$90 From A $2 Yard Sale Failure - What Sold

Ajouté : 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Hi again. My name is Rebel and I'm the Rebel reseller. And today we're going to be doing a watch sold video which will be for the weekend of May the 15th through the 17th. I didn't realize we hadn't made this video. So, here it is.

[00:00:17]I've got um very few sales on eBay, but thank goodness I have sales on Etsy, Poshmark, and Merkari, and it's not in this video, but I just have to say I have started crosslisting to whatnot. And I actually made my first buy it now sale on there also. So, at some point, hopefully that week, I'll have six platforms. I think it's going to be in two videos. But that was that was a nice pleasant surprise to just be have been crosslisting for two days and made a sale. So, it's motivating.

[00:00:58]Motivating.

[00:00:59]>> I just made a depot sale.

[00:01:01]>> Did you?

[00:01:01]>> I did.

[00:01:02]>> For sure. For sure. Or is it floating?

[00:01:05]They paid.

[00:01:06]>> You made the sale?

[00:01:07]>> Yes.

[00:01:08]>> I did the math wrong cuz I'm actually promoting on Depot now. Oh, >> I forgot to account for that when we were doing the math earlier.

[00:01:14]>> Oh, I probably should. Anybody else promoting? I think they do like an 8% or something, right?

[00:01:20]>> I can't remember, but >> I think it's 8%.

[00:01:22]>> You can promote specific items or you can promote your store. I just have the whole store promoted just for simplicity.

[00:01:28]>> Yeah, >> but when when you're considering, you know, the price you're going to take for something like on eBay, I have something listed for $20. I know that with clothes, there's about a 12% promotion rate on clothes because I I I promote them all at the trending rate and it's around 12%. Then there's the 13% eBay. So, you're looking at 25%.

[00:01:51]>> If it sells promoted, >> if it sells promoted and just assume that it's gone up, >> so if I sell something for 20, I lose $5 right off the top. If I'm selling it on Poshmark, I'm not promoting there. I'm only going to lose $4 for the fees. So, I can take a dollar less on Poshmark than I can on eBay and make the same amount of money on Depop. I'm promoting. Rebel said she thinks it's eight. So, we'll go with eight. And you've got about 3 to 4%. So, you got about 12% in fees there with the promotions, but it's not 25, it's >> 12.

[00:02:31]>> And it's it's it it makes a difference.

[00:02:34]And on Poshmark, you're only paying on the $20. And on eBay, you're paying on the $20 plus the shipping. And most of mine are jeans. So that's another $7, you could say. So >> it it really adds up over there.

[00:02:47]>> Yep. Yep.

[00:02:48]>> We've talked about this recently, but it just that sale made me think of it. So you can sell things for cheaper prices on some platforms than you can others and still make the same amount of profit.

[00:02:58]>> Yep.

[00:02:58]>> That's the short way of saying all those words I just said. Let me go ahead and show you some of the sales that I had on my platforms.

[00:03:07]All right, first Poshmark. Well, that's quite a few. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight that weekend.

[00:03:14]And let's just compare that to eBay.

[00:03:19]It was about eight. And there may have been a few that I didn't show, but yeah, crazy. Crazy. Um, first thing sold, these Lee women's 14 petite jeans sold for $9. Any clothes that are still in eBay or in my platforms is the the stuff that I just never did get over to Robert. And all of them, most of them have been marked down to like $10 just to make them gone.

[00:03:48]And then this Bington collection little blanket, mini blanket sold for $8.

[00:03:56]Old listing.

[00:03:58]Another old listing. Westbin Thermos Surf Coffee Cups sold for $10.

[00:04:06]Wrangler men's jeans sold for $11.

[00:04:12]Starbucks. We sold all of the three Starbucks that Robert had picked up at a yard sale for a buck each. They were the you are here collection. This is the London one. It sold on Poshmark for $25.

[00:04:27]These next three were a bundle sale.

[00:04:30]They offered me $25 for three puzzles.

[00:04:34]It was I had to wait till we could get out here. We pulled them because 25, yes, if it was going to stay in the five five and under five pound and under weight. But if it had to have gone up to the next weight, which a lot of these puzzles are 2 to three lbs, um, it, you know, I I wouldn't have been able to accept the 25. I would have probably went ahead and countered 30.

[00:04:59]But we got it over here. Robert got it in a box that he cut down to the perfect size and it stayed under five pounds. So these three puzzles, I took a $25 offer.

[00:05:10]White Mountain Autumn Porch wheels 750 piece. This was from that that store that pallet store we went to.

[00:05:22]What was it called? I don't remember. We went and we went on $1 day and we filled up like two uh shopping carts full of stuff. This puzzle was a part of it. So, I paid a dollar for it. And then another um panoramic puzzle. Um, so for the three I took a $25 offer.

[00:05:42]>> I had to cut the end flaps off of the box.

[00:05:45]>> It was just barely barely too heavy.

[00:05:48]>> So I had to cut them off, make them a little shorter to get it cuz it was right at 5 lbs. And we put the the label on the scale with it. It went to 5 lb.1 O. So I cut those tabs off a little bit, flaps off a little bit and got it cuz then we got to add tape on it too. So, >> that got it under the weight so it could go at 5 lbs.

