Active listings are the lever, not sourcing
In short
I doubled monthly revenue without sourcing more. I just kept more listings live.
I spent the back end of last year convinced I needed to source more stock to earn more. Charity shops every weekend, car boots on Sundays, eBay job lots on a Tuesday. Revenue stayed flat.
The thing I'd missed: I had hundreds of items already photographed and sat unlisted. The jump from £210 a month to £465 happened because I went from 38 active listings to 122 active listings — not because I bought a single new piece of stock. Active count is the lever.
Sourcing is downstream of it. VintSnap is what made 122 active feasible in the time I had. Two evenings a week, an hour each, batch it through.
The stock was already in the flat.
This note comes from building VintSnapA photo in, a priced Vinted listing out.
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