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MyCottage, that’s the purpose behind our little group. Put up your weekly listing numbers. When you look at the spreadsheet, you see your numbers week by week, plus you get to chat to the folks in the group about your experiences. It’s motivating to try to do better!
As you’ve not stated your numbers for the past couple weeks, were they zero? Take heart, I have whole lines of zeroes in some years. Life happens, but being part of the group somehow just pulls you forward and you get going again! Ask JR, he’s been here for a full year and a bit now, and he’s still plugging away. Just being in the group restarts the mojo!
Great week for me. Despite taking time out to reorganize my space, I managed to get a whopping 19 listings up this week. The new information I’ve been getting from watching Chris Lin at Daily Refinement, plus the acquisition of the tools to do the job, has led to a huge improvement. Amazing how much the right tools can revolutionize your processes!
Hope you all had a great week. Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day of January, so the last day to work on your January projects. I look forward to you all posting great stories before you get your new month’s number on Tuesday!
Using Google Images with the last photo (front of the face) and search term “glass fish vase” I got these
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/retro-murano-glass-fish-vase-313802803
https://picclick.com/Vintage-Blenko-Handcraft-Hand-Blown-Art-Glass-Fish-294594731514.html
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cobalt-blue-spanish-glass-fish-vase-1775766970
$175 in April 2018
For future reference, you can copy/paste the link of the item you’re looking for here. This helps us to find exactly the item you’re looking for. Sometimes a search can lead to a whole slew of items, and then we’re not sure which one you have. We just click on the link and get the information you require.
Coming to the end of our January Designated Challenge and I’m thrilled that I made it this month. My challenge was to sort out my packing and shipping supplies. All done and I’m very happy with the result. My husband has been working on my new photo booth, I will post information on that when it’s done (we’re still sorting out lighting) and, as I had to rearrange stuff to make room for the booth, I decided to get my Challenge done at the same time.
As mentioned before, I use filing cabinets to store hard goods, and I arranged supplies on the cabinets and on the shelf Himself installed above it. My polymailer solution was given to me… literally! My neighbor handed me a whole carton of paper trays, the kind used by scrapbookers and crafters (like this, although I don’t know if it is this brand) and they all hold my polymailers and FREs very neatly. You can see them on the very right of this photo on the last black filing cabinet. Excuse the strange angle, but I had to wiggle myself through the shelving unit to get this shot! LOL
https://imgur.com/BnLZ8jhYou can also see them on the very left of this shot. Previously, this was set up to hold my lightbox, but it didn’t work out very well for me and, now that I am setting up my photo booth, I will have to decide what to do with the big empty space. On the very top I have totes with tissue and paper, and boxes with peanuts, on the 2nd and bottom rows I have my eBay shipping supplies and USPS boxes.
https://imgur.com/exms8s2There was a day’s break between the above two photos and this next one, due to Himself deciding to add shelves to raise my PC off the desk to give me more room on my workbench. You can see I now have the addition of a crate full of clothes to photograph, and a cat who has decided my warm and cosy cabin is preferable to the house with a teenage catten (too old to be a kitten, too young to be a cat) who loves to beat up on the older kitties. I have polystyrene foam pieces and bubble wrap on the shelf above my pegboard. Underneath the workbench I have my plastic poly bags that each item is put into before it goes into storage. Bonus points to anyone who can tell me what time the photo was taken by the clock on the wall. ;o)
https://imgur.com/TRFVKDGFinally, the Really Good Boxes that arrive from places like Amazon, which are great for the non-standard size oddities or to cut up for padding, are stored in my loft. I considered breaking them down and flat-packing them, but then I realized it would be a nightmare to find the size I was looking for. I’d have to keep a spreadsheet of what was up there, and then keep track of any additions or subtractions – way too much work! So I just packed them neatly. In the middle is a pack of empty totes and lids, and to the right is my excess bubble wrap and foam.
https://imgur.com/w1Vfy1IAnd that’s all, folks! My January Challenge completed. I’m very pleased with the end result and it’s such a pleasure working in this space now. If only I could get the other side of the cabin to look the same! LOL
Try Imikeya?
I found a big bird at Stein’s that looks like a similar concept and something called a Gurglepot along the same lines as well as this Big Mouth Fish that looks very alike.
However, I’d go with Blenko, as I also found this clear glass fish
Grrrrrr… Earlier today I wasted half an hour writing out a whole report on my January Challenge. When I clicked Submit, the bots advised I am a “known spammer” and I lost the entire post. I’ve discovered that the bots don’t like my BitDefender VPN, which protects my online presence. Stores in general don’t seem to mind it, Reddit has no issues, but Facebook and Google (who make money off tracking my online usage) regularly get hissy with it. It’s a bit much to be labelled a known spammer, though!
5 days left until the end of January, how are you doing with your January Challenge?
Okay, I’m a dork, I know I’m a dork, but I love patterns. This week we had triplets, with Sharyn, Jaepete and I all clocking 11 listings, and Julie B must be Da Mama, cause she came in with 22! 😀
Yeah, yeah, I said I’m a dork! LOL
Congrats to VT for this week’s win. VL takes the honorary note, as neither she nor JB can win this year.
No worries, Julie. Fortunately both you and VT received your towels at the same time, according to the tracking, and both VT and VL are part of the original Core of 4, so they know me well enough that the prizes aren’t a huge surprise anyway! LOL.
