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I need to go back and send as many offers as I can and see if I get any sales. Haven’t tried sending any recently.
Hey Julie, I’m like 45 minutes away from Rome in Dallas! We could go scavenging together some time but I guess that wouldn’t work since we’d be competing against each other lol. I clicked on your profile and noticed you mentioned you’ve been an extra. I did that too a few times! Crazy how many movies are being filmed here now.
Welcome! I’m in Georgia as well. Seems like there’s a decent size scavenger community down here.
Congrats on the stove! I had a similar situation recently. My non-frugal friends are moving and they sold us their Samsung fridge and stove for $200 total! They probably paid close to $2,000 for them new and I tried to make them let us pay them more! I was able to sell our old fridge and stove for $200 so we basically upgraded our appliances for free. We’ll be getting them a really nice house-warming gift lol.
“They probably make enough money at their job to spend $1,200 on something and it doesn’t matter.”
I’m trying to get across to people on my blog that it doesn’t matter how much money you make, if you spend it all, you’re not going to end up wealthy. If they had invested that $1,200 that they spent on the item they didn’t use and just let the money sit for the next 40 years, it would grow into over $26,000!!
Here’s my monthly eBay report for October. Still have a lot of growing to do but my sales are gradually going up! We just got back from a week in Costa Rica and sold 7 things while we were gone! Really glad I learned to update the handling time from you guys. Didn’t have anyone back out of a sale even though the handling time was set to 10 days!
Hmm well, I only have 200 items in my store so maybe they’re testing this with smaller sellers first or something.
Okay, I just tried it again and the send offer option is back up! it’s showing more of my items with watchers now. I noticed the word “beta” is in the URL so maybe they’ve made this option live without telling anyone..
Here’s the page
I sent a few offers and now that I’ve done it a few times, I’m getting this message:
Some of the information wasn’t able to load. You may see more info the next time you come back.
The missing information just happens to be the items that had “send offer” on them. I noticed that it didn’t list all of my items with watchers, only a few. It was cool for the 5 mintues it lasted for me haha.
I just went to the settings page and found that you have two upload options. You can upload the photos as the original file size, or you can let google reduce the file size. If you let google reduce the file size, then you get unlimited storage. They reduce any photos above 16 megapixels and claim that you can print high quality photos that are 24″ x 16″ at 16 megapixels so that should be plenty for eBay photos. They don’t say specifically how much storage you get if you don’t reduce the file size, but I’ve got hundreds, if not thousands of pictures uploaded at original file size and they say I still have about 12GB left.
I really want to go to San Francisco sometime! Never been to the west coast before.
To follow up on my google photos tip, I’ve been using the app for over 2 years now and haven’t had any issues with photos going missing or anything.
As far as what I said about it being quicker to take the pictures on my phone and upload them all at the same time, it isn’t extremely faster, but it is faster. On the eBay app for android, the process of taking pictures through the app is just kinda clunky. Instead of having to click upload then take one photo, then click the check mark or delete button if it’s blurry, I can take all the pictures on my phone in a few seconds then click upload and select all of the photos at the same time. I’d say this probably saves me about 5 seconds per photo and if you’re a part time seller working full time, any seconds you can save really help out! 5 seconds a photo times 12 = 60 seconds of time saved per item so that’s 100 minutes for every 100 items I list.
The google photos app actually IS connected to your gmail account, so you have access to your photos on any device that you can login to your google account with. This means I can see all of the photos I take on my phone by logging into my google account on google chrome on my computer. You can also share photos with other people and download them to your computer if you want. I’m sure there are other things you can do with the app that I don’t know about.
So something else I just thought about is, you could take the pictures on your phone, and once the photos sync to google photos, you’d be able to download the photos to your computer and do your listings entirely on your computer if you wanted. I’m not sure if that’d be a time saving process, but something to think about.
Thanks!
I decided to start a What Sells Series on my blog if anyone is interested. Just put my first post up for the month of September. Still a bit of noob with a small store but continuing to put new items up each week!
That’s true, always a good idea to keep the income streams diversified.
I don’t think I’ve ever been the first to do something so that’s cool!
If I can get to where I’m making enough money to live off and save a little too, I’m all in on jumping ship from the corporate life and selling full time! I’m able to listen to podcasts all day while I work so I’ve listened to quite a few of your episodes and you’ve convinced me that scavenging is the life to pursue lol. I can’t imagine a better way to become financially independent than to work for myself on my own terms. Guess we’ll have to wait and see if I can actually make it happen but I’m motivated to try it out! I’m only 25 so time is on my side.
I actually already listened to those episodes and they’re some of my favorite content I’ve ever listened to! Thanks for all the great advice you share here!
