Scavenger Life

Trash to Cash. A podcast about making a living on eBay.

Scavenger Travel Life

Hey Y’all. Sorry no podcast this week, as we are again traveling for video work to lovely San Francisco. Free to post your numbers and keep the converstaions going in the forum!

Our Store Week Oct 1-7, 2017

Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5832
Items Sold: 53
Cost of Items Sold: $173
Total Sales: $1,637.51
Highest Price Sold: $135 (vintage beads)
Average Price Sold: $30.89
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $35
Number of items listed this week: 20
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for 0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1109
Items Sold: 11
Cost of Items Sold: $28
Total Sales: $352.18
Highest Price Sold: $82 (vintage dishes)
Average Price Sold: $32.01
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0

Scavenger Life Episode 329: 200+ Ebay Sales To Pack. We’re Not Complaining.


We just landed after an entire month of traveling and working in Scandinavia and Europe. We topped it off by being a couple of scavenger executives and sort of accidentally getting upgraded on our flights home. This allowed us to have fancy seats and access to The Saga Lounge in Reykjavik. That was fun and rare! Now time to pack 200+ items that people have been waiting for!

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Our Store Week Sept 24-30, 2017

Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5871
Items Sold: 45
Cost of Items Sold: $83
Total Sales: $1,374.96
Highest Price Sold: $130 (vintage perfume)
Average Price Sold: $30.55
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 1 items for $45 (vintage eye glasses)
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1120
Items Sold: 3
Cost of Items Sold: $32
Total Sales: $201.73
Highest Price Sold: $82 (vintage dishes)
Average Price Sold: $67.24
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0

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Scavenger Life Episode 328: Chaos vs Stress, There is a difference in life and business


This week we talk about the difference between dealing with stress and living a chaotic life. If you run your own business, stress happens. Good news is that individual stressful issues are usually easy to fix. But if you live a chaotic life, then trying to fix little issues won’t help until you get to the core of the chaos. Confused? Just listen to our arm chair psychology and see if it jives with your life experience.

Check out the eBay Fall Update where they talk about “Free Returns” and other fancy changes.

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Our Store Week Sept 17-23, 2017

Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5910
Items Sold: 45
Cost of Items Sold: $380
Total Sales: $3,492.34
Highest Price Sold: $1850 (vintage desk)
Average Price Sold: $77.60
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 2 items for $45
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1123
Items Sold: 8
Cost of Items Sold: $24
Total Sales: $255.31
Highest Price Sold: $60 (vintage polaroid)
Average Price Sold: $31.91
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0

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Scavenger Life Episode 327: Dealing With Stress Traveling, In Life and On eBay


Traveling can be super fun and exciting, but for some of us, that comes with a bit of stress and anxiety. This is a lot like making a living on eBay rather than having an office job, it just comes with the territory. Anything new and unknown can cause stress. We dive into that while sitting in a little cabin in the Arctic Circle of Norway.

We’ve been using Cell Hire Data SIM cards that we bought on Amazon for Google Maps, fielding ebay questions/offers and running our Airbnb. The great thing is, they work in every country we’ve driven through. Brilliant!

We also talk about eBay’s new link policy emails that were super confusing because they talked about contact info violations. What?

We updated ShampooAndBooze.com where we go into depth about finishing the house renovation. Check it out.

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Our Store Week Sept 10-16, 2017

Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5930
Items Sold: 39
Cost of Items Sold: $64
Total Sales: $1,196.91
Highest Price Sold: $250 (designer duvet cover)
Average Price Sold: $30.69
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 50
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1129
Items Sold: 7
Cost of Items Sold: $18
Total Sales: $155.91
Highest Price Sold: $34 (vintage forks)
Average Price Sold: $22.27
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0

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Scavenger Life Episode 326: What Is A Scavenger Vacation?


Hey, we’re in Europe! We contemplate what it means to be able to have four weeks away and trek around like non-fancy, fancy people. What does it mean to be scavengers and go on vacation? How do you stay frugal to the extreme, but also enjoy Europe? We try to answer that. And answer/respond to your many, lovely voicemails! Hope you’re having a great week. We’re thinking of all y’all in Florida during Irma. Stay strong.

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Our Store Week Sept 3-9, 2017

Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5906
Items Sold: 72
Cost of Items Sold: $155
Total Sales: $2,522.80
Highest Price Sold: $280 (vintage markers)
Average Price Sold: $35.02
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $6
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1138
Items Sold: 10
Cost of Items Sold: $14
Total Sales: $361.92
Highest Price Sold: $45
Average Price Sold: $36.19
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0

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