How Much Does My Antique Booth Make Every Month?
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
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You antique booth is successful because you're not running a museum, unlike many sellers. If you price the stuff to move, it will move.
Thank you so much for the shout out and the kind words I really appreciate it! I'm fortunate to have been able to pick up tips from you before you made them available to the masses lol!
Hahahaha, I remember hitting sales in AZ with you 8 years ago. That was you Training Day 😂
Hey suggestion for your booth. Since you have the Dos Equis guy which is pretty cool. Maybe come up with a # that is unique for you and put a sign up inviting people to take selfies at your booth with the cutout and post them on Instagram or Tik Tok with your hashtag. Might draw in some business and would probably be cool to see the photos of who stops by the booth.
You bought those POGS from my yardsale! Great job!! I'm glad they sold.
I also have a booth at the same place. #302 check it out! I wish there was a place in Eastgate. The mall would be a wonderful place.
Why you didn't sell them yourself?!?!? 😉
@@2steppin2cali because sometimes you just have so much $hit that you get tired of looking at it. I'm going to start building a house soon and I'm not taking it all with me. I've been selling on Ebay for about 20 years and I try to sell higher priced items.
Every time you show us your antique booths, I always love your setup! Looks very inviting, eye catching, neat, and just full of nice quality items :) congrats on the success with it!
I've had a booth for 2 years now. I was VERY "is this really gonna make any money" in the beginning! Since then, I average about $750-$1,100 per month in Gross Sales. Honestly, it's the easiest money that I've ever made in my life!! Price an item, drop it off and you're done!!! Absolutely love it!!!!
Re: the eBay automatically adding Best Offer topic - I can confirm that this has happened to me as well over and over again when listing through the App (Android) despite verifying Best Offer is turned off - it just appears turned on several days later (no bids are being auto-accepted though, I don't know what that's about). The other thing the eBay app will do is reset free shipping, but this appears to be more of an option revert bug that occurs when moving between screens and not something that gets changed after posting like the Best Offer. My workaround is to start the listing from the app (ease of adding photos without shuffling them between devices) and then save as draft and finish on PC - if it posts from site instead of app it never changes. The eBay experience is FULL of bugs.
More full of bugs than Oogie Boogie...Aint it the truth
I can confirm this , too. I also will start on the phone and list from the computer. Ebay will also send out an e-mail telling you they did it. Hasn't happened in awhile.
This was happening to me aswell, I fixed it by going to sell in the top right corner and changing my settings to the Advanced tool and it has yet to happen since.
Yes, They used to do this to me all the time . after about a week of being listed eBay would turn on offers on all the listings and I would have to go in and turn them all back off again. they send you a message saying your listings can now accept offers and they show you which ones they changed. I never had anything sell itself though. I just got offers from people that I wasn't expecting.
Right now I just sold an item that I'm sure I've already sold, I've got them boxed up by color and the item isn't there after the 3rd search of every box, I'm SOOOOOOOO SICK & TIRED of ebay relisting items I've already sold, this is like the 4th time in 2 months. & is anybody else getting items that they've already sold by sending an offer to buyers stuck on there allow offers page? Right now I've got 4 items on 1 account & 2 items on another permanently stuck as allow offer to buyers available (but I've already sold these items & when I try to send offer it says you can't send offer.)
The secret to success in an antique booth is that you enjoy doing it!! People that are dong it for the money never stay in it for long.
I rented a booth and get to load inventory in this coming Sunday. Have priced a crate of lps, vintage character glasses. vacuum, luggage, standing ashtrays, framed posters and art
Wow, i had no clue old helmets were worth so much! Great pick up.
I'm opening an antique "table" next month. Its only 30$ a month. Thought it would be a good starting point before I try a full on "booth" which is like like 2-300 a month. Will be documenting how it goes on my channel. Selling vintage video games
I think you should do a video showing items that you've had for the longest. I've had a pair of wooden clogs for 3 years that haven't sold 🤣
I sell in 2 different antique malls. I sell a variety of items. I walk around when there and see what everyone is selling, then sell other things. Currently im the #1 vendor in one location and #2 in the other.
Hey john, my wife said thank you for those pogs. She was happy to get the last ones. Great vid. Thank you for all your content.
