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I’ve noticed that when I list, things sell. Sometimes the stuff I’ve just listed, if it’s a hot commodity item, other times older stuff.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that the stuff that sells, whether it’s old or new, is in the same category as the stuff I’ve listed. So if I list ties, I sell ties, if I list shoes, I sell shoes. Definite correlation, in my experience
I bombed out too. However, I found some keywords for you
Train Art Pencil Sketch 8444 Pacific Northwest Ltd Ed Print 11/75 Signed Framed
The Entitled Generation in action.
Off eBay I was told to sew one of my dancers a skirt, because she liked the design of the one that didn’t fit her. Not please, or could you? “Sew me a skirt like this in my size.”
I had the same simple answer for her as I do for eBay buyers who give me the same attitude: “No.” I don’t even justify my response.
Oh, I forgot! VT, another two out for the January challenge. The chandelier mentioned when I accepted the challenge and another shelf that I love because it’s wood, but it’s unstable and generally just holds junk. I cleared the junk and moved it on with the chandelier to a charity group that supports abused women and children. They were thrilled, so, yay! That’s five out.
Now I have to decide what to do with the patio set, the barrel side table, and the desk. The binnacle is going to be listed, but I very much doubt it will be sold and out by end February.
Huh. Perhaps I should challenge the Universe and list it just to be perverse! 😀
Libby, I’m changing your name in the Challenge Spreadsheet to Girl on Fire. You’re hot, chica!
100% improvement, UtahBill, and one more than I managed! 😀
Updated for both weeks, junqueredux
Zero for me again this week. Been a busy week of not eBay and not-much cabin either. The ceiling fan was installed, plug outlets wired, and the dry wall papered, but too busy to do much else.
LittleBlueHouse, I didn’t want to clutter the other thread with my info, but I’ve pretty much taken over the entire house with my business, which is why Himself got me the cabin. His business takes up a lot of real estate with half the garage given over to shelving for machines and stuff, but my business takes up the other half of the garage, almost every room in the house, and an 8ft by 16ft shed we bought for it a couple years back. I think he has been incredibly patient with me! Our house is also tiny, less than 1,000sqft, with almost no storage, so that makes it all worse. *wink* By moving my entire eBay business out to the cabin, I will have a dedicated work space, which will hopefully make me more efficient, and we’ll have our home back. Can’t wait!
@littleBlueHouse He went back to school and qualified as a sewing machine repair tech. So now he services machines from all over, as he’s the only tech in 4 counties, and the only one in a much larger area who will work on vintage machines. We get folks from the other side of Texas who bring us their 200 year old treadle machines to work on. He also does industrial machines (those huge things that weigh 400lbs), longarm quilting machines, and industrial embroidery machines. He does the work, I do everything else. I had no idea how much work was going to be involved in “everything else!”
Hi sidehustlershane, dunno if you’ve seen the Trash Elf Listing Challenge, but we’re a group of great folks who set ourselves a goal to list a certain amount each week and then post our numbers. It’s an accountability factor. It definitely motivates folks to list, which is one “to do” for an eBay business.
10KontheBay is a YouTube vlogger who did a great vid on how to eliminate Death Piles. It would work really well as a template for how to create your eBay schedule too!
Like LittleBlueHouse, I have a supportive husband who flat refuses to work in the business with me. Now he has his own business, and I work in HIS business as well as mine, and my eBay is definitely suffering! As LittleBlueHouse said, the one thing I ALWAYS do is get my orders out as fast as possible – I try to never have a late shipping fault. But for the rest… time waits for no man (or woman) and I seem to struggle to work out how to get through my day.
However, I have worked out a few problems of my own that may help you in putting your schedule together.
1. Group like tasks. Sort all items that need cleaning into one spot, items that need researching into another, items that are ready to be photographed into a third, and so on. Some days you’re just not in the mood for listing, so you can research. Other days you don’t feel like either and can do cleaning or repairs.
2. Consider unusual task completion schedules. Clothes can have buttons sewn on or small repairs sewn while watching TV. Jewelry can be cleaned after doing the dishes. Quilts and coverlets can be photographed on your bed when you strip it for your weekly laundry load. And so on.
3. Wherever possible “go” to work. My biggest problem is that I work IN the house. I don’t have a set room for eBay. My computer is in the living room, my packing station is in the garage, my listed items are stored in the shed. I have several different places to be to get stuff done. It was by necessity, but it is the biggest time waster on the planet! I just don’t do stuff because it’s such a PITA to get to it. The hubs has claimed our only available spare room for his business, and working in the garage just didn’t work because I had to (1) work around everything else in the garage and (2) deal with extreme cold or extreme heat depending on the time of year. Honestly, my best advice is to have a separate space, room, or building where you have everything together. Okay, maybe storage for listed items can be elsewhere, but if you can have your photographing and listing and processing space, with a comfortable working environment, you’ll be more likely to actually get some work done. If you can use a spare room, close the door at the end of the day when you “leave the office” and open it in the morning when you “go to work.” It’s a psychological thing, but it creates a separation of home and work that just isn’t there otherwise.
4. Last suggestion; create a routine schedule, depending on what type of worker you are. For example: On Mondays, you sort and clean. On Tuesdays, you research. Or, if you’re more of a daily person, you could pack orders from 9-10AM, then do research until lunch. After lunch you list for 2 hours, then pack orders again before getting to the post office before closing. Whatever works for you. You will be more likely to get stuff done if you have an allocated time to do it.Hope these suggestions help you, and we would love to welcome you to the Listing Challenge. Look out for us on Monday. (P.S. I’m the worst lister in the group, but I never give up! So what? I’m rock bottom three years running, but I’m still here and still listing (some days) and that makes me a winner!)
Wow. How different things are in different cultures. I was brought up to think that yellow roses meant friendship!
My favorite flowers are the ones on Stranger than Fiction, with Will Farrell 🙂
Scary, but true!
When in doubt, ask the experts! LOL
I didn’t see one of these gadgets on their site, but Old Phone Shop has a huge inventory of Stromberg Carlson parts. They even invite you to send them an email with questions.
