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I saw a couple of videos about a client with a big warehouse. It seemed like he was very rigid in his thinking that he knew the right way to deal with the situation. My thoughts were “Guy – If you knew the best way to deal with all of this stuff, you wouldn’t have gotten yourself into this mess.” I really respected her for not continuing to take his money and work on that impossible task.
$2 per listing. They can do the pricing for you or you can add it yourself later.
@RetroTreasuresWV – I’m in the process of hiring Suzanne A Wells to do my listings. I’m a little nervous about giving someone access to my ebay store (they need it in order to do your listings) but I think it’s a risk I’m willing to take in order to grow my business and allow me to delegate the less fun parts. http://suzanneawells.com/hire-an-ebay-assistant/
I’m also looking into hiring a photographer, a local person I met through my volunteer work. I know hiring out these two jobs will cut into my profits but it will also allow me to list a ton more stuff. I don’t find really high quality stuff here in SC but I can find tons and tons of bread and butter items. I’m going to try the quantity over quality store model for a while and see if that is a more sustainable model for me.
If I’m going to build a job for myself, I’d like to do the fun parts (treasure hunting) rather than the drudgery (photos and listing). I did drudgery for a decade in an office job and I don’t want to do it anymore.I just asked my microbiologist friend and she has no idea. Didn’t want you to think you were being ignored.
If it was me, I would pay her $1 per hat to photograph. They probably don’t need much cleaning and are quick and easy to photograph. I also wouldn’t pay her to redo any pictures – point out the problem and explain why you want it fixed. Probably a little harsh but she’ll learn very quickly to take good pictures. Within a week the pictures will be perfect and she’ll learn a long term lesson about doing good work.
You could probably even have her do the listings after a while. Maybe she could put her name in the Custom Label field and she could earn a percent of those sales with the profits going toward buying her a car or helping to pay for college.Make sure not to bundle together purchases from shippers with the same address. Other folks have gotten into a mess doing that.
What PickingPair posted. Technically they are called Goodwill Outlet Stores.
They seem to be a love it or hate it place.
What is in them – anything and everything. They tend to do rows by type – hard good, clothes, shoes…
Items could be things that didn’t sell in the regular stores or items that were sent directly to the processing center without going through the stores usually due to too many donations at one time.I just watched this video last night. These women have, in my opinion, built sweatshops for themselves but they are interested in building empires and bringing in lots of money. They talk about their shipping policies, helpers, and the reason they pick up Mall Brands. They also link to another reseller who has some good “how to” videos for volume clothing sellers.
It runs pretty counter to the philosophy of J&R but I think they are total bad asses for building huge stores while being stay at home parents. There is definitely something to be learned even if you aren’t going for that kind of volume. Once I list my whole death pile, I’m thinking of starting to pick up mall brand clothes. Around here, color of the week clothes are discounted to $1 starting on Thursdays. I think a little churn and burn clothing would round out my more long tale items.
Around here, the bins are half priced on Wednesday and Friday evenings and all day Sunday. I like going in the evenings because I’m not a morning person and there are fewer people – mostly other sellers and hoarders. There aren’t any signs up letting people know, so if you go to the bins and don’t know if they have half price times – ask.
I will admit that I do sometimes like the excitement of being there when new bins come out. I happened to be at one the other week with a friend who is not a reseller. I joyfully dived into the fray while she slunk back in a corner cowering.
And when I still have 20 characters left in my title I’ll add Nike Hermes Coach Gucci.
I should use this as my main listing photo, right?
I’ve had to do that too. It’s really disconcerting as a seller but everything worked out fine when I uploaded the screenshots.
I just noticed it on another seller’s listing. Looks like it’s a pretty widespread problem.
I think the only time companies have ever been loyal to employees is that small time frame right after WWII when there was a huge demand for manufactured goods and a relatively small labor force. Companies were loyal because it was prudent to be so – laws of supply and demand.
Now, and before, there were more people than work. Companies don’t have to be loyal since there is always another person to take that spot. Unless… you have a very highly in demand skill – there are few people with that skill and so supply/demand works in their favor. Those people are treated very well and given all the perks.
I think we fool ourselves in thinking company loyalty was the norm rather than an anomaly.@ctebay – I’m planning to move in about 5+ years. Right now, my plan is similar to yours, Sell Everything! and start all over again. None of my inventory is particularly expensive so I don’t think it makes sense to pay to move it 1,000 miles. At this point, I’m planning to sell everything in the house and just move with a carload of my favorite stuff. We’ll see how it goes when the time comes.
