Becoming Domestic

It’s not even funny how much stuff I have piled up in this room behind me waiting to be sold on eBay - it looks like at least 20 of those huge blue Ikea bags mainly filled with outgrown children’s clothes but also a lot of things we no longer want fetched down from our loft when we moved here 10 weeks ago.

I feel a bit overwhelemed by the enormity of the task and have a number of unaswered questions which are stopping me from pitching in and getting on with clearing out the teetering mountain of clutter.

1. How to do the job systematically and methodically? (eg. organise clothes into seasons and bundles to see what should be sold now as job lots, then photograph, then write descriptions, then set sale period etc etc)
2. How can I keep track of what I’m selling, postage charges, who has bought what and where to send to?
3. When to wrap things up ready for dispatching and what to do with items which don’t sell first time round (try to sell again on eBay? have a car boot sale in a few weeks time? take to charity shop?)
4. Is eBay the best place to sell books - apparently Amazon is a better place as many more people searching there for book titles already.

Oh bless my Darren he’s sent me a comment that simply says

http://pages.ebay.com/blackthorne/pro.html

It appears to be a lovely piece of software to help kids like me sort myself out from the beginning with selling tons of clobber on eBay. Good man.

Posted on September 19th, 2006 under Making money • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback