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Yes, I struggled too.
Let’s revive last week’s challenge and get it working for this week, then next week can be a fresh new challenge. Keep the momentum going!
So I have to list minimum 10, and do Step 1: have a dedicated listing area; Step 2: have a small list next pile; and Step 3: List daily. I have to list 2 per day to make my goal, so I’m going to try to work to create some sort of routine that makes that happen. Due to the number of businesses I work in, I only work eBay Mon-Fri so that I have 2 days for other tasks like sewing and housework deep cleaning and other fun activities!
For you? Box your deathpile items, put them in the office closet, and list 6 per day to make 30 per week? Do I have that right? And you have to get Step 1, 2 and 3 as well!
Spreadsheet updated. Vintage Lacy slam dunked for the win!
Wiped out this week, VT, on both challenges. I only listed 3 and I didn’t list every day. I tried, I really tried. I even had a chat with the other half about creating a routine that would allow me to list daily and he agreed it was a good idea. Long story in the TELC thread on my week to explain it, but I totally accept that I failed.
This week looks awful, up front. I have dance schedules for tonight, Tuesday AND Thursday, and sewing machine runs as well. Plus, I forgot to mention on the other side that my hubs’ business has had an “upgrade” and we now have a Facebook page and a new website, both of which are my responsibility to build and maintain. Takes quite a bit of time, it turns out!
Oh well, excuses aside, I shall have to do some scheduling and planning and MAKE IT WORK! Only 2 listings a day, dammit, surely I can do that!
So, VT, what do you have in store for me this week?
Oh my dizzy aunt, Vintage Lacy! Un – be- LIEV – able! You are a listing MACHINE! We all bow down to you and swoon at your feet!
Congratulations on your upgrade, Vintage Treasures, you did wonderfully this week. And you, Sharyn, so close too!
And, in contrast to you 3 listing giants, I am pitiful. Pitiful, I tell you! Before I ‘fess up, let me tell you about my week. Grab a cuppa, this is so ridiculous it’s funny!
The dog vet visits were reduced to only Monday and Friday this week, so I gained a day (Yay!) but both trips took the entire morning. Coming home to packing parcels for shipping and a host of other tasks for the Hubs’ business, only listed one item on Monday.
My hair is over a yard long, so I usually braid it at night as either me or him rolling onto my tresses often results in my being trapped. Monday evening, I was relaxing in bed reading a book with my braid partially over one shoulder when I noticed it began to slide down my chest… and it seemed to be moving! I jumped up and brushed at it, then inspected the whole bed, lifting pillows and flapping blankets, looking for a suspected scorpion. Nothing. I figured it was just my hair sliding down under its own weight. I settled back into bed, slightly rattled, and carried on reading. Minutes later I felt something on the other side, glanced over, and it WAS a scorpion! A big one, casually sauntering down my arm. I flicked it off my arm, now in a total panic, and it landed on the edge of the bed, where my husband decapitated it after I shrieked in terror for his rescue. I’m such a girl!
Obviously, it had been on my braid the first time and, when I flicked my braid, it rode it like a zipline, all the way around my back to the other side, then dismounted and strolled over my shoulder. How I didn’t lie on it and/or get stung, I have no idea! I did NOT sleep well!
Tuesday involved Serious Extermination Work. We mixed up a new batch of Tempo (awesome stuff!) and sprayed the entire house, inside and out, moving furniture and soaking access points. I also sprayed my storage unit, inside and out. Then stuff got cleaned up and replaced. In the evening I had dance class and sewing machine deliveries; listings – zero.
Wednesday was hair coloring day. I was about a month overdue and several people, including total strangers, were commenting on my outgrowth, so it was urgent. I use henna, so it’s a several hours project: apply, wait 2-4+ hours, wash it out. In those 4+ hours I took a bunch of photos, so it wasn’t wasted time, but I didn’t get any listings done. Thursday was entirely sewing machine business and dance business. Friday was another vet visit, plus an inspection visit for a quote to repair my dented door from a frisky bollard at the gas station that accosted my car. Saturday, now desperate to get my numbers up, I sat down to edit the photos and managed to list 2 more, in the midst of all the other running around I had to get through, and then Sunday we had a batch of visitors and ranch tasks that totally wiped out the day. By 10PM, when the last visitor had left and I sat down at my computer, I looked despairingly at my meagre listing total and sighed. There was just no way I was going to start listing at 10PM and be finished by midnight, no matter what I did, so I closed up and went to bed.
So there you have it. 3 whole listings. Pitiful, I told you! On the positive side, though, my hair looks terrific, my dog is doing wonderfully, and there’s not a scorpion anywhere inside this house!
Oh – edit to the above! There are a whole host of light boxes on the interwebz. I chose this one specifically because it came with integrated lighting. Currently, having too much stuff and too little space, this works for me, even though I need to edit my lighting EVERY time. However, if I had more space for a better set up, I think I’d go for the boxes with the diffuser sides that you set up lights around. The integrated lighting always creates light reflection, the diffuser doesn’t work well. I haven’t worked with the other kind, so can’t tell which is actually better. If I ever get around to buying another set up, I’ll post a comparison.
This is all great advice… unless you live in a house with tiny windows so you need to turn on the lights in the middle of a Texas summer! 😀
While I agree with all of the above, for me, with my mausoleum lighting, my best investment ever and one that I wish I had done waaaaay back in the beginning, was my lightbox. I bought this one because it was on sale, but now that I have it, I wish I’d bought the Amazon one because of the black edging on the ESDDI. The silvery sides of the ESDDI are problematic too, often creating a reflection or awkward coloring. I much prefer the all white interior of the Amazon version.
The item specifics are used to create the drill-down filters on the left of the page when you are searching as a buyer. As a seller, they’re a huge PIA to fill in. As a buyer, I wish more sellers DID use them! With a search returning 9,486 results, being able to drill down to even hardware color on a purse is a big deal. In May I spent days, DAYS, searching for a purse with silver D-clips. (Funny that your rant is about purses, when I just had this search! LOL) I had a very specific reason for that search, but it would have been a lot easier if I could have wiped out half the entries for listings with other color hardware. I know it’s annoying, but it’s a aide effect of the huge quantity of stuff, most of it new and generic, that’s filling up the catalogs.
@Sharyn and Mark S – thank you for clearing up a head scratcher for me. I couldn’t figure out why my shipping policy showed copies and why things kept changing up. Now I know and will add it as another housekeeping task, to check on my policies and clean them up on occasion.
I agree with Antique Frog. This looks like a Mariachi band with flamenco dancers. Cool set!
You ladies are a scream! Monday’s are such fun looking forward to y’all!
Yes, VT, you did it right. And you threw down a gauntlet! I knew we could drag you over to the Dark Side! 😀
Phew! What a week. Spreadsheet updated. Only 6 listings tipped the scales for Vintage Lacy to take the win. And the race is on for this week!
Sharyn, one of us should blow in with a humdinger and totally upset the apple cart. Hmmmmm…. you have a photo helper this week. You do it! LOL