Glad to hear it!
Great video John. It happened to me also about the best offer and also free shipping. I lost some money on shipping, I contacted Ebay and they said was a glitch when you list items with the phone, I don't know if they fix it or not. When I list now I triple check and then I check again on my pc. I had a booth also but here in California they charge to much for a little space, I had it for 3 month, made enough for the rent, that's it ! no profit, was like just giving the stuff away and make the owner more rich..lol
"I've got about a dollar into this, it sold for....."
So satisfying
I don't want to drive 1,000 miles and hunt in thrift stores and 7am garage sales😣🕖🛌🏾😴😣😣. I would rather you buy it for a buck and i will buy it from you while I am sitting in my armchair.
He never takes a loss on anything.. an amazing reseller.... or at least never admits to a loss...
As a collector I have to admire that. You have to have an eye for a bargain to get stuff with enough meat on the bone to resell for a decent margin. Not easy, if it was I'd be doing it too.
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I remember that funny looking red toy. Thank you for the video, the question and answer time.
I shared a booth at Ohio Valley, rent was high but the traffic was steady.
As a former owner of an antique mall, I can tell you that you should have 2 or 3 times the number of items you have in each booth. You could still make it look neat and not junky. It’s just like eBay, the more you have available for sale the more you will sell. Fill those booths up and your sales will double. My two cents. I enjoyed the video!
Love the videos John! I watch you everytime you upload😄
Thanks Jordan!
I sell a crazy amount of caps in my booth. Tin signs (even the new kind) and license plates sell well.
Enjoyed your videos as always and thanks for the content. Antique booths!!!! I like the ones that are packed to the brim with little or no room to navigate. They at times have been some of my best finds. I knew of a successful antique dealer in Maine that kept a close eye on the booths at antique malls in his area. He would watch them closely and could tell when items were not moving over a period of time. He would offer ten cents on the dollar and take everything. Did this work all the time, of course not. His strategy worked enough for him over the years.
Netgear Wifi routers are great sellers. I picked up three of them on Thursday and all sold by Saturday.
thats whats great about picking....to master your craft is to learn something new everyday and it never stops.
Happy for you that the booths(Is that written correctly?) do so well!
All in all Corona did not crash online selling. People wanted to treat themselves and it was door delivered. Keep on going 😊.
Hey John... Ebay is actually doing the changing of accepting offers.. it is soo frustrating. I don't want ebay to decide for me what I want to accept offers on. Thanks for the tip on how to bulk edit though! that will be super helpful.
so, i noticed I had a bunch that got changed to accept offers and looked to see about the bulk edit, but I don't see a way to select multiple auctions for a bulk edit. Is there a way you can show us where that option is?
Props for being so organized
I have a booth, dishes, glassware do not sell. What sells in my booth is tools, games, crafts, repainted furniture, cookie jars, signs, right now Halloween decoration and items, lamps, prints, and a few other things, My booth is full, i have a coffee table in the center with lots of items on it and you can walk around the booth around the coffee table. Lots of smalls here and there on top of bookcases, stands, and 2 windowsills. I do fairly well for a small booth. Mary
Hey John. Love your channel! I buy at yard sales and sell on ebay some but mostly sell in antique boothes. Suggestion to viewers: If possible find a weekend tourist destination town to set up in. I have 300 sq ft in our local shop in eastern WV that attracts DC metro folks. Been doing this for 20 + years. August sales topped $3,000 with rent at $465 & no commissions. Selling vintage and newer toys, comics, star wars, character glasses, lunchboxes, cookie jars, Hot Wheels, records, sports & western memorabilia, pop culture, soda, brewianna, ad signs mirrors and trays, tin cans, old bottles, mantiques, etc. Items range $3 - $100 but most hover $10-$30. My new rule is to only buy what can fit in a box, shelf or showcase and load the space up to the gills! Best to you and your family!
Great video!
Thanks for discussing your antique book. We don’t have anything like that around here..we barely have thrift stores. But I love seeing your take on things
Also if you can use command hooks to hang stuff that might help. They have all different kinds. Maybe even some wreath hangers to clip on the top?
