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AtomicStar, I just wanted to let you know that I spoke to my friend who is a poshmark seller and she said her store is dead for clothing sales lately and she doesn’t have any idea why it’s so slow.
I’m experiencing a similar situation as the other commenters; I mainly sell hard goods but it’s the low priced items that are selling well for me.Believe it or not the guest was a woman! But not the nurturing type I guess. After we got back home she went shopping while I lay there thinking I might die alone in my bedroom – LOL! Not my birthday but that of a close friend. It was fun!
Eeek, yes you have it right. Although I don’t hold myself to listing 6 per day… I just don’t want to have multiple days of only listing 1 item in a day. Some days I have other commitments jamming up the day so those days I list less than on days when I have most of the day free. But at least 30 per week and no more 1 listing days – fingers crossed! And boxing up more (not all probably) of death pile mess and jamming it into my office closet. That’ll take care of steps 1 & 2 & 3 I think.
Well, it’s a long story and I have to get ready for a birthday party in a minute but here goes: My husband and I bought a house in far North Scottsdale AZ when we retired, so this was over 10 years ago. The house had been pretty much vacant for about 2 years when we purchased it. We were used to living in AZ from earlier in our lives but we lived in the city back then. So we knew there were scorpions in AZ but had never come across any inside our homes.
So when we first bought the house I flew out and met someone I’m close to who shall remain nameless for reasons revealed later in the story. The houseguest wanted to go swim in the nearest lake and in the rush to get there before the temperature got to hotter than hell I ran in my closet, grabbed my water shoes off the top shelf and jammed my foot in. Yes, I knew better than that, but did it anyway. So the scorpion living in the shoe stung me on the toe. It was a bark scorpion, the smallest type. The smaller the scorpion the more poisonous it is…
So off to Mayo Clinic emergency room I go along with my houseguest. As we are driving there I’m feeling odd. Like I’m going numb from my toe up on the stung side of my body. The doctor at Mayo says “Just sit here and let me know when you feel numb up to your chest” and I say “Why?” and he says “We have to wait until the venom reaches your heart and lungs to see if you’re allergic.” And I’m like “Nah, I’m okay, I need to leave, my houseguest wants to go swimming.” And the doctor says “Well, if you’re allergic, we’ll need to give you the anti-venom before your heart stops, you can’t leave.” HUH?
So I’m like, “Umm, how about you give me the anti-venom now so you don’t have to revive me?” And he’s like “Oh, you don’t want the anti-venom, it causes all kinds of problems.” and I’m thinking to myself “The antidote is WORSE than death?” Bummer.So once my body was numb up to my neck they let me leave but insisted I get a presciption for pain meds. And I’m like “Nah, it’s not so bad, I don’t need that.” but finally took the script just to get out of there.
So here’s the funny part: On the way home I say to my houseguest, “I’m starting to feel pretty bad, let’s go through the Walgreen’s drive through on the way home and get this filled”. So the Walgreen’s there is in a strip mall the size of a small town. With football field sized parking lots. And my houseguest says: “I’m going to drop you off here and get an iced coffee at Starbucks”. And I’m half a mile from the door to Walgreens. At this point I can no longer walk and I’m drooling uncontrollably. So pulling myself from car to car and dragging my leg behind me I make it to the door of Walgreens. And of course the pharmacy is in the back of this huge huge huge store. As soon as I open the door the pharmasist yells out “Did you get stung by a scorpion?” and then everyone in the store turns and watches as I pull myself using the store shelving from the front of the store to the back with drool running dripping off my shirt. I did almost lose it when my houseguest came back to pick me up and asked if I was still up for going to the lake. I politely(?) declined.
So long story but that night was I glad that I had the drugs! My foot literally felt like it was in a pot of boiling oil for 9 hours straight. And it took quite awhile for all the effects to go away, I looked like I had had a stroke for weeks and it was probably a year before I had feeling in my foot.
So I’m glad you exterminated your house Amatino, those scorpions are fierce!
Here is another example on why to “be nice” at estate sales. I went to one recently that turned out to be the last hour of the sale and everything you could fit into a small home depo packing box was $5.00. Everything that wouldn’t fit in the box was 75% off. I overheard the person running the estate sale sale saying to someone “Oh, I’m so glad you’re getting that, there was a lady here yesterday trying to buy that item but she wasn’t nice, so I didn’t sell it to her, I’m glad that’s going to someone nice”. So even though the person running the estate sale could have sold the item for a lot more money on the previous day they didn’t, because the first prospective buyer wasn’t nice. It pays to be nice!
