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[totommyto]

Listening while posting, great news!

8/11– 8/17/19 (no cross listing is done between platforms)

eBay store: totommyto

Total store items: 714
Number of items sold: 9
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $258.45
Cost of items sold: $13
Highest price sold: $55 – GM Silverado decal set – dealer throw away, no cost!
Average price sold: $28
Returns: One – 0
Money spent on new inventory: $65
Number of new items listed this week: 7
Sell through rate for the week: 1.0
Number International sales: 2

Etsy store oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 660
Number of items sold: 4
Total Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $79
Cost of items sold: $8
Highest price sold: $40 – 8lb rusty boat anchor, paid $5
Average price sold: $19.75
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $20
Number of new items listed this week: 7
Sell through rate for the week: 0.6
Number International sales: 0

[totommyto]

Great Podcast, thanks again.

8/4– 8/10/19 (no cross listing is done between platforms)

eBay store: totommyto

Total store items: 716
Number of items sold: 9
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $213.50
Cost of items sold: $18
Highest price sold: $47.50 – old long handled miner’s hatchet – paid $5
Average price sold: $24
Returns: One – $20 lot of vintage plush
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of new items listed this week: 0
Sell through rate for the week: 1.2
Number International sales: 0

Etsy store oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 658
Number of items sold: 6
Total Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $150
Cost of items sold: $12
Highest price sold: $45 – rusty old shark hooks & rigs assortment – paid $5
Average price sold: $25
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of new items listed this week: 0
Sell through rate for the week: 1.0
Number International sales: 0

[totommyto]

Hi Daniel,
Either type is cool, sincere is better!
A sincere thank you!
Take Care,
Tom

[totommyto]

Aperture,
I appreciate the compliments on the photos.
Honestly, not much is done. The book and the cabinet drawers were set on a piece of scrap card board with a yellowish neutral painted background wall. The room I like to take pictures of indoors has a high ceiling with florescent lighting. Unfortunately it is at work and I am limited to its use.
The toolbox and shark hooks were taken behind my house on a white (stained!) towel with a light yellow stucco wall as a backdrop, natural light in the shade.
I use my iPhone xr.
My arrangements are mostly unintentional for groups of objects, just trying to get all the features in and balance the shot for cropping. I know nothing of photography except point and shoot with a fancy phone and then basic cropping.
It’s pretty amazing the ‘art’ that comes about naturally and accidentally from arranging like objects for eCommerce photos! We are all guilty of it! Sometimes the scavenger photo is way better than the high end school taught magazine photography! Sometimes!
Unless you are pulling my leg about all this! If so, you got me! 🙂

[totommyto]

Good Morning Steve, thanks again, I really like the chunky old radio.
Here is a sprinkling of some of the more interesting sold items over the past 2 weeks, Rusty old stuff and an old church book.

Bent, beat, rusty, yet really cool looking old Cantilever tool box sold for $118, found for $3-$5, bought a bunch of old tool boxes after a flea vendor made his money selling the tools inside, he wanted them GONE.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Heavy-Duty-Cantilever-antique-tool-box-1920s-metal-4-trays-2-hinged-lids-old/254193309856?hash=item3b2f1a18a0:g:qhUAAOSwM7lcq3se

Awesome assortment of big rusty shark hooks and rigs found jammed in an old tackle box. I used ‘Imagination’ when acquiring this fishy lot. Lots of international interest on this find but shipping was high. Paid $5, sold for $45.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/696712861/old-shabby-shark-fishing-wood-huge-metal?show_sold_out_detail=1

Well used small metal cabinet with plastic drawers, bought for under $1 as part of a $5 box lot of junk, sold for $55.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/703161932/industrial-small-metal-cabinet-8-drawer?show_sold_out_detail=1

Old church Missal thrift store find $1, sold for $50, it is worth taking note of these, they seem to show up in the most dry church thrifts. A complete assortment of colored page finder ribbons is important.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/St-Andrew-Daily-Missal-1957-Regular-Edition-Black-book-Dom-Gaspar-Lefebvre/372725635746?hash=item56c82ddaa2:g:kR4AAOSwRKhdP0sL

[totommyto]

Aperture,
I purchased 2 big lots of old patches this year and they have been a great pipeline selling for about $20 a pop, some more. My eyes are open for Polo now, amazing price!

[totommyto]

Good Morning all, have not listened yet and looking forward to a rare Monday off pack/ship with my garage friends J&R. When I start pouring you guys a cup of coffee each, I’ll begin to worry…

7/28– 8/03/19 (no cross listing is done between platforms)

eBay store: totommyto

Total store items: 725
Number of items sold: 8
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $295
Cost of items sold: $20
Highest price sold: $118 – Old beat Cantilever tool box, paid under $5.
Average price sold: $36.90
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $20
Number of new items listed this week: 9
Sell through rate for the week: 1.1
Number International sales: 0

Etsy store oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 664
Number of items sold: 5
Total Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $120
Cost of items sold: $10
Highest price sold: $30 – Two rusty old wall hooks, paid $3
Average price sold: $24
Returns: Shower curtain rings – returned $20 + ship & let them keep, paid .50 cents, (weird hook up)
Money spent on new inventory: 15
Number of new items listed this week: 3
Sell through rate for the week: 0.75
Number International sales: 0

[totommyto]

nice, nice, NICE on the Converse USA made!
Steve, I deeply appreciate your uncluttered what sold videos, just enough info to drive good points into the scavenger brain! Easy enjoyable informative relevant viewing!
Also thank you to other consistent weekly posters! Me, I’m only motivated to post bi weekly, seems to be what it takes to single out enough interesting sales tom share.

