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I would be wary of doing that. I had a t-shirt that was not branded and I listed it with “Minecraft” in the title and got a VeRO mark and the listing removed in 24 hours. EBay has some guides (and a brief series of questions) related to VeRO and recommends not using brand names as a comparison. I would avoid using Stanley in the title. I would just state that it is a USSR made brace/drill and then in the description indicate it is the same style as a common US manufacture’s model. If you know the patent # of the stanley model, you could probably also add that and have the people look it up.
01/17/2017 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Bottom Line – What are you truly making on that sale or HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? #10532I figure I can do each shirt with a combined total of 15 minutes time investment so $10 per shirt is about a $40 per hour income. So it is just a way I evaluate if something is worth my time.
My dog comes with me when I am packaging items up. Sometimes she steps on the paper I am trying to use as a wrapping which then has toenail holes. Or she thinks that me sitting on the floor means snuggle time and her hair gets into the tape. She has longer hair so it is pretty much a waste of tape. But I love her and she just likes to hang out with me.
Update: Got twenty shirts washed (except for the NWT) and photographed. Also managed to get 10 listed between last night and this morning since I had an extra hour at home this morning due to a school delay for weather. Feels good to make some progress on the piles, even if I just added to it a little. I have my next 10 shirts stacked next to my computer ready to go and the 10 drafts started. This set will push me up over 100 listings in that store. I think I’m going to pick out three items that interest me the most to put with two items I already have photographed for the main store.
01/17/2017 at 7:21 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10507That looks great!
01/17/2017 at 7:17 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10506Thanks!
01/16/2017 at 3:23 pm in reply to: Bottom Line – What are you truly making on that sale or HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? #10443I did this for my t-shirt store. It is a basic store, and I get most of my shirts for $.50-$1. In order to make $10 after fees, shipping, and COGS, I need to average I think $15.25 per shirt. Not all shirts command a $15.25 price, but I try to keep that average if I can. And I agree with Retro Treasures, this is where excel excels.
Posting here for transparency….went to goodwill and got 10 t-shirts for my t-shirt store. I only had a few unlisted t-shirts and since it is its own store, I decided getting a few wouldn’t be so bad. I will say that I spent $5 for the 10 shirts, already logged them into my inventory spread sheet, and have them in the wash right now. I have to go do some cleaning up in the new house to get ready for more tile work, but I have a bit of extra time today for item prep and photographing. I will get everything I have for the shirt store photographed today and have it ready to list as I get some time this week. My goal is 20 new shirt listings this week and 5 new listings for my main store.
01/16/2017 at 12:18 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10420@Ryanne – Thanks! Yep, we are doing most of the finish work for ourselves. It is a nice way to be invested in your dream home.
@Brian – The floors in the photos are 1×10 pine planks that are face nailed (by hand) with cut nails for that extra rustic feel. The walls are a mix of 12×8 solid pine logs (all first floor exterior walls) and then a 1×8 T&G pine for the interior walls. The wood look tile we are using in the wet areas for the floors….master bath and mudroom. There is some drywall in the house, but we didn’t skimp on the wood products since we are building a log home.
01/16/2017 at 8:54 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10407Going to do an abbreviated sales report since I only sold 1 item this week:
Items in stores (main/t-shirt/postcard): 168/86/11
Total Sales: $16.99 + shipping on a pair of shoes in the main store. COGS was maybe $3.
Items listed: 0/0/0
New inventory purchases – $0
Returns – NoneStill going hard on the house and my week nights were consumed by tile and the weekend was focused on finishing off the pine floor on the main floor. We got it all sanded and the first two coats of polyurethane applied. Cabinets come in this week! Here is a photo of that work for those who enjoy construction: Floors In Progress. We are getting closer to the end of this so I see the light at the end of the tunnel. After this I just need to make sure I funnel the same energy into listing on eBay.
I’m off work today and I can’t do much in the house so I plan on getting a few items photographed and posted today. I may stop by the goodwill for t-shirts since I am running low on those to list and keep my store active, but today is their $0.49 tag day so I won’t be putting out too much money. I can get them washed, into inventory, and photographed today so I have them ready for listing through the week.
Okay, time to get to it!
Ryanne, that is our water manifold. It is like an electrical panel for water lines. Each water line gets its own port that can be turned on and off without turning off all the water. All of our water pipes are the pex pipes which are pretty much industry standard. I think Jay said you guys were getting ready for plumbing in the reno. Are they running pex? It is much more forgiving, can be bent (for the most part), and is cheaper than copper pipes. This is our third build that has used it. The first build was in 2006. The copper pipe coming into the manifold is about the only copper we have and that is the hot water line coming from the water heater.
Honestly, I have a bin habit. I fill one up and just buy more. I have 4 of the black and yellow ones empty on the front porch. I figure it will be like Christmas when I get back to listing! I have a few things around the house that will be on Craigslist in the Spring.
Were you able to get the last two items listed before everyone came home? Mine “pile” was just like yours until Christmas when I needed the space.
Went down to the new basement last night to take a picture of my death “piles”. This is actually a mix of listed and unlisted, but the majority is unlisted and donation items that need to get cleared out. All the brown boxes in the back are for a favor I’m doing for some family. My husband’s uncle passed away last year and had a massive model truck collection and this is a small number of them that I agreed to sell and the proceeds will go to build a walking trail in his community. Since most of this is stuff I WANT to list, I’m not sure it qualifies as “Death Pile”, but I just don’t have the time to list at this point……
I have other random unlisted items in various locations around the house that I just haven’t taken the time to pack up in the boxes. I had to get most of it “organized” and moved over when my parents came for Christmas since it was covering the room they stay in.

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I’m assuming you have a store subscription with 100+ listings. If so, take advantage of your quarterly coupon and get some of the ebay boxes. I can usually get 50 boxes for $30 which comes down to $5 after the coupon. I started out buying some boxes, but now I get the eBay branded boxes and polymailers and they usually last me the full quarter since I have lower volume of sales. I also have neighbors who give me boxes they get from Amazon shipments and other deliveries. They also save the air bubbles and packing peanuts for me.
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