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Consignment payout is about $600/week on average. Of course Shipping and eBay/PP fees are each a $600/week chunk as well.
Week May 5 – 11, 2019
Items in store: 3708 Listings for 5781 Items
Items Sold: 102 Transactions for 115 Items
Gross Sales: $5855
Highest Price Sold: $396, LVC Leather Jacket
Lowest Price Sold: $3.49(shoelaces)
Average Price Sold: $50.91
Cost of Goods Sold $492, Plus consignment
Number of items listed this week: 134 items
$$ spent on new inventory this week $00
Repeat Customers: 5Amazon
Items Sold 0
Gross Sales $0
Cost of Good Sold $0My yearly spring explosion of frugalness, I got the garden mostly ready for planting this week. We grown and preserve our own organic veggies. Found broken frost spigot I will have to deal with before I can get the irrigation running. I hate crawling under the house, it’s a tight dirt and rock crawlspace….I may take he easy road and pay a plumber. The savings we get on all out home-grown produce will more than cover the plumber.
Possibly. The back thing has been going on for years, but perhaps there will be a new diagnosis in a few weeks. My recent surgery was entirely unrelated.
I’ve got a bone growth/tumor, inside my spinal column that impinges on my spinal cord, and also arthritis in the surrounding joints. The docs believe its been there most of my life (osteochondroma) but since we only recently discovered it, they check it every 6 months for growth. If it’s growing, it would more likely be bone cancer. It’s in a tricky spot, so they don’t want to operate on it unless it’s absolutely necessary. So they told me to “live with it”, some days I can live with it, some days it takes over and I can’t do much at all.
About the possible new diagnosis….I mentioned a few weeks back that I found out who my biological grandfather was through a DNA test with ancestry.com. I’ve been in communication with my new aunt, and have since learned that my great grandmother had Paget’s disease of the bone. The neurosurgeon had suggested this as a possibility a little over a year ago, and sent me to a specialist. Unfortunately, the specialist didn’t seem concerned and sent me away without any testing…and a bill of course. Paget’s can be hereditary, and I am about 40% more likely to have it if a relative had it.
The specialist said it was a rare disease, but I found that that is not entirely true. It is actually the second most common bone disease, osteoporosis being the first. It is “rare” in patients under 40, but “common” in patients over 40. As if midnight on your 40th birthday is the exact line for that distinction.
I am 39 and I literally have all the symptoms. With this new family history information, I am going to request the testing at my next followup in 2 weeks. It wouldn’t be a great diagnosis, but it would be better to know, than to not know.
I don’t see how it would make much difference, unless you were constantly shipping heavier items. In the last 90 days I’ve shipped 1,234 items. The average shipping cost was $6.22.
Granted, many of those were first class, though it also includes a couple hundred international shipments as well.
Working together.
Some days I’m sure my wife hates me. It’s been a real struggle to teach her why I do things the way I do them after 14 years of doing eBay alone, I’m a little bit obsessive with my methods, and compromise can be challenging for me, but we are making it work better all the time.
It seems that she may go back to school for her masters degree, possibly next year….which means I will not only lose her part time help for ebay, but also lose her for the other daily life tasks 2-3 full days a week. I encourage her to do what she loves, and if a masters degree is part of it, I’m 100% supportive.
I’ve been ok. The first half of April was super slow due to my 4 week surgery recovery. By the 15th I only had about $5800 in sales. Once my restrictions were lifted on the 18th I was able to crank it out and finish the month with $16580, respectable but quite a bit lower than my pre-surgery projections.
Now my back pain is back in full force, I have another CT scan (have one every 6 months) and a follow up in a couple weeks. Hope to get another steroid treatment which will lessen the discomfort for about a year to 18 months, hopefully.
Week April 28- May4, 2019
Items in store: 3667 Listings for 5757 Items
Items Sold: 84 Transactions for 102 Items
Gross Sales: $5763
Highest Price Sold: $342, LVC Leather Jacket
Lowest Price Sold: $2.74 (shoelaces)
Average Price Sold: $56.50
Cost of Goods Sold $421, Plus consignment
Number of items listed this week: 138 items
$$ spent on new inventory this week $19
Repeat Customers: 4Amazon
Items Sold 2
Gross Sales $91.98
Cost of Good Sold $6Direct Sales to Customer
Items Sold 2
Gross Sales $110
Cost of goods sold $10I have roughly 5700 items listed.
I average about $2100 a month for ebay fees, this includes Anchor subscription, 9.15% Final Value Fees and any Promoted listing fees I may have, as well as incidentals such as return shipping charges, the rare fed ex shipment etc.
Plus another $925 in Paypal fees which is a flat 2.9% pus 30 cents/transaction. We never really see that since it is deducted automatically when you receive a payment.
The more you sell, the more you pay….but on the flip side the more you sell, the more you make.
EDIT: Keep in mind if you fall below standard on your service metrics, you will be required to pay an additional 4% in Final value fees until you bring it back up.
On the taxes topic. I was pretty excited to get my first federal refund in maybe 7 years. It was only $160, and was consumed by the $1800 we owed in to state and local, but I’ll definitely take it.
I suppose it’s possible. I’ve only communicated with one aunt and her son so far, who both seem very nice….nicer than my known aunts and cousins. lol. We will see how it goes I suppose.
Oh…and during my “time off” I got to spend a little time on ancestry.com and was able to finally identify who my biological grandfather was, solving a 68 year family mystery/secret. I now have 5 new aunts and uncles and several new cousins.
Hey guys. I’m still alive. 2 more days of light duty to go and I will be back in full swing….and hopefully my sales will follow. I didn’t really expect to see them fall off so drastically, but they are down about 40% from last month. Ugh. That stings a little with having to buy a car last month and the surgery bills eating up the emergency fund. We will make it through, but it may be tight for a month or two. I was still able to list 320 items during my light duty stint, after a few weeks of vigorous photography prior to surgery.
Concerning this weeks podcast, one thing to mention to the gentleman who sold the $1100 item, don’t forget to ship requiring signature confirmation on anything valued over $750.
I may have numbers later, if I can brace myself for the disappointment. Still….it’s better than working for the man.
Average yes. But currently without my wife acting as backup, 0 would be receiving their purchases.
