Signs on corners that are not for garage sales really bug me!

Greetings!

Short rant ... Day lilies for sale? Karen's comforting childcare? Open house? Basically any sign on the corner that's not saying yard, garage or estate sale really throws me off. I've hit the brakes and gotten far off course far too many times because of signs like these.  Why can't there be a sign that says "awesome vintage stuff and antique flintlock pistols for cheap this way!"

Some day ...

The eBay Freshman

Item Sold Update!

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Konge - Tinn / Pewter Flatware from Norway - Knife / Letter Opener

We had this item listed for 29.99 + shipping.

We accepted an offer of $21 + shipping.

We paid 50 cents for this. I found this item in the bottom of a box of random letter openers.  I was poked and stabbed many times as I shifted items around in this box. But you never know what treasures await you at the bottom of a dirty old box of junk!

Profit of $20.50

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

The Lonely Piano on the Curb Syndrome

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I don't know if there is anything more sad than seeing an old piano on someones curb.

I realize that it is completely irrational for your average person who is out shopping on the garage sale circuit to pick up these pianos when they see them ... but it breaks my heart.  As a musician I cannot help but feel my heart skip a beat when I see an old piano like this one, and then feel a sense of sadness as I stop for a moment, tickle the ivories, play with the idea of trying to find a way to get it home, and then move on and say goodbye. If I had a quarter for every amazing looking piano I've passed up on the street ... I'd have at least a dollar by now.

Enough tears have been shed over this piano.  Moving on.

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

When Disaster Strikes and the Death of My iMac

Greetings!

What do you do when disaster strikes your life and your store?

Over the past few months we've had the following problems with our home (which means we had the following problems with our store since it's in our basement):

1. The Air Conditioner broke during the hottest week of the summer. Talk about a miserable work environment.  Hot, humid and totally steamy!
2. The basement flooded - ruining our carpet and causing some mold to start to grow. The water, luckily only damaged a few store inventory items. But I was forced to empty out our basement and move it to the garage - this was no fun ... and the lack of air conditioning only made it less fun.
3. The Garage Door stopped functioning. It's pretty tough to operate your temporary store out of your garage when it isn't opening or closing.
4. We had an ant infestation in our kitchen. Which is just gross.


All of these things on top of having a 3 month old, dog, rabbit, as well as both my wife and I working full time at our regular jobs and maintaining the day to day chores and upkeep of our home ... while trying to go out and buy store inventory and list items ...

Let's just say it's been trying.

I learned today that ...

5. My iMac's motherboard is fried and it would be about $1,000 to replace it.  That's a lot of pairs of shoes to be sold on eBay!

So what do we do when disaster strikes?  You take care of your shit. That's all you can do!

1. We had the air conditioner replaced and the home is now comfortable to live in again.
2. After fixing what we could with the problem outside where the water seemed to be coming in, we tore out the carpet in our basement, dried everything out, bleached any mold areas we found, replaced soggy parts of our walls and re-carpeted the basement with cheap indoor/outdoor carpet.  We moved the shelves and the store inventory down stairs and are back in business now.
3. We were able to figure out what was wrong with the garage door ourselves - a sensor was bumped and just needed to be re-aligned. That was a small miracle that we didn't have to replace that as well!
4. Killed the ants. Sorry guys.

and...

5.  What can you do?  The computer was from 2008.  I'm just thankful that we were able to salvage our photos and music and data.  Going to store that stuff on an external drive and work off of my wifes laptop for now - we were lucky we already had a back up computer - which is a good point - always have a back up plan for you store.

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Having a Professional Looking Store Logo, and Branding Yourself

Logos and Branding.  

With any store or product branding is important.  I figured why wouldn’t this be the same for our eBay store?  If we treat it professionally and seriously maybe other people will too?  

Luckily I work as a graphic designer for my day job, so I was able to come up with a logo and business name for us pretty quickly.  We use this logo for our profile picture and we also had some “thank you’s” printed out that we can put into each package that includes our logo and the words “Enjoy your purchase” and “Thank you for your business” and at the bottom it says “If you have time please stop by and let us know how we did ... we love feedback!”  We also left a blank space where we can personalize each item with a statement like “Hope you like your hat!” etc.  That helps us look like a more legit business while also personalizing each buyers experience. I realize that not everyone has a graphic design background and work station, but you probably have a friend or a friend of a friend who can help you out with a logo for cheap.

