I suspect it may be a woman. I suspect its a "We sell for you" consignment shop.
I suspect she has been in business a little while, but probably not for much longer.
You bring in your stuff, and I will put it on ebay for a percentage type shop.
The seller seems to know a little about makeup/hairdo tools and childrens collectibles.
The seller seems to know little to nothing about tools.
Consignment shops never work. Its too much labor for too little money. But this seller has at least found out 50% of 10 dollars is 5 dollars, and she has to take pictures, list, pack and ship for 5 bucks. That is under $2.50 an hour pay no mater how fast she is, and more like $1.10 an hour! Suicide, fast suicide.
She sold some stuff in the 10 dollar range in the past, if you look at all completed sales.
So tools are now listed at what it takes for her to stay in business and make a profit.
Not what the tool is worth, what she thinks her time is worth.
They will never sell but the consigner is satisfied and she already accepted the commission so now has to deal with it.
The next step in her business evolution will be to refuse to agree to auction anything that is worth less than 100 dollars.
Even at 50% commission, the least you can do a commission auction for is a 100 dollar item, or group of items you sell at once that are easy to ship.
I won't do an auction listing for someone else, unless the item is ---actually--- worth $200 or more these days. And it better fit in a flat rate box.
I sold a gold watch and some comic books on consignment last year. $1000 watch and $600 comics. The only reason I took the comics was because it was a friend of mine who desperately needed the money and he had already pre-packed them for shipping.
2 dollar tools? No way in the world. You have to find someone dumber than me to even look at selling cheap tools on ebay.
yours Scott