Well done, JR!
Julie, the post office is probably cursing you! They have to unpack all of it to put it on display. ROFL. I have a permanent Goodwill box. As I work through my stuff, anything that needs to go gets put straight in the box. Once the box is full, I drop it off at GW, and get a new box and start over. By the way, I discovered this weekend that Easy Auction Tracker has a very comprehensive Inventory sheet. If you use unique SKU numbers on eBay, you can input those numbers into EAT, and it auto-populates your sales with the COGS. Plus it keeps a running tally of inventory on hand. I’m not deliberately going backwards to find all my Death Pile items, but I am actively adding my new purchases as I buy them. When I pull DP items to list, I add them to the inventory sheet as well, so my inventory list is accurate to what I’m listing, even though it’s not a full inventory of everything I have.
Sharyn, sad news about your neighbor, but it worked out well as you now have inventory on tap – and it’s NOT death piles! LOL. May I suggest an alternative to consignment? I’ve done this fairly successfully. I tell the person that I will pay them up front for the stuff, and make an offer that’s fair, but still makes a profit for me, anywhere from 40% to 60% of what I believe the item will sell for (lower priced items are the 40% range.) If they accept, I pay them and take the items. That way I don’t have to worry about tracking consignment payments, and they get all the money upfront, plus the stuff out of the way. In the case of your neighbor, you could do it on a box/stack at a time. So this week/month/10 days/etc. I’ll take this pile and pay you $xxx. Then you list all of those items, go back for the next batch. This would allow him to clear stuff out slowly, give him income, and make the whole process hassle free for you. I suggest you go for the better items first, then he might get friends or family members interested in the lower priced items, or the items that need to go on FBMP, and he could sell it to them without you needing to get involved. You both win!
This past week was a rough one for me, but I managed to list 11 items, one more than goal. I’m doing a major overhaul of my photography space in the hope of making the process more efficient, so I’m hoping to do about 10 listings per day from next month. I shall keep you all advised and share my space once I’m done.
I replied to the one you sent me. I figured it might have ended up in the Spam folder! LOL. 7 or 8 email accounts? Wow! Way too many to process! I’ve been reducing all my email accounts to two (one for me, one for eBay) and my bank accounts as well. I had 9 bank accounts, at one point. Nine! The problem with multiple businesses! 😉
Craig Rex, I had ALL my items with BO from the beginning and you are correct; I got a fair number of sales from offers. However, since eBay has actively and forcibly pushed the Free Shipping Fiasco, I’ve had to remove BO from anything with free shipping. Folks offer me lowball prices because, as one genius buyer informed me “shipping is free!” I received so many rude offers ($5 on a $50 item, for example; and a “how low will you go?” on an item that is $4.99 free shipping!) that I eventually got fed up and took BO off everything! Furthermore, I’ve noticed that most of the returns I’ve been getting since eBay’s “new and improved” model, have been from the lower priced items. With the free shipping, it means I have to eat the shipping both ways! I’ve been gypped and lied to: a buyer claiming INAD that is so obviously fake, but you have to accept the return to argue the point; or in one case, a buyer being granted a return, only to lodge a Merchant Payment Dispute and get to keep the money AND the item. Yes, I know that you are supposed to build these expenses into your business, but the uptick in these types of transactions since I moved to free shipping has been remarkable!
Since I’ve removed BO from my items, I’ve received messages from serious buyers asking if I’d accept a lower amount, and I’ve replied with the Offer option, and gotten the sales, hassle free, with no returns. I’ve not had to deal with rude or delusional buyers, and I’ve not had to scratch my head to work out how much is a good deal because part of their offer includes shipping.
Thrilled you like it, ladies! Thank you for gratuitous kitty photos. We love kitty photos here in the TELC!
Julie, I thought you were ignoring me, but now I think I may be in your Spam folder! LOL. I’m glad you got the prize without needing the tracking number. Unfortunately, VL’s prize is taking the scenic route and is on the completely wrong side of the country. As she’s in the Northwest and the parcel is in the Southeast of the USA! Sigh… I’m still tracking it daily, even though it isn’t going anywhere fast! I think they’ve hired a teenager with a forked stick to get there on his skateboard. Or something.
Well, well, well – aren’t I ever NOT the genius!
Turns out I’ve not been following my OWN rules! *smacks head* Please be kind enough to check out Rule #7 while I go stick my head in a bucket!
The spreadsheet has been updated accordingly. UtahBill, you won week #1 and have been accredited the point. Sharyn, you won week #2 and have your point. Well done to both of you.
It’s rather odd, as we had a tie AND a challenge, so we’ve crossed out a third of our participants! However, that means our lower listings are in the running to win a prize this year! Go forth and LIST, y’all, you may get a silly something in the post! LOL
Thanks, Jaepete, I’ve updated your number. Yes, listings count anywhere, but only once. So if you listed different items on Ebay and FB, you get to count each listing. However, if you crosspost on multiple platforms, the listings only count once.
Another win for VL! Great start to the year!
Jaepete, will you give me your weekly listing goal, please? This is how many listings per week you believe you can achieve, not how many you would like to achieve! A common mistake, that we all make because we are all optimists! (We have to be, to sell on eBay. LOL)
