If sales keep slowing down, I'll have to do something else | What Sold on eBay and FB Marketplace

Added: 2026-05-03

[00:00:00]I hate being down in the dumps and like negative and all of that, but just right now the reality is I'm rethinking [snorts] what I'm doing for a living because I can't continue to make next to nothing.

[00:00:22]Howdy, y'all. My name is Gretchen. I'm the [music] Restless Reseller and I'm a reseller on eBay, Poshmark, Depop and other online platforms. I have five sales to pack up.

[00:00:32]Five. Um one is on Facebook Marketplace.

[00:00:36]I didn't mention that one and then I've got 1 2 3 4 on eBay.

[00:00:42]So it but it's been 2 days again. So I Sales are still slow. We're just going to go with that. [snorts] This We know it is.

[00:00:53]I'm not going to whine about it.

[00:00:57]Um what do we want to start with? Let's start with this most recent sale. It is an Eileen Fisher vintage petite size medium top, 100% linen short-sleeve button-up USA.

[00:01:11]And going to Pennsylvania.

[00:01:15]Um They paid $26.96 plus shipping.

[00:01:21]That might have been my full asking price. Yeah, looks like it was.

[00:01:26]That's cool. I actually had a skirt that went with this.

[00:01:30]And the skirt had some sort of flaw. I don't even remember what it was. And so I decided to just sell the top. So my cost of goods was $10.81 because I had bought them as a set, two pieces.

[00:01:46]And since I don't have the skirt all of my cost of goods is getting put down just for the top.

[00:01:54]Now, I had this listed for $29.96 originally. Okay.

[00:02:00]Let's see what they paid with shipping.

[00:02:08]I am annoyed because I'm still lisping.

[00:02:13]And that's annoying.

[00:02:16]To me at least. Uh hopefully it's not as obvious to you guys. When I was editing the last video, I didn't hear it so much.

[00:02:24]So hopefully it's just more noticeable in my own head.

[00:02:29]Putting this in a 10 by 13 eBay poly mailer.

[00:02:36]Oh, by the way, if you're new to my channel, welcome.

[00:02:40]Thanks for stopping by. I do this every time I pack my orders and ship.

[00:02:46]I tell you guys what I paid for things, what the buyer paid and how much profit I made. So that weighs 6.6 ounces. I always round up to the nearest ounce. So seven.

[00:03:03]Shipping is $5.97.

[00:03:09]And let's look at the fees.

[00:03:14]Okay, $33.54 is what they paid with shipping.

[00:03:18]Now, the fees are going to be a little higher than normal because I did have this promoted. So seven uh eight 812 e It feels really high.

[00:03:36]I had to start promoting again to make some sales.

[00:03:40]I made $8.64 on this. Womp womp womp.

[00:03:44]It's the high cost of goods, okay? So would I pick it up again? Sold quickly.

[00:03:49]Sold in less than a month. Um it sold for a good amount, but it was my cost of goods that was too high.

[00:03:57]So yeah, I might still pick it up, but definitely not at that price point.

[00:04:14]Okay, next is a pair of jeans that I just got back uh as a return for fit.

[00:04:25]I had looked them over when they came back to me, but just want to make sure everything's still good.

[00:04:32]These are Spanx and honestly they sold faster the second time than they did the first time, that's for sure.

[00:04:45]Um let's look.

[00:04:49]These are Spanx size extra large pants, stretch twill straight leg olive oil cargo stretch casual.

[00:05:00]And the first time they took like 8 months to sell.

[00:05:08]Um but then they got returned.

[00:05:11]I I really don't know all the dates actually. Um but they got they resold pretty quickly after I got them back as a return. I paid $9.78 for these.

[00:05:24]It's also paying up. Ooh.

[00:05:28]Uh what did they sell for?

[00:05:30]Let's look.

[00:05:37]They sold for $22 plus shipping. They're going to Wisconsin.

[00:05:47]$30.13 is what they paid with shipping.

[00:05:49]$4.55 for the fees.

[00:05:56]$4.55 for the fees. We'll put in a 10 by 13.

