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Looking at your Christmas decorations and planning to pack them up, you wonder if you should be packing them away for next year… or selling them!
P.S. For future listings, you may want to consider the following:
1. I always have a photo of the serial number in the photos, the serial number added to item specifics, and the serial number mentioned in the description.2. I have the following blurb added to the description. Feel free to use/amend as you wish:
What you need to know β This product has a serial number that uniquely identifies the item. When your order ships, we will scan the serial number and add it to the history of the order. Should the item go missing before it arrives, we may register the serial number with loss and theft databases to prevent fraudulent use or resale of the item. There is no action required from you and the serial number will only be used to prevent fraudulent activity associated with the missing item.
Don’t know if you can do this, but as I have a rural post office and am on first-name basis with all of them, I can and do. When I have a high-ticket return, I print a copy of the return slip and the listing photos (one or more, depending on the importance of the information in the photo and take it with me to the post office. I open the return in front of them and, if it is not as described, I have a postal worker witness, and I immediately file a claim for mail fraud. Then I, take photos, write what was actually received on the return slip, get the postie to sign as witness, and trot around the corner to the Sheriff’s office and file charges. (We have a Sheriff, not a police station, in our tiny town.) Then the case number, a copy of the documents and the photos are all emailed to eBay. It’s very hard for them to argue that case. Bit of a shock for the buyer when I email them that information too.
Hey Hey Challengers (thanks, VT, that’s a great term!)
Zero again for me. I’m spending my days wiping out ALL my backlog of stuff that had to be done. Old paperwork? Check. Pay all bills? Check. Follow up on annual expenses and ensure funds are available? Check. Clear piles from various spots around the house and put them away? Check. Wash the windows? Check. Yup, I even washed the windows! Today I sat down and worked out my 2020 Goals as a mind map (I do really well with mind maps) and I’m feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, and excited to start the New Year of the New Decade with a clean slate. Hoping to give VL a run for her money next year. π
Happy birthday, VT. If I remember, you’re a little less than a year younger than I. It’s a grand age to be. Hope you had a fabulous day and, in the year to come, may every bad decision turn into good stories!
VL wins again this week! Spreadsheet updated.
Zero for me.
Last week before Christmas! Count down to the end of the year and the decade. Did you see they’re making Christmas Eve a Federal holiday? No post office, no orders. I wonder if buyers will realize?
The numbers are scary huge with Amazon. I think the claim that Amazon has changed how the marketplace works is accurate.
An interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
12/12/2019 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Question for Steve – Marantz SR220 Receiver $40 – Good buy? #71611Thanks, Steve, you’re awesome!
Sorry, ladies, I DID update the spreadsheet but I forgot to post. Sharyn swooped in for an impressive win this week!
Wow, VL, that’s an impressive number of orders! All clothes? You list a lot, so it should be no surprise that you’re raking in the orders now.
Zero for me. This is my last week of “stuff to do.” I have a Bad Santa party on Saturday, for which all the Christmas stuff must be completed – all decorations up, all cookies made, entire house cleaned and cleared, etc. After that, it’s back to the mundane. Perhaps I’ll get some listing done!
I scored a huge discount on an Amazon light box, so I’m utterly thrilled! I will be selling my old one and setting this up as my primary photography bay. With everything else in the house sorted, I may actually get a few listings done before the new year. I have a dozen sewing machines waiting for my attention. If I can get a few up in time for folks to buy as last minute Christmas gifts, life will be just grand!
Have a good week, y’all!
Wow, a sudden flurry of activity and some great listing numbers! Way to GO!
Congratulations Christine on your win this week. Awesome! Spreadsheet updated.
With only 4 weeks left of the year, we will continue our Challenge, as we always do, but I think we can all agree that VL is top of the pops this year! Please email me your address, VL, so that I can send your prize? Email snratoni@yahoo.com and I’ll pop it in the post for you.
For me, another week of zero listings. However, I feel wonderful! The mental health aspect is way cooler than a bigger listing number right now. I’m sure I’ll get back to being competitive, but right now I’m just thrilled to be up to date on all my To Do list items. Things like paying insurance, sending Christmas cards, rearranging furniture, clearing cluttered corners – actually getting the things done that make life better, easier, and more pleasant for everyone who lives here.
