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Love the rules. Love the welcome back. 🙂 You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.
People who make judgmental accusatory assumptions about the motivations of others who don’t give them what they want are, indeed, offensive–especially when they are besmirching something that is personal to others. They should be ignored rather than encouraged or debated. Whiners and blamers are never winners. They are acting like overgrown, spoiled babies throwing tantrums. (Haven’t we all been there; done that?) It’s one thing to be justifiably frustrated, but something else to blame it on another’s sex, politics, or ethnicity. You are guaranteed to offend at least half of the people on this forum. That’s why I usually agree with Jay when he just says “it’s business” and focuses on the facts instead of emotions. That is the only way out of a pointless morass. Glad we are moving on. We all make mistakes. I’m always thankful when people look the other way when I mess up. Just wish we could welcome 1sourcesales back into the fold. It was a two-way knife fight. :-). Just my penney’s worth. It’s Jay’s forum.
02/07/2017 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 296: Are You Keeping Up With Your Inventory System? #11975Here’s a horrible story of a woman who who died who was apparently robbing a clothing donation box at 2:00am.
I suggest you try just vegetable oil. Reapply and rub off with a soft rag until all the sticker residue is gone.
02/04/2017 at 10:45 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 295: The Challenges of Changing Your Strategy #11771Your room reeks of coolness!
Okay ChristineR, you get the free pass this week! But we want to see the goodies. Now that I’m back from vacay I hope to work some on ebay this week, but I’m also having company for a few days. It’s always something. That’s why I love my little ebay business–I can always repriortize. People before profits!
Ryanne, I guess that’s why I haven’t been able to post an icon, too. I will give this a try. Thank you!
02/03/2017 at 12:18 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 295: The Challenges of Changing Your Strategy #11675Jay and Ryanne, the reason your store #1 is selling so well is because you are listing so much. Three of you are listing now. That is what makes you rise in the cassini search. Look at your dismal sales in store #2 comparatively by size. I tried having 2 stores for a while a few years ago and I could tell that I was only hurtung my sales by splitting my time between 2 stores. When you are listing in one sales are dropping off in the other.
I just got back from a 10 day trip to Hong Kong to visit family. I just changed my shipping date to ten business days and sent a reminder to buyers when an item sold, as you have taught us to do. Everyone who bothered to reply just said, “No problem. Have a great trip!” We got home late at night after traveling all day and I was wide awake at 4:30 the next morning. I got all 32 items packed and out the door that morning. Great feeling. Sales were small dollar items and not a lot of sales due to me not working on listing while I was gone, but well worth it. I also put my whole store on 10% off while I was gone. I find that really does stimulate sales–especially on old inventory that I am thrilled to make go away.
By the way I had little time and less luck finding anything to resell in HK. As I suspected you could either buy high priced retail at all the big stores we have here or you could buy cheap, cheesey junk at the street markets (which were great fun just the same.) The one day we made it to the “Antique District” was disappointing. I know zero about Asian antiques, but it seemed to me that all/most of their “antiques” were chinese knock-offs. I tried to take spinachetr’s advice and buy old postcards, but was only able to find a few. I do look forward to researching them and learning more about postcards in the process. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like I will be able to justify writing off my travel expenses for such puny results==not sure what the rules are on that.
02/02/2017 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 295: The Challenges of Changing Your Strategy #11672The buttons you got ay the auction sound wonderful. You said maybe they were once on the collector’s clothing. That is quite likely. Back in the day before cheap clothes were available and there were no tax deductions for donating to a goodwill, thrift was a normal way of life; women would use up clothing until there was nothing wasted. You wore a garment until it had a hole. You repaired the hole and wore it until it was too worn out to repair. Then you cut out the good parts of the fabric and put it in your quilting pile. I was taught to also rip out the zippers and trims for reuse when making something else. And every button went into a jar for reuse. I have 4 ball jars full of different colored buttons collected like that over the years. Some of the white ones are old “underwear buttons” from the late 1800’s-early 1900’s that were handed down to me. All those collected bits of fabric, etc., carry deep memories. I love looking At an old “charm” quilt I made (meaning no piece of fabric was used more than once) decades ago and I can still remember where I got almost every piece of fabbric. Buttons were collected for the same reasons.
01/21/2017 at 8:58 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Record stands, Lava Lamp, Jackets, 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair Lamp, Hot plate #10828Steve, the green Buffalo plaid shirt was beautiful. Loved the cat and dog. My calico and Sheltie used to play fight every morning and were very devoted to each other. My friend has an orange cat that routinely jumps up and rides around on her ginormous Percheron horses. Animals are awesome! I’m still on the lookout for one of those metal record tables. Thanks for the videos!
01/21/2017 at 8:28 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Record stands, Lava Lamp, Jackets, 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair Lamp, Hot plate #10827Haha. I had to look at your listing–I was surprised that there could be such a thing as a Polish antelope. I guess you meant polished. 🙂
01/21/2017 at 8:22 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Record stands, Lava Lamp, Jackets, 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair Lamp, Hot plate #10825Was in my early 20’s in the seventies. Never used drugs. Didn’t have any personal friends who did. It was not normal behavior in my circles. But I was also a wife and mother, so my focus was on my family and home. This was not unusual at all.
You are very tidy in your death piles organization. I think that helps a lot.
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I tackled my hoard of scarves and shawls this week. Photo’d all 38 Sunday. Listed 10 Monday and 15 Tuesday. Couldn’t list yesterday, but plan to list the last ones today. We will be going to visit the 4 grandchildren in Hong Kong next wekk, so the girls, all teens, always love clothes. They even love thrifted clothes. Everything over there is SO expensive. So that was my excuse to stop at Savers after dropping off a pkg at Fedex.
I filled my cart with tons of nice things, and did buy a few things to resell–only 3 or 4 items. Came home and removed tags and washed 2 loads–had to handwash some of them. I now hope I can fit it all in my suitcase! 18 items for the girls in their fav brands–so darned cute! And several nice sporty clothes for the 12 yr old boy. I always let the girls take turns picking what they want one piece at a time–it’s like Christmas. Can’t wait!
So far I haven’t been perfect, but the piles are going away at a nice pace. (As Jay says, it’s hard to walk past $20 bills laying around when you are in a thrift shop!) I sold two huge bolts of lace on auction for over $50 that had been cluttering up my sewing room for years. It’s nicer to have $50 in your pocket than clutter!01/11/2017 at 7:47 am in reply to: Join me in the 2017 Something from Nothing Challenge anyone??? #10045Whiskey I LOVE your story! That’s what I try to tell mewbies–you can start a business with zero money! They never believe it. If you dedicate a Paypal account to only Ebay expenses and income (with a dedicated chkg acct.) you can tell automatically by your balances whether you are making money or spending too much. Just start with what you have–or scavenge–and keep flipping. The mistake most people make, I think, is that they fritter away their ebay income on various things–dinner here, paying a bill there, etc–so they don’t realize their progress. I’ve been just using my ebay income to pay extra on the mortgage or an occassional rare big expense. Watching that balance is very motivational. I’d love to heat Jay interview you!
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