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47 for me….I really pushed it this weekend because the next two weeks are going to be zero for me. We load the 2 26-ft Uhaul trucks on Thursday and then show set up begins. I have been hitting estate sales and the bins really hard since January and have much more vintage goodness for the show than usual in the spring so I am excited about the potential for great sales personally.
Hope everyone has a great week!
27 items for me this past week. Totally in show mode now but will try to still get some done this week.
So much sunshine here in Portland..it’s almost a sin. Almost. Which means I have been working on all kinds of things that require a lack of steady rain, like getting my storage ready for my upcoming show in a couple of weeks. ChristineR, I totally understand your feeling overwhelmed, as I have have been feeling that way too. Being pulled in a dozen different directions adds a lot of stress. So I am going to just list when I can and be okay with smaller numbers for a few weeks….and come back with a vengeance afterwards…..that’s the plan anyway. I listed 21 items last week.
Amatino you DO have a great husband! But I can relate to your initial reaction too! It’s a matter of finding a good balance between work and play. My focus tends to be way too heavily slanted towards work. I need to change that thought process and not freak out when I take an actual day off to do only fun stuff.
Hope everyone has a great week!
I did 25 new listings this week, five of which were this weekend after Amatino posted the challenge. My Spring vintage show is just a few weeks away so I am now in show prep mode, but hope to keep up the listing too. Nice sunny day today so did lots of storage reorganization out in the sunshine!! Here in Oregon we have to make our sunny days count! 🙂
Well, this is funny. I listed 16 items last week. I truly thought I was going to be at the back of the pack. Looks like most of us were in the same boat, with non-Ebay life taking front and center.
Amatino, I love the funky old 60s/70s Christmas ornaments and they do quite well for me. I sell them mostly at my show, but some of the higher value ones I stick online too. I like the felt-sequined ones made from the Bucilla kits, the old painted wood figures, the bent knee elves, oh I like it all. The more sparkly and chintzy the better. Some of them haven’t been “discovered” yet as a collectible so you can pick them up cheap.
Congrats Vintage Treasures on the terrific doll sale! I dream about a big sale like that.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Amatino….you have the BEST sense of humor. Truly. The BEST.
Libby…I can see that I am going to have to seriously up my game if I am going to give you a run for your money. You are a listing BEAST. Congrats!
I listed 57 items last week. What that means is that I give myself permission to go to the bins this week…wheeeeeee!
I did hit a picked over estate sale yesterday but still found two boxes full of vintage Christmas ornaments for a mere $4. I do so love my vintage Christmas finds.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Welcome Sam!
I hope you find our challenging as motivational as I do. It really helps, and the camaraderie is excellent as well.
I had a dream a couple of weeks ago that I happened upon a rummage sale and had found some great stuff that I was throwing into a box, digging digging digging, and then at some point I went to go pay and my two boxes had disappeared and I was frantically trying to find them. An anxiety dream, for sure.
On the other hand, I had a dream a couple of months ago that I went into the basement of an estate sale and there was the mother of all collections of Vintage Christmas, stuff I had only seen in magazines and books. There were cupboards of it, going back deep and I was grabbing as fast as I could and trying to figure out how to carry even more. There was probably fifty grand of vintage Christmas in that basement. I woke up smiling.
Hello everyone and Happy Monday…..
I actually accomplished 40 listings this week, and considering all the other stuff going on I am quite pleased. I also spent several hours researching a huge pile of backlogged vintage books, so now I know how to price them and where to sell them….Etsy, Ebay, or my vintage show in April.
Vintage Treasures, it’s so hard to resist the urge to go buy more! I will confess to a wee shopping trip to the bins on Thursday, but I was very good and only brought home a small box worth, instead of a whole shopping cart worth. That’s being prudent, for me. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great week!
Amazon feedback has become a joke. I had over 11000 sales last year on Amazon and got 139 feedbacks for the year. I have been selling on Amazon since 2008 and have lifetime feedback of 1179.
However, I don’t know your feelings about whether people use feedback in determining purchases on Ebay…but I know it doesn’t matter on Amazon. I have a competitor who’s positive feedback is 74%. Yikes! And yet they sell plenty, as they lowball price their products. People don’t care, they just want the lowest price.
I had 22 listings for last week.
Cray cray week….and this week looks like the same.
At least we didn’t get the Snow apocalypse they were predicting. People were standing in lines that snaked all over the grocery stores for an hour or more….because, hey, they only predicted it a few days ahead and why not panic a few hours before it was supposed to hit? I know one woman who waited TWO HOURS in line.
And the big joke is that the grocery stores were all running out of KALE. Seriously. Only in Portland. 🙂
I am fortunate that the bins are great in my area. However, when I have traveled they’ve been less great so I think it depends on where you are at and how many pickers go to each one and how much the surrounding community donates. I went to one in Southern Oregon last summer that was really bad….small with tons of people. I left without buying anything, which was a first for me. I also went to one in Sacramento on the same trip and ran into the same problem. I don’t buy clothing to resell unless its vintage and those two had mostly fast fashion clothing. So results may vary.
That’s an amazing number Libby, congrats! I did 36 listings this week.
Charlie and I did something really fun today. It was Superbowl Sunday so we decided to have our own Super BIN Sunday. We spent several hours each at three different bins in the area…about nine hours in total, plus driving from place to place and stopping to eat, twice. And man, did we score! He ended up with a bunch and so did I. I was most thrilled finding a bunch of vintage Christmas, including a couple of putz houses. I NEVER see these so today was my lucky day. It was exhausting but so much fun too. And his van was packed wall to wall!
Now it’s time to sort, clean, and list…or price for my shows.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Listed 51 items for the week….went like gangbusters early in the week then other things came along that needed attention…seems to happen a lot that way. Spent a great deal of time moving inventory from a storage unit into a rental garage this weekend, will save me $100 a month in storage and its only 7 minutes from my house, instead of 20 minutes. A good time to get it organized as well.
Hope everyone has a great week and I second Sharyn in saying hope you are better Amatino.
I listed 50 items this week. I was determined to do better than last week and I was inspired by y’all. So, confession time, I went to the bins yesterday AND today. A different outlet each day. There’s just such good picking right now. Found stuff to list, stuff for my next show in April, stuff for gifts and stuff for art projects. I’ve decided that when I get at least 40 or more listings done in a week I can reward myself with a bin binge. It’s working so far…..
Hope everyone has a great week…and Amatino hope you are feeling better!
