{"id":189,"date":"2020-04-16T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2024-12-30T17:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:57:42","slug":"april-ebay-sales-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"April 2020 Ebay Sales Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April Ebay sales have dropped off considerably. It seems like it was shortly after reports that the COVID-19 virus could survive on packages for up to 24 hours. The later reports I read indicate that the chance of catching the virus from a package are very low. Regardless, people see package=virus and they react by ordering fewer non-essential items. Ebay has been prompting me to lower prices as their recommendation to increase sales. They don&#8217;t care if I make less money, only that there is a sale so that they can get their selling fee. On average, 35% of every sale goes to pay shipping and selling fees. It doesn&#8217;t help that I can&#8217;t go out and source new items to resell right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are websites where you can still find items to resell, but the shipping cost is usually high for bulk liquidations. You also risk getting items in a lot that won&#8217;t sell. Goodwill has an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"online store (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shopgoodwill.com\" target=\"_blank\">online store<\/a>, but they don&#8217;t have discounts as good as the physical stores do. At local thrift stores, I only shop on the days when they offer a discount. My favorite sale day is Wednesday when you get 25% off most items if you are over 55. The discount makes a huge difference. There are about six thrift stores within 20 minute driving distance from my home. Every week I would go to a different store. This was working good until the lock-downs and social distancing started. There is growing talk of reopening some businesses, maybe thrift stores will be back open soon. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll keep looking for ways to make and save money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Ebay sales have dropped off considerably. It seems like it was shortly after reports that the COVID-19 virus could survive on packages for up to 24 hours. The later reports I read indicate that the chance of catching the virus from a package are very low. Regardless, people see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}