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A random assortment of fun sales from the past year or so:
Pair of like new victorian court style heels by Baci. One of my honey hole thrifts sometimes gets a lot of donations from rich people in the nearest big city. Never heard of this brand, but the shoes were beautiful. Purchased for $5. Sold for $55.
https://imgur.com/a/SVQ3UVintage bamboo king size flat sheet. This sale is when I started really liking sheets. But you have to be careful to look for stains/holes before buying. Purchased for $3. Sold for $33.
https://imgur.com/a/g5Y1QThanks to Mad Maine (on youtube) for introducing me to Bennington Pottery. Was at a total “nothing” yard sale one day – not really junk, but not really anything really quality, when I spotted a box with a nice lid, and when I looked inside, I found this set of never used trigger style espresso mugs that looked at least 10-20 years old. Purchased for $5. Sold for $65.
https://imgur.com/a/IXDdGRemember Orlon? I purchased this barely used soft Campus Luxury Line sweater at a local independent (mostly junky) thrift for $3. Sold for $33. Buyer was very happy with it, said it was his new favorite sweater – loved hearing that.
https://imgur.com/a/3xv23Thanks to everyone on SL who introduced me to selling partly used perfume/cologne! I happened by a yard sale when the only person around was a young helper who sold me this 95% full Cartier after shave for only $1! Sold it for $44.
https://imgur.com/a/q1IR6Another thank you to someone (maybe Ryan?) who mentioned a long time ago that old Crabtree & Evelyn stuff can sell for good money. Who knew? So I bought this set of 3 boxed bar soaps from a lady for $2 (bargained down from $3), and sold them for $33.
https://imgur.com/a/LRzhxAnd another thank you for J&R’s numerous old podcasts and what sold videos about selling fabric! This 3 yard piece I picked up at an estate sale for about a dollar, and didn’t know much about what the material was made of, but knew it was damask in kinda cool colors. I was very pleasantly surprised when it sold fairly quickly for $44.
https://imgur.com/a/xbOqsI think these were one of the first pairs of Dansko clogs that I bought, thanks to what I learned on SL, and I was lucky to find them in this awesome color! Pretty beat up and stained, but because of the color was able to sell them for $44. Paid $5 or less.
https://imgur.com/a/Om7Y0And here’s another example of something I wouldn’t have purchased if not for Scavenger Life. Bought this strange vintage metal plug-in sconce lamp for a dollar or less at a church rummage sale b/c I really liked the wreath design. I was thinking “this seems like something Ryan might buy.” Sold for $45!
https://imgur.com/a/kYmtsFor anybody relatively new reading this, please keep in mind that these are the fun sales! I have plenty of not so fun sales where I make less than $10 profit, or sometimes even lose money on something – but those are not as fun to talk about.
Well, maybe I will share one dud for contrast. About 2 years ago, I purchased this new without tags Vera Bradley purse for $10. I knew it was a lot to pay, but i figured I could get $20 worst case since it was in mint condition. Ha. I think I sold it for $9.99 after more than a year. So after fees I lost money on it. No more Vera Bradley for me.
https://imgur.com/a/vepQrIf you enjoyed reading this post and want to see more like it from me in the future, please give me a thumbs up, which will motivate me to do this again.
since you shipped to the address on file, ebay will back you up when you ask them to pay you to re-ship. Just tell the buyer to send the amount to you via paypal. There’s no way for them to pay for this via ebay (that I know of). If it were me, I’d print the second label via ebay. I also wouldn’t call ebay unless the buyer opens a case or something like that.
reposting with corrected #items in store and sell thru rate (don’t want to risk losing my post via “edit”)
March turned out to be my best month ever, in terms of profit, ASP, sell-through rate. My goal was to make over $1000 in profit before taxes, and in the end I made $2200!! All my efforts to get higher value items into my store over the past year or so paid off big time.
A typical week for me in March (computed from my monthly #s):
Total Items in Store: 370
Items Sold: 14 (4% sell through rate)
Cost of Items Sold: $157
Total Sales: $826
Highest Price Sold: Versace dress $250
Average Price Sold: $59
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $147 for 26 items
Number of items listed: 17March turned out to be my best month ever, in terms of profit, ASP, sell-through rate. My goal was to make over $1000 in profit before taxes, and in the end I made $2200!! All my efforts to get higher value items into my store over the past year or so paid off big time.
A typical week for me in March (computed from my monthly #s):
Total Items in Store: 270
Items Sold: 14 (5% sell through rate)
Cost of Items Sold: $157
Total Sales: $828
Highest Price Sold: Versace dress $250
Average Price Sold: $59
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $147 for 26 items
Number of items listed: 17Yes, I was very excited to see 12x10x8 back in stock – yay!
Got 50 of those.
Hope to stock up on 16x12x8 next quarter.Yes, it says its for compliance with some laws. All the used bedding SA sells has these tags. I’ve always taken them off the sheets I’ve bought.
AdventureE’s comments and suggestion make sense. I am going to take it off.
In my experience, the only way to successfully fight an INAD return is to first accept the return, and then escalate once you’ve received the item back. Yes, that’s ridiculous in this case of the empty box, but it seems to be the way ebay works. But I’ve never had an international return, so I don’t know how return shipping gets handled.
This is probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve been selling old shoes for 2 years now and have never even thought about the potential issue of foot fungus.
Vintage Treasures, 12 sales in a week in a store of 135 items is an EXCELLENT sell-thru rate of almost 9%! Very few people on here have sell-through rates that high.
I think Kenny’s original point bears repeating:
“auctions are a tool in your tool bag, and there are circumstances where you should use them.”He did not say that you should use them for every item every time.
Kenny, thanks for persisting in making your point and thus educating me about one more way to approach listing with a risk-free way of making sure I’m not missing out on a huge return. I am currently using it very successfully with some vintage rare (ie, not much info gleaned from researching) embroidery kits.
Heather who is “The Paper Castle” on youtube uses this technique quite a bit, and it seems to be working well for her.
I just tried it with a higher end needlepoint kit – the auction ends in a few days. Already have a bid for the opening price (which I would be very happy with), but hoping for a bidding war. Either way, there’s nothing to lose with this approach, and the chance to gain.
Funny timing that Suzanne Wells just posted a video about selling junk drawer lots.
I have not watched it.
