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Scavenger Life Podcast

Trash to Cash. A podcast about making a living on eBay. http://www.scavengerlife.com/

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The Numbers: Week June 23-29, 2024

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2024/07/03

Sold a lot of stuff this week. Most of it lower dollar. Highest priced item was about $45. Our average sale was $22. Churn and burn. We’re not sure if this is new or something we overlooked, but we realized that each week we’ve been charged for “offsite ads”. These are ads for our items […]The post The Numbers: Week June 23-29, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week June 16-22, 2024

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2024/06/25

Our big sale this week was a $900 vintage appliance. Ryanne finds these things online when people are cleaning out a house. Since we have a storage building, we can keep it for a long time since they’re slow sellers. This oven probably sat for over six months before selling to someone across the country. […] The post The Numbers: Week June 16-22, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week June 9-15, 2024

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2024/06/21

Let’s blame it all on the heat. Gdamn is it hot outside. Sales have really picked up for us over the past month or so. Definitely selling a lot of lower dollar items, but it all adds up. We sold a jacket for $40 that must have been listed for at least ten years. TEN […] The post The Numbers: Week June 9-15, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week June 2-8, 2024

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2024/06/12

We’ve been selling a lot of items the last several weeks because we’re taking almost any offer people send us. So lots of volume but lower profit. Some items are selling for under $20. We change with the economic times. With a big inventory, we can churn when we need to. Otherwise, we’ve been dipping […] The post The Numbers: Week June 2-8, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week May 26-June 1, 2024

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2024/06/05

Better week for our sales. Lots of random sales. Highest sale was a vintage denim jacket to someone in Japan. Another was an amateur carved wooden head sculpture that we’ve had for a long time. There’s value in things people can find no where else. Summer has kickstarted our vacation rentals and cafes. Now we […] The post The Numbers: Week May 26-June 1, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week May 19-25, 2024

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2024/05/30

Feels like summer sales aka the slow season. No idea if its just us. Good news is this week is already better. For some reason this week people are buying from us. We sold a pop-up book for $250. This was something we found on the street in a box of old books. After some […]The post The Numbers: Week May 19-25, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week May 12-18, 2024

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2024/05/23

Definitely a slow week of low dollars sales for us. Half are sales were clothes. Clothing is a niche we can’t quit. Feels like a weird time right now. Keep on listing. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our Store Week May 12-18, 2024 Total Items in Store: […] The post The Numbers: Week May 12-18, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week May 5-11, 2024

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2024/05/13

We just returned home after almost two weeks away. It was nice to get away from our daily life, though we’re always connected to our different businesses online. For us, running our business is more of a lifestyle than a burden. We’ve created ways to make money that we don’t hate and have consistently tried […]The post The Numbers: Week May 5-11, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week April 28 – May 5, 2024

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2024/05/08

We’ve been away this past week so have our store on “time away’ which sometimes feels like it affects sales. We do really like that eBay created the “time away” feature because we no longer have to keep changing our handling time while we’re gone. It’s a positive sign that eBay does evolve. Just like […] The post The Numbers: Week April 28 – May 5, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week April 21-27, 2024

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2024/05/01

Better week but still slow. Not having any big dollar sales affects the total, but we’ll take it. We have time in the next couple weeks to really focus on eBay so we’ll see if we can make the eBay gods happy. Overall life is good. Just hanging onto this capitalism train. Check out our […]The post The Numbers: Week April 21-27, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week April 14-20, 2024

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2024/04/25

Slow week. Number of items sold were down, mostly low dollar. Disaster! Was it because we’ve focused on other things? Or are people just not buying what we have to sell? It’ll pick back up. We’ll have more time for eBay soon. We just celebrated three years of the opening our of first cafe in […] The post The Numbers: Week April 14-20, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week April 7-13, 2024

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2024/04/17

Sales continue to roll in. Coolest sale? We sold a digital still camera that we found in the trash still in the box. It’s one of those early digital cameras from 2008 before everyone has iPhones. I guess kids love them these days because they’re “retro”: $110. We’ll take it. Hope you guys are having […]The post The Numbers: Week April 7-13, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week March 31 – April 6, 2024

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2024/04/10

We’re in a period where we’re not listing because life has gotten very busy. Other projects are needing our immediate attention. It’s nice that our eBay store hums along without constant supervision. Getting our time is what we value most. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our Store […]The post The Numbers: Week March 31 – April 6, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week March 24-30, 2024

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2024/04/01

I mentioned our big sale last Sunday. Turned out to be $675 for a set of Tiffany dishes. One of those finds on a big table lot at an auction that we had no idea was worth so much. Took a while to sell. But patience can sometimes be a virtue? Otherwise we sold some […]The post The Numbers: Week March 24-30, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week March 17-23, 2024

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2024/03/28

Normal week for us on eBay. On Sunday (not reflected in these numbers), we sold $400 of some fancy plates. Dishes and china are difficult to store and slow to sell, but we find they can sell for high profit. Usually no one wants the fragile dishes so we get them cheap. Ryanne has gotten […]The post The Numbers: Week March 17-23, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week March 10-16, 2024

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2024/03/19

eBay sales have been coming in weird spurts of sales. Slow/dead on one day. Then lots of sales the next. We’d drive ourselves crazy trying to figure out why. All we do is keep listing 🙂 Maybe it’s old, but I just noticed that when I click on someone’s eBay item that I see their […]The post The Numbers: Week March 10-16, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week February 25 – March 2, 2024

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2024/03/05

We had some good sales on eBay, even though it was slower than last week. Our new cafe is busy and fun to hang out in. Otherwise, we’re focusing on just strengthening what we have and taking on no new projects. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our […]The post The Numbers: Week February 25 – March 2, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week February 18-24, 2024

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2024/02/26

Our new cafe has now been opened for a week. Since it’s a college town, it was very busy right out of the gate. Good! If you’re ever in Harrisonburg VA (off I-81), our place is right in the middle of downtown. We purchased the building and are super excited with how it came out. […]The post The Numbers: Week February 18-24, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week of February 4-10, 2024

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2024/02/12

It was interesting to hear everyone’s experience/opinion selling clothes in 2024. It’s a whole new world for those of us who started years ago. So many sellers selling so many clothes on so many different platformsI hear everyone’s argument that clothes are easy to store and ship. True! That being said, we love selling our […] The post The Numbers: Week of February 4-10, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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The Numbers: Week of January 28-February 3, 2024

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2024/02/05

Ever year we think we’ll phase out selling clothes since competition has grown tremendously for used clothing. There are more sellers scavenging for pieces so thrift stores charge higher prices + there’s more pieces online on more platforms so clothes sell for less. That being said, 15 of the 35 items we sold this week […] The post The Numbers: Week of January 28-February 3, 2024 appeared first on Scavenger Life.

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