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Well done everyone! Great job to get some listings done on a Monday! VT wins the Monday Madness Challenge with 10 listings (and how great you did your whole week’s goal!) VL and LBH come in second with 8 each. I trailed in with 4. Points added to the spreadsheet.
Watch out, folks. You’ve had all year without a surprise challenge. You never know when one is going to pop up! 😀
Spreadsheet updated and Libby wins the week. Good going, Libby!
This is your last week for the Christmas in July Challenge. Keep on listing those Christmas items! Please post your final total for the Christmas items on Monday when you post your week’s figures. (Final total means the whole number of Christmas items you listed, not how many you listed this week.) VL will decide winners on Tuesday.
I had something for August in case nobody else came up with one, just to make sure we still had a challenge. Quite happy for you to take it, VL. Put together the parameters for the new challenge, and you can post it on Saturday, August 1st.
My number for Monday Madness is 4. All 4 are multi-quantity, so I’ve listed a dozen items, but only in 4 listings, so that’s my number. I had hoped for more, but I fought with my camera lighting and had a couple of awkward, large items to pack up for orders, so I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Looking forward to all your numbers!
Utahbill, what does “off the grid” mean? Do you go hunting or something?
I’m baaaack! Created 14 listings, 3 of which were Christmas! Yay!
Okay, folks, I’m doing it again! Yup, it’s time for a quickie challenge.
MONDAY MADNESS LISTING CHALLENGE!
List like crazy on Monday. Get as many as you can squeezed into just that one day. Don’t care if you only list for an hour or for all 24, just list like a firecracker! Don’t care what you list either. Any category, any type, anywhere. List your Christmas items for a last ditch at the Christmas in July challenge. List late 4th of July items. List winter, list summer, list books or decor or trinkets or cars. Whatever you like. Listings count, not number listed, and only listings posted live on Monday. Drafts don’t count. Post your numbers on Tuesday.
Ready? Wait for one minute past midnight, then… GO!
PellMellResell – you genius! Of course I should be claiming the home office deduction. I completely didn’t think about that! Thank you!
At the time, I applied to my bank for a mortgage at the same time (shopping around, yeah?) and was told no bank would ever be able to match that.
The secret (secrets?) to a very low rate:
Use a Credit Union. They can price lower than any bank, according to my bank.
Have a deposit of 20% or greater
Buy down points.
That’s how we did it. Also, I’m a major negotiator. I don’t stop asking. Ask if you can get a better rate. When they give you one, ask if that’s the best they can do. Wheedle. Cajole. Then when they give you their “absolute best rate” ask them if you can buy down points. Of course, you have to have the cash for this.
We saved aggressively for about five years to do this. No meals out, no holidays, no cable TV. Beans and rice and no new clothes. But it was worth it.
In 2015. Our closing agent said it was the lowest he’d seen in over 25 years, so I figured it was a good deal
I’ve heard that USAA is amazing for insurance. How have you found them so far?
Now that I’m reading this outside of the lots-of-colors-and-fonts email message from eBay, I notice that sellers have had a major cut in time, whereas buyers don’t really have much change. I mean, 14 calendar days IS ten business days, near as dammit.
As I have an unbeatable interest rate on the mortgage (2% on a 15-year fixed) I can’t switch, but I do shop my insurance policy annually. Oddly enough, some years it’s cheaper for me to separate home and auto insurances, paying two different companies, and other years it’s cheaper to combine them into one. I have no idea why. Last year I split and had two policies, this year I’m combining and have saved $650.
On average I will change insurers every two years for a better rate with same as or better coverage.
Great stuff!
You may have to DISMISS the notification on your Dashboard. I kept getting a notice to sign up each time I went to the Seller Hub until I clicked that Dismiss button.
It’s really annoying that every time eBay makes a change to their Item Specifics, they don’t import the old information into the new.
For example, when they changed how they classify Rise in clothes, or heel height in shoes, despite using their old drop down to select the option, they don’t automatically import their own old info into the changes, and you have to go back and redo all the specifics.
Chef’s uniforms used this type of button. At least, the vintage ones did. You know those white coats/shirts they wear? Those buttons were standard on them.