[00:06:09]>> But if it had been three of just like the White Mountains, nope, it would have not um made it.

[00:06:17]So, just keep that in mind when you're dealing with bundle offers, especially on Posh. You got to account is it going to stay under the five pounds.

[00:06:26]All right. And then on Merkari, I have four sales. First one was this Fisher P Fisher Presser FisherPrice Teddy Betty Bear crib toy. It sold for $2121.

[00:06:43]The other Starbucks mug, this was Alaska, sold for $19.

[00:06:50]These were from that peanuts lot that we picked up. This is a Peanut Snoopy coin bank and candy holder with a little scoop. sold for $15.

[00:07:03]And then this little Carter's gray elephant security blanket lovey sold for $8.50.

[00:07:10]Then I had four sales on Etsy. These first um five FisherPrice record player music box replacements sold. Um this these were from a recent gift box that I got from Sharon. First sales from that box. I listed um the two different types of records. This one sold very quickly on um Etsy for $17.95.

[00:07:37]Funny thing is is I had listed this to all the platforms including. I got hit with a a listing removal because they thought that this was electronics. They I appealed it because it's not electronic. It's for a windup musical toy. They went ahead and accepted the appeal, relisted them, and then they sold right away. You just got to be careful with um nothing electronic, nothing with like batteries, and so far I've learned no nothing with like baby teethers and stuff like that.

[00:08:19]And then I sold this was another very quick sale. picked this up at the the Dayton bins. This is a play school sensory rattle ball. Kind of had the rain stick sounds to it. Sold very quickly on Etsy for $2245.

[00:08:37]This also was from that Peanuts lot that we picked up. It is a Walmart's child's digital watch with changeable faces.

[00:08:45]Sold for $1345.

[00:08:48]And then these just I don't even know if has this made it into a haul yet? I don't even think this made it to a haul yet. These were some vintage children's like aluminum dish set. I bought a huge box full. This is just part of it. Um paid $15 for all of it. And then this first amount has already sold for $44.95.

[00:09:12]>> We stopped in this was this was the neighborhood sale way way out there. And Uh, we went to this and Rebel Rebel was being sort of yard sale snoody that day.

[00:09:23]She was Yeah, sour is the word. Her heart was pouring forth that day. And uh, she walked past. I was like, "Hey, we got this." And >> yeah, I walked right past them.

[00:09:36]>> So then we, you know, we decided, yeah, that's a good thing to get. So we paid, went down the road to another yard sale, and then turned on a side street, went to another yard sale there. And I was like, "Hey, look, there's one across the street." So, we walked up through there and she started looking around at all the stuff and it took me like one second to realize that. So, I went over to the lady having it and told her I was like, "I'm just waiting to see how long it's going to take her to realize we've already been to this yard sale today."

[00:10:05]It was about five more seconds, I think.

[00:10:07]>> Yeah. I was pretty quick on that one. I was like, there was something that was like, I've already seen that. And we had walked in one way and then parked in the other way and walked up to the house a different way. Yeah, it was funny.

[00:10:19]>> The the houses, it's not like a little house in town with a little yard. This was they were very large yards >> and it was we gone down the side street that that teed off with the street we had been on. So it could be easily confused, but I caught on real quick. I was just >> Rebel's not very directionally oriented.

[00:10:37]>> Yeah, Rebel's not very observant. I don't look at people's faces. We could have gone to that house five times and I could not tell you what the ladies le looks like. I just happened to see something that was like, "Hey, we've been here before."

[00:10:53]All right, eBay. Another very quick sale. This was um Babybot Plush Vintage.

[00:11:00]Um sold very quickly, $22.

[00:11:05]Kermit the Frog by Just Play sold for $8.96.

[00:11:12]Heel House Lewis and Clark dog plush.

[00:11:16]This is the second one that I've had of this plush. This one's missing the collar. It really took away from the value, but I still sold at $14.

[00:11:27]Fisher Price Windup Monkey Plush been listed forever. Two to three years.

[00:11:33]$1345.

[00:11:37]Baby soft green insect lovey sold for $17.

[00:11:46]Eden musical windup dog plush sold for $33.7.

[00:11:55]These were some Burger King Scooby-Doo things that I put together. I've been ending listings and putting them together to make lots. This sold for $16. You've changed how you're doing your lots lately because we've always done it that you you have one item or a couple items in a lot. You take your new item, you put all the stuff out, you take a picture of all of it together, >> and then you only take pictures of the new item, >> right?

[00:12:22]>> And then you're done. And that is you've created your new lot. You have changed how you're doing that now.

[00:12:28]>> Yes. I am no longer adding stuff to lots. I'm starting from scratch. I'm going ahead and >> you're adding it to the lot, but you're like nuking the whole listing.

[00:12:39]>> Yes, I'm not using the same listings.

