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I’m 8 days into it, 10-12 hours a day. I still have about 15,000 cards left.
Sounds like a labor of love. Must be fun to see if there are any surprises. Reminds me of how Craig Rex talks about his baseball card collections he sells.
Last weekend I bought about 60,000-70,000 postcards at an auction
!!!!!! You are seriously a master in this community with your process and storage, especially since you’re a one-man band.
How long does it take to process 60k postcards? 100 postcards a day is 600 days, but I assume there are duplicates and grouped lots?
This is interesting. Glad to see such a huge sales boost?
Since this worked, are you going to end and re-list every week like others do? Wonder if there’s a point of saturation where eBay would stop seeing items as new.
We all wish you and family a fast road to recovery.
Get vaccinated people. This is no joke. Vaccination is the best protection we have so far to keep ourselves and others safe.
I dont know the answer (sorry)
Are you able to add the eBay Standard Envelope if you list on your computer?
I too enjoy that its just straight to the point. The little stories abut each one is what makes them interesting.
Cant believe you kept those convenience store cups for decades to sell now!
The easiest is to use Uship.com. You could handle the shipping to the customer, but it adds a whole lot more time, effort, complication, and possibly heartache since you are responsible until it gets to the person’s home. The profit on the item would need to be very high for us to take on that work.
We like to let the buyer arrange their own shipping (and suggest upship.com) so once the item is picked up from our home, our job is done.
Shilling is the one big no-no in the auction world. Things like this can kill a companies reputation.
I actually didnt know eBay had product pages. Do you share the page with other sellers like Amazon? Or do you just copy the page for your own store?
Can you link to an example of an eBay product page?
I also met my share of Elon Musk-type megalomaniacs at one end of the stress spectrum, and torn t-shirt wearing, driven but laid back types at the other end, as well.
I know this type as well from our days working in SF.
Postcards are probably one of the smartest categories to get into because its so deep. All the different topics, geographies, and eras are included. It must be fun to buy a huge collection and deep deep for all that’s inside.
The Tru Coat is put on at the factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2LLB9CGfLs
I’m cleaning up the question since it was hard to read.
How do you guys ship vintage felt pennants? Is it bad form to fold them and put them in a bubble mailer/poly bag? Or should I sandwich them between cardboard before bagging? Not sure what the buyer expectation is. For what it’s worth most of these are valued between $20 – 40.
We do fold them as long as we think it wont leave a crease. If they’re more valuable, we ship flat in card board. Obviously you need to judge how you think your customer will react. If they want the cheapest shipping, it’s a poly mailer. If they want to pay more, you ship fancy.
