I’m so impressed with the quality of items you are able to find. I really enjoy the tops coats etc channel. Love your jeans and pants also. Great team.
Giving ourselves more opportunities to find amazing items by hitting more thrift stores and staying disciplined enough to say no on items that don’t meet our standards is what it takes!
How is the packaging and shipping process with larger items (jackets, fleece, etc) different than the pre-packaged “regular” shirts in the boxes? Thank you
Hey, I just found your channel and I’m a big fan already. I want to get into flipping clothes but I have no idea what’s good and what’s not. Good luck with the baby! I have a 7 month old and it’s been the most difficult and most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. You seem like you have a good husband that’ll let you take a nap when you need it. Sleep is the biggest thing. Anyway, keep doing what you’re doing. Great work!
You’re ok! You just discovered us and I don’t share my kids often in videos so it’s no worries! Lol but thank you! Kyle is definitely hands on and helpful. I’ve been a bit nervous introducing a third and going back to newborn stage but Kyle is a great partner/helper so I feel a bit better knowing that :)
@ my mom always says after your second, you’re an expert and it doesn’t matter how many you add. There’s four of us siblings. You all seem so nice, I really hope your channel blows up. I’m going to pivot to a reselling channel too instead of just comedy. What’s your biggest piece of advice for reselling beginners like me? I’ve only been reselling for a month so far and I’ve made $500.
Nice. I just reached $2,000 as a 90 day after months of sitting at $1500, then six months before that I had hit $3,000 with less listings. I just struggle to find good items around here. To overcome that, I’m trying to learn more about fabrics and change the time of day I thrift and eventually add more time for thrifting.
Yea there’s definitely ebbs and flows when it comes to sourcing. I like the idea of giving yourself my sourcing opportunities. That should help with finding better items!
Great sales! Could you share in a video how you filter your items for sales discounts. Can you run multiple sales at once and how long do your sales run for? I have done coupons for 20 or 30 percent off but it doesn't always result in more sales. Thanks!
Amazing work! Have you tried listing items in pairs that are same brand and size? I’ve thought about giving that a try for when I find two pairs of the same jeans or similar pattern shirts.
I don't know how you and Tech find so much stuff every day. When I go to the thrift stores, I can't even find 1 item worth selling. I already feel like giving up.
There is an inherent item “blindness” and I have felt that way many times. But what helps is researching sold comps on ebay for your specific city that sell for the price point you want. From those comps, you’ll begin to familiarize yourself with brands and items that sell for the money you’re looking for. Plus, the chances of you finding those items in your thrifts are high because they’re being sold in your area.
Love your videos - inspiring. I do think tho, that “churning” your items by “moving them along” is causing you a LOT of extra work and loss of profit. Maybe you could find a happy medium, like not putting Best Offer on new listings (add it later, like 60 days, & only on lower-quality items), only accepting offers up to max 25% off (not 50%, at least until they have sat for 6 months), and not being in such a hurry to mark them on sale. You’ll save time (packaging a bunch of $5-10 profit items) that you can use sourcing or listing new higher dollar stuff. The race to the bottom (price) keeps you like a gerbil on a treadmill. Just leave the items & let the eBay machine do the work for you.
There is truth to that however, the items that are being listed now sell themselves by the time they even hit the 20% off sale. If an item makes its way through each segment of markdowns and finds itself in 80% off after 6 months waiting for a buyer, I personally believe it wasn’t that great of an item to begin with. I’m happy with my work flow and the profit my items bring in and that’s all that matters :)
This is awesome! Are you promoting your items? I sell similar items but find that they are sitting a lot longer then I would like, so curious what your strategy is besides actively listing.
Would you suggest making a complete separate store on eBay just for clothing. Like I have a general account right now, but would like to learn clothing a lot more.
do you price your items high at the beginnig to compensate for your markdown matrix? once you hit the 50% off discount and take in fees, you must be in the negative profit point?
Very informative video! Thanks! When you were first talking about the new light, I was wondering how the florescent light would affect color rendition. Back in the day, I used to do 35mm photography as a hobby and hated shooting inside under florescent lighting. Do you prefer to do a deep sale at the end of each season to get rid of old inventory (fast nickel), rather than holding onto it and selling in the next appropriate season (slow dime) ? Obviously, it would depend on space available to warehouse the items, and what they actually are. I suppose business needs would factor into it, especially if you are depending on making a living off of it. I'm fortunate in that my disability check pays the bills, barely, so it would be an additional revenue source for me. At what point in the game do you advise a person to go from being an individual seller to becoming another ebay store? And once you have a store, do they hold out the fees monthly out of your sales? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the boonies east of Springfield to you and your family!
