Make £10 a Day Challenge November 2015 - everybody welcome

lexbubbles

Another £1.50 on Vivatic making my total over there £8.60 today, and my over-all total today £10.35.

I don't promise to not take more surveys before I go out tonight :rotfl:

rawdinosaur

Another £15 for me. (Mixture of selling something and friends not wanting their change when they pay me back!)

Xandersmum

Just found £1.03 in Qmee after realising from reading on here that I handed added to new Lappy (that I got 4 months ago, all those pennies lost!!)

Off for a frantic ebay list!!

crazy_cat_lady

Nothing for me to add today. Things like Topcashback and COS are ongoing but I won't add until I actually cash them out. It's been a day of general planning - work, Christmas, budget etc. I've kept busy but nothing outwardly productive.

Procrastinater

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I know exactly what you mean, Procrastinater;)

I sell quite a lot of books on Amazon (well, attempt to/hope to anyway) and the 1p sellers are a real pain. They totally spoil it for the rest of us:mad:. I refuse to join in their little game. Once I listed a book at something like 80p (very small and light so could just about get away with a few pence profit from the postal allowance) and it appeared behind a couple of pages of 1p ones but someone still opted to buy mine quite soon after listing:j. I suspect it's something to do with perceived value, anything costing a mere 1p can't be any good type of thing.

Most of the 1p sellers are big businesses and I suppose they can stand the loss but there is no way they can make any profit on a book even with preferential postage rates and less fees if the book is anything heavier/thicker than the cheapest 'large letter' price.................

.............................It's a problem to know what to do with the more popular books that Amazon is awash with at 1p a time so I tend to sell mine at car boot sales (along with other stuff) throughout the season. Even at 40p each/3 for £1 it's a lot better than losing money on Amazon and they sell like hot cakes usually.

I don't know CBC - I'm not sure how it's even worth wrapping them up and taking them to the PO at those margins. :eek:

So just out of curiosity - would you be selling the "Shades of Gray..." books at 40 p ? for example.

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Procrastinater wrote: »

I don't know CBC - I'm not sure how it's even worth wrapping them up and taking them to the PO at those margins. :eek:

So just out of curiosity - would you be selling the "Shades of Gray..." books at 40 p ? for example.

I don't know about the Shades of Gray prices as I've never tried to sell any. This is a rural area, the car boot sales round here are fairly small and the customers don't want to pay much. It's a case of getting whatever I can just to clear the clutter in lots of cases. Run of the mill paperback novels which were very popular so there are zillions in circulation won't go for more than 40p a time round here I'm afraid. May well be different where you are. Unusual books, as new ones, hardbacks etc etc would fetch more but there's no hard and fast rule, I play it by ear a lot of the time.

If you plan to do it I'd recommend a visit to a couple first just to do a recce and get a feel for the prices. I've seen car boot sales where paperback novels in excellent condition were on sale at 20p each and the buyers weren't fighting over them even at that price. A lot depends on the location and popularity of a sale.

Procrastinater

wifey27 wrote: »

I know I am very late (!) to the party, but would I be able to join in with the challenge? Keen to be more mindful of making some extra pennies now, rather than leaving it until the new year.

Wifey27

Of course you can join in Wifey :cool: and Welcome - Where do you think your best chance of some extra dosh lies ?

Aesop

wifey27 wrote: »

I know I am very late (!) to the party, but would I be able to join in with the challenge? Keen to be more mindful of making some extra pennies now, rather than leaving it until the new year.

Wifey27

Hi and welcome, of course you can join in. what are you going for? £5 or £10 for remainder of month?

wifey27

Thanks Procrastinater.

Lots of overtime coming up in work so I think that is the way to go. I have lots I could eb*y but it is a lot of effort...

wifey27

Let's try for £10 Aesop!