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Hello Everyone,
Sharyn, so very sorry to hear about your family friend. Sending you a hug.
50, 39, 42 listings? Y’all are going to give me a run for my money this year, I can see that! I only did 10 listings this week but I was in Atlanta for most of the week. Funny side note, there’s always a “hot” animal or creature of the year…this year it’s the sloth. It was everywhere, even Christmas ornaments. And Llamas are up and coming. Saw lots of gorgeous things and displays and came back inspired and ready to have a fantastic creative very productive year.
There’s also always some very odd things at market. The real head-scratcher this year was a furniture line called Alcatraz..that’s right….PRISON-INSPIRED FURNITURE. Can you imagine Joanna Gaines incorporating the line into her look? Ha!
Libby, welcome to the group! Glad to have you on board and I am thanking you in advance for the competition…it spurs me on. 🙂
Hope everyone has a great week.
Happy New Year!
I posted 25 listings and won’t do many this week as I leave for Atlanta on Wednesday and will be gone through Sunday. I listed an average of 17 items a week in 2018 and I think my more reasonable goal this year is to average 25 items listed, a 50% increase. Much easier to hit than the 50 I was previously aiming for. The problem is that I had weeks where I wasn’t able to list at all, then the next week I would have had to list 100 just to catch up. So I am good with 25 this year.
Welcome back Amatino!
I posted 15 listings last week. Looking forward to doing even better overall in 2019!
Thanks everyone for being part of this challenge and being such an inspiration. Special thanks to you Amatino for all you do and hope you are having a blast on your trip.
Wishing all of you a Happy New Year!
Thank you everyone for your kind words about my dad. The cancer is terminal but we are hoping the surgery bought him another 6 months to a year. He’s recovering well, very strong, and in great spirits. It’s the best we could hope for. We are just happy to have whatever time we have left with him.
I am sorry for posting so late recently. I promise to post on time from here on out. I did 3 listings the week before Christmas and will post my listing numbers for this week tomorrow night. Sharyn you did so well! Congrats on the win, but do know I am gunning for you next year!!! (grin)
I hope that everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.
I have been very inspired by all of you and already am planning how to make 2019 even better. My goal is to astonish myself with all the listing I get done!
Cheers!
Lacy
Sorry for being so quiet the last two weeks. My dad has cancer and had emergency surgery the weekend before last. Scary stuff and I have been spending every spare moment at the hospital. I did manage to get 14 listings the week before last and 2 listings last week. Don’t worry about doing any updating.
Amatino, I hope you have the most amazing trip. I have been wanting to write to you about it! You are going to be there a nice healthy chunk of time. The first time I went it was 2.5 weeks and it was all the more amazing for it. I hope you do get a chance to make it to Oxford, and if you do, try to make it to the Eagle and the Child pub, the hang-out of Tolkien and CS Lewis. Apparently Tolkien would bring drafts of the Hobbit and read tidbits of it out loud! Can you imagine what a thrill that would have been? A pint (or two) is great fun there. Also, Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill is just a short bus ride from Oxford or you could drive there as well. He’s a major hero of mine and the palace is magnificent, as well as the vast park grounds that surround the palace. Absolutely stunning. Have a wonderful time!
I hope everyone is doing well!
Hi Ladies!
I listed 11 items last week. Cyber Monday and the next few days weren’t as strong for me this year as they were last year but I have a new lowballing competitor in one of my categories which made a big difference, so I am going to have to readjust my strategy. I did have a really big weekend and have been shipping like mad…up to 2am last night and at least midnight tonight. It’s about 80% Amazon, 12% Ebay, and the rest split between my two Etsy shops.
Amatino, I am so excited for you and your trip to the UK. England is my most favorite place in the world. Care to share any details? How long will you be there?
Good luck everyone this week….may the sales be with you!
I listed 8 items this week. Not spectacular, but certainly better than the zero I was doing last year at this time. It’s cyber Monday and my Amazon sales are about to go through the roof, so we’ll see if I have time this week to do more listing. I have 43 sales to pack up and ship out today and that number is going to at least double each day this week historically.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Gosh, where to begin! Sharyn, you are doing amazing with your listings…I am very impressed. Congrats on getting so much done again, and thanks for the heads up on polishing silver. It always ends up low on the list for me for just that reason. I listed 12 items last week, but for me that’s good. Last year I don’t think I listed 12 items in the last quarter of the year so I certainly am doing much better this year, in part because of this challenge, and for that I am grateful.
Amatino, so much fun to see the video! Thanks for sharing! I loved all the costumes, especially the big wings…so spectacular. And with all those sewing machines to deal with, no wonder you were super busy.