I would say fluorescent lighting has improved a lot! As for seasonal items, I personally just list and markdown all year round. I’ve heard other sellers wait for the season to come back around but I just like moving forward and streamlining year over year. As for if or when to get an ebay store, I would only get an ebay store if you ran out of free listings and/or you want to unlock the marketing tools like coupons auto markdown sales, and newsletters. ebay takes the store subscription fee out of your payouts. If you lock into a year long contract with them, they offer a discount.
Hi! Thank you for such great content! Are you listing on weekends too? I’m trying to build a business that doesn’t require all of my existence 😂😅 Currently I find myself having to have my hands in the business every day of the week to get it all accomplished solo. Just wondering if you’re scheduling listings for Saturday and Sunday or actually sitting and listing those days too.
Thanks! We are listing on the weekends but we’ll occasionally take Sundays off. We source enough through the week for weekend listings so it’s a lighter workload but we’re now trying to also photo and list during the week and schedule it out for the weekend. I think it’s a very natural hurdle for business owners to try to overcome lol
With your markdown sale, is there a way in your eBay store to set that or do you have to go in and do it every month? I don’t have a store I just list about 100 items there a month, I mostly sell on Poshmark. However, my eBay sales have been picking way up so my goal for 2025 is to get all of my 1000+ to eBay. I’m wondering if the store option offers better features. Thank!
20% off in 1 or two months.. unless you pickup exclusively 300% sell thru items you are basically guaranteeing many of your items go on steeeeep clearance, even the good ones. 100% sell thru means it sells in 3 months or so it seems your putting tons of excellent items at up to 35% off before they are even past the 100% sell thru age. You may want to to look into this as sometimes markdowns can be TOO aggressive and hurt your income rather than help, I personally do 5% per month. You can track this and find out just look at your store value, if its going up decently weekly and monthly then your probably fine but if its dropping and your not able to replace the value even with the same listing goal it means your markdowns are outpacing your new listings and causing your business to shrink.
on your barchart it looked like you had 2 days with no sales in Nov, what do you attribute that to if any reason at all? I know when I have a day without sales I am rethinking all my life choices, it doesn't happen often but when it does I kinda start spiraling.
also, have you ever thought to paint that paneling down in your basement white or even just primer it, the light would bounce off it so much more and brighten the photo area up. love your videos
It happens with stores that are smaller. Just like my larger store has slow days, it would have probably been a no sales day if it was a smaller store. It can be nerve wracking to not make a sale for a short bit but it all averages out month over month. I’ve turned from viewing it as and and more so as an opportunity to grow my store that day. That way when it does start selling, I have more items for sale. You just gotta trust in your items and pricing. If you don’t, then it’s best to evaluate it! I do think I want to paint the paneling eventually. But I also feel like I can work with it lol
I don't set a minimum offer amount. I like to manually counter or approve offers that come in. I typically don't do less than 25% off but sometimes, depending on the item, I'll do more or less of a discount.
If you’re asking about item wise, the smaller the better at first. It allows you to learn how to sell the items you’re listing and figure out why things may not be selling. Once you have a good grasp on selling successfully and profitably, you can scale it up.
So it seems like your profit margins are a little higher for your tops versus the jeans at this point. Considering how many bins of jeans that you had for $2500 in sales versus the one bin of $800 in sales for the tops. I’m curious to know if you’re thinking about transitioning to primarily tops over jeans. I’m sure you have better sourcing for the jeans at this point, but just wondering if that thought had crossed your mind for long term.
I personally think it’s easier to find higher profit tops than jeans. Sourcing is getting easier for the shirt store so it’ll eventually be on par with the jeans store, sourcing wise. I’d like to combine the two and do an equal amount of both.
Most the items come from the bins (Goodwill Outlet where you pay by the pound) and the rest come from thrift store racks. I haven't checked Facebook Marketplace in a while but I have found a few Carhartt jackets on there!
When she showed 10 sales at 808.00 that was plus shipping and not including fee's on the items. I know most of you know that, however, newbies do not. They did not make 808 for the day. They are doing really well, I do hope as being new herself that she understands her numbers aren't real.
