Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

What a morning already I was up pretty early, so I started on the ebay listing. And oh boy, when its a type of stuff you haven't sold before - its tough! I'm selling cushion covers that my sister bought in Morocco nearly 20 years ago, and has never used, and thats *way* beyond my usual books and CDs :rotfl:One more set to go, then finish getting ready for clients. After that, its on to the ski equipment _pale_

Of course, one reason its a bit tricky is that all my storage *everywhere* is at maximum capacity. So they're stored in the counselling room, and I shift them out of there every day I work. And putting them online now, computer's in one room, cushion covers are in another, the scales (and yes, ebay ask you to weigh your stuff!) are in another.
**picture of KC dashing about** luckily all the rooms are next to one another :rotfl:

I also nabbed the amazon gift certs and applied them - they're mine now, I tell you, all mine :rotfl: even if Their Swagginess goes bust, they're still mine :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

I'm always SO impressed at anyone selling anything on Ebay - I don't have a good record! Sold one CD for 99p years ago, then 'officially' sold my van (to someone who never paid or came to collect it), and since then I've been TRYING to make myself put on a cover for a folding bike, but I can't find a picture of it on the internet, I can't figure out how to take a picture of it that accurately describes what it is, and I don't know what model of bike it's for! :rotfl:

Still, encouraged by your efforts I might have one last try to force myself this weekend

Karmacat

Cheery, believe me, I understand *exactly* where you're coming from! I've got all sorts of bits and bobs that *could* go up there, including an ipod shuffle I got free from qype for posting a gazillion reviews (actually, that might really be worth selling!). I'm way outside my comfort zone on this, but its right for both of us, so off I go **zoom** still haven't done that 3rd one, but its nearly all in place.

I can't stop eating at the moment :bdaycake: though its a lot more savoury than this

Oh, Cheery - if it helps, they let you put up a lot more pictures now, free of charge - up to 12! Good luck with it

Karmacat

Ta-da! I've just picked up enough swaggie points for one last Amazon voucher, a £3 one - that makes £19 in total :j which is great, but I'm stopping - if I'd invested the same amount of time in matched betting, it would have been ten or twenty times as much money. Plus swa gbucks feeds my addiction to computer games, which is sadly *really* bad for my arthritis

So, much as I love working hard (and I do!) I'm going to work hard and *smart*. Bye bye swagness

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like a sensible decision there KC!

JimLad

Karmacat i would love to read your blog...Could you post the URL or message me it? I cant find it going back through your messages

Goldiegirl

I know exactly what you mean about selling anything a little bit non standard on eBay, especially if it's a larger than average item.


It takes ages to photograph, to research how much other people are selling for, to think up a good description, work out what category to put it in, get it measured up and weighed, work out the best postal/courier service to use, and then to list it. Then eBay and Paypal take a big slice of the profits, and you are left with a few quid!


I've sold three iPods on behalf of my friend, for between £20 - £40. I was quite hesitant about doing it, but all the sales went fine, and made a nice amount of money.


In a weird way I still enjoy eBaying - I think it's the sense of satisfaction when something leaves the house in a neat parcel (I'm slightly OCD about neat parcels!:rotfl:)

Karmacat

JimLad wrote: »

Karmacat i would love to read your blog...Could you post the URL or message me it? I cant find it going back through your messages

Hello JimLad :wave: thats a very nice thing to ask :j I'll pm you, absolutely - but there's my personal blog, my cat website, my cat design blog, and the one I've been prattling about this week, the sort-of-preparedness blog, for fact and fiction, which isn't actually set up yet Tell me which appeals, and I'll pm you. None of them are monetised yet (ignore the Amazon link on the cat website!) so its within the rules, I'm sure.

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I know exactly what you mean about selling anything a little bit non standard on eBay, especially if it's a larger than average item.


It takes ages to photograph, to research how much other people are selling for, to think up a good description, work out what category to put it in, get it measured up and weighed, work out the best postal/courier service to use, and then to list it. Then eBay and Paypal take a big slice of the profits, and you are left with a few quid!

Exactly! I never post a personal pic of a book or whatnot, I just use their standard photo, and it adds to the rest of it, it really does

I've sold three iPods on behalf of my friend, for between £20 - £40. I was quite hesitant about doing it, but all the sales went fine, and made a nice amount of money.

Thats good news. I'm sure its an early version, but still, £15 - £20 is excellent money

In a weird way I still enjoy eBaying - I think it's the sense of satisfaction when something leaves the house in a neat parcel (I'm slightly OCD about neat parcels!:rotfl:)

I can relate to that :rotfl: tho neatness in parcels will forever be beyond me. Secure, yes. Neat, no I think I like the idea of something thats just been sitting there gathering dust going off to have a new life, new adventures. And its very individual, putting it all to a charity shop just isn't the same.

Ooh ... the sky above me is a pale orange ... who knew orange could look so threatening! There's a lot more rain to come, I think ... tho the forecast says it'll be stopping soon.

I'll stop waffling, shall I I'm only going on because I've got a client arriving in about 5 mins, can't do anything terribly useful in that time.

Have a good rest of the day folks :beer:

JimLad

You personal one and your cat one? Im interested in starting my own so thought i would check out a few other Money savers first

Karmacat

You should have had a pm by now, JimLad What are you interested in writing about?

I'm starting *really* slowly today - I have what counts as a full day working for me, so I'm going to make sure I get out for a bit of a walk. I've managed to check the views on ebay tho, and I've had 6 per set of cushions :rotfl: tho one of those is probably my sister

And I did just set up the new blog, since I had to find the linkies for JimLad anyway :cool: though there's absolutely nothing on there yet, I've just got the title :j

I think I might have a cuppa :coffee: first.