I also recommend having a professional sounding url.  Even if it's just a shortened version of your store name, that is fine.  I personally just don't like to see sellers with creepy names, or offensive names, for instance, bob69doggystyleluvr wouldn't really float my boat.  This doesn't mean the person doesn't have quality items for sale, but if I saw that as a seller name on an item I was considering buying I would be immediately turned off. Even though your store is an online store instead of a physical store, you should still treat it as if you had to face your customers in person.  Try not to be rude and always maintain that professional appearance.  Your online presence is just as important as an in person presence (if not more).  So keep it clean and professional!

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Items Sold On eBay - Update

Greetings!

Sold a few items over the weekend and thought I'd share.

Sold a black Wilson's leather Motorcycle jacket (used) for $79.99 (plus shipping)
Purchased for $10.

Sold a vintage Norelco Razor with case (in working condition) for $25.00 (plus shipping)
Purchased for 50 cents.

Total profit on these two items - $94.49.

Currently we have under 60 items in our store so stuff isn't flying out the door like we'd like it too.  Our current goal is to get to 100 items in our store by the end of August.  This should be more than do-able since I have probably close 100 - 150 items in my garage just waiting to be dusted off, photographed, and listed!

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Garage Sale Finds for 7/27/13

Greetings!

After several duds, I wound up having a wonderful day of yard sale shopping!  Let's try to break it down shall we?

Garage Sale 1
1964 Drummond Lithograph on wood - 75 cents

Garage Sale 2
Vintage Bowl - Made in Italy - $1
Antique Silver (I think it's Silver) Plate Marked 1943 - Rogers & Bro - 50 cents
Set of 6 antique wine glasses that have a triangle logo with the word "Dentistry" on them - $1

Garage Sale 3
Set of what looks to be antique brass cherub themed towel hanging rods and soap dish - $4 (asking $6)
what appears to be a 1960's reprint of a 1930's Hatamen cigarette advertisement (oriental themed) - $2

Garage Sale 4
I paid $15 for the following items (asking price $20):
2 shelves - ALWAYS need more shelves
1 antique wooden toy chest with circus themes painted on it
1 antique the Mickey Mouse March (1955) music box toy
1 porcelain eagle lamp (needs repair - no shade)
1 porcelain penguin piggy bank with scarf - pretty sure he's a character from a cartoon in the 70's or 80's - parked PJK on bottom
1960's Smith Corona Typewriter (with case) - in nice working condition and good shape

I almost called it a day after Garage Sale 4 but decided to venture on ...

Garage Sale 5
1962 NW Airline (oriental) alcohol bottle with quark - $1

Garage Sale 6
1978 DC Comic Superman Pencil - 50 cents

Garage Sale 7
Deer themed tapestry - 75 cents
Really nice looking photograph/portrait of boy scouts in color - $1

Garage Sale 8
Pair of Hiking Boots (Linesmall) - $7 (they were asking $10)

Garage Sale 9
small book shelf - $2 (asking price $4)

Total Spent - $38.50

Estimated Resale Value if I have a little luck - $350 - $450

(PS - I went to way more than 9 sales today - just counting the ones I purchased items at)

I had a great time shopping today and am excited to get listing!  I stayed up late laying carpet in the basement last night and finished the job ... so tomorrow I will be happily moving my shelves and inventory back down into the basement where I can get cracking at taking photos, researching items and listing away!

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Cautionary Tales of Antique Dealer "Sales"

Greetings!

Was out yard sale hunting today when I came across an antique dealer in town who was having a 'huge sale'.  More like a huge waste of time.  This was one of those sales where, from the street, it looks like you are going to score big!  Boxes and boxes of items to sort through AND everything was 50% off the marked price.  How can you go wrong?

You can go wrong when you realize after an hour of digging through boxes you are holding two items that you might be able to make $10 total off of after your buying price is covered.  In my experience when an antique store is having a sale that sounds too good to be true, it might be.  I spent a good 1.5 hours at this sale trying to find that one treasure that would turn a great profit, but left with nothing but wasted time and energy.  Be cautious when hitting up events like this ... odds are if the antique dealer is practically giving the stuff away, it's because it's flawed, or because they have determined it's not worth much after they already doing the research on the items.