Hey, recently came across your channel and have to say thank you. Your videos are extremely helpful, even with me being a UK reseller. I wanted to ask you mentioned your mark down sales. Would be nice to see how you create them on eBay and implement them in depth? Happy sales 😃
Hello UK! The markdown sales events are unlocked when you have an ebay store subscription. You would find that under the marketing tab when on desktop. I hope this helps you in the right direction!
Thank you for dressing in a presentable manner during your videos. So many others wear shirts with stains on them or other inappropriate things that give me the willies and I have to turn them off.. you are very pleasant.
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I’m so impressed with the quality of items you are able to find. I really enjoy the tops coats etc channel. Love your jeans and pants also. Great team.
Thank you!
Giving ourselves more opportunities to find amazing items by hitting more thrift stores and staying disciplined enough to say no on items that don’t meet our standards is what it takes!
How is the packaging and shipping process with larger items (jackets, fleece, etc) different than the pre-packaged “regular” shirts in the boxes? Thank you
@ it’s not terribly different! We have larger poly bags available if they don’t fit in our regular poly bags
@@carrieathomeWhere do you get those large poly bags for coats? Thank you!
THE DVDs?? - "Yeah I'm gonna move them" - NO!!!! 😂🤣 Killed me!
Same 😂
You guys are so inspirational you rock happy holidays thanks for all the great videos
Thanks, we appreciate it! Happy holidays to you too :)
I like to watch your videos. So simple and have so much information ❤
Thank you! That’s great to here :)
You Rock Carrie! You are such a Blessing! You are so inspirational. I can't wait to go full time Ebay! Keep Making Moves :)
Thank you!
Bravo! You’re finding some great items!
Hey, I just found your channel and I’m a big fan already. I want to get into flipping clothes but I have no idea what’s good and what’s not. Good luck with the baby! I have a 7 month old and it’s been the most difficult and most rewarding thing I’ve ever done. You seem like you have a good husband that’ll let you take a nap when you need it. Sleep is the biggest thing. Anyway, keep doing what you’re doing. Great work!
Oh! You said third child in another video. Well I’ll just hush up haha
You’re ok! You just discovered us and I don’t share my kids often in videos so it’s no worries! Lol but thank you! Kyle is definitely hands on and helpful. I’ve been a bit nervous introducing a third and going back to newborn stage but Kyle is a great partner/helper so I feel a bit better knowing that :)
@ my mom always says after your second, you’re an expert and it doesn’t matter how many you add. There’s four of us siblings. You all seem so nice, I really hope your channel blows up. I’m going to pivot to a reselling channel too instead of just comedy. What’s your biggest piece of advice for reselling beginners like me? I’ve only been reselling for a month so far and I’ve made $500.
Nice. I just reached $2,000 as a 90 day after months of sitting at $1500, then six months before that I had hit $3,000 with less listings. I just struggle to find good items around here. To overcome that, I’m trying to learn more about fabrics and change the time of day I thrift and eventually add more time for thrifting.
Yea there’s definitely ebbs and flows when it comes to sourcing. I like the idea of giving yourself my sourcing opportunities. That should help with finding better items!
OMG, preggers again?! Congratulations, you two! 👏👏👏 And way to keep that money printer whirring! 💰
Yea! It was a big surprise! lol
Great sales! Could you share in a video how you filter your items for sales discounts. Can you run multiple sales at once and how long do your sales run for? I have done coupons for 20 or 30 percent off but it doesn't always result in more sales. Thanks!
Love your Shirt Store videos. Can you tell me what size boxes that you use on your shelves for your shirt inventory. Thanks for your knowledge
Thank you! The boxes are 24x10x8 and I bought them off Uline
Where do you source? How do you choose what has a good sell through?
Amazing work! Have you tried listing items in pairs that are same brand and size? I’ve thought about giving that a try for when I find two pairs of the same jeans or similar pattern shirts.
I’ve thought about it! More so with my jeans/pants. Doesn’t hurt to try if you’re wanting to!
I don't know how you and Tech find so much stuff every day.
When I go to the thrift stores, I can't even find 1 item worth selling.
I already feel like giving up.
There is an inherent item “blindness” and I have felt that way many times. But what helps is researching sold comps on ebay for your specific city that sell for the price point you want. From those comps, you’ll begin to familiarize yourself with brands and items that sell for the money you’re looking for. Plus, the chances of you finding those items in your thrifts are high because they’re being sold in your area.
Hi Carrie, do you have a video on how you do your markdowns on eBay? Thanks
I don’t currently!
Love your videos - inspiring. I do think tho, that “churning” your items by “moving them along” is causing you a LOT of extra work and loss of profit. Maybe you could find a happy medium, like not putting Best Offer on new listings (add it later, like 60 days, & only on lower-quality items), only accepting offers up to max 25% off (not 50%, at least until they have sat for 6 months), and not being in such a hurry to mark them on sale. You’ll save time (packaging a bunch of $5-10 profit items) that you can use sourcing or listing new higher dollar stuff. The race to the bottom (price) keeps you like a gerbil on a treadmill. Just leave the items & let the eBay machine do the work for you.
There is truth to that however, the items that are being listed now sell themselves by the time they even hit the 20% off sale. If an item makes its way through each segment of markdowns and finds itself in 80% off after 6 months waiting for a buyer, I personally believe it wasn’t that great of an item to begin with. I’m happy with my work flow and the profit my items bring in and that’s all that matters :)
This is awesome! Are you promoting your items? I sell similar items but find that they are sitting a lot longer then I would like, so curious what your strategy is besides actively listing.
Would you suggest making a complete separate store on eBay just for clothing.
Like I have a general account right now, but would like to learn clothing a lot more.
I don’t recommend it. I did it purely for this challenge and to keep data separate as I was learning.
do you price your items high at the beginnig to compensate for your markdown matrix? once you hit the 50% off discount and take in fees, you must be in the negative profit point?
Nope! I price at market and still make a good profit. Thanks for looking out though 👍
Do you have a link to the lights you use?
I love the idea of the markdown sales! How long do you keep your sales running?
Just linked them in the description! I run my sales for two weeks at a time :)
@ thank you!
Very informative video! Thanks! When you were first talking about the new light, I was wondering how the florescent light would affect color rendition. Back in the day, I used to do 35mm photography as a hobby and hated shooting inside under florescent lighting.
Do you prefer to do a deep sale at the end of each season to get rid of old inventory (fast nickel), rather than holding onto it and selling in the next appropriate season (slow dime) ? Obviously, it would depend on space available to warehouse the items, and what they actually are. I suppose business needs would factor into it, especially if you are depending on making a living off of it. I'm fortunate in that my disability check pays the bills, barely, so it would be an additional revenue source for me.
At what point in the game do you advise a person to go from being an individual seller to becoming another ebay store? And once you have a store, do they hold out the fees monthly out of your sales?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the boonies east of Springfield to you and your family!
I would say fluorescent lighting has improved a lot! As for seasonal items, I personally just list and markdown all year round. I’ve heard other sellers wait for the season to come back around but I just like moving forward and streamlining year over year. As for if or when to get an ebay store, I would only get an ebay store if you ran out of free listings and/or you want to unlock the marketing tools like coupons auto markdown sales, and newsletters. ebay takes the store subscription fee out of your payouts. If you lock into a year long contract with them, they offer a discount.
And merry Christmas to you too!
Hi! Thank you for such great content! Are you listing on weekends too? I’m trying to build a business that doesn’t require all of my existence 😂😅 Currently I find myself having to have my hands in the business every day of the week to get it all accomplished solo. Just wondering if you’re scheduling listings for Saturday and Sunday or actually sitting and listing those days too.
Thanks! We are listing on the weekends but we’ll occasionally take Sundays off. We source enough through the week for weekend listings so it’s a lighter workload but we’re now trying to also photo and list during the week and schedule it out for the weekend. I think it’s a very natural hurdle for business owners to try to overcome lol
With your markdown sale, is there a way in your eBay store to set that or do you have to go in and do it every month?
I don’t have a store I just list about 100 items there a month, I mostly sell on Poshmark. However, my eBay sales have been picking way up so my goal for 2025 is to get all of my 1000+ to eBay. I’m wondering if the store option offers better features. Thank!
20% off in 1 or two months.. unless you pickup exclusively 300% sell thru items you are basically guaranteeing many of your items go on steeeeep clearance, even the good ones. 100% sell thru means it sells in 3 months or so it seems your putting tons of excellent items at up to 35% off before they are even past the 100% sell thru age. You may want to to look into this as sometimes markdowns can be TOO aggressive and hurt your income rather than help, I personally do 5% per month. You can track this and find out just look at your store value, if its going up decently weekly and monthly then your probably fine but if its dropping and your not able to replace the value even with the same listing goal it means your markdowns are outpacing your new listings and causing your business to shrink.
It’s true!
I’m thinking of implementing a similar discount strategy to my store, is this something that is done manually or something you can automate?
