That time I QUIT MY JOB to Sell on EBAY full time
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Nothing like hearing the cha-ching! I love that sound
I'm still part time. I do have a full time job that I love and it pays well. I work from home and was looking for something part time to make a little extra spending money. Found this channel and a few others and I have been selling for a few years now. My wife thought I was crazy bringing all this "junk" home. 3 years later after a few trips and remodeling the house off ebay "junk" sales she tries to help me now
I can definitely relate. I have a good full-time job and have been doing eBay part-time for over a year. It has paid for 3 of our children's braces and has helped us from having to pull from savings. My wife thought I was crazy too. At first, I had listed items tucked in boxes under the bed and in corners. I remember one early morning in particular, my wife knocked over her Yeti full of water and it ran under the bed and I just started frantically pulling things items out from under the bed, so the boxes didn't get wet 😂. She still gets cracked up thinking about it. Thankfully, I primarily work from home now and have an office with shelves to keep my listed items.
If she is constantly questioning your decisions you married the wrong one.
In the same boat too. I work from home. Recently just scored a position that doesn’t require me to be on the phones at all so I’m not as tied down to my desk at home anymore. But it’s way better pay and benefits. Only issue I’m having now is finding space to store everything. I’m thinking of possibly cleaning out my closet and seeing if I can do some sort of storage system in there
Give the playing cards to Goodwill. When my daughter was little, one of her favorite things to do was make card houses. She'd start in one spot in the living room and keep adding and she would make these elaborate structures. Then, she'd knock them all down and put it away until the next time. She was busy with that for hours. We had a big bucket full of hundreds of cards that were from discarded decks. So- they will get used if you give them to Goodwill. :)
I appreciate your video titles because they’re NOT click bait.
An idea for all those wasted cards: Believe it or not, there are some scrapbookers (?) out there who collect individual cards. I don't know all the 411 on that and how it works, I've just seen them buy those in Ephemera shows on WN. So maybe you could do 1 listing with multiple options, depending on how much time that takes/how much you get per card. OR... you could use them as freebies in your packages! Just figure out some marketing words for "lucky card" and then sign it. Free insert that your customers may remember for next time. If it works for you and you run out - just throw more old used card decks into the pile for that - the ones that are too used to sell.
I leave my phone sound on at work. I love saying that something I sold for my business was more than my days pay there. 😂
You might be surprised. I’ve sold several bottles of perfume on Mercari and they sold relatively quickly.
Perfume is not used while it is still in the bottle. Most people list it new % full.
Very clever!
I have watched videos by several resellers who justify selling half empty bottles as new because “you can’t put used perfume back in a bottle”. We have sold partial bottles of perfume by total weight of product without issue, but understand your concern. I agree that an open bottle of perfume is not going to harm anybody, even if you use the tip of your finger on the end of the bottle most perfumes have alcohol in them so it would basically be disinfecting your finger lol. Reading the policy it states the perfume must come in the original bottle, one could argue it is new 1/3 full in original bottle. If you can sell cosmetic brushes used by a certain film industry in the Hollywood Hills that were “ thoroughly cleaned “ whatever that means… 1/3 of a bottle or 90% of a bottle of perfume seems much safer.😂 Thanks for expressing your opinion.
On My Less Than Full Or Not New Perfumes I List In Collectibles Vanity Perfume Shaving
I’m watching all videos regardless of title
I really appreciate your honest titles. I get that content creators need titles that catch attention, but I like them to at least make sense with what's actually happening in the video, and yours always do. So a big "Thank You!" for that.
I’ll have you know that I am special- my mom said so
Yes you are!
I get excited when I hear that cha ching sound! I'm like Lonnie, I run to see what sold and pack it right away and ship it out. LOL!!!🤣😂🤣
I could see how those perfumes could be in demand by film studios for authentic prop purposes.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Always enjoy your videos.
Agree with your clickbait thought. Some put titles that are questionable and then become annoying. But in reality I appreciate the hard work that goes into putting out the content, so I just 🤷🏻♀️.