I'm sure that once in awhile a sale comes along that actually works out great for flippers like us, but this just wasn't one of them.  I could've hit up 5 garage sales in the time I spent there and who knows what items I missed out on?

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Is this a Wedding or a Garage Sale?

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I was out doing my usual Saturday morning yard sale shopping for our store when I came across a sign that said "Fun Finds Sale Today!" ... I thought to myself that I enjoy having fun finding things so this must be a sale for me?

Wrong.

I pulled up to a house just short of a mansion that let me know that the goods were in the backyard.  I was hungry for some rich people leftovers when I walked in to this ...

I felt like I walked into the middle of a wedding ceremony or something ... Not only were the "finds" not that "fun" ... they were severely over priced (at least for flippers like me).  It is just a personal preference of mine, but I really do not like the look of antique furniture that has been painted white.  I would much rather see the original wood, with or without all of the wear to it.  Even the junkiest shelves that could barely stand were lathered in white paint and marked up at $50 - $80!  It would be rare for me to pay that much for a sturdy, non-painted antique shelf!

It was a nice day for a white wedding today, but that's not what I went out looking for. But, you win some you lose some.  Walked away empty handed and saddened by the loss of all of those antique pieces whose original beauty and elegance will remain entombed by thick white paint.

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Opening an eBay Store Banking Account

Open Up An eBay Store Banking Account.  

For new sellers I would recommend doing this as soon as possible.  Usually this doesn't cost anything if you are already a customer of the bank and there isn't a minimum required deposit in many cases. Open up a different checking account for your business.  This will give you a place to track all of your transactions.  So if you take $100 out to go yard sale shopping, take it out of your business account.  If you buy shipping supplies online, use your business account.  Link your business account directly to your eBay/Paypal store so that all of the profits and deductions come from the same place.  Using your personal checking account might be ok if you are just selling a few items here and there, but in the long term you are actually going to want to track your costs vs. your profits. What a boring paragraph - I sound like my dad (who is a banker).

I'd make sure it's the kind of account that you can have a pin for taking out cash at an ATM - you never know when you will need to grab a few extra bucks - if you can go through a bank that reimburses your ATM fees that's a HUGE plus.  My bank actually is an affiliate with iTunes and sends me a $10 iTunes gift card every 2 months if I meet the minimum # of transactions required and check my account balance online a couple of times a month.  For me it's a win win situation.  Plus, make it a joint checking account if you have a partner and your life will become much easier.

The eBay Freshman

The eBay Scavengers Podcast and Blog - EXCELLENT RESOURCE

Greetings!

I just wanted to throw together a quick write up about a resource that we have found invaluable as a new eBay seller/store.  The eBay Scavengers blog and The eBay Scavengers Podcast on iTunes is an incredibly helpful resource.

Basically it's two couples (Mikey and Wendy ... and Jay and Ryanne) who are running full time eBay stores and are working as couple / partnerships to run their stores.  Each week they cover a wide range of topics related to selling on eBay, be it how to clean items, or how to negotiate prices at yard sales, they cover it all.  They do so in a professional, but extremely open, honest and down to earth manner.  They have great relationships with their listeners and have always been helpful and responsive to emails I've sent them.

If there is any other eBay blog out there that I've seen that is MORE helpful than The eBay Freshman - it's them. :)

There are no commercials, not a whole lot of pointless banter, just to the point pointers that will surely get your store off the ground and running.  You can become a successful seller on eBay, and The eBay Scavengers will help you get there! Check them out and tell them The eBay Freshman sent you! ;)

The eBay Scavengers blog

The eBay Scavengers Podcast on iTunes

The eBay Freshman

Garage Sale Finds for 7/25/13

Greetings!

Not much to report here ... had some carpet delivered today so I had to meet the delivery guys at my place on my lunch break. But I was able to squeeze in one quick yard sale.

I decided to start to bring 'personal spending money' along with my 'store money' to the sales I go.  I've passed up too many things I could use around the house this summer so I decided it's time to get smart!

Most of what I grabbed today is for personal use but there are a few items that will o up in the store.

