Gary’s 2008 Garage Sale Challenge – Weeks 20 & 21

It appears that once again I’m playing catch-up, having to report the results from two weeks to be caught up with this years Challenge. This report will cover both week 20 and week 21.

The number of garage sales in Grand Forks the last few weeks has declined significantly resulting in a decreased number of listings. This smaller number of items found has also led to smaller dollar amounts in sales.

Because of this, last Saturday I chose to get up early and drive to Barnesville, Minnesota for their annual City Wide Garage Sale Extravaganza. It will likely turn out to be a good decision. I went to 54 garage sales in Barnesville. Those sales resulted in 40 new items that are currently listed on eBay.

If I had stayed in Grand Forks I would have gone to 14 fresh sales on Saturday. While it’s impossible to know what I might have bought, no regulars that I’ve talked to reported buying anything of any significance, so it’s unlikely I would have either.

All that said, here’s how things look at the end of week 20. You will notice that my mileage expense for last week was up significantly. That is due to the 220 mile round trip I made to Barnesville.

Ended	eBay Sold	Amazon Sold	Cost	List Fees	FV Fees	PayPal Fees	Incid. Fees	Miles	Net Profit	Total
5/11	$193.46	$59.99	$35.35	$6.30	$18.04	$10.27	$0.00	$24.75	$150.37	$158.74
5/18	$923.70	$247.40	$59.55	$8.15	$109.00	$35.63	$0.00	$46.97	$911.80	$1070.54
5/26	$589.03	$298.12	$65.50	$10.40	$92.46	$15.59	$0.00	$59.09	$644.11	$1714.65
6/01	$348.10	$174.30	$30.70	$6.15	$50.69	$24.89	$0.00	$23.74	$386.25	$2100.88
6/8	No auctions - went fishing in Canada
6/15	$518.38	$57.34	$58.25	$10.25	$45.60	$27.83	$0.00	$36.87	$396.92	$2497.80
6/22	$215.92	$241.08	$21.25	$3.05	$56.44	$8.97	$0.00	$0.00	$367.29	$2865.09
6/29	$701.34	$139.91	$74.97	$12.35	$69.99	$25.42	$0.00	$49.49	$609.03	$3474.12
7/06	$935.78	$118.42	$41.75	$14.55	$78.21	$29.73	$0.00	$39.90	$850.06	$4324.18
7/13	$365.10	$125.98	$42.72	$5.35	$44.21	$16.12	$0.00	$21.71	$360.97	$4685.15
7/20	$366.07	$321.05	$89.50	$9.55	$86.45	$11.91	$0.00	$42.42	$447.59	$5132.44
7/27	$495.80	$469.26	$50.75	$11.35	$110.35	$22.73	$0.00	$52.02	$717.86	$5850.30
8/03	$278.74	$338.05	$45.00	$9.50	$81.83	$9.80	$0.00	$58.99	$411.67	$6261.97
8/10	$367.58	$210.45	$45.90	$11.15	$66.61	$19.32	$0.00	$38.38	$396.67	$6658.64
8/17	$542.88	$185.98	$52.10	$8.00	$69.00	$20.33	$0.00	$46.96	$532.47	$7191.11
8/24	$422.69	$492.56	$78.25	$23.85	$118.01	$17.30	$0.00	$54.04	$623.80	$7814.91
9.01	$914.03	$273.19	$108.00	$11.10	$104.60	$33.38	$0.00	$36.87	$893.27	$8708.18
9/07	$451.78	$55.46	$46.00	$5.40	$33.47	$21.81	$0.00	$24.75	$375.81	$9083.99
9/14	$319.86	$192.18	$52.00	$7.50	$54.72	$14.35	$0.00	$39.90	$343.57	$9427.56
9/21	$362.01	$117.18	$43.50	$12.65	$52.98	$18.03	$0.00	$31.82	$320.21	$9747.77
9/28			$124.85	$13.00				$133.83

2008 Garage Sale Challenge Update – Weeks 16-20

I am really behind in updating so I’m updating for 5 weeks this time.  Our sales have all been on Amazon as we just haven’t been finding much to list on eBay.  I do have some lots of books and some china to list this weekend; but outside of that, everything to the end of the Challenge will probably be Amazon sales.

 

