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20 new listings for me during the week of 2/12 – 2/18/24. I can’t remember if I’ve already said this but I did finally get DP challenge sales. Hurrah!
Happy President’s Day everyone!
20 new listings during the week of 2/5 – 2/11/24 for me. I also did a huge reorganization of my DP inventory closet which took most of last week.
Amatino is right about me not getting through a mystery DP box every month. I’m going to be 2 for 2 for the first two months of 2024. I rolled my remaining January box items into my February box (once I’d listed enough for the January items to fit in the box). But my February box is going to shift into my March box for sure.
I’m going on vacation in ten days and I’ll be gone for the rest of February. There’s no way I’m going to get all my challenge items listed in the next ten days. But I’m happy to get any amount of my deep DP items listed. They’ve been sitting in boxes for years now. I also finally sold something that I’d listed as part of this challenge, so I’m pleased about that!
Christine, I’m also doing a purge of listed low dollar and long tail items as I was getting super close to 1,000 listings. I’m now down to under 965 and I’ve only purged one listed inventory box, so that worked out well for me.
Wow, I’m so pleased that everyone (else) has had DP challenge listing sales already! That’s fantastic!!!
20 new listings for me for the week of 1/29 – 2/4/24. I listed one more January challenge box item last week, but I’m still not done with that first box… I’m hoping to step it up this week as far as DP challenge box listings: there’s plenty to choose from in the box I pulled for February.
How many participants in the DP box challenge have already had a sale from their January challenge box listing? So far I’ve had zero sales from my January DP box, but I know it’s just a matter of time until something from my January challenge box sells.
Wishing everyone a great listing week!
The new puppy is adorable Amatino! You’re the best for all that you do to help animals in need.
Now that we don’t have a next day reporting deadline for our weekly listing numbers I’m proposing that we add dates to make it quicker for Amatino to figure out which numbers are for which week. She’s a busy lady! So 20 listings for me for the week of 1/22-28.
I didn’t finish my January challenge box and I won’t have it done by the end of the day tomorrow – so I’ve not met my DP box challenge for January. With my husband’s birthday and us going on vacation at the end of this month (we just got back) I just didn’t leave myself enough time to complete the challenge. But I’m not demoralized, I’ve made a lot of progress on my January DP box and I’ll finish it in February. I’m super pleased to see everyone else making great progress on the DP box challenge. Go, team, go!!!
Has everyone chosen another DP box or pile to challenge themselves with during February? I have my February box picked out and it’s a doozy.
20 new listings on eBay for me last week. Only one listing was from my DP challenge box. I’m lagging behind on the challenge, but I’m still plugging away. I may not finish my January DP box this month but I will finish it within the next few weeks. I’m pretty content despite not speeding through the challenge box. The thought of listing all those DP items has kept me from doing much shopping for inventory. So a win in that way at least.
Amatino, the tote is fabulous! And Julie your kitty cat is so adorable! It appears that all of us in this corner of SL have cats. I have a matched set of two ginger brothers.
Congrats to Sharyn for listing on a new platform, I’m interested to hear how Ruby Lane works out for you! And congrats to VL for managing more listings last week than in all of January 2023, you’re starting 2024 off wonderfully! Onward and upward!!!
Christine, you made me feel better about my own DP stash. You’re not alone with having lots of DP items that need to be listed.
I have more ideas for listing challenges if we lose momentum with the one DP box per month challenge, but so far everyone’s doing great! Keep it up!
20 new listings for me. 8 listings this week were from my January DP challenge box.
I’m halfway through the box (as of tonight) but many of the first half of the box items were donated. Most of the reminder will be listed, so I have some work ahead of me.
Stay warm and safe everyone!
Sharyn: I was sorry to hear you got Covid. Was this the first time you’ve had it? As far as I know I’ve never caught it but I have friends who have had it three times already even though they are current on the vaccines. I hope you are feeling back to normal ASAP!
Christine: I’m with you on not needing to purchase more inventory, but I also feel that finding new inventory inspires me to list. I too do well with listing newly purchased inventory right away instead of it going into my DPs. But I also realize that if I’m busy listing newly purchased inventory I don’t have time to list my DP inventory. So I’m trying to combine listing new and DP items each week. My dream is to get rid of all my DP boxes and only list newly purchased items in the future. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Hello Everyone,
Today is Quitter’s Day — the second Friday in January, when around 80% of Americans who made New Year’s resolutions have reportedly abandoned them. And as of this Monday we’ll be halfway done with the time allotted for our January DP box challenge. So if you haven’t already quit the challenge (LOL) now is a good time to access your progress. Are you halfway through the box you picked? If not, it’s time to pick up the pace!
Good luck!!!
20 new listings for mw last week. I met my goal so I’m happy.
Julie B: You’re welcome! DP box listing is something I’ve been challenging myself (and my eBay Bestie) with for several years now. It works great as long as you keep at it. And you totally smoked it on that task. Good for you!!! I’ve only listed one item from my January DP box so far. But I’m hoping to get in gear with it this week.
Good luck everyone!
2024 Resolutions!
#1. 20 new listings each week (lowered my goal from last year in order to have more hobby time).
#2. Work at listing/donating and clearing DP boxes.
#3. Think up and implement more fun challenges to boost my motivation to list.
Sharyn: I totally agree with you on variations. They are a pain to create and each variation should count as a listing since photographs have to be taken of each different item. I was only questioning identical items in one non-variation listing with multiple quantities.
Who’s in for the January mystery box challenge? I’ve not listed anything from my box (box #6) yet but I did comp a few items and already put 4 items in my donations bag.
It’s kind of shocking to see what I thought would be worth putting the effort in to sell years ago. I think I used to take anything that was offered super cheap and then when it wasn’t worth selling I chucked it into a DP box. This challenge is a great way to reduce my DPs even if it just causes me to finally donate all my worthless items. Good luck to everyone who’s in!
Congratulations Julie on a well deserved win!
I also wanted to ask about reporting our listing numbers. Back in the day I remember Amatino asking if we should all be posting the number of items listed or the number of new listings we did each week.
The consensus was that we would report the number of new listings we did each week. The reasoning was that if a listing was for identical items in multiple quantities (an example would be when I listed a box of identical vintage greeting cards to be sold individually) that was still just one listing. So that would count as one new listing, not 24 items listed. IMHO this is a more fair way to report as it levels the playing field for everyone.
I just wanted to make sure this is the way we’re still reporting?
