 And this may help you kind of realize that it's just not that easy. Hey, Bolo Buddies. Thanks for watching. All right. In this video, it's kind of going to be the truth about reselling. And it's also going to be my bread and butter bolos. My bread and butter bolos are items that I sold for $35 or less on eBay. But I want to dig a little deeper for maybe those of you that are not seasoned sellers. Maybe you're just beginning on eBay and you're like, why are my items not selling and you're feeling that frustration? Maybe you have 50 items listed and you feel like you should be selling more. Well, let me kind of talk to you about the reality of reselling in this video. And I'm going to show you 20 items or I'm sorry, 22 items that I sold. All right. So let's get into some truth. Maybe some of the things that I don't talk about in every video just because I kind of assume that everybody's been selling a long time and you already know these things. And this may help you kind of realize that it's just not that easy. All right. So let's get started. So how we're going to do this is I'm going to pop up the first screenshot here. And this is a vintage Thanksgiving punch out book American Greetings Pilgrims Journey. Now I will tell you that I am more of a long tail seller. When I search solds, I really don't look at sell through rate. I just buy things that I get cheap, that are interesting to me, that I enjoy listing, and I am a patient reseller. And I have learned that I do really enjoy fast pace reselling, but I'm doing that over on what not. I start my items low and I run them at an auction, usually $5 or less anywhere from $1 to $5 starts. That's on what not, not on eBay. On eBay, I price my items high and I put best offer and I wait for the right seller to come along that wants my item. So two totally different platforms and you may want to consider what not. I do have some tutorial videos. I will link them down in the description of the video if you guys want to check it out. If you're not on what not, you can use my referral link and get $15 to shop. Come hang out. Come watch me on what not. See what a show is like. And you don't have to buy anything. Just come hang out. But you will have that $15 to shop. You can spend that with me or with anyone and that is my referral link. So thank you in advance when you guys use my referral links that does help me out as well. All right. So let's talk about this. I did sell this for my sale price of $18.20 and the buyer paid shipping. I got this at an estate sale. It was in a big bulk purchase. So I probably have pennies in it. This was listed. I listed this in November of 2022. So it took almost one full year to sell. So I listed it November 17. It is a Thanksgiving item. So it was either going to sell really quick or it was going to be something that I had to wait a little longer for it to sell. I do leave up my items, holiday items, whether it's Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fourth of July, whatever, all year long. Now, so what I'm going to tell you is if you are a new reseller, do not expect things to sell super fast unless you find something that is a really great item with a limited number available. It's probably going to sit for a little while. All right. I also have over 5,000 items listed. Now, another thing that you want to do is you want to constantly be listing. That is another thing that I have not been real consistent with lately, which is part of the reason I canceled memberships. I have cut back on YouTube a little bit and I'm starting to, I am doing more whatnot, but I also want to focus on getting more items in my eBay store because I've been really slacking on that. If you are not listing, I will say you will see a decline in sales, but because I have such a big store, I am still selling stuff every day. All right. Now, this item right here are Isadora sheer pantyhose. I picked these up at the Goodwill Benz. They did not have great comps. So I just listed these at a sale price at $10 with a sale of $6.50. One person bought all three for $19.50 and the buyer paid shipping. Goodwill Benz is by weight, so I didn't have a whole lot in this. Now, these I listed these on February 27th of 23. So it took from February until November to list. Now, here's another thing that I will say. I'm not thinking about when I listed my items and how long they've been listed because I have so many items listed. If you are new to reselling and you only have 50 items listed, you're thinking about each and every one like, oh, my gosh, I have had this listed for 25 days and nothing, no activity. Once your store gets bigger, you start to, I think, focus less on our things selling. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I could go in and do edits. I could end my item and do self-similar. There's other things that I could do, change my title, look at solds, maybe reassess my price point. I'm not doing those things. But as a new seller, if your item is not selling, those are some things that you could possibly do to generate more sales, create a coupon. I have a whole video that teaches you how to create coupons to send out to your followers, to send out to past buyers. They'll also teach you buy one, get one 25% off with a Bolo coupon. That's my code. So it'll also teach you how to do that. So if you want to check out that video, I do also have that available. So there are things you can do to create and generate more sales. But sometimes eBay is just slow. So you have to kind of accept that and expect that and just keep listing. This one right here is a vintage Disney store. One hundred and one Dalmatians patch plus plush dog floppy pup. Now, if you have room, I also recommend putting stuffed animal in your title. I sold this for twenty one dollars and seventy cents and the buyer paid shipping. And I got this from a member of my Facebook group who reached out to me and just gave me a bunch of plush. So thank you. If you're watching, I sold another one and this was to a zero feedback buyer. And I have already put it out or I will be putting a video out talking about zero feedback buyers. So definitely check that out. I just kind of have some tricks and tips, which would also be great for beginners, but also seasoned sellers. This is a blaze in the monster machine, flip and race blaze truck. I got this. I don't remember where I got this, but I sold it for twelve dollars and forty cents plus shipping, usually a dollar or less in these items. This is a vintage elephant child T set in complete made in Japan. Let me go back to this blaze guy. Let's see how long I had two of these. And I listed this on January 14th of twenty twenty two. So it did take a while to sell. All right. So the elephant T set, I got this at the Goodwill for three dollars. Sold it for nineteen dollars and eighty four cents in the buyer paid shipping. And I listed this on October thirty first of two thousand and twenty one. So this one took. Almost two years to sell. So I am a very patient reseller, but I didn't think about this. I listed it and I forgot it. That's what I do. I list it and forget it. And that is not what everybody's going to tell you to do. You have to figure out what works for you. This vintage Lucky Bell flower scented doll from nineteen ninety. I got it at the Goodwill Benz. I ended up taking a best offer of fifteen and the buyer paid shipping. I listed her March twelfth of twenty twenty two. Just to give you guys an idea, not everything is a fast sale. This vintage plush moose reindeer Christmas stocking does not work. I still sold it for fifteen dollars and fifty cents plus shipping. This item has been listed so long that I didn't even note what I paid for it. It does say October nineteenth of twenty twenty two. This was one that I did sell similar on. So it was listed before that. So you can do sell similar. This is a vintage Polaroid camera. Now this one sold fast. And I got this at a garage sale for two dollars. Sold it for thirty seven dollars and twenty cents plus shipping. And I listed this November first and it sold November fourth. This is a Lenox teacup. And I did a whole video talking about this item. You can see right here, the head is broken off and I still sold it. I got this at the Goodwill Benz and I sold it for fourteen dollars and the buyer paid shipping. And if you would like to watch that video, I kind of talk about this as a Bolo item, but I also kind of emphasize that you can sell broken items and still make a profit. And that one was listed October sixteenth of twenty twenty two. The next item is this Waterford kissing ball. This came out of a mystery box that I got at a thrift store. Oh, nope. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This was the Goodwill Benz. I lied. I sold this for nineteen dollars and fifty cents plus shipping. And I listed this April of twenty twenty three. So less than a year on that one. So that one sold pretty quick. This is a vintage Fisher price loving family doll. And I sold her for a best offer of nineteen dollars plus shipping. I get these all over the place. Garage sales thrift stores Facebook marketplace. And she was listed on August fourth of twenty twenty two. This Midwest of Cannon Falls Noah's Ark. The next one is this Midwest of Cannon Falls, Noah's Ark figure figurine home decor. This sold on November ninth. I got this in a thrift store mystery box. So I used to get Christmas boxes from a thrift store. I no longer do that. I sold this for twenty five dollars plus shipping. And this has been listed since two thousand and twenty one. So this one took a long time to sell. But my cost of goods was probably a dollar or less. And I sold it for twenty five. So that's really a great profit. Could I have reduced the price more or maybe change my title and sold it faster? Relisted it. Yes, possibly. But right now with my schedule, I don't have a lot of time to go in and make those changes. But as a reseller that is only focusing on selling on platforms, that is definitely something that you can do. This is a Colescares Golden Books plush. And I sold this for twelve dollars and forty cents plus shipping. And this also came from the free plush that I got from a viewer. And I listed this October thirty first of twenty twenty two and sold it November ninth. This is a Vera Bradley pocket mirror. Now, this one also sold kind of fast. I got this at a garage sale over the summer for a dollar. Sold it for eighteen sixty plus shipping. It had the original tag and I listed this in September and it sold in November. These are Daisy Kingdom, Mary Engelbright, lot of eight iron on transfers. I sold these for twenty four eighty plus shipping. And I got these at an estate sale. So probably had less than a dollar in them. They were listed November sixteenth of twenty twenty two. So took about a year to sell. Lego Racers