Track the haul as one buy.

Buy a box of 40 items for $100 and the spreadsheet maths gets ugly fast. Flippedit tracks the haul as one buy: split COGS across the items, link listings as you post them, and read revenue, profit and ROI for the lot as it sells down.

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What it is: Logs a haul as one purchase, splits the cost across the items you link to it, and shows revenue, profit and ROI for the lot as it sells down.
You still do: Create the purchase, enter what you paid, and link items as you list them.
eBay already does: Nothing. eBay has no idea what a box of 40 items cost you.
What changes: You know whether the haul paid for itself, and each item carries its share of the cost into profit.

Every haul, accounted for

Garage sale lots, storage units, thrift store sweeps, wholesale pallets. If you buy in bulk, this is how you find out which sources are actually worth going back to.

Group the haul into one buy Wholesale lots, storage units, estate hauls and thrift store sweeps, logged once with every payment against it.
Split COGS your way Auto weight gives pricier items more of the cost, flat average gives every item the same. Lock any item to a cost you know.
Watch the lot sell down Linked items across unlisted, active, sold and written off, with revenue and profit updating on each sale.
Net return and ROI per buy Total cost, revenue, profit and ROI for the haul, so you know which sources to go back to.

How it works in Flippedit

A bulk purchase is one record for the whole haul. You link items to it as you list them, choose how the lot cost is split, and read cost, revenue, profit and ROI for the buy as a unit.

Here is how a haul reads as it sells down. The figures are illustrative. Week one: a $100 box of 40 items, split by auto weight, so the $30 camera carries more of the cost than the $4 DVDs. Week two: 6 items sold for $85, and after fees and their share of cost the haul shows a profit of minus $15. That is normal, and the spreadsheet version usually stops here.

Week six: 22 sold for $310 in revenue. Fees, postage and $55 of linked cost come off, and the haul shows $210 of profit, 210% ROI on the $100. Eighteen items are still listed and still carry $45 of cost between them, so the number keeps moving as they sell. You can see the day the box paid for itself, and you can sort every haul by ROI to see which sources to go back to.

The tail is where hauls quietly lose money. Ten items that never sell still hold $25 of cost. Flag them as stale, hand them to auto relist for one more run, or write them off. A write-off books the $25 as a loss and closes the haul at $185 profit, which is still a good box, and now you know that instead of guessing.

Log the haul once

Record the description, date, total cost and item count. If you paid in parts, add each payment to the same purchase.

Link items over time

Link items from unlisted inventory, active listings, sold items or write-offs. The purchase stays open, so listings posted weeks later still take their share.

Auto weight or flat average

Auto weight uses each item's listed or sold price to give pricier items more of the cost. Flat average gives every unlocked item the same. Switch at any time and the split re-runs.

Lock a known cost

If you know what one piece was really worth, lock its COGS. The remaining cost re-splits across the unlocked items.

Per-haul numbers

Total cost, linked items, average cost, listed value, revenue so far, profit and ROI on the haul page, with tabs for each item's status.

Sort sources by ROI

The bulk purchases list sorts by ROI, profit, sold count or average cost, so you can see which suppliers and sales are worth going back to.

Feeds the sale and the P&L

Each item's share becomes its COGS on the sale. Unsold bulk cost shows on the P&L as inventory, informational and outside the profit totals.

A few things you might be wondering.

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How does bulk purchase tracking work?

Record what you paid for the whole haul, then link listings to it as you list them. Flippedit splits the lot cost into per-item COGS by auto weight or flat average, and tracks cost, revenue, profit and ROI for the haul as a unit.

Can I see whether a specific haul was worth it?

Yes. Each haul shows total cost, linked items, revenue so far, profit and ROI, and you can sort all your bulk purchases by ROI to see which sources actually make money.

Do I have to update items one at a time?

No. The bulk tools exist so you can link purchases, update costs, and clean up whole batches without one-by-one clicks.

What happens as the linked items sell?

The haul's revenue and profit update with each sale, so you can watch it cross break-even and see exactly when the box paid for itself.

How do I know if my eBay haul is profitable?

Log the haul as one purchase, link items as you list them, and read revenue, profit and ROI for the lot on the haul page. Early on it reads negative, because only a few items have sold against the whole cost. It crosses zero the day the box has paid for itself and keeps climbing as the rest sells.

Should I split lot cost evenly or by value?

By value, unless the box is genuinely uniform. A flat split gives a $30 camera and a $4 DVD the same $2.50 cost, which flatters the DVDs and punishes the camera. Auto weight gives pricier items more of the cost. If you know what one piece was really worth, lock its cost and the rest re-splits.

Why does per-item cost matter if I bought in bulk?

Because per-item profit is only accurate with a per-item cost, and so is your P&L at tax time. Splitting the haul once keeps every downstream number honest.

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