Ebay Reselling Update: December 2020 Sales And Year Totals

EBAY Reselling Update:
December 2020 Sales

and Year Totals

Lets see in my last Sales update I had 3 sales and 23 listings in the store. 

So What Sold in Dec 2020?

1. 2006 Contenders Howard Cassady Award Winners auto AW-23 serial numbered /200 Lions $25.00 plus shipping. 
2. 2011 Threads Mikel Leshour Rookie Class Letterman Patch Auto "E" 286 #/400 $8.49 plus shipping
3. 1994 Nintendo Rare Killer Instinct 5 card promo lot 99¢ opening bid plus shipping
4. McDonalds Gift Certificate One McDollar 1998 $7 offer plus shipping.
5. New York Yankees drink coasters 10 pack $7.95 plus shipping

Item number 1. I had originally listed for $35.95 plus shipping, a buyer submitted an offer for $25.00 so I took it. I had 7 or 8 views w/in only about 12 hours after listing. Maybe I jumped on it too soon, but I thought it could be one of those long tailed listings that would take ages to sell. Item #2 I had a watcher on and sent an offer for a dollar off from the original $9.49 I had it marked at they took the offer. Item #3 sold at the opening bid of 99¢. Item 4 started as an auction that didn't sell then I listed originally at $9.42 (or maybe $9.99) then dropped it to $8.42 it sat for a while and then a buyer sent an offer for $7 and I accepted. I had nothing into it so why not? I had gotten it from a friend's son's old card collection they gave me. Wow item number 5 I thought would have a much longer tail on it than it did. I am maybe breaking even on it, but probably not due to the shipping costs.

I have managed to make some more listings a mix of fixed price and auctions. For some things I am getting back into the habit of starting some of them as an auction some with an opening bid at 99¢ others with a larger bid I'm comfortable starting with. 

I now have 43 store listings at a count of 53 units. 

2020 Year Totals: 

Not including shipping costs.

SALES:

Jan - 0    $0.00

Feb - 5   $26.49

Mar - 7   $33.43

Apr - 4    $7.50

May - 2    $6.00

Jun - 1    $25.00

Jul - 0    $0.00

Aug - 0    $0.00

Sep - 5    $23.99

Oct - 1    $5.99

Nov - 3    $15.98

Dec - 5    $49.43

YEAR TOTAL: Items: 33    $193.81

I think I mentioned in an earlier post that this is the most number of sales and items I have sold in one single year. It is definitely the most I have made in terms of money. I even in some cases made a little profit on the shipping. Usually I underestimate actual shipping costs and will undercharge for shipping even though sometimes it seems like an overcharge. I am improving a little bit in my estimation of what the actual shipping will cost. I think in some ways the shipping costs sort of even out. I think I manage to eek out a profit, even if it is only a couple of bucks. I have a long way before I make $100s per month or day, or even make that magic $20,000 per year mark when you have to start paying the business sales taxes.

Well I failed to reach my goal of having 100 listings in my store at the end of the year. I'm only at 43. UGH. Well hopefully I can breach the 100 listings sometime during January.

Some related links:
My Ebay Store: CaptKirk42s Federation Trading Post
My YouTube channel: klandersen42
Up On Ebay Videos: Episode 01 | Episode 02
Ecrater Store: CaptKirk42 (AKA: Kirk's Knook)

State of The Blog: 2020 Recap

STATE O' THE BLOG

2020 Edition

2020 maintains the failing Red years in my annual State of The Blog tally. Did that really surprise anyone for such a year? Oddly it wasn't the absolute bottom of the barrel that 2019 was.

Here are the monthlies from 2020:

January: 1
February: 1
March: 2
April: 1
May: 1
June: 2
July: 3
August: 1
September: 1
October: 1
November: 1
December: 2

TOTAL: 17
Monthly Average: 1.42

No real surprise I FAILED my yearly goal of 32 posts per year. That is now 6 years in a row. SIX! 

Now lets look at how the 2020 blogging matches up with past years:

2006 - 32
2007 - 43
2008 - 36
2009 - 34
2010 - 18
2011 - 20
2012 - 38
2013 - 93
2014 - 57
2015 - 24
2016 - 29
2017 - 16
2018 - 18
2019 - 12

2020 - 17
Yearly Average: 32.47

Another failing year continues to bring the yearly average down. If the trend keeps, which it probably will, the yearly average will dip below my desired goal per year. Last year the number of failed years was even with the number of years when the goal was reached or exceeded. This year the losing years are more than the met-plus years.

As for my trading card blogs (CaptKirk42's Trading Card Blog and Curly W Cards) both of them I only did the bare 1 post per month minimum so they both only have 12 posts for the year 2020. For those my only posting goal is to make at least the bare minimum of 1 post per month, 12 posts per year.