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I have a Subaru Forester. People are regularly astounded by how much I can squeeze in there! One time I loaded a twin box spring, mattress, and frame; closed the trunk and drove away from the bug-eyed seller! 😀
When I have to load really large stuff, my husband’s Toyota T100 gets called in to help.
Tech_Ninjas, I have the same problem! I’ve got 2 messages from buyers that did NOT buy the item, but there’s no “mark as answered” button either. It’s been driving me nuts, but I’ve decided to do the same thing as you and just wait out the 90 days. Dunno if that will work for me either, as they didn’t buy the thing.
I’ve added you to my Feedly feed. I’ll see how well it works and report back if anyone is interested
If it’s going to drop the resale price, I’d charge handling. If you can put it back up with no loss in sales price, I’d let it ride.
Thought somebody else might answer with info, and I see none have. Just to let you know, I’ve done a full search through all my resources and can find nothing. I’d use the keywords “Vintage” “Catholic” “Pilgrimage” and “Jesus” in the listing. E.g. Vintage Pilgrimage Photograph Wood Cross Catholic Jesus Crucifix Crown of Thorns.
I use auctions for loss-leaders. Sometimes I have items that just don’t have a value that justifies long-tail, but they do sell. I’ve noticed that auctions definitely have a positive affect on my sales, with a couple extra sales popping up in the category I have an auction. So I’ll sometimes throw a low-value item onto auction, or a listing that I want gone, or even a Lot or Set of items that have some value but that I just don’t want to hassle with storing. Sometimes I use auctions for stuff where the shipping is high, but I’m not fussed on how much I get for it. I’ll throw it up on auction, figuring if they bid on it, they’re going to accept the shipping. It has worked out in my favor a couple times.
This is definitely for your weekend downtime, it’s almost half an hour long. But the photos are excellent!
Doctor doctor. I’ve broken out in spots like cherries on a cake.
Sounds like you got analogyA group of chess enthusiasts got thrown out of a hotel after discussing their winning games.
The hotel manager couldnt stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyerWhat do you call a potato wearing glasses?
A Spec TaterA man takes his dog to the vet as he is concerned it has fleas. The vet says
“I’m going to have to put this dog down”
The man is visibly upset and says “What? But why?!”
The vet replies “Because he is too heavy”I always run, I never walk; I have a mouth, I never talk; I have a bed, I never sleep; I can be shallow, I can be deep. What am I?
Hmmm… much of my response matches what has been said above.
Agree with ChristineR that we need longer background than 90 days for sold items. I pay $30 per month to Worthpoint bc eBay just doesn’t have our unique stuff readily available. If Worthpoint and Terapeak can provide this historical info (Worthpoint goes back 15 years!) why can’t eBay provide it? Especially for sellers with greater volume. Premium stores or bigger, perhaps, should have free access to Terapeak, for example, seeing as eBay now owns it.
There’s a greater time sink for scavengers than for listers of new inventory. In multiple areas:
– photos
– research and keyword identification (often a side effect of identification, bc some of our stuff is so “out there” that nobody knows what keywords a buyer will use!)
– actual listing process, bc we can’t use a template
– pricing
– packing and shipping.Aperture – the product I’ve been using for cleaning a large variety of items (including the written paint price tag of shoe soles!) is Folex. https://www.ebay.com/i/253420849760?chn=ps&dispItem=1
I got mine at Home Depot for less, if you have one in your area, check out the prices.
This stuff is AWESOME!
So far I have used it to clean my car seats after my grandson dropped strawberry milkshake on it. Unfortunately we were on a long road trip, so it was nearly a week until I got home, then had to pack them back off to airports etc, so about 2-3 weeks before I actually got around to cleaning it. Cleaned up with absolutely no stains, marks, or residue. The upholstery was a kind of greige. Used it on my handwoven Pakistani wool rug to clean dog sick. Rug color dark greens and blues. Used it on a brown Target hall runner. Cleaned a spot off a sweater, and some unidentified marks off a handbag. I regularly use it to clean the written price stickers off shoes – works on everything except Sharpie. Please, God, somebody find a solution that works on Sharpie! It’s my go-to fabric cleaner.
Can you post another close up photo of the end from the side? Your 2nd pic shows the “keyhole” but the end piece is not clear, the bit attached to the keyhole.
IndyBritt, this is very good of you.
Would you post here when the offer has been purchased so that folks know not to email you?
Oh, ice_queen, I’m so sorry! I’ve walked your road and feel your pain. It’s totally the pits and some days you wonder whether it’s worth getting up. But, you know, it always is. I started a Gratitude Journal and decided I would write down only 4 items per day for which I was grateful, but I couldn’t duplicate. So, I’m grateful for waking up today couldn’t be used on multiple days. Once it’s used, that’s it, no repeats. Well, the first few days I used up all the “generics” – thanks for being able to see, grateful to hear/walk/talk/have both hands, etc. Once I’d run through those I was totally stumped. It took me a loooong time to come up with something to write in my journal. But gradually I began to notice the good stuff in my life, and by the end of the year I could write an entire page of things I was grateful for. I started noticing the small stuff. It changed my life!
I pray that you find strength and can see the good stuff in this tough time. You’re a wonderful woman with a lot to live for. Take heart, you have friends!
I was on the buying side of this type of non-disclosure and it really upset me, as the buyer. I bought a bunch of vintage items under the impression they were ceramic, and they were all plastic. If the seller had disclosed they were plastic, I would not have bought them. (I didn’t buy doll house furniture from Tam, just to be clear! LOL)
Buyers aren’t always aware of what stuff is “normally” made of. I have made a point of including the composition of items as much as possible since my experience. I consider it one more step in the happy-customers pathway. 🙂
Just a different perspective.
Seller.
As virtually every business you can think of now has an online presence, it’s hard to call us anything particular. Amazon, eBay, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Target, JC Penny, Overstock, Home Depot. They all use eCommerce now. The differentiation comes, perhaps, by prefixing it with Online…
