Scavenger Life

We had a good week of sales including selling the original coffee roaster that our partner, Phil, started Broad Porch with. It was just a little toaster oven that he used to learn to roast coffee at home. Now we have a team of people roasting coffee on a machine the size of small car. Our partners in Broad Porch still cant get over that people buy almost anything we list.

Our helper got COVID last week so hasn’t taken photos in a couple weeks. It’s insane that this illness just continues after three years with no sign of leveling off.

We decided to close the coffee shop for part of the week so staff/owners can take a summer vacation. We’re heading to NYC where we get to enjoy walking around while still doing our online work. Looking forward to street scavenging.

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Our Store Week July 10-16, 2022

Total Items in Store: 8904
Items Sold: 20
Gross Sales: $1,199.64 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $906.79 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $88
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price Sold: $160 (small coffee roaster)
Average Price Sold: $45.33
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 30
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(Your numbers can be found here: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales)

We’ve been selling items everyday and always fun to see what people are buying. Our inventory is getting so large that I’m forgetting where we found some items. I just know that at some moment in time we believed someone would buy this particular item…and they did! It’s the scavenger higher that we’re always chasing.

Thanks to everyone who’s been buying coffee from us. We’ve purchased new equipment for our Roastery as we grow into a larger business. We now have three employees roasting for us. Help us keep them working!

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Our Store Week July 3-9, 2022

Total Items in Store: 8881
Items Sold: 21
Gross Sales: $958.79 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $724.45 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $47
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price Sold: $200 (two movie posters)
Average Price Sold: $34.49
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 30
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(Your numbers can be found here: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales)

Yoweeeeeeeee…. It was a slow week for us. We sold some cool items, but only 13 of them. We have almost 9000!!! items in our listed inventory so of course Ryanne and I are going back and forth on what’s up.

We’ve refreshed old items. We’ve continued to list. We’ve promoted all items on eBay. Since we like experiments, let’s see how slow we can get 🙂 Maybe the Recession is here and it just hasn’t been announced yet.

How is your store?

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Our Store Week June 26-July 2, 2022

Total Items in Store: 8862
Items Sold: 13
Gross Sales: $532.77 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $339.75 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $18
Cost of helpers: $80
Highest Price Sold: $90 (vintage jewelry)
Average Price Sold: $40.98
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 30
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(Your numbers can be found here: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales)

Summertime is here with the twin realities of slower sales but plenty of yard sales to stock up on new inventory. We have been loading up on boxes of cool items to list. After prices skyrocketed at auctions, we haven’t been to an auction in over a year and have now found ourselves back in yard sale world. It’s fun to switch methods of scavenging to keep it fresh. We chase items where we can get items cheap. The fun is finding items for the cheapest price (free!) that can sell for the highest price. Total fun.

This week we sold a pair of shoes found on the street of NYC for $140 and another pair for $55. I wonder if the woman who left old shoes in front of her brownstone imagined that a couple weirdos would photograph them to sell on the internet. Thanks for the $200. We’ve redistributed useful items.

We also sold three different parts from machines that Ryanne scavenged. Parts from an old humidifier, a broken coffee grinder, and a part from my truck. Total profit: $140.

Another eatery in our town closed down recently which means it’s more pressure on our coffee shop to offer a place to eat. For casual meals, our town can come to us or several fast food places. We like more business but a healthy town has multiple options for food.

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Our Store Week June 19-25, 2022

Total Items in Store: 8847
Items Sold: 20
Gross Sales: $1,001.09 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $761.48 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $25
Cost of helpers: $80
Highest Price Sold: $140 (pair of women’s boots)
Average Price Sold: $38.07
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 50
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(Your numbers can be found here: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales)

Tough week on eBay for us. Fewer sales and fewer high dollar sales. Just a week when no one wanted what we had to sell.

We did want to dedicate this week’s post to a big question/survey: immediate payment on offers. We accepted three offers this week and none of the buyers paid. We just got ghosted. What happened to eBay’s announcement that payments would be automatically charged once offers were accepted?

Ryanne and I each have a buying account. When we sends an offer, eBay asks her how she wants to be charged if offer is accepted. When I send an offer to a seller, eBay doesn’t ask for payment and I can pay whenever I want. So it feels automatic payment is on the buying side and must be still in testing phase?

Any experience on your end?

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Our Store Week June 12-18, 2022

Total Items in Store: 8795
Items Sold: 16
Gross Sales: $683.66 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $477.64 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $22
Cost of helpers: $80
Highest Price Sold: $55 (cast iron muffin pan)
Average Price Sold: $29.85
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 20
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(Your numbers can be found here: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales)