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What a great start to the year! Everyone’s on the board! Fantastic. Spreadsheet updated and I guess it’s no surprise that Julie wins this week! 😀
All weekly goal numbers have been updated, but I have a problem with the numbers for Utahbill and Libby. You gave me an ANNUAL total, and the weekly numbers cannot match that total as a whole number. I put it in as the lowest whole number, so the annual total is going to fall short. Let me know to adjust as you see fit.
Sharyn, we use the term Death Pile for anything that is sitting in our to-list pile that has exceeded what may be reasonably considered an acceptable time frame for listing, plus a buffer. Each person’s time frame is different. Someone like Libby, for example, may receive a trailer load of goods at a time, (or an entire household of stuff, as she works on consignment) so her listing time frame might be a few weeks. I buy stuff on sourcing runs, and enjoy our local thrift store which is only open on a Saturday. So it would be quite reasonable for me to say that my listing time frame would be one week: clear each week’s sourcing before I go out next week. However, as we learned during the pandemic, having a buffer of stuff to list for the weeks when we can’t go sourcing would be a good idea. How big of a buffer is also a personal factor. Libby might want two trailer loads as a buffer because she lists high numbers. (Sorry to use you so much, Libby, but you’re the biggest lister here!) I have the space to rack up an entire month’s worth, but you might not have a lot of storage, so you only want to have a week or two. Therefore, each person needs to work out for themselves what is Current Inventory and what is Death Pile inventory. Not as helpful as an actual number, but hopefully the explanation will allow you to create an actionable timeframe.
Have a good week, everyone!
01/11/2021 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Buyer reqts return claiming item not authentic but is also auctioning the item #85108Report her to eBay immediately! Using your photos in her listings in not allowed on eBay policies and, as you have an eBay return case open as well, you can give that information to eBay. What she is doing is wrong, no question. They will probably shut her down.
Good morning, all! Happy Monday! We had snow over the weekend and insanely cold temps (for Texas!) It supposed to be bitterly cold at night for this week. Brrrr!
Starting off my new year with my target: 15 listings. And with two sales, a sewing machine that sold the same day I listed it (on Bonanza!) and my first sale now that my eBay store is open for business again after 3 weeks Vacay.
Wishing you all a good week!
@antique-frog LOL. No, I don’t think that would be a good idea! 😀 But I am serious about the listing. A lot of autistic kids, the ones on the genius spectrum, do jigsaw puzzles without the pictures, or upside down. My grandson is autistic. There’s a lot I didn’t know, and so much more I haven’t learned yet.
@antique-frog Sell the box-less jigsaw puzzles as “Genius Autistic Mystery Jigsaw Puzzles.”
I’ve been using the triangular boxes, but it pushes the shipping price up! I stumbled across a long, square box at my local quilt store and wanted to ask them if I can have future boxes like that, in the hopes that I can ship First Class, but they don’t get them often. I’m interested in any answers to this question too, as I have a bunch of movie posters that are expensive to ship Priority.
2020 Challenges Poll Results
In order of most popular:
June Empty One box (9)
October Paper (7)
August Textiles (6)
Jan One large item (4)
March Halloween (4)
April Gold (4)
July Christmas (4)
September Silver (3)
November Valentine (2)
Feb Green (1)
May Auction (0)
Dec Red, White & Blue (0)THIS THREAD IS CLOSED! Please post in the new thread listed above.
YEARLY GOAL NUMBERS!
In the Spreadsheet, I have a column with your total listings to date, and another that has your goal number. This number is calculated by multiplying the number of weeks of the year by the number of items you want to list per week. A goal of only 20 items per week will get you listing over 1,000 items this year! Please let me know what your goal is, and you can then motivate yourself to keep it up. Suggestion: look at last year’s goal and be realistic for this year.
Remember this? I posted it a while back, but to start the New Year off on a good beginning, I thought I would repeat it for your convenience. It may help you set yourself up for success.
8 Easy Steps to Eliminate Your Death Pile
1. Remove all items from your listing area except for the one item you’re listing. Have a dedicated listing space
2. Have a small “List Next” pile
3. List daily. Consistency trumps speed
4. Set up a listing sprint. 30/60/90 minutes – whatever works for you
5. Combine your listing practice with something you enjoy
6. Do not listen to content while you are listing
7. You don’t have to stop buying. All you have to do is list more than you buy!
8. Set up accountabilityIt’s your lucky day: #8 is covered right here in this thread!
Our very first Pop Up Challenge for 2021 is to create a dedicated listing space! It can be a table or bench in the corner of a room, or an actual dedicated space. Clear it entirely! You want nothing to distract you. Have it ready with a background for photos, some lighting, some measuring tools so that you can take dimensions and weight, and your SKU method. Once you’re done, post a photo for us all to admire! Uploading (a) photo/s gets one point! (This Challenge is about getting us all on the board. A good start!)
Those of you who remember I have an entire cabin, don’t feel jealous of my space. You don’t believe the chaos I have to clear up to score MY point! LOL
As a start to the year, this “pop up” challenge is going to run for the month of January, to give you all time to get it going. Post photos on or before January 31st.
For ease of reference, January Challenge Info:
This challenge starts on January 1st and runs through 31st.
Pick one box from your Death Piles. Size and content/quantity therein irrelevant. List EVERYTHING in that box. This goal is reduction of the Death Piles, and “box” is a term for categorization. Some folks have boxes, some have shopping bags, some have totes, some have drawers or shelves, and some have piles. Some… cough, yours truly, cough… have Option D: All of the Above! So whatever would qualify as one, shall we say BATCH of items, will be considered one box.
This month’s challenge is a lottery – for each box you empty you get one entry into the draw. At the end of the month, I will allocate numbers to each person and use a random number generator to draw first, second, and third places (although the same person cannot win more than one place), with one participation point to everyone who joins in the fun. Last day to post is January 31st, winners will be announced February 1st.
Spreadsheet updated! The final update for the year! Julie B won the last week, go you!
Phew! So much to comment on here!
Thanks to JR for the Challenge results. JR, as Forum Leader, I opted to give you one point too, for being such a great sport and participator! That brings us to the end of the year and Sharyn wins the Challenges! Well done! Your prize will be on the way to you shortly, give or take USPS delays!
Utahbill, the goal is reduction of the Death Piles, and “box” is a term for categorization. Some folks have boxes, some have shopping bags, some have totes, some have drawers or shelves, and some have piles. Some… cough, yours truly, cough… can count Option D: All of the Above! So whatever would qualify as one, shall we say BATCH of items, will be considered one box?
Yay, JulieB, so glad your full time work is paying off!
Sharyn, your neurons are firing better than mine! LOL
VL, yup! I’m creating the new TELC spreadsheet, thread, and Rules post and will put it all up here shortly. Some minor changes to the Rules, so please do read through the new post. Unlike previous years, I plan to make the Rules post a permanent post that I just refer back to in the quarterly thread, not create a new one each year.
Good thinking! I like this idea. The only downside will be having to manually upload tracking.
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