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38 for me. 1 met the May challenge.
I might get a couple listed this week but then I’m on VACATION! WHEEEEE!!! I’ll have almost two weeks of zero listings. It’s going to sting from an ebay/income perspective but at least I’ll be on a beach. 🙂
Regarding clothing measurements – I’m near Atlanta, very much a “dress-to-impress” city so good clothing is plentiful to flip and make up the majority of my store. I provide a lot of measurements but no matter where I include them in my listing, I get questions every single week asking for a measurement that is already provided in the listing. I finally switched to writing the measurements on a whiteboard, photographing it and putting it in the pictures, thinking people just weren’t reading descriptions. Wrong! People are still asking for measurements even when I’ve included a pic of that measurement and referred to the photo in the description. I even had a “Karen” scold me telling via ebay message that I won’t sell a certain vest without measurements. It felt good to message her back immediately to let her know that actually the measurements she wanted are included in the last photo, which was also clearly stated in the short description.
Another measurement rant – no matter how many measurements I include, every few weeks I get a message from someone asking for some off-the-wall additional measurement like “length between waist and armpit” or something. No other retailers who sell online provide measurements beyond chest, waist, hip, length but on ebay buyers expect 20+ different measurements. It’s ridiculous. If the item is inexpensive I won’t reply – it’s really not worth my time to dig it out of storage, unwrap it, measure it, etc. when half of the time it won’t lead to a sale anyway.
15 for me – which makes the week my least productive this year. I think I’m already in vacation mode even though my vacation is a few weeks away.
1 met the May calendar – an Easter plate.
Well wishes to your husband, VT for a fast recovery.
45 listings, which is another week of listing less than I wanted.
1 qualified for April’s challenge.
Amatino, I love that you take in foster animals! We had a puppy overnight last fall that some kids had found running loose at a busy intersection. The rescue was closed since it was Sunday so we kept her until they opened on Monday. I forgot how much work puppies are! It was fun having her but my other dog looked at me as though I had completely broken his heart. My 3 cats weren’t exactly thrilled about it either.
I once had a listing removed by eBay because I used the term Shabby Chic. The term has been trademarked by a clothing/housewares company. I don’t think really common phrases like that should be eligible for trademark, personally.
Awesome score, Lacy!
Amatino, my husband is also a big distraction. This morning it took me awhile to finally settle down and focus on work. But then I finally had a good rhythm going, until my husband texted that he needs me to drive into Atlanta to pick him up because he suddenly decided to have some work done on his Jeep – groooaan. There goes the rest of my day.
49 listings this week, 1 met the April Challenge.
Thanks Retro. I had my husband smell one of the pieces this morning and he agrees with you that it’s a mild vintage smell and he thinks the person was being a “Karen.”
When things like this happen, my brain immediately jumps to the worst case scenario, every single time. I have to remind myself to just take it in stride the next time I get an eBay complaint.
Lauren, Have you thought of cross posting to Poshmark? I only mention that because in your comment in the Episode 509 forum thread, you mentioned adding another platform as back up, so all of your eggs aren’t in Ebay’s basket since FB is suspended. I like having Poshmark because if eBay deletes my photos or listings (which has happened to people in the past), at least I have them in Poshmark so I could use list perfectly from there to cross post either back to ebay or to some other platform I have yet to try.
So far I’ve only cross posted my nicer clothing items and household decor items to Posh. I might start cross posting some of my other items to Posh to see how they do over there.
Last night I got 3 return requests in less than 90 minutes! All were clothing – 2 for fit and 1 vintage item for smell. I was really ticked off about the “smell” one but then I got honest with myself. I did detect musty odor when listing some (but not all, thank god) of the clothing items from that particular estate sale so it is on me. Now I’m a bit overwhelmed with the thought of having to take all of the clothing items I listed from that particular estate sale out of storage and out of their poly bags so I can sniff each one and try to remove any scents (probably by hanging everything out in the sun for awhile). It’s probably 200 to 300 items so I’m not sure how best to do it. I’ve sold 45 clothing items from this estate sale lot already and this is my first complaint. I could do it all now (nightmare) or I could do it as each item sells – remove any offending odor (if any) prior to shipping (i have two business day handling) and hope that the item doesn’t get damaged between the time it sells and the time it gets descented and shipped. Ugh
75 for me! That is the most I’ve ever listed in a week. AND I did my taxes yesterday. I think having an upcoming vacation on the calendar that I have to pay for, plus the thought of having to pay my own self employment taxes this quarter for the first time motivated me to list, list, list!
I haven’t participated in monthly challenges simply because I’m trying to get thru 10 bins of clothing that I paid up for at an estate sale. I need to focus on those for now so I can make my money back.
40 listings for me.
Yesterday we mapped out our Florida vacation that we’ll be taking in a few months. It’s motivating me to list so that I’ll have $$$ to pay for the trip! Thank goodness for hotel points, I don’t know how people can afford to take vacations without them.
Interesting that you mention Ikea packaging. Saturday I received in the mail from Ikea a 12x12x12 box which was full of brown packing paper. What was it? It was two of Ikea’s iconic shopping bags, which were folded and should have shipped in a polymailer. I guess they wanted to make sure they arrived undamaged. 🙂
