Weekend Update: The Work Never Ends at The Overstock Toy Shop! eBay Orders & Storage Room Chaos 🧸📦 

With so many stuffed animals maybe you could do buy one, get one 50% off to move some inventory. It would encourage customers to buy more than 1 per visit.

You could do a channel trailer where you say where the store is located and all that

One tip a lot of successful eBay sellers give is to have a listing bank. (I only have 30 sales so far and this has helped me tremendously over the last 10 of them). Maybe to make it less taxing, devote one day to the listings each week and then do a designated start time on each and spread them throughout the rest of the week so you can just focus on fulfillment from there and get some attention back to the physical store. It also helps you with the eBay algorithm by showing it you're consistently listing new stuff, so you'll get boosted further up people's feeds. All of this is of course if it fits the model of how you keep inventory of them when they sell out of the store. Those gym bags/duffle bags/etc might be good things to put up online. They're soft goods, so they don't need as much protective packaging. And they're big items compared to your store's space, so shipping them off would help your sales floor a lot with each sale. You also don't have to worry about hidden flaws in them that you can't see through a closed box. The only trick would be how you've been doing free shipping. Size and weight on those is obviously going to inflate that side of the cost. The suggestion another view left of something local like Facebook Marketplace seems a good solution. The frustration boiling over isn't surprising. Just based on the slowdown of videos and eBay listings you've been putting out it's apparent you're getting burnout since you started the new position at the railroad. Eyes on the prize though, and keep pushing forward. Be mindful of your limits and don't hurt yourself. The day is coming where you quit the railroad and go fully into this, it's just a matter of how much longer until then. It's obvious you have a passion for the store and you've already reached a point of success where it's difficult for you to handle on top of the other job. When that day comes where you can make the leap, imagine how your business will explode and how much fun you'll be having. That's where your head needs to be when you hit the difficult patches along the way to it.

I mean with some of the stuff like bags and some of the water bottles maybe you could donate them to local school or camp? I know you want to return on investment but sometimes just the good thing to do and you could get your name out there doing good things. Otherwise maybe get the bags and suitcases out now because they might sell to people going on vacations. Maybe a bundle deal bag and a bottle for x? Beginning of summer sale? Bags, Floaties, water bottles? With the loads I think you are always going to get sporting goods since I think it must be in the same dept as toys so that is why you get them. Just some ramblings on a Sunday but keep up the videos and good luck selling this weekend

I'm going to wish you luck on the Amazon load, us store owners normally stay away from Amazon mainly because it's normally used inventory. We tried it once with one of our store locations we received used toilet seats moldy Tools & Toys, lots of small bulk items, it was bad... Hopefully you got a better deal, we didn't receive a manifest on ours so hopefully you did

For stuff like that suitcase and other things like that that doesn’t really fit the toy store… have you considered posting them on Facebook marketplace? I feel like that would help selling something like that