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Thanks Mike.
Just got a listing taken down as a counterfeit, but am at a loss because it’s just a projector (the type that shows movies against your house.) It’s a low ticket item and the company that logged a complaint is so generic. Really annoyed, but there’s not much I can do. Will probably go to Facebook. Or perhaps this is my time to start looking at other marketplaces – would Mercari sell this stuff?
Grrrr….
Winner this week: Vintage Treasures! (Surprise, surprise!)
Spreadsheet updated.
Libby, I’ve got nothing for you for last week. Wanna give me a number to update the spreadsheet?
Vintage Treasures, I have listings up for a few dollars, like my magnets at 4.99 each with free shipping. Most of my stuff is small, and lower priced. I really struggled over whether or not to up my store to the next level and I don’t regret it. I have hovered around the 500 mark for the past year and I’ve not really felt the bite of the higher store subscription. I have enjoyed the extra shipping perks and stuff, though! LOL.
Yes, I’m leaving a lot on the table having a store sub for 1,000 items but only 500 up, and I do mean to get the other 500 listed – eventually. I want to clear my death piles! However, having 500 up has meant that I tend to get sales trickling in constantly, even when I’m an atrocious lister! What I did was bite the bullet until I got to 450 listings, then I sized up to the next store level. The monthly invoice didn’t really change much at that point and now I have the freedom to list it and forget it, without any concerns about my numbers.
To be honest, I would far rather be listing 100 a month and STILL be at 500, because that would mean I was selling at least 100 a month. That’s my goal – to have decent income from constant sales so that my store doesn’t actually grow in size. I don’t really want a store the size of J&R, although I do want the sales! Ha! Wishful thinking.
The idea of having to take care of 5,000 items is just… ugh! I’m a minimalist at heart, and this business is my contribution to keeping stuff out of landfill. For that reason, everything in my death pile is listed, even if it’s low dollar. One day, it will sell. My best days ever are the ones where I get an email from someone who bought something low dollar and uninteresting that I would NEVER have picked up myself but was in a box of stuff donated to me, and the buyer tells me how grateful they are that I actually had it, that they couldn’t believe they found it. One woman was absolutely shrieking with joy in her email, the shriek was coming through loud and clear in her message!
You list more than I do, so who’s the hobby seller, hmmm?
Hopefully we’ll have more participants next challenge. π
Glad I could help! π
Actually, I keep EVERYTHING up in the store, even if I think it has no value or is a dud. As far as I’m concerned, it’s listed, I went to all that work/effort, and I’m not short on storage space. I’ve got such a large Death Pile, I figured everything can stay up until I have cleared my DP and THEN I’ll decide if I want to whittle any down. To my surprise, stuff that I really don’t think is going to move – does! It wouldn’t sell if I didn’t have it up there!
Thanks to Liz for my listing numbers this week. Because she played along in the Death Pile Support Group challenge, AND decided to go for a throwdown, I listed 9 items.
It was totally crazy this week. I worked flat out trying to get a costume finished, and had a gig to attend on Saturday. We fought so badly with the wind, we ended up laughing more than dancing during our veil choreo
We ended up with 10 dancers in total
Unfortunately, despite working like a crazy person, I couldn’t get the costume finished in time for the event, so it didn’t make its debut. I needed to add lining, to add the centerpiece, and to connect the straps.
Phew! Managed to see your 4, Liz, for a total of 9 items listed this week. It has been CRAZY busy! Thanks for playing along in the challenge. I don’t think I would have listed any if not for you.
I’ve been to the street markets like the ones shown at 21:20 onwards. The clothes are dirt cheap and in huge piles through which you rummage for what you want. It’s quite an experience!
Wow, they are rare. They’re not even on the Doc Martens Pinterest board!
However, I did find you the Doc Martens contact page. Send them a photo and ask them directly. Please email support@drmartens.com – but note, this is only for U.S. enquiries. If your boots came from the UK, they’ll have to redirect you.
Listed my 5. Have to go pack orders and get to the Post Office now, so I can’t take up Liz’s Throwdown.
Yet! π
Trust someone in the Listing Challenge to take up the Death Pile Challenge! π Brilliant!
Well done, Liz.
Everyone else, list your 5. If you want to accept Liz’s Throwdown, go for it. See her 4 or raise her! (Cue the Kenny Rogers music…) LOL
You’re forgetting that the hemispheres have different weather conditions. Someone going to the Southern Hemisphere will be wanting a coat, especially if they’re going somewhere with elevation. Upington in South Africa is regularly below freezing in winter. Southern Argentina is a frostbitten spot.
As others have said, don’t nickel and dime stuff. That’s how you’ll end up with a death pile. Just list it and forget it. Once it’s up, you don’t have to worry about it.
Well done, Liz, on all books listed. And you won this week too!
Vintage Lacy, how wonderful to have a great sales week. I have an opinion that people who attend these shows tend to buy more stuff that they would not have if they’d seen it online. Seeing stuff in person makes such a difference!
Spreadsheet updated, Liz won.
Last year’s other winners didn’t claim their elves, so this year’s winner can get one too. Then you can also have a happy helper like Sharyn’s. And, if you ask REALLY nicely, I might even add some titty worms for you! LOL
Death Pile Challenge Week!
If you have posted in this thread – challenge!
I challenge you to choose five death pile items. I don’t care if they’re armpit items or easy to list items, but you must choose 5. List those 5. You can list as many or as few of anything else as you like, but this challenge is FIVE DEATH PILE ITEMS LISTED.
POKER THROWDOWN: If you want o throwdown challenge, list those five and raise the odds! So, see my 5, and raise me… ?
Post your successes here next Monday! For poker throwdown, list the same day as your throwdown to give us a chance to respond during the week.
(Armpit items – the stuff we don’t want anyone to see. Nobody ever looks under your armpit, right?)
My listing average is closer to zero than ten, so my sales have tanked. I’m blaming me, but I have noticed that regular activity does spike the sales graph.
According to the numbers, you’re averaging 18 a week, or 3 a day for a five-day week. You’re actually doing great. You’re plodding along, but many a tortoise has won a race, right? If you really feel like you need a boost, set yourself a new goal of 20 a week, or 4 a day for a five-day week, or add one extra day to list 2 items. Small successes are huge motivators, large steps are a fast road to depression and failure. Take little steps and give yourself BIG high fives when you achieve them.
Numbers are unemotional and, sometimes, very, very cruel. Your numbers show that you’re doing really well. A consistent weekly listing average.
BIG HIGH FIVE!!!
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