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You can select 500 listing in the bulk editor. Select all, and edit description. When the pop up window comes up, click “switch to HTML editor” in the right corner.
Add the viewport html in the box and submit.
This should work in theory, but I would try this with 10 listings or so before going full scale.
Same here. We keep a clean home with minimal junk. The ebay inventory is frustrating sometimes. Even the listed stuff. You look around and feel like you want to throw half of it away and start fresh. Then one of those ridiculous items sells. What helps me is keeping everything (apart from clothes) in bins or plastic storage drawers . Out of sight, out of mind mostly.
The estate sale companies are dying to get rid of that old junk. Fishing lures, erasers, playbills, golf balls. All kinds of stuff. I have come across some pretty random things. Most times they are looking to get rid of it from what I have been told. Boxes of pictures look like garbage but in the right hands they are 1920’s photos of New York City.
Exactly. I find that the people who go to buy at these sales are not interested in junk either. So I usually have some elbow room and I don’t feel like if I take a right turn instead of a left when we first walk in that I’ll miss the “gold.”
I have all the time in the world to go through boxes of pencils that turn out to be a pretty serious calligraphy pen and nib collection worth close to $1000 after all was said and done. The whole shoe box was $10. To be fair it did look like junk the way it was scattered around.
I scavenge mainly at estate sales at the moment. I travel to Cary/Garner NC which is a little more upper class. Some people don’t like going to rich people’s sales because everything is priced so high ( art, coins, silver etc.) But I’m not there for that. I’m there for the junk drawers closets. I find that higher end sales don’t really care about the “junk” and have box lots for pretty cheap. Wealthy people have nice things. Even the junk is nice sometimes.
Jason,
It does get easier as they get older. Then it gets hard all over again. I’m at that point now. My oldest is 10, she is pretty self sufficient apart from the occasional science project which sucks all of my time for that week. The twins are 2 and they have just now decided to stop taking naps. But there is a sweet spot you’re about to hit where they can entertain themselves and sleep through the night.
I am at the point now where money is coming in steady, but it was definitely not the case when I started. The first month I made $600 I was king of the house haha.
I manage to list whenever I get a free second. I try to clean items and do all of the busy work I can while the kids are up. I wake up at 5 every morning to take pictures. I try to list while they sleep or when my wife gets home around 730pm. I shoot for 50 items a week. Sometimes it’s a lot more, sometimes a lot less. It’s really tough sometimes. But the great thing is I work until I hit that breaking point, quit my job, then hire myself back whenever I feel like I’m ready to work a day or so later. I do that once every month or two.
