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There are 131 solds on Worthpoint, the highest price sold was $635 for a set of two.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/set-vtg-kabuki-japanese-handmade-1797976710The next highest sold for $300, and the following five highest sold for between $200 and $245. 14 sold for between $100 and $200 and all the rest sold for less than $100. In fact, more than half of the remaining solds went for less than $50.
09/24/2018 at 9:43 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #49083Good morning all and Happy Monday!
Zero for me again last week, but that will change this week. I think my husband was very worried about me being so sick and actually spent last week helping me clean and test stuff for the shop. He doesn’t do that usually, so it was a great surprise and I jumped on the opportunity. Now that it’s all clean and working, I have stuff ready to list this week. Also, was still working on taxes. Yes, it has taken weeks, but I have to compile five different businesses and we were affected by the hurricane last year, which complicated matters. I’ll be finishing this week, so this is going to be an awesome week! π
09/19/2018 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #48929When I saw that Vintage Treasures hadn’t posted yet, I thought I would give her a little extra time… then I totally forgot to log back in last night! Oops! π She was moving house, so I guessed it was zero for her. VT, if you have a number, let me know and I’ll update you.
Here’s this week’s totals. Christine, you are so far ahead of me, I have no idea how I’ll ever catch up! However, we’re on week 37 out of 52. That leaves 15 weeks. I can still beat you! (Hope beats eternal…)
And now, for your viewing pleasure – must get one of these!
Sorry for the delayed response, was down sick. Long sorry story on the Trash Elf Twins thread.
Sent an email = photos are rough, snapped with the old (crappy camera) phone.
09/17/2018 at 9:01 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #48788Zero for me this week. I’ve still felt a bit wobbly, and standing for long periods is not good. So instead, I worked on my listings where eBay lost the photos. Also, the hubs reminded me that our taxes are due, with the extension coming up next month, so I’ve been working on that.
So much to catch up on!
09/11/2018 at 5:22 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #48625Yes, it jumps from Week 33 to Week 36, and I know it’s because I’m sick, but my OCD is like “wait… you’re missing three weeks!” π
AtomicStar appears to be AWOL and BingBong never came back, so it’s just us Core 5 again.
Thanks for all the encouragement, guys, much appreciated. I’m not back at full strength yet, so dunno how my listing is going to look this week, but at least I relisted all my ended listings. I’m below 500 now and that’s my cut off point. Never let myself drop below 500! LOL. Not much below, so it’s not much of a motivation, but I’m going to try to start listing this week. So! Much! Catching! Up! to get through, though – and taxes. EEEEP!
09/11/2018 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Anyone else get annoying repeat measurement questions for clothes and shoes? #48622There’s an option to save an email to your listing so that the answer is available for other buyers.
If you’re getting the same question from the same buyer, perhaps you should contact eBay to let them know? It may be an unsavory customer. I’ve had a lot of “this transaction is not an eBay customer” notices just lately, both selling and buying. I don’t know how folks are buying without an account, but it seems to be a new trend.
I hate the Android app. It’s clunky and not user friendly at all. I’ve not tried an iPhone (yet) but have heard good stuff about them.
09/10/2018 at 12:02 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #48567Hey, folks, thanks for all the good wishes! Zero for me for the past, what? 3 weeks? Once everyone has posted numbers, I’ll collate the spreadsheet for all the missed weeks, with apologies!
Make yourself comfortable for the story of “why?” aka “Where has Amatino gone?” LOL
In hindsight, August has to have been my Unluckiest Month of 2018. Over the weekend I had a sore spot on my left thigh. As I’m not from Texas, I tend to react to Things That Bite, so the hubs and I thought it was a bite reaction. By Monday Aug 27 the thing had grown to the size of a quarter and was blistered. It itched in a stinging-ivy kind of way, so around mid-day I trotted to the doc, who diagnosed Shingles. I’ve had several outbreaks over the past half-dozen years, always on the same spot on my right butt cheek, so this was new. I was not allowed to get the Shingles vaccine before as I was “too young” but there’s a brand new vaccine out that is really powerful and effective and I *just* scraped into the age allowance. Well, “brand new” to health insurance = experimental drug, so there was all sorts of clearance checks and etc. to ensure that I could have it. A rather painful jab in the left bicep, and I was done.
Couple hours later, the pharmacy called me to say that I had to come back. I had also been prescribed an antiviral to treat the Shingles. They asked how my arm felt and I replied “like you punched me there!” Couple hours later, it felt like I’d been hit by a sledgehammer in that arm. Some hours after that, like I’d been hit by a Mack truck! I woke in the night, crying from the pain, and eventually got back to sleep after taking painkillers (and waiting for them to work.)
