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04/04/2017 at 2:03 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15901
Jay and Ryanne, thanks for the reminder about the free ebay shipping supplies. I ordered mine right away. Those items do come in handy. I have started keeping a list of all the sizes of boxes I have so I remember it next time.
And Jay, the story you were told about the woman who couldn’t get insurance right after her husband passed away didn’t seem quite right. By law the spouse of a deceased spouse is entitled to get Cobra insurance in such situations. According to the US Dept. of Labor
“COBRA coverage for the employee’s spouse and dependents can last until 36 months after the date the employee becomes entitled to Medicare …”. I hope the story wasn’t a scam for a Go-Fund-Me or some such thing.04/03/2017 at 11:06 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15893The past week has been roller coaster crazy with sales. A couple of days in a row with no sales. Then days like today with a dozen sales. Biggest sale was a $450 rug. Lots of tiny sales also, but I have a sale on to unload the old inventory. In spite of feeling at times like business was horrible I had 36 sales in the past week. So you just never know.
The best thing that happened was yesterday I needed to find a large box. Decided to double box a very large soup pot with a glass lid since it sold for $125 and I felt queasy about the lid maybe getting broken. So on the way to Walmart to buy a box I decided to check a dumpster in a shopping strip nearby. The very first box I saw was sitting neatly on top, filled with peanuts, with a couple of things inside. So I threw it in the car and found the box I needed and came home. Turns out I had scavenged a John Perry killer whale piece worth $125, plus a Vera Russel vase worth $125 on ebay. Both in mint condition. How nice of the person to throw them out neatly packed in peanuts! I will have to check that dumpster more often!
04/03/2017 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15892Christine, it’s awesome that you are using your ebay profits so well. You juggle a lot. I hope you get your pots–talavera is so gorgeous! I have sold some pieces in the past–hard to let go of. My husband and I were amazed how much houses cost on Coronado Island; the tiniest tiny house is over $1M. When we got back home we agreed that we are living well in a $5M house (by their standards.) All we are missing is the perfect weather and the sandy beaches, right? And yes, my gift giving is often something scavenged too. That way I don’t even need to wait for an occasion.
BTW, I’m still working on the death piles; doing antique photos this week. Got zero listings done today due to scavenging. Spent $228 at the thrift store; got so many goodies; 2 carts full. Guess Ill list those next week. Listed 20 photos yesterday.
04/03/2017 at 10:18 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15890John Baston, I assume you aren’t selling old shoes?
The 18″ wide stripe looks like dishcloth fabric, but could be used for other projects. The printed outlined shape fabrics are to cut out and hem for things like aprons, placemats, etc. just describe them and put them out there like you have described. Nice finds.
03/31/2017 at 10:24 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Spectacles, Water Ski, Prince 45, Pattern kits, Photo Enlarger #15681Painted brass hardware like that is easy to clean. Just soak it in straight ammonia for a day. Then wash /brush it off. Then polish it up with fine steel wool. It looks like new.
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03/31/2017 at 10:20 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Spectacles, Water Ski, Prince 45, Pattern kits, Photo Enlarger #15680Is anyone else having problems getting onto Ebay this morning?
03/29/2017 at 8:34 am in reply to: Cleaning Tips – How to Remove Price Marks, Tags, and other Annoyances #15538I love this idea. May I also add How to repair things? If I had a YouTube channel I would do demos on how to repair things for reselling. One of my favorite things which I use often is repairing small ugly white chips in porcelain items. I use crafting ink pads (the kind used for rubber stamps) and I have a few different basic colors. Use a cotton swab to apply ink from the pad onto the white chip to blend it in with the surrounding color. You can blend brown and yellow to make orange or blue and green to make aqua for example. Rub the colors in with a tissue and repeat until it doesn’t show. Be sure to mention it in your listing and take a photo of “touched up chip”, but when it doesn’t show people don’t really care. And of course I use permanent felt tip markers to repair small odd spots on leather purses or shoes when they are colors that are easy to match.
Love it. But would reframe it in a simple black frame.
That is all just additional calculating work that I don’t want to do. I have a feeling this is going to be just another failed ebay roll-out.
Eve, your death pile challenge has been motivational for me. I set a goal of clearing out a different death pile each week basically. Now the random garage piles are gone, which was so dreaded. I still have a table full of things there that I will take to an auction–mostly garage sale leftovers from last summer. I listed a pile of swimsuits which have been selling nicely 2-3/week. The past 2 weeks were mostly consumed with a mountain of stainless steel and mostly silverplate flatware. I had already done hours of research to identify each patter–not easy with antique pieces! I spent many more hours polishing each piece and putting same patterns in marked baggies and then listing them–some individually or in groups or lots, depending upon value. I think I never want to buy another piece of flatware! But they have already been selling, so are nice additions to the “pipeline”.
The only “piles” I have left are a huge bin of vintage embroidered linens and a lot of antique photos. I need to review Spinachetr’s interview to see if he scans his antique photos or just take a photo of each photo. And if they want a minimum of 4 photos for each ebay listing, what the heck do you photo other than the front and back. Close-ups?
I have stillbeen hitting my fav thrift shop once a week but have been listings those items, too, so there’s no excess leftover potential deathpile junk. It’s been helping me to avoid buying anything not worth my time. There’s so much available why not just skim the best. I’m so tired of low-priced sales.We found a variety of toilets in China, from the nice sleek new Toto’s to the strange hole-in-the-floor toilets which took some getting used to. Public bathrooms often had some regular toilets and some hole-in-the-floor standing/squatting toilets. The regular ones had signs that said “Do not squat on toilet.” Sometimes you could see shoe treadmarks on the toilet seats. Maybe this is more info than you wanted. Haha
Here’s an interesting WSJ article about Amazon’s fast changing prices;
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-speed-trading-behind-your-amazon-purchase-149053211003/26/2017 at 11:46 am in reply to: Save the planet. Save money. Save your items. Save space. Steel File Cabinets! #15309I would be worried about file cabinets in a garage. Spider and bug heaven! Yukky!!!
By the way, most of the time my cha-ching sound doesn’t go off. I’ve tried reinstally my app, but it still doesn’t work a lot of times. I feel robbed. Ha
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