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Here is one type of curtain that has rod pockets at both ends, but yours don’t look long enough to use on french doors like these
I love me a good research puzzle! But this one is super difficult.
To me it looks like Trish or Trista C Kinly. But there doesn’t seem to be any such person.
I have been noticing this for quite a long time. Part of it has to do with the fact that it’s not just searching titles – it’s also searching item specifics and category name. Searching for vests is annoying b/c it always brings up all coats and jackets too, b/c they are in the same category, which has the word “vests” in it. Checking the “vest” item specific on the left side of the screen helps, of course. For your issue you can check the appropriate Brand. But, there have been times where I’ve searched for something and gotten results where I couldn’t find any of the search terms in the title or item specifics or anywhere.
I use GoDaddy to track inventory by creating an Inventory category under Non-Business Expenses. That way I don’t have to use a separate spreadsheet, and when something sells, I just change the category of the item to COGS. By having Inventory as a non-business expense, the unsold inventory doesn’t get counted in the GDBK tax summary (which is the desired behavior).
Curious Curator – Just a heads up. When you have the etsy link for a sold item like you do here, you don’t need to look it up on Worthpoint to find out the selling price. You can look it up by yourself, for free, on flippertools.com.
I’m fairly certain it’s vintage due being made in Japan. Plus it has a mid century-to- 70’s style IMO.
I’ve never seen anything quite like it. First guess that comes to mind is a pen/pencil holder, depending on the size.
I want eBay/Amazon/whoever to just remove bad sellers. Otherwise I want to assume whoever I buy from will ship and do what they say they’ll do.
Makes sense – I like that. Sign me up! 🙂
I do read the reviews on Amazon, and find many of them to be quite helpful. But they are almost all product reviews, not reviews of the seller. When, on rare occasion, I buy a merchant-fulfilled item on Amazon, there’s usually a list of potential sellers, each with their seller rating, and I try to make sure to pick someone with a >90% positive rating. And I suppose it’s a little bit annoying to try to figure out how low of a rating is too low.
Yes, they just made it a LOT easier to do. Before, you had to know the URL of a special page. Now you can reply from within the regular feedback page.
I don’t plan to reply to positive feedback – at least not usually. I will continue to reply to negative feedback that isn’t going to be removed. Once in a blue moon, I get moved to say “I’m so glad you like it!” in response to someone gushing about an item that they love. This will make the process much quicker and easier.
I have the same question, but for a different reason. I’m just wondering how much I paid for shipping for a recent return of a large item that was my fault. But I couldn’t find the amount anywhere – makes me wonder if maybe ebay didn’t charge me? It used to be that as soon as ebay’s system saw that the returned item had been delivered, the shipping charge would appear as a line item in the “account activity” area where you used to see invoices. But I don’t see anything there. Do you see anything there in your account?
Recently I’ve been binging on Commonwealth Picker (mostly NOT clothing). I’m focusing mostly on his most recent videos b/c they include sold comps (or his actual sold price) on the items he’s buying (and you can see how much he pays for items as he picks). He buys a lot of low dollar items, though. He sells on ebay and in antique booths, which is an interesting model.
One of my favorites is Heather from the Paper Castle, also not clothing. She’s not doing videos right now, but in her past videos you can see how she gets stuff really cheap at rummage sales. The best videos are the ones where it’s taken her a long time to get the haul video posted, so she’s added in info on how much she sold the items for. Of course it’s hard to know which video is one of those and which isn’t from just looking at the list.
Common Tags is good for clothing. She’s up front about her COGS averaging out to $5/item (mostly GW Bins, some regular GW), and then when you see her sold videos you’ll know exactly how much she made on each item. She does a lot of haul videos which I don’t really like too much b/c I like to know sale price. She talks about how in her model (driving several hours to LA to thrift), she ends up picking up and selling a lot of $15-25 items, b/c the huge time/gas outlay per trip means she needs to pick up a certain volume of items per trip. But she also has plenty of $50+ items – I watch in order to learn what those are. I vaguely remember some videos a long while ago about her storage system/process.
Suzanne Wells has really systematic sold videos where she shows COGS, sale price, and at the end she shares a screenshot of her spreadsheet so you can see aggregate numbers. But she’s pretty much all clothing – almost none of her items are what you or I would call interesting.
Lavender Clothesline is pretty honest and up front, but I don’t like haul-only videos in general, and I don’t remember any recent what sold videos from her. She’s happy to hold items for a long time before they sell for a good price – I wouldn’t be surprised if she learned that from SL. Here’s her house tour video which explains a lot of her process (in case you’re interested in that sort of thing – LOL!) – the last part is a tour of her extensive storage.
I also watch the sold videos of The Poetry of Nice, as well as Hustle at Home Mom who sells mostly clothing, but also an enormous lot of car parts she purchased a few years back. This year she’s getting into courses and coaching which turns me off a bit, but in general she’s very honest and open. In terms of personality, I like her the best.
Here’s a 2020 numbers video from HHM, where she’s very open not just about ebay income, but also youtube and affiliate income, as well as costs, etc.
Here’s a process video from her that I haven’t watched myself
