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PS – I bought one of those small, cheap light boxes that you mentioned in a post somewhere maybe a year ago. I found that I can take photos on top of the dining room table without any special lighting. I use it for jewelry and very small items.
I had a light week as well with 9. I had too many non-eBay related stuff going on. I have eBay and a part time job, but then there’s the family thing.
My total for the death piles is 3. I did start working on the one I pulled from the garage, but didn’t get that far.
@Amatino – Your setup is incredible! Just having something outside the house is very cool, but then your space is super nice and large. I know you’ve mentioned your perfectionism/OCD when it comes to photography, but I found the diffuser to be unhelpful because I want as much light as possible. I stopped using the third light that goes in front of the item because I kept tripping over it and having to replace the broken bulb. Those bulbs aren’t cheap. I’m sure you can figure it out, though.Wow, that is much better than I thought. Perhaps I should go back and polish mine (and then retake photos). I have a set of five.
I’d like to piggyback off this post for a Worthpoint price. I have a set of shot glasses that have the same markings as the first listing and the same design as the second listing.
Can I get the price and date for each?
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lot-of-2-silver-liqueur-shot-glass-from-peru-jvg
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/old-peru-ss-shot-glass-w-beautiful-senorita
(The seller describes the design as a lady passing by a window, but it looks like a garbage can or R2D2 to me.)
Thanks!
Seems like I’m the only one posting my sales here. Come on folks! My stuff isn’t all that interesting. We need more here!!!
I wouldn’t have known what this item was except that the original owner had a sticker “Amish bed warmer” on it. It was bought with a bunch of other stuff, so cost about $1 and sold for best offer of $20.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184184839192
One of my commission sales; a very nice mid-century metal bud vase, artist made. Sold for $56.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184020304211
This was mentioned a month or two ago, but you can sell an old, unused calendar by saying when it will repeat again. This Tutankhamun calendar put out by the MET in 1977 will repeat next year. Not a huge sale; just interesting. Paid maybe $0.50, sold for $10.67 on sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184542229486
Set of antique Tiffany plates, in stained condition, sold for best offer of $45. Bought at an auction about two years ago for around $4 as part of a larger purchase.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184156542563
Just a few hours after I listed three Realistic CB radios, a buyer asked whether I would take $45 for all three. I said that it was too soon for negotiation, and he should contact me in about a month. Less than two weeks later, all three sold to a different buyer at full price (about $63 total). The original buyer sent me a congratulations message, so he was still following them. They were purchased with other vintage electronics, and cost less than $1 each. Here’s the listing for one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184618702014
Another commission sale; a Sajen brooch in the shape of a frog. This family friend had a huge collection of these Sajen pins, all in sterling with gems; kind of an expensive hobby. This was probably the most expensive one I’ve sold to date for $139.
I’ve never had such a thing happen. You might want to call up customer service on this one.
@Amatino –
I am totally jealous that you have a separate building just for eBay. I remember all the photos you posted during the construction and after final completion.
I want to know if you have a background for your items, or do you just photograph against the wood surface?
I noticed this message in my feedback page today “You can find the item’s listing details next to each feedback you’ve received. Details for private listings or items you purchased are hidden from visitors to your Feedback profile.”. Does this make sense? If I go to some other buyer’s feedback, I can see the feedback he left for others. I think buyers can see mine. Am I misinterpreting it incorrectly?
I used Gixen for the first time this week to make sure that I would win some matching pieces to my dish set. Not that it was going to be a popular item or that I really needed to snipe it, but I didn’t want to have to worry about timing or calling attention by putting in an earlier bid. I was just the second bidder with a bid $0.50 above the first.
Week of Jan 17 – 23
Total Items in Store: 1445 eBay, 27 Etsy
Items Sold: 27 eBay
Cost of Items Sold: $23 + $94 Commission
Total Sales: $623.67 eBay
Highest Price Sold: $139 Sajen sterling frog pin (on commission)
Average price: $23.10
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 19This was a pretty good week for me, but many of my higher sales were commissions.
19 listings, all ties
I brought another item up with those ties, so I’m holding off my celebration of completing another death pile at this point.
Yes, I agree. When I had a summer job during college (let’s just say last century), the company made a bunch of changes during the two months or so I was there. Someone told me that working for a company that pushed down lots of changes was a good thing because that meant they were keeping up with the industry. I suppose the same thing here with eBay, I just wish their changes didn’t come with so many glitches 🙂
The wait for customer service was reduced drastically in the afternoon, so I called. The customer service rep helped me find an alternative method to find “Send Refund” in the item’s specific order details page, and I was able to refund the buyer. However, I do have a glitch on the general orders page in Seller Hub.
I thought that reply to feedback has been around for awhile? Maybe they made it easier to do.
Steve, you made a comment a few weeks about my wanting to actually park my car in the garage. Well, here I am, living large.
I paid way too much for these empty champagne bottle and ice bucket sets at $20 a set, but I thought that I would get about $60 each. This was way back in the first year of eBay selling, so that is my excuse. They sold for $59 total.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184022584331
This manual push drill sold for $23, paid about $1. I always look for good deals in tools as they sell very well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184319101770
Not sure what is so exciting about these bulbs, but they were given to me by one of my parents’ downsizing friends. He was quite the light bulb hoarder with all the ones he has given me. The buyer bought two sets of two, so four total light bulbs, for $52.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184347922203
Another set of tools, just rusty hooks. I had to do a little bit of research to find that they are used for moving hay. Paid about $1, sold for $33.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184554099456
In the same lot as the hay hooks came this set of brushes for a vintage floor cleaner. I wonder if their system still works or if they bought them because they fit something newer? Anyway, sold for $24.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184601307370
I bought the contents of a bathroom linen closet. I brought everything home and was reaching into a box when I gouged my finger on this “safety” razor. Good thing it sold for $50 so I don’t feel so bad. I did not pay much for the whole lot, so maybe $1.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184601345312
This was a death pile teapot set that sat for about two years before being listing. The little wooden caps on the lids were unattached, and I kept pushing off the repair. Late last year, I filled the hole with wood filler, but I found that I couldn’t just screw them in. I need to drill. Sometimes when I just can’t get around to doing something, I enlist the help of my husband. Paid maybe $2, sold for $22 the next day.
