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

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

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. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE 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) C ..read more

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. Check out our coffee! ► broadporch.coffee Join the conversation in the forum>> HERE Our Store Week January 14-20, 2024 Total ..read more