Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

God knows where the Internet went to .... spent the weekend 'improving' some pages on my site (checking links, updating stuff, etc) ... income today is £1.50.

At this rate I'll need a job soon.....

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

You need an ipad, there is a neat little app that makes selling on Ebay a dream. Cuts the job down to about 3 minutes per item.

One of the issues is photos too. Walk into the room, camera in hand. Move everything out of the way. Aim camera.... light's not right, stuff needs moving further away... move stuff again, try to get more light into the room (hate flash) ... have another go, fall over something you moved as you're backing up. Still can't quite photograph it + curtains/carpets/wallpaper are showing and not great.... snap. Now, you've no idea how good that photo is, so you take 3-4 more. Put everything back, run to the PC, remove card from camera, slide it into PC, wait and click some stuff until you find it on the card. Look - looks OK (it'll do), then open up a new folder and transfer the images from the card in case you lose your 'good work'.

Then you have to describe it - and half the time that's the trouble. How you describe furniture to its best advantage, might be a design name you're missing off, or a wood type that's sought after (and you've no idea what it's made of anyway).

Just had to photograph a dressing table with full length mirror.... top tip: crouch down so the ceiling is reflected in the mirror.... but not the lampshade. And a wardrobe with a mirror.... had to move stuff and position myself so least cr4ppy stuff (that I'd shifted onto the bed/floor) was viewable.

Repeat.... for what could potentially be dozens of things.... and all against a backdrop of my experience in the past where I've had no bids, and non-payers. In an ideal world somebody'd come round and take everything, then sell it and give you half or something..... AND - be reliable (that's another thing, people aren't reliable).

silvercar

One of the issues is photos too. Walk intot he room, camera in hand. Move everything out of the way. Aim camera.... light's not right, stuff needs moving further away... move stuff again, try to get more light into the room (hate flash) ... have another go, fall over something you moved as you're backing up. Still can't quite photograph it + curtains/carpets/wallpaper are showing and not great.... snap. Now, you've no idea how good that photo is, so you take 3-4 more. Put everything back, run to the PC, remove card from camera, slide it into PC, wait and click some stuff until you find it on the card. Look - looks OK (it'll do), then open up a new folder and transfer the images from the card in case you lose your 'good work'.

Thats what the ipad does easily. Aim ipad at item and click - it loads the picture straight to Ebay. You can loan a few and decide which to use easily.

silvercar

I've just done my first Tesco online order. Really need some lessons.

Very easy as it has a record of all my clubcard previous shops, so easy to find things, but I can't get the hang of the discount codes. I'm surrounded by coupons with no codes, sure I missed a trick. I did get the first time shopper discount and quidco.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

You need an ipad, there is a neat little app that makes selling on Ebay a dream. Cuts the job down to about 3 minutes per item.

Martin launched a neat little bit of software that helps people find collection only bargains, so that may generate some interest.

I doubt anybody down here even knows he exists... never mind the app - and would be using it.

Imagine a house where there's a small town of shiftless itinerants... then there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for 20 miles. It's a tough area for anything: buying or selling, it's just hard to achieve anything.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Thats what the ipad does easily. Aim ipad at item and click - it loads the picture straight to Ebay. You can loan a few and decide which to use easily.

Loan a few? Eh? What, loan an ipad? I doubt shops round here would even sell them - never mind loan one. And I've never had/used one, so that's a learning curve in itself!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I've just done my first Tesco online order. Really need some lessons.

Very easy as it has a record of all my clubcard previous shops, so easy to find things, but I can't get the hang of the discount codes. I'm surrounded by coupons with no codes, sure I missed a trick. I did get the first time shopper discount and quidco.

If only you knew a web-savvy, Tesco-using super shopper, eh!

michaels

You got the biggies if you got the £5 quidco plus the £10 new customer voucher although of course quidco charge £5 per annum whereas topcashback is free (would anyone like a referral to join TCB?) The other codes can be a bit poo as they are often on items that can be bought cheaper elsewhere. Did you order in time to get the petrol voucher (offer needs to be on on your delivery date)? Other advice is that orders delivered on Friday/Saturday are more likely to end up with substitutions than those due on other days.

I have just spoken to a broadcast network who are doing a piece on cashback sites but they wanted bad experiences rather than good ones. I am also talking to another newspaper tomorrow about the same thing.

silvercar wrote: »

I've just done my first Tesco online order. Really need some lessons.

Very easy as it has a record of all my clubcard previous shops, so easy to find things, but I can't get the hang of the discount codes. I'm surrounded by coupons with no codes, sure I missed a trick. I did get the first time shopper discount and quidco.

Spirit_2

Driving for 30 years. In order.

• MG Midget - damask red rubber bumpered (present to me and still have it)
• Peugeot 205 - pale blue new company car
• Volvo Estate - new to OH then passed on to me - colour Elephant grey (I loved this car, turned on a sixpence, towed caravans/horse trailers and swallowed family life/dog as much as I ever needed)
• Toyota Yaris - new Gold
• Volkswagon campervan 1965 splitty - jointly with OH, olde english white LHD imported from New York
• BMW Series 1 - arrives next week in Silver and in respect of my being over 50 gone for an automatic.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

You need an ipad, there is a neat little app that makes selling on Ebay a dream. Cuts the job down to about 3 minutes per item.

Martin launched a neat little bit of software that helps people find collection only bargains, so that may generate some interest.

Really? I might try and find that.

Re martins ebay thing, i do not think its as good a others already available.

Just picked up something from another ebay local bargain tool now in fact:D