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My totals are 2 items for the Silver Challenge and just posts for WedWoes, no WedWoe listings.
The Paper Challenge starts Thursday 10/1!
October Challenge Info:
Posting early because I’ll be out of town – this challenge starts on October 1st and runs through October 31st.
The October challenge is paper. Anything made primarily of paper will count. Paper ephemera, books, magazines, paper party supplies like tissue paper decorations, invitations, stationery, sewing patterns, playing cards, posters, etc. Cardboard also counts, so board games would qualify for this challenge.
Points awarded for the most paper items listed during the month of October…first, second and third place.
9 new listings for me, I missed my weekly goal by just 1 listing, darn it! I’m still stuck at 2 total listings for the Silver Challenge, and zero listings for WedWoes. Sigh.
Amatino, in answer to your question I would be a Laughing Buddha statue. I can think of other items that would be touched more often (like money) but I like the idea of bringing people good luck.
Thanks for the nomination and support for the Paper Challenge in October!
Books are included and Sharyn: your poster would qualify since it’s made of paper (even though it’s laminated). My reasoning for including books is that if you do sell books you have lots of items that will qualify for the paper challenge. A few of us don’t sell books at all so a book challenge on it’s own would rule out some of the usual participants completely. Since the whole monthly challenge idea was to get more people to participate I’m trying to make sure it’s a challenge that everyone can get on the board with. If I was a book seller I’d just consider the paper challenge my book challenge and kill it!
I’ll probably post the points info a little early since I expect to be out of town as of 9/30 for a few days. But the challenge won’t start until 10/1/20.
Nothing for me either on the WedWoes challenge. But we still have one more WedWoes chance left this month!
Thanks for the nomination VL!
What about a paper challenge? That way fabric is out but sewing patterns would be in, plus anything else made of paper – best of both worlds? Works for me but could also work really well for everyone else too. Paper would include books though – is paper too broad a category?
Sharyn, I second what Amatino said. If you have the items that meet the challenge why wouldn’t you list them? If I could get anyone on board for a sewing pattern challenge I’d totally go for it. I’d be hitting 27 listings per week for the challenge easily 🙂
23 new listings for me, 1 was silver.
Wishing everyone a productive and profitable week!
Just got mine: besides the t shirt there is a set of four tie tack style pins which have the words magical, original, resilient and adventurous. Probably words meant to describe eBay and eBay sellers? Also a bunch of colorful stickers and thank you postcards with the same type of messaging. The t doesn’t seem to be the same heavy fabric of the eBay Open t from 2018 when I went in person. But I didn’t pay anything for this one and for free it’s great!
WedWoes #3: Wow, I almost forgot to post! I’m trying to figure out if the item I’ve had forever that I cleaned and listed on Monday should count for the Wednesday Woes challenge. It’s silver and I counted it for the Silver Challenge already. Can we double dip?
I’ve cleaned some other items for WedWoes but haven’t listed those yet. I hope to get to them this week.
34 new listings for me. One met the Silver Challenge. I’m hoping to get something listed for the Wednesday Woes Challenge before this Wednesday.
Sharyn: Great job on listing 20 for the Silver Challenge!
Libby: “We’ll be too busy shipping to list in Q4” – from your lips to God’s ears!
Wishing everyone a wonderful and profitable week.
WedWoes #2:
No listings, but I did work a bit on searching for more items in unlisted inventory that would qualify for the WedWoes. I know I have a MCM coffee set that I got probably 10 years ago which would work for both the September challenges – it’s silver colored. I bought silver cleaner in order to clean it up to list. It’s pewter and has dents I’d always planned to bend out, but I’ll just clean it and list it as is, otherwise I’ll have it another 10 years 🙂
While looking for the coffee set I found a set of MCM individual snack/appetizer trays(?) that are silver metal with teak handles, I’ve had those forever too. I cleaned those and also a brass(?) metal item that holds long matches: another piece I’ve had forever and never listed. I couldn’t quite figure out what the snack trays or the match holder function was in the past but I think I’ve finally figured out what they might be.
Thanks Amatino for this challenge, it’s good to get going on some of this stuff I’ve had forever!
16 new listings for me for the week.
My sales are still dismal, I had 3 days again last week with zero sales – ouch. I hope everyone else is doing better than that!
Wishing you all a nice Labor Day!
I also got the message without the coupon 🙁
It looks like I was just an eBay buyer from 2002 until 2008. The message says my first sale was in January of 2009.
I do remember my husband sold a Pearl Drum Set to someone in Sweden in 2000. So he was an eBay seller way before me. But after packing and shipping an entire drum set and paying more for the shipping than he expected he wasn’t keen on selling anything else on eBay. I’ve sold many thousands of items, he’s sold just a handful since 2000.
So the coupon must have been sent out on the basis of the year you first sold an item, rather than the amount of items you’ve sold. I guess eBay needed to pick some criteria to keep the number of coupons given out more manageable.
