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05/13/2017 at 1:39 am in reply to: Sold a sweater to Saturday Night Live for this weekend's show! #17944
Very exciting! I hope we can see it on tv!
I wrote the buyer with all of what I posted above, (talk to neighbors, etc). She didn’t like the response, and she immediately escalated the case. Ebay refunded her money, but it did *not* come out of my account. I was not found at fault at all.
I’m glad I didn’t have to refund her or get stuck with a defect, but I was a little surprised that ebay refunded her so rapidly, and didn’t ask for her to try to trace the package. *shrug*
Yes, the buyer has to start a case. I have not had a GSP item go missing, but have had one arrive damaged. The buyer must open a case to get the ball rolling for a refund. When you have the opportunity to provide a comment/response, say that it is a GSP item that tracking shows as “delivered” to the reshipping center in Kentucky, and as a GSP item, you and the buyer are both eligible for protection under the program.
From what I remember, the refund will come to the buyer in 2 parts: cost of the item plus domestic shipping, and then a second refund for the international shipping portion.
total Items in store: 415
Items sold: 20
Cost of items sold: $51
Total Sales: $358
Highest price sold: $70 (vintage Betty Crocker cookbook)Since I got back from Chicago last week, we’ve all fallen sick with something for 2 weeks! Food poisoning, ear infections, laryngitis, fevers, trips to urgent care. I’m so over this, and really ready for everyone to start feeling healthy again. I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about calling out sick for work or school, (we homeschool, too). I don’t miss that stress at all.
I don’t have an outside job, but homeschooling feels like a full time job sometimes. It’s not just the bookwork that takes up time. The lessons are the easy part! It’s making sure your kid gets enough time to hang out with other kids. I have an only child, so if I want him to have friends, (and I do), I need to get us out of the house several times a week. I am lucky, because my boy is a pretty mellow, bookish little dude, not rowdy and extroverted, and is happiest with low key activities and meetups.
I dragged myself out to an estate sale on Sunday, and picked up some items that have already sold. Someone made me an offer on a vintage Gucci purse within hours of listing it. I was tired, and decided to wait until morning to respond. They went ahead and purchased at full price, so I am extra glad I waited to respond. The purse sold for enough to cover the furniture I bought at the sale for our house.
In the negative column, I listed some vintage MacWorld magazines, but flubbed the title on it. They sold right away, and I’m waiting to hear back from the buyer to see if they still want the magazines, (title says 12 copies, listing shows 4 copies). This is what happens when you Nyquil and Ebay!
04/27/2017 at 1:04 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 307: Getting Ready to Sell While Traveling #17163Late posting numbers, because I was out of town over the weekend. I got in on Monday, only to get a nasty case of food poisoning, (thanks a lot, Whataburger). COGS is higher this week than usual. I spent $65 on the Dutch oven at an estate sale, but made almost $100 off it. I was a little surprised that I had as good a week as I did, since I was gone for 3 days of it. The current week hasn’t been so great, but maybe that is for the best, since we’re all still feeling a little green after the Whataburger incident. *shudder*
Store Week 4/16/17 – 4/22/17
Total items in store: 415
Items sold: 16
Cost of items sold: $104.74
Total sales: $450.86
Highest price sold: $154.99 (Le Creuset Cast Iron Dutch Oven)
Money spent on new inventory this week: 004/19/2017 at 12:34 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 306: We Love Flea Markets and Craigslist #16760April 9-15 2017
• Total Items in Store: 428
• Items Sold: 9
• Total Sales $302
• Highest Price $175 (used World of Warcraft Collectors Edition set)
• Returns: 1 (a ceramic figurine broken in the mail, so I refunded and submitted an insurance claim via USPS)
• Cost of Items Sold: about $10. I have no idea what we paid for the WoW set 10 years ago. Probably not $175, though.Slow week. Lots of rain here, too. We had to get the roofer out to do some spot repairs after a nasty storm blew through here, so I’ve been dealing with that and not listing much. I leave town for Chicago on Thursday. While I am there, I’m hoping to hit up some of the thrifts in my old neighborhood in the suburbs.
