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I have this one and it is awesome.
I got mine at goodwill for $20. Scavengerlife baby!
Yes it works. The entire timeshare industry was built on bully tactics like that to get people to buy/sell things.
I’ve been actively looking for vintage band VHS tapes lately. No particular reason – just Kinda like a personal challenge to see if I can find a white whale there.
Yes,
Fed Ex and UPS blows USPS out of the water on an item that size.
If you are selling it off of ebay then you can use shippo to ship via UPS.
Ebay has a great rate negotiated with Fed Ex but you can’t get those same rates on shippo.
Items in Store 1484
Items Sold 15
Total Sales $698.00
COGS $53.00
Total Profit $645.00
Average profit $43.00
Average sales price $46.53
New Listings 3
Items scavenged 0
Sourcing Allotment 2
Last week we were in Florida. Constant sunshine, 80-85 degrees every day. Sooooo nice.
Cue to today back at home – 20 degrees and everything is covered in ice….should have just stayed in Florida…
We got annual passes to Universal studios last March right before the lockdown. We’ve went to Florida 3x this past year. I can tell you this – the way the media portrays Florida as being the wild west is simply not true from what I have seen. Maybe southern Florida is, but Orlando has been wonderful. I feel safer there than I do at home!
If you have considered a vacation to universal Studios in this environment, I would definitely recommend it. They take safety precautions very seriously and they’ve found a way to still do many of the fun seasonal things and even improve some of them. Like Mardi Gras, they aren’t doing a parade this year but they instead are doing a food festival all over the park and have placed their parade floats spread out all over the park all day long with performers everywhere.
Anyways, my sales have trended down the last few weeks. My historical data shows that Februrary and March are the slowest months of the year for my store, so no worries. Still, my numbers are lower than the last two years. I would hope that my “slow period” would still have higher numbers considering my increase in inventory.
Anyways, I’m home and it is back to work time! I’m gonna get some stuff listed today.
Items in Store
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $747.00
COGS $82.00
Total Profit $665.00
Average profit $36.94
Average sales price $41.50
New Listings 3
Items scavenged 0
Sourcing Allotment 2
Late to the party – was out of town last week.
Happy 500th episode!!!!
Pew! Pew! Pew!!! Lazer Beam! Lazer beam!
Yeah one thing I do NOT do is overtime for show. My first boss here was like that. He wanted me to put in extra hours to “show I was committed”.
I told him straight up that I’m not doing that. If there is an emergency that can’t wait, then I’ll be there for it and get it done. Otherwise, I’m out at 4. I think I talked about that here once upon a time. Since I had this business in my back pocket I had no problem dictating my terms at work.
Well I went through a range of emotions yesterday, and I just got angrier and angrier. Before I left for the day I went into my boss’s office, closed the door, and let him know exactly how I felt, what my expectations were, and just how angry I was.
He apologized that they didn’t meet my expectations and that we started off this new role on the wrong foot. He said he’ll talk to the site manager and try to work this out. We shall see.
Again, the confidence I’ve built in myself from running my own business I think gave me the power to pull that off. Me from 5 years ago would NEVER have done that!
I am working from home to do some training the rest of this week and then I’m off on vacation next week. They better have some good news for me when I get back so I can get back to working hard and enjoying my job.
Items in Store 1515
Items Sold 21
Total Sales $823.00
COGS $75.00
Total Profit $748.00
Average profit $35.62
Average sales price $39.19
New Listings 21
Items scavenged 20
Sourcing Allotment 2
Listing suffered this week. Just alot going on.
I had other things I wanted to talk about, but instead I want to speak a moment on motivation, exceeding expectations, and the rewards associated with these positive behaviors.
So with this ebay business, I get immediate feedback via more sales and higher sale prices if I put the work in. If I figure out a clever hack in shipping, that immediately pays dividends with cost savings. I work for myself, I get rewarded for making improvements.
So at my day job I’ve been working hard to learn some new skills, and I’ve really went above and beyond the call – HIGHLY self motivated to make improvements. I was expected to get a promotion as I applied for a new position that was opened up basically just for me at work. I was told the job was basically mine. Today I oversaw the first test of a large process improvement that I designed related to this new job. It went absolutely perfectly. It will save us a TON of money, and this is the first of many process improvements I have planned. No-one asked me to do ANY of this – I just did it on my own.
So on Friday my immediate boss kind of skirted the issue on my promotion when I asked for an update, and babbled about “head count” and other corporate BS. The alarms were sounding off in my head. So today after the successful test the site manager congratulated me, and said “yeah so I guess we’ll go ahead and reprioritize your workload to mostly foundry and I can call off the search for the foundry engineer job”. I said “wait a second, what about the foundry engineer job? I’m not even going to change job title?” He babbled about head count for a bit and then said “Yeah I don’t think that’s really necessary to change the job title, but I guess we could.”
I’m just sitting here dumbfounded this afternoon. This was supposed to be a promotion with a raise, and it turned into just doing more work on top of what I already do. My motivation to keep on improving things: GONE. Me finally being happy to work here and actually looking forward to my workday – thinking I’m making a difference – dropping by the second.
I knew management here was bad, but this has just dumbfounded me…
…I suppose if I look at the bright side, if they’re freaking out about headcount and order intake at least I’ve increased my value so I don’t get cut if layoffs happened. The Keystone pipeline thing will have a direct impact on our order intake and will destabilize multiple customer bases for the pump manufacturing industry, so layoffs are likely to happen at some point this year. Have I really increased my value though? To be honest I don’t really know.
Sorry for being a downer guys but this has just wrecked my day. It’s just such a different experience between being self-employed and working for a large corporation. Working harder here just means “hey, lets see how much more we can get this guy to do”. Maybe it is time for me to go back to considering going full time with ebay…
To end on a positive note, I picked up a rare Bose radio that will sell for around $500 this weekend. I’ve got it tested/cleaned, and I’ll get that listed this evening.
I think better advice is to learn to focus on quick turnaround items.
Size is largely irrelevant if you can all but guarantee something will sell within 90 days or less.
So the way I understand it is that if you have returns on, any return request is approved automatically. If you have returns off, buyers can still request but you have the option to deny. Same thing after 30 days – they open a “request”, which you can deny.
It would be silly of ebay to not remove a retalatory feedback since you only stuck to your posted policies.
Curse you Jay… Now I spend my days listening to James Hoffman talking, cruising auto grinding coffee makers online, and making plans to dig out the few moka pots I have in my death piles so I can play with them.
This crap is clearly a drug. I feel so happy and ‘complete’ once I have my cup a day.
Next thing you know I’m gonna be pulling out flannel shirts and chukka boots from my death piles to wear and growing out a trendy beard.
This is where managed payments should come in handy. He can’t open a paypal case directly against you, and ebay “should” have your back if he does a chargeback. Let us know how it goes!