For myself I purchased an air purifier for the basement.  Technically this could be seen as a business purchase because we run our business out of the basement and I'm down there all the time.  Having more fresh, clean air to breath will be beneficial to my health and will also help keep our items smelling ... well, not like an old basement.  Paid $15 for this item - they were asking $20.  I will usually try to make a lower offer on items that are over $5.  Anything that is less than $5 and is worth picking up is probably priced good even for reselling.

Also picked up a vaporizer since my daughter is sick and needs it - $1 - beats buying it new from Target!

Grabbed a small hand saw - $1 - need this for cutting out some spots in my wall where there might be mold from the flooding I talked about in a previous post.  Again - could be considered a business expense since I need it to keep my health in check down there ... but it was just a buck anyway!

Wire cutters - 50 cents - for personal use.

The only items I got for the store today were small ones. Nothing too special.

Paid 50 cents a piece for 4 Lillian Vernon Chinese Bowls (1983) in their original boxes, so $2 there.

And I picked up a pair of vintage Nolan Ear Muffs with the original box (1982) for $1.

So spent $3 on items for the store ... hoping to make $30-$50 off the two items.

I am hitting up a sale tonight that sounds promising so hopefully I will have better finds to share tomorrow!

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Your eBay Store is You.

Greetings!

Your Store is You.  

When you first start thinking about an eBay store you will have to, of course, think about what kinds of items you want to sell.  My recommendation which reflects the eBay Scavengers model is to sell stuff that you are interested in.  For me that is yard sale and 2nd hand items.  I love vintage clothes and accessories, antiques and trinkets, and anything that has a little history behind it.  I also like advertising so stuff with nice boxes and in tact directions makes me excited.  Don’t use your store money to go out and buy crap for yourself though, you are buying for someone else.  I'm not saying don't pick up items for yourself while you are out hunting - you gotta live a little, I'm just recommending bringing a separate wad of cash that is reserved for personal spending to not confuse your budgeting later.

Try to trust your gut if you see something that looks valuable, old, gently used and is being sold for cheap, scoop it up (after a quick search on your smart phone of course).  Items with brands and years with original boxes and directions, etc. gives you a lot to work with for your research and descriptions.  This doesn’t mean everything you find at a yard sale that looks old is worth buying of course - I like to take my smart phone with me  to check items out online before I buy. But buy things you are into otherwise it will get old fast and you will have a basement/garage full of boring crap you don’t care about and don’t want to look at.

The items in your store reflect who you are as a person and what is interesting, appealing to you.  Think about the image you want to reflect to your customers and the kinds of customers you want to work with.

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Thrift Store Finds 7/24/13

Greetings!

Decided to swing by a thrift store today on my lunch break to see what I could scrounge up.  Normally thrift stores around here are pretty hip to the whole flipping industry, so any time they get something that looks remotely good, old, or of high quality, they jack up the price and have it in like a special 'antique' corner ... those bastards.  We are the only ones who should be making money off of your quality goods damn it!

Anyway - there is one store in town that still has fair prices.  I hit it up and came away with a few decent items.

Found a vintage pair of sports goggles with it's original box. $1

A collector plate (can't think of the brand) $1

An antique French Doll $1

A pair of wing tip Florsheim men's dress shoes - $2

3 new in package Adventures of Galaxy Rangers stories on cassette tape $6

I bought 1 other item for a $1 but can't think of it right now ...

And the pick of the day was something that I don't normally look for, but it caught my eye.  An early 1900's miniature billiards table with a full set of balls. The brand is Burrowes Corporation and I don't see a whole lot of them for sale.  The ones I do see for sale range from $50 - $400 depending on item condition and what all is included. I've seen the balls alone go for $30-$40.  So even if I don't feel like selling the full table and shipping it, I could make a little coin off of the balls.  I do think, that since the table folds up nicely I will try to sell it all together as a package and just figure out the shipping if it sells. Paid $7 for this table and balls ... also 1 cue but it is rough shape.

Total spent today - $19

If things go my way I'd like to make somewhere in the ballpark of $175 - $250.

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

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The Haunted House Garage Sale Finds - 7/23/13

Greetings!

Today I took a look at Craigslist to see if I could find any useful 'freebies' or garage sales in my area.  No freebies of interest but to my surprise I found one sale (it's Tuesday and sales are slim).  I punched the sale into my GPS app on my phone and headed out on my lunch break armed with plenty of singles and an open mind.

