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Amatino, my thoughts on selling items under $10 are conflicted. I’d like to sell the low dollar items I already have in my death piles. I feel kind of stupid when I donate stuff that I bought at the thrift store back to the thrift store.
That being said I really want to stop buying stuff because it’s cheap if I suspect I can only sell it for cheap. Easier said than done for me though. I find it hard to resist stuff I like when it costs a quarter. Sigh.
I do have some stuff I’m going to redonate though. If it takes too much work to list it (cleaning, researching or I really have no idea what it even is) I’m donating that stuff back. Quick to list, photograph, store and ship are my criteria for what cheap stuff from the death pile I list instead of donate.
I made my listing goal for the week and I listed each day. (One day I listed just 1 item and only to meet my goal of listing every day.) So on the 8 steps I’m good on all except the same 2 I had trouble with before, #1: have only the item you’re going to list next on your desk and #6: don’t listen to content while listing. My desk is messy, and usually I have more than just the item I’m listing next on it. And I had put an audiobook on hold at the library a few weeks ago and it came in so now I’m listening to a book while listing. I do pause the book when I really need to concentrate on the listing though, like when writing the description.
I plan on upping my game each week on this thread – this week I’m going to add 15 minutes of organization time to be accomplished each day. The stuff in my office closet is still about to fall on my head and my basement is a hot mess.
Well done Amatino!!!
I’m done for the week also, I count my weeks starting on Sunday so Saturday is always my last listing day of each week.
I finished 50 new listings this week and I’m up to 371 active listings as of this moment. I think the break even for a Premium eBay store is just over 400 listings so I’ll probably upgrade to a Premium store before the end of this month. Thank you to Amatino for the kick start!!!
I didn’t do as much reorganizing as I had planned to, but I did manage some and I’m happy with the results. I’m hoping to get more organizing/cleaning up done this week. And I’m upping my game on the DP challenge. Although maybe it’s not so much of a DP challenge as just an improving my process/experience challenge for me since I consider everything in my basement my deathpile. I’ll post my DP game commitment over on the DP challenge thread. But I have been listing some really old stuff as I dig deeper in the piles to find more stuff to list. Unfortunately I have a LOT of $6.00 items, which is why I probably didn’t list them in the first place so they got buried in my DP. Sigh. But at least I now have a chance at getting rid of them 🙂
Wishing everyone a great week ahead!
Aww, Amatino thanks for that, you make me feel so good! You are motivating me to get to sorting and researching and donating. I’ll work on doing that this week. I’d be so nice to be able to open my office closet door without fearing for my life. Stuff just comes crashing out of there every time I open the door. I need to get going on that before something heavy hits me right on the head!
Okay Amatino, you are throwing down the gauntlet again, and at me this time – LOL! If I were the gauntlet throwing type I’d say “Ha ha, I did 51 new listings last week, try beating that, buster!”
But I’m not a gauntlet throwing kind of gal so just: 51 new listings for me.
And thank you again Amatino for listing the 8 death pile elimination steps and linking the 10konthebay video. It really helped me speed up my process!I’ve been doing some reorganizing also but it sounds like Amatino is way ahead of me in that area. I plan on working on organizing more this week so I expect I’ll have less new listings this week.
Vintage Lacy I have been counting exactly the same as you do. I count the number of new listings, not the number of items listed.
I am patting you on the back and yelling “way to go Amatino”! Of course my husband and cat are now looking at me like I’m completely insane. Next week I’ll just imagine the yelling and back patting. Seriously, congratulations on meeting your goal Amatino, and extra credit for setting additional clean up goals!!!
Thanks for stating that you were moving this over to this thread as I wasn’t sure where I should post my results for this. I’m not done listing yet today but I’ve already exceeded the goal I set for the remaining weeks in June of: 30 listings per week AND listing every day. I’ll post my total listings for this week tomorrow or Monday on the Listing Challenge thread.
As for the 8 easy steps: #1 – I’m struggling with keeping ONLY the item I’m currently listing on my desk. Right now there are 6 sewing patterns that I’ll be listing next on my desk. #2 (Small list next pile), #3 (List daily) & 4 (Do a listing sprint) I’m good with those so far. #5 I’m also struggling with: I used to combine listening to books while listing as something I enjoy combined with listing. But I had to stop that in order to follow #6 (Do not listen to content while listing). I think I’ll substitute music instead but haven’t implemented that yet and it’s as quiet as a tomb in here! #6 (Don’t listen to content while listing) I’m good. #7 (List more than you buy) Bought a bunch of stuff yesterday because I had thrift store coupons that expired yesterday (so I had to!). But thankfully the # of items I purchased was less than I listed this week! So good on 7 so far. #8 (accountability) Here I am being accountable 🙂
Amatino I want to say thank you so much for setting this up and being my accountability partner!
Also if anyone is interested I found following step 6 (don’t listen to content while listing) really helped me tremendously as far as getting things listed faster. Give it a try if you’d like to improve your listing speed!Oops, death pile challenge! I don’t think I’ve been following that rule very closely. I think that I have so much crap down in the basement that I consider it all death piles. Even if I got it last month, or last week for that matter.
