From Trash to Cash: the £100 to 10K Dribble thread, Part Deux

elly68

no i work part time already so if i go s/e as well i will get hung for tax was thinking about doing it for the p/a at daughters school to raise funds and just cover costs of beads/keyrings and stick to bootsales at minute .i might have a look at craft fairs though as they have them quite regularly here

moneymakestheworldgoround

God - I had tons of pages to catch up on- I hate not reading it all as I am sure I will miss the top tip that will change my life !

Sulkies - they are fab ! And the idea of the anti men is fantastic - great divorce presents ! I cant believe how you just had the idea, made them up, and are selling them !!!

Munchki - congrats on the job - I know how down you were getting, but that bit of fighting spirit deep down has paid off !

Saucy - have i missed something? I saw lots of posts about new notebooks, but I can only see the first one? did they all sell and I missed it?

Babymoo - Favorably Different? I like the idea of you specialising in something - I think if you try to cover all areas you may miss your niche.

the vital life changing tip I did pick up was about ebay. I have sold quite a lot over the last few days ( well for me anyway !) and I only sell on BIN, immediate payment, UK only. Someone on here said selling abroad increased sales dramatically.

So question of the day - do you sell abroad? What % of your sales are UK only? Do you get problems with UK buyers or foreign or both? I have 500 feedback, 100% positive and I have convinced myself that is because I only deal with UK. I think I am wrong !

jo70mo

woohoo. I was trying to move gadgets around on my blogger layout page and they just wouldn't. was really worried about how I would be able to add things to my blog at a later date as new gadgets would only go to the top of a column which prob wasn't where I would want them.
anyway after googling at 1 am realised it was a known problem with a few browsers. tried it in internet explorer on our pc this morning and it works properly . yay.
thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has similar problems.
Jo x

elly68

right we are away to pick up car from last night have good day catch up later and yukki thanks for tips

jo70mo

MMTWGR - nice to see you. Saucy has made loads of notebooks but just one listed so far but sure the rest will be up soon.
Not sure about the ebay stuff.
Hope you are doin okay.
Jo x

yukkibear

elly68 wrote: »

no i work part time already so if i go s/e as well i will get hung for tax was thinking about doing it for the p/a at daughters school to raise funds and just cover costs of beads/keyrings and stick to bootsales at minute .i might have a look at craft fairs though as they have them quite regularly here

I work part time too, I don't think I'll get stung too much for tax, as you can deduct a lot of stuff, and you have to make a profit before you can be taxed anyway.

Crafty_Toots

Morning (just!) all!

Paula, the new Sulkies are great and I absolutely love the way you've written about them on your shop, comes across really naturally and very funny! :T

I've been meaning to pop on to everyone's blogs and duly follow and hadn't got around to it, so I'm going to spend a wee while doing that today - Nixi, am following you now, so 1 down, only 2 to go!

Still pressing that damn F5 button on eBay, have got 15 and 3 watchers respectively on my coats, but no bids with only 3 and a half hours to go, I so hope they're not going to be a major disappointment!

Going to spend this afternoon sorting out my Gumtree buy for listing on eBay, and that'll take me a while so I'm aiming to get my head down and get on with it! Then the rest of the day hooking methinks, I ordered some stuffing but it hasn't arrived yet and I'm getting impatient!

Despite saying I'm going to be ultra busy today, I am quite sure I will be distracted by the need to dribble! :rotfl:

Toots x

Crafty_Toots

Moneymabel - got to your blog through your site, but don't see any way to follow it - I could well be missing something as I really haven't a clue about blogging, is there a way?

Toots x

moneymakestheworldgoround

Hi jo

I am doing well actually ! Makes a change.

I started to move stuff out into the empty sheds and as I was moving the stock, I listed it on ebay. Plan was to do 1 a day, but got 52 listings done this week, most with 3 - 10 items per listing. Sold a few things, between £1 profit and £30 profit per item. So I am feeling great.

Accidentally bought somethings from China ! Long story but searched on ebay for something for DD3, DD2 wanted one too, so I was costing it up and then saw how many the seller had sold. Thought I would just check the price at a wholesaler and ended up buying 30 to try !! Hope they will get some sales from school friends too when they take them in. Fingers crossed.

Got 2 good wholesalers in UK I have used - stock shifting from both so I am happy. And I have a renewed faith in ebay.

Had some other ideas, but I am putting these on a timeline for the year so I dont go overboard just yet.

Sold a lot of mailing bags to kids parents. I accidentally took some parcels to the school gates in the bottom of the pram. 2 parents asked where I got the mailing bags as they were selling on ebay so I made up packs of 20 mailing bags ( 4 of 5 different sizes) and sold them to them. one then told others and I had a few sales from that !

I sell costume jewellery now and again and had order of 50 earrings @ £1 a pair so happy with that ! cost me 20p each !

Taken kids to the cinema a few times which we have never done and that was great. Been to country park for a run around and just generally spending quality time together

I'm in a happy place right now x

copperjar

Wow, I have some much admiration for people who are making things themselves to sell. It must be so satisfying and rewarding - kind of puts my little enterprise to shame.
Love the sulkies!

I go through phases of loving ebay then hating it! Why don't people just pay straight away when they buy something? I sold an item for £2.99 BIN to someone with 100% feedback on 800+ items 5 days ago. They still haven't paid. I'm scared to open a NPB dispute because last time I did that I got negative feedback calling me impatient!! Its just not worth a possible negative for £2.99. But arghhh!!!
And ebay won't let me add pay immediately to my BIN items for some reason - don't you have to be a business seller for that?