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1/15-1/21/17
Approximate # of Items in Store: 240
# of Items Sold: 18
Average Cost of Items Sold: $6.70
Total Sales: $872.57
Highest Price Sold: $250 – Women’s Coat
Average Price Sold: $48.48
Returns: 1 for $125, but see below
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $20.25
Number of items listed this week: 25A pair of ski pants were returned, but they resold for the same amount the day after I relisted them. Since they were already included in my sales figures a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t include the second sale in the figures shown above.
Without the $250 coat sale, my ASP would’ve been in the $35 range. Continuing last week’s trend of selling a lot of older stuff with lowered prices. Still a decent ROI and happy to get the stuff gone before spring.
Probably a little late to chime in now, but I just saw your measurement, Jason.
I listed a pair of Size 7 “Bounce” and the insole length measurement was 9.75″ with a width of 3.0″, so I think yours are much smaller than a 7.
Just a reminder that the USPS rate increases start tomorrow (Sunday, 1/22). If you generally wait until Sunday or Monday and print all your weekend labels at one time, you might want to print today’s sales tonight instead. If you use calculated shipping, the buyer will still pay the lower rate today, but if you wait until tomorrow or Monday to actually print the label, you’ll be charged the higher one.
Do you officially take returns? If not, they may have figured they had no option to return. If so, like Jay said, I don’t get why they wouldn’t have requested a return.
BTW, I’ve owned a couple pair of shoes where one of the shoes did this. It makes them unwearable, in my opinion.
I’d follow So Cal Joe’s advice if you want to try and get the buyer to change his feedback.
There were a few times I had an item get a ton of views, but it was in the hundreds, not thousands. Twice it turned out that the items were in an Ebay-curated collection that was linked on the home page and the third item was something that a blogger had linked to.
I can’t even imagine a pair of shoes getting 8,000 views! I wonder if there’s a link to them in the Ask Andy forum or some other really active blog/forum.
Happen to be watching Seinfeld on TBS right now. I thought I’d seen them all, but I don’t remember the space pen one.
Steve, I can’t believe how well your adorable cat and dog get along. I’ve never seen anything like it. We used to have a calico. She was the best cat ever!
How do you ship the record stands?
Not sure if this is related to the current problem.
I’ve always had the option checked in my account settings to pass on my Ebay postal discount to the buyer, so I never had the following issue but, when FC went up to 16 oz for the first time a year or so ago, sellers using calculated shipping who didn’t pass on the discount were finding that if they had 14 or 15 oz in their listing, it was showing the buyer the 1# rate.
For the general non-ebay seller population that walks into the Post Office, I’m pretty sure FC is still limited to 13 oz.
1/8-1/14/16
Approximate # of Items in Store: 250
# of Items Sold: 19
Average Cost of Items Sold: $6.44
Total Sales: $749.33
Highest Price Sold: $100 – Ski Pants
Average Price Sold: $39.44
Returns: 1 – Sweater $100
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Sales are heading back down, as expected. Ouch on the sweater return, though. Buyer was polite and returned it quickly. It’s a high-quality cashmere and will resell at some point, but that might not be until next fall/winter as I won’t clearance it.
Nearly half of what I sold was stuff that’s been sitting around all winter or even relisted from last winter, so I’m fine with the lower ASP. Always so satisfying to clear out old inventory.
Managed to get zero new listings done last week. Not good.
I estimate about an hour per item, too. Clothes are washed and hung as soon as they come home from the store and, if necessary, ironed before taking photos. I vacuum inside and pockets of purses and condition them if they’re leather. I clean up shoes, wipe them with leather conditioner and/or vinyl/rubber conditioner. If they have removable insoles, I take out the insoles and vacuum both the insole as well as the inside of the shoes. If insoles can’t be removed, I wipe them down with disinfecting wipes.
I generally list and prep in groups of like items. I won’t pull out all the stuff to prep one pair of shoes or one purse.
1/1-1/7/16
Approximate # of Items in Store: 260
# of Items Sold: 17
Average Cost of Items Sold: $10.46
Total Sales: $1,201.70
Highest Price Sold: $160 – Down Jacket
Average Price Sold: $70.69
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $56.19
Number of items listed this week: 13Very good week again for me, but these numbers are likely not sustainable. Over the past few months, I’ve sold the majority of my $100+ items and I’m not consistently finding new inventory at those price points to replace each of the sold ones (although I haven’t been shopping much). A lot of stuff I’ve listed this fall/winter is from my backlog of inventory, so I had several seasons worth of thrifted fall/winter inventory that I’d never gotten around to listing in season which was finally listed this fall/winter. Since I’m about 80-90% through with the backlog (yay!), I won’t continue to have the same volume of unlisted high-priced inventory to list in the future. Also, November-January are historically my best sales months. Sweaters, coats, and boots, bring a much higher ROI for me than shorts, sandals, and swimwear.
While it’s handy for extras and I did use Ebay money to pay for a new furnace and AC this year, I don’t depend on Ebay to pay the bills, so it’s all good. Grateful right now for the Ebay money I have socked away from the good run I’ve had over the past several months.
Haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but I was sorry to read about the high-dollar return.
I think the 30-day return window is from the day that they receive the item, not the day you sold it, so they may have filed the request just before your return policy expired.
If they went through the Ebay return process, is the option for you to deny the return there? I’ve been shown that option in the past for the few return requests that have come to me past my return window.
I don’t think the D at the end of the string of numbers is related to the width, although they may very well be a D width, since that seems to be the most common for Men. Looks like it’s a Men’s shoe, right?
Looked through all my past Cole Haan listings, but didn’t find any clues there. Some of them had a D at the beginning of the string of numbers, others at the end, and some with no letter attached to the string of numbers, at all.
I suppose you already checked, but there’s no size imprint on the outsole, right?