But maybe it all evens out in the end because I’ve been counting how many listings, not how many items listed. So if I do a lot of 10 items in one listing, I count that as one. Or if I have a listing with multiple quantities, still just counted it as one.
I printed out the 8 steps because if I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to tell you more than one – hahaha!
AtomicStar thanks for the update on the miracle thrift sales. That is fantastic!
I also quit sweepstakes because the postage really added up by the I figured out I’d be getting mostly t-shirts as a return on the postage costs. I was entering back when you had to subscribe to a sweepstakes newsletter that would come in the mail; before anything was on-line. The newsletter gave you all the info you needed to enter, answers to questions and such.
I remember when I got the phone call about winning the grand prize I was asked about the country music stars I liked the best. The sweepstakes I won had the answer you needed to enter inside the country singer’s record album. And I was like ummm, ummm, Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline? I couldn’t think of anyone else…
Thank goodness I used to help my Mom clean her cocktail lounge when I was a kid – I knew both those country stars from the jukebox in her bar. I don’t actually like country music, I’m a rock and roll gal. I kept thinking I’d get found out (that I didn’t buy the record album) and the trip would be taken away from me!
Julie B, all the second place winners in those 17,642 contests must be very grateful to you!
One of my recent bad customer experiences was a buyer contacting me 6 days after getting an item and sending photos of scratches and scuffs on the item (a Swiss Army knife).
When I shipped the item it had no scratches or scuffs, it was unused (it was a gift, my husband was the only owner) and it had always been stored in the original box. My photos also showed no scratches or scuffs so obviously it had been damaged in the 6 days of use since it was delivered.
Buyer did not want to go to the “hassle” of returning it, claiming he would have to go to the post office for a reciept and that it would get lost in the mail and asked for half his $ back and he would “donate” it. I explained about the label I would send, that the label had tracking and out of thousands of items I’ve sent thru USPS none has ever gotten lost. (He has 1764 feedback and didn’t know this?)
And of course I said “no thanks, go ahead and open a case and return it” and so far I haven’t heard anything further. I’m expecting either a return after 29 days of ownership or negative feedback. Sigh.Umm, maybe Amatino you threw down the gauntlet and then Vintage Lacy threw it back? I’m totally staying out of this one, but just saying… No gauntlet throwing for me, when you get to be my age you just know yourself too well and I’ve failed too many times I guess – haha! But that being said I am super competitive and I’m taking the competition seriously, I hate to lose!!! Speaking of which Amatino – are you keeping up with your goals and trying to follow 10Konthebay’s 8 easy steps?
06/11/2019 at 10:10 pm in reply to: When the Crap You Find in a Huge Haul Brings Tears to Your Eyes #63348My most recent stinky experience is a different kind of stink but believe me, it STINKS!
I got a Coach purse at an awesome Church rummage sale where I was the only shopper. I was so excited, I’ve never found a Coach purse before and it was in perfect condition and only $2.00!!! So I bought and put it in my office to list it and wow, suddenly I’m feeling sick and have a horrible headache. And every time I go into my office I get an instant horrible headache. Finally I realize there is a very very heavy musky perfume smell in my office, what is that, and where is that coming from? I don’t wear perfume, I get unscented everything, perfume gives me a headache. Yup, it’s the Coach purse, and boy does it stink!
The purse is now sitting in a sealed tub nestled in a ton of clean kitty litter. I took the listing down before it sold, thank god, but now I’m afraid to open the tub.
Thank you Amatino, hug gratefully accepted! Fingers crossed for a better week!!!
Umm, I’m also nervous about the follow through. And I don’t even have any valid excuses for not following through…
I’m thinking that I’ll commit to 30 listings per week. That will just beat my average by 1 more listing per day, but also I’ll commit to listing something each day for the rest of June. I seem to have a habit of listing a lot (for me) and then not listing anything for several days. So I want to try to break that burnout cycle.
26 for me. I had zero for the first 3 days of the week while I had my sister here, then I tried to get into the swing of listing first and photos second as advised by Retro Treasures. I’m kind of doing a mix of getting all the stuff on that I already have photos of and Retro Treasures’ process right now. I’d like to use and get rid of all the photos (some from 2018) that are still filed and waiting for me to list the item.
I had a hideous week of: one return request after getting great feedback on the item and the buyer using the item for over 3 weeks, an accepted non-payment offer, a return of a $45 sealed lipstick that is now unsellable, a scammer guy trying to get me to give him half his money back after he damaged my item, and a lady in India asking to buy multiple items after she gave me a wrong shipping address on an item that she had purchased and then proceeded to contact me literally 18 times asking me to call USPS to get the ($6.00!) item rerouted. Ouch.
Weeks like this make me want to quit eBay but then I try to concentrate on my happy customers, a few higher dollar sales and that I’ve had sales everyday for almost 2 months now. (Pretty sure I jinxed myself by saying that!) I think we all have waves of nutball customers, I guess it’s just my turn right now. Sigh.
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