I followed the link to see if you were selling any hunks of bread but I didn't see any (I would have even settled just for the dunking sauce). I did see a 1902 Indian Head Cent ... er ... shouldn't you be calling this a 1902 Native American Head Cent?
I did notice that you managed to sell a 24 Piece Stainless Flatware Set for $1. I've been contemplating selling stuff on eBay (I just have to get off my lazy ass and do something about it). For things like this -- do you consider this worth your time? Finding a box, packaging it all up, standing in line at the post office to get the right postage, and so forth ... for $1?
Now certainly most of your auctions, I assume, are worth the effort. But how should a seller consider these outliers? Total wastes of time? Auctions that come with the turf? Or would this make you set a higher minimum bid in the future?
Ah, well, see the thing with the flatware... That was garbage. I knew it. eBay knew it. Heck, people who had never seen it knew that this flatware was crap. Well, everyone but my wife. She had some crazy idea that because it came from Grandma it was somehow ´valuable´... crazy talk.
So no Dan, selling anything for $1 is a losing prospect (even with the shipping added on) but it was woth $1 to prove that the flatware was crap. That, my fine friend, was invaluable.
In general, if you can't get $5 for it then put it in a box with some other crap until you can get $5 for the whole box. I tend to drive my sales based on whatever packaging I can find. Got a box? Go find an appropriate item that fits well into the box that you want to get rid of, take a photo, put it in the box and list it. When it sells you can tape up the box and throw an address on it and you're done. So now you've not only gotten rid of a useless box but a useless item as well. At, I might add, a profit. Cha-Ching.
Under no circumstances list something under the assumption that a box will turn up before the auction ends. It won't and you'll be wandering around the house yelling at the kids to eat more cereal so you can have the Froot Loops box to pack used linens in. No fun. At all. For anyone.
Oh, and on the 1902 Indian head cent... I'm just readin' out of the price guide here. Apparently the political correctness movement has not yet made it to numismatics. Soon enough, no doubt.
Let me know how it goes or when you post something. Perhaps some of your junk wants a home with my junk or vice versa. I'll trade ya a 1902 "Native American" Penny for your collection of books in Polish, Dutch and Esperanto.
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Rob,
I followed the link to see if you were selling any hunks of bread but I didn't see any (I would have even settled just for the dunking sauce). I did see a 1902 Indian Head Cent ... er ... shouldn't you be calling this a 1902 Native American Head Cent?
I did notice that you managed to sell a 24 Piece Stainless Flatware Set for $1. I've been contemplating selling stuff on eBay (I just have to get off my lazy ass and do something about it). For things like this -- do you consider this worth your time? Finding a box, packaging it all up, standing in line at the post office to get the right postage, and so forth ... for $1?
Now certainly most of your auctions, I assume, are worth the effort. But how should a seller consider these outliers? Total wastes of time? Auctions that come with the turf? Or would this make you set a higher minimum bid in the future?
Just curious.
Dan
Ah, well, see the thing with the flatware... That was garbage. I knew it. eBay knew it. Heck, people who had never seen it knew that this flatware was crap. Well, everyone but my wife. She had some crazy idea that because it came from Grandma it was somehow ´valuable´... crazy talk.
So no Dan, selling anything for $1 is a losing prospect (even with the shipping added on) but it was woth $1 to prove that the flatware was crap. That, my fine friend, was invaluable.
In general, if you can't get $5 for it then put it in a box with some other crap until you can get $5 for the whole box. I tend to drive my sales based on whatever packaging I can find. Got a box? Go find an appropriate item that fits well into the box that you want to get rid of, take a photo, put it in the box and list it. When it sells you can tape up the box and throw an address on it and you're done. So now you've not only gotten rid of a useless box but a useless item as well. At, I might add, a profit. Cha-Ching.
Under no circumstances list something under the assumption that a box will turn up before the auction ends. It won't and you'll be wandering around the house yelling at the kids to eat more cereal so you can have the Froot Loops box to pack used linens in. No fun. At all. For anyone.
Oh, and on the 1902 Indian head cent... I'm just readin' out of the price guide here. Apparently the political correctness movement has not yet made it to numismatics. Soon enough, no doubt.
Rob,
Your words of eBay wisdom are most impressive. Your principle of first finding a box, and then some junk to fit into it, is total genuis.
Dan, off to search for boxes, and then for junk to put into them ...
Let me know how it goes or when you post something. Perhaps some of your junk wants a home with my junk or vice versa. I'll trade ya a 1902 "Native American" Penny for your collection of books in Polish, Dutch and Esperanto.
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