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I’m curious why you didn’t consider eBay for these? One case/pack of 4 sells for $20-$30 and you can get them for $3.99, stats show 9 listed and 14 sold. Even at only $20 per case, priced for quick sell, you’ll clear over a grand.
LOL. I squeaked in with a $75 sale on a pair of shoes. Phew! 😉
04/15/2017 at 8:41 am in reply to: Request: Latest from the Forum – Change from 5 to 10 threads? #16625Thanks Ryanne. We appreciate it!
It makes me think of the Easter Islands.
I found this eBay listing, although these are mugs, they look similar.
Oh Habnab, you’re AWESOME!
MyCottage, your suggestion led me to consider that these are possibly traditional mugs, so I googled with that in mind and discovered they are called tea bowls. The everyday ones are yunomi and the formal ones are chawan. It turns out that some of them are extremely pricey, so I posted a link in the BOLO thread.
Thanks for the inspiration! You rock!
I used this guide when I was photographing a framed picture recently. It worked fairly well.
However, if your piece is small, I found this article helpful.
My search for mugs without handles led me to tea bowls, also called yunomi (everyday) or chawan (formal) and they’re big bucks if you can find the vintage ones.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dcat=37934&_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=hawaiian+tea+bowl
Do they drink sake in Hawaii?
04/13/2017 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Request: Latest from the Forum – Change from 5 to 10 threads? #16584Or add a New Posts tab, like they have on some PHP forums.
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My sales are slow too, but I attributed it to being little, not having much stock, and not listing enough. Yet I see folks with stores as small as mine hitting high numbers each week! That being said, my clothing hardly moves. It seems that shoes and non-clothing items sell more, especially home DIY and decor items.
Thanks Christine. It does feel good!
Also… my death piles are bigger than I thought. I’m clearing by room and am astounded at how much I actually have. When it’s scattered around different rooms and buildings, it’s easier to underestimate it all!
Learned about a new process for dealing with Death Piles and the logic works!
Get bins/large boxes and place them about. Slap a label on each one and sort your entire Death Pile inventory into each bin/box. All the women’s tops in one box, men’s shirts in another, jackets, coats, kids clothes, kitchen items, tchotchkes, each category has its own labelled box/bin.
When you’re done, pick one and sort it out again, this time by brand, then by item specifics. So.. using women’s tops as an example: all the Chico’s together, then by long-sleeved vs short sleeved, then by size. Color doesn’t matter.
The sorting takes time and sounds crazy, but here’s where it gets clever.
You photograph everything in each sorted pile, which goes quickly because your photography area is set up for that particular category. List the first item. Then use sell similar. So, back to our women’s Chico’s tops – first item listed is Chico Long-Sleeve Button Up Blouse Red Size 14. About 10-15 minutes to create the listing. The sell similar item would change Red to Blue and size 14 to 12, update condition and measurements, new photos. Less than 5 minutes. All the other information stays exactly the same: brand, category, store category, selling price, shipping.
For unusual and decor items, I’m sorting by category (music/movies/kitchen/art/decor/candles) and then by the background color I would use for photographs, as the set up for photos is time consuming.
I did a micro-sort last week and was stunned by how quickly it went. I’ve been scavenging for large boxes (Very Large Boxes) and am sorting like a madman! Trying to list during the day and sort death piles into their categories by night.
Ooooh, look! There’s a light at the end of the tunnel!
04/11/2017 at 10:00 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16424Years ago a friend’s grandfather died and the family couldn’t deal with handling his stuff. They picked through and took what they wanted, then donated everything else to the church. I was asked to help with the pick up and a bunch of us went there in a truck and started emptying his apartment. Everyone was just carrying armloads of stuff out to the truck and I looked around me and thought “this was somebody’s entire life!” It was a sobering day. Since then, I’m very aware of what I have.
Numbers this week April 03-09;
Total items in store 173
Items sold 6
COGS $80
Total sales $203.45
Highest price sold $45 (Post lantern)
Average price sold $34
Returns 0
Inventory $40
Items listed 24I was doing well with my daily listing goal, but got called away to deal with some issues with our rental properties. It’s a PITA to have to drive four hours to go deal with houses! Took up precious listing time. NOT a happy camper! 🙁
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