The auctions for items purchased during the thirteenth week of the 2008 Garage Sale Challenge ended Sunday evening with 12 of the original 24 items listed selling for a total of $278.74 and a sell-through rate of only 50% for the second week in a row.
As if my sell-through rate wasn’t bad enough, this week my sales on Amazon were higher than my sales on eBay. I don’t remember that ever happening previously.
Twelve books sold on Amazon during the last week for $338.05. The highlight of eBay sales was the early Hohner accordion catalog selling for $54.00 (280251371290).
Here’s how things look after Sunday:
| 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 | $15.59 | $0.00 | $59.09 | $644.11 | $1714.65 |
| 6/01 | $348.10 | $174.30 | $30.70 | $6.15 | $50.69 | $24.89 | $0.00 | $23.74 | $386.25 | $2100.88 |
| 6/8 | No auctions - went fishing in Canada |
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| 6/15 | $518.38 | $57.34 | $58.25 | $10.25 | $45.60 | $27.83 | $0.00 | $36.87 | $396.92 | $2497.80 |
| 6/22 | $215.92 | $241.08 | $21.25 | $3.05 | $56.44 | $8.97 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $367.29 | $2865.09 |
| 6/29 | $701.34 | $139.91 | $74.97 | $12.35 | $69.99 | $25.42 | $0.00 | $49.49 | $609.03 | $3474.12 |
| 7/06 | $935.78 | $118.42 | $41.75 | $14.55 | $78.21 | $29.73 | $0.00 | $39.90 | $850.06 | $4324.18 |
| 7/13 | $365.10 | $125.98 | $42.72 | $5.35 | $44.21 | $16.12 | $0.00 | $21.71 | $360.97 | $4685.15 |
| 7/20 | $366.07 | $321.05 | $89.50 | $9.55 | $86.45 | $11.91 | $0.00 | $42.42 | $447.59 | $5132.44 |
| 7/27 | $495.80 | $469.26 | $50.75 | $11.35 | $110.35 | $22.73 | $0.00 | $52.02 | $717.86 | $5850.30 |
| 8/03 | $278.74 | $338.05 | $45.00 | $9.50 | $81.83 | $9.80 | $0.00 | $58.99 | $411.67 | $6261.97 |
| 8/10 | $45.90 | $11.15 | $38.38 | |||||||
This week there are 35 qualifying items on eBay consisting of eight items that didn’t sell two weeks ago and twenty-seven fresh items purchased at garage sales last week. Here’s what they are and what I paid for each:
- 1925 Sisters Of Saint Joseph Diamond Jubilee Recipes - a re-list
- Saga Of The Thirteen Towns book - a re-list
- July 1929 North Dakota Historical Quarterly - a re-list
- April 1965 North Dakota History magazine - a re-list
- Lot of 5 North Dakota History magazines - a re-list
- Lot Of 4 Tannen’s Magic Manuscript magazines - a re-list
- Rower To Become Christ-Like Seminar DVD - a re-list
- Frederic Remington 173 Drawings and Illustrations book - I paid $1.50 for it
- Portraits Of Nature book - I paid $.75 for it
- Alcoholics Anonymous Third Edition Ninth Printing - I bought two of these for $.50 each. The third edition is a marginal book. Early printings will sell, later ones often don’t. We’ll find out if this is early enough
- Rosemeade Corn salt & peppers - I paid $1.00 for these
- Occupied Japan Ceramic Oriental Man Pushing Cart - I paid $.25 for this
- Occupied Japan Ceramic Victorian Couple Figurine - I paid $.25 for this
- Danbury Mint Wedgewood Jasperware Demitasse C/S - I paid $1.00 for this. Maybe too much
- The American Girl cookbook - I paid $.25 for this
- Vito Reso-Tone Clarinet W/Case - I paid $5.00 for this
- Rampone Cazzani Wood Clarinet W/Case - I paid $5.00 for this
- 9 49th State Hawaii & Waikiki Records + More - I paid $.90 for these
- 59 Thru The Bible Series + Extras books - I paid $5.00 for these
- Grey’s Anatomy The Complete Second Season - I paid $3.00 for this
- Angel - Complete Season 4 - I paid $3.00 for this
- Angel - Complete Season 5 - I paid $3.00 for this
- Endurance - Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage audio book - this was part of a large box of books I paid $10.00 for
- The Jester audio book - in the same $10.00 box
- The Lovely Bones audio book - in the same $10.00 box
- Lot 9 Complete Anne Of Green Gables books - in the same $10.00 box
- 25 Different Louis L’Amour books - in the same $10.00 box
- 44 Hello Reader & Step Into Reading books - in the same $10.00 box
- Louis Marx Willys Jeep Pressed Steel - I paid $.50 for this
- 1915 Roseville Donatello console bowl - I paid $.25 for this
- Grafton Bottling Works North Dakota soda bottle - I paid $1.00 for this
- Club 545 Grafton North Dakota Glass Ashtray ash tray - I paid $.25 for this
- 1873 Leather Brown’s Self-Interpreting Bible - I paid $3.00 for this
- Frank Zappa Shut Up ‘N Play Yer Guitar - 3 LP set - I paid $1.50 for these
Book purchases for Amazon were nearly non-existent this week. I only found five. They are:
- Signs And Wonders - I paid $.25
- The Labrador Shooting Dog - I paid $.50
- The Great Dane - I paid $.75
- Control Language Programming For The AS/400 - I paid $1.00
- Mas Alla De La Pantalla (a Spanish textbook) - I paid $1.00
This small number of new books purchased will likely be reflected in the next week or two by a significant decrease in Amazon sales.
If you are a new reader, you can read more about the 2008 Garage Sale Challenge.
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