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LOL. Libby, you’re the Listing Queen. We have to give everyone else a chance to win just once every two years! 😀 You’ll get an honorable mention every week you top the pops, though!
It was a really rough week for me, so unfortunately I only managed 7. Will try to make up the shortfall, but I have to drive down to Corpus for two days for non-eBay work (juggling 4 businesses has its negatives!) and dance classes recommence this week, so I’m going to be a very short on time.
The spreadsheet will be late due to me being away, sorry!
Don’t forget – log all your DP boxes today for the January challenge, and tell us about your listing space and how you set it up for the PopUp challenge. Photos not necessary unless you want to.
Do a hard refresh (CTRL-F5) and see if it helps. Sometimes my eBay hangs up or says it’s not available. I just refresh the page and it comes back. I have an old computer, so I figured it was my PC
Sharyn, sorry for late response. It has been one hell of a week!
In the “After” photo of my listing space, you can see the black edge on the left of my photobox. It’s an Amazon box, all white inside, but as you can see here, I use black felt when I need to photograph light colored items.
Larger items that cannot fit into the photobox, such as clothes, are photographed on the other side of the room where I have set up a small photobooth. I have a clothes rack like this one over which I have draped fabric as a backdrop. I have some lights that I use to illuminate. Everything I’m using in this set up, from the rack, to the fabric, to the lights, is thrifted, or on a massively discounted sale. I paid only $10 for the circle light and only $30 for the mannequin, which has an offset base so that I can put trousers on it. Oh… the foam board is Dollar Store. I paid full price for that. $1 for two boards.
When I have light colored clothing items, I roll back the white to reveal a dark suede type fabric ($7 for 5 yards at a thrift store) for that backdrop.
If I need to do flat-lay, I either put the board on a table and photograph against the wall, or use two boards, one as a backdrop and one as a base and I place it against the window for ambient light. For very big flats, I have a sheet of white oilskin fabric, which is rolled up under my listing table, and I put that on the floor in front of the photobooth.
My plan, eventually, is to get some proper photography umbrellas, because the lighting in the cabin is pretty low for photos, which I will use for the photo booth area. I’ve also been seriously considering getting rid of the photobox and clearing out that whole space to make it an extra large photo area, then wiring lighting under the shelf for downward light, and mounting lights on both sides, to turn that entire space into an oversized lightbox. I will flood it with lights and add huge diffusers. That whole space is about 5 foot wide by nearly 3 foot high and nearly 3 feet deep. You can see the space a little better in this photo, from when I was first setting up the cabin.
A recent sale! Cool! Sold for $49.99 on July 12, 2020
Browsing out of interest and this one sold for $100 a year before that.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/al-robi-linocut-owls-mid-century-2015647707
Another owl one sold for $69.99 in July of 2019
I have 4 questions that came in while I was laid up after emergency surgery. Been there nearly a year. I can’t get rid of them either. Most annoying!
I think the initials of the painter are I.E. If you look at the first letter, it’s either a J or an I, but I go for an I because of the reducing pressure at the end of the top swirl. It’s a stylized E for the last name, with the line coming up from the bottom, which is also why I think the first name is an I. The artist signs in the same manner for both letters: from the bottom.
That being said, I couldn’t find anything. I found an Ines Erica Vess who has similar work, but I don’t think she’s old enough.
Looks like a melamine divided serving dish
One of these shows up at 4:58 in Episode 1 of Hart to Hart, the TV series. Stumbled across it searching for something else. LOL
Spreadsheet updated, Julie B wins again this week. Are you and VL going to be racing this year? LOL. Good luck to everyone! Remember, Libby cannot win this year. If she gets the highest listing number for a week, she will only get an Honorable Mention. So the field is OPEN!
This is the last week for the January Challenge AND the Pop Up Challenge. The January Challenge is to empty a Death Pile box. Now, folks, it doesn’t say “list” a box. You may find that some of the items in the box just have no value and have to be junked, or sent to Goodwill. You could sell them on Facebook, or your grandson could stroll through and yell “Cool hat!” The goal is to empty the box. NOT by moving it to a new box, no cheating! But the items need to move out of your possession, either virtually, by being listed, or by physically leaving your property. Also “box” is a term to cover one batch of items that you have been storing for a while, whether it’s an actual box, or a tote, or a hanging rod in your closet. So, go ahead, empty one “box” and clear some space. You know the universe needs you to make space for it to fill again, right? *wink*
For the Pop Up Challenge, you need to create a dedicated listing space. I did have a quiet mention that some folks are not happy to share photos. Understood. If you don’t want to share your photos, but you did create a dedicated listing space, please post about it on or before Monday to get your point.
January challenge and Pop Up challenge both end on Sunday, you need to post about them on or before Monday to get your points. Winners will be announced Tuesday.
Anyone keen to take the February Challenge?
@sharyn Will reply separately re backgroundsI’m on the board for the January Pop Up Challenge.
Here is my dedicated listing space. I put up a before photo that was after six weeks of clearing/tidying/rearranging (can you imagine how bad it was? LOL) and the after photo, which is how it is supposed to look. The items on it are the things I photographed today for listing this week.
Hey, VL, thank you. I am feeling a little better now. I was so sick last week that I didn’t work until Thursday! If it’s just flu, it sure was a whammy! I’m up and feeling much more myself today, which is great. Not 100% though, still coughing and feeling a little weaker than normal, but on the mend. yay!
I worked on easy-to-list sewing patterns to get 15 listings up this week. I was determined to make goal and these patterns have been sitting waiting for me for weeks now, so I’m clearing one death pile box (a tray, in this case) as I do this. Still don’t have one completely empty box to report as I have 2 sewing machines to list and this tray of patterns will never be emptied by the end of the week! I’ll be sure to get those 2 machines up so that I can at least say I’ve done one! 😀
@workhorse “This person has an unique perspective on the world.”
Jay, I always read the feedback for sellers when I buy. It’s part of my research when looking for a product. Several of my friends do as well.
Or, perhaps, our “perspective is unique”… 😉
I listed 17 this week, mostly at the beginning of the week, which was fortunate as, by Thursday, I was too sick to get up and do anything. I’ve had 2 COVID tests now in 2 weeks, both the Standard tests, not the Rapid Results, and both negative. The doc said if it’s not COVID, it’s probably just the Common Flu. First time in my life I’ve been happy to be called “common”! 😀
My “box” for this month is a trolley full of sewing machines that have been waiting months to list. I’ve got 3 left to finish up for the January challenge, hopefully I’ll get them done on time. Great going for all of you who have already finished boxes! It does feel good, doesn’t it? With me actually making my weekly listing goals, I’m hoping to make a dent in my Death Shed, which will probably keep me listing for years!
Congrats to Sharyn for being first on the board for the January Pop Up Challenge! Not for nothing are you the Challenge winner for last year! I love your set up. I’ve been thinking of changing my photography set up from a booth to a lighting space. That will be sometime in the future, though.
Empathies, Julie B. A good diet can be a blessing. A bad one is a horror of epic proportions! Wishing you the best for the next 30 days.
Spreadsheet updated. VL takes the win, putting herself on the board with a point. Nice going! We’re doing really well so far, folks. Today, however, is the traditional Day of Quitting New Year Resolutions. Did you know that? But you’re not a quitter! I’m sure you’re all going to keep going because you’re AWESOME LISTERS!
Happy holidays, Utahbill! Looking forward to those numbers when you get back!