Along with Records another great thing to sell is Marvel and DC Comic books they dont take up much space. Another thing about having a booth is small add on things like hot wheels. I have a loose bin of hot wheels that I sell 2 for 1 dollar and I am constantly refilling it. Also sell lots of stuffed animals. with the stuffed animals I look for pop culture like muppets, pokemon, star wars, and pound puppies. One more thing that does well is unopened packs of sports cards. you can find boxes of unopened sports cards for $10 to 20 bucks and most of them come with 36 packs. if you sell them for $1 to $2 a pack people will buy them. I found 6 boxes of unopened packs, (basketball, football, baseball) and sold out of them in 3 months. I have even had people reaching out if they could buy more because there is now where you can buy a single pack. remember, whatever you sell at your shop is going to be going to people that have impulse buys and you want to target them. I hope this helps. @cincinnatipicker we should talk sometime I could really help you out with ideas for your booth I think you could double what you are currently making easy. Look me up on Facebook - RebelToyBox
got our first booth in January. Better each month and just secured our second that will start in two weeks. Been loving it. Now to get eBay started again by summer!
Loving the videos as always man. Have you ever considered hiring an eBay lister? I've been toying with the idea recently, would love any advice you may have!
Take a drink every time John moves Might and Magic to get a video game! 🍺
Those Looney Tunes Pogs were hot in the Netherlands in the 90's. They were called Flippo's and could be found in side bags of chips.
we do the opposite..we jam pack our booth of low end items with the same good results....There is no wrong way to make money...Thanks for the great advice and tips
No Questions at all : Quality always sells - we see it all the Time on E-Bay - Markets - Yard Sales and other Platforms !!!! Keep Safe and many Cheers from all of us here in Australia - we Love Your Channel !!!!
Your channel is a real education about the value of items. I'm often surprised at the prices things sell for.
Vintage glass does sell because I’ve sold a lot of it. That’s my primary category of things that I sell. It’s usually older people who buy it.
eBay has been doing the Best Offer thing for at least a year to anyone who either uses the simple listing form on the PC or through the app. If eBay feels your price is too high, or higher than previous solds, they will add it automatically. More experienced sellers who list through the advanced tab won't have this happen.
Hey John...Great Sales BTW...Yeah when making a listing on Ebay...putting the price in...it automatically has the "best offer" as default until you change to make your price point or turning it to off...as to not taking offers...
Your dad did well on his garage sale finds! Good job!!👍🏼
Man, i just saw your brother in law and sister down at the city wide yard sale in taylor mill, KY! I couldn’t believe to see ‘em all the way out here lol. Keep up the great content! PS- we were chris n lindsay (and our daughter gwen) that visited the booth!
Check out the antique mall in Jay County Indiana- it is in the town of Portland. It is a HUGE antique mall- Prices great and the employees really helpful and nice. I think it is driving distance from Cincinnati- maybe around 2 hours? I'm not really sure. I haven't been to Cinci since Jerry Springer was mayor.
I think antiques booths are dying in most areas, but I’m only speaking from my own local perspective. Like Lonnie said in your podcast (I think), most dealers are breaking even on rent. That’s just an awful business model. Selling smalls in a booth is just an especially terrible move, now that eBay traffic is so robust.
I used to sell in a booth a few years ago, and it wasn’t worthwhile until I used all my space for vinyl. At that point, my booth was dominating the foot traffic and sales. The landlord told me I was the only one making money, and when I looked around at the booths around me, I didn’t doubt it.
You're not wrong. We do still have some months where we make a few hundred at the booth and some where we're lucky to break even. There are certain items that the condition is difficult to explain or shipping could be a nightmare, so we're keeping the booth for now. Concentrating on larger stuff.
I've too heard that. 90% of antique mall vendors are hobbyists trying to break even and the remaining 10% that consistently make money are the pros.
I have a small booth. Still doing ok, but a few months owner said only me and a few ppl made money. So far this month doing great on tons of small.
We do good business at our booths. You have to find a niche and develop a following. Keep your prices low, we leave enough so if another vendor wants to flip it there's still meat on the bone. But above all you need to watch your ROI, we buy low enough to keep our margins high.
I love having booths too! I literally just uploaded a vlog about mine! I make about $800 a month profit there for minimal effort.
Hey John local guy here, Florence Kentucky I have a booth in the Florence antique mall. We do very well they're probly profit close the 800 to $900 monthly. In one booth. We sell mostly vinyl, vintage toys, coins, and other collectibles. Love your videos watch them all the time learned a lot thanks.
We have a flea market booth- the keys from what we have seen- sell stuff that is hot. Farmhouse anything- cute signs ect.
The killer is like you said when people put glassware junk or stuff no one buys in them and they can’t make rent. Also you need to be in the area of at a minimum doubling your money on each item ideally tripling it
Very good information & very nice looking booths. Products are arranged so that people can see & don't have to dig. Great!
Tip: get a few larger pieces... table, stands, hutch, etc to get more of your items at eye level for buyers to see better. 👀 love love love....your items!!!
Also, If you ever "edit" your listing that was originally Buy it Now with no obo, it will add obo regardless of what you might haved edited. You can go and correct a typo and next thing you know, your item is now OBO. Also agree, make sure you turn it off when listing, I've forgot several times.
can confirm that they are turning on offers on you. Had it happen recently. The email said your items can now accept offers. I had 5 items that were changed. Luckily it was not set to auto accept.
I think the question about listings getting changed to best offers was talked about in a recent eBay for business podcast. eBay does it with new sellers to “help” their business.
I'm not a new seller. These shenanigans caused me to have to buy a laptop. I wanted to do all of ebay on a phone when i started.
I live in northern michigan not too many towers here idk if your camera is the best camera ever made or if my phone is loading quicker but I see what people mean by "wow look at that clarity!"
I've been dying to ask, have you ever broke something after selling it but before shipping it? If so, did the buyer freak out or ask want the item? I get so nervous watching you get those boxes with one hand.
I like to go to garage sales and estate sales and get china hutches and bigger furniture pieces for my antique booth. I found 3 hutches at one sale for $100 each and sold one for $400, another for $450 and a thrift for $500. We have a lot of small stuff too but that is slow moving.
New subscriber. I love how organized you are!
John, you are the nicest. Thanks for all your great content!
My Dad brought home a Life size cardboard cutout of 7‘1" Shaq. from Orlando Magic back in the day...We took turns hiding it in unexpected places....Lol. Open front door in a rush to go to work, BOOM! A giant smiling guy is right there.. Get up to pee in the middle of the night?? BOOM a giant figure in the tub... Pretty sure mom "Recycled " it after a week or two of BS hahaha
Pick up some shelving for that booth space. I get mine at sales and auctions for cheap and you increase your vertical space in the booth.
When we had an antique mall nearby I would take anything too big or not worth selling on eBay there, anything that didn't sell after a year went into our huge annual garage sale (we would do $3k over a three day sale) and then anything left from the yard sale was donated for a tax write off.
Best offers can be added via eBay but will never accept an offer in your name. they do this when items are listed above the average comp it calculates based on items that meet the same search range. They also will add a best offer option after the first 30 days with no watchers. This by no way will ever accept a best offer but you will possibly receive some offers which you can decline and update your listing with best offer turned off. they can add it again without notice. Just something to keep an eye out for.
Being from Nebraska. It was kind of cool to see the corn husker cap you pulled out.
Watch out using the bin numbers in the title, sometimes those can mean something. Like for model trains C1-C10, R1-R5, P3-P10, and O1-O5 is all part of a grading system. I'm sure some other items do something similar.
I have a booth at a vendors mall. It is mostly MEDIA. I used to do $60.000 gross a year now it is down to around $24.000. But still my ROI is great my rent is only $279 a month so I am still making $1200 net profit a month.
Also sometimes it changes my auctions to free shipping.
Hey, love the videos! Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
I've watched minutes of this...you finally got to an antique
Question for you. Do you ever do auctions on items or do you do all buy it nows? Which one works the best?
I went to an antique mall recently that I will avoid . It was dirty, the booths were over crowded and looked neglected. It was not a pleasant experience.
I headed over to your brother in laws channel and subscribed 😋 I love your channel and your wife’s channel 😋
10:41 Sorry, my Japanese ear is twitching. 👂💥 The word is pronounced “guy-den.”
Popular series, so I’m sure not the last time you’ll encounter the title.
I've been having this same problem with ebay changing my prices like this.
I’ve been thinking about a booth but it is hard to find space. I went to your antique mall once (other side of town but near family) and really enjoyed it there. I will keep trying to find a good place but I’m seriously considering your mall now.
It has changed mine to free shipping and It has also changed mine to best offer as well. It doesn't do it as much now but before it was doing it to every 5th or so listings.
Hi, ebay always changes my listings to best offer after a few days of listing it and they send me an email 'your items can now accept offers' and I have to hurry to change it because they're always really low. I got so annoyed and stressed that now I set all items to accept offers one dollar less than my ask price. I list by phone.
It’s happened to me too. I notice after I change it back once I’m good. But seems to reset if I have the listing expires with auto repost.
Yep that's so annoying - 😆 then you get low ball offers
Yes they are changing my listings to best offer as well.
I have a booth and sell movies, video games, toys and alot of misc stuff. I do well and going on 2 years now. I did start off with a small booth and now have a big booth now.
Great video. Wow, your booth is going great‼️ I subscribed to your brother in law. Thanks for sharing😀
Hello and thank you for Video. Im selling in UK and have exact same problem with ebay to set "Best Offer" after a while. It does it all the time. Even if I dont put it ! Its very annoying. I found it only on my new ebay account. Dont have it on my old ebay account.
Very nice rubdown on the antique booths, John. Thanks for sharing so much. Now forgive my ignorance, but I gather the antique mall is open all day, every day, and as part of their rent and commission structure, they handle sales for you whenever you are not present, correct?
About every three or four days, eBay changes a few of my listings to Best Offer also. As another commenter said, eBay thinks they are helping you with your sells. That’s fine, but don’t do it automatically so that I have to go in and change them all back to Buy It Now. Check with me first if you think it might help. It should be my choice. I don’t need extra work!
Thanks for sharing and caring! Stay Safe!
Ebay app is way too buggy. The only thing that I use it for is the barcode scanner. I do all final listing on my desktop, you can do more and while a bit slower much easier.
Yup Ebay doing that to me too...Turning on offers when i already posted it with no offers ...They done it more than a few times now...I just revise them but it is ridiculous how they do that...
Dude, you freakin kill it! Would be awesome to see you around town!
Love your video! It has helped me tremendously. What type of printer do you use for shipping labels?
Ebay changes all of my listings to accept offers after a few weeks but they don't change the price or set an acceptable lower price. I still have the option of declining.
When hunter buys a camo hat 😮
Hi John,
I'm a fairly new viewer to the channel and have been going through your videos for a few weeks now. I was wondering... You clearly enjoy picking but what is/are your long term goal(s)? Is picking something you could see yourself doing for the next 10 years or do you have an end game?
Keep up the good work! 👍🏻
Love the vids keep it up man
Thanks!
I'm seriously thinking about starting one .
Do it!!!!
West Chester Antique is a great place to go and visit ! I was lucky enough to get the copy of Led Zeppelin 4 and it was a wonderful investment ! Really enjoyed the set up of your booth
Does it have Pecko duck written on the vinyl around the label?
Those Ducks Unlimited Hats are flying out of your store! “Pickerssale on eBay”
Love the vids keep up the good work
Hi there. I normally don't watch you but I must say I like your comon sense approach to selling. I like the guys on family flips. They are similar to you. I like to see positive nice people do well and Thank you from john in Sydney.
It seems like my sales have went way down since managed payments. Why?
I had to pump in New items just to maintain
Big Hello from Texas 🤠 Thanks for sharing and entertaining 😊
You don’t list things on the weekend. Is that a business decision? I would think more people would be on EBay on the weekend? What is your typical listing length? Thanks. Love your style.
I get so tired of seeing people in CP, Lonnie and other resellers’ comment sections talking about how they wouldn’t get sales if not for the channel. John has so many sales to viewers primarily because he has GOOD PRODUCT not because he has thousands of viewers. I can almost guarantee that the only effect of John’s channel is the SPEED that things move out the door. If John sells something to a viewer in a week, he almost certainly would’ve sold it to someone else in two. People love to look for a reason to discount others’ success, but the truth is that John has years and years of hard work and experience behind him, YT or not. Keep up the good work CP!
Agree!!