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Hmm, it’s marked as expired. However, since it’s “Earth Month” instead of earth day, I wonder if they have a set amount each day to give out. Maybe give it a shot tomorrow morning?
If you have sam’s club, they sell 240 ft for 12 bucks, but it may go down to 9 sometimes on sale. My girlfriend works there, so I get a free membership, but I bet if you find a few other things to buy in bulk it’d be worth the purchase for a membership. I also get my kraft paper for shipping there and its like 30 bucks for 700 ft of tough paper. I haven’t had anything break in months between using the two.
EDIT: I can’t read, it looks like you want 24″. I’m talking about 12″, but I’ll leave this up in case anyones looking to source it and can use the info. Good luck!
@lukastreasuretrove I think my problem was that I was going too fast, not that I had done too many. I was listing at literally 15 or 30 seconds a listing because I moved to Facebook’s shipping labels, so I think I was just going too quick.
@Julie B I tried poshmark, but most of my stuff is fragile and they have that big warning label that if anything fragile breaks you aren’t covered. I don’t do clothes other than a few prepackaged items, so it isn’t really my cup of tea. However, for means of backups- List perfectly offers a “my items” section that backs up all your stuff. So, I figure I could get the same service with inkfrog and pay $20 less, but I wouldn’t get the crossposting ability, or I can pay more and get to crosspost. So, I think in the middle of this Listperfectly made me a long term customer, I just have to be careful about how fast I work.I’m still in facebook jail, I started private messaging my buyers to let them know the situation, but I have to message them individually, and have moved one sale into a cancellation and repurchase through ebay. Of course, I can’t cancel the sale, so I have to wait for my period of time to “run out” in 7 days and facebook auto cancels. I totally see this messing with my metrics on facebook, so I think my account is a dud. I did start a secondary account that can currently list a whopping 1 item a day and can’t ship, but I’ll start building it up and at least maybe have something that works in a couple weeks or a month. Big ugh.
Dropping this link- It’s how to find reports from Ebay instead of the emails. I’m sure they’ll be useful come tax time.
https://www.ebay.com/sh/fin/report/statement?ru=email
Sales 4/4-4/10
Sales on Ebay: 2
Sales on FB: No clue because I’m locked out of marketplace. I had 4 pending sales from today on back that hadn’t shipped yet.
COGS: $2
Net profit: $28, before fees.
This week has sucked. I didnt sell a single thing on ebay from 4/3-4/9. I hadn’t put things up in over a week, and facebook was doing okay, but (I started another thread on this) I tripped the fraud/spam alert on FB and my marketplace is locked out. Don’t list more than 100 items a day! I was around the 130 mark when it crashed on me. Now I have 4 people that had pending orders that I don’t know if I can fulfill, Im just stuck. This is also an eyeopener that I need to have a backup system for my listings, because the thought of ebay blocking me out too and losing 850+ listings is crazy.
On a more positive note, I did some retail arbitrage and scored 90 units of winter wear for a buck each. Comps are coming in at 15-20 a pop, and they mail in a polymailer, so that will bee about $1500 profit. I only need to sell 6 to break even, so thats cool.
I guess this is Lauren and her Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Hey All!
a) thank you for the concern about the electric bill! I checked the bill after using the ductless system the other day and we only used something like 20 KWH for the whole day, so I think my math is wrong. The floor sucks sometimes, but I’m getting to figuring it out better. My mom has MS so if she gets too cold or too hot then she has worsening symptoms, so keeping my house at 80 in the summer isn’t a great fix, but I bought a pedestal fan to help move the ductless system air and my house is delightful right now. That being said, my lovely girlfriend put insulation up in our house over the weekend and I’m already noticing a difference.
My new plan is to extend the office area a little bit and fit 4 shelves of climate control space in there. This will allow me to have some climate control, and in the long them the office will be moving to my sunroom and the building will be just storage, and that’ll get me more shelf space, but that’s a plan for like 2024.
@Amatino- WOW! Incredible! This looks so good! Thank you for the inspiration!
I prefer flat to vertical, personally. My main ephemera item is sheet music, which is all roughly the same size. So currently I’m storing it in bundles of 20 or so in cardboard mailers, then stacking them. Then, when you need one, you just have to grab the mailer versus fumbling through all of them. I have them sitting on a shelf, but will probably move them to a bin situation when I move out of my office and into my building.
