Sold 227 to 234

December is a busy month - school concerts, gatherings with friends, shopping and celebrating the festive season. We did not actively go out of our way to sell items this month, though a few sales fell into our laps.

Sage sold some more CD's - she now has to do a mini-production run to have more ready for future sales.

My sister offered to pay me me to make a skirt for one of our nieces for Christmas. At first I said no - I will just make it, then rational thinking came in an asked for payment of $1 - so I could add this as a sale for the challenge. I was paid $1 in USA quarters!

I think a goal for the next few months will be to review where we currently have items listed but not sold (Fishpond) and try either Etsy or Madeit Myself with a few different items.

Thank you to everyone who reads this blog - I know how easy it may be just to give-up when lack of motivation strikes!

#227 - CD - Love Sage

#228 - CD - Love Sage

#229 - CD - Love Sage

#230 - CD - Love Sage

#231 - CD - Love Sage

#232 - CD - Love Sage

#233 - CD - Love Sage

#234 - Home Made - Skirt

Sold 225 to 226

Two sales of Fairy Floss sugar and sticks, means we are a quarter of the way through the challenge! Theoretically we sold more than 1 stick but I am counting it as a 'set'.

#225 - Fairy Floss - Sugar & Sticks

#226 - Fairy Floss - Sugar & Sticks.

Sold - 222 to 224

Three more eBay sales paid for:

#222 - Bag - Cosmetics Bag

#223 - Bag - Cosmetics Bag

#224 - Little Golden Book - The Little Eskimo

The same customer purchased item #223 & 223, and emailed an appreciative thank you - so much nicer than never knowing if your item arrived safely.

Still no takers on my Picoult listing - I may save to do a bulk listing with another two I have sitting on my bookshelf (picked up at a fete and waiting to read).

I am hoping to get some 99 cent listings up on eBay during the promotion - but my home/work/life/1000 things challenge does not always balance out. Another lesson learnt is that in small ways - everyone in the family is helping with the challenge - Pappy has been posting all the items in his lunch hour which has been good, and Pho even found some more vintage Polly items at a fete to list. Sage is in exam mode - but hopefully post study we will finally get a nice banner for the challenge.

Sold, Sold and Sold 205 to 221

A busy week of eBay sales, selling items 205 to 221. There was also numerous non-sales, including a Jodi Picoult book, which I don't understand as every other book listed by her seems to sell, and I have a relatively low starting price.

A few items sold for the listing price of 99 cents, which after fees you receive about 25 cents. Someone asked me to list an extra image - which I did, but they did not even bid on it so I think that made me go into the negative by about 10 cents, and waste time, but oh well you never know how things will turn out.

#205 - Book - Ladybird Book - People at work - In a Hotel

#206 - Book - Ladybird Book - Time, Calendars & Clocks

#207 - Book - Ladybird Book - Cub Scouts

#208 - Book - Ladybird Book - Scouts

#209 - Book - Ladybird Book - The Story of Oil

#210 - Book - Ladybird Book - How to Make Puppets

#211 - Book - Ladybird Book - Captain Scott

#212 - Book - Ladybird Book - Charles Dickens

#213 - Book - Ladybird Book - Joseph

#214 - Book - Ladybird Book - Nursery Rhymes

#215 - Bag - Cosmetics Bag

#216 - Toy - Lego

#217 - Toy - Lego

#218 - Book - Ladybird Book - Samuel Pepys

#219 - Book - Golden Book - Twelve Dancing Princess

#220 - Bag - Cosmetics Bag

#221 - Book - Marcia Hines

Sold Item 204

I sold a copy of one of Sage's favourite childhood story books - 'The Monster at the end of this book' - we had two copies, now we have one!

#204 - Book - Golden Book

Sold Items 201-203

Three more sales from eBay added to the tally:

#201 - Toy - lego

#202 - Cosmetics - blush

#203 - Cosmetics - Compact

Phew - Sold items 198 to 200

It seems like it has taken forever to get there, but finally have hit the selling of 200 items mark. 20% sold!

#198 - Clinique - Perfume

#199 - Clinique - Blush

#200 - Clinique - Eye Shadow

Technically, we should have reached sales of 201 - but one eBay user 'de-registered' after purchase.

Not sure how much will get done over the next month - my full time job is going into overdrive.

Sold: Items 196 to 197

A small success with the re-listing of unsold eBay items, two sold:

#196 - John Marsend - The first book in the tomorrow series - eBay

#197 - Trixie Belden Book - eBay

Sold: Items 193 to 195

Lot's of watchers did not equal lot's of sales. Three of the eight listings sold. I have already re-listed - and the watchers are back!

