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I got hosed pretty bad. Several pickups at 2pm were not scanned in until the next day. Saturdays pickup wasn’t scanned in until Tuesday AM for some reason and I had about 8 packages listed as late shipment. I was doing every other day pickup, but now they can come every day. I hope that’s enough. If anyone orders by 1pm , it is picked up at 2pm.
I use a lot of the 12x10x8, but the 15x10x6 would probably work better in many cases. Funny I got excited seeing this
I bet home gym items will start moving very well. Lots of people addicted to Planet Fitness and the YMCA are stuck at home
I spent the afternoon cleaning up my piles of cardboard boxes, bubblewrap, and unsorted inventory. Spent about half a day and barely made a dent. I am confident I have enough work and unlisted items to get me through a month or longer. A couple of those once a pandemic buys should keep me going through summer if it goes on that long. Luckily most of us here have very low bill totals, so this shouldn’t devastate us as much as “normal people.” I haven’t had a job in a long time, but my other business is 100% shut down. There is definitely some uncertainty, but I think there may be major opportunity if we all pay attention.
Thank you. I saw a post about this, but did not have the offer. This link worked for me. With 1000 free listings and 2500 items, this is great. My other business is offline right now, so we will be tackling our opportunity piles in the coming weeks. I fully expect to add another 200 items/week for about 6 weeks. That is a significant benefit to subscribers!
We are down 45% per 2 week period right now, and it feels worse. 50% of the gross was from 2 items sold to France and Italy of all places.
I really think we will have major short term declines, then at least resume to normal as people get bored of being stuck indoors. Potentially higher than average for this season in a few weeks as people get tired of being frugal and get back to their “spend every penny” ways. I’d bet a large percentage of these gov’t checks goes directly to frivolous online spending.
I’ve sold a good amount of puzzles as well. The profits are there. I buy any that are sealed, and will entertain opened boxes at the right price. My 4 yo loves puzzles, so we can test them out.
My descriptions are all basically the same. Beautiful–see pictures for item condition
With the 1st phone seller, I think that’s exactly what it was. The 2nd phone seller had several thousand feedback. Mistakes happen, we all do it.
That’s exactly what it is for the refund. 48 hours waiting for the seller to refund, then I messaged her and found out she didn’t have the money. After that I called Ebay to get the refund which takes 3-5 business days to clear. For many people, having that kind of money tied up for so long would cause some hardship. Of course one could argue that you shouldn’t make purchases like that if you are that tight on money.
It doesn’t affect me, but I know Ebay lost a future customer. Bad sellers hurt us all.
Total Items in Store: 1851
Items Sold: 46
Gross Sales: $1284
Selling costs:$204
Cost of Items Sold: ~$40
Highest Price Sold: $335 Cat Sculpture(looked like a preschooler made it)
Net:$1044 $22.70/item
Returns: 0
2 Selling errors! I sent an item to Goodwill, then it sold. Another sold on FB and I didn’t remove.Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: 0
Number of items listed this week: ~150I’m worried about missing or unlisted items after messing up twice this week, so I am going to to a basic bin audit myself. I am planning on the audit in a couple months when sales slow down more. On days where shipping is mostly 1st class, I may go through a bin or 2 and gradually complete the audit. Money is made proportionate to listing, not housekeeping, so I do not want to cheat our store out of those hours. It has not been a big enough issue over the year to warrant a listing hiatus.
It seemed very slow, but I guess we sold 21 items Thurs-Sat. Gross $832.
I think the reason it felt so slow was that $335(40%) of that was from 1 cat sculpture I listed Thursday and sold Friday. 10 items $20 or less.
I love the onsite auctions. Theyre usually outside in all sorts of weather. Regularly get several boxes of junk for $1-5 because nobody bids and they keep adding another box to the lot. They can definitely be hit or miss as they’re usually an estate and some people dont have a lot of nice stuff. A couple auctioneers will make a pile of junk and then ask me to pay $1 for it so they dont have to haul it. I’ve found some good stuff buried in those boxes every single time. I guess I quickly became known as a trash elf.
Theres an auction house 30 minutes away that holds an auction indoor every 2 weeks, but the prices are sometimes too high. They dont want to sell anything under $10 and lately they’ve been openly disgusted with low bids and refused to sell them. I may have to stop going here if it continues. The auctioneer literally bidding $5 more than the opener just to drum up the bid for the 1 interested buyer. His excuse is that he will just list it online or send it to a store “up north” for those prices. That basically means resellers not welcome to me, though most of the attendees do resell.
Total Items in Store: 1509
Items Sold: 32
Gross Sales: $858.85
Net selling costs:214.76
Cost of Items Sold: <$20
Cost of Helpers: My wife is my helper, so the cost is some alone time without kids! Win-win
Net Profit: $624
Average Price Sold: $32
Avg profit/item: $19.50
Highest Price Sold: $91.53(Case of plaster casts-I bought 24 cases for $80)
Returns: 3 initiated.
#1-Confusing model# on a monitor. Customer agreed not to return, but cut my actual profit on a
computer monitor to $10. Better than losing $40 in shipping. He sent me a nice message and knew it
was not my fault and left glowing feedback after refund.
#2 telecommunication tool-customer wasn’t aware of the capabilities before purchase and submitted a
wrong item. If he ever ships it back, I will not refund the shipping.
#3 Fall protection lanyard–I messed up and send the belt instead of lanyard. Customer initiated a
return, but I sent the proper item and he will keep both. Don’t want to eat return shipping on an
item I haven’t been able to sell in years.Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $100
Items Listed: 120Clothing sales have been extremely slow. I’ve been getting a steady stream of “missing required details” because of size or color and am confident this is impacting sales. Eventually I will have them all edited and be back to full strength on clothing, so I am not stressing it at all. The details are in the title, so they only take a couple minutes per day to fix.
Local auction was an absolute bust Sunday, but I found one that looks promising for Friday and the kids happen to have no school! The older ones can watch the baby while my wife and I shop til we drop. We have enough inventory to get out 100 minimum listings this week, but we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to hit the goal. Auctions have been great and double as our “date night” so even the bust didn’t feel like wasted time.
10/20 – 10/26/19
eBay store: topnotchnewandused
Total store items: 1186
Number of items sold: 25
Total eBay sales (Includes shipping): $786
Selling costs(Ebay/Paypal/Shipping fees) $239
Cost of items sold: Hard to say–box lots for $1 and very old items
Net before COGS $547Highest price sold: $101 – Expired nutritional supplements
Coolest item: 1970’s snow suit $40
Average price sold: $31
Cancels: 2 for $76. 1 buyer cancelled for “wrong address” and 1 buyer I refunded fully because the item had a crack I missed.
Returns:0
Money spent on new inventory: $95
Number of new items listed this week: approx 140
Click thru 2%
Sell thru 1.4%Monday and Saturday were over 50% of our week.
I’m considering going down to 3 day handling so we only have to ship twice per week. We lost top rated over 2 items I should have called Ebay about, but didn’t bother. I think the potential $20/month in Ebay fee savings can be mitigated by sending some smaller items in envelopes.I prebag. Jeans and anything over a pound go straight into a padded flat rate. Others go in the smallest poly mailer they will fit in. I do not seal them and write the brand/color/inventory tag on each bag so they’re very easy to find in totes. I have about 20 totes on 1 shelf section and each tote is labeled such as S1-S40. As a tote empties, I will add to it and don’t bother checking for duplicate numbers. Even if I did label 2 shirts as S7, there is a brief description on the poly so I would not mix them up.
Jackets and large/heavy items are on a rack, but I am seriously tired of that rack being in my way.
