Although our new year didn’t start with a huge bang, it was a definite improvement over January 2018. (In case you weren’t around, we had an unwarranted 3-day suspension on eBay that lasted from January 1st to the 3rd…) Sales were up around 10% from last year at this time, which is probably a testament …
If I could choose one of my major character flaws, it would be that I read too many books. Not that reading is a bad thing…but I tend to gather dozens of self-help books on my nightstand and my bookshelf. When I am in a funk or am solving a problem, I am much more …
We looked through our eBay Solds at the end of 2018 and did some heavy figuring. What we found out was, while 2/3 of our store was made up of clothing, 2/3 of our sales were made up of hardgoods. Our non-clothing items had twice the sell-through rate! While hardgoods take more skill and are …
During our first year on eBay, we had 1,048 sales. eBay quickly evolved from a way to get rid of a few things around the house to a part-time business which makes us more than my full-time job! The road hasn’t been smooth, however – during the past year we’ve had huge sales, slow times, …
At any given time we have $60-100k of inventory sitting in our eBay store. We can also find as much inventory as we have money for. The main bottleneck to growing our reselling business is simply how long it takes for things to sell. If all of our items would sell twice as fast we …
While we highly encourage you to document your hustles because it can keep you accountable, don’t get so caught up documenting the journey that you forget the journey itself! Oh and by the way, this article felt a bit odd to write because, while we know everyone’s names and stories here, were pretty much just …
Sometimes we don’t want to thrift. For as much fun as the hunt can be, grubbing through another rack of clothes or elbowing my way past some neckbeards to look at some crappy electronics does get old. At times like this, we do what every reseller should do, we source products on eBay! If you’re an …
2021 Update Since the release of eBay’s 2018 Seller’s Update, the RSS Feed Reset option has disappeared for sellers. It was expected but still a bit of a blow when it finally happened. We say “disappeared”, but the reality is, the only thing that disappeared is the ability of sellers to see and manually refresh their …
We were shocked a few days ago to receive an email from eBay telling us that the “Guides” section of their website would soon be taken down. The Guides section has long been used by buyers to give information to both eBay buyers and sellers and to drive traffic to their listings. At the time …
ResellingRevealed: Different items have vastly differing popularity in areas of the country. In our neck of the woods, Lilly Pulitzer is as rare as hen’s teeth. In all the time we have been thrifting, I can count on one hand the number of Lilly Pulitzer items we have found at thrift stores. To add insult …