Posting like there’s no tomorrow!

Well, when I decided to get back into EBay sales after my time off I jumped in with both feet!

I posted around 25 items tomorrow and today reorganized my storage system. We live in a 1400 square foot home, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths and no place for EBay stuff!

This might be a good thing because it keeps me in check…sort of. Kinda. Not really at all.

Our spare room is our catch all for…well, everything. It is my husband’s office/ spare room/ coat closet and the-room-with-the-closet-I-keep-my-vacuum in.

My office is in the master bedroom where I keep the whole room in a natural disaster state. But I’m trying to figure out a way to fix that.

Here’s what I did. I went dumpster diving.

Ok, I didn’t QUITE look like that but I needed boxes. Boxes that were uniform size. And free. Definitely free. Did you know that behind many stores they have these dumpsters for ONLY cardboard. I guess they recycle them. I HOPE they recycle them. Because that would mean I’m pulling them out of the dumpster to use them for what they were put in the dumpster for in the first place! I think.

I found a bunch of boxes all the same size. And after filling up a couple of them with unsellable junk I started organizing the sellable stuff. First I have a 18 gallon tote for the stuff not listed. That is in my office. In our spare room/ office/vacuum/coat closet room I have this behind the multipurpose closet door:

 

Then I put the rest in these:

First off: I’ve never been in Ulta. But I have been in their cardboard dumpster several times.

Now, I know you are probably thinking, Uk! I wouldn’t want that in my house! Well, This is better than having them strewn all over or shoved in a closet like they were. Now when something sells I can just pull out which box it is in and stick it in the crate on top. (Who wants to bet the next thing that sells is pants? All the way on the bottom. Yea, haven’t figured out everything yet!)

Now I still don’t know what to do with the stuff that doesn’t sell. I guess I need to have a box for the its-just-not-selling-and-needs-to-get-out-of-my-house stuff. I’ll work on that. Maybe it will just all sell and I don’t have to worry about it.

Also I have a rubber tote of all the summer stuff I need to probably put in boxes til it is in season. But I’m pretty much out of boxes right now. I didn’t set my sites high enough I guess.

On another note I can’t decide if this looks like I sell a lot or very little on Ebay. I guess it depends on how full those boxes are. Hmmm…

If you have a way to organize your Ebay stuff or anything you sell online let me know! I’d love ideas so if this doesn’t work out I have a back up plan!

I’d love to have an EBAY ROOM like Kelly with My Dear Trash.

Maybe someday!!

My “Full Price” experiment.

I recently tried an experiment on buying clothing. I found a wrap dress, very popular this summer, that wasn’t on sell

 

BANANA REPUBLIC WRAP DRESS SIZE 4 COTTON DRESS BROWN PAISLEY Sold for 10.48 + $6.95=$17.43

Not bad but when I took the $6.98 I paid for the dress out and shipping and fees my total was only $5.29.

Buying at the lowest price seems like it would have worked better in this case.

However I will take the 5 bucks I made!

Here is an item I paid $.99 for. I know it isn’t the same article of clothing by any stretch but bare with me.

Lija size Med Pink golf skirt with ruffle in back. Tennis skirt.

Sold for $12.59 plus $4.75 shipping. Made me $14.09 after cost were taken out!

Ahhh, that’s better!

 

Surprise high bid items!

 

You can sell anything on Ebay. Anything. We all know this. But with the recent 150 free items to list I put this theory to the test!

Here is what happened:

 

This is a “super cloth” I picked up at a garage sale for less than $1. I really don’t remember. I sold it today for a total of $11. Yay me!

I purchased a few Monopoly games for $.45 each and this is the money from one of them. A guy in Canada paid $6.50 for this little pile!

These train set pieces also came in a $.45 cent bag. I’ve made my money back about 50 times with that bag! Sold for: $5.26.

Now, I know this doesn’t mean I’m making hundred’s of dollars worth of stuff sold but each little item gets shipped out my door it means two things.

• I just made some money
• I just got rid of something

Both are a huge success. If I sold it than that usually means I did a good job buying it! Or at least made my money back!

 

 

Colored Capri's: Hot item!

 

One thing I have found to keep my eye open for is brightly colored Capri's. They sell very well! Here are a few of my sells.

I just listed this one and already have watchers on it.

