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Wow, Julie, if you weren’t Honorable Mention this year, you’d be wiping the floor with us! However, VT took the week’s win again, 7th week in a row. Congrats, VT.
@Sharyn, if you’ve practically started the listing over again from RL, so it’s like a new listing, I would say it counts. The double listing rule would be for someone who uses an app that cross-posts to various platforms, meaning they do the work once, but end up with multiple listings. For example, I list on eBay and Bonanza pulls all those listings for me. I don’t count any of the Bonanza listings unless I specifically list it on Bonanza and not on eBay. I acknowledge the work that goes into a listing, you deserve the credit for it. However, it’s kind of an honesty policy – you get to decide if the work you do would count as a new listing or if it was just a tweak. I put you down for 11 for last week’s number.Congrats to VT for another win last week! That’s excellent. And well done on meeting your goals too!
Zero for me last week as I finished out the week with my dance Show and some serious sewing challenges. The dancers pulled some last minute issues out of their hats and I was thrown for a major loop. I ended up sewing one of my own costume skirts on the morning of the show! It was horrendous timing, but the Show went really well and everyone had a blast! So much fun and laughter. We had a friend take photos and she has created a sample album of the photos she took. I hope you can view it:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3175675062564700&type=3
Wow, Lacy, that sounds like a fantastic trip! Soooo jealous and thrilled for you that you managed to get the time away. I was just reading a novel lately about old lava and the dangers of walking on it. In the novel, as the lava was thousands of years old, the folks were just trapped in a hole. I shudder to imagine falling into molten lava. Horrible! Sorry to hear you were sick.
VT took the win for week ending 5/27. You’re right, it’s very confusing trying to work a week back! LOL. Congrats, VT.
Julie, sometimes just letting go is the best way to clear DPs. I’ve started to do that, just give them away. The mental stress of having them sit over me is not worth the hassle of listing or, in some cases, shipping. Of course, I always check comps to make sure I’m not getting rid of something high dollar! 😁
Wow, all these folks visiting the UK. You know how jealous I am, right? I need to get back there! Sharyn, my family history is in Scotland. My aunt worked on our family genealogy for decades and managed to trace us back to 1208 in Scotland. The first time we visited Scotland, I turned to the driver and said “we’re in Scotland!” He looked startled and said that yes, we had just passed the border marker, but how did I know? I don’t know, I just did. It felt like home. It was a little weird. 😉
My penultimate dance show is this Friday and I’m sewing frantically for it. By the end of the week, I will be shattered! LOL. However, I’m hoping this means that I will be freed up to whirlwind myself into a demented listing mania that will clear out my DPs and (hopefully) shotgun my sales into the stratosphere. I have some very expensive plans for the end of the year!
Wishing you all a great week!
So sorry, folks! I’ve had so much on my plate just lately and I didn’t realize it had been so long since I posted.
Christine, VT, and Lacy have all been logging wins, as Julie is Honorably disqualified *wink* and the total points for the 20 weeks to date are Christine with 5, Lacy with 6-1/2, and VT with 8-1/2. Spreadsheet available here, if you want to check your progress. Congrats to you all.
Wishing you all a happy Memorial Day weekend. My thanks to those who served and who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. May we never forget.
@ChristineR That’s so kind of you, thank you!
@Vintage Lacy Congrats on having a great show. I’m glad things picked up for you! Can’t wait to hear what you’re up to this month. Do you find that salt/pepper shakers sell well? I got a whole bunch of them and they have just sat in my store with no interest at all. I thought they were cute, too, not plain ones but interesting ones like gingerbread houses.
@Sharyn Almost at the end of your DP? What is this? I don’t think this is in my vocabulary! 😀 Wow, what an achievement. I dream of the day I get to say that! LOL. Congratulations!I have finally come to the end of my travels and away-from-home training. From now on, the training is online and at my own pace, so I can get back to work. I hope to start posting numbers soon.
Spreadsheet for last week has been updated and VT took the win. Well done, VT!