Extreme Power Bike. This is incomplete for parts. I believe I got this at the Goodwill Benz, but maybe it was a garage sale. I'm not sure, but it is like a pullback bike. It's pretty cool. Sold it for ten dollars and forty cents plus shipping. I listed it November fifteenth of twenty twenty one. So it took about two years to sell. Now, what I would say about this, this is a very specific item that somebody is going to have to be looking for. I would list this expecting it to be a long tail item or an item that sells really fast because somebody has it on their watch list. The next item are these vintage arch books, read aloud cassettes. There's two books here, The Princess and the Baby and The Boy with a Sling. I don't know. These go to something. Arch books is what they go to. I sold this for best offer of eighteen dollars plus shipping. And I got these at the Goodwill Benz listed in November of twenty twenty two and sold so it took about a year to sell. This is a Mac tools. And this was something my husband found. I don't know nothing about Mac tools, but he sold it for twenty five plus shipping. I'm not even sure what he paid for it. October twenty fifth of twenty twenty two is when it was listed. So it took about a year to sell. This is a very bright nine piece nativity. This is not something that I would have sourced, but I got it in a thrift store mystery box and it was new old stock. So I went ahead and listed it. I sold it for thirteen dollars plus shipping. Probably had about a dollar in it and it took a long time to sell. Like I said, this is probably not something I would have picked. Just I don't know the quality of it. Just I don't know. I just didn't feel it. And I was like, well, you know what? I'm just going to list it and see. List it and forget it. Listed it in twenty twenty and it took three years to sell. The next item is this vintage Christmas Santa. This came out of a thrift store mystery box, a Christmas box. Sold it for sixteen twenty five buyer paid shipping and probably had a dollar or less than this. I listed this in two thousand twenty one November of twenty twenty one and it took about two years to sell. And I think I've sold quite a few of these on McCurry. If you're not on McCurry, definitely consider that. I do have a referral link down below. You'll get ten dollars to shop when you join and then another twenty dollars to shop when you sell one hundred dollars worth of stuff. And there are some items if they're flooded on eBay. A lot of times they will sell quicker on the other platforms. So definitely something to consider. I've got my referral links for both McCurry and Poshmark down below. This is a Marinette String Plush German Shepherd plush for repair. I got this at the Goodwill Benz. I sold this for thirty one dollars and the buyer paid shipping and it is broken. April 1st of twenty twenty three. So that sold in less than a year. The next item is this pioneer audio video stereo receiver with instructions. I think I found this with the remote, but I don't think the remote worked. So I said, you know what? I'm just going to try to sell the manual to the best offer of 17 dollars and the buyer paid shipping. This I listed on March 29th of twenty twenty three. So that one also took less than a year to list. So I guess to me a bread and butter bolo is not really necessarily something that sells fast. It's something that I can source cheap and sell for a profit. Again, I'm more of a long tail seller. I'm not in it for the I want to sell everything super quick. I'm very patient. I have the space. Some people get storage units. Some people they have like sheds in their backyard. There's different ways that you can store your items. Some people only sell small things. So really think about your space. Think about all of those things if you're a beginner and just know that not everything on eBay is a fast sale. If you want fast sales, you need to look at how many items are listed and how many items are sold. And there's some equation you can do to figure out the sell through rate. But I'm going to tell you if there's 500 listed and only 50 sold, you probably don't want to buy that item because it's probably going to take a long time to sell. Okay. So there are little tricks and tips to sourcing smarter. I just kind of source what I want to source. I'm kind of a weird reseller, I guess. I don't know. That's what I do. My method may not be the best method for you. There's lots of YouTube channels out there that you can watch and check out. But in this video, I just kind of wanted to address the question of I have this many items listed. Why are my items not selling? And I also want to express to you that I've had items that I've had listed for seven years that'll sell and I'll still make a really great profit. But again, I'm patient and that is not for everyone. So you figure out what works for you. This is what I do, but in this video, I just kind of wanted to share how long each item had been listed. I'm not going to do that in every video, but just going a different route this time to kind of address that question that I got once and I think maybe it was in the comments here or on Facebook. I don't remember. It's been a while ago, but it popped into my head. So I thought I would share it with you guys. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for watching. Be sure to like, comment, subscribe and share and thanks for watching.