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.