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I had a buyer ask me to please redo the photos of a coat with the model wearing black gloves, as he was buying the coat for his mother and she always wears black driving gloves.
I photoshopped some black gloves into the existing photo and emailed it back. Not a word! π
07/19/2019 at 10:31 am in reply to: How to Remove Old Dried Masking Tape from Painted Enamel? #65154Antique Frog – That is so fascinating!
I love her story, and her view on folks finding her knives secondhand. And the side hustle that she makes corsets and bras! I KNEW those things were implements of torture!
Oh, that was brilliant. That is SO what happens on FB. And did you read the comments too? π π π π
07/18/2019 at 10:24 pm in reply to: How to Remove Old Dried Masking Tape from Painted Enamel? #65131@Clarity Thanks so much. Will give it a go!
@AntiqueFrog Wow, that is so interesting! I’ve never heard of that before and it was an interesting trip down a rabbit hole! Thanks
07/18/2019 at 11:45 am in reply to: How to Remove Old Dried Masking Tape from Painted Enamel? #65101@Jay It’s been soaking for days now. The tape is so old and dried on that it’s just not moving.
@Clarity We’re concerned that it will damage the finish on the machine. It has a high gloss finish, like car paint. Have you tried it on something similar?
Erk! Yes, we’re on. This is going to be a stretch, but a stretch is good, every now and then! π
07/16/2019 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Ebay: Please make sold listings show the ACTUAL sale price. #65031Flipper Tools fixed the problem on their site and now it works again. It was down for a while, and they were very transparent about it on the site and in their Facebook group.
Vintage Treasures, sorry about your family member. π For some reason, I always thought you and I were the same age! To be honest, it’s having kids that keeps me up to date with the lingo. And having a class with a variety of ages too, they said what now? Google is my friend! Also, FWIW*, the acronym can be split, depending on your circumstances. You can use ROFL, or LMAO.
*Heheheheh Giving you new Google search options!Vintage Lacy, awesome find. I still have the typewriter I was given for my 11th birthday, 40 years ago! My husband has a vintage Remington, one of those big block style ones. Unfortunately, it’s damaged, but it still looks cool!
Sharyn, that is a FULL van! π But now you have to spill… how do you resurrect an expired listing? I often want to and I thought the only way to do that was to pay for a program like SixBit or WonderLIster.
Spreadsheet updated. Vintage Treasure takes the crown this week.
Let’s unpack that Step #1 and see if we can (to quote Tim Gunn) make it work!
Remove all items from your listing area except for the one item you’re listing. Have a dedicated listing space.
Now, first off, I note this is a two-fer. Do you have a “dedicated listing space”? I can tell you right now, I don’t and physically cannot. My home is a whopping 995 square feet and about the only thing that’s dedicated to one task is the shower! Everything has to do double duty, at the very least. My living room is split into three – I have my “office” in one corner, my “sewing room” in another corner, and my tv room/living room/drawing room/extra space for the overflow from one of the other corners room for the rest of it. It’s also the pass-through dogtrot, with the front door leading in and through to the dining room, which opens directly onto the deck. In Spring and Fall, we open doors on both sides and let the wind whistle through. This is Texas – any time we get cool enough to turn off the a/c, we go straight for the dogtrot and natural air conditioning!
In my “office”, I run 4 different businesses, with those file sorting trays on a shelf to keep the paperwork separate. So I can’t even have that as a dedicated space! I had thought about having a plastic tote bin on the floor under my desk in which I store my “to list” items, but that defeats my goal of clearing the space. However, I am about halfway through clearing another shelf on the bookshelf next to my desk. I can dedicate that shelf to the cause. So, if I were to operate in the spirit of Step #1, I would clear that shelf, and only stock that shelf with the 10 items I plan to list. Then, in accordance with part 2 of the step (Part 1? It’s listed before the instruction to have a dedicated space…) I would choose one item off that shelf and put it on my desk to actually list it. That could work… My only concern is that the shelf is a standard bookshelf shelf, so tall items wouldn’t fit. Unless I clear and add the top of the bookshelf to my “dedicated space.” I could put things on top and on the shelf directly below the top, giving me two “shelves” but one dedicated space.
What do you think, VT? Shall we create a dedicated listing space? Would that help you to conquer this one? I can see how it would work for me. I’d have a place to put things that isn’t actually cluttering up my desk or the floor around my desk.
Oooh… I can have a clear floor around my desk! Now, THAT would be novel!
Simon – eBay topic – yes! Especially now that I have the new Google Pixel 3a and can take photos in the eBay app (was dreadful on the old phone.) I find that I have to edit my contrast and lightness a lot and it often returns a file error when I press the save button after editing. I tried hitting Reset, but it didn’t retrieve the photo. If I use my PC to upload off a camera disc, I have to watch my loading so as not to cut it off. I’ve found that updating item specifics or something can interfere with photo loading and, for the love of sanity, don’t enter any UPC or you’ll lose the lot!