Sold this week:

#193 - Trixie Belden Book - eBay

#194 - C.S.Lewis Book - eBay

#195 - Trixie Belden Book - eBay.

Sold 189 to 192

This weeks sales cam from items that have been listed on Fishpond and All Classifieds for a while:

• 189 - Book - Hopetoun Wives via Fishpond
• 190 - DVD - The Kingdom via Fishpond
• 191 - Children's Golf Club - via All Classifieds
• 192 - Children's Golf Putter - via All Classifieds.

I have spent some time this weekend organising books into 'groups' for listing on eBay. This week I have listed some Trixie Belden and Three Investigator books, with eight listings. Let's see how they go.

Sold Items 184 to 188

Sage sold another 4 CD's, and a DVD on Fishpond.

Need to get back into the eBay listing habit - and now that Spring has arrived (well in terms of the calendar anyway), I will start to explore market options.

Sold: items 158 to 183

Sage has sold another 26 CD's. One person came back for multiple copies to send to friends overseas - good news for Sage, and the overall tally.

Sold: by Sage

Sales +21

A long time between updates -

Sales 137 to 147 were books sold on eBay.

Sales 148 to to 157 Love,Sage cd's Sage sold at her ep launch. As she self-funds her cd production she has donated a % of 10 CD's towards the challenge.

Sold items 134 & 135

Two items sold:

• 134 - a golf club via allclassifieds.com
• 135 - a Jodi Picoult book on Fishpond (I was thinking of listing this on eBay, just as I received a sold email).

I need to organise some more items for listing, some families on the SS have been very creative.

Creative selling - Sold 126 to 133

The firs sales of 'creativity' this week - Sage sold 4 CD's at a gig she played at this week. As she self-funds the production of her CD's she has donated a % of each of the sales towards the 1000 Things challenge. With another gig coming up and the launch of her second ep next month - hopefully a few more CD sales will be added to the challenge.

We also sold three more Ladybird books via eBay.

Have had a nibble on one of the items listed on allclassifieds - but nothing from Fishpond.

Sold Items - 118 to 126

The set of 9 books re-listed on eBay sold and have now been shipped to their new home.

I have listed some items on Fishpond to see if we get a 'bite'. The Fishpond idea came from a forum thread on the Simple Savings website. I have this challenge posted on the Simple Savings forum board as well, and quite a few other families are joining in the challenge. It is very encouraging to have others join you - and will keep me motivated when school resumes next week.

Hitting Triple Figures

Pho and I had a Fairy Floss stall at a 'Market' Fund Raiser today, selling Fairy Floss, we also made up some Fairy Floss a friend had requested for her nieces party. So add another 58 to items sold.

Goal: 10% of total sales reached and we have hit triple figures.

Items Sold: add 36

Success with last weeks ebay listing, 36 of the 47 items sold. The unsold set of books has been re-listed. Hoping to get some more items ready for listing next weekend.

Goal: 5% of total sales reached.

Fingers crossed

Phew.

I have listed 47 items on Ebay today. We decided to do a bulk listing on a lot of Vintage Polly Pocket toys, a separate listing for a vintage Polly Pocket board game and two listings for sets of Pho's books.

Let's hope this time next week I can post a blog about "Sold Items."

Sweet small sales - #18 #19 #20 & #21

Pho added another 4 sales to the ally sheet, selling some Fairy Floss she made. 

The plan is to get some more items listed on ebay this weekend. There have been no calls about the items listed on allclassifieds. 

Sold Items 14, 15, 16 and 17

Four items sold on Ebay last week have now been paid for (1 listing had three separate items).

No interest so far on the posting we have on allclassifieds.com.

I am missing not having a listing on Ebay, hopefully I will get a lot of listings prepared over the weekend.

One month (and a bit) on

Well, it is just over one month since we started our little challenge - and this is what I have learnt so far:

1. It is great to have ideas straight after school holidays, when the absence of homework and extra-curricular activities leads you to believe that you have huge expanses of time on your hand. Only to realise that when school and activities resume, there goes any spare time you had. I guess what I am saying is we have not been listing as many items a week as I thought we would. Which leads me to point two.
   
2. Listing items on Ebay takes forever, even using Turbo Lister I find the time it takes to research the item to ensure it is described as accurately as possible, determine postage amounts and start price seems to take me forever. It could be I do get a little side tracked with the researching part, and go off on little tangents as I learn new things.
3. Point number 2, has taught me one trick to save time is it is easier to sell like items at the one time - for example one week I just listed Ladybird books, I am currently grouping Little Golden books together to list all at once.
   
