Thrift Shop Pickups

[ajlaxmn]

Anyone with any experience with liquidation.com or any bulk pallet buying? Thinking about trying liquidation.com not just as a result of no thrift stores, but also to increase revenue.

Seriously looking at this but wanted to check to see if there were any experienced members on here.

Thanks.


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[Crisscross4767]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

Ollies is one of my favorite spots for this I just go in with my phone and scan barcodes and find a few things every trip. Some of the best areas are their books and toys. They sell a lot of limited run foods as well that do good.

Only problem is alot of their locations are in crappy internet spots. At least in my area.

[shanks25]

Wife and were talking. Don't you all think there will be a flood of items to purchase when this current pandemic ends? Everyone naturally does their annual 'spring cleaning.' Only this year, everyone has been stuck at home with nothing better to do but clean stuff out they've been meaning to do for years now. I can see a huge amount of garage sales and stuff donated to Goodwills, thrift stores, etc.

We seem to do our best at garage / yard sales. With that said, there are two classifications of garage sales around here.

1) People truly wanting to get rid of stuff

2) people trying to make money

#1 is obviously preferable. The #2 people can be laughable with their prices.

[AlexHunter]

Originally Posted by shanks25

Wife and were talking. Don't you all think there will be a flood of items to purchase when this current pandemic ends? Everyone naturally does their annual 'spring cleaning.' Only this year, everyone has been stuck at home with nothing better to do but clean stuff out they've been meaning to do for years now. I can see a huge amount of garage sales and stuff donated to Goodwills, thrift stores, etc.

We seem to do our best at garage / yard sales. With that said, there are two classifications of garage sales around here.

1) People truly wanting to get rid of stuff

2) people trying to make money

#1 is obviously preferable. The #2 people can be laughable with their prices.

I’ve been thinking about this and salivating at what the thrift stores are gonna have. Not only are they gonna get BOMBARDED with donations, they all have their death piles and back rooms full of stuff- I know the goodwills here are already stuffed to the brims in the back rooms of every store.

Hopefully it also makes thrift stores have to toss some crappy stuff since they are loaded with good stuff.


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[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by AlexHunter

I’ve been thinking about this and salivating at what the thrift stores are gonna have. Not only are they gonna get BOMBARDED with donations, they all have their death piles and back rooms full of stuff- I know the goodwills here are already stuffed to the brims in the back rooms of every store.

Hopefully it also makes thrift stores have to toss some crappy stuff since they are loaded with good stuff.


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I have been posting ads on Facebook with what I am looking for and so far only a few pickups. I expect in a week or 2 when people start thinking about next months bills things may start to change.

[ajlaxmn]

Folks, 25 lb dumbbells are gold right now. Can’t believe what they sell for $150+ should fit fine in large flat rate I think.


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[AlexHunter]

Originally Posted by ajlaxmn

Folks, 25 lb dumbbells are gold right now. Can’t believe what they sell for $150+ should fit fine in large flat rate I think.


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Jesus that’s insane lol


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[AlexHunter]

Did anyone else get the 50,000 additional fixed price listings offer for the month of April?? I couldn’t even fill up 5,000 listings if I wanted to.


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[Cavaliercards]

Originally Posted by AlexHunter

I’ve been thinking about this and salivating at what the thrift stores are gonna have. Not only are they gonna get BOMBARDED with donations, they all have their death piles and back rooms full of stuff- I know the goodwills here are already stuffed to the brims in the back rooms of every store.

Hopefully it also makes thrift stores have to toss some crappy stuff since they are loaded with good stuff.


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Lot of Goodwill Corporates are telling stores to send stuff to their e-commerce sites and get it up to make up for some lost money

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by AlexHunter

Did anyone else get the 50,000 additional fixed price listings offer for the month of April?? I couldn’t even fill up 5,000 listings if I wanted to.


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I got 100K

[Niels50]

Originally Posted by shanks25

Wife and were talking. Don't you all think there will be a flood of items to purchase when this current pandemic ends? Everyone naturally does their annual 'spring cleaning.' Only this year, everyone has been stuck at home with nothing better to do but clean stuff out they've been meaning to do for years now. I can see a huge amount of garage sales and stuff donated to Goodwills, thrift stores, etc.

We seem to do our best at garage / yard sales. With that said, there are two classifications of garage sales around here.

1) People truly wanting to get rid of stuff

2) people trying to make money

#1 is obviously preferable. The #2 people can be laughable with their prices.

I have been thinking the same thing. Also, I feel like your description of garage sales is how it is all over the country, lol.

[AlexHunter]

I ended all my listings and reposted them since I have so many might as well refresh saved searches and algorithms and whatnot


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[aggies1960]

Originally Posted by AlexHunter

I ended all my listings and reposted them since I have so many might as well refresh saved searches and algorithms and whatnot


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Been doing the same. I am seeing some good results. I also took new pictures of some of my older items now that I am better at doing listing images.

[r0yals2012]

Originally Posted by shanks25

Wife and were talking. Don't you all think there will be a flood of items to purchase when this current pandemic ends? Everyone naturally does their annual 'spring cleaning.' Only this year, everyone has been stuck at home with nothing better to do but clean stuff out they've been meaning to do for years now. I can see a huge amount of garage sales and stuff donated to Goodwills, thrift stores, etc.

We seem to do our best at garage / yard sales. With that said, there are two classifications of garage sales around here.

