Scavenger Life Podcast
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Trash to Cash. A podcast about making a living on eBay. They are eBay Top Rated plus Power Sellers. Each week they post one or two hour-long podcasts sharing stories about our eBay selling.
Scavenger Life Podcast
1w ago
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
Scavenger Life Podcast
3w ago
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.
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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)
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Scavenger Life Podcast
1M ago
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
Scavenger Life Podcast
1M ago
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
Scavenger Life Podcast
1M ago
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 were clothing. Prices are definitely lower than when we started selling 15 years ago, but we are good at only listing quality. We’ve found a place where we consistently get good quality clothing for almost nothing (we’ll never tell). Also, clothes are easy to photograph, list, s ..read more
Scavenger Life Podcast
2M ago
Quieter week on eBay but sales continue. That’s all we ask for! Steady sales. Haven’t had time to list recently so our large inventory will likely carry us for the next month.
Here’s a sneak peak at our new cafe. Renovation is done and now we’re raining a new staff. We’re excited about how it’s turning out.
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Our Store Week January 21-27, 2024
Total Items in Store: 9450
Items Sold: 21
Gross Sales: $888.61 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $600.17 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
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Scavenger Life Podcast
2M ago
For the next several weeks it’s still all-hands-on-deck trying to get our new cafe open. All the details feel endless. In smaller towns/cities, it feels like all eyes are on us. Each day we’re waking up and getting more details done, pushing as hard as we can to open. Until we open, it’s costing us money. When we open, we’re making money! Business is simple!
eBay is doing well for us. Lots of random stuff selling. Having this pipeline allows us to do other things.
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Our Store Week January 14-20, 2024
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Scavenger Life Podcast
2M ago
Our new cafe opens in the next two weeks so we are completely slammed. Renovations are being finished, inspections being scheduled, supplies being ordered, staff being hired and trained, nuts. It’s like big production being put on! Its very stressful but we hope/know its a great emotional/financial pay off
eBay sales are going well. Steady sales are always a great feeling. Hope you guys are selling.
Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee
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Our Store Week January 7-13, 2024
Total Items in Store: 9535
Items Sold: 40
Gross Sales: $2,609.96 (includ ..read more
Scavenger Life Podcast
2M ago
We ended the year with strong sales and are happy with how are store is working. When you sell stuff you scavenge randomly, you just never know how it’ll do. It’s a much different business model from a store that does market research and stocks items that are popular for resell. As scavengers, we’re always hoping there are other people that see the value in the stuff we find.
Our most fun sale was a vintage hanging lamp that we sold for about $150. Several months ago we went to a house that was being renovated. The woman sold us a set of 1970s appliances for $300 (that Ryanne quickly sold for ..read more
Scavenger Life Podcast
2M ago
Happy New Year The last week of 2023 was pretty solid for our eBay store. We sold a number of items that we got for free from a clean-out we did of someone’s garage. We love free. The woman was happy to load up our truck with stuff that was cluttering her place, but she did think we were weird we wanted it all. I kept thinking, “Lady, you are making our week.”
We honestly don’t have any big plans/changes for our eBay store. For many of us, consistency is really the key to success rather than ever increasing big changes. Keep burnout at bay is probably the biggest “all the time” goal. After 15 ..read more