Before I got my label printer, I used to put my labels in plastic baggies. Less tape used. Also, dollar stores can be a great source of FREE shipping materials. They get candy and batteries and other items in small boxes that would be the perfect size to ship out a shirt in. With a box cutter, you can resize larger boxes from the grocery store for items like jackets.
This is such a GREAT IDEA!! My husband and I talk about this all the time how someone with little to no money could build a biz (like I and you! did)!! I appreciate the details that you are mindful of like not using the supplies of your real biz and even shooting on the ground vs. the nice set up you guys have! You are awesome.
@@carrieathome One more question if you dont mind. I recently picked up a bag of plushies that I'm selling individually. When recording profits. Should I just subtract the total cost of the bag from total profit once the whole lot sells. Or should I say divide the cost of the bundle to each individual plushie and then record what each individual plush sold for? I dont know if it matters or if its whatever way I feel comfortable keeping track cause it will come out to the same number in the end.
@@ShaneUrbas yup! You can do it either way. We personally do it the way where you chip away at the cost of the lot with each sale and once it’s paid back, we know every sale beyond that is pure profit
Thank you for sharing this experience with us! Much needed during a time of starting over with a lot of things in life and need to keep my head clear and this is a great challenge especially for us long term eBay sellers (since 2006 over here) ❤thank you for motivating us all!
Thanks for the upload! Enjoying this detail. I’m at my corporate job but I have been reselling for five years on eBay, dreaming to work for myself someday especially now that we have a child, it’s nice to see the ins and outs
Awesome series, Carrie! Just you wait, it won't be long before the velocity kicks in, this is exciting to see a new store from the beginning, woohooo!! 🥰
Loving this series. I have a suggestion for the labels that you print on your home printer. Print them at a smaller percentage size to make them smaller and it also saves on ink. Then cut more excess paper away before putting on the package. It will look better and take less tape. Got to save every penny 🤓
Love the series Carrie! I think the key is to not be sales greedy (top dollar), but to MOVE things! Question, did you end up mailing priority for the jacket bc of your timing mistake? Obvs that was not $10 for shipping... but what shipping label service do you use for your successful store to get shipping costs down? Thanks! Looking forward to more videos!
I shipped Priority Mail, got extra insurance, and bought a signature request and it cost me around $12 total for all of that. I usually use Ground Advantage for everything else but I didn't have a polymailer to use on the jacket so I used a free Priority Mail box. :)
I look at the sell thru rate of each item I come across that I think might sell well. I'm trying to pick up items where there's an equal amount of items selling to how many items are listed, at least close to it.
This is dope. Keep on keeping on. I remember when I started my store lol. I was pokemon cards only for awhile. Now I do everything lol and do it well. Congrats on the sales
Hey Carrie and Kyle!! Best of luck with the series Carrie!! Hey btw what calculator was that you showed on the video to show your profit? Thanks have a great weekend 😊
@@carrieathome it was great! I noticed y'all stopped using flat rate padded envelopes for your usual sales and have switched over to ground advantage, have you noticed it being cheaper long term? Thanks again!
@@cadm1676 definitely cheaper! We used padded flat rate and was losing money in shipping, then we switched to cardboard flat rate and broke even. Now we are using polymailers with ground advantage and making a little on shipping. I don’t know what ground costs on average for other parts of America but I’m centrally located so that may be why it’s so much cheaper.
Awesome job Carrie! Like others I'm also in the beginnings of an ebay store, so your content is awesome What are you finding your views are for your sales??
@@dbzfannnnnnn oh! Well it’s skewed for this store because I have a lot of views coming from viewers wanting to watch the store. For my main store, I typically get from 1-30 views before it sells. But sometimes I have hundreds on random items lol
What size poly bags do you use ? Where is the best place to purchase them ? By the way yesterday I listed our first 5 items ! I hope to list another 10 today at least ! Coffee always first !
Definitely send out offers to watchers if you have any! I also recommend dropping the price down periodically to see if a couple dollars off may make the deal 👍
I’ve just started selling, I’m curious, do you actually have a store subscription? Are you using promoted listings? I’d love to know more about how you are actually sing some of the eBay tools and marketing to build your store. Thanks! So excited for this series!