[00:06:03]Just going to put them directly in the poly mailer. I know people do this and I guess there's nothing wrong with it.

[00:06:12]I just always like to have a second layer, but since they were returned without it, I'm going to do it this way.

[00:06:24]>> [snorts] >> Weighs 1 lb 5.1 oz.

[00:06:32]Going to round that up to 6 oz.

[00:06:39]And shipping is $7.12.

[00:06:48]So I made $8.68. Oh.

[00:06:52]Y'all.

[00:06:54]>> [laughter] >> Ay ay ay.

[00:07:01]I'm going to try not to like freak out too much about the low sales until after my move and I get resettled in, I guess. It'll be a few more months because I honestly [snorts] there's not a whole lot I can do right now about it while I'm packing and all that kind of stuff.

[00:07:24]I hate packing. I hate moving.

[00:07:26]The next sale is really cute.

[00:07:31]These actually sold once and then I couldn't find them.

[00:07:35]These little chicken napkin ring holders. Guys, they're so cute.

[00:07:42]Hand-painted, just adorable, vintage.

[00:07:46]I'm going to wrap them up real good so they don't get broken.

[00:07:55]My dog's outside barking. How annoying.

[00:07:59]He's being really annoying. These sold on eBay.

[00:08:06]And I've got some packing paper here.

[00:08:08]I'm going to I'm going to wrap them up two at a time.

[00:08:28]One of them is broken, which I just showed in the thing. This is chicken napkin ring set of 10 hand-painted wooden bird folk art vintage kitsch kitschy.

[00:08:47]Going to Huntsville, Texas.

[00:08:51]I was sad when I couldn't find them the first time. I finally found them and relisted them.

[00:09:01]I basically just threw the broken one in as part of it. And you know, I said 10, but there's 10 plus the broken one.

[00:09:19]I was packing up boxes today and I'm just looking at the stuff I'm packing going, "Do I really want this?" But I don't want to have to buy all new stuff, you know?

[00:09:31]So like a coffee pot craft that we use when we have company and we need to make two pots of coffee.

[00:09:42]Well, I'm going to want [snorts] that sometime.

[00:09:45]I just don't use it very often, so I haven't used it in the 3 years we've been here. What is this one?

[00:09:53]Oh, there it is. Okay.

[00:09:56]>> [snorts] >> Maybe there were two Maybe the tins one was the broken one.

[00:10:02]It can be fixed. It just needs to be glued.

[00:10:06]Somehow Oh, like this. Oh, like this.

[00:10:14]So, you know, I packed it up along with the waffle maker that I hadn't used since I been here, but we love our waffles, especially again when we have company.

[00:10:25]Um yeah.

[00:10:27]And we just haven't had company all year.

[00:10:31]But we will when we're in Colorado.

[00:10:33]People will come visit us. 2 4 6 8 10.

[00:10:36]Okay.

[00:10:38]2 4 6 8 10. See what box.

[00:10:49]I feel like Goldilocks over here. This one's too small and this one's too big.

[00:11:19]>> [snorts] >> I love the dogs. I'm going to let them yell at them after I'm done doing this.

[00:12:00]Sophie, [snorts] is that you barking?

[00:12:07]Reacher, is that you?

[00:12:18]9 by 8 by 5 9 8 5 It's a pretty heavy box.

[00:12:38]1 lb I'm going to have to round it up to 1 oz. 9 8 5 and shipping is $8.26.

[00:12:53]Oh, the chickens.

[00:12:56]I got those at an estate sale.

[00:13:01]I paid $2 for them.

[00:13:05]They were listed all the way back in 2023.

[00:13:10]So, 2 years and 4 months to sell.

[00:13:16]My fees I'm going to have to add up again because they were promoted.

[00:13:24]Um 575 5 75 Whoop.

[00:13:37]Oh.

[00:13:40]$5.45 God.

[00:13:45]I took a low offer, huh?

[00:13:50]Yeah, I took an offer of $13.46 or I sent an offer of $13.46.