Yes, I’m guessing it’s about exporting from the quantity. You definitely could be right about Central America instead of Mexico though. I have a friend from Honduras but I probably can’t differentiate just by looking between Hispanics from Mexico as opposed to Central America. I lived in Arizona for a long time and so many people I met there were from Mexico that I’m just assuming most Hispanics in Colorado are from Mexico also. I’t be interesting to find out if that is the case or not…
scott2 I was interested to read your statement “some things like used clothing are prohibited all together, not to say that it does not sneak in here and there”. I think this might be the reason I see so many people of Mexican heritage at the Goodwill Outlet buying clothes. If pre-owned clothing can’t be shipped in then there is probably a pretty good market for it in Mexico.
Well, since I failed also, no penalty for you. I didn’t finish boxing my deathpile items, or put them into my office closet. And of course since I said I have step 3 down I actually had 2 days during the week when I only listed 1 item per day. So I don’t think that qualifies as having it down, more like that qualifies as struggling.
So I will leave it up to you to choose: Either we can both work on last weeks commitments or take a week off and start fresh next week. I’m good with either choice 🙂
Too funny Amatino! I have a scorpion story for you too but first I want to congratulate Vintage Lacy & Sharon for hitting the ball right out of the park! I am gratified (mortified?) that you ladies take these challenges so seriously, and I am vowing to keep my big mouth shut around the 2 of you 🙂
As for Vintage Lacy I have come up with a dastardly plan: I am entering you into as many all-expenses paid vacation sweepstakes as I can find. I’m writing your return address as: Vintage Lacy/Oregon/Best Lister/Scavenger Life Listing Challenge. I’m sure the prize patrol will be able to find you that way. So after you leave on your grand prize vacation the rest of us will have a fighting chance against you, Vintage Lacy Lister Extraordinaire! Anyway I surrender, there is no way on earth that I could ever list 125 items in a week – I don’t care what they are, that is absolutely amazing!!! Kudos to you!
Hello Listing Challengers!
Here I am posting early because I’m totally burnt out on listing and horribly regretting my smack talk last week… But due to the fear of looking lame after posting with so much bravado I posted 51 listings, so there’s that. I’m currently telling myself over and over to NEVER throw down the gauntlet again, but I’ll probably forget that soon and repeat the same mistake. Sigh.
So I finally got up to more than 402 listings which I figured would be the break even for moving from the basic to the premium store and did so. So now I need to keep my listings over 402 or my frugal nature will freak out! So I’m in a listing challenge against myself at this point, if that makes any sense.
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and productive week ahead!
Glad it worked out for you!
I know how you feel, I had a similar experience with a neutral feedback. I suggest that you call eBay and ask to have the negative removed. I had a neutral that just said “small”. It was for a craft booklet with the dimensions for the booklet in the listing description. The neutral was removed by eBay because the dimensions were stated in the listing. Good luck!
Completely agree with Inglewood on the fragrance market. I buy most of the vintage fragrances I can find and always think it’s gone bad over the years because to me they always smell really bad. I’m constantly waiting for a message after the fragrance is delivered that says “yuck this is horrible, I’m returning it” but so far no problems with any of the sales… Maybe that’s why Amatino got the comment “stinks nice”? But I did have a lady return a discontinued lipstick because she said it smelled bad. And of course it had absolutely no smell whatsoever.
1 & 2 sound great! I’d welcome those changes. I’m just about to close an unpaid best offer case. I still don’t understand why people go to the trouble of making an offer and then don’t pay for the item. I guess it’s because they know they can do so without any consequences?
07/22/2019 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Article Link for company selling Amazon overstock in Taylors, SC – Bin Time #65267Not at Price Drop, the customers open the stuff out on the floor to see what’s inside before they purchase. I’m not sure if you are not supposed to open the boxes before you buy, but according to Pudgy Picker the customers do open the boxes to see what the item is before they purchase it. Most of the things she’s shown are similar to dollar store items in my opinion, although one time she went when the prices were higher she had a couple of things that looked like they were worth something.
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