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At the thrift store where I used to volunteer they used a professional eBay lister who would list high $ items on eBay for the store. The lister charged a flat fee for each item listed. The criteria was that the item had to be something that would list for over $100. I think the fee charged by the lister was $25 per item, no matter what the item sold for. I believe the lister used their personal established eBay account to do this, not an account that was tied to the thrift store.
I don’t fault the store for doing this. Sales and storage space is very limited in a thrift store and in my experience it was rare that anything would sell in the store for $100 or more, unless it was furniture. The store needed to have quick selling items on the floor- we were completely overwhelmed with donations every single day. We needed to put items out on the floor that would sell quickly and get them out the door ASAP to make space for more stuff.
Only a very small amount of items donated met the $100 or over criteria so I don’t think the practice of selling thrift store donations on eBay had much adverse effect on resellers who shopped at the store. There were still plenty of high $ items that weren’t recognized as such by the employees and volunteers, and those items were sold in the store for cheap.
Like Jay always says: there’s such an abundance of stuff in the USA – I don’t think resellers need to worry about a scarcity of things to resell.
Hello Challengers!
Just 10 new listings for me last week. I’m not expecting much from myself as far as new listings until 2020. I’ll be going out of town again this week and with all the holiday events we have scheduled I don’t have much free time for listing. My store reflects that unfortunately, I don’t think it’s ever been so dead š
Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes, I had a wonderful birthday!
Merry Christmas everyone!
12/19/2019 at 9:18 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71868Thank you to The_SEAM_Store for: “You are not obligated to refund anything at all for a refused package. If you choose to refund anything, that is just being nice. This goes for any refused package and incorrect addresses, domestic or international.”
I’ve been searching the forum for what to do when a forwarding order expired package is returned. I have messaged the buyer but no response. I wasn’t sure if I should still refund the buyer (minus the postage) if I never hear back from them. It’s a very low dollar item so the buyer isn’t out much money but I wasn’t sure if not refunding the purchase price is ethical. Thank you for answering my question!
Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! Amatino: I wish your memory was correct, bit I think I’m close to decade older than most of you spring chickens.
I didn’t know Christmas Eve was a Federal holiday this year, thanks for the info!
Wow, Vintage Lacy: I am so impressed with your order count! It’s nice to hear that hard work pays off -congratulations to you, you certainly deserve it! But how do you keep up with the shipping? I don’t think I could possibly get out that many orders in a day. Do you have more than one business day for shipping or do you prepackage your items?
As for me, the expected dreaded Christmas slow down in sales has arrived but that is also deserved in my case – I listed only 9 items last week š My birthday is this week so I doubt I’ll be listing much again this week with all the social stuff we have going on.
Wishing you all a great week!
Thank you for your responses and assistance! It could be that I’ve run through most of the available watchers and I’ve lost the option to send an offer as debitendcredits mentions.
But I do have some items that have previously been on my send offers list that I’ve never sent offers on because my asking price is already as low as I care to go. So I’m not sure where those went.
Next I’ll try listing some new items and see if I get any offers to watchers when people start watching the new items. I always dread calling eBay.
12/15/2019 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71681Itemsfromthesouth: Regarding your question: My answer is yes, I would be afraid that a statement like that would be an open invitation for people to try to get something “extra” back from their purchase.
I wouldn’t put a statement like that in any of my listings. But by nature I am mistrustful of strangers. In actuality I’ve had very few eBay buyers try to scam me, most of my eBay customers have been great!It might help to start with a niche, due to less reseller competition. I do okay with craft items which most resellers don’t bother with at the thrifts. Usually crafts don’t have big $ returns (which is why other resellers pass on them) but for me they sell well, are easy to find, inexpensive to source and are very easy to store and ship.
In my early reselling days I’d look for new in the package items after getting burned on buying items with missing parts a few times. I also made some mistakes on buying items that were too large or heavy to ship for a reasonable cost. So those are some things to keep in mind when sourcing.
Once you go to the thrift stores often enough you’ll see the same items over and over and know not to source those as there are already lots of those items on eBay. Now I often buy things I’ve never seen before just because I know if I’ve never seen it it’s rare, and potentially worth more because of scarcity.
Good luck to you, and have fun with it!
Yes, I believe the adsense $ comes from the number of views rather than the number of subscribers…
I saw an estimate of what Curiosity Incorporated (the Potter’s House guy) makes on YouTube and it may be as high as $250,000 a year. So if he can find something that’ll get a lot of people to watch his channel (as they did for the Potter’s house series) it’s certainly worth it for him to do so, if only for the views!
Hello Challengers!
I had zero new listings last week. I’m back from vacation now but I don’t think this week will be a big listing week for me. I’ve already missed 2 listing days for this week and those are the 2 days I usually list the most. But any amount is better than zero so there’s that š
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Wow, well done ChristineR and Sharyn! Very impressive numbers!
I only listed 7 things š and this week I’m leaving for vacation (rescheduled from when I cancelled because my cat was so ill). So this week and possibly next week will be low listing weeks again for me. Looks like December is not going to be a high listing month for me. On the positive side my sales have been great since Thanksgiving. Fingers crossed.
Wishing everyone a great week!
Thanks for posting it, I enjoyed watching it!
Surprisingly good sales for me so far this weekend. On Wednesday I had zero sales, Wednesday was the first day in a long time for me with no sales in a 24 hour period. So I was expecting poor sales over Thanksgiving weekend – especially since I haven’t listed anything since Tuesday. I haven’t had a crazy huge amount of items sell since Wednesday but my high dollar items have sold so that’s been wonderful!
Hi Jess,
I second volunteering as a way of socializing but will add that I have found it helps a lot to have it be recurring: as in every week on the same day at the same time.
I volunteer at the local Humane Society and see the same group of volunteers every week during my shift. It’s hard to make friends on a one off occasion but you can’t help doing so when you see the same people week after week. Plus you all have the common interest of helping out an organization that you all care about.
Sometimes you just click with someone at a one time event but I believe that’s pretty rare. Probably even rarer so for you since you say you feel like a fish out of water with other women.
So I advise that you get out there, volunteer weekly, and make it happen! Good luck! -
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