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What Sold On eBay: March 31, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Sunday, March 31, 2019, I sold two items on eBay.

1. I sold a Legrand-Pass & Seymour White Three-Light Switch Plastic Despard Wall Plate K3-W at the full asking price.

This is a rather odd and boring item that I picked up back in 2017 in a large clearance lot at the local hardware store. These tiny switches are found mainly in older homes. Talking to my uncle who is an electrician, he said he had never seen a plastic one before and that you’d really want a metal wall plate to go with that sort of thing to fit the style. My best guess would be people remodeling older homes and going with a modern day look instead of historical. Or maybe they couldn’t find a metal one.

This is a perfect example of the type of “smalls” that I like to sell. List once and sell many over a few years. But it’s also something I wouldn’t recommend specializing in or buying by the gross. There’s a reason the hardware store got rid of them.

2. I sold a Celebrate The Spectacle 2006 90th Indy 500 CD Cardz via Best Offer AND with a 1% Promoted Listing.

Anything Indy 500 related is of personal interest and in my wheelhouse. And it’s readily available everywhere around Central Indiana. This particular item was picked up recently in an auction lot of costume jewelry and is the entire reason I went after this particular lot. There was a handful of these in there and they should start selling in April and May as we get closer to race time.

As far as CD Cardz goes, I couldn’t find a whole lot of information and no exact comp. Comps for other ones were all over the board, so I listed high and added Best Offer to the listing.

Is it May yet?!

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What Sold On eBay: March 30, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Saturday, March 30, 2019, I sold three items on eBay.

1 & 2. I sold two Coca-Cola Coke Thermo-Serv Plastic Drinking Tumblers at full price to the same buyer with a 1% promoted listing.

I picked up six of these in an auction box lot a few weeks ago and now have 3 left.

I’m actually a little surprised to see these go so quickly, but I’m not going to complain!

3. I sold a Kids Space Jam Looney Tunes Monstars Squad T-Shirt via Best Offer.

These were part of a bulk buy in 2018 and are among the clothing items that we’re clearing out. I have a number of these left in various sizes.

What Sold At The Antique Mall

On Saturday, March 30, 2019, I sold three items in our Antique Mall space, all with our March 20% off sale.

1. I sold a Coca-Cola Plastic King Size Carrier.

I picked two of these up at a yard sale some years back for myself but decided to sell them.

2. I sold an Indiana State University 1979 Basketball 7-Up Bottle.

I picked this out of a dumpster and run across these frequently. Nobody seems to want them, but they’re good cheap filler to go towards our monthly rental fee. I have more ready to take its place.

3. I sold a Notre Dame Fighting Irish 7-Up Bottle.

I picked this out of the same dumpster. This one is a little harder to come by, but they’re still readily available around Indiana. I also have at least one more of these on hand.

What’s Selling?

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

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What Sold On eBay: March 29, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Friday, March 29, 2019, I sold one item eBay.

1. I sold Margaritaville Men’s Brown Leather Bonaire Loafers via Best Offer.

These were picked up at a thrift store last summer and listed a month ago. I’m happy with the quick sale, but I should have listed them as soon as I bought them because the comps were higher when I picked these up.

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What Sold On eBay: March 28, 2019

What Sold On eBay

On Thursday, March 28, 2019, I sold two items on eBay.

1. I sold an Italian Round Colonial Print with Gold Gilt Frame at the full asking price.

This was picked up at a thrift store last summer and has been listed since August 2018. I had a similar one that was rectangular that I picked up at the same time and sold months ago. It’s another case of waiting for the right buyer, as is with many antique and vintage items.

2. I sold a Faceted Crystal Rhinestone Black Bow Shoes Brooch Lapel Pin via best offer AND a 1% promoted listing.

I picked this up in an auction lot over the winter and listed it back in January. Two months to sell is a perfect time frame and I would actually consider that to be “fast” for most pieces.

Jewelry, brooches & lapel pins especially, are in my wheelhouse and is one of the first product lines that I started selling online. I absolutely love the artistry of such pieces and truly appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into creating them. And the fact that they’re easy to store and ship is an added bonus.

To Best Offer or Not to Best Offer?

As I gear up to move out all clothing that has been listed since 2017 & 2018 I have been slashing the asking price to 50-60% off. Not a sale, but just reducing the price.

As I do that I have been debating if I should remove “Best Offer” from these items. While I like the additional sales I see from having Best Offer as an option, the lowballs drive me crazy at times. And even if you don’t have Best Offer turned on people still message you with offers.

My issue is that say I have an item listed for $25 with Best Offer then I reduce the price to $12, still with Best Offer turned on, then I see offers for $5 (sometimes less). At $25 a low offer might be $10.

My goal is to clear things out, so if $5 at least covers expenses, that’s a wash. But a secondary goal is more cash flow and breaking even isn’t going to get you there. So I counter as I usually do and that runs the lowballers away. Decisions, decisions. What’s more important? The space or a few dollars to buy new inventory?

What are your thoughts?

Wednesday Goose Eggs

As you probably noticed, there was no “What Sold” post for Wednesday. Yes, it was a complete swing and a miss across all platforms. While we usually have that happen 2-3 times a month on eBay, that marked the NINTH day in March without a sale on eBay. That many days in a month without a sale has never happened since we bumped our active eBay inventory up over 1,000 listings. I’m not sure what’s going on over at eBay and we’ll probably never know, but this February & March have been abnormally low for sales. I’ll touch more on that once we wrap up the quarter next week.

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Spring Cleaning: Remove The Death Piles & Trash!!!

A person in Salem, New Hampshire started a printer recycling business last year, which clearly got out of hand in a hurry. As seen in the video clip below, the waste from this business can be seen all over the backyard.

This is a great reminder to us all, myself included, that as the weather is getting nicer to clean up your death piles AND your trash piles. I started my spring cleaning last week and will probably have a yard sale before trashing or donating what I don’t want to bother listing online.

Officials: Massive trash pile outside Salem, NH home a public health hazard