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What Sold On eBay: April 9, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, I sold four items on eBay. Two days in a row with a fair sales number.

Vintage Gold Tone Wire Cat Brooch 1.5″ Lapel Pin

1. I sold a Vintage Gold Tone Wire Cat Brooch 1.5″ Lapel Pin via Best Offer a few hours after listing it.

This brooch was in the costume jewelry lots that I bought last week, and as I’ve said before, pins are my thing. Pins & Brooches are what got me started selling on a larger scale on eBay all those years ago.

While I normally would hold out and not put any offers on new listings, with things being so slow lately I just want to move items.

VERDICT: Buy!

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Sony PSP, 2007)

2. I sold an Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Sony PSP, 2007) game via a 30% off sale and a 1% Promoted Listing.

This was picked up at a thrift store and listed in January 2019.

VERDICT: Buy if you can get it for a dollar or less.

Carhartt Men’s Buffalo Baseball Cap

3. I sold a Carhartt Men’s Buffalo Baseball Cap via a Best Offer.

Another day, another hat sale.

This was listed in August 2018 and in a large liquidation lot that I purchased last year.

VERDICT: Buy for a dollar or less.

Tupperware Sheer Junior Cereal Store-n-Pour

4. I sold a Tupperware Sheer Junior Cereal Store-n-Pour via a Best Offer.

This was listed in September 2018 and I picked this out of a pile of free items someone didn’t want at our local auction house. This thing is tiny too and was 9 ounces shipped, including the box I packed it in.

VERDICT: For free, sure. But I probably wouldn’t seek these out to purchase.

Weekly Listing Progress for 2019 Q2 W2

I listed 10 unique items on eBay, which was recapped in the listing post for April 9th. I had some other work pop up that I had to attend to, so there were no Poshmark or website listings done.

Platform Listed Goal To List
Fazoom.com 12 50 38
eBay 20 50 30
Poshmark 12 50 38
TOTAL 44 150 106

Stay tuned to the What I Listed category to see the progress.

What’s Selling?

What did you sell yesterday and on what platforms? How are your sales going?

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Costume Jewelry Listed on eBay: April 9, 2019

On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, I listed 10 pieces of costume jewelry in our main eBay store.

Costume Jewelry Gallery

Costume Jewelry for Sale on eBay

These pieces were all picked up last week at the auction house. I’ll be listing the remaining pieces from that purchase either today or tomorrow and will hopefully have some new pickups this morning.

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What Sold On eBay: April 8, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Monday, April 8, 2019, I sold FIVE items on eBay. You read that right, five items sold. For a Monday that is back into normal sales quantity territory, which hasn’t happened very often in 2019.

Churchill Downs 2000 Kentucky Derby Alumni Weekend Coffee Mug

1. I sold a Churchill Downs 2000 Kentucky Derby Alumni Weekend Coffee Mug via a 30% off sale and a 1% Promoted Listing.

I picked up multiples of these at a thrift store last year and have been selling them on eBay and in our antique mall showcase. This is actually the last one that I have right now, but I’ll store the listing for when I come across more.

Being 90 minutes away from Louisville I run across Kentucky Derby items almost as frequently as I do Indy 500 & Brickyard 400 items. The standard glasses don’t sell as well as the mugs do, which would be a simple matter of supply and demand.

VERDICT: Buy! They might not sell right away, but they will sell. While the race is less than a month away, these have sold all year long.

97th Indianapolis Indy 500 Hat

2. I sold a 97th Indianapolis Indy 500 Hat via a 50% off sale and a 1% Promoted Listing.

This was picked up at either a garage sale or thrift store and was listed in September 2018. While I do sell some Indy 500 items all year long, it picks up closer to May.

In one of my other lives, I cover the races in a media capacity and will pick up anything Indy 500 related that I see. If it doesn’t sell I’ll enjoy it myself. Nothing beats The Month of May in Indy!

VERDICT: Buy, but plan on it selling around race time.

Vintage Boy Scouts of America Hat

3. I sold a Vintage Boy Scouts of America Hat via a 50% off sale.

This was picked up at a thrift store and listed in March 2019. A hat that sells in under a month is a good hat to pick up any time you see one.

VERDICT: Buy!

St. John’s Bay Blue Jean Denim Shorts

4. I sold a St. John’s Bay Blue Jean Denim Shorts via a 10% off sale, which is on top of the 50% price drop I made last week.

I made a mistake with shipping on this one and if I’m lucky I might break even. I need to write a blog post about this.

