Today’s trip to the thrift stores in Grand Forks produced four different items to be listed on eBay. My original intention was to make one of them a “Fixed Price” listing and list the other three in the auction format starting next Sunday.
Somewhere between when I left the last thrift store and when I started writing the ads this afternoon I changed my mind with the result of all four items being listed in the Fixed Price format.
The Salvation Army thrift store had two sets of books by popular author Bodie Thoene. These were all marked $1 but they were having a half price promotion on books so my total cost for all eight books was $4.
The Shiloh Legacy, shown above, is a three book series. There have been ten of these sets listed on eBay in the last ninety days. Seven of them sold for prices ranging from $5.00 to $14.95 with an average sales price of $9.17. The other three didn’t sell. I listed them at a Fixed Price of $15.99 with free shipping.
The other set was Thoene’s five book series “The Zion Chronicles”. This is one of Thoene’s two most popular series, the other being “The Zion Covenant”.
There have been twenty-two complete sets listed on eBay in the last ninety days. Twenty-one of them sold for prices ranging from $5.99 up to $39.99 for a new set. Their average sales price of the ones that sold was $17.58.
I listed this set at a Fixed Price of $29.99 with free shipping.
At the St. Vincent’s De Paul thrift store I purchased an audio book on CD titled “Contemplative Prayer” for $1. I checked this on Amazon with ScoutPal and it showed nineteen listings with a low price of $14 with a popularity rating of 55,954. Nearly all the Amazon listing are in New condition.Amazon sells them new for $16.47.
Only three of them have been listed on eBay in the last ninety days and only one of them sold. That one was also new and it sold for $14.24. I listed this at a Fixed Price of $12.99 with free shipping. My intention was to list this at a Fixed Price of $17.99 with free shipping. But I got a phone call while I was writing the ad and mistakenly listed it for $12.99.
Someone must have thought that was a bargain because within an ninety minutes of the listing going live the money for it was in my PayPal account.
The last thing I bought was a book titled “Ayurvedic Cooking For Self-Healing”. This came from Goodwill. When I tried to check the ISBN with PayPal, Verison wasn’t working. I bought it anyway thinking it was weird enough to risk the $.75 purchase price.
Checking on Amazon later when I got home I found twenty of them there with a low price of $11.30 and a sale rank of 58,676.
There have been 16 listed on eBay in the last ninety days. Only three sold with prices ranging from $.99 to $10.67 and an average sales price of $7.40.
I listed mine in the Fixed Price format for $12.99 with free shipping.
Popularity: 21% [?]
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