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Honestly I’m finding the best stuff dumpster diving these days. People don’t seem to be donating when they move. Maybe thrift stores here aren’t even taking stuff…not sure. Apartment complexes are my jam. Those people literally throw out everything. It’s like an auction lot, but free lol!! Yard sales can be good too, but I feel like I’m flying blind since yard sale treasure map stopped getting updated by craigslist.
Remember the last time housing prices got this high? I do. I also remember buying our current home as a forclosure for dirt cheap a few years later when everything crashed. Nothing lasts forever, and jumping in at the top of the market due to fomo is understandable but also not necessary.
So far this is my only discrepancy. I called for an update last night and the Ebay rep actually said that this item hadn’t been delivered yet and would get weighed on the back end. At this point I believe that it was a manual error. Someone entered it as pounds instead of ounces. The 1.094 would be correct in ounces. This is also a repeat buyer who buys the same thing regularly and pays the same shipping every time so I noted this to Ebay to help support my case. If this thing weighs 1.094 pounds on arrival, someone put something into the package! That would be too strange to be true so I’m hoping that it will be corrected on arrival. We’ll see I guess.
We live in Coastal central FL, so no sourcing here. We don’t leave the house unless we absolutely have to. We even do curbside pickup for groceries. Our area is a covid hotbed and on top of that school is about to start back. Most people here don’t wear masks and most are sending their kids to school in person. Things here are no doubt about to go from very bad to even worse. We are homeschooling now too so even if I weren’t afraid for my life leaving the house I don’t have as much time as I used to.
That said, I still have stock to list. I had really stocked up at “the bins” last summer while my kids were at camp and then in the fall one of my friends got me to go to the bins weekly so I never touched the summer backstock. That’s been keeping me busy and I still have several tubs left in the garage. When that runs out I guess I’ll evaluate whether or not leaving the house to source is safe at that time. I’ve done some buying off of Mercari to resell but not much lately. Health and safety definitely come first. I’m even afraid to go to yard sales, but nobody here wears masks so I just don’t want to be around people even ouside right now.
Good grief that’s scary. I’m not even sure what you can do about it but you’d think there would be some state agency that mandates public health matters. If anything it benefits the employer long-term if they can catch any outbreaks as they start.
Wow! I’m honestly surprised that people passed over the Dolly jacket though. You got lucky. She has a HUGE fanbase. Great sale!
UGH that’s awful. So do you know if you might have gotten exposed? If your work isn’t taking this seriously there must be a place you can report them to. Nobody wants an outbreak in their area caused by an employer who ignored a positive in the workplace.
BTW, I’m from Florida and I’m hiding in my house. There are TONS of people still coming here for vacation right now. It’s absolutely insane. This state is burning with covid and people think this is a great time to come vacation here?? If you are stupid enough to come party in Florida right now you should have to quarantine for 2 weeks once you get home.
On another topic, I think my biggest scavenge was this leather jacket made of what I can only describe as black and white dairy cow. I sold it for I think $699 to a guy in San Francisco. He loved it. I want to say I paid $5 for it. I wish I had a picture of it still…it was really unique.
Also, this wasn’t one item per se, but I picked up a plastic bag full of WW2 military uniforms out of a curb pile in my neighborhood a few years ago. They stunk like grandma’s attic which I disclosed in the listings. In total I made about $1200 off of that bag. I could have made more I’m sure but I stupidly tossed the stuff that I deemed in bad condition thinking that nobody would want it. I also left the steamer trunk that went with this stuff on the curb because I thought it wasn’t in good enough condition. Dumb.
So are they still giving out the $1000 grants or is this from a really old application? I still haven’t applied for the PPP or EIDL because I don’t want a loan but I’d take the grant obviously lol. I know it may end up forgivable and that there are ways to pay yourself and get the PPP forgiven but I just don’t want to mess with it. My Ebay business hasn’t been affected negatively by the pandemic so if I had to prove that I couldn’t.
Have a lot of Ebay sellers applied for the EIDL and/or PPP? I thought about it at the beginning but was under the impression that the money was gone almost immediately and also that your business had to have been negatively affected.
Starting to wonder if I missed the boat not applying for the PPP program. I didn’t want a loan so I didn’t apply. Did everyone else apply for this?
You are living my fantasy lol. Hats are my jam. A haul like this is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Good job going all in!
Great to know! I just had this happen last week yet again and we did the cancel/rebuy. I’m definitely going to try this the next time. I also want to know if it works even if they’ve already paid though.
But Ebay allows vintage undergarments so vintage underwear can be sold as long as it’s not modeled or recently worn. I have sold vintage lingerie before and it’s definitely allowed. You just can’t sell the stuff that the fetish people look for (assuming used socks and non-vintage preowned undies are in this category).
Also, there are definitely guys modeling and selling used jock straps using the “new other” category on Ebay. I found this out the hard way when I was researching an item. If you want a laugh, search “vintage jock strap” and look at the solds too. Some of the pictures are really unbelievable but yet Ebay doesn’t pull the listings.
A couple of years ago Ebay suspended my account for 30 days for selling “adult items”. I wasn’t selling adult items. It took 3 calls and an hour but my account was restored. It seems to me that there is some sort of faulty trigger for pulling items down. These socks are brand new but they are flagging them as not allowed which is bizarre. I would just list them on Poshmark and Mercari and be done with it. I wouldn’t put them back on Ebay. FWIW, I started selling on both of those apps after Ebay suspended my account. Since they couldn’t explain why my account had been suspended I felt like having all my eggs in the Ebay basket was a bad idea.
