
Week fourteen of The $10,000 Garage Sale eBay Challenge ended Sunday evening with twelve of the twenty-two listed items selling for a sell through rate of only 55%. Total sales were $379.57.
Actually, only eleven items sold via the auction format. After the auction ended, the winner of the book ‘Across The Wheatgrass’ wrote and asked if he could also buy ‘Your Neighbor’s Story’, which hadn’t sold, for the opening bid of $9.99. Since the sale was the result of the auction listing, I’ve included it in the total sales for the week.
Similar to the last few weeks, the number of garage sales this last week remained low for this time of year compared to previous years. As a result, while there are thirty-three Challenge items currently on eBay, only twenty-two of them are fresh items, with the remaining eleven being re-lists.
Here’s how things look after fourteen weeks.
| Ended | Sold | Cost | List Fees | FV Fees | PayPal Fees | Incid. Fees | Miles | Net Profit | Total |
| 5/13 | $405.62 | $61.15 | $24.10 | $17.82 | $17.40 | $0.00 | $29.39 | $255.74 | $255.74 |
| 5/ 20 | $135.88 | $12.50 | $13.10 | $7.03 | $4.99 | $0.00 | $39.27 | $58.99 | $314.73 |
| 5/ 27 | $579.76 | $47.05 | $35.85 | $26.39 | $18.54 | $0.00 | $57.72 | $395.31 | $710.04 |
| 6/3 | $500.79 | $36.60 | $19.75 | $21.29 | ‘$20.52 | $0.00 | $21.83 | $380.80 | $1090.84 |
| 6/10 |
No Auctions This Week |
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| 6/17 | $895.83 | $88.75 | $45.00 | $38.10 | $38.82 | $0.00 | $45.08 | $640.00 | $1730.92 |
| 6/24 | $355.65 | $27.55 | $23.25 | $13.81 | $9.03 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $282.01 | $2012.93 |
| 7/1 | $684.67 | $69.40 | $23.65 | $26.97 | $27.74 | $0.00 | $36.48 | $500.43 | $2513.36 |
| 7/8 | $773.23 | $72.10 | $38.65 | $32.11 | $28.71 | $0.00 | $31.68 | $569.98 | $3083.34 |
| 7/15 | $320.69 | $35.00 | $29.80 | $14.03 | $12.18 | $0.00 | $19.68 | $210.00 | $3293.34 |
| 7/22 | $608.69 | $54.80 | $13.50 | $23.08 | $20.83 | $0.00 | $25.44 | $491.87 | $3785.21 |
| 7/29 | $531.80 | $45.50 | $22.30 | $22.43 | $16.21 | $0.00 | $35.52 | $389.74 | $4174.95 |
| 8/5 | $740.75 | $25.30 | $25.75 | $30.56 | $31.21 | $0.00 | $48.96 | $578.97 | $4753.92 |
| 8/12 | $379.57 | $32.05 | $16.90 | $14.44 | $11.03 | $0.00 | $30.24 | $274.91 | $5028.83 |
| 8/19 | $34.90 | $24.55 | $41.76 | ||||||
This week there are thirty-three Challenge items listed on eBay. Eleven of these are re-lists and the other twenty-two were purchased at last weeks garage sales. Here is what they are along with what I paid for them.
- Land-O’-Lakes one quart milk carton - this is a re-list
- Joyce Meyer Dying To Live cassettes - this is a re-list
- Joyce Meyer Eat & Stay Slim cassettes - this is a re-list
- Joyce Meyer Finding & Fulfilling Your Destiny cassettes - this is a re-list
- Joyce Meyer No Flesh Shall Glory cassettes - this is a re-list
- Pressed glass toothpick holder - this is a re-list
- Adrian Rogers Most Requested Messages 2000 CDs - this is a re-list (this item actually sold a few weeks ago, but the buyer never paid for it, so it is being re-listed)
- The Art Of Final Fantasy IX - this is a re-list
- The Beautiful Story Of Joan Of Arc - this is a re-list
- Westinghouse transistor radio - this is a re-list
- What People Wore - this is a re-list
- 1956 Farmer’s Grain Elevator calendar plate - I paid $.50
- 1957 Devils Lake ND Diamond Jubilee plate - I paid $.25
- 1969 Litchfield MN centennial plate - I paid $.25
- 1976 North Dakota Chautauqua plate - I paid $.25
- 1989 Dayton Hudson Miss Santa Bear - I paid $1.00
- A Century Of Shoes - I paid $.20
- A Long Walk Home - I paid $.20
- Coffee Made Her Insane - I paid $.25
- 1998 Cook’s Illustrated Annual - I paid $.50
- Hillsboro North Dakota - The First Hundred Years - I paid $2.00
- Hull Blossom Flite console bowl & 2 candle holders - I paid $5.00
- Spode Blue Room Zebra Pen plate - I paid $1.00
- Spode Blue Room Aesop’s Fables plate - I paid $1.00
- Spode Blue Room Ostrich House plate - I paid $1.00
- Spode Blue Room Tiger Cages plate - I paid $1.00
- Spongebob Squarepants season one DVD set - I paid $2.00
- The Bible Story set - I paid $10.00
- The Tea Ceremony boxed - I paid $1.00
- Thrown Pottery Techniques Revealed - I paid $.25
- Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories set - I paid $5.00
- Battery operated Christmas tree - I paid $.25
- Wildlife Explorer fact sheets - I paid $2.00
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