Really enjoy you and Candice. Thank you! 🌷
Yup you said it right. Having all the knowledge in the world. But finding those things. That’s the Key note
Planning to do this as a side hustle until I retire. Then hope to do it to stay busy
Firstly Beverley was right 😊👍. I have a full time job in uk sell part time would love to do reselling full time but not selling enough yet and I cannot stand my job anymore road worker 30 years 🙈. Have a great weekend Lonnie & Candice 😊
You paid $52 for 3 sets of the candles - you sold the other one for $29.99 :)
Love the daily videos, but I miss your video on the weekend 😢 i know there is a lot of work when you list so much 😊
That’s exactly what my son does, he has a full time job and he sells on eBay and loves it. He got lucky and works from home.
Another great Vid as Lonnie would say. lol Lonnie you might want to go back to the Bev's Patterns you knocked off a sticky note on at least one of them. Thanks again for the great content
I saw when I was editing, I think that's the second one I knocked off too.
Nothing worse than the notification noise that isn’t a ChaChing😅 That question/problem noise makes me physically ill until I read it😂 almost always a low ball re-offer or a pre return complaint on something you already regret selling. I have started to learn certain categories to avoid because it attracts 13 year olds that want to know minute details on a 12 dollar item free shipping that cost 5 bucks at goodwill a year ago and you just want it gone 😂
Nice, cards came to my homeland... shout out to Australia 🎉
Ive just had to delve into fulltime as an ebay reseller, but have been side hustling for 1year. Im confident that i can make fulltime work 🍻🤙
you guys are so real, Candice was in full agreement about how Lonnie quit his job and then at end Lonnie checks in to see how she feels.
Great team, the best on youtube by far.
Alot of people that do junk Journaling would use those playing cards.
whiteboard on the wall, jot down video title ideas while you're recording it, then make that the very last thing you point your camera at before turning it off, so you see it in the video editor
Good vid, as always
Funny about the garage sle ka-ching! I had a similar thing happen when I used fart sounds for my ex wife's ring tone.
Great advice to the first question. I have a buddy who I share my eBay exploits with. He wants to jump into eBay reselling thinking it will replace a regular job and more. I keep telling him the same thing you advised to the first question, start part time and learn. It takes a while to learn enough to make it unless you have some great sources right up front.
Thank for sharing.
Yay a video!
I also sold a pair of those camo pants today. They are also going international through a freight forwarder in Delaware. I assume they are going to Ukraine.
I love a good origin story 😂
I feel like you have to have a bit of customer service experience to do EBay successfully. What do you think? At least know how to kiss a little behind. 😂 taking care of customers is always my first concern and believe it or not there’s an art to it.
Love you both, you’re my favs.
Wow! Those cards sold fast! My goal is to one day do reselling full time!
Love the videos and learning alot watching you guys, even the boxing of the products. My question is what happens with the orders if you guys want to go on a vacation, say like for a week? You guys are a great team.
Basically you shut down. So lets say you do eBay and depending on how you sell, buyers might have 4 days to pay. That means before you leave on vacation you shut down 4 days before you leave. You make sure everything is shipped before you go and you still need cover customer service. Before all the smart phones shut down was two weeks of advance of a vacation. So if you planned a two week vacation you'd basically loose 5 weeks of sales. Two weeks in advance shut down, two weeks gone, a week for money start coming back in and use a Laptop towards customer service. I did that going to California back in the day and used the hotel phone to dial up 2400 baud modem in case support requests come in, had check twice a day.
Interesting, thanks for the knowledge.
I’ve never had an issue selling perfume. It’s easy to skirt around by listing as new and putting level in description ie 90%. Even the most reputable sellers are selling them.
@lukesimpson3080 You’re asking for trouble by “skirting around” eBay’s rules. It’s better to list fragrances on Mercari. They allow partials and returns are few.
@@Joe_Pace We don’t have sites for cross listing in Australia. I don’t have high volume, it’s every now and then when you’re lucky to find a big $$$ bottle for $2. Older discontinued has been good, also new & sealed Avon.
I started 24 years ago selling part time on online auctions and stores. However I never enjoyed reselling more than I liked my job. Also, I have a consultant business that I enjoy on the side with a much higher revenue an hour than I could ever make reselling. All that being said, I’ve not pursued reselling like I have as a home health registered nurse all these years of service. It truly depends on if you love what you do and which pays the best revenue in the long run ☺️😁☺️😊
Candice mom is very generous! Loaded?
