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01/02/2019 at 11:28 am in reply to: How do you spend your quarterly eBay Subscription Coupon for Shipping Supplies? #54370
I normally go for the 6X4X4 boxes or the tape
Great shares this week! That flip number clock that Steve sold really got my attention, good one!
Here are some interesting sales from December, a few obscure.
eBay Sales:
Ninohira 5″ vinyl vintage reindeer – $75. They are marked Japan, worth grabbing any in good shape, paid $1.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ninohira-Reindeer-rubber-Rudolph-Japan-figure-Christmas-vintage-flying-pose/372385227187?hash=item56b3e3a1b3:g:7EsAAOSwat5bXhYY1980s Food Basket bread Bags $20 for 20, sold two lots for $40. The prop company wants 80 more on Jan 2nd! (A current Neflix series, the prop master asked me not to mention). I geared the listing for Movie prop use. Part of a Big 1980’s toy & novelty shop storage buyout, they must have used them to bag their sales.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Food-Basket-1980s-Grocery-Bread-Bags-lot-20-red-white-blue-clear-ad-prop-store/372543528051?hash=item56bd531c73:g:beYAAOSwx9lcAFoULittles 1980 doll house tiny 1″ plastic logs for fireplace – $40. Does not even work, missing wires. Part of HUGE storage buyout, a bonus.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Littles-Lite-Up-Fireplace-LOGS-ONLY-Mattel-1980-Doll-House-Furniture-rare/372334602678?hash=item56b0df29b6:g:mN8AAOSwFFZbIZK1rusty old bar chain with hook – $90. Just laying on the ground among newer every day items at the flea, bought for $10.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Blacksmith-Hook-Chain-Rings-Bar-Frame-hanging-hand-forged-iron-tool-rust/253811858577?hash=item3b185d9c91:g:KlwAAOSw~xVbcKKgroll of 90’s pokemon gift wrap paper – $40. Paid a $1 at the thrift.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1990s-POKEMON-Gift-Wrap-Christmas-1998-wrapping-paper-25-sq-ft-vintage-Holiday/253849098374?hash=item3b1a95d886:g:qWwAAOSw5-lbjaKzShiny Brite stencil glass ornament – Now Dasher Now Dancer, $1 at the flea, this particular one is more collectible than most and warrants a single ball sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Shiny-Brite-Now-Dasher-Dancer-Reindeer-sleigh-glass-stencil-ornament-vintage-red/253654191174?hash=item3b0ef7cc46:g:bvsAAOSwSK1bDFxREtsy Sale: Two stacking revolving cassette tape holders – sold $50 for the pair, 2nd time successful with these, paid $3 for the pair and the cassettes in them (my daughter has the cassettes!)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/634828875/vintage-revolving-spinning-cassette-tape?show_sold_out_detail=1Loving that ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’ cassette sale! Win, Win, Win, Win! Win on price paid, Win on price sold, Win on shipping ease, Win on coolness (well, I think it’s cool)
12/30/2018 at 3:25 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 392: No Alarm Clocks – We chat with Troy aka T-Satt about the eBay Lifestyle #54166Good Afternoon all, the numbers and then to listen. I will not have compiled my first real yearly numbers until the second week of March, 2020. So for now, numbers for last week. A better week.
eBay store totommyto
Total store items: 650
Number of items sold: 11 (0 international)
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $419
Cost of items sold: $29.50
Consignment payouts $13
Highest price sold: $90 – Rusty antique iron cross bar with chain & hook
Average price sold: $38
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $0
Number of items listed this week: 20
Sell through rate for the week: 1.7Etsy store oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 627
Number of items sold: 5 (0 international)
Total Etsy sales ( not counting s/h): $76.50
Cost of items sold: $4
Consignment payouts: $2
Highest price sold: $22.50 – Seattle WA vintage leather key pouch
Average price sold: $15.30
Returns: One return for $0
Money spent on new inventory: $0
Number of items listed this week: 4
Sell through rate for the week: 0.7-
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totommyto. Reason: Initially I said, March 2019 - DUH!