Great series! How are you selling those so fast? Ive been listing good items with a 50-100 STR since last month and haven’t sold them yet. Are you dropping the prices each day? Would love to know what you do to get faster sales, thanks.
Something to remember, even if something is 100% sell thru, it may still take the full 90 days to sell. I have been dropping the prices down every so often and I make sure to send out offers. If you aren’t getting many views on your items, you may have it in the wrong category or there may be an error somewhere.
You’re doing great! I’ve been trying to sell on eBay for a month and have only had two sales. It’s a little frustrating. I feel like I can’t build any momentum. Maybe things will get better soon; you motivated me to send out offers for my two most trafficked items. Not thrilled about accepting less that I hoped for, but I have to get things going. ETA: Will you pay yourself before you reach $3000/mo?
Some of the money is better than none of the money! But I get it, Kyle wants me to hold onto things longer to get more money but I get impatient lol I probably will pay myself while I’m building up to $3000/month but it would be whatever is extra from how much I want in my ebay funds.
Love this challenge as it’s helpful for resellers. Do you know how much time you’ve spent weekly on the new store/shop? As a single, homeschooling parent, I’m trying to get an idea of how many hours one might put in for a shop that produces 2k-3k a month. Thank you!!
Ive been selling on ebay off & on random things for decades, but only started trying to flip for 2 months. I've sold a grand total of 4 things across 3 markets. It is a painful start.
Yea it’s even difficult for me to get going with another store because my brain just isn’t wired for it yet. Let’s keep trying! We’ll soon get a groove :)
@@carrieathome Perfect! Thank you for the input. I wasn't sure which way would be most effective. I'm slowly building my eBay as much as I can this month with a new niche since I'm going on this journey with you. It's not the same niche as you. Totally different. The plan is to stock up this month the most I can, gotta put the shop on vacation for a week (going out of town), then when I return in May I'll be marking items down like you mentioned a previous video $1.00 a day to see what happens. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
When you sold the carhartt jacket, you went shopping for more inventory right away? Doesn’t eBay wait until the item is delivered before they deposit your earnings into ur bank account?
Is eBay holding your funds being a new account? You’re spending your profit as items sell not waiting for funds to be in hand or am I missing something.
@@carrieathome the GOAT! Thank you! Loving the series btw, my fiancé and I are just starting our journey so it’s really neat to watch you guys progress kind of alongside us. Looking forward to the next video!
I really wish you would include the amount you need to put aside for taxes off your profits. Rarely do people show this and it is a big bite that you must plan for. Even if you ignore it initially it comes back at some point and can be a rather large number.
Everyone’s tax situation is different. Some have more write offs than others, some have kids, some don’t. It would be best to learn about taxes from your cpa/accountant vs a non tax lady on the internet :)
@@carrieathome That is true but even if just saying "Not all of this is really profit, your taxes will have to come out of this and you should work with a tax accountant" would make it better. So many people believe you do not owe taxes unless you hit a certain point and that is just incorrect.
@@carrieathome I completely understand. I've been leaning more towards jeans and denim recently and then landed on a massive lot of women's clothing that I couldn't turn down, so I've been trying to learn as much about both as I can but definitely feel like the niche of jeans carries a much easier learning curve. Thanks for sharing your journey! I was laid off in January and have had a very hard time getting back to work so hoping reselling might become the full-time thing.
I think it’s risky hand writing notes or even printing a note and putting that on the garment. Anyone have an issue of transfer? I just started selling clothing, listed 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 then 5 each day…got a sale.
I think one reason to use Pirate Ship is that you can pay with a credit card. Then you can get whatever points or miles your credit card offers as a perk for charging it on that card.
Carrie, I think this time (this store) the # of Items in your store won’t make a difference to get to $3k. I think the “golden rule” of selling “1%” of the store per day is based on an average and takes into account the Sellers experience. I BELIEVE YOU WILL KILL THE STR, and struggle to keep Items in your Store! That’s what my Money is on! Go get ‘em!