Ended	eBay Sold	Amazon Sold	Cost	List Fees	FV Fees	PayPal Fees	Incid. Fees	Miles	Net Profit	Total
5/08	$0.00	$46.93	$5.50	$0.00	$9.74	$0.00	$0.00	$10.74	$20.95	$20.95
5/15	$0.00	$231.92	$24.75	$0.00	$51.17	$0.00	$0.00	$21.97	$134.03	$154.98
5/22	$61.97	$299.91	$72.50	$2.50	$68.29	$3.01	$0.00	$12.59	$202.99	$357.97
5/29	$77.06	$186.25	$41.25	$3.55	$42.95	$4.61	$0.00	$10.12	$160.83	$518.80
6/05	$0.00	$139.65	$6.00	$0.00	$15.25	$0.00	$0.00	$4.71	$113.69	$632.39
6/12	$0.00	$93.59	$8.75	$0.00	$20.80	$0.00	$0.00	$$6.59	$57.45	$689.94
6/19	$0.00	$98.29	$4.50	$0.00	$22.84	$0.00	$0.00	$4.94	$66.01	$755.95
6/26	$0.00	$114..30	$4.25	$0.00	$23.90	$0.00	$0.00	$6.48	$79.67	$835.62
7/3	$0.00	$100.95	$13.25	$0.00	$24.05	$0.00	$0.00	$6.49	$57.16	$892.78
7/10	$0.00	$61.25	$4.75	$0.00	$15.29	$0.00	$0.00	$3.52	$37.69	$930.47
7/17	$345.50	$35.25	$46.40	$8.41	$34.47	$17.12	$0.00	$19.58	$254.77	$1185.24
7/24	Vacation									$1185.24
7/31	Vacation									$1185.24
8/7	$56.96	$107.84	$11.55	$3.45	$28.71	$3.67	$0.00	$5.76	$111.66	$1296.90
8/14	$161.61	$78.20	$34.15	$8.10	$28.43	$10.62	$0.00	$10.70	$147.81	$1444.71
8/21	$0/00	$163.54	$11.00	$0.00	$34.23	$0.00	$0.00	$14.04	$104.27	$1548.98
8/28	$0.00	$122.94	$3.60	$0.00	$23.29	$0.00	$0.00	$4.85	$91.20	$1640.18
9/4	$0.00	$44.94	$1.50	$0.00	$10.25	$0.00	$0.00	$3.62	$29.57	$1669.75
9/11	$0.00	$43.93	$1.00	$0.00	$10.09	$0.00	$0.00	$2.91	$29.93	$1699.68
9/18	$0.00	$141.55	$2.25	$0.00	$25.53	$0.00	$0.00	$5.94	$107.83	$1807.51

 We wish everyone the best as we wrap up the 2008 Garage Sale Challenge.  Larry and Kathy

RITA’S UPDATE

Hey everyone

Due to my hospital stay I didn’t list anything until just recently. Although I did have a few sales from my ebay store, they were not challange related and don’t count. I will post new stats next week.  The challange is almost over, but I hope Gary does this again next year. I didn’t do very well with this challange, but I have learned so much and would like the opportunity to try again.  I will definately do somethings differently!

Hope everyone has a great week!

Rita

Gary’s 2008 Garage Sale Challenge – Week 18 & 19

Once again a variety of things happened over the last two weeks and the results for week 18 of the 2008 Garage Sale Challenge never got posted. This leads to another catch-up post including both week 18 and week 19 which just ended.

The seventeenth week of the Challenge saw an upswing in the number of garage sales in Grand Forks (probably due to summer winding down) which resulted in a dramatic increase in purchases and the number of listings for week 18. I had 42 qualifying items listed and they resulted in sales of $914.03. In addition, Amazon also did quite well bringing in $273.19 in book sales.

There were very few garages sales during week 18 because of the long Labor Day weekend and people wanting to get out of town. I did have a fair amount of luck at the thrift stores however, and between the thrift stores and a few garage sales I picked up 20 qualifying items that ended Sunday evening. Seventeen of the twenty items sold bringing in $451.78. Amazon sales for the week were a dismal $55.46. This was a result of my having to be gone most of the week and having to put Amazon on vacation for the majority of the week.

The figures for both weeks are shown below.

Ended	eBay Sold	Amazon Sold	Cost	List Fees	FV Fees	PayPal Fees	Incid. Fees	Miles	Net Profit	Total
5/11	$193.46	$59.99	$35.35	$6.30	$18.04	$10.27	$0.00	$24.75	$150.37	$158.74
5/18	$923.70	$247.40	$59.55	$8.15	$109.00	$35.63	$0.00	$46.97	$911.80	$1070.54
5/26	$589.03	$298.12	$65.50	$10.40	$92.46	$15.59	$0.00	$59.09	$644.11	$1714.65
6/01	$348.10	$174.30	$30.70	$6.15	$50.69	$24.89	$0.00	$23.74	$386.25	$2100.88
6/8	No auctions - went fishing in Canada
6/15	$518.38	$57.34	$58.25	$10.25	$45.60	$27.83	$0.00	$36.87	$396.92	$2497.80
6/22	$215.92	$241.08	$21.25	$3.05	$56.44	$8.97	$0.00	$0.00	$367.29	$2865.09
6/29	$701.34	$139.91	$74.97	$12.35	$69.99	$25.42	$0.00	$49.49	$609.03	$3474.12
7/06	$935.78	$118.42	$41.75	$14.55	$78.21	$29.73	$0.00	$39.90	$850.06	$4324.18
7/13	$365.10	$125.98	$42.72	$5.35	$44.21	$16.12	$0.00	$21.71	$360.97	$4685.15
7/20	$366.07	$321.05	$89.50	$9.55	$86.45	$11.91	$0.00	$42.42	$447.59	$5132.44
7/27	$495.80	$469.26	$50.75	$11.35	$110.35	$22.73	$0.00	$52.02	$717.86	$5850.30
8/03	$278.74	$338.05	$45.00	$9.50	$81.83	$9.80	$0.00	$58.99	$411.67	$6261.97
8/10	$367.58	$210.45	$45.90	$11.15	$66.61	$19.32	$0.00	$38.38	$396.67	$6658.64
8/17	$542.88	$185.98	$52.10	$8.00	$69.00	$20.33	$0.00	$46.96	$532.47	$7191.11
8/24	$422.69	$492.56	$78.25	$23.85	$118.01	$17.30	$0.00	$54.04	$623.80	$7814.91
9.01	$914.03	$273.19	$108.00	$11.10	$104.60	$33.38	$0.00	$36.87	$893.27	$8708.18
9/07	$451.78	$55.46	$46.00	$5.40	$33.47	$21.81	$0.00	$24.75	$375.81	$9083.99
9/14			$52.00	$7.50				$39.90