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07/06/2018 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Scanning Photos in eBay Listings & Reimbursement from eBay for Missing Photos #44601
Really helpful, thanks Marjean!
As most of my stuff is 30-day, I wasn’t anticipating any problems, but it was still great to check. And the app was fast!
07/06/2018 at 12:16 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #44600EEP! So sorry, VT! I’ve changed it and it will reflect correctly next week! HUGE apologies!
… grovel grovel grovel…
@Sharyn The year isn’t over yet. Ain’t nobody won nuthin’! 😉I’m like ChristineR – stubborn! I don’t want to let it go! But lately I have been opting to donate stuff that I can see up front is low value or more hassle than it’s worth. For example, some stuff is great, but to pack it up and ship it is going to be far more bother than what I’m going to earn for it. So I’ve been letting it go to the local thrift store, or trying to sell it on FB or CL or the local street sale. Items that are seriously low dollar (less than $10) but more than FC shipping, I sometimes just donate too. Not worth the hassle. But there are items that I will list if they’re low dollar and under a pound. If it’s quick and easy to ship, I will list it. Most of these listings I do as quick and dirty listings, using my phone and not fussing with the photos as much as my OCD self would like. It’s the OCD part that nails me, TBH.
According to the Hemingway app, it’s “Good.”
It doesn’t flow easily to my read either, so I guess we’re just wired different to other folks. 😉
07/04/2018 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #44451HALF WAY!
26 weeks down, 26 weeks to go.
My goal for the year was 25 per week, so I should have listed 650, but only achieved 242. Now, at the halfway mark, I shall create a new goal for the year. Current active listings are around the 500 mark. I would love to make it to 1,000 but I know I’m not going to get there. So I shall make a new goal of 750 active listings, or a minimum of 10 listings per week. Surely I can list two measly items per day? 😉
07/04/2018 at 1:19 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #44445Sorry for my delayed posts. It’s been one of those weeks where you don’t wake up and say “Good morning, Lord” but “Good Lord, it’s morning!” Living on a ranch is wonderful, but when things go wrong, they can be time consuming, backbreaking work, in 100 degrees on a hot Texas day! Phew! 😉
Listed 10, including my 5 from my mini challenge.
It turned out that having someone photograph for you is hard work to set up. I had to prep the 20 items she was to receive and create an inventory list, then get them to her, then get them back and check the received photos for quality, then prep the next set which was to be 40 items as she asked for more. The 2nd batch got prepped a lot faster as I worked out the kinks, but still took some time. And then, when I went with the second tote-full, she quit. She didn’t quit by text or email, not wanting to be rude, but waited for me to get there to “break up in person” (paraphrased.) I honestly would have preferred she sent me a text. It would have saved me hours of work and a 20 mile round trip! I was steamed about the wasted time and gas, even though I didn’t have a problem with her quitting. I was disappointed, but things happen, you know. Just… so much time gone, plus travel time, plus gas… for a Dear John? Grrrr…
Oh well! Life is what happens when we’re making other plans! LOL
There’s nothing even remotely like this on any site I can find. My guess is that it’s hand painted by someone with a great sense of humor!
Thanks, Joe. I knew I was missing something!
06/29/2018 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #43974LOL, VintageTreasures, I feel your pain! We passed a sale this week and I resolutely refused to stop there. I just can’t handle any more stuff in my life until I’ve cleared my DPs. I’m sure I have easily 1,000 items waiting to be listed. I just have to clear it before I buy a single thing!
Except… maybe… those shoes! And oooh, isn’t that mug awesome? oh look! That gorgeous shirt is on sale and it’s a big name brand! Uh…. shakes head… I’m so hopeless!
😀 😀 😀
Have to admit to feeling the same as you. I’m a waaaay smaller seller than most, but it’s incredibly demoralizing to watch all this going on; multiple glitches; no communication; long-established sellers being tanked in favor of new sellers; and to wonder whether it’s worth the effort?
I’m plodding along and will continue to do so because I have so much inventory in Death Piles, but I’m not sure if this is going to be my long-term income option any more.
06/28/2018 at 11:28 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #43832I’ve done five out of six. Turns out #6 is a high-ticket one, so I have to take some time to clean it up nicely in order to get max dinero. Here are my five.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183291536752
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183291564412
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183291588410
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183291590728
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183291594493Thanks for this challenge! These would have sat for another year without the kick in the keister. I just didn’t feel like the hassle, and now I feel really good about getting them done.
Vintage Lacy, I used to have a goal of 25 per week, and it kinda fell by the wayside. I’m thinking I should get myself back in the saddle and do what it takes to get there!
I turned on FR on my First Class items only. It seems to have opened the floodgates, with two returns in the first week. I’ve had maybe 5 returns in two years, so this is not a good feeling. To add insult to injury, one return was a high-ticket item, so that took a nice bite out of my PayPal account!
From watching this carefully for a while, I’m beginning to agree with the burgeoning opinion that eBay is teaching buyers a return mindset that they didn’t used to have. Not happy. 🙁
06/27/2018 at 10:42 am in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #43709Week 25. EEP! Next week we are half-way through the year! Eek eek eek!
06/25/2018 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #43431Enjoy your vacation, Sharyn!
Last week I created new drafts for the clothes that my local teenager is photographing for me. Dunno if this is going to be such a time saver, it felt like it took longer to create the drafts than it would have if I were doing the photography myself! We’ll have to see how it works out. So my actual listing consisted of 2 new items and 2 returned items. Just turned on free shipping and got two returns in the same week. Not a happy camper! To add insult to injury, one of the returns was a belt where the buyer gave me a lecture about sizing correctly, and how Medium fits her with all her other belts, but this one isn’t a Medium! What bugged me is that my listing clearly states the measurements in the title and in the items specifics, as well as the Medium that is printed on the belt. Grrrr…
Anyway, low listing number for last week, but 20 drafts created, so I’ll have a good listing number for this week. Yay!
06/24/2018 at 6:07 pm in reply to: Trash Elf Twins Challenge 2018 Thread #2 From Week 19 (May 7-13) #43359I’m going to have to make a correction! Turns out my computer “fans” are computer power supplies!
So my mini-challenge is 6 computer power supplies. 😉 So far, managed to research them and create preliminary drafts!
I use flat rate shipping when I have multiples of an homogenous item. For example:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183251194414
This is my Shipping Policy for this listing, and others like it:
U.S shipping
Flat: same cost to all buyers
USPS Priority Mail (1 to 3 business days) – $ 9.90 ; Each additional : $ 6.00After I lost a brick on shipping multiples, where eBay said it was MY fault for listing incorrectly and then retracted and said it was a glitch in the program, but refused to help, I figured out how to do this. I’ve not had multiples of these lights ordered, but it has worked on other items using the same principle. This was just the first multi-listing I found that had the flat rate shipping.
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