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Happy Holidays, everyone! I didn’t reach my goal this week due to the holidays. I’m going to take off 3-4 months due to a divorce that started about 2 months ago. I feel weird dumping this on here but some of you might wonder so why not just say it.
I am still living at home and will till about February. My wife and I are still good friends, albeit, with a lot of ups and downs. We are fine. The kids are fine. One is 18, one 16 – they are really fine… the 10 year old is doing well. The transition is a long one and that seems to help.
I might get to list during this time but it seems best to put new listings on hold as I just have a lot to purge or pack and it is pretty important that I focus as much creative energy on the house search as my options initially seem limited. And, of course, the creative energy in making a change in my relationships with my family.
I’ll see you come March. 🙂
Marty
Total On eBay: 89
Items Listed: 2 (Achieved Goal!)
Items Sold: 0
Goal This Week: 2
Total On eBay: 87 (Record!)
Items Listed: 2 (Achieved Goal!)
Items Sold: 0
Goal This Week: 2
Good advice, Jay. Thanks. I definitely got too emotionally involved for about 20 minutes in my head. Good to hear your approach.
What do you do with a buyer who gives you an offer $350 lower than your asking, then you offer $100 below your asking, and then the buyer goes up on his first offer by $20? That’s right – a whole $20.
A Bvlgari  wrist watch. I am sure I will not get $750 – but it’s my listed asking price. This buyer offers $400. I tell him that it’s only been up about 5 days and the lowest I’ll go is $650. (I am willing to take $500 but I don’t tell him that.) He offers $420. I say to myself, “You jerk!” Actually, I called him something else but let’s keep this PG. Anyway, I bit my tongue and sent him another offer and said “Thank you for your offer. $500 is my last offer.”
I was direct and tried to pull out any attitude from my written words. I guess I am being too emotional about it but I would never low-ball someone that much if I was in his shoes. I would just not counter. I would be respectful and just decline.
Anyone have any suggestions on better wording or maybe another creative method? Would anyone have been willing to play along with this buyer a little more than I did? Or am I right and it is just common courtesy that you don’t go in increments of $20 when you are dealing with a difference of $250 between two offers? It doesn’t make sense, right? Especially after I came down a whole $100! Or are there just some people out there that want to go that many rounds of  countering? Maybe it’s me.
Funny you should say that, Jay, as they already had a watcher that I sent an offer to – now that I know what price seems realistic. I think I had them about $20-$30 too high for what they are… just not my speciality. 🙂
Wow – wow! Nice job, Jay and Ryanne (hey, you two!) Here’s my week. It sucked. 🙂
Total on eBay: 85 (all time high)
Items Listed: 5 (Exceeded Goal By 1!)
Items Sold: 1
Total Profit: $13.93 – “Straight Down” (Brand Name) Women’s Activewear Jacket (This profit does not count loss from return.)
Returns: The Dan Post boots got returned (for fit) and I reimbursed my shipping costs to buyer  as well. Hopefully, some good karma will come back to me.
Goal This Week: 2
Total On eBay: 81 (Another record breaker!)
Items Sold: 4
Items Listed: 5 (Exceeded Goal By 1!)
Total Profit: $42.66
Average Profit Per Item: $10.67
Highest Profit: $15.20 (Steffner Women’s Wool Sweater)
Goal This Week: 4
Returns: Possibly 1 – my big $48 sale last week… we’ll see if she follow through…
Total On eBay: 80 (Personal Record!)
Items Sold: 2
Items Listed: 5 (Exceeded Goal By 1!)
Total Profit: $60.22
Average Profit Per Item: $30.11
Highest Profit: $48.83 (Dan Post Women’s Snake Skin Boots)
Goal This Week: 4
Returns, etc.: 1 Unpaid Item; 1 Reversal of Return As Buyer Did Not Ship Back)
I’m laughing a lot over here – thanks Jay. I was not responsible for any IATSE strike. I work somewhere pretty small as far as stage work – and I only do the audiovisual end these days… but we are non-union.
As far as the numbers, though they be small, this Forum helps me stay steady. It helps me keep my word to myself. I came close to not making it this week.
Thanks, Jay!
Total On eBay: 77
Items Sold: 1
Items Listed: 4 (Goal achieved!)
Total Profit: $22.88 (Ralph Lauren Men’s Western Shirt)
Goal This Week: 4
Hey, Jay. I could be wrong but if there would have been no signature and the buyer said he didn’t receive it and wanted his money back then I would have been out. I am probably more suspicious than I should be but I’ve had a few over the years and I do my best anytime I smell something fishy. I realize that in the big game, one sale is not a lot so to be excessively suspicious is not helpful.
Total on eBay: 74
Items Sold: 4
Items Listed: 4 (Goal Achieved!)
Total Profit: $60.65
Average Profit Per Item: $15.16
Highest Profit: $22.88 (Linda Allard Ellen Tracy Black Silk Cardigan)
Goal This Week: 4
Potential Scam Thwarted: I goat an immediate payment at full asking price on a typewriter from a buyer who had created his account same day as purchase. I emailed him asking him to confirm his address and advised him I would pay for a “signature required” on my dime. Interestingly, he replied he didn’t need the item anymore and requested that I cancel the sale.
Total On eBay: 74
Items Sold: 1
Items Listed: 4 (Goal achieved!)
Total Profit: $11.45 (Tommy Bahama Chino Shorts)
Goal This Week: 4
Returns: 1 Â (Camera bag being returned because “it doesn’t fit in <buyer’s> motorcycle tank bag, measurements provided were not accurate.” Thankfully, this looks like it will not be an INAD since buyer used “Doesn’t Fit.” The only dimensions I gave were interior of bag – not exterior. Waiting to see If buyer returns it.