On my way to the address I passed a house that was very uninviting.  It had not tresspassing signs up on every side of the house, plenty of lawn owls perched on the rickety fence and junk everywhere in the yard.  The house looked pretty much completely haunted and I was anxious to keep moving ... when I realized that this was the house having the sale.  I saw in the front lawn a sign that said 'garage sale inside' and pulled around the side of the house and parked.

Hesitantly I walked up the steps and walked in the front porch screen door.  Their were boxes to my left and boxes to my right.  Then an older, slightly overweight gentleman who was not wearing a shirt and looked in need of a shower walked up the stairs and greeted me as he set down another box.  He said the stuff on the porch was for sale and to start looking through the boxes.

Nothing was marked and I started digging.  My only competition was an elderly couple who seemed to be 'picking' just like me.  They were there first and had first grab on a lot of the items.  I skimmed over what was left and here is what I came away with:

1 Unopened Myrtle Beach Canvas Floating Device
2 Vintage Bear Candles
1 Vintage Rooster Candle that appears to be a Gurly
1 Porcelain Lion Statue
1 Porcelain Lion fighting a Tiger statue (made in Japan) - looks like Dee Bee Co Import From Japan but it is cracked and chipped in several spots.

I paid $2 for these items in total.

I also swung by a local thrift store to kill the rest of my lunch hour.  Came away with a pair of vintage Lazy Bones Wing Tip golf cleats. Paid $2.60 (shoes were half off at this store today).

If things go my way I hope to bring in around $100 - $180 off of these items.

Oh - and the guy was very nice at this sale - so don't judge a sale by the appearance of the house or yard ... never know what you might find and who you might meet!

Happy Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

PS:  I would love to get to know other bloggers that are doing similar things with their eBay stores.  Let's swap stories and follow each other!  Don't be shy - you can email me here - theebayfreshman@gmail.com

Garage Sale Finds 7/20/13

Greetings!

Had a pretty busy weekend, unfortunately most of it was dedicated to non-eBay related chores.  We recently had some flooding in our basement so I spent most of Saturday tearing up carpet, taking off trim and bleaching all of the grungy areas of my basement.  We run our store out of our basement so, needless to say, it's been a rough couple of weeks.  We had to transport all of our inventory and shelving into the garage for the time being. NOT a fun process.  But we are putting in our new carpet on Thursday night this week, so once that is done we should be back up and running pretty fast.

I did hit up a few sales this weekend and came up with a few interesting finds.

I bought a couple of boxes of vintage and newer holiday decorations (Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day).  Some of the paper decorations are marked as Hallmark from the 1970s, some of the stuff is newer.  Paid $2.  I love Halloween items so I'm never afraid to pick them up - even if they don't sell I don't mind having extra creepy stuff around. :)

I also picked up a Scream 3 cassette tape for 50 cents - because I'm a horror collector and I can't resist.

Found a nice sturdy shelving unit that I picked up for $2 (she was asking $5).  You can never have too many shelves when you are running an eBay store!

Picked up 2 pairs of vintage earrings for 50 cents each.

Bought a pair of hand carved/hand painted "priest" religious themed bookends ... made in Mexico - $2

Vintage wireless headphones with built in radio - $1

Terminator 2 (movie) wind breaker - movie memorabilia - $1

I found an old looking travel 'speaker' that I will have to do some more research on.  Basically it's a speaker in a case that opens up and you can hook up your instrument to the speaker.  It looks like the brand on the hinges is "excelsior" which I believe is an accordion brand.  I have to test the item, but it looks in nice enough shape - paid $1.

Vintage Swedish serving set - $2

And a small chord organ for $5.

Not a really great weekend of sales, but I got a late start Saturday morning (started around 11am).  In my experience it's best to get out to the sales right when they open up at 8am if you can - stuff gets picked over pretty fast.

Total spent on inventory this weekend - $15

If I get my way I will make somewhere around - $175-$250 from these items.

Good Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Garage Sale Finds 7/19/13

Hit up 5 garage sales on my lunch break today.  I only bought items from 1 sale - the rest were bogus!

Items purchased

2 pairs of Dr. Martin boots in nice shape - $4
1 vintage Arvin portable radio - $1 (not tested - needs batteries)
1 vintage Realistic portable radio - $2 - works
1 vintage Taylor Instrument Company barometer - guy gave it to me for free since I bought the radios

Total cost - $7

My estimated resale value if I get full asking price - $200
(this is just a rough estimate of what I think the items might be worth compared to other eBay sales - will need wife to approve all sale prices first!)

