SPRING BREAK! Sales Update 3/1-3/9

Today is the beginning of Spring Break for us college kids! I know I don't have too many classes, but I am very excited that I don't have to worry about writing any papers or taking any quizzes for a while! This week will solely focus on listing and thrifting as well as planting a few seeds in the greenhouse. (Hurry up SPRING! We're tired of the snow!!)

March is starting out GREAT for me! I've only had one unpaid item case to open, but besides that, I've had almost $200 in sales! I'm working towards making $100 in sales PER DAY! Wouldn't that be nice?! I'm hoping if I bust my butt this week and get everything I've been hoarding over the last year listed, my sales will jump! I've noticed that the more I list, the more I sell, so if that trend continues, it should definitely help me out!

I've sold 15 items since the beginning of March:

4 tubes of Covergirl makeup for a best offer of - $22 free shipping
2 tubes of Covergirl makeup - $15.90 - free shipping

I hope I can find another makeup deal at the yardsales this year! We have done AMAZING with that investment!

I'm not sure where I picked these hooks up at.. I know they were $1.95 because they still had the Goodwill sticker on them! My mom may have bought them for me.. They sold for a best offer of $15 +shipping.

 

I found this Vera Bradley ID wallet at the Goodwill for $1.50, it sold within a day for $12.99 +shipping.



 

This Ralph Lauren shirt was picked up last year when I had just started selling, so I took a best offer of $10 +shipping to get rid of it. I think I paid around $2.50 for it. 

 Mom picked up this Walt Disney World tote bag at a yardsale for $0.50, and it sold for $12.95 +shipping. I have GREAT luck with anything Disney related.

 This antique cars tie was found at the Goodwill Outlet, so I probably paid around $0.10 or so for it. It sold at auction for $5 +shipping.  I was hoping it would go for more. Oh well!

 I've had these pants FOREVER, but I never got around to listing them until last week. I paid $0.10 for them at a yardsale, and they sold for $12.95 +shipping to Canada.

 These pink capris were my moms, I took a best offer of $7.50 +shipping.

 My grandma picked this butterfly Jell-O mold up at the yardsale for me, and it sold for $18 +free shipping. I was very shocked it sold for so much! I see these things EVERYWHERE!

This cap was picked up at the Goodwill Outlet, and sold at auction for $10 +shipping.

 Here's another cap I picked up at the Outlet! It sold for $20 +shipping! Baseball caps are something I will now be looking for at yardsales! Easy to store, easy to ship, and they're always dirt cheap at sales!

 I'm STILL selling ornaments from my haul last year! I'm sure I've made more than ten times my money on my initial $30 investment on these! I have around 20 or so left. This one sold for $14.95 +shipping.  

Finally, another Goodwill Outlet find. I LOVE finding board games, probably because I like to play them before I sell them. This one sold for a best offer of $7 +shipping.  This may seem like a low price point for some of you larger sellers, but I am happy with any profit I can get! Every dollar helps pay a bill!

Thanks for reading everyone! I hope your March is starting out as great as mine is!
~Nandry

End of the Month Sales Update and a Happy Birthday to ME!

Hey everyone! I'm back, on my birthday, to share a quick end of the month sales update with you all!
This months sales were pretty decent. I'm working on tallying up my final profits right now, but on eBay, it says my total sales for this month ended up being around $590 before shipping and fees.
I sold a total of 33 items this month.
That averages out to around $18 an item! I'm getting closer to my $20 average!

Here's my biggest sale for the month!

 

I picked up this vintage Panasonic flip clock for $0.50 and it sold for $75 +shipping within 2 weeks of listing! That's been my best flip in a while!

 

This month is starting out strong! 6 sales and 2 bids so far! I hope it's the best yet!

 

That's all for today guys! I'm going to get back to my listing! (I got a free listing promotion on my birthday! What a coincidence!)

Have a WONDERFUL rest of the week! I'll be back soon with another post!  

~Nandry

Using Social Media to Promote Sales

Hey everyone! I'm back a day early, by request, to share a few tips on promoting your listings via social media.

I use social media to promote ALL of my listings. This instantly gets you 20-30 more views, and most of the time, it leads to more sales.

I use two sites to promote my listings. Twitter and Pinterest.

Okay, first thing's first. If you don't have a Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest account, you need to create one!
Register for Twitter HERE!
Register for Pinterest HERE!
Register for Facebook HERE!

I do NOT suggest using your own personal account for promoting your eBay business. Make a new account just for eBay, Etsy, Amazon, Bonanza, or whatever other selling platform you use. This helps customers find you and follow your active items, instead of seeing the pictures of your cat and your grandma's 80th birthday party!

After registering, find some people with common interests to follow. They will more than likely follow you back and help you gain even more followers.

Then, we need to find an active listing. Pick something from your active listings page that has a small amount of watchers/views.

 

 

After you click on it, your listing should come up, and you will see, on the right hand side the 4 share buttons. You can choose between: email, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.

 



You now have to decide which platform you want to share this listing on first. I am going to pick Twitter, because it seems to get the most traffic to my listing.

After clicking the blue Twitter button, a page like this should pop up.

All of the keywords in the title along with the link to your listing will show up. This is all fine and dandy, but to get the most exposure and more traffic to your listing, you're going to have to insert some hashtags. For those of you who are like me and are not very tech savvy (yet)!  This is a hashtag ---> # .
The hashtag will make each keyword that you put it in front of searchable via Twitter. In this listing I will add the hashtag to the words: #FifaWorldCup, #Soccer, and #snapback. Sometimes eBay will go ahead and add a few hashtags for you, like it did for me above for #Germany.

