Items Sold: 19 COGS $96.00 Im keeping track of the number of hours I work using the website clockify to help hold myself accountable and as another metric to track progress. I used to get the majority of our inventory from online auctions. Mostly because the zebra prizms are quite desirable and its Walkers rookie card. Thats where sending to COMC has been really useful. I think its helped that Im listing every day, and I have a huge number (1000+) listings with anywhere from 2 to 20+ watchers. Highest Price Sold: $74.95 Bull Fighting Poster if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write ("&exclude=" + document.MAX_used); I assume you keep the cards that you know will make big money, quickly? Plus, hes not a bad young player. Total Items in Store: 1893 A tube tester is really required if you want to ensure that they are working. Returns: 0. I was formerly in the sciences, so Im all about as much data and analysis as possible. Im also seeing the slowdown in the collectibles market. I have slightly over 3000 cards in my COMC port, and they add more every day since I have a few thousand more cards in the processing queue. I had a good sales day on Feb 3rd also, then nothing. Maybe the right buyer is out there and just hasnt found it yet, but theres also the possibility that the card wont sell until I cut the price dramatically. So thats not nearly as much work on their end. I know modern trading cards and unique media items (books, CDs, DVDs) at an expert level. @craigrex I couldnt resist and ended up buying two lots of cards from the auction. It is a relatively new auction house that has lowish traffic. Miss the sound of your voices! Gross Sales: $763.36 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) My sales have been down since dec. 2021 was so good maybe due to stimulus checks, etc. One of them being the dashboard has a message saying new item specifics will go into effect on 2/22. Sourcing Allotment 12. Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 175 ish Mine came to a screeching halt this week no sales since Friday but I am thankful for it have been busy with other things, My local sales have been awesome but my eBay sales are abysmal. I always figure the only thing that can come of it is eBay blanket removing listings. Did you by a big estates worth of trains? It is often tedious scrolling through thousands of auctions every week looking for the gems and listing errors. I was afraid the cards would get damaged in shipping too. New Listings 55 People are out enjoying the start of spring and not buying junk on ebay. Not sure if it helps or not but impressions and page views have doubled since I started doing it. Still hoping its the usual March downturn. All speculation but I think its a mix of things. Highest Price Sold: $49 4 Mikasa dinner plates https://capitalareatreasures.hibid.com/. I am hopeful that over the next few months, I can continue to feed the COMC pipeline while using my eBay store for the best of the best cards, as well as adding in new listings like small sets or lots which cant be sold on COMC. When we approached Don with the idea of a survey, he said sellers were concerned with the overall ability to be seen on eBay. Total Items in eBay Store: 1061 I think back to those exciting moments of growth that we all got to hear about on this podcast over the years like hiring your first helper (you guys used to model all your clothes for listings!!! Havent had the chance to look through the remainder yet but a quick glance and they are at least in great condition. Glad youre still cranking away in Georgia. if (!document.MAX_used) document.MAX_used = ','; Was it me? Looked like they opened an Antique store in the 1970s and closed the store in the mid 1990s and all thier stuff has been sitting in the barn since. Finish up on taxes. [CDATA[ Depending on the player and quality of card/set, often my copy is the only one available of the particular card on COMC or on eBay. Is there something going on that anyone else notices? Total Sales $567.00 What is most frustrating is that COMC listings are not always optimized. Can you tell us how to refresh old listings please? Returns: 1 (Refunded cuisinart ICE-21 frozen yogurt maker because it arrived damaged) Multiply that by thousands of sellers and millions of cards, and I can see how they have created a sizeable business that keeps growing every year. Number of items listed this week: 38. I hit a physical space limit with my inventory and especially the unlisted stuff a few months ago, so Ive been reducing my inventory over that time by sending 1 or 2 full priority mail boxes every week to sell on consignment. It's the topic of a. Its such a thrill to see my own version of that, and Im so grateful for this community. Yes, I am contacting local places to see if they will test them. One little bend ruins the value. Total items: 8260 It took a little bit of dumb luck, but I found some really unusual items at both sales that I think will sell for nice prices. In addition, Don will discuss the survey results on the. Ill report on that when it happens. In hindsight, it would have been cheaper to pay for FedEx shipping. I have been sending almost all of my unlisted and excess inventory and going through my eBay store for items that have been sitting around for months or years without watchers and ending those listings. Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0 Seems like sales tank every time a seller update is dropped. Because they are such a large company, so many things are automated and its easy to submit a correction. I price the really unusual cards very high and wait for the right buyer and perfect time to sell. Highest Price Sold: $113.95 (Air Jordan 11 retro shoes) Gut Sales Report for the week: Not a great week, but it was ok. Focus for the week : Get items listed. Hope everyone has a good week. Run a store promotion of 5% or higher. First was an empty bottle for Russian vodka. Hopefully others will too. It would be an unbelievable amount of work to list and sell those cards individually on eBay, which is why I have been so easily able to send them so many boxes of cards. I expect the steady sales to continue. Do they ever sell for higher? Nice to see this group is still active. People got their credit card statements for the holiday spending plus you're competing with the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day for people's time/attention/money. It has been a factor in my sales staying relatively steady even as I significantly decreased the number of listings in my store. Thanks for being so generous in sharing your knowledge. Items Sold: 19 About six weeks ago, I decided to spend most of a week scanning and cropping photos to create a nice backlog of about 250 scanned cards where all I had to do from there was create the new listing using one of my templates. Most people got what they wanted for Xmas or immediately afterwards. Who knows, Total Items In Store: 4313 (was 4292 previously listed) Less and less people post numbers each week. I am experiencing the same thing; a sudden, stark downturn in sales beginning about a week ago. There have been days Ive laughed out loud in the store and walked out with nothing, then 2 weeks later I come in and prices are rock bottom. Ill be here as long as someone else keeps posting. I cringe every time I fill in the country of origin part of item specifics. 'https://www.ecommercebytes.com/new_ad_server/www/delivery/ajs.php':'/new_ad_server/www/delivery/ajs.php'); Items Sold 25 The last time I went to one was February LAST year. Members active within the past 24 hours: 12, Most users ever online was 18 on 03/26/2018 6:31 pm, http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2013/10/tube-of-month-ux201a.html, The Andy Clyne Columbia Comedies softcover book, Lonnie Walker zebra prizm rookie card PSA 9, 2019 Panini Chronicles LeBron James base card, Nude handle mug, Tone arm, Atomic floor lamp, Color organ, Realistic stereo. if (document.mmm_fo) document.write ("&mmm_fo=1"); Especially when you have space limitations! Items Sold: 7 eBay, 1 Etsy Basically figuring out which cards are the best ones for the eBay store and send the rest to sell through COMC. COMC will pretty much accept almost any licensed trading cards, but the sites been around for 10 years (maybe longer) so more common junk wax cards, like a 1991 Topps Ken Griffey Jr. have hundreds of copies available and its a race to the bottom in terms of price. COGS Percent 4.42% My eBay life is a lot less complicated now. One of them alone if worth about $160 if it works. Agreed. There are plenty of drawbacks to selling this way. Same goes for modern base cards, even of star players like this 2019 Panini Chronicles LeBron James base card which has hundreds of copies available, most at $2 or less and I doubt most of those will sell unless the seller drops their price to lowest. This week was a bit better but still well below my weekly average for 2021. I may be selling him short as I dont know a ton about him (or anyone) beyond a quick Google and general knowledge of different players. The pandemic has really turned things upside down for us regarding sourcing. I picked up a bunch of Stephen King and Anne Rice Hardcover 1st edition books in great condition at the local goodwill. Both processes completely random and haphazard. I gave the buyer my PayPal email with the refund. Week Ending 3/19/22 Now theyre taking a breather. It felt really great to scratch the itch for true scavenging again, even if it will never be as profitable as the cards have been. I actually made a trip like that maybe 3-4 years ago, when I was building up my store towards the magical 1000 listing mark. Now that Im a few months in, basically every night a few more cards trickle into my account with nice scans. Hopefully along with some traveling this year or next. I bought this card for about $100 a few months ago via auction, since all sold listings of the same type of card were $300 or higher. They get a much bigger audience that way. But, I found a box of mostly old RCA Radiotron tubes. But its annoying to do that over and over again and wait a few days for the corrections. You must be logged in to reply to this topic. I bought it because I know I can sell it for $150+ , usually to a used car dealer. This is why I have Returns: 1 1 = 0 in my numbers above. Nope. Ive been listing a few cards from that backlog every day since then, and every once in a while (like tonight) I add a few dozen more scans to the photo pile. Im still thankful because if it wasnt for those Id have a REALLY bad week! So they sell for higher prices and more quickly than