2007 Olympic Challenge

Christmasshopper

I have been going through my kitchen cupboards looking for things to sell towards the challenge. I have come across an ancient Swan coffee percolator that we haven't used for years. Imagine my delight when I saw a similar one had recently sold on ebay for £24
Now imagine how I feel after spending all afternoon looking for the lead and not being able to find it.

Yorkielass

Haven't been on MSE over the weekend but have had a bit of luck selling wise so thought it was time to update:

Put some random tesco money off vouchers on ebay on thursday night on 1 day listing only made 69p but they would have been binned otherwise and the lady paid instantly. Then my amazon selling fairy prayers were answered as I got home to find I'd sold a book, only a 1p one but really thin + cheap to post so 97p. Then ebay winner from Wednesday paid on Saturday morning and made £3.39 (bit of lush soap from gift set I got for Christmas and 2 others I got free with purchases after Christmas). Posted these all on Saturday morning so saved my weekly total slightly = £9.14 - and it meant I made it into 3 figures - just :j :j :j £100.61.

On Saturday sold another book on amazon, one I bought for my teacher training - was pending for a few hours but went through so that's good posted today and made: £8.77 then yesterday afternoon sold one of my tesco r+r books and made £3.20 so total this week so far is £11.97 and overall is £112.58. :T

Only half way to what I should be at this point but I'm still pleased and have money from ciao to come and mystery shopping too.

Hoping for plenty of amazon sales this week and for the cheque to clear for the ebay item I sold last weekend so I can post and count that - have 2 items on ebay finishing this Saturday too.

Good luck for week 6 everyone :money:

Christmasshopper

Well done Yorkielass.

wilf55

Christmasshopper wrote:

I have been going through my kitchen cupboards looking for things to sell towards the challenge. I have come across an ancient Swan coffee percolator that we haven't used for years. Imagine my delight when I saw a similar one had recently sold on ebay for £24
Now imagine how I feel after spending all afternoon looking for the lead and not being able to find it.

might go for £23 but £23 is £23

Christmasshopper

wilf55 wrote:

might go for £23 but £23 is £23

I was just thinking that if I could find out where to get a replacement I could check that it is still working and it would probably sell for more if I could advertise it as in working order.

finallydebtfree!!

perhaps you could find a replacement lead on ebay!

Im so excited I got my race for life pack through today! must get out training more, will be so much better once the evenings get lighter! (sorry off topic! I just wanted to share my excitement!) :j

apologies again woa for sending you the email with my sponser page in it

mind you want with that, my yoga, the challenge and my full time job, will have to find some time to sleep!! :rolleyes:

mickey_mouse

I have £49 to add :j as I have been using vouchers I received as pressies to buy pressies for a couple of relatives with Birthday soon.

I am still waiting on some ebay payments so will add those in later this week when I have been paid and sent the parcels off so I know what the profit is.

bellsbells

Got £25 of vouchers from ipoints today!

EagerLearner

finallydebtfree!! wrote:

congratulations jpwhittle!

I have just applied to istockphoto.com have passed the test and uploaded 3 photos now waiting to see if I have been accepted. Slightly annoyed as some of my better photos from my trip to australia I couldnt use due to them not being big enough or something (they were taken with an aps camera and scanned onto my computer, perhaps that has something to do with it!)

to anyone who uses istockphoto what kind of pictures do you put on there?

the ones I thought of putting on there are holiday photos, which everyone tells me should be postcards and a collegue thought I had stuck the odd postcards in my album! Not wanting to blow my own trumpet but they are pretty good, took a year long photography course at college so they are not just snaps, I am very picky with my pictures!

Hi FDF - glad you joined up and I recommend to anyone that likes taking photos to join. If your photo is good, it will sell - may take time, but then you can leave it alone and th emoney will build up.

2 years ago the reason I only uploaded 2 pics was same as you FDF - I had some a-m-a-z-i-n-g photos from Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, but they were taken with APS camera and resolution wasn't high enough. So I only uploaded 2 photos, then forgot all about it... it kills me - had I uploaded the full 15 photos, I might have over 300$ now! Sadly they don't have a UK site, but many UK companies/graphic designers use that website to buy from, hence it is the only one I will use as it seems to be the best of the best and pay well.

Photos take around 48-72 hours to be approved I think.

I wouldn't recommend general holiday snaps, but the ones you describe sound great. The basic question is - would a magazine pay for this photo? Would a catalogue pay for this photo? Would someone use it for a poster? If the answer is yes put it up. Obviously make your first 15 the choiciest ones and see how you go, to give you the best possibility of sales in the first week!

I had planned to order my new Canon IXUS 850 camera next week but will now get it this week as am so inspired and I am glad I have inspired you guys too!

PM me if you want to discuss :T

Sea78

Got £49.07 to add after amazon and ebay sales 9minus postage and fees)