The next day I was man down as if I’d been the warm-up round in a Mike Tyson match fight. I was sick and miserable, my head ached, I felt awful! Any attempts to get up resulted in severe nausea. Over the next couple days, the blister on my leg grew and spread and I developed more blister-spots up my leg onto my stomach, around the back of my leg, down to my knee, and along the underside of my left forearm. They all itched and stung. Cold helped. Heat drove me crazy.
By day two of this, I researched side effects on this vaccine. In this article, the say the side effects are “substantial” – and how! I lost my appetite, couldn’t even sit up in bed to work as it was too nauseating. My poor hubby had to fetch and carry parcels for eBay sales. I would totter out of bed to pack and print labels, then stagger back leaving him to do the rest. A parcel would take ages to complete as I had to bend over and breathe really slowly waiting for the nausea to abate.
Now, in all the brouhaha of getting the vaccine, all the Medical Professionals Who Know Best kinda forgot that I actually had Shingles! The Shingrix vaccine specifically states that you do NOT take the vaccine if you have Shingles. First you wait for the Shingles to entirely clear up, wait a couple weeks, then you get the vaccine. I suspect that, by giving me the vaccine in the midpoint of a full outbreak, they forced me into a full chickenpox infection. I’m not sure the doctor was to blame. She prescribed antivirals to treat the Shingles, and the vaccine. The Pharmacist, who actually inspected my Shingles blister, did not read up on the specs.
Fortunately, while I’m not a Medical Professional, I do have some common sense and I worked out that if I take an anti-viral with a vaccine, they cancel each other out. I called the Pharmacist to check and he, sheepishly, admitted I was correct. I suspect he then read up the paperwork to discover his faux pas. Which didn’t help me in dealing with my Shingles, as I couldn’t take anything to clear it up, I had to struggle with the actual Shingles outbreak as well as feeling foul.
After a full week of this, I started feeling a little better, then was suddenly hit by a severe vertigo. The room was spinning violently around me, even though I was lying still in bed. Monday was Labor Day, so I had to wait until Tuesday to get help. This time a phone call to the doc (I was too ill to actually go there) and I was prescribed a treatment. This stuff was like Mike Tyson, annoyed that I got up after being knocked down in the warm up round, came back and knocked me cold. I slept from about 3PM on the Tuesday until Wednesday morning! I’d love to say I felt better after that. Unfortunately, it is a week later and I’m just up and about. Yesterday I managed to stay up all day, but my brain is foggy and I am struggling to process, focus, and concentrate.
Here’s the kicker to my tale. You know everything happens in threes, right? #3. The vaccine is a twofer. I’m supposed to go back for Part 2 within the next six months!
All together now… “Oh HELL no!” π
08/27/2018 at 11:04 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #48043Zero for me too.
I’m ready for Fall, cooler temps, and some dedicated listing time. My husband is starting a new business and I’ve spent the last week creating business cards, getting him up on Google, setting up his paperwork, etc.
Hey So Cal, welcome to the delightful world of rural living! We’re more rural than J&R. We live 8 miles out of the smallest town (it has one Dollar General, one library, two churches, a hardware store, and a post office) and 20 miles from the nearest reasonably sized town. We shop once a week in the big town, and pick up odds like milk or stuff we might run out of when we go on our run to the post office. You’ll get into the habit of combining trips a lot. “If I’m in town to do X today, I’ll add in Y and Z and ABC.” Or… “I can’t wait until my weekly trip to do F, so what else can I get down while I’m there?”
Speaking of shopping, when you buy stuff, the first time buy two of each item: one to use, one to store. When something is used up, you take the stored one and then you replace it. It’s too far to travel for items you’ve run out of.
4WD roads are great if you’re anti-social. However, if you like having visitors occasionally, a dirt road is about the worst you can go. Not only that, it gets really old really fast having to drive 4WD tracks. I’ve done it for months at a time and I can tell you, it’s so much nicer to have a dirt road! We have a caliche road that the council maintains for most of our route, the last half mile or so is private road and we maintain it ourselves. We have to have a tractor and a box blade to do it. Consider if you want to have a tractor and the expense of running one.
Yes to electricity, even if you mean to go off the grid. You can “sell” electricity once you get set up with solar or wind or whatever, but it’s good to have a back up. We don’t have gas, but we do have a wood burning stove. Wouldn’t be without it! We also have a huge supply of wood naturally at our fingertips, so that helps. Give thought to the size of your house for heating via wood. Our house is just under 1,000 sq ft and our Franklin does a fairly good job of getting it warmed up. The insulation in our house is above standard, so that helps. If we didn’t have such good insulation, we’d have a problem. If your house is going to be bigger, you’ll need more stoves, or you’ll need to top up with an alternate method (gas or electric.) We have central air, with cooling and heating and, by getting the house warmed up with the stove, we only run the heating from bedtime until we rise. We keep the stove going for the rest of the time, and our electric bill is very low. I do have an oil heater in the bathroom, a small one. It stays on all night during the winter.