cards with hundreds of copies available. I checked out the process to run a charity auction, and its very easy. I've also seen some talk in facebook groups about search being very wonky past few days and returning strange results. In the best case scenario, it will take me at least 3.5 years to get to 10,000 items. Spent over $300 on new inventory that I hope to get listed this week. Items Sold: 25 I really recommend this to anyone whose sales are slow or who is trying to build up their store. When I first started sending to COMC a few months ago, I only sent a few dozen items at a time and mostly less valuable cards. So its not a perfect outlet for every type of listing by any means. This is the unglamorous part of on line selling. Would I like to pay $1 or less for everything? document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r); Cost of Items Sold: $28 Fee increases, shipping increasesits very hard. Worst case, I send them into COMC if I get bored. McClellan Inc Building, 1012 Texas Ave, What state? But that is nothing compared to the stress of needing the $500 profit from one sale to pay my bills and pay for the next round of new inventory to keep the pipeline flowing. Net Sales: $249.31 Average Price Sold: $47.93 When I used to do flea markets, every other weekend was more busy than the previous weeks and that was because it's a Payday weekend and we were more busy cuz people had more money, so after Christmas I would imagine this is what's going to happen until tax time is relieving some people and giving back refunds. Did eBay bottleneck my sales after a really great day of sales? A friend asked me to list an item for charity, and I wont take a commission. Then I listed a bunch of perfumes. Average hourly salary: $10.64 (net sales divided by hours worked rounded to nearest half hour). Number of items listed this week: 45 '&charset='+document.characterSet : '')); We will publish the results in the aggregate on EcommerceBytes where you can discuss the findings. Total Sales: $176.32 eBay, $24.65 Etsy; Includes fees but no shipping But now a lot of my time this spring and summer will be figuring out the balance between selling on COMC and selling on eBay. Average profit $18.84 Itll be me and you , I just gave the forum a shoutout on reddit so maybe some new folks will stop by. The biggest users have 100,000 cards and some have a million or more. [CDATA[ Gross Sales: $292.60 Just happened to attract sellers who were buying $100+ weird vintage gew gaws, doo dad[See the full post at: he Numbers: March 13-19, 2022]. document.write ("?zoneid=2"); But this was my first real scavenger adventure, and there were enough nice cards in the photos that I knew I would make a nice profit even with all the extra costs of a rental car and gas. Home Forums Podcast Comments The Numbers: March 13-19, 2022, Without doing anything different, we had a great week of sales. Orders: 24 Starting feb 5, my sales have been pretty much zilch. February is slow. Gross Sales: $514 Its a few years old but I think the general process is the same. 10,000 items for me should generate about $100,000 in annual sales and about $6,000\month before taxes at my current rate. It's actually my slowest eBay month each year. Its been a few years since Ive posted on here. offers. 'https://www.ecommercebytes.com/new_ad_server/www/delivery/ajs.php':'/new_ad_server/www/delivery/ajs.php'); I have a few hundred items in books and CD categories that are all at least a few years old. Reading your posts has been motivational. However, there were two bottles of shower gel that I figured were OK for international. Its all really exciting, and almost unbelievable when I think back over the last few years of building up my eBay store. Ive taken the process that Jay and Ryanne preach in the podcast to heart and have modeled much of my own workflow and thoughts to coincide with theirs. I will set them back up for US only, but they can go Priority. But I was pleasantly surprised to see how quickly things sell on there, so Ive gotten much more aggressive with what I send over the last 4-6 weeks. Ill keep posting because it is good accountability for myself. Outrageous! It's possible eBay "did something," but way more likely just an unpleasant lull. If I keep up my normal buying habits, and keep sending in boxes every week, I will probably end up with 10,000 cards in my port by this time next year. I didnt expect to win the auction, but often how I end up with new inventory. With a few exceptions, my numbers have been ramping up each month, which has been really nice to see. COMC handles the sorting, scanning and cataloging, and all I have to do is price the card. Weve gotten into selling new furniture the last couple years and literally this time last year, wed post something at almost retail and a lot of the time these pieces would sell THAT day or even a few hours after posting to Facebook. Average Price Sold: $30.53 This month has been even better. I dislike having to assess and speculate on what issues might causing a problem every time something dramatic happens with my numbers. They dont even touch it. In a few other listings, I took out the word Russia, but left in Soviet. Its funny because if it werent for my space limitations, I never would have considered selling on another platform. A podcast about making