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Is it just me? I get tons of offers! All the time! A huge portion of my sales go to Best Offer buyers. I should actually do a check to see the exact percentage, but I’d say at least half of my stuff goes out on offers. Sometimes the offers just totally baffle me, like $10 on a $12 item (??) but the person making the offer feels like they got a deal, and 2 bucks off doesn’t bother me, so yay!
I used to get really peeved about the $5 offers on a $50 item, but I stopped that by putting in an auto-decline for the higher dollar items when I know I’d be hissy about a low offer. Some items, though, as Jay mentioned, are just thumb-suck prices because I have no idea what they’re worth. I’ll leave those open and give all offers some consideration.
But yeah, I get lots of offers, every week, and almost daily.
Well done, VT, you won this week. Only 5 points behind VL and still 9 weeks to go. Sharyn, you’ve got 6 points to catch up. Come on you two, give VL a little competition! LOL
VL, my little chicken, so sorry you’re feeling fowl. Sending healing thoughts your way with lots of well wishes and happy energy. Hope you get to breath and sleep a bit. Hug! Looking forward to hearing all about the show when you’re back on your feet.
Spreadsheet updated. VT takes the win!
Lucky you! The most snow I’ve ever encountered was a light flurry that started as I looked out the window and stopped as I got outside. This was in the UK when they had blizzards that dropped snow up to roof height. Where I was, in a tiny corner of Scotland, we managed to make it down to a chilly 50′ and only that one flurry, as mentioned. All the neighborhood were utterly baffled by the strange weather. It took my visits again, 2 or 3 times, before my friends figured out that every time I turned up, the weather got “warm” (50 is warm?) Eventually, they told me not to come back because I caused “a drought.” In Scotland, two weeks with no rain was a drought! I joke that I carry the sunshine in my heart, but seriously, everywhere I go, it warms up. We actually had snow here once. It lasted the night and was melted by morning. Sigh… Guess I should be grateful. I am grateful, I’m not a huge fan of freezing weather.
If the “donate” items make it into your car and get dropped off as soon as safely possible, you get a snow pass and can count them in October.
Oh, P.S. I pack like a BEAST and take photos as I pack, of each layer/level and of the final package. I included all of those in my claim, so that might have helped with the quick approval.
Update: following the excellent and detailed advice from Mike, I put in my Post Office claim and it was approved with no hassle at all, full purchase price. So I’m only out the shipping.
Very grateful to all who helped me through this, you guys rock!
@Sharyn I used to do that, but then you have to go to your Sold Items and check how many of the items you listed were sold during the week, or ended, or similar. It turned into a pain in the potato. Now I just write number listed in my daily To Do List and add them up at the end of the week.
@ChristineR Thanks. Yes, I have been extremely lucky that so many folks in my community have donated stuff to me, but I couldn’t list in time with the donations, so it got boxed. Fortunately, at one point, I actually separated stuff as “clothes” and “other”, so I’ve just hauled out boxes and bags of clothes items and checked prices. As I hate listing clothes, it seemed to be a good idea to get that huge pile out of the way, and I’ve been astounded and humbled by the sheer quantity that has gone to Goodwill/landfill (I think a LOT of stuff that goes to Goodwill goes to landfill, but that’s just my opinion.) I have stuff EVERYWHERE! So clearing out literally means a visible breathing space. It’s so good for the psyche!Now, if only I could confess to my fabric addiction and clear out my sewing space… 😀
Slightly risqué one for the last post of the Challenge! 😀
Hey, chaoticgood, great to have you back. Just so you know, we post our numbers every Monday and the spreadsheet is updated Tuesday (if my butterfly brain remembers!) The person with the highest number for the week gets a point. If you had the highest number but missed the deadline, your numbers are updated in the next week, but you don’t get the point retroactively. I’ll add your number to the spreadsheet, but as you posted 55 for the month, you’re not getting a point for the week, yeah? *wink*
If you’ve already sorted your jewelry, go ahead and work on it. I have severe ADHD, so sometimes I literally can’t work on a Death Pile because I’m overwhelmed by the stuff. In that case, I pick a box/shelf/tote and just work through that until it’s cleared. Clearing that small pile makes it easier to face the next. In that light, perhaps clearing the jewelry will help motivate you to move forward? Pack up the craft lot/donate stuff and stick it in the car, set the repairs aside for later when you’re watching TV, and list them suckers! 😀
Glad you’re back!
Zero for me this week. I’ve really been focussed on cleaning out my stuff and it’s cathartic! It’s surprisingly time consuming too. Ok, maybe not so surprising, if you consider that every item has to be checked for value before it’s tossed. With 83 items out, I actually did the research on over 100 items. However, I find this hugely encouraging. I now know that everything I have left has a value over $15 and so I have an extra motivation to list. With over 100 items waiting for me to list at an average of $15 per item, I know I have a buck and a half waiting for me. Furthermore, the odd items that were difficult to find and would be a pain to pull up later for pricing, I created drafts for. I’ll get those listed first and out of the way, which means I’m already on the way there. Good stuff!
As we have only 4 days left of October and I really do want to start listing with a clean slate, I’m probably going to have low listing numbers next week too, unless I finish all my sorting before the week is out. I hadn’t thought of a Get It OUT Challenge before. I shoulda done this ages ago. I think I can honestly say this is the first time I’ve been totally committed to a Challenge for a whole month, and I feel terrific and so pumped now! I do hope that it translates into a huge listing leap next month!
Another 83 items out the door, taking me up to 443 items, and still another 4 days to go. I’m beginning to run low on stuff to sort, so it’s starting to slow down and I feel MUCH better about the stuff I have left. I know it’s worth something, which is always an incentive to list!
LOL. Old Dad, you’re right! I thought a golf trivet, except they have prongs. And now that we have the dimensions, definitely not! 😀
It made me think of a book stand. Like this unusual penguin one by Nates Forge which was listed as “An abstract interpretation of a penguin sculpture, book stand or centre piece”
Or this rather boring (in comparison) option on eBay
Or these, more on point, options on eBay and Pinterest and Whitmyer Ranch for example.
LOL. Jay’s reply made me laugh, because it made me think “turn it back on them”. Ask them “why are you selling it?” They’ll be so flustered by your question, and if they do reply you can tag them along so that they totally forget they asked you anything.
autumnforest, leaving valuable items on the table because you don’t want to underprice them is walking away from money in the bank. If I have items that I think should be worth a lot, I decide for myself, in a brutally honest consideration, how much I truly think it might be worth. I do as much research as possible (I have Worthpoint and I’m a store owner, so I get access to Terapeak, plus I check multiple pages in Google and Yahoo search) (yes, Google and Yahoo and even Bing all give different results.) Then I compare my gut feel with the research I’ve found. If mine is the only possible one out there, I price crazy high with best offer, and then I add in an auto-decline for anything one dollar below my bottom offer. If there are a few others and they sold within the past year or so, and they all sold for less than mine, I price high, but not crazy high, and am a little more forgiving on my best offer auto decline. If lots of them sold, I work out the average and then compare it to my opinion. Sometimes I have to take a deep breath and admit that my opinion isn’t worth that much after all, and price accordingly.
Even if you don’t sell it, any offers you get, whether or not they were auto-declined, will give you a gauge of the market’s opinion vs yours.
Go ahead, try one. Just one. See how it works for you. And hooray, one fewer item in the Death Pile! 😉
Spreadsheet updated. Sorry, a little late. Had a couple crises yesterday that took my attention and completely forgot to log in and update it. I think chaoticgood has abandoned us. I’ll move her down next week.
Sharyn wins this week, but be warned… VL is back next week! 😀
