Anyone interested in a £300 by Easter ebay selling thread?

[carrotsandcelery]

Inspired by the threads before Christmas, I was hoping we could get another thread going to motivate us as we sell and ask each other questions as we go along.

I am hoping to start selling again once the dc go back to school next week.

Anyone else want to join me?

I have great feedback from all the aftershaves I sold Mogs. In my descriptions I explained roughly how much was left in the bottles eg approx one third, that sort of thing. There is only so much you can say.

I think some people look for their favourites this way and hope to get a bargain. One of the buyers had a huge list of men's fragrance purchases on his feedback.

One of the ones we sold was discontinued which is why it did SO well I think.

We have one that hasn't sold, although I have been asked questions about it in past listings and have relisted it tonight.

Did you put a bit of extra cash on your postage costs? Mine took a fair bit of bubble wrap to convince me they were secure. I had to put a vitamin bottle over the top of one bottle before I wrapped it as it didn't have a lid and and I worried about that one but the buyer was delighted and didn't mention my "inventive" packaging

Good luck with them Mogs.

Ah, they were aftershave. I do worry that some people will be when they bid far more than I expect for something but usually get really positive feedback.

I hadn't even though as far as packaging! I do have rather a collection of salvaged bubble wrap/bags/boxes etc. Thanks for the tip about covering the end, I have just the thing lurking in my room!

I shall go and rummage through the bathroom cupboard in search of valuable perfume .

Mogs my dd is already moaning about me selling everything in sight. I am clearly not the only one!

My problem is that I keep everything thinking I'll eBay it but, in reality, I just eBay the stuff I think will go for more than 99p and the rest sits in an overflowing box .

I'm sure on the Christmas challenge I decided to only eBay things I thought would get more than £10...that hasn't happened!

My final apart from the 2 I'm keeping buggy has sold this evening (has taken 12 hours of emailing to confirm!) and I am so pleased! I'm going to deliver it on the weekend, along with the tent I sold last week. I can already visualise the empty space under the stairs when they have both left the building .

Mogs How many buggies did you have?

On the 99p front. It is surprising how the 99p sales add up (and tidy up the house a bit).

A few . It's my weakness. I'm a cm and have been on a mission for quite a few years to find the ultimate buggy for CMing. I have now found it but ended up with two...don't ask! The second has just been sold, I'll keep the other one and a basic maclaren for the car.

I just find the effort of listing and packing the 99p things a bit too much sometimes. However, the house is in desperate need of a good de-clutter so I really should just get them listed and out of the house.

Was going to try and find a boot sale next Sunday but arranged for a family to come and chat about CMing without thinking. Although, at this stage, bringing in more CMing income is more important than bootsales!!

In my buggy obsessed defence, all the buggies I've bought have been secondhand from eBay and have been sold for pretty much the same as I bought them for .

Aahh! That explains a lot Mogs. No need to defend your actions here though.

Did I mention my shoe and handbag obsession aswell?! A few bags have sold and currently got two more listed. I've had them for so long that I found the idea of listing them almost impossible...until I realised if I want to save to buy a house then everything except for essentials has to go and so it's all going!

I have witnessed a few of your previous handbags on the last thread mogs

I love the idea of it all going. I dream of minimalism but it is just not realistic with 2 dcs and 11 pets. I will do my best to empty the house though then start on the loft.

11 pets I moan about the two snails in our family!!

It was quite a good feeling when I decided that I could actually be parted from these things (I'm a serious hoarder) but I'm sure I'll be sad when I do have to part with them.

However, I'm looking at having to find a 75% deposit because my earnings are so low so I'd better detach my emotional attachment to this stuff pretty quick! .

Mogs a house is much better use of the money than more stuff than you can use. Good luck! I find it quite liberating freeing myself from all the stuff and quite exciting turning it into hard cash.

I have scheduled 9 bottles of perfume for tonight.

Had a spray of a couple and brought back lots of memories of nights out from many moons ago!

Ds said I couldn't get rid of them because they smell nice...he's worse at this hoarding malarky than me and I'm pretty bad .

Here are my listings. Not much change since Sunday. I did have someone ask for a BIN price for the Jane highchair so I replied with the price I wanted but they wanted that to include the £6 P&P. I declined but am thinking maybe I should have agreed.

Oh Mogs just seeing the Giorgio and Eternity bottles has brought back loads of memories for me. I wore both when I was at Uni.

Ha, that's funny that just the sight of them has triggered memories!! I remember popping into my local corner shop on my way to a night out thinking I was the bees knees and the woman behind the counter had a rather dramatic, imo over-acted, coughing fit and demanded to know what the awful smell was . I bloody loved Eternity and couldn't quite bring myself to wear it after that .

Go on, have a little bid...you know you want to!!

I have three watchers on the perfume already! Carrots, is one of them you?!!

I met dh when I wore those perfumes

Not me Mogs.

Someone's already bid on the sunflowers and I've been asked about a BIN on the Lacroix...told them to make me an offer as I have no idea what to ask for it! I might go and hunt for some more...I didn't realise perfume was so popular.

I've listed 38 items since I joined this thread a few days ago, its really got me into gear lol. Have a few bids on some small things but have listed some bigger things too so crossed fingers we'll get a decent amount of money, and the space lol. Prob is I've jsut bid on some maternity clothes so prob spending as much as I'm selling oops!

Hi everyone,I have made 159 pounds so far and I am sure it will go up,as I have a number of watchers.The great news is that with the money I have bought a shed (off ebay)so the tent which takes up a full wardrobe will go in there.Hurrah! All through selling clutter through ebay!

Pink - freeing up space is the best bit of ebaying for me but I also end up buying as much as I sell...I am working on this little problem though!!

Hardy - it's almost as if the shed was for free!

I am delivering two big items on Saturday (a huge tent and a huge buggy with lots of bits) and I can't wait to get home and admire the space under my stairs...in reality, I'll be hoovering the dust up from under the stairs because I haven't been able to get under the for ages because of the stuff dumped there .

I have just discovered a couple more bids on my items...9 out of 19 have bids now, yipee! One bid is on one of my old favourite bags but is for £10 so mixed feelings on that one.

Hi Mogs,it`s Jardy not Hardy,but having said that I think I will change my name to Hardy as I adore his books and I am reading one now!
Love your items for sale,and you have such fantastic feedback,I will aspire to your prowess!