After adding all your hashtags, click the blue Tweet button. Your tweet will then be viewable to millions of people, and the views on your eBay listing will increase almost instantly!

You can use the same process for Facebook or Pinterest. I find that Pinterest takes a long time to drive traffic to my listings. So I prefer Twitter, but I am slowly building my Pinterest fan base. I have yet to branch out to Facebook, but I am looking into it!

I hope this how-to post has helped you, and if you already knew all this  information, thanks for reading anyways! If you have anything to add, please feel free to email me via the contact form on the right side of the page, or comment below!
Also, if you have any questions, you can email me or post below as well.

Follow me on Twitter HERE!
Follow me on Pinterest HERE!

~Nandry

2,500 Free Listings!

I got my wish! 2,500 free listings from the 22nd-26th! I hope you all got the offer as well! I've used 318 of the free listings so far and I'm still at it!

Have a great few days listing if you got the promo! I'll be back with a sale update Tuesday!
~Nandry

Winter Storm and Sales Update 2/11 - 2/19

I hope you all are staying warm and toasty this week! We've been hit by the winter storm Octavia, and have the most snow that we've probably had in a very long time! We have layers of snow and ice adding up to around 8 inches! College has been cancelled all week, so me, my laptop, and my two house dogs have been bundled up on the couch enjoying Netflix and some occasional eBay listing.

We didn't get to go to the estate auction on Valentine's day last Saturday because of the cold and snow.. My friends up north told us it wasn't a good auction anyways. Oh well. Instead! Our Valentine's Day was spent at home eating pizza and watching movies, anticipating this snowstorm.

My mom's not been to work any this week (until today), so she's been my photographer the past few days. I had over 50 ties and some other items that needed pictures taken, and she got it all done! Needless to say, I'm now very much behind on my listing.

I have listed around 20 items this week, bringing my total to 416 active listings.
Since my last post, I've sold 10 items, totaling around $166 this week before fees. Still not hardly the amount I want, but then again, I'm not constantly listing, sourcing, and I don't have +a lot of high dollar items. Most of my items range from $5-$30. I'm working on that though.

Here's the highlights of this weeks sales:

I am STILL selling Hallmark ornaments!  I probably have around 20-30 left to sell. This miniature ornament (around the size of my thumb) sold for 14.95 +free shipping. I think each ornament cost me an average of $0.64.

 

 Microwave plates are consistent sellers for me. I pick them up for around $1-$2 and this one sold for $16.33 +shipping.

 

I thought this was the CUTEST set of shower hooks! I picked them up for $1, broke two of them, then sold the set of 10 for a best offer of $11 +shipping.

 

This purse is trouble waiting to happen...

I picked this Mossy Oak bag up at the Goodwill Outlet. The day I listed it, it sold within a few hours. Once it sold, I then realized the zipper was broken off inside the bag... I took a picture of the broken zipper but I didn't put that in the description... I have messaged the buyer THREE times with no response.. I shipped the bag today, and we will see how long it takes for them to open a case..  Sold for $20 +shipping. 

 

This lot of brand new scrap booking paper was picked up at the Goodwill Outlet as well! I paid around $4 (I think) It was $0.59/pound. Sold at auction for $51 +shipping! Who knew?? 

I picked this stein up last summer for $1. It finally sold after being posted on Twitter for $18 +shipping. 

(I am a STRONG believer in promoting your listings via social media! The last three things I've sold were tweeted prior to selling! Follow me on Twitter HERE and on pinterest HERE)

 

That's it for me this week! I hope you all are staying warm!

Thanks for reading!

~Nandry

 

 

Since I've not posted an Adsense update in a while, here it is!

I'm up to $33.76. I'm slowly making progress! Thanks to everyone who has helped me get that much!

 



Lucky in Love Pyrex and Valentine's Day Plans

We all hope that one day we will find something at a junk sale and make a million. At least I know I want that to happen! Here's an auction that is currently active on eBay. It has two days left. The bid was started out at $39.99. So I'm thinking this person didn't know what they had. Here's the link to check out the auction! CLICK HERE.

I personally think this pattern is super cute! I read somewhere that this pattern was a proto-type and never was released for sale.

This weekend is Valentine's Day! Of course, my Valentine's Day will be spent with my boyfriend and family at an absolute estate auction sourcing for eBay! The perfect date! What about you all? Will you be thrifting this Valentine's Day??

~Nandry

Sales Update 2/3-2/10

I'm back again with yet another sales update! Seems like that is all I've been posting lately.. I'll try and finish up my BOLO list sometime this week or next.
I hope you all are having a GREAT sales week! My week is going pretty well. I've had a total of 8 sales this week for a total amount of $128 before fees. Nothing major, but since I've not listed anything in a few weeks, I'm happy with that amount.
My new goal is to list at least 5 things a day. I spent tonight looking up all my unlisted inventory, and I figured up that I had $1,200 sitting on my shelf, not counting the clothes! So I've got to get to listing!

Here's what I sold!

2 tubes of 315 Covergirl Makeup - $7.95 each
Mickey Mouse Hallmark ornament - $7 +shipping

My mom picked this ornament up for $1. I sold it for a best offer of $6 +shipping to Hungary

 

I thought about keeping this cake pan for my dad's 50th birthday this year, but instead sold it for $10 +free shipping.

 

My aunt picked this digital photo frame up for $4 at Goodwill, it sold for $20 +shipping to Canada.

 

This is another of me and Derek's finds. We picked this textbook up for a quarter, and it sold for $20 +shipping.

Mom picked this needlework kit up at the Goodwill for $2. It finally sold for a best offer of $30 +Shipping. 

 

That's it for my sales this week! Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful rest of the week!

~Nandry