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eBay Store numbers for month of May
Total Listings: 804
Items Sold: 52
Cost of Items Sold: $142
Total Sales: $1354.59
Highest Price Sold: $300 USS Enterprise Cruise Book – cost $10
Average Price Sold: $26.04
International Sales: 1 GSP Canada
Spent on new inventory: $86
Number of items listed: 79
Refunds: 1 (item not received)And just for the fun of it:
Items sold in May listed over a year ago: 17 for $454
Items sold in May listed in last year: 35 for $900$40 of the new inventory was actually a donation to an animal shelter. An estate sale I went to (late in the day) had everything for free/donation. I filled up my van (many new in box kitchen appliances), 3 big bins of cassette tapes (many still sealed in original packaging), a working 16mm projector and lots of other great items. I just wonder what I would of got if I had gone earlier in the day.
On a different note J&R, if you are still interested in punk music, there is a new film that a friend of mine, Corbett Redford just directed and it is narrated by Iggy Pop, it is called Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk. It will be in about 440 theaters around the country soon. Full discloser, I have no financial interest in this film, although I am in it for a few seconds and from my collection provided some of the fliers and photos used.
Hope everyone is having a great summer.
To block a buyer, use this link:
http://pages.ebay.com/services/buyandsell/biddermanagement.html
If you have the seller hub page, you might have a short cut set up to this page already, if not, it is pretty easy to add it there.
And as a final note, You can do this through site preferences, which also lets you control whether or not blocked buyers may contact you or not.
Here are a few things that I sold in April, click on image to see the eBay listing:
Madera County, California History Book cost $4 sold for $45
A US Geological Survey map of Grand Teton Park. USGS maps normally go for about a dollar or less at estate sales. I normally get about $15-$20 for them but this one was double sided and larger than normal and went for $34.95 plus shipping.
Some average 1980s wallpaper. The two rolls cost me $3.20 and went for $29.59 plus $14.31 shipping.
Golf club towel, I paid about $1 for it and finally took a best offer of $15 after an extended back and forth. I was happy to sell it since I first listed it in August 2015.
Two Reed & Barton Royal Bamboo Dinner Forks for a total of $12. Not a big sale, but I bought a lot of 57 Royal Bamboo flatware pieces for $5, so the return should be nice.
Fancy chain for hanging lamps, plants, etc. I probably priced this too low, but I was happy with the $54.95 I got for it since I only paid $2.00 for it.
Steve mentioned a Kodak cable release. I lucked into this one for a Polaroid Land Camera, it sold for $30 and went GSP to Australia. Cost less than $1.
-Steve
Hello J&R, I went to edit my what sold post because one of the links I included was broken. After I re submitted it seems to of disappeared. I tried to repost a corrected version but I get the message: ERROR: Duplicate reply detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!. Hope you are having a great time on your trip.
-Steve
Ebay Numbers for month of April
Total Listings: 765
Items Sold: 51
Cost of Items Sold: $173
Total Sales: $1069
Highest Price Sold: $100 Computer Memory Card / $45 Light Fixture Chain
Average Price Sold: $20.96
International Sales: 3 GSP
Spent on new inventory: $526.17
Number of items listed: 66I spent more than I planed on new inventory. It is hard to pass up great deals. I spent $215 on a catch of Tattoo Parlor Flash Cards, most of which date to the 1970s. Then Sunday at an estate sale close to my house, I spent $150 on fabric, a stack of needlepoint kits and a lot of vintage strategy games along with other cool stuff.
Last Saturday I sold at a local swap meet and did pretty good, a total of $500 in sales, $120 of which was for a rug that I found on the street when driving to FedEx to SmartPost a package.
A quick note on packing peanuts. If you have a health food store or vitamin / supplements shop near you, hit them up for packing peanuts. They get many of their shipments in small to medium sized boxes with lots of packing peanuts. The shop I hit up normally has many garbage bags full of peanuts (both standard and biol-degradable) and are happy that I take them off of their hands. Check to see if they have boxes also, the store I check is hit or miss due to many cardboard recyclers in the area.
