February 2014 - Make £10 a day challenge - everybody welcome :)

pinkneonmartini

Afternoon all

Can I be signed up for £10 a day please

Apologies for not being around for the last coupld of days I was up in the lakes with my lady and the pooch on her super cheap birthday getaway, which was lovely and just what the doctor ordered. But I'm back now and fired up for the new month's challenge BRING IT ON!

please-let-me-be-lucky

I had a £7 off a £50 spend voucher for Mr T's but didn't think I'd spent anything near that. Turns out the total was £49!! Got a lotto lucky dip from the cashier, taking the balance to £51 so I could use the voucher. For the purpose of this thread I'm counting £5 saved as I spent an extra £2 to get the £7 off. Hopefully the lotto ticket will be a winner too!

I also used a 55p price promise voucher.

Cantfindafreeuserid

SpecialBrew wrote: »

Is there any restriction on the type of things that can be sold in these Facebook selling groups? I ask because we've got an old London police truncheon (1918, I think) that I can't sell on eBay. The bidding went wild when I listed it in the antiques category a few years ago, but eBay took it down after a day, saying that it was a 'prohibited item'.

I'm probably being breathtakingly naive here, but I'd have thought that if you wanted a lump of wood just to hit somebody over the head with, you wouldn't be looking to spend money on it and would just buy a baseball bat instead. From one of the thousands listed on eBay They won't let me list it on Gumtree either.

Not that I can complain about eBay. We've got an expensive month here too with my daughter's 21st among other things. She wants a camera, and I've been trawling the net for weeks to find something to fit the puny £50 budget I can spare. At that price if you can find anything with decent reviews then you're still going to need to find a memory card, battery and charger. I was never deliberately going to spend good money on buying her something absolutely pants and so was resigned to having to find some extra money from somewhere.

Then on Sunday I was looking in the eBay 'Deals' section and found the ideal camera, bundled with all those accessories, plus case and cables, for just short of £52 if you include postage. The camera alone normally retails for £65 and has positive reviews all over the net, and together with all the gear would normally cost £185, so you can imagine how pleased I am.

I won't be counting the savings towards the challenge because it's money I couldn't have spent anyway because I haven't got it, but the reason I mention it is because I never knew the eBay 'Deals' bit existed until I took part in their Christmas survey group thingy after someone posted it on here a couple of months back. I just wanted to point out that this thread is worth so much more than face value, to thank Aesop for creating it, thank everyone else for contributing and urge all the lurkers to stick with us and pitch in. This is definitely my favourite thread on the entire site

The groups on facebook are set upby individuals and they make the rules for their group so it really does depend. You may be better off going to an antique shop and trying your luck with directly selling to the shop owner or maybe a local auction?

Hope this helps and good luck.

claire1977_2

The facebook sites I use all have different rules, on one I have seen tobacco,!!!!!! and a samurai sword but another one is really strict, to be fair I would not sell anything that is valuable on theses type of sites as everyone on mine try and knock you down to 50p and then ask you to deliver for that as well. On the other hand I have sold £15 woth of bits and bobs on there to day to bring my total to £20 so far x

SpecialBrew_2

Thanks for the info re Facebook selling. It's something I'm definitely going to be looking into.

I've just been to the Post Office and can now add £7.20 that I didn't have to pay in postage. I was sent £10.80 worth of stamps at the end of last month for taking part in the Royal Mail survey (again, brought to my attention by someone on the thread - thank you ) but did not want to add them to my total until I used them in case mentioning them sooner jinxed my eBay auction and I ended up with item and stamps hanging round indefinitely

In addition, when I got back from the Post Office I discovered that WeBuyBooks had transferred £28.72 to my account in exchange for a load of books that I only sent off on Friday. These were mostly computer programming books plus some gemstone and herb books that I used to use for reference while writing descriptions when I had a New Age shop on eBay about seven years ago. I've been glancing at them all sitting on the bookshelf every few days for months now, wondering if it was worth the effort of seeing if they'd fetch the £10 WeBuyBooks minimum between them. It just goes to show... one woman's junk and all that...

Anyway, this brings today's total to £35.92

As I said, I'm no stranger to eBay, but gave up my shop and stopped selling my own stuff on there in 2006, having become totally jaded by the place. My husband does a lot of competitions, and every now and then will win something worth outing on eBay and so I give into the nagging before it starts and a few times a year I'll end up listing his win for us. Although I buy a fair bit on eBay I've been unable to shake the feeling that I'd rather chew my own arm off than start selling much on there again. Until now.