Retro,
Nice!
And you have described my working life and my eBay life!
A good dilemma unfolds when thinking about changing it up, at least for me, although the good doesn’t help motivate any change!Good Morning, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, impressive numbers from our hosts, awesome!
Yuck numbers for me and hoping for the usual purchases after the Holidays when people buy what they want, especially the old toys they had as kids!eBay store totommyto
Total store items: 641
Number of items sold: 10 (1 international)
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $256.00
Cost of items sold: $20
Consignment payouts $8
Highest price sold: $55 – lot of five GI Joe like action figures.
Average price sold: $25.60
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $125
Number of items listed this week: 5
Sell through rate for the week: 1.5Etsy store oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 627
Number of items sold: 7 (0 international)
Total Etsy sales ( not counting s/h): $130
Cost of items sold: $8
Consignment payouts: $0
Highest price sold: Several $20 items
Average price sold: $18.60
Returns: One return for $10
Money spent on new inventory: $100
Number of items listed this week: 14
Sell through rate for the week: 1.112/19/2018 at 12:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53703You are rich in proportion to the things you can let alone.
Somebody said it, I remembered it many moons ago, don’t exactly live it!
12/19/2018 at 11:21 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53697Hi Jay,
Hope you connect back to the thread.
We are looking at Bonita Springs, Estero, two places near Naples here in Fl but not so Naples. However, we are preparing our minds to really change it up and go elsewhere. Depends on a few factors, current jobs, expenses, debt, still have two adult children in Naples, can we leave this weather behind, that sort of thing. My wife just made a late career change from Event Planning to Property Management. She has a good paying job with plenty of benefits at a luxury high rise (Bonita Bay$$), and the Christmas bonuses are coming at her. So now it is going to be tough for her to leave her job. Maybe after selling the house (God Willing), we will stick around the area, rent cheap for a year, pay off all debt, and then decide.
We just know we need to get out of the expensive house as a first step. This process is in the toddler stage.
Thank you for asking,
Tom12/19/2018 at 9:45 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53682Retro,
Yikes, this is hard tough reality.
I have worked closely with a gentleman from WV who brings back tales of woe every time he goes back there. Normal looking families under bridges holding up PLEASE FEED US signs under bridges, more. He takes care of extended family in WV and none of us working here are rich!12/17/2018 at 11:23 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53518Mark S,
I’m jealous over your toy finds!
Best of luck, great timing as the grown up kids will be revisiting their Christmas Past over the next couple of months. Purchases sure to follow! Nice finds!!12/17/2018 at 10:36 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53510Good Morning, Listening and posting dah numbers.
eBay store totommyto
Total store items: 644
Number of items sold: 17 (2 international)
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $570.00
Cost of items sold: $33.50
Consignment payouts $65
Highest price sold: $80 – 1/18 scale diecast model car
Average price sold: $33.52
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $0
Number of items listed this week: 11
Sell through rate for the week: 2.6Etsy store oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 614
Number of items sold: 8 (1 international)
Total Etsy sales ( not counting s/h): $197
Cost of items sold: $12.50
Consignment payouts: $0
Highest price sold: $45 – vintage Weebles Wobble Wigwam toy play set
Average price sold: $24.62
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of items listed this week: 4
Sell through rate for the week: 1.3Ok, going back to the beginning of the podcast, this is a meaty one! I want to listen clean through!
