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My numbers for this week:
Total Items in Store: 1177
Items Sold: 34
Total Sales: $775.36
Cost of Items Sold: $81.65
Average Price Sold: $22.80
Average Cost of Item: $2.40
Highest Price Item Sold: $74.95 – Mid-century Rigi Electrical 900E Gondola / Ski Lift purchased for $5 at a yard sale.
Number of items listed this week: 37
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 196
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 129
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 102
Sell-through rate: 2.89%
# of Hats Sold: 11I had a good week and it looks like this week is shaping up to be one of my best weeks ever. I had a $350 sale this morning (not included in my numbers above) of a 4ft long slide rule that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I purchased it for $10 at an estate sale:
4ft Yellow Pickett Slide Rule used for teaching / classrooms in the 1960sI’d imagine this is pretty unlikely but I noticed it was possible to customize the admin area. Is there any chance we could have a profile setting where we could customize the background of the forum pages to remove the “wood” background and replace it will a plain color. That would make it more work-appropriate for me.
Perhaps I need to figure out how to create a browser plug-in to make that kind of change.
Yep. I see that too. I think the forum has a responsive design so that it optimizes for mobile devices when the browser is small however there must be a range of widths that are accidentally being mobile-optimized.
I’ve got a few different types of plastic tubs. I bought a big pile from Home Depot a while back. (I need to get home to check the brand). If you’re going to have them on the floor, bigger is better. Clear tubs definitely provide some advantages over opaque.
If you’re going to have shelving, make sure they fit your shelves (or make your shelves fit your tubs. The higher you go, the smaller you’ll probably want them for safety reasons. Shelving makes a big difference over stacking them on the floor. Stack and unstacking tubs gets old.
If you stack on the floor, tubs seem to warp or crack beyond a certain weight limit. I try and keep mine to a stack of 2 large with a smaller one on top of that.
I wish I could just get access to my old sales. On a semi-regular basis I find the same item a second time and it would be a lot easier to do a sell-similar from my own old listing.
I’d love to get another 3 months of sales history for everything. I wonder whether the reasoning for keeping it limited is really so that they can sell it or whether, historically, it was just expensive to keep so much data online. Disk space is so much cheaper than it was 10 years ago.
Yay! So excited to have the new forums. I can see myself spending a lot more time here now. Here are my numbers for the week. A good solid week. My goal right now is $100/day so I’m fairly close this week.
Total Items in Store: 1174
Items Sold: 26
Total Sales: $657.57
Cost of Items Sold: $53.5
Average Price Sold: $25.29
Average Cost of Item: $2.06
Highest Price Item Sold: $64.95 Francisccan October Pattern Set of 4 Dinner Plates
Number of items listed this week: 37
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 194
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 86
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 44
Sell-through rate: 2.21%
# of Hats Sold: 16I had an interesting find over the weekend thanks to the SL podcast. I went to an estate sale and, after combing the house a couple of times, I looked up on a wall inside an office and noticed a giant 4ft slide rule. I had remembered reading here that slide rules could be collectable and I’d never seen one so big. It was the last day of a 3 day estate sale and everything was half price so I paid $10 and took it home with me. It turns out that these giant Pickett slide rules were used as teaching aids in classrooms. There’s even a 7ft version. The 4ft version sells between $250 and $350.
