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This is one of those things I find so frustrating being in the generation gap at 38 years old. It seems millenials have zero problems ghosting at all levels of relationships and communication. Being in the gap, I can see why they do it (communication is now super easy, free, and unemotional), but I also can see how wrong it is. After all, I remember writing real letters as a kid!
It’s such a cowardly thing to do.
A common example – buying/selling on facebook yardsale and ebay unpaid items. No longer interested? Just freaking say so! No need to ghost.
I always follow through on communication, because it is the right thing to do. Why is this common decency thing so hard for many millenials to understand?Items in Store 1486
Items Sold 11
Total Sales $258.00
COGS $38.00
Total Profit $220.00
Average profit $20.00
Average sales price $23.45
New Listings 5Catching up from being on vacation.
Ouch…terrible week! I didn’t really care though as I was too busy preparing for our trip and worrying about all the virus crap in the media. I had 10 day handling time on my store for the last half of the week and it definitely hampered sales.This week I was able to buy a pair of vintage Converse shoes. I believe they are from the early 70’s or late 60’s and are in awesome condition. One of the comps I have found sold as an auction for $580!!
I paid $25 for them on facebook yardsale.
03/16/2020 at 7:53 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 454: Being Frugal During A Global Pandemic #75155Items in Store 1470
Items Sold 16
Total Sales $433.00
COGS $48.00
Total Profit $385.00
Average profit $11.00
Average sales price $27.06
New Listings 0Been on vacation for a week and a half. I was initially thinking all this reaction is massively overblown, but then I saw a report this weekend of an assessment of the hospital capacity of our country. There are LESS THAN a Million hospital beds in the United States! How is that possible???
I also saw a “tale of two cities” when I traveled back home yesterday. I had seen all the reports about supermarkets being gutted. I had seen the photos of my local stores…it was sad. I stopped by a Trader Joes in Charlotte and it was fully stocked and orderly – noone acting like a fool.
When I got home (coincidentally in the last state without a confirmed case), my local grocery store had multiple departments completely gutted. I talked with the butcher and he said it has been that way for 4 days.It never ceases to amaze me how ill prepared most people are. If you keep a minimum stock on most items, there is no need for panic buying! My assumption is that the folks stockpiling TP also don’t have a 401K.
I saw this on facebook and it broke my brain!
I tried it and it really is that easy.
My shipping game was already strong. Now it’s gonna go Super Saiyan.There was a particularly nasty flu virus back in 2012/13 I think. It was a 7 day “feel like death but no puking” bug”. I developed severe pneumonia in both lungs. It took me many, many months to recover and I even relapsed back at one point. Spent a total of 4 weeks off work.
It took years to recover full capacity in my lungs – breathing cold, dry air was next to impossible until about 3 years ago.
Pneumonia is the real killer. I recommend folks keep a finger blood oxygen meter at home in their first aid kit and go to the doctor at the FIRST sign of respiratory distress.
Why a blood oxygen meter? Because when your lungs start filling with fluid and shutting off your blood oxygen level drops very low. When I finally went to the hospital back then my blood oxygen SP02 level was down to around 80! Normal for me = 97.1st edition Dune books sell for good money.
Items in Store 1492
Items Sold 35
Total Sales $818.00
COGS $100.00
Total Profit $718.00
Average profit $20.51
Average sales price $23.37
New Listings 21Sold a ton of low dollar items this week. Every dollar counts!
I committed this weekend to listing death pile clothes. Man…that’s brutally depressing knowing what clothes went for a couple years ago. Case in point, I came across a stockpile of Soccer Referee jerseys. A couple years ago I was easily selling those for $30 a pop. Now? I had to lot them up in sets of 3-6 in hopes I get $10-15 apiece.I’ve had a vacation booked for Orlando starting this weekend for a while now. Our last 2 family vacations have been cancelled due to hurricanes, so we switched to March to avoid ALL natural disasters. Quite freaking ironic….
Anyways, we’re still going….pending everything not being shut down by then down there. The irrational fear surrounding this virus has become quite absurd.
In September there were a BUNCH of glitches and sales plummeted for everyone. It wasn’t just managed payments.
02/28/2020 at 7:24 am in reply to: ebay Spring Seller Update is this Wed Feb 26, Town Hall Feb 25 #74527Yes, my question is what is the time limit if the buyer initiates on that last day? Can I call in after 5 days? Is it 10 days to auto close? Do they get another 30 days?
I sent them a message explaining why I opened a return.
And as expected, they’ve already refunded me and closed the return. Man that was fast!
I’ll be calling ebay once I’m off work to report this seller. Will it do much good? Probably not.
I have to do something though.So I just requested the return, they don’t accept returns but I opened an INAD so what will likely happen is that I get a refund and keep the item.
The item shipped from PA and the name and address on the return for the seller is someone in California. Drop shipped and likely a fake name. Oh man this pisses me off so much. I don’t like being an unwitting pawn in a scam.So I dug a little deeper and I saw this feedback from another buyer in their feedback profile:
I didn’t get the same car seat as what I ordered it but I got a much better one!
(Private listing)Yes, all of the sellers feedbacks are “private listings”.
I feel dirty… I’m going to go ahead and request a return.
Ugh….as soon as I read the bad english in that link…
This is totally what is going on here.
Do you have data on what your monthly Sell thru rate was prior to using this service and what it is after? I am curious how much value you are actually getting from that service.
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