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I take photos on my iphone and I hot swap between 4×6 and square in the app as I take photos as needed. I try to take everything I can in square, but some things you just have to have the 4×6 to get the proper level of detail.
I find that doing an organization or improvement project re-energizes me. Something with a clear scope of work and defined completion point.
I disagree on the week of laziness being good for you. Newton’s 1st law of motion applies here. An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. Get up and do something – you’ll feel better!
In other news, the Governor declared the county I work in a “hot spot” by executive order. This is supposed to kick in additional restrictions on businesses. I have not heard from my boss what, if any, changes will take place from it. The likely thing is that I’ll be working 100% from home. We already have to wear masks 100% of the time at work. They may reduce the amount of workers that can be there at the same time. It’s looking to be an interesting week!
Items in Store 1574
Items Sold 42
Total Sales $1,284.00
COGS $70.00
Total Profit $1,214.00
Average profit $28.90
Average sales price $30.57
New Listings 99Another excellent week. Man if I would have know I was at 99 new listings I would have done one more to hit an even hundred. Lol!
Ebay really should capitalize with some advertisement right now to bring in more sellers. Amazon is really screwed up right now and their shipping quote times are laughably bad. Ebay is pretty much the only place in the world right now where you can get what you want and have it shipped quick. #ebayisopen #ebayhaswhatyouneedHere in WV, people filing NORMAL unemployment claims are running into a brick wall. Noone is getting processed – the whole system is bogged down. If they cant even handle standard claims right now then I have no hope for self employment claims.
Oh I’m not laid off – I work from home 3 or 4 days a week. Last week I only had to go into work on Wednesday. This week I’m at work today and Thursday.
Once my routine work is done I basically just keep my computer and phone near me to answer questions if they pop up. So I have alot of time to do other things.Items in Store 1517
Items Sold 47
Total Sales $1,358.00
COGS $138.00
Total Profit $1,220.00
Average profit $25.96
Average sales price $28.89
New Listings 80Well my store woke back up in a HUGE way this week. I believe 47 sales is my all time high for a week.
We’ve settled into a pattern at home. It is nice to have so much family time right now. Also knocking out a bunch of improvement projects at home.Every year I basically “survive” winter because I don’t like spending time in my inventory shed due to the darkness and cold – Unorganized chaos EVERYWHERE. Once Spring hits, I’m like a dragster shooting off the start line and I make ALOT of progress in a very short time in listing and organization. Now that I have all this extra time at home too, I’m SUPER excited to see the progress I’ll make this year.
This week I have some organization work I’d like to get done. I need a more organized shipping supply area and I need to rebuild some shelving in my storage shed. The original shelving I built is stout, but it isn’t big enough to hold 3 bins on each shelf. I’ve remodeled a few of them previously, and this week I want to finish off the biggest one. My goal over the next couple weeks is to have everything organized and optimized so I can basically start an assembly line of listing just one bin after another.
J&R, I hate to hear your story of having your air B&B shut down. I understand why things are happening the way they are in our world right now, but it is DEVASTATING to small businesses everywhere. So many businesses aren’t going to recover from this. It hits more close to home now that I’m a part of the small business community.
This is not going away any time soon I fear for your rentals. They’ll open you back up and shut you down again likely several times over the next year. It may be worthwhile to consider short term leasing of your properties. Surely you would be allowed to rent them out on say a 6 month lease.The local governments have shut all of our parks down because MORONS were not social distancing and they had increased vandalism.
Why should a rural county with only 6 cases stay in lockdown?
You open up a single county, people in other counties are going to flock there like flies on poop.
You really want that?They’re not wiping them out, they’re just not downgrading your rating for 2 months. Your rating is based on 12 months of data, so if you get a ton of defects you’ll be hosed in month 3 and for the forseeable future.
Oh Absolutely. I NEEDED to do this. In the process, I pulled out some new in box stuff that was in there that I am listing today. Several $200 items! One of them is a lego set I bought on clearance a few years ago. A rare occurence where procastinating in a death pile is benefical – now it is worth $200!
I have two unopened containers of clorox wipes. It is sooooooooo tempting to list them as auction, but ultimately it is not worth endangering my store.
Items in Store 1484
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $514.00
COGS $41.00
Total Profit $473.00
Average profit $23.65
Average sales price $25.70
New Listings 20So this weekend I did a BIG thing I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I emptied out my 14′ enclosed trailer, moved it, then built shelving throughout and put everything back in. I worked from 6:30 am until 10:30 pm. I am STILL sore and tired! Yes I’m ashamed to say I have a 14′ enclosed trailer that is full of unlisted inventory, but I’m working on it! Getting this job done was critical to convert this space to a useful area. Now I can begin to list it all and put it right back where it was as a controlled inventory.
I’ll be working from home for the foreseeable future so I’ll be getting alot of listing done. “Working from home” mostly means I’m at my computer and phone waiting for someone to send me a drawing to work on or someone to call and ask me a production question. There is ALOT of downtime. So I’m putting that time to use!
eBay make sense? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I recommend you create a dummy account and give your helper access to that account. That way it is always in helper mode. Photos will have to be downloaded to pc and uploaded in browser.
Last time I attempted to mess with user access, there was no rhyme or reason in how to switch between your own activity and going over to employee access. So if your helper actively uses their ebay account, they may have trouble switching over to work mode.