This was picked up at a thrift store and listed in January 2018. This was back when I was just starting to get an idea of clothing brands and I now know that this is a bad one to resell.

You should be aware that St John’s Bay is a JCPenney brand. Not to be confused with St John which is a higher end brand of designer clothing.

VERDICT: DO NOT BUY THIS!

Bimini Bay Button Down Fishing Shirt

5. I sold a Bimini Bay Button Down Fishing Shirt via a 10% off sale, which is also on top of the 50% price drop I made last week.

Again, another small sale, but it’s gone and I probably made a few dollars profit on it.

This was picked up at a thrift store and listed in October 2017. 18-months for a few dollars isn’t worth it. Ever.

I see a trend of not selling things with “Bay” in the brand name on eBay.

VERDICT: DO NOT BUY THIS!

Weekly Listing Progress for 2019 Q2 W2

I moved 12 new with tags clothing items from eBay to our website and cross-posted them to Poshmark yesterday.

I listed 10 unique items on eBay, 12 in total quantity, which was recapped in yesterday’s listing post.

Platform Listed Goal To List
Fazoom.com 12 50 38
eBay 10 50 40
Poshmark 12 50 38
TOTAL 34 150 116

Stay tuned to the What I Listed category to see the progress.

What’s Selling?

What did you sell yesterday and on what platforms? How are your sales going?

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Mugs & Glassware Listed on eBay: April 8, 2019

On Monday, April 8, 2019, I listed 6 items in our eBay mugs & glassware store and 3 hats and 1 necklace in our main eBay store.

Mugs & Glassware

These mugs & glasses were all picked up at a thrift store last Thursday.

I run across the Indy 500 cups below regularly but I’m not sure which year these started and when they ended. These days glass is not allowed inside of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, so these are a relic that will stay in the past.

Mugs & Glassware Gallery

Mugs & Glassware for Sale on eBay

Hats for Sale on eBay

These hats were picked up last Thursday at a thrift store along with the mugs and glassware above. As stated, racing related items are abundant here in Indy, and that includes alcohol promo items as they spend a lot of money promoting here during the races we host.

Jewelry for Sale on eBay

This necklace was in a box lot that I picked up at the auction some months ago and I just got around to listing it.

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What Sold On eBay: April 7, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Sunday, April 7, 2019, I sold one item on eBay.

1. I sold an Undated 2012 Christkindlmarket Chicago Boot Mug via a 30% off sale and a 1% Promoted Listing.

These are something that I find regularly at our local thrift stores so I keep the photos on hand for easy relisting. Two of these were listed in January 2019. Selling Christmas items all year long is a consistent thing around eBay.

Specific to this mug, they started releasing updated versions so you could start a collection and not have to worry about the previous years. Thus it does take some research to pin down which year the undated mugs are from.

2019 Q2W1 (Week 14) Sales Recap

When it rains it pours.

We only sold 13 items last week on eBay out of 1,213 unique listings and with 2,182 total items available.

That sell-through rate on the week is horrific. Based on everything you’re told, we should be selling 12-21 items per day (depending on which inventory number you choose to use) on eBay, i.e. 1% of our inventory.

For us, a one-third of a percent (1/3 %) sell-through rate has typically been the average day, which for what we sell on eBay I don’t have an issue with. In the past, 7-8 items per day have been a good day for us.

As a reference point, we averaged 3 sales per day in January. That is actually good for us in January as that’s usually one of our slowest months of the year. But then we hit February (1.64) and March (1.52), typically excellent months, and everything just took an unexplainable nosedive.

What’s The Plan (This Week), Stan?

At this point, I’m taking it a day at a time to see what headway I can make.

First, I’m going to move some of our new clothing items over to Fazoom.com and cross-post them to Poshmark. I’ve talked about clothing numerous times and my take is that if it’s going to be long tail, it can sit on platforms that don’t cost me anything to list on. I tried Poshmark a few years ago and didn’t have any luck, but I’m willing to give it another try. It can’t be any slower than what we’re seeing right now. Right?

Second, I’m going to list a minimum of 10 items on eBay each day this week. Most of this will be hard goods, but I am going to throw some more used clothing into the mix as I’ve not listed any used clothing on eBay since October and I have a lot of it just sitting here.

Third, I’m going to list a minimum of 10 items on Fazoom.com each day. This ties into the first goal of moving new clothing over.

Bottom line, the goal is to list 50 new items on eBay, list 50 items on Fazoom.com & cross-post 50 items to Poshmark. Stay tuned to the What I Listed category to see the progress.

What’s Selling?

What did you sell yesterday and on what platforms? How are your sales going?