[00:13:59]God, that's even worse.

[00:14:02]I'm going to put some fragile stickers on all the barcode things here.

[00:14:14]I'm not worried about the ones that are actually on the box.

[00:14:20]Oh, boy.

[00:14:26]The last two are jewelry sales. Um one of them sold in less than a day.

[00:14:33]I just listed it yesterday and the other one sold pretty fast, but I'm I don't think I sold it for very much. These are a pack of anklets. Like you put them on your on your ankle and then your toe.

[00:14:49]Like little beachy jewelry ornaments instead of shoes, maybe.

[00:15:05]And they sold on eBay for $7.35 plus shipping. Going to Atlanta.

[00:15:16]Yeah, this is a It's a sad video. I really hope if anyone's watching me for the first time, you don't get the wrong idea.

[00:15:26]I know, if you sell Let's cheap things, you will sell cheap things. You won't make much money, but I mean, some of these things are filler.

[00:15:44]I got these for free.

[00:15:45]Uh yeah, what did they pay with shipping?

[00:15:49]$12.83. My fees are $2.25. At least they weren't promoted.

[00:15:57]And we're going to put them Just going to wrap them up in this packing paper and put them in a poly mailer because I think that these will be protected enough in the paper.

[00:16:11]Yeah, definitely.

[00:16:14]Oh, put them in a padded one. How about that? Padded mailer.

[00:16:23]Oh, man.

[00:16:26]I was not even excited to pack up and ship and tell you guys about the sales cuz I wanted Some days are like this and I guess I'm just going to end this month with a whimper.

[00:16:48]You know, weighs I'm going to have to round that up to 4 oz and we'll say that's an 8 by 11.

[00:16:56]Shipping is $5.48.

[00:17:00]Is that right? Yeah, $5.48.

[00:17:07]And I made $5.10.

[00:17:10]It just keeps getting lower and lower.

[00:17:12]This one's going to be higher, but not crazy not higher, just to prepare you.

[00:17:23]Yeah.

[00:17:26]I hate being down in the dumps and like negative and all of that, but just right now the reality is I'm rethinking what I'm doing for a living because I can't continue to make next to nothing. These two are two Red Hat Society brooches, pins. Very cute.

[00:17:52]If you've not heard of the Red Hat Society, it's like older ladies who like to dress up in red hats and purple boas.

[00:18:00]I'm really not even sure the purpose, but kind of like um just kind and be silly and have fun.

[00:18:09]I think.

[00:18:11]I got them for free from my aunt along with those beaded anklets.

[00:18:16]>> [snorts] >> They sold for full asking price of $20.

[00:18:27]Like I said, overnight.

[00:18:30]Like I listed them last night before I went to bed and they sold this morning.

[00:18:37]So, that was cool.

[00:18:44]And these actually sold on Facebook Marketplace.

[00:18:53]Feel like I get This is a 4 by 4 box that's being a little testy.

[00:19:28]I put it together inside out so it wouldn't say eBay on it.

[00:19:31]>> [snorts] >> eBay on the outside, but I mean Sorry, I'm down in the dumps, guys. I just It'll pass. It's just been crap day for sales and I mean, what can you do?

[00:19:59]Going to Florida.

[00:20:07]Okay, with shipping, they paid 2704.

[00:20:14]Seems a little high.

[00:20:16]Cost of goods, zero. My selling fee was 289.

[00:20:22]Shipping cost, 704.

[00:20:28]So, my highest profit item, $17.11.

[00:20:37]I mean, if all of these had been that, that would have been okay, but still, there's only five of them.

[00:20:43]Okay, guys. Um I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say.

[00:20:51]I did list a lot more jewelry. The jewelry I have is not very high dollar, so I need to pull some more higher dollar things out of my money pile and get those listed tomorrow.

[00:21:06]My nails are Just did my nails and it's messed up.

[00:21:12]>> [sighs] >> I think I'll focus on maybe some dresses.

[00:21:18]Yeah.

[00:21:21]Okay.

[00:21:22]Just keep listing.

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