~~ July 2011 Make £10 a day Challenge - All Welcome ~ ~

PiggyBankShaker

Hi Aesop! Been a while but have £65 profit from ebay sales to add. Total for July now stands at £214

Annoyingly made a loss on an item, after ebay fees, paypal fees and miscalculating the postage (not including packaging) made a loss of -7p What an eejit.

Hope everyone else is doing better!

lellybun

Hi peeps! Sounds like lots of us were busy putting thngs on ebay over the weekend. Have got a few pricier bits this time which i am hoping will sell - so will find out about those next Sunday night.

Received £42-50 from Qu1dco today, and £3-92 on its way from cr0wd0l0gy. After a slllloooooow start, things seem to be picking up a bit on the money making front :T

franby64

Evening

A massive 88p today from ebay taking total to £36.46.
Another thing to post tomorrow which should put the total up by about another £1! Getting there!

Heamol

I reached target! Finally got paid by a bidder on Ebay after opening an unpaid item dispute- only made a profit of £1.01p after postage but it's better than nothing!

So I am now at £170.51 and at target :j

This challenge has really motivated me, I didn't honestly think I would make target, so thanks to Aesop and all you other lovely people for making this challenge fun and encouraging!

Tebheag

Well Done to all of you that have hit your target
I have not had anything to add although did make a lovely saving on trainers for ds2 today where half price at £13 but went through the till at £7 would have added that but had been naughty and picked up trainers for dd still not bad £17 for two pairs of trainers from clarks one of them was £34 full price saw next door in Russell and Bromley still for full price lol
Good luck to the rest of you still working up to your limit remember every penny is a small step closer.

Psychaley

Made 99p from ebay and £6.80 on an Amazon sell. Still having issues with Amazon. Someone has ordered a book but hasn't validated their payments, every day for the past 2 weeks I've had the "do not dispatch this order" email which says to carry on reserving the item until the customer pays; but then it also says that Amazon will cancel the order and let the next customer buy the book after 7 days. I don't know whether to hang on and wait for the original buyer to sort their issues or to cancel the order and let someone else buy it.

pick-a-lilly

froglet wrote: »

Are 99p items still a free listing then? I may put some more on. I only managed 18 listings yesterday. Although I did list 4 pairs of shoes I have had for years & they have watchers & 1 pair already has a bid. woo! Saved £12 on entry to an exhibition yesterday with our free art fund cards so will update total. :j

HI you get 100 99p listings for free on ebay each month, to check how many you have used, go to the bottom of your "all selling" page and it'll tell you.

robedha_2

Nothing to add today but I do have an ebay item to post tomorrow so I'll update my total then. It'll probably only be a pound or two.

Saved money last night by going out for dinner! Yes, you did read that right. My store won £200 for a staff night out so we went to F&Bs and spent £171 between 4 of us. It was the best feed I've had in a long time!

I'm not doing too well on my total this month but just being on here is helping me not spend so much. I'm more conscious about what I spend and leave my purse at home when I go to work so I can't be tempted to buy my lunch instead of just eating what I take.

So, can I just say thanks for helping me on my path to pay off my overdraft. Thank you!

JesaRose

nat21luv wrote: »

Hmm...think we need a 'Save £10 a day' thread to run alongside this 'MAKE £10 a day' thread...:D

Agree:rotfl:

Aesop wrote: »

ah but some people actually take the money they have saved by using vouchers and use this to pay of their bills/debts/transfer to a savings account.

But thats just MSE good sense isn't it? I put some of my wages into a savings account each money but thats different from making money and I wouldn't add it


Counting something you got for free when you wouldn't have bought it otherwise is definately cheating a bit

I don't mind what people want to add but just hope they are not cheating themselves out of working that little bit extra hard to "make" something

That "savings on shopping" bit hasn't been on the challenge long Aesop - I'm sure it wasn't on there when I was running it. Although I suppose it could mean different things to different people

My own personal achievement is going out of my normal way to find some more money from somewhere - but if it works differently for others then each to their own :beer:

I sold a couple of Amazon items and posted today = £15.34
Also made lots of new eBay listings over the weekend so pleased with myself as I hate doing them

misskaytee

Another £42.49 to add, good ol' Ebay