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42 listings. Sales really picked up this weekend. I also had some solid scores at estate sales the past two days that have me all excited for the garage sale/estate sale season.
Have a great week, everyone!
Sorry everyone! I meant to post before leaving on a trip to see my mom. A few days ago while sitting around her house I thought, “did I forget to post my numbers & mention I would be away a week or two before I left?” And, it appears I did forget. She doesn’t have internet so I waited until I got back home. Sorry, I forget but it’s nice knowing that my absence was missed. I’d been meaning to get to my mom’s since Thanksgiving but things kept happening! Finally when the trip was approaching, my mom had a pet related tragedy so I left for her house a day early which is probably why I forgot to post.
Before I left I had listed 14 items (for week 14, I believe?) Zero listings since then.
Mom and I did a ton of thrifting in Iowa. So much so that I actually got tired of it by the last store! Didn’t think that was possible. Found some great stuff and hope to get a lot of it photographed today.
12 listings, 3 skittles. One thing I’m proud of is taking two items from my deathpile to a seamstress. I got both items back and they are now listed. I’ve listed one for $195 and am hopeful i’ll get close to that. I definitely won’t hesitate to use a seamstress again if it keeps things out of my deathpile.
My eBay room has gotten a bit out of hand. I think the mess is mostly unlisted clothing. I’m tired of listing clothes but unfortunately that is usually the best, and oftentimes the only stuff I can find around here to flip.
Good morning, I’m posting a day late. 20 listings up, 3 skittles completed and 0 MMC completed.
Sales are horrendous. I’m having to seriously consider additional avenues to make money. Boooo!
25 listings, 3 skittles, 0 MM
13 listings and 3 skittles completed. Did not complete anything this week for the March Madness challenge.
59 listings – I didn’t realize I listed that much and surprised myself so I went back and recounted. I’ve been trying to list 10/day. Sales have been scary bad so I’ve been motivated to list.
I listed one costume for the March Madness challenge and threw away a 2nd one that was a bad buy.
I completed 7 skittles.
32 listings, only 2 skittles.
My March Madness challenge is to list costumes. I don’t have that many but I hate listing them. I can get them pretty cheap at the liquidation store and while they are usually good for a $20-$40 profit, I hate listing them so much that I’ve stopped picking them up.
Impressive quilted bag, Amatino!
I had a terrible week as our dog died unexpectedly on Tuesday. We thought we’d have several more years with him and my husband and I are crushed. Due to that, i didn’t get any skittles marked off of my list but did manage to get 8 listings up.
40 listings and completed all 11 skittles.
I have 12 skittles on my list for this week. One of my recurring skittles is to list 2 items from this ugly death pile I have in my office. You can see it from the kitchen and it makes the whole room look trashy. It’s all stuff I hate to list so its been sitting forever. Committing to just 2 items from that pile a week sure helps.
Pop Up Challenge
I timed how long it takes me to put away my listed inventory. It requires I bag and label clothing, bubble wrap breakable hard goods, find bins that have room in them to store each item, write down the bin of each item in a notebook and then enter the bin # in the custom field on ebay.
Individually polybag & label clothes – 11 mins
Put away clothing in bins & record bin # – 12 mins
Prep (if needed) and put away hardgoods & record bin # – 14 mins
Update custom fields in Ebay – 15 mins (connectivity issues slowed this down)
This was an interesting exercise. I don’t know how long I expected these tasks to take but they took me longer than I would have thought. At the same time, I probably completed them faster than I normally do because having a stopwatch going kept me from getting distracted.
This is the first I’ve ever heard of sancai glaze, thanks. I’ve also looked up majolica – not that I believe that’s what this is, but both terms have helped me narrow down somewhat similar bird items.
27 listings this week. I couldn’t get into the swing of things this week – I think its because my office is so cluttered.
I completed 5 of my 11 skittles. The funny thing is I put in a few super duper easy quick skittles on my list to help me knock some off the list quickly & motivate me but those are the ones I didn’t get to this week, d’oh! All this talk of skittles, I almost bought a bag of Skittles the other day. But the store only sold a king size bag and it was crazy high priced. Of all the groceries that have increased in price over the last few years, I’ve noticed that candy bars have gotten astronomical. When I was a kid they cost 35 cents!
Aw shucks (blush), thank you VintageLacy. 🙂
I think you are right about the resellers who claim to list 50 items a day – they probably are only taking one or two pics. It seems almost anytime I look for something to buy on Ebay the listing will have only 1 picture. I never buy those items.
Thank you for saying that but I certainly don’t feel like I’m getting much done when you consider this is supposed to be my full time job. I watch so many resellers on Youtube and Instagram who claim to list 30-50 a day! I saw one instagram post this morning where the person said they photographed something like 25 pairs of shoes in 20 minutes and I just don’t see how that is possible.
As far as getting stains out of barbie clothes: First, I have not yet attempted to clean anything red/pink as I’ve heard that red clothing from the 60s can be problematic. For other colors, I have had some success in creating a paste of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. I slather it on the stain (sometimes the entire piece of Barbie clothing) and let it sit overnight then rinse off. I’ve been stunned with how that has worked on some things. But it hasn’t worked on every stain. I’ll have to try Borax or the Folex on those.
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