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@ice_queen No, I wasn’t. I don’t go to those two. Salem’s a good 50-60 minute drive away depending on traffic and it’s a very small outlet. Haven’t tried the airport one yet. I go to the Hillsboro bins and the Milwaukie bins. Both are suburbs of Portland and I do very well at them, even with the crowds.
Items listed this week: 23
Items from death piles: 20Ebay -6
Amazon -2
Etsy shop 1 -15
Etsy shop 2 -0The week got away from me for one reason or another. Just glad to have gotten listed what I did. Went to the bins Thursday and scored my best find there yet…a beautiful 1930s quilt in pristine condition and a very rare pattern. I am going to list it this week at $595 and see what happens. Cost me app $4. Woohoo!
Went to an estate sale Saturday where you were told to text your place in line ahead of time. We ended up #70 and #71 in line. It opened at 9 and I finally got inside the house 45 minutes later. It was sheer stubbornness that kept me there. I will be glad when the season really kicks off and all the dealers are dispersed to many sales across the city. This time of year there’s a lot of people fighting over a small piece of pie.
Went to a garage sale Friday and three estate sales and did really well…the car was full! My favorite find was a 1960s folding aluminum sleeping cot in great condition and great graphics. It will be a perfect display piece for my antique show in April. I found lots of good ebay items too and was very proud that I brought them home on Friday and listed 10 of them on Saturday. I have never been that quick before on new items so I am very motivated. Listed lots of death pile items too.
Items listed: 45
Items from death piles: 35Ebay – 10 items
Amazon – 0 items
Etsy shop 1- 25 items
Etsy shop 2- 10 itemsSide note: the garage sale was the first sale we went to on Friday and there were 20 people waiting in line to get in! It was crazy! They made us wait until the clock ticked over to the exact opening time and there was a mad rush to grab things. I am used to seeing this at estate sales but not at garage sales. It was a nice sunny day, the first one we have had in some time and I think everyone was itching to go picking.
It was really fun to hear about your sale of vintage Nike shoes to someone in Nike. The Nike campus is less than half a mile from my house and I have several friends who work at Nike. They are doing massive construction to the Nike campus and adding several more buildings and my best guess is that your shoes will end up on display in one of the buildings or perhaps in an executive office. The largest of the buildings being built is going to be named the Serena Williams building and will be over a million square feet and the largest building on campus. That’s a lot of display space to fill!
Well maybe it’s something in the air. Lots of family drama last week and I was putting out fires and NOT listing. Dang. This week I am going to list list list.
Total listings:
Ebay – 10 itemsNone from death piles. 🙁
Hello Everyone,
Here are my numbers for the week. I was up late last night…trying to squeeze in a few more listings so I could finally hit my goal of 50 a week…but I got too tired and had to quit a few short. Still pleased with how I am doing. I am determined to allow myself to go out picking again in a week or two if I can keep up this pace.
New Listings:
Amazon – 8
Ebay – 10
Etsy Store 1 – 25
Etsy Store 2 – 3Total listings accomplished – 46
Total from death piles – 38Good Irish luck to everyone this week, as we enter March.
New Listings:
Amazon – 13
Ebay – 7
Etsy Store 1 – 3
Etsy Store 2 – 1Total listings accomplished – 24
Total from death piles – 11Kind of an Ugh week for me and didn’t feel like listing…so it actually feels like an accomplishment to get any listings done at all. I really had to push myself and knowing that I would be reporting in today helped. This week will be better. I hope everyone had a good week.
I don’t care either way. I am just happy to be motivated to list, whether it’s newer items I just picked up or older items. I was under the impression that death piles were essentially anything picked up last year or older, but I could be off base on that. Perhaps a clear definition of what a true death pile means would be helpful. At least 6 months old? Or a few months? Lord knows I have plenty of it…no matter how we define it.
New Listings:
Amazon – 19
Ebay – 18
Etsy Store 1 – 2
Etsy Store 2 – 6Total listings accomplished – 45
Total from death piles – 19I went to the bins twice last week. Twice! It’s a sickness, I tell ya. There are hardly any estate sales this time of year, which are my bread and butter so I have been getting my picking itch scratched by the bins. However, it’s SO much more fun to find treasures than it is to list and I am bringing it home faster than I can list it. And I really don’t want my death piles to keep growing…they are huge already. So I have put myself on time out and am staying away from the bins for the rest of the month. I am getting closer to my goal of 50 a week and this week I actually tackled some items that are more challenging to list instead of being lazy and only listing things that are super easy to list.
Punk, you are doing really well…keep up the good work!
Amatino, so sorry you are still sick. I am sure when you get better you will blow all of us out of the water.
ChristineR – Hey, you got 9 items listed. It all adds up!AdventureE,
Ah, I get it. It’s about closure and focus. Thanks for the insight.
I agree that people don’t do the math or aren’t aware of shipping costs.
However, I patiently explained to her when I told her that I would accept her return, that she would lose money by shipping the fabric back to me. I tried to help her in that aspect. That’s what I don’t get.
AdventureE, I see what you are saying. But it’s costing her $15 to get a $8 refund. So in the end, she has no fabric and a loss of $30. If she had donated the fabric, she’d be out $23.
Sharyn – I think we aren’t that far off from each other, although I have my inventory spread over 4 different places.
As of this moment:
Amazon – 1130 listings
Ebay – 318 listings
Etsy shop 1 – 202 listings
Etsy shop 2 – 112 listingsI have been selling on Amazon for ten years, Etsy for four years, and Ebay a year and a half. It goes up and down a lot for me too, depending on the season and what else I have going on.
Thanks, Amatino, but no need to apologize. It’s all good in the Scavenger hood. 🙂
This is really fun, and oh so inspiring. So glad to be part of a group of like minded and friendly peeps.
Thanks Sharyn and Amatino! I certainly have been more motivated since joining the group.
(side note: my name is Lacy, not Lucy ) 🙂New Listings:
Amazon – 17
Ebay – 10
Etsy Store 1 – 5
Etsy Store 2 – 4Total listings accomplished – 36
Total from death piles – 12The week got away from me for one reason or another, and then I took a fun little train adventure Friday and Saturday but we need adventure in our life to keep things balanced. So I am happy with 36, although my goal each week is 50 and eventually 75. Good for you Amatino…listing while you are sick is quite a feat! My hat’s off to you!
