posted on May 13, 2003 08:15:45 PM new
I think my evil twin is listing on my account and they are liting good stuff! Just checked my mail on one of my other accounts and found I have four people asking for details on one of my items.
No problem, I'll just grab it to remind me of the details and get to answering....
OK, problem. I can't find it. I check my boxes of items currently active... not there. Check the boxes of pending items, not there, Check the "stop playing around and get these things listed" boxes... not there.
Come to think of it, I don't remember listing this particular one - I do know I have it somewhere - just not sure where it is.
Imagine my embarrassment when I have to respond with... I'm not sure. I explained the situation honestly, told each person that if I cannot locate in the next day or so I will cancel the auction and inform them when I have found it and relocated it but geez I feel stupid!
Ironic thing is, it's getting a gang of bids! Cursed unnorganized evil twins!
posted on May 13, 2003 08:53:11 PM new
neonmania, I have an evil twin also. They never touch the items while I am selling them but after the auction is over they hide them somewhere. And it's usually an item that the bidder pays for right away, never one with a snail mail payment.
posted on May 13, 2003 09:04:13 PM new
ROFL Spend about 27 mins. two nights ago looking for a wooden mask that sold and got a instant payment...god I hate that lol and I have a box for stuff that for sale now,a box for stuff that sold , a box for stuff I need to list first and a box for stuff i'll list later ...hmmm should be in the stuff I have for sale on e-bay now...but it has grown feet and crawled off ....I think we all live with this problem ! My e-bay room was clean till I started looking for the mask lol !
posted on May 13, 2003 09:06:23 PM new
Kiara...I'm glad to hear that it happens to someone besides me. Ever so often, I reorganize my Ebay room. Find an item that's been listed twice with no luck and is presntly up for the third time with no bids. Put it in the Salvation Army box and bury it in the garage. Three days later the auction ends and with 6 seconds left, someone snipes it. He pays that night with Bidpay and wants it asap. Now, where did that thing go?
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
posted on May 13, 2003 09:33:55 PM new
This is driving me nuts. I am usually very organized when it comes to everything but the hell that is my desk. I have a section of the office dedicated to ebay and a bunch of large rubbermad containers. There are nine sections - pending, active and sold x 3 since I have three active selling accounts. (Soon the be two since I m phasing out one of the genres I had a dedicatd account for.
I've lost track of PayPal print outs before because I can't keep my desk orgnanized but never lost an item. (I started compensating for the occasional misplaced/misfiled receipts by doing item number and email address searches in paypal of items I still show as unpaid once a week).
Maybe this is a good time to ask.... what are some of the non software (I have not found a program I really like for MAC) methods that you guys use?
I am moving my office to a bigger room later this week so that I can consolidate everything - figure this will be a good time to do extreme spring cleaning and start a new organizing system. Any suggestion would be welcome.
posted on May 13, 2003 10:01:14 PM new
sparkz, relists are my biggest problem. Like toasted says, they grow feet and crawl away and it's amazing how far they can go in a couple of weeks.
neonmania, I am not an organized person. I still have my original method of printing out the auction and putting it in a binder. When payment is made I attach the PayPal print-out and put it with the auction in the "sent" binder.
My desks are usually a mess. I have papers from ebay, from my website and from my store and they get piled high and all mixed up. I have trinkets all over, some I list on ebay and others that are "mine".
Most of the things I'm listing now are small so I keep them in file boxes, Sold items, Relists, Pending, etc. But when I'm in a hurry sometimes I just put them in the box on top. I put almost everything away as my little cat likes to steal things and run off with them. I also take some relists to my store. Then I forget and blame it on my evil twin.
posted on May 14, 2003 11:29:54 AM new
I went through all that because my granddaughter got a hold of a piece of jewelry. I found it thank goodness but then I got organized. I am only a parttime seller and most of my items are little so this is what I did. I went to office max and bought a large 3 drawer chest(plastic). The bottom drawer is for my current eBay items. When I get done listing them I put them in a ziplok bag and put them in there. When the auctions end the ones that sold go into the middle drawer and the ones that don't go into the top drawer. It sure saves a lot of grief at auction end. I also have a file cabinet which I use as legs to a side desk and it is at my right arm. In there I have my auction notices. I never print the auction listing but leave it in my in box until the auctions end. I only print the ones that sold. I send my WBN right away and instead of copying them I copy the out box of my outlook express just to show I sent them. I have a folder marked "Notices sent, waiting for Payment". Then when they pay I print that on the back of the sold auction and put them in a folder "Payment Received" Works good for me. Sorry this is so long.
posted on May 14, 2003 06:40:26 PM new
Can't even tell you how often it has happened to me. I got a neg because of it. I had the craft leaflet, scanned and listed it, won right away with a BIN. Do you think I could find it? Never have to this day, I must have put it in with another book. At present I am looking for a lovely silver egg cup my husband brought me back from England to sell. I remember having it in my hand last week to picture it, but never got that far, who knows where it is?
posted on May 15, 2003 02:39:31 AM new
i am a part time seller and I use the large Rubbermaid tubs to organize
once i take the pictures the item goes into the empty tub to be written up, they stay in that tub until the auction is over.
after the auction i print out the Vendio replys received or the emails received if they didn't complete the Vendio checkout, these go into a folder beside my computer marked waiting to ship.
when payment is received, i pull that sheet, print out the shipping label from USPS and give both to hubby for packaging..the printed invoice from Vendio makes a great packing slip because the addresses are on it, USPS has a backup in case they "lose" the label somehow.
those items not sold then go into another tub, different color, just for relists. they stay in that tub until they either sell or are ready for amvet...when i relist them they are moved to that weeks sales tub.
i also keep any email correspondence in my inbox until the item has been received by the buyer.
this works for me but i am just a part time seller.
....I think we all live with this problem ! My e-bay room was clean till I started looking for the mask lol !