Ebay challenge. £300 target by Christmas. Come and join in.

[Tortoise]

OK, here is our next Ebay challenge thread.
Aiming for £300 by Christmas!
Come join in and show us your listings!
I will be listing tonight/this weekend.

my challenge for myself is to totally clear house of stuff we no longer need or use. I hope to make around £1000. We need the cash as I am virtually out of work (lost job over a year ago). I have to clear our overdraft!

Yippee - sold the 2 Emmaljunga cosytoes for £45!

well done! i'm gutted - just had my ebay bill - £48!!! anybody know when the next free listing day is ? :)

Oh, that's a lot! I don't know when free listing is. I guess because they've only just had one, it'll be a few weeks yet.

I haven't even looked to see how much of the £45 from cosytoes will be left after PP and ebay take their cut.

I think a lot of my stuff can be started at 99p so it doesn't cost to list then.

what i was surprised at was the 'final amount' percentage eg for a really nice mirror that went for £50 it was £5!!!

o well, will just list everything else on next free day but that doesn't help my clutter control...

I think everything is 10% now.

Would you be brave enough to list at 99p? At least that way you avoid the listing fee.

I'd be quite happy to reduce the clutter for 99p a go - I'd still make a fortune if every single thing waiting to be ebayed sold for under £1!

Carrycot sold for £25!

I have just found a couple of jumpers that I can't decide whether to keep or ebay. I might just see how the other stuff sells first - at this rate I'll have ebayed all my clothes and have nothing left to wear!

the thing about that is the fees really add up don't they - paypal fees , postage and ebay fees mean that i barely made 10p on some things - need to charge for my time in postage i think even just 20p extra would help (I have to drive to post office!)

is there another free listing day? oct 9 and 10th
sold about £50 this week but two big items need to get relisting :)

I hope there is another free listing day not heard anything though. Don't want it this weekend really. It is my DS2's birthday and party Sunday!

Tortoise- free listing is on again Sat and Sun (9 and 10) this weekend !

I have some more listed to finish this weekend- with loads of watchers, so am hopeful... and have just put some more on to finish the next weekend.

Dunno why, but I really like putting things on for the full 10 days- is that weird?

Oh, I MUST get my stuff listed! You lot are putting me to shame.

I downloaded Turbolister, had high hopes, but couldn't get it to work (wouldn't let me select the item specifics - e.g. size, brand). I got so hacked off I stuck the box of clothes under the desk and it's still there three weeks later!

Does TL actually work? Is it worth persisting? What am I doing wrong???

oh my dh and dd are going to be sooo fed up! I'll be listing again all weekend then, it's the only way I can afford it!

Don't use turbo lister - just get everything photographed and uploaded onto PC, measure and detailed on a bit of paper on top of each thing and list in groups, eg all age 13's together, all size S together so I can just 'sell another' item straight after.

But it does feel great to get it all cleared and done!

Why do they give such short notice of free listing? Is it so that not too many people will have enough time to list a lot?

Also, did I read somewhere that you don't get the free listing if you use TL?

TheNextMrsDepp - I prefer using Turbo Lister. I often list a couple of items during the day then upload them in the evening when it's a better end time. I've been having a few problems with it this week but unistalled it a couple of times and reinstalled it and it seems to be ok now. I think I read on the ebay help pages that it's best to have nothing else open on your pc when using it - not sure how true that is though.

My bedroom is a tip because of all the clothes and other 'stuff' that I've pulled out of my wardrobe to ebay. I really must get it listed tonight/tomorrow.

Bah- I can't use turbolister, because I'm on a mac.

It does always seem really short notice, you're right mogs. I have noticed though a couple of years ago when they gave 2 weeks or so notice, you couldn't move for stuff being listed, things were so crammed that unless you were really specific with your searches you were just overwhelmed as a buyer. And of course, sellers didn't get that great prices either. (so less fees for ebay)

Got to go and do my photos now while baby naps - I hate this bit! I can never seem to get things looking how I want them. (ie like a store website!)

Can I join again. Managed to do about £300 in the Summer which was great spending money for the holidays. Started listing again but need some motivation! my items

Got the email about free listing today. Not sure how i am going to fit any listing in this weekend but i will have to try!

ok just done a load of stuff and now must have a break!
here's mine so far

After one lot of re-listing, have sold 15 of 20 items, mostly the cheap stuff, and got a grand total of £38.

Will try more listings tomorrow seeing as they're free again.

Have finally won a cotbed - MrNC is off to collect it. So £ -2 overall... :)

A few more but still got hundreds more to do!!

I listed one with TL and I got charged so am now listing directly through ebay.

I have lost interest for now though so will come back later and try to list more than 5 items then!!

Well done overthemill and notcitrus!

Overthemill Watching littest pets sets. Are they littlest pet shop ones? My DD1 is mad on LPS! Is the 1st line in the description a mistake cos it didn't make sense to me?

hi everyone, can see we are all taking advantage of free listing weekend. Need to get a move on - have now got my christmas head on and made the cake this morning!

here are my listings shop.ebay.co.uk/lrud3454/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340

I have culled my cookbooks as they are taking over the cupboard - i have read these but don't use them

Hi guys

I'm sooooooooo I can't find the lead for the camera!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone interested in Duplo? What you see is what you get

Hoping to list some more stuff before the day is out. I need the money.

I've got lots ending tonight and at least 50 more things to go on but very unlikely I'll get them all done tonight! all here