Still finding items not tracked in PayPal. I logged into my account and there’s a notification at the top saying to print labels or add tracking. Opened it up and I had tracking requirements back to May.
Ryanne’s comment about the guy who claimed back on PP made me think to check. I don’t know why it’s not updating off eBay, I do all my shipping through the eBay system. I’ve never had a Bonanza item update in PayPal, even though I go through their system, so I’m not surprised at that.
@Liz For GSP items, there was an option to add each leg of the shipping info. I had between 2 and 4 tracking numbers when I pulled up my detailed tracking on eBay and I input each one into PP. It seems to make the PP robot happy.Jay, your willingness to do a podcast despite your stutter has always been a point of huge respect and admiration for me. I was thrilled to find someone who had such self-confidence that he would talk, instead of just writing a blog, despite having what society considers an impediment. You inspired me in a personal way, as well as giving me so much good information about eBay. You are my hero!
You do you. I’m pretty sure there’s a huge slice of the Scavenger Life Tribe behind me who all believe you’re the best you, just the way you are. Treat these odd emails like you treat Grumpy Buyers – shrug, and delete.
Last week Vintage Treasures did the Wicked Witch cackle and slapped me with a penalty for failing the Death Pile Challenge. You can stroll over to the Death Pile Support Group to read all about it; suffice to say it sure did light a fire under the old (and saggy) keister! My sincere thanks to VT for the flames!
Did 22 listings this week, many of which were multiple items, so I’ve whacked out a ton of stuff, all Death Pile. Woot woot!
Now I have to tell you a funny story about it. To list fast, I created a draft, photographed, then finished and listed. Everything went into a bin for packing and a SKU number later. Batch listing, yeah? When I had a bin full, I packed, SKU’d, added the SKU to the Active Listings page on my laptop, and hoofed it all down to the shed. Empty bin, start again. Rinse and repeat.
Well, this morning, I was SKU-ing merrily and not one, but two, of my items were missing. Not in my listings. What the…? Did a search. Nothing. Did a more generic search. Nothing. Grrrrr…. Then I remembered I had sent the ID of one of the missing items to my kid, so I pulled up the chat and clicked on the link. I was getting my story together so that I could VENT at eBay for my disappearing items. Only… they weren’t disappeared. They were SOLD! ROFLMAO! What a week!
Phew! The week is over and it has been a humdinger! I’m proud to announce that I was faithful and completed my penalty daily. I wanted to honor your serious acceptance of the Challenge, Vintage Treasures. So I was serious in my tasks. I did not realize how much of an impact it would have on my day!
To complete the questions, I had to be thoughtful and consider my end goal. This made me more mindful of what I was putting into my To Do List. Going over the TDL, I saw there were several items I could do in 30 minutes or less. What if I actually did them, knocked them out? Sure, it would take up a couple hours of my day, but it would wipe out a whole batch of numbers on the loooong daily grind. So I did them. The rest of the day was open for the bigger tasks that I could get chewing on. It was so freeing; I felt lighter, more enthusiastic, motivated.
So I did it again the next day. And the next. By this time, I ran out of small items to cross off, so instead I hit the items that weren’t short on time, but short on energy. These were often stepping stones. By turning my focus to the third question, I began to bite off larger chunks of the bigger items.
I’ve astonished myself. I cannot recall clearing so much of my weekly goals in a very long time. Things that were hanging over my head, things I’ve been putting off, things I would have put off in a normal week. All gone! Please note – we’re not talking eBay stuff here. I’m talking my FULL list. Everything from financials, to housework, to cleaning out the cat’s litter box. And the floor. And the walls behind the litter box. (I’ve ordered a bigger box, this cat has the aim of a blind farmer missing a barn with a rock salt shotgun!) (I can’t wait for her to learn there’s a HUGE litter box outside!) (We adopted her last month to replace the cat that got eaten.) (She’s a rescue, in bad shape.) (Hey… these parentheses are cool!)
Seven full days later and I’m exhausted and elated. I am motivated. I’m on a roll and can’t wait to see how far I go before I run out of steam. Let’s pray this is one of those self-powering rolls, so that I only go faster! LOL.
Re eBay, I completed my Challenge this week, listing all Death Pile items. I did not work through the 8 steps, though. I plan to incorporate those into my weekly schedule going forward, but I want to see how they fit into the new plan. I don’t want to lose all this forward momentum. Check out my numbers over on the Trash Elf Listing Challenge. I have a funny story to share there too!
Your keywords are Native American Papoose Doll.
I couldn’t find any info that helps you, but there were a bunch of similar styled dolls using those keywords.
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