://www.ebay.com/android
The program that buytikiselltiki is seeing is called eBay Easy Pricing. If you google “ebay easy pricing” you’ll find a few pages talking about it. Here’s one: https://esellercafe.com/sellers-unsure-ebays-easy-pricing/
I don’t generally watch tracking info but on Friday I happened to look at a couple of my orders from last week. I had received good feedback on an order but when I looked the tracking, there had been no scans at all. The label being created was the only info shown. I saw this same issue on 2 orders. I didn’t investigate further. I hope ebay gets this fixed without me doing anything. I presume I could take these tracking numbers to the USPS website and get the correct info if I need to prove anything (assuming that the issue is with eBay and not with the post office).
Employers often cover part of an employees health care costs however when you use COBRA, you’re paying the full cost of the insurance without the employer subsidy so it’s often much more expensive. It’s often a good option when you’re between jobs however.
I saved the podcast for my Tuesday commute time today. (Paid holidays are a small perk of working a full-time job I suppose).
I had a pretty good week last week. I had several high-value (for me) sales which helped my overall numbers:
Total Items in Store: 2517
Items Sold: 43
Total Sales: $1177
Cost of Items Sold: $115
Average Price Sold: $27.37
Average Cost of Item: $2.69
Highest Price Item Sold: 2 sales @ $144.95 i) Starbucks Italia Automatic Espresso Coffee Machine and ii) Sony Alpha NEX-3 14.2MP Digital Camera
Number of items listed this week: 46
YTD Sales: $30674
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +20%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 320
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 193
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 104
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.71%Regarding Ryanne’s comment about not seeing the buyer’s email address in PayPal…. For some sales I see the email address right under the person’s name in the order details but for other sales it’s missing. If I click the refund button for those sales, the email address is shown. That might be a work-around if you need it.