a living on eBay. If I have a card listed for $19.99 on eBay, but it can sell for around $8-10 on COMC, and its been listed for 6 months or longer, Ive been sending it in 9 times out of 10. I popped in because I was considering posting weekly numbers, Ill try to start next week. So fascinating to know theres some huge warehouse with tens of millions of cards where collectors are simply buying and the selling the existence of the card. This is one of Walkers rarest prizm (shiny) rookie cards, but its not the most premium set and there are other valuable prizm designs for him like tiger stripes and white sparkles. I live at the border of two different regional goodwill chains. Total Sales: $ 560.05 (no shipping or included) Like this every year. Altho I have not posted numbers for a while, I have been checking in here every week. Average Price Sold: $42 People are seeing crazy inflation too which cant help. In contrast, weve been getting more inventory from estate sales, which used to be the high dollar options. If I can identify the signature, I might have stumbled onto a really desirable item for some fanatic collector and it cost me all of $1. Shoe Horn? Sales have been half of what they were last year. I usually find sale surges tend to follow payday schedules which is mostly middle and last week of the month which spills over a little into the first week of the next month. I just paid $30 for a OEM car radio that I would normally have paid $3 for at a yard sale or even the same goodwill just a few months ago. (In fact, I might just be paying the fee out of my own pocket). @craig thought of you this week when I saw this local auction full of sports cards. Help for buyers and sellers. With all that being said, on to the numbers! Modern cards also come in all different shapes and sizes, and I have been aggressive about sending in larger sized cards like booklet cards since they take up more space. The lot is worth in the $500 range. Because my prices are reasonable, I sell 10 to 20 cards daily and often get to about $100 in sales. They also run weekly eBay auctions (which I frequently buy from) which have additional fees. So still room for us to make money. That is working ok, but not as good as I would expect. Total Items in Store: 1852 Its pretty easy to understand how that accumulation can happen. Money Spent on New Inventory: $7.00, Average Days Listed: 438.67 @Mark-S Ive passed up lots of tubes in the past just because of that. New buyers: 113 Credit Card Sided with Customer but eBay sided with me! Even 3 or 4 new items a day will make an impact on your sales over a series of weeks. Sadly 100+ buyers are absentee and Im getting all the sub $20 buyers. Hey everyone! I have some tubes that I listed untested. var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'? They may sell for half price on COMC but for some items, thats a good sale. I did have one of my best days ever on Feb 3 but now nothing but crickets since the 5th. I won an eBay auction for someones entire collection. But I dont sweat that stuff much. Total Profit $471.00 document.write ("&loc=" + escape(window.location)); Net sales: $194.65, Gross sales total: $1,682.71 Here is a link to a descritpion of that tube: http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2013/10/tube-of-month-ux201a.html. The risk is that you just bought someones saved bad, replaced tubes. So thats the plan for this spring and summer. Maybe there are more like me. Is it something with eBay? document.write (document.charset ? I have been going through my stores inventory and pulling out older listings without any watchers or offers. Its amazing to dream bigger than that. var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'? I always get a nice boost around tax return season that offsets the slow month. Listing 2022 weekly Avg 58 if (document.referrer) document.write ("&referer=" + escape(document.referrer)); '&charset='+document.characterSet : '')); I am in New Jersey, so this would be quite a drive for me even if it wasnt mostly stuff from the junk wax era of 1980s and early 90s that isnt worth all that much. I dont put much stock on impressions but I do like page viewsmore eyes more possible sales. It wasnt as large as most huge collection purchases, maybe 4-5 boxes worth which is a few thousand cards. My sold price was less than I was hoping for, especially after priority shipping to the Czech Republic which cost me a pretty penny. document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r); It was taken down because there is now an embargo against the country. Maybe, but thats not my game. Do they have standards for what you can send in? This is my only source of income so that would be a huge problem. The buyer promptly re-paid me! We'll also be working with additional collaborators. Earlier in the week, I refunded a buyer for a package that got stuck in a USPS black hole since the end of February. The beauty of the site from a collectors standpoint is that you can hold your cards and ship them to you once you accumulate dozens or even hundreds, instead of buying one or two at a time. Gross sales: $1,453.71 I have a lot of reading to get caught up on this week and Im really excited for it. Trash to Cash. bottom line that I live by though cogs is meaningless if the margin is good. I dont pay a ton of