How I Made $800 in 6 Weeks Selling Online with Vendoo
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Selling from home is one of the hottest side hustles around. It’s a great way to make money on your own time and work from home. To maximize your sales and your profits, you’ll need to use the best tools.
That’s why I use Vendoo, a crosslist service for resellers who want to sell more and make more money. In this post, I’ll show you how I used Vendoo to make over $800 in profit in just 6 weeks.
Why I love Vendoo
Vendoo is a software that assists sellers to crosslist their items to multiple online marketplaces. It has saved me many hours of work as a reseller and helped me make more sales - a win-win!
Several years ago I faced a sales slump while selling on just Poshmark. I knew I had items that were worth reselling, but they wouldn’t budge. So I spent some time crosslisting to Mercari and eBay and ended up making several sales.
That’s when the lightbulb went off in my head and I said to myself, “I have to crosslist!” if I wanted to keep selling items (and not just buying and listing), then crosslisting was the way to go.
At that time, there was no crosslisting service like Vendoo available. Crosslisting to every platform the long way was time-consuming and sometimes mind-numbing.
Imagine saving images to your computer or trying to organize them on your phone, then copying and pasting the descriptions from one site to another, adding specific information for each marketplace, and figuring out shipping.
Now that I have Vendoo, I’ve taken back a lot of the time I used to spend crosslisting and relisting because Vendoo does a lot of the work for me.
Vendoo allows for importing and crosslisting items between 10 marketplaces:
eBay
Poshmark
Facebook Marketplace
Mercari
Etsy
Depop
Shopify
Tradesy
Kidizen
Grailed
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My selling project
After taking things easy this summer, I had a bunch of household items piling up at home and an itch to go shopping for reselling. That meant I had to clear out my house of my own belongings and existing inventory.
I started listing at the end of July and continued on through August, then let items sit and sell for a bit. This project lasted about 6 weeks.
How much did I make?
Here are the numbers:
Listed: 96 new items. This was in addition to about 70 items I had already up for sale.
No. of items sold: 57 total
Amount sold: $1341.50
Profit: $801.30. This is the amount I receive after commission and fees and cost of goods were subtracted.
Profit per item: $14.06. This is $801.30 divided by 57 items.
Profit per week: $133.55. This is $801.30 divided by 6 weeks.
What did I sell?
I sold a mix of my own items and things I purchased specifically to resell. Sixteen of the 57 items that sold (28%) were mine from personal use.
My highest selling item was $99. My lowest selling item was a new baby t-shirt for $4.
Some top sellers:
1) Stio Pinedale pants - Sold on Poshmark for $99
I’ve found Stio pants only a few times, but they’ve sold well each time. These looked brand new and sold for full price.
2) NWT BlankNYC moto jacket - Sold on Poshmark for $75
My neighbor down the street told me she shopped too much and needed to get rid of stuff, so she sold me this jacket for $5.
3) Vince mohair open stitch cardigan - Sold on Poshmark for $55
I probably could have held out for more on this sweater because it got a lot of likes and fall was coming, but I wanted to make sales, not keep items, so I took an offer on this one.
4) Lululemon x Peloton pullover - Sold on FBMP for $49
I purchased this item second-hand for myself earlier in the year but guessed the sizing and it ended up being too big. After wearing it a few times trying to make it work, I decided I would be better off selling it and ended up making my money back on it.
Some thoughts on my sales
I made about $133 a week after subtracting commission, fees, and cost of goods. An extra $133 a week adds up. That’s over $500 a month and almost $7000 a year!
What I could purchase with an extra $133 a week:
More than a week of groceries for my husband and me
Fill up the car twice
Go out to a nice dinner or a few casual dinners
Pay the electricity bill many times over
Pay down my mortgage
Save for Christmas and birthday gifts
I sold what I found at my nearby thrift store and what I had around the house. You could make much more than this if you source higher end items than I did or you own items with higher resale values than I had.
Many people I know have valuable items at home that are worth reselling:
Nike shoes
Designer handbags and shoes
Video games
How did I sell these items?
These are some tips to help you make sales like I did or even more.
1 ) Use Vendoo to help you sell
Vendoo has so many features that made it easier for me to resell.
It helped me list items quickly, which was great because I had a limited amount of time to work on selling.
I listed items using a combination of the Vendoo app and website. I took pictures of items on my phone and saved them to the app. Then I wrote the descriptions and crosslisted using the website.
I used Vendoo’s SellHound integration to get an idea of how I should price my items, and I check sold items on various marketplaces too.
When I dropped prices as far as I wanted without making a sale, I used Vendoo to relist items to bring them to the top of search results again. Vendoo currently enables you to bulk relist items up to 10 at a time.
Once an item sold on a site, I marked it as sold on the Vendoo website and it automatically delisted from other marketplaces.
Vendoo helped me with inventory management because I tagged my items by category like mens, womens, childrens, home, and electronics. This way I could review and relist items by category.
The analytics section helped me keep track of my profit and see what items and categories sold the best.
2) Find time to work on selling
Vendoo saved me lots of time crosslisting and relisting, but there are other aspects like sourcing, taking pictures, and packaging and shipping sales that require time too.
I work full-time and have other hobbies and obligations, so I worked on reselling a few days a week but not every day.
I told my husband to look around the house for things he wouldn’t mind me reselling. This got me several video games and board games, items I normally don’t sell. Most of his items sold relatively quickly.
I got off work a little early about once a week. I spent 1-2 hours shopping to find items to resell. On weeks that I couldn’t get off work early, I shopped for an hour or two on a weekend morning.
I took pictures of items for about 30 minutes after I got home from work. This let me take advantage of sunlight before it got too dark.
I finished listings at night after dinner and cleaning up the house.
I shipped items from work. I dropped off packages at the mailroom on my way in. If I had several packages, I dropped them off at the post office on my way home.
3) Make lots of offers
Many of my sales came from making offers to people who liked my items. Sometimes shoppers won’t send you an offer, but if you give them a good enough deal, they’ll make a purchase.
I got notices about people liking my items or checked at least once daily to see if they received any new likes.
On Poshmark, I sent offers of 20% off plus discounted shipping of either $4.99 or $5.95. I sent similar discounts on Mercari and eBay as well.
Twenty percent off and discounted shipping may seem like a lot off, and you might wonder how it’s possible to make any profit. I listed my items at high enough prices to account for this.
The Holidays are here!
We’re already in November, which means Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner. If you’re looking to make extra money for the holidays, try selling online.
Sell what you have in your house. Most people have plenty of items of value sitting around unused like that sweater you got last Christmas that’s unworn still with tags on or video or board game that you’ve finished playing and put aside.
Ask family and friends if they have items in their homes that they’d like sold. My family has so much stuff they’d love me to sell.
Search thrift stores and buy sell trade stores for items that will resell well.
Find in-demand holiday items to resell online.
Wrap up
I was able to make $800 in my free time selling a mix of thrift store finds and items from my own home.
You can do this too, whether you want to to make an extra few hundred dollars or you have goals of pursuing reselling full time. It’s doable!
Use the tips above and Vendoo to start selling today!
