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 coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our Store Week April 21-27, 2024 Total Items in Store: 9541 Items Sold: 23 Gross Sales: $875.31 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Net Sales: $628.27 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Cost of Items Sold: $47 Cost of helpers ..read more

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 Luray. I clearly remember when we first opened in April 2021. We were still doing the podcast back then. From what we’ve learned the past 15 years when we first started selling on eBay and then vacation rentals and now cafes, it’s all just work. Just depends on where you want to spend your time. Check out ..read more

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 a good week juggling life. The struggle is real. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our Store Week April 7-13, 2024 Total Items in Store: 9535 Items Sold: 26 Gross Sales: $1,468.09 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Net Sales: $1,074.10 ..read more

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 Week March 31 – April 6, 2024 Total Items in Store: 9494 Items Sold: 29 Gross Sales: $1,570.66 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Net Sales: $1,030.39 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Cost of Items Sold: $126 Cost of helpers: $40 Highest Price So ..read more

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 shoes, artwork, a knife, a DVD, a pillow case, a tote bag, nightgown, a slide ruler. Completely random. Just the way we like it. By the way, we really like Martin over at Things I find in the garbage. He posts rarely these days but always has fun stories of all the stuff he finds for free on the street. He’s also been scavenging for ..read more

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 good at knowing what patterns will sell. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our Store Week March 17-23, 2024 Total Items in Store: 9465 Items Sold: 22 Gross Sales: $1,065.26 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Net Sales: $756.10 (minus eBay fees, shi ..read more

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 item info, but then there’s now “You may also like” with an almost infinite scroll of other people items for sale. eBay has for a long time put other listings on the page, but this feels new. Ultimately I assume we sella lot of our items with “promoted listings” in this way. All’s fair in love and war. Our new cafe is in ..read more

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 Store Week February 25 – March 2, 2024 Total Items in Store: 9455 Items Sold: 19 Gross Sales: $1,353.45 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Net Sales: $873.82 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) Cost of Items Sold: $55 Cost of helpers: $40 Highest Price Sold: $135 (antique cutlery) Av ..read more

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. It’s been about ten months from the time we started to renovate, hired and trained staff, and opened. I’m sitting here right now enjoying the vibe. Now we have our time back from this cafe project, we’re refocusing on eBay. We did a big reorganization this weekend and called our helper back to start taking photos aga ..read more

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 weird bulky items. It was about four years into our eBay adventure when we realized that you could sell more than clothes and shoes on eBay. It was Mikey and Wendy who opened up our eyes to all the strange things you can find at yard sales. It was a revelation to us that peo ..read more