**Make Me Rich This Year eBay or Else!!**

foxy78

Managed about 60 listings this weekend and 1 already has a bid and a few others already has watchers, fingers crossed more bids over the 9days left

twiglet98

Just read through several pages of this thread with interest - I'd virtually given up with eBay, anything I list with a 99p start seems to sell for £1.04 if I'm lucky, and it seems like robbery to charge three or four times that to post it, if I can even work out a fair price to charge for postage when listing it - I usually pay more at the Post Office than I've charged and therefore have often actually been out of pocket! Yes, must try harder, guess less, get decent scales to weigh things properly WITH the packaging, take the packaging cost into account on the rare occasion I can't recycle a box or jiffy bag, generally get better at it. I do have over 1200 positive feedback, but apart from a productive summer selling CDs a few years ago, I've bought a lot more than I've sold.

I'm intrigued by the idea of doing a 1-day listing on the Saturday of a free listing weekend, and relisting for 5 or 7 days on the Sunday. What sort of items do you do this with? Clothes (most of mine go to charity shops as that's where most of them came from!)... CDs (just sold over 100 to Music Magpie for the usual pittance)... hardback books are just too heavy to post at a sensible price, they get listed on Amazon... sport / hobby equipment, pet stuff, and car parts, seem the most profitable items I've ever listed, the odd pine chest of drawers has gone for £20 or so, collected. Lots to learn before I make a profit, let alone a fortune!

Congrats credit_crunch, hope you're doing well!

squeakysue

Hi everyone :wave:

I would love to join this challenge. I have a loft full of outgrown kids clothes/toys/baby equipment and would love to clear it all to make way for a loft conversion.

So.....this week I have made a start, pulled down 2 binbags from the loft, all clothes, have listed 15 items on eBay (11 have bids, the rest have watchers) I have sorted into piles of bundles of sizes and singles that will sell better alone.

I have piles to pass on to family, piles of not so good stuff that can go in the cash for clothes bags (every little helps)

I will be aiming to list at least once a week of at least 10 items ( I only have the use of a car on certain days so don't want to be swamped with parcels)

Hopefully I will have made a good dint in the loft space before the summer hols and we can start getting some plans in place

Wish me luck :j

slipper75

Twiglet - 1200 positive reviews is great,no matter how you got them!!:beer:
I definitely have to admit that I was caught out with this recent postage change as I simply did a relist and didn't edit my postage costs while on hols. However, now I've got it down - either small parcel or it goes via Collect + for £4. Also, I have to say that I never put anything down for 99p (almost always wait for free listing) as it's just not worth the effort to send for me if it only sells for that amount. I try to bundle my things together so the min start price is £9.95 so I can also ensure it's worth recorded delivery. It's worked so far for me as that way I don't have to worry about people saying that they did not receive it either.

Squeakysue - welcome!!! That's a great start with 11 bids on 15 items. Looks like you're well on your way.

As for me, I did a big clearout of our basement/my office - Yay! However, I did buy about £80 of plastic boxes and much is in the garage - but at least I have the room back and everything is stored logically in the garage and got rid of a bunch of big hardcover books I've had for ages that wouldn't be worth selling on Ebay. It was 6 big garbage bag loads to the local Fara shop . Need to now look at the garage and give it a good tidying up too. Need to book a zipcar to lug a bunch of boxes and other broken items, offcuts etc to the dump. I'm not making much money via ebay but at least I'm clearing the clutter.:rotfl:

Good luck to everyone!
Slipper

credit_crunch

http://community.ebay.co.uk/topic/Seller-Central/Free-Listing-27th/18000497990

Looks like free listing again unless I've missed something obvious......

squeakysue

Well all of my 15 items sold, a great start to the loft clear out, I have since listed 19 more lots and have pulled down some more stuff to photograph/list. Starting to feel quite positive about my decluttering and hopefully the money will come in useful towards our loft conversion :j

I am listing at intervals so I am not laden with parcels everyday, find it easier to post 4 or 5 than 20 :rotfl: sure the PO staff and customers prefer it too

sophiasmum

= Found on ebay board: Free listing 11& 12 May

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/promos/0IF_130511/index.html

Ive been quiet lately - but need to raise some funds so guess what I will be doing all week / weekend. Going to try to schedule 5 things a night.....

squeakysue

My auctions have been doing ok, all have sold and have got some decent prices for some stuff. Will take advantage of free listings to set some higher start prices as I normally start everything at 99p but have some toy bundles to sell so would like to get minimum prices for some of them.

kkennedy

anyone know if you schedule your item to list on free weekend but write the list up mid week and pay the 6p to set the time and date to start on the sat or sunday you would get it free listing

squeakysue

kkennedy wrote: »

anyone know if you schedule your item to list on free weekend but write the list up mid week and pay the 6p to set the time and date to start on the sat or sunday you would get it free listing

Yes that normally works for me, at the weekend when you are ready to list go to edit listing and where it says schedule click start listing immediately and it takes the 6p off