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When I look at these stats, it appears that the return stats are for one year. However defects are evaluated every 90 days. Am I missing something?
I’m excited to have a chance to talk about my philosophy and have someone listen who gets it.
I’m a middle school science teacher, and I don’t hate my job, but I don’t love it either. My wife is a high school math teacher and she feels the same. Since I got into reselling, my philosophy was molded early on. I want to buy lots of things, hopefully they are interesting items, and resell them for profit. I don’t really spend out of my eBay money and I’ve been able to store up almost $12,000 in one year. Now for the philosophy…
I like it. It’s interesting. Listing is a bit of a chore sometimes bc my deathpile is growing. But I’m having fun. And one day, I’m going to pay this house off early and do whatever I want. Yep. If I want to teach I’ll teach. If I want to eBay, I’ll eBay. Selling on eBay makes me feel like I’m daily making strides to my goal of gardening more and giving my time away less. That’s it. It gives me a sense of control over how I spend my time in the future.
Sidenote: Ryanne’s perspective and pricing and Jay’s constantly real and positive attitude are good boost each week and remind me that the minor hassles really aren’t a big deal. I appreciate this community so very much.
The end.
Regarding Public Schools teaching skills such as balancing a checkbook, etc…
I teach high school and 2 of the schools that I have taught at (Tennessee) offer Dave Ramsey curriculum as a personal finance credit (required) which I think is awesome. Just thought I’d share that. Great podcast!I don’t really use chapstick or I would. I love that there is a community of people that aren’t squeamish over things. I would have no problem doing that whatsoever
Unrelated to all of the above, but I was cleaning a coat that I bought to resell and found a used tube of chapstick in the pocket. I got “plumb tickled” thinking about Jay and his confession and that maybe I should mail it to him. Just thought I’d share, thanks for all that you guys do!
Regarding what sold and haul videos. I like to use this analogy:
If you have a day at the lake to fish, you can catch all the small bream you want with worms in the shallow water. You can chase a monster catfish in the deep and you might catch one IF you’re lucky. I like to fish in between those areas for the most part.Point is, people that want to chase the small/easy/common items will miss a lot of opportunity because they don’t test other areas. I like to find items that I think are cool and go from there, if I come across common items, so be it, I’ll sell them.
Example, one of the groups I used to be in, a guy posted two brass duckheads and said he’d had them forever (like a month), and they wouldn’t sell so he reduced the price to almost nothing. I had sold the exact ones for triple his price earlier in the year. I had sat on them for six months.
I don’t think the videos will ruin eBay just yet. Just my two cents.
Will do thanks for the help, also, I’m kinda jealous of your ephemera.
Seems cool, especially the Valentine stuff.I don’t post very often but I thought I’d chime in this week because this topic has been on my mind very much lately.
Total items sold: 19
Total: $ 399.25 (it was actually $800 but a lot of my sales were liquidated items that are left over from an experiment. Didn’t like that very much.)Average: $21
COGS:$43
Returns 0
Total items in store: 692The most notable sale was a book from my first trip to the thrift store approximately 1 year ago. Bought for .99 and sold for about 11 bucks. Not my highest but definitely my favorite.
Food prep: Frozen chicken breast in the electric pressure cooker. A little bit of water, a bag of frozen chicken breasts. 12 minutes on high pressure. Glaze with butter and sprinkled with sea salt and pepper. Broil on high for 4-5 minutes. Yum. Chicken all week.
The timing of this podcast is uncanny. I’ve had auctions on the brain for weeks. I’ve been to a few local auctions which are pretty junky. I’ve been searching auctionzip to find something in the neighboring large town that might have less junk. I have a question if anyone knows the answer and wouldn’t mind sharing. Are “boxed/table lots” assumed? Every auction I see on there shows only furniture and other high profile items. Can I assume that if I show up there will be tables/lots or other items? I’m not really into furniture. Thanks for all the help and information.
I’m temporarily working in a very urban area, so I scan craigslist for items. Today, on my lunch break, I picked up 2 sets of 6’x 5′ x 2′ freestanding metal shelves new in the box for FREE. Planning to store tubs of inventory on them. So today craigslist didn’t give me something to sell but it did give me something very useful.
Yeah, if you were on mobile they said “pre-owned”. Sorry, I should’ve included a search that was relevant to nearly new. It seems to me that if your item is “New” it says New, if it is “new other” or “new without box” it says nearly new, if it is “Used” is says pre-owned and so on and so forth…
Do a search for Samsonite Classic 100… When you see the gallery of listings, you’ll see ‘pre-owned’ before each of the listings. Ebay is putting that there. If you look at one specific listing, you won’t see it.
Edit: This is on mobile, I don’t know about desktop.