Love your channel! Watching from Vista,CA. Have a full time job and doing Ebay part time!
No spray perfume BUT…. If you wash used makeup brushes you’re good to go! Craziest thing I’ve ever heard!
Vintage Perfume Sales: I now put in a disclaimer too, because I got a "doesn't smell correct" from a buyer of a Sealed Bottle sale, who wanted a return.
random request, can you put your flashing Vegas Scene back on display, its nice to see!!
Thanks for sharing -- I guess I'll show up to my job tomorrow.
I bet you got some good casino stories!
What about selling the perfume as a collection on FB marketplace ?
Great video Lonnie and Candace, very nice sales, keep up the good work
Yes that's what I did with my first sales lol shoot I packed and sent it out the same day 😂. I do still send it out the same day or first thing in the morning, I'm still new. Thank you for all you share, it truly does help me ❤😊!
Size Matters: For pins, jewelry, coins, tokens, patches and decals listings, I include a photo with a steel machinist's ruler in at least one of the photos and still get the size question sometimes.
Lmao! The days when video game stuff was plentiful 😂 its a joke nowadays people scavenging video games like its the end all be all nowadays people showing up to sales hours early for video games i dont know about your area but where im at its the wild wild west for video games
Selling incomplete card decks would be like selling single boots. It could happen, but only if the buyers read the listings and notes.
Real people reselling & still paying the bills! Title ❤
I once sold a $375 bottle of used perfume to news "journalist" Jack Tapper from CNN. Interesting transaction.
thanks for all the info guys, really good job. nice store! and happy business
If people are returning things because they thought it would be bigger you might want to try putting a quarter in the last photo for scale. I have seen that in people’s photos before and I think it’s a great idea.
I love ebay's cha ching. I don't hear it often enough.
Replacement cards? Maybe some people have decks that the dog got, or the kids. And they need some of the cards?
I have opportunities to hit multiple thrift stores and have made a couple of connections with storage locker buyers. So inventory is available. Time to list and ship are harder. Late night packing and early morning drop offs at the post office.
I only work part-time. I know it is not easy to success like Lonnie and Candace. I also prefer anyone wants to do this full time, please consider and be careful
I agree with staying part time being best for most people. I had been a full time reseller for years but it's just too much stress for me. I can make a few thousand a month working about 10 hours a week but it takes 50-60 hours a week for me to make twice as much so it's just not worth it to me anymore. My current job is easy and having that direct deposit every 2 weeks makes the reselling so much less stressful.
I will make the leap one day. Thanks Lonnie & Candice
Have you all ever done a video where you show the process of deciding where to shelve your inventory?
A job is stable. Reselling is not stable and its getting less and less stable and very harsh regulatory measures are looming right now in amending Trademark law. On the surface it appears to be addressing counterfeiting but reality is it amends Trademark law and that covers any merchandise not simply counterfeits.
Jobs can definitely be more stable, thats for sure.
@@shedflips Indeed and one thing many who jump out of the workplace neglect think of is forward employability. Life happens. One can get suspended selling, adverse life events that end up requiring one go back into the workplace. Can get away with that if young and have some accredited skill perhaps in need update.
Once a person hits the 40+ year bracket and been selling online say 10 years well... Most become very unemployable towards wage to support the lifestyle. A resume of I've been reselling online for 10 years might as well I sat in atop the garage for 10 years. I know many gone through this ending up in jobs they loathe making far less than if they'd stayed in what they were doing.
There is much to consider going full-time online resale.
Wearing a shirt from Tucker Upper ?
what do you think about best offers? i dont think it should take 24 hours to respond, i am a buyer not a seller so when i make an offer on something i need to know the answer soon so i know if i need to buy from a different seller but i can not move on until i get an answer so i do not end up buying 2.
We try to respond to offers quickly for that reason.
Do you think that you guys would be able to make it full time if you didn't have the extra revenue from UA-cam? I have no idea what UA-cam pays or how that works but I do know that some UA-camrs make a full time living just making videos.
I think so. A good bit of my time is spent on youtube that could be spent on listing and other reselling activities if we didn't have youtube. We do pretty decent on YT but nowhere near a full time living. Other channels might be different.