Here are a few things that I sold over the past month or so, click on image to see eBay listing:
Carrousel Art Magazine, I purchased around 30 different issues of these a while back, for less than $1 each, I sell one every month or so, this one went for best offer of $30:
An old distressed Red Head brand hunting game pouch, paid .50. sold for $20:
About a pound and a half of upholstery nails, found at a estate sale, thrown in with lot of other stuff, sold for $20:
At a warehouse/thrift sale I purchased some cartridge boxes and other miscellaneous stuff, this was in the box, I didn’t even notice it till I got home, paid about $7 for it, sold for $250:
I probably could of sold this for more, but I was happy with the $59.95 I got for it:
I paid about $1.50 total for both of these manuals, the Haynes manual isn’t worth much but apparently the Suzuki Samurai manuals are rare, these went for $54.45:
Sometimes I find these at estate sales and flea markets, an old floor furnace key, sold for $19.99:
-Steve
You may reply to a neutral or negative feedback at this eBay page:
http://pages.ebay.com/services/forum/feedback.html
You will need the users eBay ID or email address. I just used this for the first time a couple of weeks ago when I received a neutral feedback. I just left the message that I issued a full refund to the buyer when I found out there was an issue.eBay makes this kind of hard to find. As usual with eBay, it is much faster to google something then try to find it via eBay.
Hope this helps.
-SteveI’ll try this again, my first posting somehow disappeared.
Numbers for month of MarchTotal Listings: 744
Items Sold: 44
Cost of Items Sold: $97.96
Total Sales: $815.90
Highest Price Sold: $90 (pair of pistol shooting trophy plaques)
Average Price Sold: $18.54
International Sales: 2 GSP to Germany / 1 Int. First Class to England
Spent on new inventory: $193.72
Number of items listed: 61I wasn’t planing on spending much on new inventory, but I went to an office moving sale looking for ink cartridges and such but I ended up buying a leather saddle bag for $15 (sold already for $60) and two horse saddles for $50 each.
I also purchased a lot of Haynes repair manuals for $10, in the lot was a 1987 Suzuki Samurai Owners Manual in very poor condition, it sold two days after I listed it for $54.45.
One final note on scavenging. Even the last hour of the last day of an estate sale can be rewarding. I went to one Sunday and got there with only a 1/2 hour before it was to close. Still lots of fun stuff, but the main find was a large lot of Reed & Barton Bamboo flatware. I purchased about 50 pieces for a total of $5. Mostly spoons and forks but from sold listings on eBay there should be a good profit there.
For years I would drive the 40 miles or so to silicon valley to dumpster dive. I would hit Apple, Atari and a few game companies. My best haul ever was years ago when Apple upgraded the Mac to the Fat Mac. I found hundreds of the old Mac OS chip sets that were discarded during the upgrade. Somebody had come up with special hardware that would let you run Mac software on the Atari, but you would need the Mac chip set for it. I made about $7,000 total from them in trade and sales. One trick I use to do was to check the papers for hi tech companies that were closing and having an auction. I would check their dumpsters often before and after the auction. Many times they would just go through and dump all the drawers in the offices desks and such. I found lots of test gear, jars of coins, and office supplies. I only occasionally dumpster dive now, most companies have compactors or security and cameras. One interesting note, when Atari was downsizing, I actually was able to get written permission to dive there dumpsters.
-Steve
Hi Ryanne, I’ve been trying to find where I got the code from, but with no success (it was early in the morning and searching my browser history was no help). I tried the Code tag above and also running it through a code converter for blogger to change all of the <, “, and > tags but the code would not show up in the posting after I submitted it. About all I can do is offer to email it to anybody that sends me a request at my email: skoepke AT stevelist DOT com. I hope this helps.
Regarding Active Content. I also received the eBay letter, luckily I only had one listing with a YouTube video to fix. I found the fix after trying a few different “Fixes” online and in the eBay forums. Below is HTML code that works and will pass the eBay mobile checker:
You will need to type this code in, not cut & paste as the above is a link to an image. Also, you need to change the YouTube link to point to your video.
Here is a link to the listing that I used the above code in:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201554998164?
I hope this helps.
-SteveThank You R&J and Congratulations on episode 300. You both are an inspiration and have been a huge help to me personally and to the online selling community as a whole.
Heres are my numbers for the whole month of February
Total Listings: 722 (701 last month)
Items Sold: 56 (47 last month)
Total Sales: $1,112 ($895 last month)
Cost of Items Sold: $102 ($135 last month)
Highest Price Sold: $250 (Lyman tang sight for a Salvage rifle)
Average Price Sold: $19.85 ($19.04 last month)
International Sales: 1 GSP to Canada
Number of items listed: 71 (61 last month)
Spent on new inventory: $2.00 ($329.70 last month)
Returns: Refunded $6.95 for 1 itemThe Lyman sight was a nice surprise. It was mixed in with a lot I purchased for $25 and I didn’t even notice it until I got home.
I plan to start a second eBay account soon. It will be for low cost items (under $10-$12) that I can ship with a 1st class stamp such as postcards and beer patches. The amount I save on the final value fee for just the shipping cost alone should make up for the loss of TSR discounts.
-Steve
