Goal 13 ) Sell something on e-bay – CHECK!
Late on Wednesday night, my first ever item on ebay sold. And then another, and then another 🙂
I posted the first 4 items for a 5day auction, starting at 0.99c. Probably because it’s my first time, I was eager to see what was happening, how many people watch items, how the bids go up etc. So everytime I sat down to feed B2 (which is currently every 3-4hours during the day) I would check in to see if anything had happened. After 2 days I remembered something very important – I’m not very patient.
Oh my gosh! It’s like watching grass grow 🙂
By early on Day 3, I setup the push notifications on my phone, so I could just check when something actually did happen. I found that a bit exciting getting random messages – hehe. Simple things amuse simple minds 🙂
Thinking about it, it could become very addictive. Especially if using it to de-clutter and getting rid of things when you just want to get rid of them and don’t care if you get anything for them!
Unfortunately though, I found it took quite a bit of time to do. I suppose this would get quicker as I got more practice and knew what I was doing, but at this stage I probably just don’t have the time since all the spare time that I don’t have is spent on my goals and this blog! (Sorry housework, I just don’t love you as much.)
Postage was also a pain. And then a pain. And then a pain some more. (And then a literal pain – the person looking after the kids ended up at hospital). But it’s a long story I’m not going into. All I’m going to say is… If it ain’t worth putting in a 500g prepaid satchel, it ain’t getting listed 🙂
But perhaps I’ll just try and list the odd item here and there from the “ebay” box I’ve been chucking things in for about 6months now! And I really need to start goal 25 ) Get rid of ex-demo Tupperware – sell, donate, giveaway. hmmm… Ok, so maybe I can justify a bit of time 😛
Hehe, next stop Gumtree. Ads are free, you can select pick up only so no pesky satchels or post office treks, and the ad length is indefinite. You can sit back and wait for random surprise phone calls.