An interesting side note is that the Grinch has decided he’s throwing me out the house. It’s no longer “our” businesses that will be moving, it’s my business, including all my sewing stuff. I’m being shifted, lock, stock, and enormous fabric stash! He’s going to take over the areas in the garage that were my business space and work out of that. No telling what that fuzzy little green brain is thinking and why he decided I was to vacate the space, but I’m not arguing. I’m getting a 12 foot by 36 foot lofted barn cabin, with TWO lofts, all to myself AND built to my specifications. One half will be eBay, the other half will be sewing, and I get to fit and fill it as I wish. One of the biggest downsides of us both working from home and having a tiny home at that, is there is nowhere to go when we’re mad at each other. My new She-Den will be half a mile away from the house. Heheheheheheheh.
MY Christmas present is FANTASTIC! π
Weighing in late on the discussion! π
I live in a town of about 750 people. Pretty much my “socializing” is my husband and a couple neighbors once in a while. However, I drive 20 miles to the nearest bigger town (pop. 25,000) for classes. I’ve met more folks and developed more friendships through that weekly class than I have in 4 years in this community. It’s a bit of a pain to drive 20 miles to attend an event with a friend, and they don’t come to visit me that often for the same reason, but I have built up some good friendships. It takes a while, and there are days where, honestly, the 20 mile drive looms over me like the Sword of Damocles (especially in winter!) but it is always, always worth it.
The secret is what class do you take? I tried multiple classes until I found one that fit. I tried Spanish, splatter painting, rug hooking, acrylic painting, Mexican Dominoes, clogging… If you have an Adult Community Center, the classes are usually low-price and very varied. And making it a scheduled item, as in this is something I HAVE to do, and sticking to it, gives you a break from the house, the business, and the stress, plus building up new friends and new skills.
LOL, VL, I wondered what had happened to you but figured you were busy with your show. Will update the spreadsheet with your numbers.
So glad you got on the purging bandwagon. It feels delightful!
Sharyn, you’re right. You have a great memory! 995 sqft to be exact. My husband has decided we’re going to buy one of those wooden cabins and move the businesses out of the house. Then we’ll “go” to work. It will be nice to have a separation of work and home life.
Spreadsheet updated. VT takes the win this week. So close, Sharyn, so close! π
Happy Thanksgiving ladies. May your tables be laden, your hearts be full, and your blessings be many.
Hello ladies! Still not working eBay, just getting things done and I can tell you, while I haven’t lost an ounce, I feel lighter than I have in years. Clearing out my spaces, rearranging furniture, getting things done that have been piling up for ages; it’s literally chicken soup for the soul! eBay has taken a knock, I expected that, and I’m incredibly grateful I don’t rely on it as my primary source of income, but I feel energized and refreshed and ready to climb back into the ring in the New Year. I’m still getting orders to send out, so things aren’t dead, but I’ve not listed at all in weeks.
Removing the pressure and just working on getting everything cleared up in my life is the best thing I’ve done. Instead of stressing, my house is starting to look welcoming and peaceful and cosy. And big! Wow, getting rid of stuff really changes perspective! π I have finished all my Christmas shopping for folks getting bought stuff, and am about halfway through my Christmas making (couple quilts and table runners and similar.) All my Christmas cards are written AND posted and, at the ripe old age of 51, I used a hot glue gun for the first time and made these “Christmas trees.” They’re the first half of an Advent Calendar, second half will be finished this week.
Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!
That is a Cummins Onan Connect Series panel mount and sells for about $300. If it’s new in box, it should come with the wiring harness and some extra items. They light up little LEDs for alarms for system actions or malfunctions and stuff.
Here’s a nifty little description for you. As to how to test it, do you have a tame electrician handy?
Zero for me again. Other than packing orders, I’ve not worked eBay at all this week. I’ve been full steam ahead on the impromptu renovation and I love it! We have a living room again, there’s a whole lot of furniture out and only one extra chair in as we needed more seating. It. Feels. AWESOME! I can breathe, move, think. I’ve lost my sewing table (it became my desk) so now I have to do cutting and pattern making and stuff on the kitchen peninsula, but I’ll get around to sorting that out down the road. For now, it feels wonderful to have the space and be clutter free. The October Purge has continued into November and, although I stopped counting once the Challenge was done, there have been several more loads moved out of the house. I think I was drowning. Now I believe I’ll make it to shore.
Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead. Spreadsheet updated, VL takes the win again. Go you!
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