sell my junk on ebay

Listed a dvd, tested out the 1-day auction and it worked! Someone got a good deal and a great film. I got rid of a duplicate, a couple bucks to buy someone else’s surplus dvds (mighty wind, best in show, gosford park???), and some space on my dvd shelf to fill with the aforementioned new dvds I’ll be acquiring.

I will get a little more organized with all of this as I go – just getting my feet wet.

A DVD… Didn’t have time to do more but am gaining momentum. At one point I thought I should just dump all this stuff off at a “you sell it” thing “we sell it??” something… I tried to get my sister to sell it… I thought perhaps I’d donate it all? Sell it at a garage sale? But I have the time now – I gotta try to get as much back for this stuff as I can. OK, and so I can buy more fabric on ebay! hee [ssshhhhhhh]

Shipped the thing. Only undercharged $1 on the shipping so no big deal. I was afraid I’d end up losing money on the transaction. JW just pulled MORE crap from the garage that was supposed to be returned. A $25 sweater from Target and some other misc. stuff. ARGH! I must stop “not returning” things. yee gads.

Well, I am enjoying the fact that more $$ in my paypal acct. means more stuff I can buy on the down low. : ) Plus, what’s the point of having all this crap sitting around – get it moved on – let someone else have a crack at it, eh??

Listing a couple movies today – duplicate DVDs… here we go!

that was easy. Now I can buy things [more fabric] secretly! [no. that wasn’t the object!!]

argh. this is something that I thought would be great for JD but turned out to be a few years beyond him yet. I set it aside then forgot about it and now I’ve decided to sell it. I have about 100 things like this to sell (at least). Yikes. I am terrible about returning things. I am pretty organized when I do it but I have long stretches where I can’t keep up with things and then they just get stored somewhere miscellaneous in the house in a cleaning frenzy or JW ditches them somewhere (I think purposely obscure to fuck with me – kind of a gaslight thing) (no, I’m actually not kidding – possibly somewhat paranoid but not kidding)...

Ebay vs. Donate/garage sale

- Kitchen decor
- General decor
- Kitchen supplies
- Clothing
– mine
– jD’s
- surplus fabric
- surplus crafts

some things to sell:
$15 – ikea bomull drapes
$40 – land of nod crib bumper
$40 – faucet

yee gods. I think there are about 50 things I could list right now. [self-loathing self loathing self loathing]

Just listed two quilt patterns I got in a lot – thought I’d never do these – but still kept 2 I will also probably never do! Anyway, listed both last week but neither came close to selling. I think the way to go is spend a couple weeks setting up a large sale and then listing things all at once. yikes. I am so not going to do this for a business!

1) start listing things in batches/week
2) prep everything at once and then open a store for a month
3) drop off everything at a drop off store