[totommyto]

Great Podcast.

7/21– 7/27/19 (no cross listing is done between platforms)

eBay store: totommyto

Total store items: 725
Number of items sold: 9
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $246
Cost of items sold: $19
Highest price sold: $40 – Diecast Nascar semi truck – zero cost, part of a huge lot already accounted for.
Average price sold: $27
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of new items listed this week: 12
Sell through rate for the week: 1.6
Number International sales: 0

Etsy store oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 666
Number of items sold: 3
Total Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $79
Cost of items sold: $3
Highest price sold: $49 – small old 8 drawer parts cabinet
Average price sold: $26
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of new items listed this week: 5
Sell through rate for the week: 0.5
Number International sales: 0

[totommyto]

Simplicio,
Interesting theory on a particular breed of NPB. I may just try that some day when one of my big ugly rusty things gets the crickets chirping instead of dollars after an offer is accepted. There is not a long list of NPB for that kind of stuff for me. Bound to happen the future eventually, it has happened before, and then I will remember your comment. It’s in me brain now!

[totommyto]

Could be a running count of summits climbed, or hikes completed, or a measure of miles walked, countries visited?
I’m thinking of the ‘Notches on your sword’, a saying we used way back in my service days.

[totommyto]

Some great sold prices on a variety of items!
Here are a few more to add to the mix, sold over these past couple weeks.

I took a best offer of $70 for this car that went to Australia for an additional shipping cost of $52. I paid less than $1 each for a small lot. This was a cheap rip off of Hot Wheels back in the day, now sought after, especially for the knock off effort on the patented Hot Wheels logo art.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/King-Star-Mini-Car-202-BMW-M-1-rare-diecast-1-60-Korea-vintage-new-card-blue-8/372629854035?hash=item56c2785753:g:kngAAOSwi5dcjlUx

A couple of Barbie pipe lines keep on giving, this Friend Francie dress selling for $27. Zero cost as more items have sold than I though so now into the pure gravy part of profit. I hate to say it, but I’m ready for another big vintage Barbie purchase.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Barbie-FRANCIE-1965-Slightly-Summery-Dress-Learns-to-Cook-pattern-signature/253867207663?hash=item3b1baa2bef:g:7h0AAOSwLNpbmYgW

Here’s a mug that stands out. Paid $3, sold for $30, about what they go for, always a sprinkling available on line it seems. Better sold on Etsy.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/714886861/risque-mug-vintage-1960s-coffee-pencil?show_sold_out_detail=1

Here is a classic long tail item, a small nautical theme metal note pad holder with plenty of wear, paid a couple of bucks, sold for $40 on Etsy.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/586680221/desk-top-note-pad-holder-nautical-mid?show_sold_out_detail=1

Paid $5 or less for these beat old boat prop, sold for $40. There are a couple of sliding learning curves when selling these for decor purposes, here in deep SW F they pop up often enough so learned. Sold on Etsy.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/711320845/old-boat-prop-chipped-paint-shabby-black?show_sold_out_detail=1

[totommyto]

Good Evening all, spent the latter part of the week in Miami, family business. Have not listened to podcast yet.

Posting the Etsy Store first since it outperformed eBay all around. Every now and then, the red headed step child pulls out in front and saves a week from being really bad.

7/14– 7/20/19 (no cross listing is done between platforms)

Etsy store: oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 663
Number of items sold: 10
Total Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $230.00
Cost of items sold: $13
Highest price sold: $40 – paid nothing, pair of vintage Swank initial ‘K’ cuff links.
Average price sold: $23
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $5
Number of new items listed this week: 4
Sell through rate for the week: 1.5
Number International sales: 3

eBay store totommyto

Total store items: 718
Number of items sold: 7
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $133
Cost of items sold: $10
Highest price sold: $25 – big lot of old switch plates, paid nothing.
Average price sold: $19
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $52
Number of new items listed this week: 15
Sell through rate for the week: 1.0
Number International sales: 0

[totommyto]

I get it. Could be my future as well.

[totommyto]

7/7– 7/13/19 (no cross listing is done between platforms)

eBay store: totommyto

Total store items: 714
Number of items sold: 16
Total eBay sales (not counting s/h): $330.70
Cost of items sold: $16
Highest price sold: $70 – Obscure Kingstar mini car diecast – Paid $1
Average price sold: $20.70
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of new items listed this week: 29
Sell through rate for the week: 2.3
Number International sales: 5

Etsy store oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 666
Number of items sold: 6
Total Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $135
Cost of items sold: $11
Highest price sold: $40 – old beat up boat prop – paid $3
Average price sold: $22.50
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: $3.50
Number of new items listed this week: 12
Sell through rate for the week: 1.0
Number International sales: 0

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