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Okay, it looks like the October Paper Challenge results stand.
Amatino, I’m not sure how the points are allotted, so could you please give the usual number of award points to our first, second and third place winners? Thank you!!!
Thus far the October Paper Challenge results are: 1st place – Me, 2nd place – Sharyn, and 3rd place – Amatino. If anyone else posts results above our numbers today I’ll revise. Today will be the deadline for posting your October Challenge results. Thank you to everyone who played along, these challenges really help get me going on listing!
I had 20 new listings for the week. I had a bit of a head cold and a busy week last week. I’m hoping this week will be a more productive one for me on eBay.
Wishing everyone great sales and happy customers!
Sharyn: Consider it whipped! By me, I’m the sewing pattern gal 🙂 My 71 were mostly sewing patterns, although I listed some other paper items also.
It was evil of me to put up a challenge I knew I could list a lot of – but in my defense I thought some of us would also have lots of books or paper ephemera to list. Or magazines, like Sharyn!
I wasn’t able to participate in the pop-up challenge on Thursday, I had a lot going on that day. Hopefully Amatino will come up with another pop-up for us this month!
Amatino, you look absolutely gorgeous!!! Those are such stunning photos, thanks for sharing!
Great November Challenge! I’ve always wondered why so many people I know have November birthdays, your explanation explains why 🙂
It’s November! The October Paper Challenge ended yesterday at midnight. Please post your final paper listings number for the entire month of October so the winner can be crowned – lol!
My total paper listings for the month of October was 71 🙂
Do we have a November Challenge? It should start today. Any ideas?
Hello Fellow Challengers!
40 new listings for me. 15 were paper. The smoke has been keeping me inside and listing, but now it’s snow keeping me inside and listing, we’re expecting 15 inches of snow by tomorrow. I’m grateful for the snow as it should be of some help with curtailing the wildfires. The 3 largest ever Colorado fires have happened in the last few months. Only 1 is out, we have 8 fires currently burning. One of the 3 biggest has burned 300 square miles and is only 4% contained. Due to that fire Rocky Mountain National Park is burning and is closed 🙁
Attention Challengers: We have through the 31st for the paper challenge. C’mon people! Everyone must have some paper items lurking around in those death piles. Back up that smack talk with action! (I’m looking at you Vintage Lacy – LOL!)
Wishing everyone a productive and profitable week with no natural disasters.
I got that new feature maybe 10 days ago. But I’m not sure it always works. I’ve been clicking the automatically send offers box for every listing I send offers on (since it became available to me) and I’ve gotten “listings eligible to send offers” notifications on listings that I’ve already checked that box for. So I assume offers on those listings weren’t automatically sent if ebay wants me to manually send offers for them.
Arrowhead, I also only offer USPS shipping and I’m also having eBay select carriers I’ve never used or offered (at much higher prices).
Luckily this was the way I caught the first “shipping upgrade”, Fedex was chosen and it caught my eye since I ‘ve never shipped anything via Fedex. After that I checked each time and found it only happens when I only print one postage label at a time.
crystalmoomom – You’re in Wisconsin? I used to have a vacation home in Door County when I lived in Illinois. I loved it there!
crystalmoomom – Welcome! The challenges are a fun way to motivate oneself to list, at least for me. Give it a try!
Utahbill – I’m very impressed that you are mobile listing, I don’t even know how to do that!
Libby – You’re amazing! While injured you still get 54 listings done, more than I’ve finished on my best week ever. You’re my listing idol.
I finished 40 listings this week, 16 were paper.
The wildfire smoke here is so bad we can’t go outside at times – our AQI was 419 on Friday. It was like being fogged in, but it was dark in the daytime and ash was raining down. But being trapped inside does give me more time to list…
Now we have 2 wildfires within 12 miles of our house and we can see flames from our deck on our 3rd floor. The plus is that (as long as we don’t get evacuated) this should be a another good week to build up my store inventory.
Wishing everyone a great week!
Experiencing the same here. It’s been happening for at least a month or so. I’m not sure when it started because it only happens if I print just one postage label. I usually print in batches and it doesn’t happen when I print more than one postage label at a time.
Hey kesia,
Just wanted to let you know that you’re not the person experiencing weird, overly familiar customers. I had some plus sized dresses for sale and I got extremely long messages daily for weeks from an interested buyer re: her weight (with photographs!) and other personal details. Needless to say I never responded to these messages.
I was convinced this person was a creepy guy with a fat fetish who thought I was the original owner of the clothing and wanted to start a correspondence with me. After I blocked the prospective buyer they continued to message me daily, begging me to unblock them.
I do think this person turned out to be a woman, who was just overly intimate with me, a complete stranger to her. I am really glad that I didn’t sell to her though, I think weird buyers are trouble waiting to happen. She finally quit messaging after several weeks of no response from me. I think if she had been able to buy from me I’d still be getting photos and stories from her about wearing the dresses I sold her.
33 new listings for me this week, 15 were paper.
Thanks Amatino for the weekly listing goals and actual numbers. Quite helpful since I’m terrible at even rudimentary math.
I do remember that I originally started the year with a goal of 39 listings per week to achieve 2020 listings in 2020, a great idea from (I think it was?) Vintage Lacy. But due to not being able to source as usual after Covid hit I lowered my listing goals to 10 per week. Glad I did so since I’d be (I think?) 640 listings behind at this point – LOL!
16 new listings for me, 14 were paper.
Sharyn: You are correct, the original cardboard box an item includes will not qualify it for the paper challenge. I mentioned board games because the game board itself is made of cardboard. Many puzzles would also work for this challenge, but wooden puzzles would not qualify.
Wishing everyone a great first full week of fourth quarter!
