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Badsaver

kendall17 wrote: »

Do you want to buy a new phone

I always check on eBay to see what has sold before I buy it. The completed listing is superb. I think its very important to buy something that has sold.

Tesco has been great lately, they've rebranded a lot of their tools etc. I picked up 3x 3 BBQ tool sets today, 31p each because they had 'Tesco Value' packaging. Worth a punt with very small risk. Put them on for £1.99 and targetting throw-away BBQ/Festival Go-ers

Haha! My contract is due in July so due a New one then, my iPhone broke so making do with this until my renewal date!

I will keep an eye out for these bargains... They never seem to be.around when I look for them! Although my novelty birthday candles were only about 40p some.England football ones and winnie the pooh!

fairyclicks

Badsaver wrote: »

I will a read.... How do I get to it? I'm having to do all my 'internetting' on my horrible phone at the minute which is a pain as just to top things.off at the minute... My laptop has passed away Grrrr

Oh No! I had no internet for ages cos of them backward yks people its a nightmare! Blog is linked as my website on here (click via name) but you might not be able to do that on your phone. I guarantee if you read that post you will feel better about your own car booting though LOL!

Badsaver wrote: »

My first buy was some brand New books. They were ridiculously cheap.... Probably owing to the fact that nobody actually wants them! Lol! I think 1 personlooked at one of them today at the boot sale but after reading the back, she put it back down... I also have some of these listed.on Ebay with he generic description using the barcode. They hardly have any views but this.could.be down to postage.
I have listed some novelty candles I bought quite cheaply and a couple of Moshi bits and pieces that aren't really doing anything either!
I bought some Boots soap dishes.aswell quite cheap.but after 10 days
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. They still haven't arrived!

I also apologise for the seemingly random full stops mid sentence. This phone is stupid and just likes to throw one in every so often

J x

Hmmm, ok the books thing - i find hard to sell on ebay cos of the postage costs (unless they go in large letter slot) might be worth putting as a job lot with one post cost?? You can also try on Amazon - own selling account or trade in. What kind of books are they? womens? kids? etc might give me more ideas for selling

Moshi bits i have no idea of - have you done a search for completed items and current listings on ebay for price comparison? selling frequency etc?

candles can do well so i'm surprised they haven't had interest. How are they listed? auction? buy now? and again have you checked against other items listed/completed for price comparison.

Another option is selling on facebook - do you know how to do that? search under your town name or local large town and you should find selling groups.

I'm also happy to have a look at your ebay listings to see if i can suggest anything - if you are happy to tell me an item number or your id on there (no worries if not! i know some people don't like to give that info - PM me if you want to give me that

Lets see if we can get you selling xxx

kendall17

Badsaver wrote: »

Haha! My contract is due in July so due a New one then, my iPhone broke so making do with this until my renewal date!

I will keep an eye out for these bargains... They never seem to be.around when I look for them! Although my novelty birthday candles were only about 40p some.England football ones and winnie the pooh!

They seem like a good buy, should get £2 for them?

I now take around 40mins to get round tesco, even if its for a pint of milk!

Happy with the way things have gone in the month 5-4-13 to 5-5-13, never thought I'd be hitting £380 turnover in a month!

Badsaver

For some reason I feel very self conscious! Here goes......

Changed my mind.... Ive PM'd you x

kendall17

Badsaver wrote: »

For some reason I feel very self conscious! Here goes......

Changed my mind.... Ive PM'd you x

You can do worse things.

I'm sure if someone did a search for those chrome wiper blades i'm selling, they'd work out who I was on there.

Badsaver

I know i just get paranoid haha!!

fairyclicks

Badsaver wrote: »

For some reason I feel very self conscious! Here goes......

Changed my mind.... Ive PM'd you x

I know it feels odd somehow doesn't it? LOL!

anyway, i have had a look and really the only thing i can think of is if you add some info to the book title - the one you sent me the number for is a poetry book so i would add that cos if someone doesn't know the author they wouldn't know to look. I would also add if its for kids or not cos thats not obvious but the book cover makes it look like a kids book (when i'm not sure it is)

The candles look really good and i am sure they will sell. I think the 'issue' at the minute is simply they are not coming up on any of the first pages when you search. To help i would add the words girls or boys and decorations if you can - i'm guessing people might search for boys birthday cake decorations for example.

I hope that helps xx

kendall17

See, I've just done a quick search on your Moshi Monsters lip gloss/balm (yes I found you haha), and note that you can get the lip gloss for £2.50 with free p&p. Yours are that bit more and have a p&p charge. I imagine that is the reason why you've not sold any.

Personally, i'd do them at £2.25 incl p&p although I dont know what you've paid for them.

I agree, facebook selling groups are huge. Its probably an even split between one group local to me and eBay for my sales.

Badsaver

kendall17 wrote: »

See, I've just done a quick search on your Moshi Monsters lip gloss/balm (yes I found you haha), and note that you can get the lip gloss for £2.50 with free p&p. Yours are that bit more and have a p&p charge. I imagine that is the reason why you've not sold any.

Personally, i'd do them at £2.25 incl p&p although I dont know what you've paid for them.

I agree, facebook selling groups are huge. Its probably an even split between one group local to me and eBay for my sales.

Oh gosh - I'm not difficult to find then!
I bought them for 1 each (back to using stupid phone that doesn't seem to have a pound sign until the ipod charges.) We got them really to 'see what they can do' I think the Moshi fad may be dying down a little now tho. I did try and.changr my pricing on.them.earlier.but it wouldn't let me for.some reason? Maybe.something to do with the Android app. I will try on ipod....

Badsaver

fairyclicks wrote: »

I know it feels odd somehow doesn't it? LOL!

anyway, i have had a look and really the only thing i can think of is if you add some info to the book title - the one you sent me the number for is a poetry book so i would add that cos if someone doesn't know the author they wouldn't know to look. I would also add if its for kids or not cos thats not obvious but the book cover makes it look like a kids book (when i'm not sure it is)

The candles look really good and i am sure they will sell. I think the 'issue' at the minute is simply they are not coming up on any of the first pages when you search. To help i would add the words girls or boys and decorations if you can - i'm guessing people might search for boys birthday cake decorations for example.

I hope that helps xx

Thank you both for all your help
Sorry for keep posting twice in a row I will have to start combining my answers into one!

I will have a look on the Facebook groups.next time.im I'm alhough really, I'm hardly on it! Do they collect stuff on there? I wouldn't really like strange folk at.my house. Especially with having a little one!