1) People truly wanting to get rid of stuff

2) people trying to make money

#1 is obviously preferable. The #2 people can be laughable with their prices.

My mom and I have been talking about this too. I saw something on Facebook that said everyone going to dash to target and the bar when quarantine is lifted me I am dashing to the nearest garage sale or thrift store because everyone had 4+ weeks to clean their house. That’s definitely me. I had a dream the other day where I got to go to a large church garage sale lol


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[shanks25]

Does anybody know how the algorithms really work? After I read it on here, I went and ended / relisted about 40-50 items. I had about 8 days of nonstop sales on all sorts of items, not just the relisted items. Past two days have been nothing but crickets. Really weird.


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[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by shanks25

Does anybody know how the algorithms really work? After I read it on here, I went and ended / relisted about 40-50 items. I had about 8 days of nonstop sales on all sorts of items, not just the relisted items. Past two days have been nothing but crickets. Really weird.


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Nobody knows for sure, but it seems listing new items help as does ending and relisting old items. It was said when Ebay first went to the Cassissi search years ago that items that had a lot of views and watchers but no other actions would be deemed less favorable and pushed down in the search and it would affect a sellers overall search ranking as well. The proof is in the results that listing new items helps.

[AlexHunter]

Originally Posted by shanks25

Does anybody know how the algorithms really work? After I read it on here, I went and ended / relisted about 40-50 items. I had about 8 days of nonstop sales on all sorts of items, not just the relisted items. Past two days have been nothing but crickets. Really weird.


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I have no clue how algorithms out and I don’t think anyone truly knows- but one rule of thumb I have for eBay is if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. If you were having steady sales I wouldn’t have ended and relisted items. The steady sales help you in the algorithm especially if very few users “saw” the item. If you end a chunk of items like that I feel like it might actually hurt you.

But maybe not- again I don’t know. We’ve all gone through dry patches- I just went through a 6 day one myself. The only reason I ended and relisted all of my items was cuz most of my items in my eBay store rn are PWE sports cards $12 and under. They had all really stagnated on sales and page views. So I lowered prices across the board 5-15% and relisted them all in one blast. This refreshes my item as a new item so it hits everyone saved searches and “new listings”.

It’s paid off for me- I’ve sold 9 items in the last 4-5 hours.




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[shanks25]

That makes sense. I have a bunch of items with a ton of looks and watchers and nothing ever happens with them. It seems to me that there’s a 24-48 hour period after listing where things sell. Once that window closes, items seem to just sit forever.

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.

And to clarify, all the good sales happened right after I relisted a bunch of stuff.

Is there a way to drop all prices a percentage access the board. It’s a real pain in the butt to do it individually.


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[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by shanks25

That makes sense. I have a bunch of items with a ton of looks and watchers and nothing ever happens with them. It seems to me that there’s a 24-48 hour period after listing where things sell. Once that window closes, items seem to just sit forever.

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.

And to clarify, all the good sales happened right after I relisted a bunch of stuff.

Is there a way to drop all prices a percentage access the board. It’s a real pain in the butt to do it individually.


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Thats where the algorithm starts working against you. Looks and watchers are not always a good thing. Ebay has a formula based on their research about how many look the average item gets before it sales. If your item passes that number it tells the search program that there is an issue with that item that is turning buyers away.

[AlexHunter]

Originally Posted by shanks25

That makes sense. I have a bunch of items with a ton of looks and watchers and nothing ever happens with them. It seems to me that there’s a 24-48 hour period after listing where things sell. Once that window closes, items seem to just sit forever.

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.

And to clarify, all the good sales happened right after I relisted a bunch of stuff.

Is there a way to drop all prices a percentage access the board. It’s a real pain in the butt to do it individually.


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Yes-If you have a store subscription you can do a % sale. Other than that you have to alter the prices of items manually- there is a bulk listing editor tool though.

You can actually change the price of everything at once- but you have to change every item to the same price. I really wish they had an option that just lowered your asking price -not a sale- by whatever % or $ you wanted to.


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[shanks25]

Gotcha. I don’t have a store. Might look into that. Thanks for the info.


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[AlexHunter]

Originally Posted by shanks25

Gotcha. I don’t have a store. Might look into that. Thanks for the info.


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If you can consistently list 100-150 items a month then look into the store subscription that gives you 250 free listings. I think it’s $25- which makes sense at the normal $0.10 a listing- but you also get a bigger discount on items past the 250ish limit. There’s also tools, graphs, and your own stores analytics to utilize, quarterly shipping supplies voucher and other perks.


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[nateyad]

Originally Posted by AlexHunter

Yes-If you have a store subscription you can do a % sale. Other than that you have to alter the prices of items manually- there is a bulk listing editor tool though.

You can actually change the price of everything at once- but you have to change every item to the same price. I really wish they had an option that just lowered your asking price -not a sale- by whatever % or $ you wanted to.


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There is an option under the edit fields, price quantity best offer, decrease by amount or percent.

[AlexHunter]

Originally Posted by nateyad

There is an option under the edit fields, price quantity best offer, decrease by amount or percent.

I had to triple check the username. A helpful post...my dad was wrong maybe people can change.


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[nateyad]

Originally Posted by AlexHunter

I had to triple check the username. A helpful post...my dad was wrong maybe people can change.


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Please don't make comments like you know me. I've been on this thread since pretty much the beginning so please just stop with the condescendingness.