Back in the day, there was no such thing as being able to list 100 items a month for free if you started at 99p. There was always the risk of paying listing fees for your unwanted stuff if you found out that nobody else wanted it either, and ending up looking at a loss. Now though - nothing ventured, nothing gained. After several months of watching fellow challengers venturing and gaining, I've decided to pitch in and join the fray. One woman is off to unearth some more junk any minute now

Loving this thread and everyone on it by the bucketload today

emmaglet

Evening all,

Sorry for being quiet. The February blues have well and truly hit, combined with a general feeling of what can only be described as "CBA".

£1.27 Qmee and £19.99 from some eBay sales brings my cash total to £66.13.

I've also been having a lot of luck with a bingo offer I've been running in collaboration with my blog and I'm due £360 which is fantastic. I'm not sure when they will pay me but hopefully that comes in this month.

I've also been approached by a company wanting to send me free save the date cards for our wedding in return for a review on my new wedding blog, and another company sending me £50 worth of pet products for a review too.

Not much else in the pipeline though. I've got a handful of things on eBay, the one with a bid on goes straight back to the joint account (an underwater camera we bought for the Disney Bahamas cruise) so I'm not holding out too much hope there. Still waiting for payments from last month's mystery shops which should help, plus Viewsbank are sending me £9odd I think.

Going our for my birthday meal tomorrow night - a week early because my favourite restaurant (Fatty Arbuckles if anyone is interested - last one remaining in the country) has a 25% off voucher that expires this week. I'm not paying, but I don't see the point in my Dad paying 25% more next week - we're taking a competition prize away for my birthday so it won't be the actual day anyway.

And that's about it. Pretty quiet at the moment - it's that CBA stuff.

Timetogrowup

SpecialBrew wrote: »

Is there any restriction on the type of things that can be sold in these Facebook selling groups? I ask because we've got an old London police truncheon (1918, I think) that I can't sell on eBay. The bidding went wild when I listed it in the antiques category a few years ago, but eBay took it down after a day, saying that it was a 'prohibited item'.

I'm probably being breathtakingly naive here, but I'd have thought that if you wanted a lump of wood just to hit somebody over the head with, you wouldn't be looking to spend money on it and would just buy a baseball bat instead. From one of the thousands listed on eBay They won't let me list it on Gumtree either.

Not that I can complain about eBay. We've got an expensive month here too with my daughter's 21st among other things. She wants a camera, and I've been trawling the net for weeks to find something to fit the puny £50 budget I can spare. At that price if you can find anything with decent reviews then you're still going to need to find a memory card, battery and charger. I was never deliberately going to spend good money on buying her something absolutely pants and so was resigned to having to find some extra money from somewhere.

Then on Sunday I was looking in the eBay 'Deals' section and found the ideal camera, bundled with all those accessories, plus case and cables, for just short of £52 if you include postage. The camera alone normally retails for £65 and has positive reviews all over the net, and together with all the gear would normally cost £185, so you can imagine how pleased I am.

I won't be counting the savings towards the challenge because it's money I couldn't have spent anyway because I haven't got it, but the reason I mention it is because I never knew the eBay 'Deals' bit existed until I took part in their Christmas survey group thingy after someone posted it on here a couple of months back. I just wanted to point out that this thread is worth so much more than face value, to thank Aesop for creating it, thank everyone else for contributing and urge all the lurkers to stick with us and pitch in. This is definitely my favourite thread on the entire site

I should think it will be OK. Site rules do vary but usually they are no firearms (air rifles are accepted on some sites), no tobacco, no alcohol and usually no Ann Summers toys! I know counterfeit goods are not allowed and that this comes from FB themselves. But I think your truncheon will be OK. Give it a try but don't be beaten down on price. Or try preloved-they seem to be less restrictive than gumtree. There may even be a site specific to antiques of this kind-just do a creative search and see what pops up! Good luck.

kirstydriver

Slow start for me...

79p on Qmee - will cash out at £1 or so...
£60 worth of overtime... waiting to be paid that...
£12.48 sales on ebay of £192.36 worth of listed items... still time for them to sell.
£20 worth of SwagBucks to cash out..

Will update when money has hit my paypal....

Timetogrowup

Just excitedly rushed to the "We Buy Books" site-we have 1000s of books! They don't give you a lot per book though.... haven't got passed 15p for one yet! Think I will try elsewhere!

dorajar

Just £5 reward payment to add for me today.