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I remember when I first discovered SL I couldn’t believe they weren’t on Etsy, haha! I’m still building up my store there but I still come to find that Etsy tends to sell my vintage stuff faster and for more money. I just had a thermos lunch box sell there for $10 more than the price I had on Ebay (sold to a movie set by the way). Ebay will probably remain my big store for a while, but I’m working on cross posting all my vintage over there. It really doesn’t take long since I just work on it at night or whatever, the thing I find most time consuming is trying to think of tags for the item. Ebay has been getting on my nerves lately though. I don’t even care about the free returns, it’s the whole picture glitch and the views glitch that I find so annoying. I like to look at my views just because and not being able to see them is pretty frustrating.
Thanks Joe for the work you saved me! Annoyingly, someone wanted to look at something that didn’t have pictures! So I possibly lost a sale on that, even though it was a small sale. Thanks again!
Hi Jay and Ryanne,
Happy bday Jay! As far as records go, my dad collects vinyl so I feel like I should know what’s worth anything, but I’m still learning. I do know that vinyl was a lot more scarce in the 90s, so I’ll always look up any I see. I also look at anything rock. Like J & R, I usually see the waltz, polka, Christmas albums that are a dime a dozen. When I see anything 60’s, I generally just call my dad and see if he can tell me what to pick out. I did find a couple 45s recently, but just a Prince one (wasn’t worth anything) and an Elvis Costello promo 45. The Costello one might go for 10-15. 45s tend to be worth even less without their covers.
As for that return your caller did, I would just refer him to the phrase, “Get it how you live.” Basically, do what you gotta do. I personally see nothing wrong with it.
Sigilini, nice job on the Johnny Was. I’ve only gotten my hands on one of their shirts and it was a really cool one. Unfortunately it was on the smaller side, but I still got an easy $35 for it. I’d die if I found a bunch.
Here’s my monthly sales vid, it’s only five sales for the month because of my wedding and weeklong honeymoon. I had to put my store in vacation mode plus a 10 day handling time since I was on a cruise and couldn’t use wifi to notify customers. I tried to include a couple pics in the vid but the screen capture didn’t pick them up like I thought, and too lazy to redo it. Anyway:
The only good sale I’ve had was this Disney Hawaiian shirt featuring Mickey, Goofy, and Chip N Dale. Sold for $50 plus shipping. I had recently heard that these can sell well so I stuck with that price for a couple of months until I got it. I also have a Harley Davidson Hawaiian shirt I picked up the other day that needs to go up.
Here’s my March video! Not a lot of sales, but if you’re into Antique photos, you might be into it.
This week I sold a VHS- for a $130! But I’ll put that on the next month’s video. Great sales as always Steve.
With you having 135 things in your store and selling at that rate, it makes me wonder if I’m not selling stuff for too high. I have 116 at the moment and haven’t had a sale since the 20th; before that it was the 13th on Ebay.
First things first, haven’t sold much of anything, am up to 116 listings on ebay and only 11 on Etsy, so I really got to up my Etsy game. I’ve been listing in my spare time this month because my listings on ebay went down to only 98. I need to bust my ass a little more to get my backlog done. What sucks is that garage sale season is so tempting! I keep going out and finding stuff while not finding enough time to list. This week I’m putting that on hold.
Even though I hardly have anything on Etsy, I still sell things there, at least once a month. This month I sold a pair of USA made vintage men’s swim trunks. They had planets and bolts of lightning on a red background. They looked like something one of the Rugrats would wear. Picked them up for $1, sold for $35. Someone on ebay offered me 15 but I held out.
Weekend before last I picked up some really neat Trader Vic’s Tiki mugs from an estate sale. Got four for $1.50. I also picked up some RPG books from a garage sale. The guy who owned them pulled out four boxes, but as soon as I got to them, the vultures descended, so there wasn’t much time to check them. The old D&D and Star Wars books that I managed to get should do well, but I picked up another game thinking it was rare and possibly more valuable. It wasn’t, so I’m going to lot those all up and try to get rid of them that way. Each book was a dollar.
I’m going to share her latest video with you guys if anyone is interested, I hope that’s allowed, if not feel free to delete! https://youtu.be/7l_w-9Blp_0
My sales have been pretty slow, but I believe it always is in March, and if any of you see my sales videos, I am extremely part time and small time, so slow usually means like four sales. One sale I had was one of my lowest of all time, a Starbucks Bearista Bear from 2006 with tags. I watch tons of reselling videos because of the downtime at my full time job and when I’m listing and I saw these as a BOLO somewhere a while back. Yeah, not so much, paid $1, someone got it with free shipping for less than $7, so when it’s all said and done, I made like, a dollar profit, lolol. Oh, and I had it for probably a year. I take BOLOs with a grain of salt now, due to this and other mistakes I’ve made.
When I heard the person talking about moving, I immediately thought about a reselling YouTuber named Margaret (Texas Gal Treasures). Her and her family are moving from Houston to Austin and she is running deep sales on her larger stuff and just stuff she doesn’t feel like moving with her. Her jewelry is coming with her and I guess anything that doesn’t sell while she is getting ready to move. She has some recent vids out about it. I think this is what I would do, sell as much stuff as I could for cheap and bring the rest. Maybe it depends on how much you spent on those items.
Hi all, this video is all of my February solds. Haven’t had too many amazing sales this month, and last month it was mostly small bread and butter items.
Excuse the somewhat long post. I just listened to the Frugalwoods podcast. I hear so many people say they would love to retire to the country or whatever, but that’s just not me. I grew up in an area surrounded by woods in a small Louisiana village where there was just 2 or 3 convenience stores. Later we moved to a somewhat more populated small town, but I still felt far away from everything. I also grew up very, very poor. I remember going with my dad to pay back five Payday places in one day. Living in the city is a dream come true honestly. I literally always dreamed of being able to walk to stores and not having to depend on one car that is on the verge of breaking down. We were never a two car family and sometimes didn’t even have one. I feel like this has made me very dependent on a consistent stream of income.
I learned a lot about money from mostly Suze Orman and frugal blogs, but
I do feel like there is this sense of very frugal people looking down on others that spend a different way, or are seemingly caught up in a “rat race.” I do feel like my fiance and I are a frugal couple (when we aren’t paying out the ass for this wedding, which is a cheap wedding compared to most) but there are luxuries like concerts and blue apron, since we don’t know how to cook (at 35 and 36 we still struggle badly at cooking).Oops, didn’t actually post it! https://youtu.be/_sGaF92lQrc
