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32 new listings for me last week.
I wanted to mention a death pile challenge I did with my eBay Bestie. For 8 weeks we listed only death pile items. I took 8 banker boxes, each full of DP items, and challenged myself to list every item in one chosen box for each week of the challenge. Since I was out of town during two of those weeks I had mixed results and didn’t list everything in 3 of the 8 boxes.
But I did list 127 death pile items in 8 weeks. The part of the challenge that pleasantly surprised me was that I also sold 29 of those death pile items during the 8 weeks of the challenge. More have sold since then. The results inspired me to get the rest of my DP items listed. Now I’m trying to list at least one box of DP items every month, which also helps me put the brakes on buying additional inventory to sell. So a win-win for sure.
Wishing everyone a productive and profitable week!
I listed 28 items last week. I think I would have had a higher number but I spent quite a bit of time watching the devastating fires in Colorado from my 3rd floor deck on Thursday. The fires were about 9 miles away from my house in my two neighboring towns. 991 houses burned to the ground, and around 125 were damaged.
Luckily for us the 110 mph winds we had on Thursday were blowing in the opposite direction of my home, and the fire spread away from us rather than towards us. But my husband’s car had a service recall from Tesla and he brought it in to Tesla on Thursday morning. The Tesla service center is right in the burn area. Of course when he dropped it off no one was yet aware of the fire.
We assumed his car was destroyed when we saw footage of the hotel across the street from Tesla burning to the ground and one side of the Tesla building on fire. But recently we saw a video from a news helicopter showing that Tesla only had one wall of their building catch fire. And we saw my husband’s car sitting in Tesla’s parking lot where he originally parked it. His car will probably need smoke remediation but we were glad to see it didn’t burn up. But it’s difficult to feel happy when so many people in my community have lost everything.
I am feeling grateful for eBay since I can donate more $ with my eBay profits to the people I know of who lost their homes, all their belongings and even their pets. The stories we’re hearing from friends and friends of friends are so incredibly sad.
Thank you MyCottage for posting the info on creating eBay coupons. I haven’t tried it yet and your post was helpful.
My January challenge is to mend and list all of my SIL’s clothing that I offered to sell for my BIL.
Amatino I use a plastic storage drawer unit I got at JoAnn’s to store my different sized polymailers. It works great!
2 more travel related items for me. I believe that brings my total to 5?
17 new listings for me last week. With my birthday and Christmas last week I totally forgot about the travel challenge – but I doubt I listed anything travel related anyway.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year later this week!
Oops, I posted on the 2021 thread. However I just said that I’m keeping my list private but that I am playing along and I will post my monthly results. Good luck to everyone!!!
Hi Everyone – I hope you all had wonderful holidays!
I’m psyched for the new challenge, but even though I don’t sell sex toys or guns I’m keeping my list private. I promise I will be honest about whether or not I’ve achieved my monthly goals. I can’t wait to see what the first number pulled is, I’m excited to get started!
Amatino: Thanks for for doing the work to put the new challenge out there for everyone. And I’m glad to hear you found something to help with your knee pain. Wishing you and everyone else good luck on getting a whole passel of work done!
I also managed 15 new listings last week. I notice that I always slow down on listing in December (I’ve been on eBay for 19 years now and it’s a definite trend) but unfortunately it’s not because I’m shipping a lot like VL or Julie B. I think I just get tired of listing by the time December rolls around. So it’s good to have a new challenge as motivation to get back to business in January.
Wishing everyone a great Christmas week!
I’m also surprised at the two identical listings. When I’ve messed up and tried to list something twice eBay will not allow me to do so.
Grrr, I have what I believe is my first zero for 2021. Darn it! No listings last week at all. I got caught up in getting ready for vacation and then I got on the plane with zero listings completed.
The upside is that I had a wonderful vacation. And I have no additional trips planned for the next 5 weeks so I’m hoping to get lots of listings up during that time.
Wishing everyone a great week!
Retro, I also noticed this new reason to cancel (buyer hasn’t paid) several weeks ago when eBay didn’t automatically cancel an unpaid sale for me. But when I mentioned it to someone else on this forum I was told it’d been added as a reason to cancel a sale quite awhile ago – so I thought I had just missed the announcement from eBay.
But I never saw eBay mention this new canceling option. And my listing didn’t automatically relist after I canceled my sale either. Because my listing was an auction I wonder if that was why it didn’t automatically relist?
Amatino, I’m so sorry to hear about your bad buyer! That’s a real bummer.
I was out of town from Sunday morning 11/18 until Thursday night 12/2 so I only had 3 listing days last week. And I squandered one of those days recovering from the 7+ hour drive home. My husband and I had a great little vacation but it sure put a dent in my available listing time. In the 2 days I had I managed 16 new listings, 3 were travel related.
I’m going on another trip with my sister this week so I anticipate another low listing week. But I’m looking forward to the trip – I missed a lot of trips before the vaccines were available.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Hopefully I’m not posting this twice, it looks like my post disappeared… I’m posting early because I’ll be out of town starting Sunday and gone until Thursday night.
I had 29 listings this week and emptied another death pile box. I think that gives me 4 for the November death pile challenge.
Wishing everyone a great week ahead!