Women's New York & Co Teal size 8 Capri's.= $6.99

 Chico's Orange Slack Capri's size 1 (Small) =$4.99

 

People went crazy over these next one’s the original bidder wrote asking for more pictures. I was concerned about getting the write color to show up and she was super thrilled with the extra pictures. She ended up winning it and was so excited she left me feedback before I even had a chance to ship it (Later that day!) She was a great buyer!

Women's Jones New York Signature size 14 Capri's = $10.01

These are not a bright color but they still did alright. Capri's are definitely in right now and cheap to ship!

Chico's pale yellow cropped pants. Size 3 (Large)= $7.50

Good seller! Lands End Clothing

 

  Lands End is one of those item’s I wasn’t sure would sell well.  I grew up with Lands End being a super swimsuit store to buy from because of all their options. I guess they still are!

If you ever see any swim wear from them and it is a good price snatch it up! Here are some of my summer sells from Lands End. I purchased each for $1: 

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 Women Lands End Size 10 Peach/pink one piece Swimsuit. Buy it now $14

I searched before I posted this swim suit and didn’t find any amazing swim suit prices so I put it for $6.99 with $14 buy it now price, then went to bed. By the next morning it had sold for $14 with $5 shipping. Lands End can cost from $50-100 per suit and so I’m hoping someone was a tickled to get this for $20 as I was to sell it for that! I made about $9 on it total after fees and all. Happy with that!

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Lands End size 15 Swim skirt Pink with design- $8

I got this one because the tennis skirts go so well. This was my first Lands End to ever sell. I think the size 15 helped it sell as well.

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Lands End clothing hasn’t sold too well for me. Even linen stuff. But I got this Lands End dress on sell for 99 cents and decided to risk it since I know a few ladies that wear dresses like this all the time. I listed it for $4.99 and it bid up to $10.51! I made $9.92 off this dress (happy with that!) after fees and shipping. I will be buying these dresses from now on!

Woman's blue T-shirt Dress Lands End size M/P (10-12) $10.51

Best Brands and Prices.

In an effort to sell more and have more knowledge of what sells the best, I’ve made a spread sheet of my best Ebay clothing sells in the last few months.

I’m going to try to keep this up so I know what brand sell, how much they sell for, and what to look for, though I know the later changes with the seasons.

This might not make any more sense to you that the saying “A hill of beans!” But basically what it tells me is that my best sellers are Old Navy and Ann Taylor. These brands not only have sold more but also this means they are the easiest to continually get at the places I shop. Since starting this spreadsheet I’ve been trying to grab up more Old Navy because I’ve realized that sells really well for me. Other resellers have said that Chico sells super well for them and though I have no complaints, they tend to sit on my shelf for a period of time before they sell. (Although I’m going to be looking for Chico Platinum jean Capris, because those were popular!)

I also know American Eagle and Banana Republic sell well for me, but according to this sheet they don’t sell for enough to make it to the sheet! Nor are they as easy to find.

Plaid seems to do well also. I’m going to keep my eye out for name brand plaid, but I’ll be careful because of the weather changing and never having sold this time of year before I’m not sure what everything will be like!

This weeks sales!

Ebay is really starting to pick up for me. Which is a great season of life for it to do that!

Here are some of my top sells:

Woman's Venezia size 16 orange cropped pants/ capris

I made $11.45 off these bright Capris! (That is after all fees are paid and shipping is paid)

Girl's Old Navy Size 12 Jean overalls.

I netted $11 on these overalls as well. These are the first overalls I’ve sold in state! They were in a bidding war with someone from Australia.

Women's Old Navy Low waist, Camo - cargo Shorts size 4.

Got an email on these shorts that the person had missed the bed and would I sell them again. I posted them again with a buy it now price and they snatched them up! Netted $9.14 on these!

I’m noticing that Lane Bryant seems to be easy for me to buy and easy to sell. Like these:

Woman's Lane Bryant 14/16 pinstriped black slacks.

Netted $11.45

Long pants always do well. (Even if your kids walk across the pant legs right before you take a picture!)

Woman's Express 12 Long Black slacks

Made about $9 on these long pants!!

I had a “wild card” in the mix. These bright pink pants that I thought if I didn’t sell would drive me nuts! (not a pink fan here!)

New York & Co size 12 Pink Capris/ Cropped Pants

They sold for the buy it now price! Made: $11.27!

Last week Stats:

Total in sales: $158

Total Expenses: $13

Shipping cost:$ 53.81

Ebay Fees: $6.93

Paypal fees: $9.25

Total Profit $75.91!