4. The thought of having a garage sale/market stall in a Canberra winter is not very appealing. I am keeping this option open until spring when our Saturday mornings are sport free and the damp weather does not make everything wet and soggy.
5. Friends and family are very supportive - they want to know how we are going, and keep us believing that this is all possible.
6. It is amazing what you can find in your house to sell when you think about it. Pappy was looking for an Robotech model he wants to sell, and uncovered more things to sell. 
7. That it is very exciting when an item sells on Ebay for more than you thought it would.
8. It is important to focus on our goal of selling 1000 things - even when we seem so far away at the moment, because that number can only go down.

This week:

- 2 items listed on Ebay had closing bids - will list them as sold once payment is received

- have listed some items on All Classifieds - will see how this goes

- I am travelling interstate for work this week, so have not listed on Ebay (need to train everyone else how to check for messages etc). 

Sold: Items 11, 12, 13

Ladybird, ladybird fly away home

Another day, another package making it's way to a new home. Today three Ladybird books have been paid for 

through an Ebay sale.

Double Figures Reached

Pop, Pop, Pop

Three books paid for on Ebay - so tick off Items 8,9 and 10 - and we have reached double figures.

Rules:

This week I have an Ebay listing that I have packaged items together, but for counting I will count them as individual items. I have packaged the items together for connivence and as a group the items are more attractive to a buyer. For each item that could have been sold individually I will count as 1.

Grug sells - Item #7

Item #7 - Grug book sold via Ebay, and with a super quick payment, Grug will be on his way to his new abode tomorrow.

We have a few more sales pending payment - both through Ebay and the Bulletin Board.

With a few fetes and a book fair on this weekend, we got to do a little bit of finding for future sales (as well a few finds for our own bookshelves).

Hopefully we will be in double figures with the next post.

Slow moving

Another DVD sold via the work bulletin board, and we have a batch of books on Ebay, including a collectable Grug book which aleady has bids on it. 

Grug helping us sell Item #7

Sold - Item #5

One DVD sold via work bulletin board - and interest in another. Not sure how long we should keep these items advertised on the board.

#996 to go

Two more Ebay sales paid for - Perfume and Cosmetics. Items have been packaged and posted. 

No interest so far on the DVD's listed on the work bulletin board.

2 gone - 998 to go

Item #2 sold - cosmetics sold via Ebay. Parcel is packed waiting to be posted tomorrow. 

The other items we listed had closing bids - will list as sold once payment is processed.

We currently have some new DVD's listed on our work bulletin boards - will see how they go. I need to get some more Ebay listings ready, but unexpected work travel plans have put a delay on organising this.

Teak

YAY

HiHi it is Pho here, just saying hip hip hooray we sold our first item it was a Holly Hobbie book we found at a fete with  millions of books. 

We sold it to my Aunty M. That's one item we can cross of our very long list. 

TaTa for now, 

Pho 

1000 green bottles sitting on the wall

There are 1000 green bottles sitting on the wall,

1000 green bottles sitting on the wall,

but if one of those bottles should actually be sold,

there would be 999 green bottles sitting on the wall...

Project 1000 has started, we currently have three items listed on ebay (yes, I know 3 is a small number - but it is a start).

Some ground rules:

- we will endeavour to be creative in the way we sell items - i.e - not just eBay and a garage sale

- we will only count items that we are selling on behalf of ourselves

- there are no minimum monthly targets - this Project also depends on available time.

Of course rules can be reviewed added to at any time.

Teak

For Sale One Thousand Things

The idea to try and sell One Thousand Things, brewed while sitting on a bus. I am not sure why 1000 - it just seemed to have a nice ring to it. 

I proposed my idea to family and friends thinking they would try and talk me out of it - but no, one friend sent me all the details of getting my hawkers license (to sell food) while Pho wanted to no what % she would earn.

We do have a goal for selling things - pocket money for our family trip to New York City and Orlando, Florida in April 2010. 

Where will the one thousand items come from? We intend to be creative, as a family we are collectors, we have a few double up of items. We are also finders - scouring op shops, garage sales, fetes and auctions means we have picked up a number of items we could not go past knowing someone would want this treasure. We have a concept for selling confectionary (hence the hawkers license) and Sage has recorded two CD’s that she needs to sell. 

Stay tuned for our first sale listings update.

Teak