I had a really great 1st quarter of the year, but April has started with a whimper. It always does, though. The first of the month means people paying rent and mortgages. Now it’s tax time. Sales will probably continue to slow as the weather warms in the US. Once the kids go back to school, sales will start to increase again, build up to the holiday season. And then drop off again in April around tax time.
Round and round we go…
04/11/2017 at 1:15 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16401Do you mean they did Buyer’s Choice over every item in every box? Or buyer’s choice as in “High bidder gets first pick of the box they want”?
My auction house does the latter, which is fine with me. I’d rather take the things I want, then be stuck with a table pile of b.s. that I don’t want to deal with.
04/11/2017 at 12:57 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16400The internet and smartphones are amazing tools, but it doesn’t change the fact that a college education was inexpensive and often unnecessary for the Boomer generation to secure a good paying, white collar job with opportunity for advancement.
04/10/2017 at 12:49 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 305: The Biggest Transfer of Wealth in Human History #16335Raise the price even more! Sell them for $50 each!
In the past, I rolled over my retirement funds into an IRA. I also had concerns about my previous employer being able to fulfill a pension so many decades out, (single owner veterinary practice). I also wanted to be in control of the money. To me, a pension still has the implication of dependence on the employer.
You’ll need to look at the tax rules for taking the lump sum now. I *think*, (and do not quote me on this, please do consult with people in the know!), that if you take the payment now, you have so many days to put it into another retirement vehicle, otherwise you have to pay taxes and an early distribution penalty.
04/05/2017 at 10:48 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #16094I don’t know if you can sell the coupon, but you can definitely sell the supplies you buy with the coupon. I see people selling the supplies all the time.
04/04/2017 at 5:55 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15956Many people find that the premiums they would pay for Obamacare are higher than the penalty. If money is tight, do you spend money on something you may not need, or do you spend it first on the things you definitely need?
Maybe she didn’t realize she was eligible for Medicaid?
Maybe she didn’t meet some criteria that would allow her to sign up. I have a friend that is ineligible for Medicaid because Texas didn’t expand coverage. She can’t work, and is on the transplant list for a liver. The Obamacare premiums are a struggle for her to meet, and she is uninsurable without Obamacare. She’s pretty much exhausted every government and charitable program, asking for advice on what to do in her situation, and they basically just shrug. It’s not an issue of “Your illness is one that we cannot fix, and you need to accept it”. It is “We can help you, but it will cost about $250,000”. It’s a total catch 22 -she need a job to get insurance to pay for the problem that is keeping her from working, except she can’t work until the problem is solved, so all she needs is some insurance, which she can’t get because she’s too sick to work.
This is the part where most people just shrug and say “How is any of that my fault, problem, or responsibility to fix?” I guess it’s not anyone’s fault or problem or responsibility, but it’s also more than a little callous to shrug it off, because without insurance, she’ll definitely die. We have to decide whether our society is going to treat medical care as any other consumer service where you have to pay to play, or if it is going to be a right of every citizen. Until we figure that part out, health care will always be a contentious mess in this country.
And if it *is* going to be like any other consumer service, then you better be prepared to provide a detailed, itemized bill for services rendered. I can’t think of any other industry where you can provide a vague bill and insist you shouldn’t have to explain what it’s for, because it’s too hard, and the consumer wouldn’t understand it anyway. Medical records and coding is computerized. There’s no reason why a detailed, itemized invoice can’t be provided. It’s not that hard, (I used to write invoicing software for the USAF and for the manufacturing industry back in the day, before I became a veterinary tech).
Sorry to hijack your thread, Jay and Ryanne. I’ll step off my soapbox now.
You can use the word “Indian” or “Native American” in the title. You’ll get a little warning when you list, about indigenous made items and putting it in the correct category, etc. As long as you put it in a clothing category and don’t claim it is native made, you are good.
04/04/2017 at 2:42 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #15903She may not have been able to afford COBRA. It’s often incredibly expensive.
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