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Hey guys. I lost a big post but just wanted to echo that I’m bummed to hear about the Airbnb shut down in your area. I’m glad you have a big inventory to fall back on and potentially run a sale on. Hopefully you will get some rental expense deferrals or waivers. Thanks for the podcast. It’s raining here and I sat in front of the fire and listened on Sunday. What a luxury.
I listed 34 unique items, mostly on Ebay with a few lower dollar Mercari. I listed two sets of art in gold frames. It’s nice to get back to listing on days I don’t work. I took the weekend off though because I was pretty tired of sitting at the computer.
I got bored with fabric pretty quickly and switched over to small art work. Also bought a handful of RA clearance items and those are all listed as soon as they arrive. I asked my dad to bring over a box of fabric but he ended up bringing cartoon character sheets instead, which I’m not super excited about washing and listing. So I’ll either face that or continue with art work I suppose. Still interested in hearing what is selling well for people…
Re Walking dead, is there a lot of flesh eating spookiness?
I watched the first episode of Tiger King after hearing the buzz but having a soft spot for animals I couldn’t hack it seeing the redneck exploitation. Even seeing the redneck / gun mentality would be enough for me to tune out without the tigers. Liked the Netflix Outsider seasons with it’s flaws. My kids and I have been revisiting Gilligan’s Island. I watched the Pharmacist short series on Netflix ~ serious topic but well done. Started The Good Place on Netflix and liked it but not compelling.
We normally don’t watch tv so I appreciate the thread.
I read an article about this and they explained that some otherwise healthy Covid people’s immune systems launch a fierce attack in hyperdrive, creating a lot of collateral damage. They don’t know why or why kids aren’t so affected yet.
I listed 39 items last week – yeah! Hope to beat that this week but day job is unpredictable. Sales are slow but it’s nice to get into the piles.
Enjoyed the podcast. My husband is working 100+ weeks at the hospital and living quarantined downstairs. I’m working from home and my teens are busy online with school work. So I did have a couple of mornings last week without projects to list and it was really nice. I have a lot of home organizing projects that I want to get to and stuff around the house to throw up onto Mercari. I’ll try to work those in when I get tired of sitting at the computer.
Slow Ebay sales for me even though I did some listing. I got a box done from the death piles – Easter, craft kits, and vintage party supplies. I’m going to try a box of vintage fabric next from the piles. Skipping and ended anything big or heavy that needs to go FedEx. Scheduled my first pick up at the porch and it was kind of hard to wait so long to see my item go out. I usually drop it after packing the morning after purchase.
In my Mercari FB group, some people are claiming it’s good lately and better than Posh or Ebay. I’ve been shopping on Mercari myself for items for my household and yes floating low offers (Mercari limits how lowball you can go). I did a little bit of RA this week as the retailers are finally waking up and starting sales. Not too many are doing deep enough discounts but I did pick a little bit. Also it’s a great time to watch or put searches on Brads Deals.
Again, I think Ebay is well positioned with its army of small sellers ready to ship under the current circumstances. I wish you all good sales this week!
Sold some party supplies already since yesterday. If anyone else has ideas, let me know. I think I have some Halloween to purge but will need to work the day job today. It was nice to have a listing morning yesterday. I feel grateful that I have Ebay as a fallback and can be somewhat productive while home.
What are you with the death piles listing this week? I pulled vintage children’s birthday party supplies (except invites), Easter (got a whole box done), and a handful of toys – I hardly ever buy toys. After that, I’m trying to decide what kind of home decor to pull.
Thanks for the Podcast R&J. I heard that in LA County, people are going out of the city to visit vacation rentals – like in the desert. The locals aren’t happy because of the potential strain on limited health resources there. The ski resorts shut down here before the state’s lock down for that reason. Hopefully you will continue to rent and be safe while cleaning up. I would imagine that it must be somewhat hard to set rates and minimum stays.
Ebay is quiet for me but my day job may be quiet for a time so I plan to list from all of my piles. I loaded up on groceries and bubble wrap at Uhaul before the shut down. I ended some larger item listings and changed Mercari items to the post office to avoid using Fed Ex. Extended my handling time to two days to allow for scheduled pick up. As long as the post office is still running, it seems like Ebay has an advantage with its army of individual sellers.
I’m hawking Mercari for underpriced personal buys with make offer but not to flip. I’m very surprised not to see non-essential retailers offering good sales right now. I would think now would be a good time for them to sell merchandise before things gets worse.
Last week was head spinning and felt like a month. Since my husband is on the hospital care planning team and I read a lot last week, we’ve become informed and have done our best to get ahead of the virus. We have been shut in alone longer than most. We are allowing no contact with older relatives, no play dates. My husband moved downstairs to the guest bed and bath after local confirmed cases appeared Friday. They are still not testing here except in a few cases so we knew before that it was out in the community. There just aren’t enough tests yet. Stay safe trash elves.
I sold some pajama pants. I’m hoping that as people get a bit weary from being home so much, home decor might start moving to replace some items. For example, I just purchased a new tablecloth from an RA reseller on Mercari.
@Almasty in our area younger people have been volunteering to retrieve prescriptions and groceries for older and at risk people and leave them at the door. If you are in that category, you might see if NextDoor or another local site might list this. You could also maybe try online national chain retailers that don’t immediately come to mind for groceries – like Target – and load up a bit. Good luck to you. We are wiping down everything, transferring food out of plastic packages and washing our hands after handling items from the outside.
Finally made it back to listing yesterday with 12 unique listings. Not sure what day job will bring this week to do at home. So far that doesn’t seem busy so I plan to keep listing as much as possible. Unfortunately, I moved all of my fabric boxes over to my elderly dad’s house. Debating whether or not to have him put them out. So much is here but not sure it is of the type to sell especially well right at the moment. I need to give that some thought.
