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I always polish and buff with a horsehair brush, and then apply heel and edge dressing on dress shoes. Sandals or athletic shoes just get wiped down/washed off.
02/14/2017 at 2:37 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 297: Being Frugal vs Running A Business #12546Right now, vintage and antique books are selling for me. A lot of mine have been 1st editions, but they were all in really rough shape, (they’d been sitting in a barn for years and years). I bought about 100 Victorian-era books for $5, and have sold 30 so far, (and then lugged the unsellable ones to the used book store, and got $13 back for them, ha ha!).
It’s a problem with any business. At some point, a customer or business partner is going to screw you over. It happens in every industry. I’ve experienced it in every job I’ve had, from fast-food to the military, and it’s impossible to bullet-proof yourself from it. All you can do is try to reduce your risk, and not make yourself crazy fretting over it.
Ebaymom, I blocked someone last night because they were being a little too “intense” about a $20 needlepoint kit, and then asked “Does it have any musty or other smells?”. I checked their feedback history, and they had left many for other buyers, saying “This item arrived with xyz flaw, but seller gave me an immediate discount/refund”. Nope, not playing that game with you, lady! Blocked! She’s messaged me twice since then to demand an explanation for why I blocked her. Which proves it was the right decision to block her!
Then today, I get another “does it smell?” question on a different item. Ugh.
02/14/2017 at 1:57 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 297: Being Frugal vs Running A Business #12481Week of Feb 5 – 11
* Total Items in Store: 331
* Items Sold: 33
* Cost of Items Sold: about $49
* Total Sales: $523.32
* Highest Price Sold: $70 (pair of vintage paint-by-numbers)
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: 0
* Number of items listed this week: ?This was a good week for me. COGS is less than 10% of gross. Lots of book sales. My store numbers are not increasing because I am just barely keeping up with listing. Since books are selling, I’m listing those as fast as I can, and they are selling just as fast as I can get them up. I am still experimenting with auctions, since I have the free listings. I don’t have a way to run a true experiment, but gut feeling is, unless you have a super rare item that is in high demand, auctions are really only useful for quickly clearing out old merchandise. I am basically using the free auction listings as a “clearance section”.
Just sew it back on, and in the description say something like “A button popped off, but I sewed it back on”, and show a picture of the repair.
Here’s a you tube video. I haven’t watched the whole thing.
I like this suggestion. My husband is pretty handy and likes fixing things. I am going to check out what is available at the mom-and-pop appliance store. I definitely don’t want another HE washer, and I don’t want something with an electronics panel that can go bad.
My Samsung has some other problems with it, so we’re not even going to bother with the repair that is being offered. It was in researching the problems that I discovered it was part of the recall. :/ By the time I fix the other stuff that is wrong, I’m over half way to a new machine. :/
02/10/2017 at 4:53 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 296: Are You Keeping Up With Your Inventory System? #12261I don’t guess you’d be willing to share your store name? 🙂 I’d love to see the stuff you sell. 🙂
I try to use all the slots, but sometimes an item is simple to photograph, and doesn’t need all 12 to describe it.
One of my son’s video games does that, too! A moment of “Yay!” followed by “Oh”. 🙂
Almasty, dont forget you can always call your cc company to protest the charge. It is actually an easy process for the consumer. I have had to do it twice, once for shirts bought off Amazon that never shipped, and once for a sofa, of all things, (delivery co refused to deliver and then tried to charge me for storage and the original delivery). Paypal doesnt have a say in whether a chargeback is approved. It is between you and your cc company. So if you are really unhappy with the scanner, you can aways go that route.
Sorry ebay didnt find in your favor. :/
I am doing auctions to move some old, low priced inventory. Most of the stuff, (I’d say about 90%) sells for the opening bid. The other 10% will get a few competing bids, and sell for more than what I expected.
The problem with auctions for clothes, (in my opinion), is that you are hoping that at least one person will show up on ebay in that 7 day period, needing exactly that size, color, and style of shirt, yet are willing to wait for the auction to end in a few days. It is a pretty narrow window.
I think that most people that buy from auctions are either bargain hunters, or collectors of very specific, unusual things. And people that are buying regular clothes, (not rare, vintage, or couture clothing), just want some blue pants now, and don’t want to gamble on being snipped at the last minute, forcing them to start their search all over.
02/06/2017 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 296: Are You Keeping Up With Your Inventory System? #11938So, I had a return opened last week, and then got it closed, because the buyer never uploaded tracking to show they shipped it back, even after I sent her a label, (the one she snottily requested).
Guess what shows up in the mail today? Yeah. The returned item. She never printed my label, and she never bothered to print one through the ebay return system. She paid at the post office counter for a new one. Never uploaded any tracking to ebay or Paypal, never contacted me via ebay or email to say “I sent this back”.
What the heck?
02/06/2017 at 7:23 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 296: Are You Keeping Up With Your Inventory System? #11934Jinedo58, you just solved a riddle for me. When we lived in an apartment complex, there were several families that had garages with shelving systems, FULL of totes and boxes. I blew them off as crazy hoarders, but now I wonder if they were ebay sellers! 🙂
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