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Me too. I create drafts, then take photos on my phone, then go to item specifics on the phone and a bunch that I’ve filled in on the computer are gone.
My number of listings was 4 for last week, with no silver. I really tried to work out a creative justification for a sewing machine, but couldn’t swing it! LOL.
Spreadsheet updated, Libby wins again. Great job!
Sorry to hear we’re all having a very slow sales period, but I kinda expected it would be. We had record sales in the first half of the year with folks stuck at home with nothing to do but shop online, then they had stimulus checks to play with, buying toys instead of paying rent.
Now folks are back to work and trying to catch up with backlog, or outside revelling in the freedom of being outside, after being cooped up for weeks. Funds are low, because they spent all their money during their confinement and they’re trying to work out how to pay the aforementioned rent. The pendulum will swing back, and our sales will pick up again, once they’re all forced back inside by the cooler weather.
Speaking of cooler weather.. how many of you had snow today? Our weather is glorious! Warm enough to wear shorts and a tee, but cool enough to open the doors and windows and turn off the HVAC. After weeks of 100 degree days, this is lovely! I do feel bad for those of you in the snow, though. Wanna come visit Texas? 😀
Oh, thank God! I thought I was losing it! With my ADHD, it was a case of “I’m sure I did that! Didn’t I?” So pleased to know I DID! 😁
I did! It was read and logged when I had the results under the Pop Up challeng section, but when I realized it was going to be difficult to do there and moved it to its own section, I must have missed your point. So sorry, Sharyn. Thanks for catching that. I have corrected it.
Phew! Okay, the spreadsheet has been updated with all the participation points for the Monthly challenges. I need to double check the popup challenges.
I’ve also added the Wednesday Woebegones challenge underneath the weekly challenge, so that you can track your progress there.
While we have a clear winner for the weekly challenge, the monthly and pop up challenges give you enough leeway to win, all the way to the very end of the year. Literally, you can zoom to the front at any point, especially with the Pop up challenges. Now that’s some motivation for an end-of-year push, yeah?
The spreadsheet is ALWAYS available with this link for you to check in on your progress and check out your competitors. You will see that JR has had a sudden spurt and is about to overtake me for 4th position. With the cumulative points this month on the Woes challenge, those of you in 2nd and 3rd should watch out – you could be upended!
How terrific! Congratulations VL! Such happy news! Wishing you a wonderful life together! We are all so excited for you. Keep us filled in on all the planning and stuff. We are going to be agog to see what you come up with. You’re amazingly creative!
If you report some actions taken during the week, on a Wednesday, you get one point. The reports have to be done on a Wednesday to get a point.
If you list an item, you can report it on Monday OR Wednesday, but not both. If you wish, you can report total weekly listings on Monday and comment on Wednesday that of those listings, “x” number were Woes. Or you can just say in the Monday weekly reports “listed “x” this week, of which “y” were Woes.” For each Woe you list, you get two points.
If you sell a Woe, you report it on a Wednesday, and get 4 points.
So one point for a Wednesday report, 2 points for listing EACH item, and 4 points for EACH sale.
Woebegone Wednesday #1
My woes are some vintage sewing machines that have been sitting for months! I listed one of them before the challenge started, but I really have to get them moving. Yesterday I took photos of the model information so that I could research them for listing.
The other major woe is that full size ship’s binnacle that I put up in January, in my past life before COVID started, which is still waiting on my attention. I found this Renaissance Wax after reading up on it’s magic properties and tried it on a small patch of the binnacle to see what happened. Holy blinding Batman! Soooo shiny! It’s going to be several Wednesday’s work to get the whole binnacle shined up, the wood polished, and the rope knotted, but fingers crossed I get the great lunking thing listed by the end of the month. It might end up being somebody’s Christmas present!
Sounds good, JR. Thanks for getting the rules up so quickly. I love the “creative justification” clause! Too funny.
I’ve never heard of a Participation Czar. I might have grown up under a rock. What does that mean?
My number for the August textiles challenge is 2
Spreadsheet updated. Libby wins with over double the next highest number for the week! Hooboy! That’s some win, there!
Congrats all!
Please remember to post your final textiles number for VL by end of day today.
Congratulations all on a great Monthly challenge. Looks like we had a good run on the textiles. Please would you all post your total for the month for the textile challenge and VL will nominate first, second and third. All others will get one point for participating.
Junque Redux, the Challenge is yours! The Silver Anniversary Challenge starts today, so please formulate the “rules” and interpretation for everyone as soon as you get a chance.
On the subject of challenges, I’m going to give you the next Pop Up Challenge today as well. Although it’s more of a whack-a-mole than a pop up!
Wednesday Woebegones!
Everybody has them. Those items that are just a major pain in the potato to get to. They’re big, or they need cleaning or repair, or they’re an odd size or shape, so you’re going to have to find a special box to list them. Or they’re just impossible to find comps, so you don’t have any idea how to price them. Or you have no freaking idea what the heck they are, let alone doing any research, and you need to take photos and send out an APB for somebody to identify. These are your Woe items listings, and we want them gone – woebegones!
This challenge has a sliding points scale, so you can gather up points as you go along. Each Wednesday, you’re going to post a line or several, about what you did to prepare that little gremlin for listing. You cleaned it, or repaired it, or took photos and got it identified, or asked me to check Worthpoint for valuation (please post the link to the actual Worthpoint item/s and I’ll price them for you.) Everyone who posts on a Wednesday with some action gets one point. You cannot tally up “what I did last week and what I did this week” to get two activity points. One point per week. Trying to encourage participation here.
If you actually list a Woe, you get two points. Listings can be logged on a Monday, in the weekly updates, or on a Wednesday, but please don’t log the same listing twice, as I will be counting listings, not what you listed.
If a Woe sells, you get 4 points.
There are 5 Wednesdays in September, with the first tomorrow and the last on the last day of the month (how awesome did this work out?) You have until midnight on September 30th to log your last activity, your last listing, and your last sale.
So, in summary, we’ve got our normal monthly challenge, the Silver Anniversary Challenge, run by Junque Redux, and our surprise Pop Up Challenge, the Wednesday Woebegones, run by me. Busy busy busy! Final stretch folks, only 16 Fridays left until Christmas!
Ummmm… .Sharyn? I think you need to refer to your manual. You put your kitty together wrong! 😀
She’s adorable! Just wanna cuddle it!
I created a bunch of drafts, but they were complicated and I didn’t manage to finish the final step to turn them into listings, ergo, zero. They will go up this week.
Sold a sewing machine again. It took 4 hours to pack but, on the positive side, I got a message from the buyer with lots of !!!! who said it was the best packing job she has ever seen. I wondered how many sewing machines she buys…
There’s a major disability in my listing method though. It slows me down something awful!
She’s literally out for the count, her entire weight of her head resting on my arm. How can I disturb something this cute?
Oh, VT, sorry you’re experiencing this!
And yes, I agree with you that eBay should BLOCK buyers who are on your blocked buyer list. It’s nuts that they can continue to message you even after you’ve blocked them, if you have never replied!
@Sharyn, that doesn’t work if the buyer has already messaged you. I’ve actually seen the messages from blocked buyers and there’s a whole host of very bitter complaints on the eBay community about this exact problem. Also on Reddit. If they messaged you on an item once or purchased once they can still communicate on THAT item but no others.VT, the only way to stop this whackjob is to end the listing and then use Sell Similar to create a brand new listing. Being blocked, s/he should not be able to contact you even for this item if you create a new listing for it. You will probably get a flurry of emails from the buyer in protest at you ending the listing!
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