FYI 25:06 one of the post it’s came off a pattern
Can you leave you phone sound on for one video so we can all hear the cha-chings? Lol Would be interesting.
Ok, Lonnie just said he left his sound on for this video. Lol
Question: if you are an analytical at all, do you happen to find a sweet spot for Impressions correlating to a lot more sales? what seems to be your number if you tend to see that happening? Usually at 3 Million my store JUMPS in sales. Thanks for your time.
I don't really look at the traffic graphs too often, I just don't find them actionable really. We are usually around 500k impression/day and I usually don't see much correlation between sales and impressions.
@@shedflips I tend to notice when i dip below 2.5 Million sales slow but when it creeps up to 3million and above we see a lot of traction along with stale listings moving as well. Might be worth a video to view one day then take a look and see a delist relist increase correlation to that potentially?
After 5 years of selling cars at a dealership, I quit to start a detail shop from home. It went great until winter hit in MN. I jumped head first into ebay December 5th, 2016. The first 2 years were a learning curve. By year 3, I hit my stride. Now I'm, 8 years in and 8.2K products successfully sold on ebay, Multiple "big" deals bought and sold now in 2024, our store is moving right along and we are striving towards our goals. It's possible, it's not easy, but it's possible.
I have sold spray perfume bottles that were not full without violating eBay’s cosmetics policy. Think of it like this: if I have a half full bottle of perfume, only half of it has been used, and trust me, I’m not going to make any attempt to sell that used portion-it’s probably not even possible. However, the portion remaining in the bottle is in new, never used condition. So ultimately, I’m not selling a half bottle of used perfume, but a half bottle of NEW perfume. I don’t think you can make the same argument with splash on perfume, because of backwash potential, but I think eBay is tolerant with spray perfumes because of the aforementioned reasoning.
I hope you weren't being serious.
@@WellnessWizdom I said it with humor mixed in, but with the core concept I was not kidding. I have sold spray perfume in bottles that weren’t full, and I would do it again. I think eBay allows for this loophole because with spray perfume neither the bottle nor the fluid comes into contact with the body. However, if eBay sent me a policy violation notice, I would not push it.
I have sold on EBay since 2002 started out just selling odds and ends. Started really selling parttime around 2011 was pretty much forced into full-time this past August when I was let go from my full-time job after 26 years because the company was downsizing.
I am like Lonnie I don’t want to ever work for someone again, unless I absolutely have to.
I had an incredible paying job that I was miserable at. While working, I spent a ton of extra time doing part time ebay that was paying off. January 1st 2022 I quit my job to go full time and I can confirm what was mentioned in a previous video that it is not as easier to find good products, list, sell, etc to keep up at a full time pace as it was part time.
However, I have learned to adjust and wouldn’t go back to a normal job
Great content, thanks for entertaining and educating us. With respect to the playing cards, yes crafters would use the cards. Creating altered playing cards is a craft and junk journaling also incorporates playing cards. And both of these crafters love vintage styles.
At the end of this video I realized that Lonnie treats his youtube viewers just like his ebay customers,
give the customer what they want like in ebay stores. I always want the video to show me the title subject at the beginning of the video
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Are you Walmart's pin distributor? Where did you get those?
Don't know why I thought Kong products were not allowed to be resold. Guess not.
Also the used perfume part does make sense because one can't be sure if the perfume has been tampered with. That puts not only the seller in a possible legal action problem, also the platform and even possible the manufacturer. So Covid topic aside, the rule still makes a lot of sense.
You can't be sure new perfume hasn't been tampered with either.
Keep in mind that not every perfume is filled to the very top, like anything else there is sometimes a bit of slack left in the bottle, so if it isn't full to the top, but maybe 95%, that could leave you some wiggle room. I get not wanting to take the risk of losing your store for a perfume sale though.
Here's what I add every time I sell a vintage perfume. I also include them in the Vanity Collectibles category instead of the perfume category.
"This is a vintage perfume and may have evaporated
some within the package, due to age.
I cannot guarantee that it still smells like you remember,
as some older perfumes begin to lose their fragrance
after a couple of years.
This vintage item is meant to be a collectible and not for use."
An ebay rep gave me the wording to use.
You can sell perfumes under collections