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Lol, that is such a early 00’s ebay listing. I remember the days of $10k Elvis shaped potatoes, used gum, possessed video games, etc.
That’s actually pretty clever. The bag protects your shoes AND is the dunnage.
I use Everlance on my iphone. It used to be 100% free, but they switched to pay service now to use the automatic trip tracker. I wrote them to complain and say I was switching to another service and they gave me a free year of premium service.
It is a pretty good app. If you have the awareness to open the app immediately before driving it is pretty accurate. If you have this good of awareness, then you also would be just fine without the premium service. If you are like me and TOTALLY forget to do mileage, or a trip changed to a business trip spontaneously while en route then the Premium is a must.The auto trip tracker is not perfectly accurate. It will drop a mile or two here and there due to the way it works. To minimize battery drainage the app just occasionally checks in on your gps to see if you are moving. You can always make manual adjustments if needed.
Definitely give the free version a try as a minimum. Their customer service is pretty good.
They’re really in a bad mood. Got two offers in the $30-40 range after the game. Maybe if they can actually win a playoff game they’ll feel better and pay more. Win a playoff game…in Seattle…the Lions….Bwahahahahaha!!!
Weekly numbers:
Total Items in Store: 646
Items Sold: 15
Cost of Items Sold: $52
Total Sales: $446
Profit: $394
Highest Price Sold: $50 Kalso Sandals
Average Price Sold: $29.73
Average Profit: $26.26
FBA items sold: 2
Total FBA sales: $80
FBA COGS: $4
FBA Fees: $20
FBA Profit: $56
FBA Average profit: $28Steady week without much effort put in. Our house is a total wreck right now and is taking up a lot of my time. We’re converting our dining room to our homeschool room, and the former school room (originally a den) will become my temporary dedicated ebay room. I think it will really help me focus to have a dedicated space, kill some death piles, and get a better feel for what I need space wise if I ever go full-time.
On the scavenger/DIY front, I rebuilt our dryer yesterday. I sounded like a tank was rolling through the house while it ran! I replaced all the moving wear parts and it ran like a new machine…until it quit heating. Doh! I think I may have smashed the dryer duct so hopefully I don’t have to replace the element also. Side not, if your dryer has some years on it and you’ve never done a thorough, disassembled cleaning – DO IT! I have no clue how that dryer still worked. The entire duct was filled with compacted lint. In the end I’ll have a like new dryer and I’ll be out less than $50 even if I have to get a new element.
With board game parts, I can easily photograph and list 30 parts within an hour. 30 parts that bring $3-8 each in profit is very much worth my time. No COGS, minimal storage, etc. It is a fun experiment and I could see how it could easily become a niche store in and of itself.
Always be experimenting and diversifying!
Sometimes the price stickers can be far more damaging than marker on the soles. I’ve had stickers peel away parts of the shoe before.
I have several Nintendo NES systems I WILL NOT sell on ebay for this specific reason. I sold one two Christmas’s ago and the lady created an item not as described case. That was shortly after ebay changed the system so the seller has to pay return shipping. I even supplied the lady with a video of me powering on the system and inserting and starting 10 different carts to show how well it worked before the sale – the system had distinctive markings on the top to prove it really was the system I sent. I think it was buyers remorse, but the lady may have had an HDTV that wasn’t compatible.
I also recently refunded an incompetent buyer on a high end audio recorder ($200) that the buyer said it didn’t work. Sure enough I was able to pop in a freshly formatted SD card and it worked perfectly. I explained to the lady how to format her memory cards so they would work. I could have sent it back (the customer wanted it back) but I chose to refund and relist so hopefully a better customer purchases it. As the title of this thread states, I do not want to be technical support for incompetent customers.
I occasionally do board game parts. I’m currently creating quick listings for Mouse Trap parts. I buy the game for $1 and then list every part individually. I just search completed listings to sell similar to save time. I can crank through a batch of listings pretty quick that way.
I have a stack of Yu Gi Oh cards I may get around to some day for more filler listings.
I have had several items over the last 1.5 years on which I will get no action at all, but I’ll get an offer. I’ll go back and forth once or twice and then another offer will come in or the item will be bought outright.
My theory is that there was some social media blip or web story that caused more people to be looking for that specific item at the same time. That is much more plausible than ebay forcing your stale item down a casual buyers throat due to your one item out of billions getting 1-2 extra views.
What would be far more useful for me would be to create “clickbait” facebook articles with a link directly to a section of my store. For instance, Timberland boots are coming back into style. I could create a clickbait article stating how vintage Timberlands are a great fashionable deal and share pictures from my store of the ones I have for sale. If I could get a few thousand people to view that article I bet I’d sell a few pairs of shoes. If I could get a million people to view it, I bet I’d sell every pair I have within minutes.
In Godaddy, the fee is recognized when it is charged – not when ebay bills it. You can do it either way you want – by actual date of fee or by ebay invoice. The key is consistency. It all works out in the end.
I take all of my USPS packages to the post office. I have a post office 2 miles from my home, and .75 miles from my day job.
Why do I take my packages to the post office? Two reasons.
1. They always scan the packages when I drop them off. I drop off mid-day on the last day of my handling so I want that scan.
2. I do other errands on the trip, but the main purpose of the trip is to go to the post office. So….mileage claim! 🙂 I loves loggin me some tax deductions!I’ve definitely cut back on shopping trips. I do the goodwill by my work once a week, and the one by my house once a week. Sometimes I might go once more, but that is definitely not every week. I spend about 30-45 minutes at each place. I used to go multiple times a week to both places.
Even with that very reduced schedule, I can walk out with a cart load every time. I’ve got shopping these two locations down to an artform. I’m an engineer – process improvement is what I do! 🙂
You’d see that message ALOT more if USPS took over liability at the handoff. It is a rigged system that is set up to encourage Fed Ex employees to go ahead and hand off an obviously damaged box. There is no responsibility of the USPS employee to refuse any package.
It will not change because that would be the end of smart post. It is cheap because there are no damage claims, even when purchasing insurance!