Decent week, happy with COGS and low consignment payouts.A quick couple of thoughts first:
I would be poking around the fleas, thrifts, and yard sales regardless of buy and sell. Its what I want to do with my so called free time. So, I might as well get paid for it! Also, one of my favorite escapes is going into the garage at night to ship, tunes turned up, awesome! The best part of shipping is IT HAS TO GET DONE! Sure, a big & bulky item is work to pack, but after the box is constructed and the item properly packed, a great feeling of accomplishment sets in!My biggest fear with going eBay/Etsy full time is the possibility of ruining a most amazing ‘hobby’. But the freedom…This is why I hang around here, fueling the imagined possibilities of actually quitting the day job and going full time. I keep getting a stronger and stronger feeling that there will be little if no regret, maybe some fear to deal with but I’m a big boy.
My wife and I have decided to put our beautiful yet expensive to live in Naples home up for sale next year, a big start in the process of cutting costs. Things have shifted in our minds and actions are following.
So, bottom line for me is to either live the life you are imagining or keep getting older and better fitted for the velvet coffin that’s closing in around you.
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totommyto. Reason: DUH, cut and pasted some of last weeks post
Late to post, OK sales with super comfortable COGS. Out picking first time in awhile last week. Interesting Podcast, I guess I’m close to the age and time where I’ll just be saying “working retired buying & selling good old stuff”.
eBay store totommyto
Total store items: 650
Number of items sold: 12 (1 international)
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $429.58
Cost of items sold: $16
Consignment payouts $7
Highest price sold: $160 – 4 place settings pewter flatware
Average price sold: $35.79
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $20
Number of items listed this week: 12
Sell through rate for the week: 1.8Etsy store oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 623
Number of items sold: 12 (0 international)
Total Etsy sales ( not counting s/h): $239
Cost of items sold: $19
Consignment payouts: $0
Highest price sold: $30 – new vintage truckers wallet (Hong Kong quality)
Average price sold: $18.38
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $20
Number of items listed this week: 4
Sell through rate for the week: 2.0Doubly!
Nice$$!!I sold four 5 piece place settings of pewter flatware last night for $160.40. I too wondered about listing by the piece or the whole set a few months back. Also sold off a couple of 4 piece sets same pattern, have a 4 and a 5 piece remaining. Bought it all for $12, sold off the wood cabinet as well for $40 local pickup.
Maybe you too can consider listing in sets with multiple?Have not listened yet, at the outside job, quick answer to the title, not a bad week, although a couple of bigger sales were consignment, bummer! The consignments were trouble free and they were the types of items I would not have found for small change, so all good enough. Wrapping up consignments this year, very little left, although I may continue for a friend.
eBay store totommyto
Total store items: 649
Number of items sold: 15 (4 international)
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $560.35
Cost of items sold: $17.50
Consignment payouts $175
Highest price sold: $190 – metal tobacco sign ‘Players First’ (consignment)
Average price sold: $37.35
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $0
Number of items listed this week: 8
Sell through rate for the week: 2.3Etsy store oldfleatoymarket
Total store items: 633
Number of items sold: 11 (0 international)
Total Etsy sales ( not counting s/h): $259
Cost of items sold: $15.50
Consignment payouts: $8
Highest price sold: $50 – set of two revolving cassette tape holders (bought for $3)
Average price sold: $23.54
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of items listed this week: 4
Sell through rate for the week: 1.7Going to begin listening, Thank you again for your time.
11/29/2018 at 8:24 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Auto compass, Hats, Books, Levitron Globe, Creepy Blow Mold Santa, Sansui Amp, Leather satchel, Teac Reel Tape Deck #52457I really enjoyed this one, great price on the ’76 Beef hat, cool blow mold Santa, nice eye on the obscure books, great pipeline on the train books. Books, mugs, and snap back style hats seem to require the eye/gut combo when purchasing. That feeling J&R speak of. You must have that X factor to succeed in getting the good prices for those items on a consistent basis. Can’t be taught really!
Always intrigued by the Audio equipment, the purchase, tinkering, packing, and follow through. The little gizmo deal was an amazing sale. I’m almost totally ignorant to gadgets like that, although my back is now not turned 100% at least. Thank you. Very nice snowy landscapes and nature through the dogs.
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