@@sergiorios5381 Autoposher bud it's automated.
Do you wash all the clothes before listing? I see some do and some don’t.
There is your answer.
I personally wash pre-owned items, roughly two loads a day for my volume.
Your Carhartt jacket is the "Active".
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. I currently don’t have any Carhartt listed on my store, they all sold
on your barchart it looked like you had 2 days with no sales in Nov, what do you attribute that to if any reason at all? I know when I have a day without sales I am rethinking all my life choices, it doesn't happen often but when it does I kinda start spiraling.
also, have you ever thought to paint that paneling down in your basement white or even just primer it, the light would bounce off it so much more and brighten the photo area up. love your videos
It happens with stores that are smaller. Just like my larger store has slow days, it would have probably been a no sales day if it was a smaller store. It can be nerve wracking to not make a sale for a short bit but it all averages out month over month. I’ve turned from viewing it as and and more so as an opportunity to grow my store that day. That way when it does start selling, I have more items for sale. You just gotta trust in your items and pricing. If you don’t, then it’s best to evaluate it! I do think I want to paint the paneling eventually. But I also feel like I can work with it lol
Do you do an ebay store subscription, if so, which one
I have a basic subscription for the shirt store an premium for the pants store :)
How do you determine what price you set your allowable offers to?
I don't set a minimum offer amount. I like to manually counter or approve offers that come in. I typically don't do less than 25% off but sometimes, depending on the item, I'll do more or less of a discount.
What size eBay store do you recommend starting out? Great sales!
If you’re asking about item wise, the smaller the better at first. It allows you to learn how to sell the items you’re listing and figure out why things may not be selling. Once you have a good grasp on selling successfully and profitably, you can scale it up.
What size boxes do you use for your inventory system?
They're 24x10x8 from Unline!
So it seems like your profit margins are a little higher for your tops versus the jeans at this point. Considering how many bins of jeans that you had for $2500 in sales versus the one bin of $800 in sales for the tops. I’m curious to know if you’re thinking about transitioning to primarily tops over jeans. I’m sure you have better sourcing for the jeans at this point, but just wondering if that thought had crossed your mind for long term.
I personally think it’s easier to find higher profit tops than jeans. Sourcing is getting easier for the shirt store so it’ll eventually be on par with the jeans store, sourcing wise. I’d like to combine the two and do an equal amount of both.
Uh, did you know photo-ing isn't a word? LOL
Lol we’re innovating over here :P
Are you already at Top Rated Plus for the shirt store?
Yes! I became top rated back in August :)
@ wondering about top rated plus. I’m top rated but haven’t made the switch to plus. 😮💨🙂
Do you normally get your items from the goodwill or also from facebook marketplace?
Most the items come from the bins (Goodwill Outlet where you pay by the pound) and the rest come from thrift store racks. I haven't checked Facebook Marketplace in a while but I have found a few Carhartt jackets on there!
Are promoting your clothes at the suggested number from eBay… 10-12% or is it lower?
Definitely lower. I’m at 8% trying to work my way down too.
Awesome video
Glad you liked it!
Thanks
You’re welcome!
Is your shirt store linked to your jeans store?
I don’t link to the jeans store, just the shirt store 👍
Can I ask what state you are in ?
Missouri!
AWESOME VIDEO!
Thank you!
When she showed 10 sales at 808.00 that was plus shipping and not including fee's on the items. I know most of you know that, however, newbies do not. They did not make 808 for the day. They are doing really well, I do hope as being new herself that she understands her numbers aren't real.
You’re correct- sales are different from profit!
What state are you in?
Missouri!
Great items
This barbarian approves your videos
That’s a great approval! 😄👍
Very interesting
Thank you!
Hey, recently came across your channel and have to say thank you. Your videos are extremely helpful, even with me being a UK reseller. I wanted to ask you mentioned your mark down sales. Would be nice to see how you create them on eBay and implement them in depth? Happy sales 😃
Hello UK! The markdown sales events are unlocked when you have an ebay store subscription. You would find that under the marketing tab when on desktop. I hope this helps you in the right direction!
@@carrieathomeI would love to see this explained more in depth as well. I’m trying to figure it out tonight after watching your video twice.😊
God’s Blessings to All. I received my shirt, great quality at a nice discounted price. -Pickers Sale
Thank you for dressing in a presentable manner during your videos. So many others wear shirts with stains on them or other inappropriate things that give me the willies and I have to turn them off.. you are very pleasant.
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