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Pork rinds, melted butter, and flavacol. Mix it up in sealed container. That satisfies my salty/crunchy occasional craving, but it’s very rare.
I was a huge popcorn eater before. Now I can go to the movies and eat….nothing.I eat chocolate every day!
95% Lindt dark chocolate – it’s basically a health food.
I cap off almost every day with 4 squares of that with some peanut butter.Once you cut out pretty much all sugar, it’s amazing how sweet 95% dark chocolate can be.
Yes, keto, intermittent fasting, and lots of walking. I haven’t stepped one foot in a gym – just walk during my breaks at work.
It’s amazing how fundamentally wrong most main stream information about Keto and fasting is. For a person like me who was metabolically unhealthy, it is permanently life changing.
Items in Store 1528
Items Sold 44
Total Sales $1,248.00
COGS $103.00
Total Profit $1,145.00
Average profit $26.02
Average sales price $28.36
New Listings 79The $1k+ train is still on the tracks baby! I was worried going into the weekend but ended up with over $600 in sales on the weekend.
Nothing else of importance happened this week scavenger wise.
I did officially hit 100lbs lost this week! At the beginning of June I weighed 345, and now I weigh 245. My all time high a few years ago was 352. It’s weird, because even though I weigh 245 I fit the size clothes I wore in high school at 185-190. People tell me I look more like 200lbs and are shocked when I tell them I’m 245. Last night my wife showed me a picture of myself from about 8 months ago. Sheesh! That guy looked extremely uncomfortable in his skin.
Next month we go on a trip to meet a goal I’ve been looking forward to for a LONG time – we’re going to Universal Studios and I’m going to ride the harry potter rides! We went 4.5 years ago and I had to take the walk of shame from the loading point on one, and failed the test rig on the other. I did not ride many rides on that trip…
This time imma ride ALL the rides!
That trip will be funded courtesy of my ebay business that I have grown with the help and encouragement of this group. Thanks to everyone here for being awesome.Whoah, you have ALOT going on!
The fact you are still where you are with your store is amazing.Yeah it seems odd that they’ve dropped support so soon. They supported XP for YEARS!
I run Linux on the computers my kids use. I use a build called Zorin OS. I have an install thumb drive set up so it is stupid easy to set up a new computer.It is GREAT for a basic computer to do internet and basic word processing. My eyes start to glaze over if I have to figure out how to use the command line stuff.
Yeah I looked at mine in Godaddy and it did not zero out. It is showing a net positive. I have not dug into it deep yet to determine why.
You can make it so that people who have unpaid item strikes cannot buy your items. That’s your main recourse as a seller.
I just made an offer on Mercari and their communication to buyers is lightyears ahead of ebay.
They made it very clear that my offer was binding and that I would be charged immediately if the seller accepted.All buyers really want is clear communication – ebay SUCKS at this. So many recurring issues would be eliminated if ebay did their end of the business better.
I wear this shirt on the weekends when I am out scavenging:
If we have any more kids maybe I can look into registering my family as a charitable organization. Lol…its for the kids!
The transaction fee is not the problem. Noone would have a problem with paypal keeping the transaction fee on a cancelled sale. That is 30 cents.
The problem is that now they are also keeping the final value fee (2.9% of the whole transaction)as well. That is bullcrap and a dirty cash grab by them.
So if someone buys a $2000 item from you and then immediately cancels due to a mistake, you would be out $58 – not just 30 cents.
Imagine if ebay kept the final value fee even when the transaction never officially took place. That is plain wrong.
Items in Store 1493
Items Sold 45
Total Sales $1,196.00
COGS $125.00
Total Profit $1,071.00
Average profit $23.80
Average sales price $26.58
New Listings 20I’ve cleared $1k in sales for 6 weeks in a row. A man could get used to this, but I know the crash is coming sometime in February/March. I’m a listing machine right now, so maybe I can stave that off a bit this year.
Last week I started considering storage improvements to consider this year. I got the idea to use rolling storage carts. I started researching, but the ones you can buy at big box stores are trash that I wouldn’t consider safely putting 50lbs on.
Then I got on facebook and saw a listing for EXACTLY what I wanted – industrial grade rolling storage carts. Another K-mart is going out of business, which is where these were at. I ended up buying 9 of them, but I can’t pick them up for a few more weeks. They are heavy duty welded construction, 4 shelves 4′ wide and 2′ deep. The beauty of rolling carts is that I can stack them all up next to each other – no aisles needed. These kind of carts cost hundreds of dollars new. I got them for $50 each.So after I dropped all that cash on the carts, I had to offset the costs. Enter shopping the rest of the fixtures/equipment stuff. I did quite well. I got several new in box Sloan flush valves, heavy duty door closers, a bunch of HVAC and lighting parts, New in box large toner cartridges. All the selling inventory I got will bring in about $800-1000.
They also had really nice mannequins at this sale for super cheap. I got a male, female, and a “well endowed full figure” female. All with the nice magnetic pose-able arms. I paid $60 total for all 3. I’ll be purging alot of my mannequin collection soon since these are so much nicer than the ones I have on hand. If anyone here is interested in mannequins, I can ship them!
My favorite buy though was tape. They had sealed boxes of 36 rolls of tape for $20 each. I bought all 3 boxes. I am set on tape for YEARS.
I’ve recently gotten into watching Craigslist Hunter videos on youtube. That dude is MORE than fair and straight up with everyone that comes in. He pays way more than he should for many things, but he deals in volume.
Then you read the comments…the reseller haters come out in force.I’ve had MANY calls with ebay like this that make me question the general capabilities of humanity.
ignorant customers are few and far in between. The overwhelming majority of my customers are great. Even most returns go quite nicely.
I can count on my fingers the times I’ve had a truly terrible customer that I feel was taking advantage of me.
I documented one of my INAD cases here in regards to a broken for parts camera. I had it in the title, description, condition, category, everwhere you could possibly have it. I even detailed exactly what was wrong.
All of it didn’t matter a bit. Buyer opened an INAD saying it was broken and returned.Oh but it got better. The buyer took out the BRAND NEW expensive battery I put in it as well as didn’t return the lens opening cover.
I tried to fight it all, got lied to as usual by customer service multiple times…very frustrating affair.
Since it is just a message, reply by telling them you clearly detailed the non-working as-is condition in the listing and hope for the best.