Hey friends! Just an update to this, both packages came back today and they were good. Shipped out to the correct buyers and everything is good. However, I did get this cool lesson on how well my packing jobs are. Both buyers basically kept the boxes sealed and shipped them back, so I saw how my packages hold up through 2 across country travels. I think I’ll stick to using my ebay coupons for boxes versus packing tape, the tape just doesn’t seem to hold up as well. But nothing broke! Yay
Yeah! I literally just asked my girlfriend what happened to lumber? Crazy expensive.
The only reason I’m worried about the ductless system is the cost to run it. Unless I did the math completely wrong (which I might of, cause I don’t understand how it can be this expensive) to run my minisplit in my house for 12 hours a day was going to be some crazy number like $3-400 a month(EDIT: I actually just did the math. To run the minisplit for 12 hours a day nonstop is $240. I think I was thinking $400 with the 3 other units. Cries in electric bill). Ya’ll Power bills are rough. My apartment bill had free heat, so my electric would go up to about $150 a month with 2 window acs. This house has 3 window acs and a minisplit. When I was running the floor this winter, my highest bill got up to 413. This is a personal complaint, because when I bought the house the power company said that the bills were like $180 a month, and I haven’t had a bill yet that was under $300.
Okay, so for a 24×28 building to do double bubble would be somewhere around $550. I’m okay spending more if it’ll keep the space cooler, or if I can swap out having to build fake walls to make an office space and climate control the whole space. If I’m looking at spray foam, it looks like it’s a dollar a square foot approx, so the walls would be like $930 and I’m not sure what the roof would be. Is this better than fiberglass though? Because it looks like spray is R-6.6ish and when I look up fiberglass batting I’m seeing stuff thats like R-13, R-15 , R-19.
I think that’s what mine will look like too, I ordered it from Alan’s Factory Outlet. Yeah, I’ve heard that metal buildings “sweat” but it seems like doublebubble solves that problem as a radiant barrier.
If you spray foam the walls, would you still need to put up plywood or some finishing type material on the walls, or can spray foam be left bare?
I havent watched all of this, but @Jay does the interior of your building look like this, or is this something else? I guess plywood would be better than drywall in this situation. I’m really interested in investing and doing this thing right the first time, versus half fixes all the time.
@So Cal Joe
For some reason I didn’t see these comments when I wrote above. I was planning on doing a doublebubble type setup (I’m currently putting it up in my house because we have no insulation there) However, when I was reading about double bubble, it seems like it’s most efficient when theres a gap of air in between, which I don’t think is how its installed in a metal building. Do we think it’ll be better to just put up a radiant barrier and some of the fiberglass, then drywall it? I’m expecting my power bill to go up $100 or so for electric going toward the building, so if I can get more bang for my buck and have it climate controlled in entirety, versus just an office space, that would be cool.
Ya’ll are opening my eyes!
I hadn’t thought about a ductless unit. The house I bought has no central ac (woof) and radiant floor heat, so I’m learning about a ductless system thats currently in my livingroom. @Amatino how much square footage are you supporting?
Good point about the floor. I hadn’t thought about putting down anything other than the slab it’s on, do slabs soak up water? It’s concrete.
I was looking through inventory today and noticing that I have more fabric and delicate items than I thought- shoes, hats, aprons. Most of these are in bins that have a foam seal to keep moisture out, but not all of them do.
Forgot to mention, I’m in step 2 of the Listperfectly experiment. After FBM sales have dropped drastically, I’m taking my stuff down and relisting it to see if I have the same boost of sales as I did when I first put everything up. I am about 300 listings up at this point with no sales, so this might be a dud. I can do it very quickly, which is nice, I usually just do about 100 listings a day while waiting for the girlfriend to make breakfast, but if it’s not actually generating money, it aint worth it.
Happy Sunday
Total Items in Shop:856
Items Sold on Ebay: 7
Items Sold on FB: 1
Sales total: $274
COGS: $19
Total Sales after FVF: $220
I’ve been spending all day listing the last of my single piece sheet music. I sell it for anywhere between 17-24, so not super high dollar, but they are the easiest thing in the world to ship. I’m also in that premium store sweet spot so although having 200 listings of sheet music in a 1000 item store sucked, paying the same amount for what can be a 10,000 store is awesome. However, I think I have about 10 hours sunk into this project since January, so right now my hourly rate is only like $12 an hour for them, but now that everything’s listed I hope I can just mail a few off a month and have a bonus $50 or so that I wouldn’t otherwise have.
Re: Georgia, I’d be interested to know if the solution is just to open a PO box and have the mailing address as your contact info. I have one anyways that I ship out of, so it wouldn’t be much of a difference. Spooky though.
Double Boxing is always a win.
