Monday evening saw the end of the auctions for the items purchased during the third week of The 2008 Garage Sale Challenge.

This week saw eighteen items sell for a total of $589.03 with a rather disappointing sell-through rate of only 56%. However, eight of the thirty-two items listed last week were re-lists and if I subtract those the sell-through rate for the new items was 71% which is more in line with where I hope to be consistently. In addition, nine books sold on Amazon for a total of $298.12.

The most disappointing item this week was the Fisher Price Toy Wagon pull-toy which brought only $27.99. I’d felt that, as a minimum, this would have ended somewhere between $50 and $75.

Over the course of the week, I received several emails from interested buyers concerning the postage for this item along with one of the other listings that make me wonder if buyers are suddenly paying a lot more attention to what actual shipping costs are for things they are considering bidding on. I’ll be writing a post about this, and how it may affect sellers, tomorrow.

Here’s how things look after then end of the fourth week of the Challenge:

Ended	eBay Sold	Amazon Sold	Cost	List Fees	FV Fees	PayPal Fees	Incid. Fees	Miles	Net Profit	Total
5/11	$193.46	$59.99	$35.35	$6.30	$18.04	$10.27	$0.00	$24.75	$150.37	$158.74
5/18	$923.70	$247.40	$59.55	$8.15	$109.00	$35.63	$0.00	$46.97	$911.80	$1070.54
5/26	$589.03	$298.12	$65.50	$10.40	$92.46	$11.46	$0.00	$59.09	$648.24	$1718.78
6/01			$30.70	$6.15				$23.74

This week, while I have a total of 27 items at auction on eBay, only eighteen came from qualifying sources. The remainder were purchased at a flea market and a few antiques shops I visited on Saturday. Of those eighteen items, four are re-lists from two weeks ago. The remaining fourteen were purchased during the last week.

This weeks items are:

• 9 Stamper’s Sampler magazines - a re-list from two weeks ago
• Lot of 2000 Somerset Studio magazines - a re-list from two weeks ago
• Midland International transistor radio - a re-list from two weeks ago
• 1939 Baby Memory book - a re-list from two weeks ago
• Dynamic Walter B - Butter Toast 45 promo - I paid $.25
• History Of Olga ND & Sacred Heart Church - I bought two of these for $1.00 each
• 37 children’s religious ARCH books - I paid $3.70
• Magic Tree House books #1-12 - I paid $3.00
• Voices From The Summit book - I paid $1.00 for this when I input a wrong ISBN into ScoutPal and didn’t catch my mistake
• 2 leaf & panel opaque white lamp shades - I paid $1.00
• 2 hand painted frosted lamp shades - I paid $1.00
• Horseman doll in it’s box - I paid $.50
• Starbucks Minneapolis skyline mug - I paid $.50
• I Do - Jessica Simpson wedding book - I paid $1.00
• A Crown Of Swords audio book - I paid $5.00
• Phantom audio book - I paid $4.00
• Flower Essence Repertory - I paid $1.00
• Mayfair FT-305 transistor reel to reel player - I paid $2.00
• Expressions Of Place - The Art of William Haseltine - I paid $.50 - I actually purchased this to put in my eBay store, but decided to see what happened with it in the auction format first.

In addition, I purchased the following books that were listed on Amazon.

• Team Work And Group Dynamics - paid $.50
• Robert’s Rules For Dummies - paid $.50
• Understanding English Grammar - paid $.50
• Essentials Of Organization Theory & Design - paid $1.25
• Accounting 22e/Financial Accounting 10e Workbook - paid $.50
• Democracy Under Pressure – An Introduction To The American Political System - paid $.50
• Visual Communications: Images With Messages - paid $.50
• Graphic Design Basics 5 - paid $.50

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