Moving Right Along

Last Monday my listings were at about 454. Right now I am up to about 480 give or take. Planning to surpass 500 this week and attempt to get ready for the fourth quarter. My weekly numbers are at end of post.

 

Here are a few things that sold this week. Fire King Jadeite grease jar,salt and pepper set. This is from my personal collection. I use to have an abnormal obsession with all things Fire King.

 

Listed for 200.00 ( probably about two years) on sale for $180.00,accepted best offer of $150.00 buyer paid shipping. I paid more for the set YEARS ago when Jadite Fire King was the rage. It's time to let it go and move on.

 

I always pick up Amber colored glass. These were two heavy goblets, I think I paid $1.99 for the pair. Sold for $26.99 buyer paid shipping.

 

These are a recent purchase from Goodwill. $2.99 for the pair. Sold for $20.69 buyer paid shipping to Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

Six Flags Texas Giant mug with 22k gold by Culver. Paid .99 and sold for $14.99 the same day it was listed. Buyer paid shipping.

 

 

 

Goodwill had a plastic zipper bag of 16 pairs of pantyhose for $1.99. I picked it up last week and already one pair sold for 10.50 buyer paid shipping.

 

 

There were several pairs of Victoria Secret Panty hose in the bag, almost all of them have watchers. Makes you wonder why people are "watching" pantyhose.

 

This is a pic of me and Peyton. Peyton was hit by a car which broke his leg. Right before we could get him scheduled for surgery as he came down with Parvo which is a deadly virus if not treated.

 

He was treated for 10 days and is doing well. He is using his brok leg which has kinda healed. It may be too late to fix it now. But, he has a loving family that will take great care of him!

 

If you visit my store, you will see some of my listings benefit LEASH INC, ( throughout eBay giving works) a non profit very dear to my heart.

 

I invite you to help shelter dogs by selecting LEASH INC through eBay giving works. The funds raised help dogs like Peyton. At the very least, can you make it one of your favorites?

 

LEASH INC also sells on eBay under the name weloveshelterpets.

 

 

Sales last week:

$350.00

Items sold 9

Average selling price $39.00 ( the fire king sale kinda skewed those numbers)

 

• How was your week??
  

 

 

Money Monday: A Slight Improvement

Last week was definitely a little busier on eBay. There were sales almost daily. Woo Hoo! That has not happened in a long time.



I was hoping to get my listing up past 600 this last week but that did not happen. What I did work on was my bookkeeping. For the last four months all I have done was collect receipts and write down mileage. It took me about two afternoons to get it all together. I hate bookkeeping :)
But Lorraine at Clamco inspired me to get it together. Here is her post on how she keeps track of her numbers. I fell so much better about that. Whew!!

Here are a couple of my sales from last week:

I saw on one of the Facebook groups that this cooler could be profitable. I paid $4.99 and it sold for $37.19, shipping paid by customer.

 

I paid 0.99 cents for each mug. The pair of these Disney mugs sold for $89.99 f/s

I was running a sale in my store,the original price was $99.99.

 

 

Here are the numbers for last week:
Active listings: 579 (574-last week)

Cost of items sold: $20.00
Number of sales: 15
Total sales: 500.00

Amount spent on new inventory : $25.00
Average selling price: $33.00

International sales:1
Returns:0
Feedback: all positive this week

I am still listing my Fire King collection. I hope to get most of the jadeite listed this week. It will be a relief to get it all listed. I never realized how much I had accumulated.

 

Hope your weekly profits were awesome!

 

Working on eBay Store Categories

The last two days, I have been working on my store categories and making subcategories. I pretty much have my women's wear category where I want it. It has the following sub-categories or (level 2) categories.

 

I am pretty happy with the Women's Wear Category for now.

	Category: All Categories > Women's Wear

Select all categories	Category (level 2)	# of Subcategories
	Category name: Blouses Shirts	0
	Category name: Dresses Skirts	0
	Category name: Pants	0
	Category name: Purses	0
	Category name: Shoes	0
	Category name: Lingerie	0
	Category name: Plus Size	0
	Category name: Scarves	0

 

 

What I am working on now is the mug cup category. I love to buy and sell coffee cups and mugs! No real reason why, I am just drawn to them.

 

Here is a list of my mug categories:

 

So far I have about 149 mugs listed. There were some auctions that recently finished, most of which were mugs. The pictures of them are really crappy, so will be taking "new" and hopefully better pictures of them.

They will be relisted. Again. Having to re-take photos will put me behind in increasing my listings. But that is okay. There are more listings that need to have better pictures besides just my mugs.

 

I have been listing my Fire King Collection. I have tons of it. Talk about OCD! I had to have every piece of that stuff!

When my mom passed, she had so much glassware that she collected,the prospect of selling it overwhelmed me. I ended up donating it all to Goodwill. So, I am trying to NOT burden my family with all my Fire King. And I can spend that money now :-)

 

Here is a screen shot of some of the Fire King I have listed. The plates are multiples. Some styles have 15 plates, some have 6, and so on. So one listing pretty much take care of it.

Some of the listings are best off, and some are not. I think by Christmas it will all be gone. Fingers crossed!

 

Time to take more pictures......

Hay Thrifting!