attention to the nitty gritty details about how they operate, but I know Ive read that they have some automated sorting machines involved in the process. Many of them sold, but some have just sat in boxes for a few years. Total Items in Store: 1471 eBay, 37 Etsy Its much more expensive to sell on than eBay, a minimum $0.50 to process each card, plus a percentage when it sells, and there are a lot of add-on fees for items like graded cards. Happens every year, Also seems worse because December is so nuts. I think I lucked out on the prism cards as one of them is a David Robinson that I have found recent solids in the $80s. This reminds me of the companies that would list peoples excess clothes for a cut of the action. And, Ill be posting on Steves video each week and occasionally yelling at others to wake up and post!!. Thanks to Don for collaborating with us on the first of what we hope will lead to many vibrant discussions about selling online - tell us what you'd like to see. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Paid $37.50 for all. The processing can take a few months unless you want to pay $1 or more per card. Also, you can only list individual cards on COMC, not large lots or sets. Even more likely for this to happen in February when does are already very low. In addition to the users on the site, a few times each day someone on eBay will buy one of my cards under the comc_consignment eBay ID which has 500,000+ feedback. Makes margins too thin for me. My antique booth did terribly this week so I think maybe people are just getting out in their yards and doing springtime activities instead of shopping on eBay. Ive only got one number to report. watchers and has received 25 (!!) From the US market, I believe it is a combination of factors that are resulting in the consumer having less spending power. Im also planning on attending a live auction next Sunday. Maybe Id be doing just as well on eBay completely on my own, but more likely Id be working some job that I hate and living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to find the time or energy to supplement that with eBay. Your initial investment is low, so even paying $5 to have someone test it would be worth it for a tube that will sell for $500. And there is also a seasonal effect. I have another check in the same amount coming in the next few weeks, plus thousands of items listed and thousands more in the queue to be listed. Cost of Items Sold: $46 Thoughts for the week: Sales are not great, but ok. I bet a number of the top buyers make their living buying and repricing on COMC, considering how often they are buying my listings and Im a pretty small fish in terms of the big ocean of sellers. Now, its crazy how slow furniture sales are. Not sure where you are but might be worth your look if you are within driving distance of Alexandria, VA. The card just lives on a shelf in a warehouse waiting to be resold. Well, little did I know that these tubes were from the 1920s. Items Sold eBay: 7 These days most things I target are going for 30 70%, or more, of what Im willing to pay for them. His package suddenly reappeared at the end of the week and was delivered. Eventually someone will purchase it at my buy it now price or close to it. One lot of about 20 prism cards and another lot of 5000 that gave no indication of what was inside. Net sales: $1,038.01 I guess it makes sense with the fear of the virus. I appreciate the tip. But I have always wanted to learn about and sell other types of items, and I am finally in a place financially where I can experiment and its okay if it doesnt lead to huge profits immediately. This is why I thought doing it all by human hand would not make it worth selling $2 cards. if (document.mmm_fo) document.write ("&mmm_fo=1"); And that is the rub, I have to get them tested. Sometimes I romanticize those early days. Still new to the game so the fact we are getting consistent daily sales, albeit low numbers, is a win for us, I promote a few items every day and throw a few up on twitter. Your assumption is correct. document.write (document.charset ? document.write ("&loc=" + escape(window.location)); This business is an emotional rollercoaster sometimes. This will allow me to figure out new ways to expand my eBay store while also giving me more time back. This wasnt quite my lowest sale of the week, but for the purposes of this post Im going to pretend it is because it made me happy to sell a book. This one sale explains a lot about the modern card market. Returns: 0 Both regions prices have been swinging WILDLY the last year. This sale made me so happy that I took the plunge and drove to two library sales last week. There are dozens of new sets in every sport each year, and modern cards with unique serial numbers and the chase for the top hit insert or rookie have been going on to some degree since the late 1990s. This topic has 29 replies, 12 voices, and was last updated. And on items getting lots of views and likes on other platforms. My electronics background interest was engaged, and on a hunch, I bought the box for about $1. I have come across an occasional tube tester for sale and have considered buying one just because of that. Number of items listed: 40. Spent a good portion of the week finishing taxes.
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