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0 listings again. Am so super busy and stressed at my regular FT job. I hope to one day see light at the end of this work tunnel.
08/15/2020 at 10:00 am in reply to: USPS Announces Temporary Price Increase for Commercial Customers #80685The 16 oz issue started at least a week ago, a seller posted it to her Instagram story. Being able to count the 16 oz as first class was nice while it lasted.
08/11/2020 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 475: Spotting Problems, Solving Problems #80563The podcast’s discussion around new cars was timely for me. For some reason 2 weeks ago I started thinking I wanted a different car. Mine is a 2015 Nissan Rogue. There is nothing wrong with it – I just don’t like that every other car on the road looks exactly like mine. My husband was even pricing cars for me online when suddenly over the weekend I came to my senses. Why would I want to shell out thousands of dollars when my car is paid off, has all of the features I want and is in perfect working order? I’m not even a car-person. I’ve always driven other cars for as long as possible. I think I was just bored.
0 listings for me this week. Too much other stuff going on I guess.
33 for me this week, none on Monday.
34 items listed for the week. I don’t have any for Monday.
07/25/2020 at 12:09 pm in reply to: Re-assess your fixed costs (mortgage, insurance,etc). It is WORTH IT! #79948My husband was feeling froggy a couple of weeks ago and went on a mission to cut as many expenses as possible. He drastically reduced cable, internet, phone and canceled various subscription services. Once he got started he really got into it. It became a challenge for him to see what else he could cut. He’s always been the spender not the saver so I was pretty proud of him.
07/20/2020 at 1:13 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 472: Biggest Sale, Biggest Scavenge #79778Your comment reminded me of one of the ultimate scavenges. A few times when the college in my hometown has bought property with a house on it, they will sell the house for $1. The buyer has to then pay to have the house moved. If I recall the last time it was around $12K to move a 2 story 100+ year old house across town in Iowa. It’s probably much more expensive these days. Overhead power lines and bridges along the route significantly increase the costs of the move.
22 listings for me.
07/20/2020 at 11:15 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 472: Biggest Sale, Biggest Scavenge #79757Thanks for your response, Mike. It is a bit Covid-y up here so we’re staying home except for trips to the grocery store. I’ve been tempted to go out and shop because I’ve heard retail arbitrage has been great but it’s just not worth the risk. A few estate sale companies have started hosting sales but so far I’ve passed those up.
GA sent me a notice around Nov or Dec 2019 letting me know that they were switching me from monthly payments to annual so that was great news. I was only remitting like 80 cents to maybe $3 a month.
Stay safe and healthy, Mike!
Julie
07/19/2020 at 3:50 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 472: Biggest Sale, Biggest Scavenge #79711My brother in law bought a house recently that has an old double enamel sink with metal cabinets that looks very similar to what you sold! His mom tried to talk him into getting rid of it but his cousin and I said “no way, you gotta keep that!” I just messaged him to find out if it’s a Beauty Queen.
My largest flip was only around $435 – 5 paintings I bought for $4 each. They looked like your quintessential 40s-50s era house art. They were framed prints by Lyman Byxbe.
My most satisfying scavenge was a Slingerland Snare Drum from 1944-45. It was also $4 and sold for $385. It was satisfying because I was visiting my parents out of state at the time. I found it in their local thrift being sold as a Christmas decoration. I listed and sold it while still visiting. My dad thought it was complete junk and could not believe I could see it had value and flip it for so much so quickly.
07/19/2020 at 3:36 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 472: Biggest Sale, Biggest Scavenge #79708Mike – this is off topic but I’ve been meaning to ask the next time I saw you comment: As a GA seller do we have to remit sales tax from Ebay to GA anymore or is Ebay doing that for us now? I know they were taking care of other states but for a while we still had to remit to GA ourselves. But now that it’s been awhile I wonder if it’s changed. I figure if anyone would know, you would. Thank you!
Julie
I only had 7 this week. But 1 was a Christmas shirt.
I’m going to relive childhood and flip through Sears Wishbook 1985! Thanks for the link Amatino.
Do not reply. There’s no point in continuing to communicate with this type of buyer. At this point he just wants to argue and no matter what you say or what you sell to him, he will not be happy. In the past, after blocking a person like this I’ve temporarily removed whichever item the crazy person was interested in and relisted it several weeks or months later. By then I assume he’s found it elsewhere or forgotten about it. If you leave it listed and he opens a new ebay account to get around the block, and purchases it – you can sometimes tell it’s the same person based on address or similar sounding username. Some sellers have called eBay on those cases to let them know it’s the same guy and eBay has allowed seller to cancel.
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