Becoming Domestic

Yay! I made £200 on eBay this week by selling just six things which have lived in the loft for the last few years.

Actually that’s not completely true the first thing I sold was the new Nokia mobile phone which was sent to me by the phone company for free last month. As my current mobile is perfectly adequate (and I finally know how it works) I decided to leave the new one in the box and sell it on eBay.

It reached the great price of £100 which I’m absolutely thrilled with as I would far rather have a new pair of boots than a pretty pink camera phone but I’ve just received an email from the would be purchaser telling me that he can’t pay me until next Friday until his pay cheque comes in. He asked whether I’d accept a cheque instead of PayPal but I’ve been warned by my hubby and others that this is a big No No with mobile phone sales and other ‘big ticket items’ on eBay as there are loads of dodgy geezers out there with new scams trying to rob people of their cash. Hopefully my experience won’t involve anyone like that but I’m not counting my eBay sales until the PayPal bucks are safely in my account.

I’ve finally got round to selling some of my things on eBay. Just as well as the mound of kids clothes, baby equipment and ‘retro’ goodies is now reaching the ceiling in the spare room which can’t make for a very nice night’s sleep for our weary guests!

Here’s a list of things I am selling - go on grab yourself a bargain, happy bidding!

I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how quick and easy it is to get an item listed for sale. I’m really looking forward to having less clutter and more cash from selling the things we no longer love having in our house.

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.