City water or a well, either will work. Definitely invest in one of them. Also consider adding a rainwater catchment system. Our house is odd; a long rectangle divided in half down the center line. The back of the house is one long roof and we installed a seamless gutter the full length of it. The front of the house is stepped, with four different sections. Each section has its own seamless gutter. One section has a 200 gallon rainwater tank. It filled up in the first rainstorm! A neighbor a little way off has installed three 5,000 gallon tanks and has hooked them up to a filter system to run the house entirely off rainwater. There is a well that pumps only when the tanks run low, so he has a back up. We plan to install one 5,000 gallon tank above our house and have the well pump into it only once a day (it currently pumps on demand) which will reduce our electric bill, improve water pressure, and ensure we’re not out of water if the pump breaks. Eventually we’re going to add rainwater tanks to each gutter section.
The post office doesn’t deliver to us. We have cluster boxes on the main highway two miles away, and I make a run as often as needed to the post office 8 miles away.
We have 32 acres of which 8 acres are fenced off as “homestead” area, the rest of the property is wild. When we were first looking for land, we wanted LAND and got the most we could afford. Having been out here for the past three years, I can tell you it’s wasted. We’re paying taxes on property that we don’t use and can’t use, as it’s the side of a mountain. The homestead is plenty big enough. Probably too big! We could drop to 5 acres and not feel a pinch. The one point that I think makes a difference, though, is that our place is off a road off the main road. The only people who pass our house actually live round here or visit. And there are only two houses past us. In other words, we have very little passing traffic (although one neighbor appears to alleviate boredom by driving up and down the road every half an hour!)
We really wanted land, so we compromised on buildings. Then we spent thousands of dollars adding fencing and upgrading. In hindsight, we’d have been better off adding those thousands to the price of the property and getting some decent outbuildings and a better house. There was some misrepresentation about who built our house, we were told it was built by ABC* Construction, but after we took possession we found out that the letters stood for the initials of the owners, not any true construction company. Rural rules aren’t as strict as town, so the standard of building is dreadful. While the insulation was excellent, there’s not a straight wall in the place and there are so many issues that need to be addressed. (*not the real initials) Points for you to consider.
In closing, I wouldn’t trade this lifestyle for anything, even if it is inconvenient in many ways (internet and phones, for example. We have NO cell coverage. At all!) There’s nothing to beat my views, seeing wild deer and rabbits graze in the back garden, hearing coyote packs hunt in the night, or watching the stars from my back deck. There are downsides, of course, but they’re minor compared to the positives.
Good luck on your move!
Feedback on my move to List-and-Attend. I’ve been shifting all my listings to 30-day as they come up to their “ending today” date. It has taken several months, but I’ve been fully 30-day for few weeks now. It was not feasible for me to relist daily, so I got into the habit of relisting once a week. With only 500-odd items in my store, some weeks it worked out that half my store was ended, so I started doing my relisting on a Sunday. This is now my third Sunday doing this and I can report consistent sales on Sunday evening and Monday, sometimes even Tuesday. The phone ka-chings in the most satisfying way!
I should probably relist on Saturdays to get the weekend crowd, but I work a full day on Saturday in retail, and my feet are killing me and I’m just not in the mood to do anything but sit on the floor with my feet on the wall! π
Empathy to Ryanne! Hope you get better soon. Quick tip – eat marshmallows! While it’s actually the marshmallow root that does the trick, even the modern marshmallows help to relieve that awful scratchy feeling. Dunno why, but it has always worked. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
I do have a fair whack of art stashed away that I’ve not gotten around to listing yet. Give me size ideas and I’ll grab some quick&dirty photos. Framed or not?
08/22/2018 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #3 From Week 31 August #47865@ChristineR – I know. I look at Sharyn’s YTD and that’s more like the number I was aiming at this year. Can’t believe how badly off course I’ve gone this year! And now my car went in for an urgent recall that “only takes 2 hours” and they can’t get it back to me until tomorrow or maybe Friday. Seriously? I’m going to turn this house upside down and find that freaking imp that’s plaguing me! Gaaaaah!
@Vintage Lacy – yes, I’m coming to that realization as well. My biggest problem… hmmm… my biggest 3 problems are the huge Death Piles, which will translate at some point to a huge storage headache, and the time it takes to get it all listed. Plus… those Death Piles are giving ME piles, I tell you. All that money just lying there! Gaaaaaaaaaah!
On the positive side, I’m having a better day than this guy!
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