[00:12:41]Yes, it would be a whole lot faster, but I'm not wanting to use the same listings anymore. I'm I'm redoing all of the photos and I'm letting Nifty's AI generator make me new listings with all of the fancy bullet points and descriptions and just everything and it's no longer going to be seen as um a listing that has been staying on eBay over and over and over again. So, that's only been in the last few weeks. I'm just going to be making new listings for any time that I'm combining an old listing or old items with a new item. And hopefully eventually, you know, a lot of my listings are going to be updated. And by fourth quarter, you know, hopefully I'll be, you know, selling a whole bunch of this.

[00:13:36]>> I have to stand up here in Rebel's defense.

[00:13:40]If if she sounds like that was incoherent, babble, and repetitive, the neighbor has a guy that ms his yard and he's decided now that we're recording a video, this is the perfect time to come mow and anytime he gets plugs back here, it just gets really loud. So, we have to pause and we have the the memory and attention span of like like gerbles that have been knocked out or something, I guess. And uh so if we repeated something there, that's why because uh yeah, it's we had to stop a bunch of times. So let him make a laugh and then go back to the other part of the yard.

[00:14:16]>> And then my best sale of the weekend was this. And this is funny because I have a shelf that's kind of full of some old stuff that was going to go in a yard sale but never made it to a yard sale.

[00:14:33]or it's my kids old dinosaurs and Playmobil and I've just not gotten to them yet. Um, but this was sitting in there and at some point I had a $2 yard sale sticker on the bag of these and comps were ridiculous on these. So, I went ahead and listed them for $100 and sold the whole lot for $90. These are FisherPrice refrigerator magnets.

[00:15:03]There's the ABCs and the food. So, if you find any of them, um, definitely one to be picking up.

[00:15:14]>> So, those are about $9 a piece.

[00:15:17]>> Yeah. And I probably if if I had broke up and did like the an ABC and the three food and then the extras, I may have been able to get more. I just didn't want to go back and redo the pictures because I do all my pictures first. And then I decide how much I'm going to list them for. But yeah, ridiculous prices on these for to have a $2 yard sale sticker on them. And they didn't sell at a yard sale.

[00:15:47]All right. And then Robert, he had, let's see, right here, he had one Poshmark sale and a few eBays. First is the Poshmark silver jeans shorts sold for $19.

[00:16:04]Talbitz cargo pants sold for $12.

[00:16:10]Big Star Pioneer jeans sold for $26.71.

[00:16:19]I don't even know what the brand is on these. Women's denim jeans 14 petite.

[00:16:26]I don't know what we've done there. Oh, writers. But for some reason there it's not in the title. That's crazy.

[00:16:33]Been listed a while now. We know why.

[00:16:36]But they sold for $151.

[00:16:42]Gam don't know. Women's yoga pants sold for $12.

[00:16:47]Lauren Ralph Lauren. Women's capri pants sold for $1141.

[00:16:54]All right, man. That was painful to make because of the mowing, but >> you got through it.

[00:17:03]>> I got through it. Yes. We're going to try to go ahead and possibly do another haul video of the new stuff that we picked up at the Dayton bins. Um I've got my treasure right here to share with you guys from there. And you know, I I'm so grateful that we are doing all of this crosslisting because I would be in a panic at this point. You know, if I had to survive on just, you know, what I've done all these years, eBay has been it for me for years and years and years >> until the last several >> last several. But then I, you know, I was hit and miss. I'd stay on them and I I'm I'd get frustrated and I'd take everything down. And you know, I've tried Bonanza a couple times. Nope.

[00:17:50]Didn't like it. And you know, this time, thanks to Nifty, it was so easy to get everything crosslisted. They have been amazing as far as making sure everything is delisted. No issues at all. And so if you're afraid of that because you're afraid things aren't going to get delisted properly, not an issue. Even with 7,000 listings, >> if there's ever an issue that something can't be delisted because like Merkari and Depot, sometimes they get disconnected because the the the signin only lasts for so long. If they can't delist it, they send you an email that says, "Hey, we couldn't list this on Depot." You got that was it this morning or yesterday morning that Deepo got disconnected from her Nifty account because it's a timing issue. It's going to happen regularly because of the nature of security with depot and Merkari. And they sent her an email.

[00:18:42]Hey, we couldn't delist this. That way she knows to go deal with it.

[00:18:44]>> And in sales detection, it's big red letters that this item was not delisted.

[00:18:50]You cannot miss it. Um because we go into sales detection to use to pull everything every day. It just makes things so much easier.

[00:18:59]>> It does.

[00:19:00]>> So, I knew right away that I needed to go in first, get signed back into DOP, and then go in and manually dlist that one item. But so far, I've had zero issues with the D-listing process.

[00:19:14]>> So, you're saying with uh Nifty and crosslisting, don't panic.

[00:19:19]>> Nope. Don't panic. Nope. Just keep going. And right now I'm really focused on getting everything crosslisted to depot that can be and whatnot.

[00:19:31]>> That was just a lame excuse to be able to use the >> uh a song.

[00:19:35]>> No, the Hitchhocker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[00:19:37]>> Oh, I didn't watch that. Or did I watch >> Oh, don't no. No. If you haven't watched it, don't. It's horrendous. Read the book. Yes.

[00:19:44]>> Read the book. Don't watch it.

[00:19:46]>> All right, y'all. It's time to get to work.