This was a pretty successful lunch break!  Beats wasting $8 at Burger King!  I would recommend to anyone who is interested in doing this to always take advantage of your free time whenever you can.  I usually will hit up at least 2 or 3 garage sales on my lunch break every day that I can find one.  If there are no sales, I might go to a thrift store on my lunch break to test my luck there ... but garage sales are almost ALWAYS better than thrift stores when it comes to prices.

Good Hunting!

The eBay Freshman

Why Open an eBay Store?

Greetings!

The first question someone might ask when they are considering opening up an eBay store might be Why?  Why open up an eBay store versus some other type of business.  The only answer I can give you is from my own personal experience.  My wife and I have been discussing opening up a business for several years now ranging from a brick and mortar 'vintage' or 'antique' store ... to a yogurt shop ... to an out of home daycare ... to realty (the list goes on and on).  About 2 months ago we started to discuss opening up an eBay store.  We started watching youtube videos from people who are turning over clothes and other items from thrift stores and yard sales into relatively big money on eBay, Craigslist, etc.  We started researching what kind of up front costs might be involved with opening up an eBay store and were surprised that it really isn't that much money or work to get going.  You just have to do it!

Check out Will's videos about picking and selling - terminal99

One of the main reasons we wanted to give this a try is because we've recently started a family and would love to be at home more.  We are hoping to build up a large enough store for at least one of us to work from home and be with the kids while the other continues to work a full time job and help with the store when they can.  Ultimately we would love to both work on the eBay store and our other business adventures full time, but baby steps.

First thing we had to decide was do we want to be a regular "user" on eBay that sells occasionally, or actually choose to start up a "store" account and do this more like a professional business than a casual seller.  We chose to set up our business as a store.  There are some benefits to doing this, though, to be perfectly honest I do not know what all of the benefits are at this time.  I believe we are getting discounts on listing fees, and other perks.  We will have to gain more experience before I can really tell you all of our perks.

Read up on opening an eBay store here - Getting Started with eBay Stores

Listen to the Ebay Scavengers show about Getting Started with your Ebay Store here - 

eBay Scavengers Episode 1: Who We Are, How We Started Selling On eBay

But once we decided to open up an eBay store. We had to pick a store name.  At this time we are going to remain anonymous with our store, but I can tell you a bit about picking a store name.  It's really basic marketing and branding 101.  Pick a store name that is consistent with the kinds of items you'd like to sell.  Our advice is to not specialize in one specific item.  Say - model cars - and then you would call your store something like "Bob's Model Cars" ... that is going to be a very thin range of potential customers as well as make it difficult to find that very specific store inventory for cheap.  Unless you have an "in" with some sort of discounted inventory vendor, then maybe specializing would be ok.  For us, we chose a business name that sounded cool, made a great looking logo, and was vague enough for us to sell any item we come across that is interesting, old, unique, well made,  or valuable. 

Once we had our store name figured out, I threw together a logo.  My thoughts from the beginning were if we are going to do this, let's make it as professional as possible.  Once we had our logo (branding) done, we threw that up as our profile picture and were ready to start to dig in to listing items.  

But what do we sell? Stay tuned for more!

The eBay Freshman

The eBay Freshman - One Seller's Journey

Greetings Blogosphere!

This is a blog dedicated to discussing the goings-on in my personal eBay store.  My wife and I have just opened up our first eBay store together about 1 month ago.  I am here to discuss some hurdles and failures that we have had, learning experiences and of course our success stories as they are happening!

I would like to discuss some of my methods of how to pick up great items for cheap to resell on eBay and update you with how much these items might sell for as well as shipping methods that have worked (and not worked), feedback from customers, and other interesting and random tidbits.

Basically I wanted to create a blog that I could post the happenings in my store and life to share with other like minded individuals, sellers or potential sellers. One of my reasons for starting this blog was from listening to the eBay Scavengers podcast (check it out on iTunes) and blog - Ebay Scavengers - if you are just beginning selling or if you are interested in becoming an eBay seller - these guys are a GREAT resource!

Stay tuned for updates on our store happenings and life.

The eBay Freshman