A couple weeks ago, we were talking about our backup plan to eBay. But many commenters on the forum were discussing that eBay IS their backup plan to their current job, which makes a lot of sense since so many eBay sellers sell part time on top of their W-2 jobs and families.
I guess a more accurate question we’re always asking ourselves is “what do we really want to be doing”? Scavenging bought us our freedom from having to work for other people. But once we realized we had created a steady pipeline of money on eBay that consistently paid our bills, was this enough? Did we want to just sell online for the rest of our lives? What did we really want to be doing?
The honest answer is that we don’t really know. I think a lot of us are unsure about what we want to be when we grow up if backed into a corner. Sure, we all want/deserve some leisure. A little freedom from worry. Keep a roof over your head. Be able to send your kids to college. Fix the car if it breaks down. But once you’ve figured out those things, what do you REALLY want to do with your time? What challenges do you want to take on? When you’re on your death bed, what’s going to make you feel at peace?
Our strategy is just to evolve step by step. We learned that we like using our extra eBay profits to renovate houses for rent. We love the challenge of taking a house in bad shape and making it awesome. Design is fun. Scavenging and re-using old materials is so satisfying. And then these rentals are earning us more money to evolve further. Every day isn’t glamorous, but it sure is an adventure of our making.
We talked about buying a new-to-us, used iPhone 5c on eBay (it’s pink!) and hooking it up on Ting. We love Ting, you should use Ting. Digital scavenging is fun!
Hope you had a good week.
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Our Store Week June 11-17, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,771
Items Sold: 59
Cost of Items Sold: $99
Total Sales: $1,857.20
Highest Price Sold: $110 (vintage brooch)
Average Price Sold: $31.47
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $12
Number of items listed this week: 75
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1239
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $50
Total Sales: $366.68
Highest Price Sold: $90 (vintage record player)
Average Price Sold: $40.74
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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