thekismeme
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posted on July 2, 2001 09:36:41 AM new
I listed a few good things on free listing day ~ but mostly listed the stuff I had put off listing that I did not think would sell. Most of this stuff had come from friends ~ here I don't want this and was going to throw it away ~ sell it and keep the money ~ i.e. you haul it to the dump for me ~ or box sells that you were taking a chance on getting something worth selling...or my personal favorite.........I bought it ~ knew it was going to make me rich on ebay ~ but nobody ever bid on it through 2-4 listings!
Anyway ~ I listed 200+ items of this stuff. Some for 3 days, some for 5 days, some for 7 days. I listed all my good stuff for 10 days. The 3 day stuff went off last night. I relisted it all at 1.00 ~ for 7 days. I have bids on 4 out of the 30 of them this morning. They could all closed at 1.00 or could close at nothing ~ or who knows ~ maybe even go to 10 or 20.
I had decided to relist all the stuff that did not sell the first time. By the way I did make 400 of stuff that did go off last night ~ but only 150 of stuff that only went up because of free listing day.
I am now having second thoughts. I have gone to the trouble of removing this stuff from my garage and it is all sitting in my listed stuff room ~ I am not putting any of it back in the garage. For the first time in months~ the garage is completely organized and only has good stuff in it. I will strive to keep it that way!
If I relist this stuff ~ most likely I will ship out a bunch of dollar auctions ~ but it would be gone ~ all by priority mail ~ no supplies to figure in ~ most would only take a minute or two to ship ~ and I am going to the post office anyway. I am ok with that as long as the stuff sells.........but I hate to pay .30 an item for junk that will not sell.
Having a garage sale is too much work on top of the time I have already put in to this stuff...............
So, should I relist or donate it to charity? What are you doing? Any other thoughts?
I had one item that I thought would not sell go for 50 + dollars last night ~ it is what makes me want to relist the stuff.
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squinkle99
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posted on July 2, 2001 09:45:23 AM new
Funny you should ask since I just cleaned out my ebay room last night. I will be taking the "junk" down to the local charity thrift shop to get the tax deduction. Now that we are in a position in life to itemize, it makes more sense for me to donate items that would get bids of less than $5.00 each on ebay. And it sure does feel refreshing when I come home afterwards and my space is all clean from being purged of the clutter it was holding.
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yumacoot
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posted on July 2, 2001 10:00:16 AM new
taking it to the swapmeet the Sunday after closing...if it doesn't sell there, off to the charity for tax write off!
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sadie999
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posted on July 2, 2001 10:03:26 AM new
I'm thinking yardsale. I'm just on my way to another room to see if the roomie is up to organizing most of it while I try to put about 300 books on sites other than eBay.
Summer is just wiping me out mentally on eBay. My sell through fell about two weeks ago, and it's just seeming like a lot of work with little return. A good time to regroup and plan for the future.
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captainkirk
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posted on July 2, 2001 10:13:53 AM new
"Having a garage sale is too much work on top of the time I have already put in to this stuff"
As my friend Mr. Spock would say, if you want to be totally logical, then how much time you have already put into selling an item is irrelevant to the decision of "what do I do now?"
Theoretically, all you should worry about is "how can I get the most $/hour to get rid of this stuff".
A lot depends on how, er, "flexible" you are on declaring a value on charitable donations. You have to be creative to claim much of a deduction on an item that won't sell on ebay (or will only sell for a buck), and then you only get, in terms of cash in, maybe 30% of the deduction (depending on your tax bracket).
Personally, I save everything that didn't sell after the appropriate amount of relists for one last holiday season listing (november-ish) (since its pretty easy to relist an item), storing the stuff neatly away for the time being (since I don't have to open it up until it sells). If it won't sell then, I donate the remainder before the end of the year for my last-minute tax deduction (since garage sales don't net much where I live).
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twinsoft
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posted on July 2, 2001 11:05:26 AM new
List it on eBay. LOL 
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Internet Pioneers
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escandyo
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posted on July 2, 2001 12:04:42 PM new
You might want to check the auctions in your town. There are more than a few varieties, offer different types and price levels of merchandise. At worst, it would be box lot stuff at the tail end of the auction, and you would still end up with more than a few bucks to show for it.
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jenndiggy1
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posted on July 2, 2001 12:28:12 PM new
There is a benefit garage sale in town for someone I went to high school with. He has cancer and his medical bills are mounting. Anything that doesn't sell from free listing day is joining the stacks of boxes we're giving them for the sale.
As a bonus, they said I can have first look around at all the stuff the night before the sale opens!
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veebee
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posted on July 2, 2001 12:52:02 PM new
Hi..we go to 3 outdoor flea markets in the summer trying to dispose of some of our "junk". What doesn"t sell we haul to an auction..we do that all winter. Come spring back to the markets..auction stuff sells good here in iowa in the winter because things are really hard to find in the winter.
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reston_ray
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posted on July 2, 2001 12:53:47 PM new
Help a worthwhile cause, eBay sellers.
Cut and paste to an alternative site. My current favorite is Internet Pioneers.
Starting a co-op is a labor of love. But this might just help us all in the long run.
Ask a fair price or give it away and help some buyer realize that alternative sites have value.
Invest in our future.
"Help Make eBay #2" (by making US #1)
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katzname
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posted on July 2, 2001 04:15:57 PM new
I am going to put some on sellyouritems.com and some on gegy.com if they are up and some in my ebay store. I will probally relist them on ebay at a lower price first, but I am giving that part some thought.
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on July 2, 2001 04:44:26 PM new
EASY =relist those items in your ebay shop,free till sept 1
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Zewelj
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posted on July 2, 2001 04:44:47 PM new
I, like someone else mentioned, take my "unsold" treasures to a great flea market ( in Minnesota) for 4 or 5 weeks every summer. But I usually only deal in jewelry and "smalls", so do not need alot of storage space....... although my dh thinks I have plenty stored! After that, will try ebay again next fall....... and maybe Yahoo( what do you all think of yahoo auctions). Lastly, I do Salvation Army donations and take tax write off.
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commentary
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posted on July 2, 2001 07:02:03 PM new
Group them into boxlots and put on ebay starting at $1 each. Describe them as unsold ebay lots. Give good scans, maybe a composite of all your individual scans.
Someone will buy them. There is always someone out there who thinks they know more than you do.
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sweetpotato
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posted on July 2, 2001 09:20:20 PM new
I've just been cleaning up too and didn't want the hassle of listing piddling stuff.
My daughter's school is having their annual Fair in a couple of months and will have a "Trash N Treasure" stall so anything vaguely saleable I donated to them.
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jt-2007
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posted on July 2, 2001 09:41:25 PM new
I would like to browse your stuff thekismeme. (Always looking for a good item for $1!)
But I don't know where you are.
I seldom browse so I will not find your stuff. I shop for 4 or 5 keywords and that's it. I used to browse before it took 6 months to get through one catagory. It's too hard now. I am too tired.
T
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