Lacy was AFK again last week, still busy with her Show probably, so the winner was Julie! Well, consider the numbers, it would have been if she wasn’t on Honorable status! What great numbers you’re hitting!
Last week’s winner was Vintage Treasures. Good going, VT!
ChristineR 3 toddlers? I would be in a flat panic! 😀
Congrats on clearing your space, Julie! That must feel fantastic for you. All of you ladies have been productive this year. Me – not on eBay. I’ve been working like a crazy person on clearing paperwork (hello Tax Season) and on clearing my sewing room and rebuilding that space into a functional work space. While I will be continuing in eBay in a much-reduced capacity, I will be working to develop my quilting business. Dearly Beloved built me new storage units for my space; a cutting table with so! much! storage! and a pressing table with even more storage. I still need to sew up the pressing mat to go on top. Both are on wheels.
And my longarm is now correctly positioned and cleared, with more storage underneath.
I will be going to a longarm class on May 1st and 2nd and already have orders for quilting. It’s a new and exciting opportunity that will allow me to exercise more creativity, with less hassles. No more shipping, or fighting with returns. Difficult customers, maybe, but Himself has given me permission to choose my customers, I don’t have to work with any that are going to give me a hard time just to make ends meet.
Once I have the room set up and have been to class, I’ll be splitting my time fairly evenly between eBay and the Quilting business. I will be making quilting products to sell, as well as taking orders for custom quilting. Anyone have any suggestions for what to call the new business? Something fun and cheerful.
Lacy must be very busy with her new Show, so the winner last week was VT, congrats. That’s with an impressive Honorable to Julie. You’re really winning at this game, Jules!
@Sharyn. It was a quilter’s shop hop, so all quilt shops all over texas.
I wasn’t looking for anything in particular but I did, of course, find things to buy. I tried to consider carefully what I would buy each time, and with one exception, think I did very well. The exception was fabric recommended by my traveling companion and I regretted buying it almost immediately it was cut. For everything else, I think I got some great items and I was very happy.
16 days, although it was spread over 6 weeks. We did a road trip each week. I tried to do it over the weekend, so Friday to Saturday up to Friday to Monday, in order to be home for work days. One week I had to do a Monday to Friday and one week was a Wednesday to Friday, due to the shop hours. Total cost of the trip worked out to about $3,500 for car rental, gas, hotels, and meals. There were two of us, and we split the cost equally, so not too bad.
Congrats on getting a bag done!
Vintage Lacy took the win last week, congrats.
Last week was the final stop at my epic shop hop road trip. 106 stores, almost 7,000 miles – what an adventure. Now I need to get back into the groove and get back to work.
Wishing you all a wonderful week.
Attempt #2. My last post got eaten!
Congratulations in amazing listing numbers, Julie. Any tips to share? All the honorable mentions to you!
However, the win goes to Lacy. Congrats!
Spreadsheet updated.
@ChristineR Have you tried using your SKU field for COGS? I put my COGS in cents at the end of my SKU. So, for example, if my SKU is F142 and I bought the item from a yard sale for $4, I will write Y400 = F142Y400. $4.50 would be Y450, while 75 cents would just be Y75. The letter is whatever code you wish to use: T for thrift store, S for street sale, R for retail arbitrage, etc. They always show the SKU field, so it’s easy to pick up. Plus, you can see at a glance how well a particular sourcing field is working.
Spreadsheet updated. Wow, Julie, you’re killing it this year! All the Honorable Mentions to you! However, VT took the win this week.
4 listings for me. I managed to get up some more of the clothes that were modeled for me a year ago. I know, I know. I hate listing women’s clothes.
Julie, someone once told me to consider why something on my TDL was being carried over for weeks. Do I not want to do it? Do I not know how to do it? If I don’t want to, is there a why that would allow me to tackle it, or a person to whom it can be delegated? If I don’t know how, where do I find the information to learn? If none of the above works, then get rid of it. It will never be done and will just stay there and haunt you. It was good advice, but I have one more trick to add that I’ve learned since then: can you break it down into smaller chunks that are less daunting to attempt? Good luck!