I had a really fun time at the Plucky Maiden Holiday Fest and sold a lot of vintage Christmas. Still plugging away at shipping to Amazon warehouses. The clock is ticking on getting my merchandise in before the mad rush truly begins so I have been staying up REALLY late, and getting caught up on Scavenger Life podcasts as I work away.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Sharyn you are a rock star! Congrats on all the listings! I did 11 listings this week and probably will only be a handful each week until the end of the year. Too crazy, just like everyone here.
I have a Christmas booth show this weekend, and am burning the candle at both ends trying to get several thousand items into Amazon FBA for cyber Monday. UPS loves me these days!
Hope everyone has a great week!
I listed 19 items last week and I am actually pretty happy about it since I was out of town for a wedding for part of the week.
I have really enjoyed this challenge and it certainly has inspired me to list more than I would otherwise. I hope you do the “Just List” challenge next year Amatino and keep the momentum going. Count me in!
I also have truly enjoyed hearing from all of you each week and what is going on in your life. Big thanks to you Amatino for keeping track and inspiring the rest of us. End the challenge whenever best works for you and your upcoming travels.
Sharyn, I didn’t think to even piece out typewriter parts, so thanks for the idea. I’ve seen where people sell the typewriter keys for art projects and jewelry but I hadn’t thought about the rest of it.
Vintage Treasures, I am so sorry to hear about your Ebay woes. Maybe step away for the holiday season and start out fresh next year?
I had lofty goals this year of listing 50 items a week and working up to 75 a week. I fell far short but I am trying not to beat myself up over it. Life does get in the way and I do know that I have been listing far more this year than ever before and also know that I can do even better next year. Every one of us in the challenge has a lot going on in their lives and I am proud of all of us for our hard work this year.
Greetings fellow elves,
Working on the bookkeeping for the show and winding down peripheral stuff but I did manage to list 3 items. This week it’s all about 2 things…listing and shipping to Amazon FBA.
Congrats on the listing Vintage Treasures. I am sorry you aren’t doing well on Etsy. I’ve actually had great luck on there with my 2 shops. Both are up over 100% from last year. It helped that I really got a great deal more listed on there this year versus last. I don’t ever expect them to reach the volume I have on Ebay but they are nice little specialized niches, where I can get more money for certain items than I could on Ebay. I do quite well with books, for example and they are quite easy to list and go for decent money.
Thanks ChristineR. We always get a few dealers on our opening night because there are some good picking prices on certain things. I have one vendor who only shops at the bins and her prices are ridiculously cheap because she doesn’t want to take any of it home. Her things usually fly out the first day. Like you, I do like to go to other shows…it’s fun and you can learn a lot about going prices and trends. I always like to watch what people are carrying out the door to see the hottest items.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Thanks! I agree…he did a wonderful job. I tried not to think about all the breakables while he was flying the drone around…and trying to stay out of camera range. We have around 40 vendors each show. Two thirds are vintage dealers and the rest crafters and local food. I bring a lot of vintage myself but I also bring new retail that has a vintage vibe, and some hand-crafted items too. Several thousand people attend the show and I personally sold over a thousand items in the six days Brookhaven was open.
It’s a lot of work but very rewarding too. It’s been a part of the community for many years and lots of customers tell me that they enjoy having the show be the start of the holiday season for them.
There’s always something that goes wrong each show too and I have learned to crisis manage…something small or something larger, like a power outage from a storm. This show…this morning… the workers I had hired to help unload the two huge trucks into storage didn’t show up. I had to really scramble and do it shorthanded, which meant a 2 hour organized process became 5.5 hours. Argh.
But it’s done and over with and now I can concentrate on my online businesses.
Here’s the link to the video…let me know if it works! He shot it about an hour before we opened for our preview night a week ago Monday.
Brookhaven Vintage Marketplace Fall Show 2018
Trucks are loaded and the Grange is clean and empty! Wooooohooo! Now all we have to do is unload the trucks into storage in the am and WE. ARE. DONE. There’s a hot bath calling my name…..
What’s the best way to post a link to a youtube video on here?
Yesterday was the last day of my vintage show and it was a really good show all in all. Great weather, great sales, happy customers. Today is the dreaded tear-down and we are already tired. Bringing in 2 26 ft trucks to load this morning, after my crew spent 5 hours yesterday evening sorting and packing and it still isn’t done. Wish I had a magic twinkle nose to whisk it all away!
No listings for me, but plan to get back to it by Thursday.
My bf used his drone to create a magical video of the show, inside and out. When I get a chance I will post a link.
Have a great week everyone, and congrats Amatino on your listing feat!
