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It doesn’t sound like you’re doing anything wrong. Its an eBay glitch.
If you’re just writing plain text, the system shouldn’t expect you to include meta tags or anything.We know the rules, and understand why they exist. We live in a society where government employees are supposed to treat each person equally. I’ve traveled in other countries where you have to bribe an official to get anything done.
That being said, we write a nice card and include $50 cash so our postal carrier can buy whatever they want. She’s awesome and is so integral to our business.
12/02/2016 at 6:27 am in reply to: Paying yourself, Putting some back for buying inventoy Percentages? #7037I’d love to hear how other scavengers answer this question.
Our eBay profits goes into a big pot.
We take money out for living expenses, but our first instinct is to not spend money.
We take money out if we need to by inventory.
We take money out to pay taxes.
Then we use our eBay profits to work on our other business (rental property).
eBay has been our cash engine for the last five years.Very cool that you figured out your process on your own. I think that’s often the best system because it’s tried and tested.
I love it. Glad to see you back to work!
I don’t have any insight to what this is, but I agree that you should always leave out any punctuation in the title. The key is ordering the words so it’s readable.
“Keyword stuffing” is a spammy word, but as long as all the keywords are relevant, that’s basically what you need to do. What terms do you think someone may use to find this item? Louis Jane made good suggestions.
Sounds like you’ve found the right mixture of things in your life!
I was just asking about white label or private label because I hear people talk about it, but have never really heard real experience directly from someone who sells one of these items. I’d love to hear specifics about up front costs and its success/failure over time.
My vote is early 90s.
Just curious. Since you have a front row seat to that word (through your job), why don’t you buy wholesale or do white labeling? Seems it’d be successful for you since you seem to know the ins and outs of it.
Desperation is the best inspiration. Grossing $7-8k a month on eBay is incredible. Where do you normally scavenge and what are you selling?
These are interesting questions. We would answer “no” to all of them. This is why I’d say it’s personal. We work from home and use our car like anyone who has a normal job does.
–Are any of your vehicles used for pickup or delivery of goods, including supplies, materials, newspaper, pizza, other food items, or for messenger services?
–Are any of your vehicles used for limousine, taxi service, or other livery service?
–Are any of your vehicles owned or leased by a partnership or corporation?
–Are any of your vehicles registered or titled to a business, corporation, partnership, or DBA (Doing Business As)?
–Do any employees or non-listed drivers drive any of your vehicles on a regular or occasional basis?
–Are any of your vehicles leased or rented to others?
–Are any of your vehicles a pickup, van, or utility vehicle with a gross weight exceeding 10,000 pounds, or do any of your vehicles have a rated load capacity over 2,000 pounds?
–Are any of your vehicles equipped with snowplowing equipment, cooking or catering equipment, bathrooms, altered suspensions, hydraulic lifts, or racing equipment?
–Do any of your vehicles have equipment installed such as ladder racks or permanent toolboxes that are used to support a business?Can you be a little more specific? All you need to do is link to wherever the photos live on the internet. Unfortunately we don’t have the ability for you to upload the photos here.
Many of us use https://imgur.com/ for free photo hosting.
Insurance is all about risk. If you drive your car to work (like your fast food job, or a thrift store, or an auction), then your risk is low.
But if you drive for Uber, then your risk is much higher. The vehicle is actually making you money vs the vehicle is taking you somewhere where you then make money.
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I agree with Ryanne.
Let’s look at it like this:
I’m using my car to drive to an auction house or thrift store, but most of my driving is just personal use as well. If this was the definition of a Business Vehicle, then anyone driving to work would fall under that definition.Driving for Uber is completely different. You’re assuming much more risk because you’re driving strangers around town. Or if you were a business that let employees use a vehicle to deliver items. The function of the vehicle is almost purely business and also has more risk involved.
We can agree to disagree. Maybe some scavenger insurance agent will pop up here.
We’re also pretend homesteaders. But what we don’t do is spend a lot of money on junk. It’s too easy to live very well being frugal in this land of overabundance.
Glad you found us. Look forward to hearing more stories from your scavenger life.
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