7 posts tagged “ebay”
I haven't been thrift store shopping for several months. I had plenty of inventory left over from before we moved and wanted to deplete that on eBay before investing in more.
But today there was a thrift shop right next door to the fabric shop where I bought material to make drapes for our dining room, so I couldn't resist having a look.
I walked straight through the clothes section in front towards the back where most thrift shops stash their used books, crafting supplies, and knitting patterns. Here's what I found.
A paperback book - Taliesin by Stephen Lawhead, $1.50. I'm just finishing up Hood by this author and liked it so much that I want to try another by him.
Crochet Fantasy, 50 cents. Patterns for doilies, placemats, table runners, etc. I can probably get $5 or $6 (US) for this crochet pattern book on eBay so it's a decent buy.
Fabric Ducks, 25 cents. A sewing pattern for a stuffed duck decoy and other duck items. The cover is a bit beat up so I wouldn`t normally have picked this up except that it`s pretty unusual (stuffed duck decoys!), the pattern was uncut and it was real cheap. Not sure what to charge for it...maybe $5.
Wild Gliders, $1. Unother unusual item. This is a 48-page booklet on how to make flying paper birds that look like geese, owls, eagles, etc. I took a quick look at abebooks just now and copies are listed there for $19 to $20 (US). This is definitely a good find.
Then when I saw this last item in the back of the thrift store hidden away on a magazine rack I almost choked. I have fantasized about stumbling across an Alice Starmore sometime but never really thought it would actually happen! Some quick searching around on eBay, amazon.com and abebooks tells me this knitting pattern book, Stillwater, is worth around $150 to $200 (US). I paid $4 for it. Canadian. Woo hoo!
It's time. For various reasons, the table has finally got to go. So far I've listed it on Craig's List and on eBay. This table would be great for someone for Christmas!
What sites show up if you type "S" into your browser's address bar?
- s.lightspeedresearch.com - A survey. I do surveys online at a few places. Some reward you with points you can redeem later for cheap items. Some enter you into contests. If I'm lucky I'll get one that sends me actual money.
- www.scanrail.com - I was checking out train routes and schedules for Sweden and Norway. One of my brothers is visiting Scandinavia later this month for work and I couldn't resist checking out the trains and fantasizing about going with him.
- search.ebay.com - researching the competition...
- secure.ncix.com/customercare - I bought a new power supply for my computer at NCIX and I had to bug their customer service dept about shipping.
- www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk - looking up stuff about Sherlock Holmes...
Thinking about ads all week reminded me that I was going to try to figure out how to get a widget working here in my blog. Turns out that Vox has recently added "embed" functionality and after five or six attempts I was able to get a widget for my eBay store to display and work properly.
I spent the evening doing eBay stuff. I delisted four Buy-It-Now items from my eBay store that have been sitting there, for a year, unsold. I'll relist them as auction items tomorrow but if they don't sell after a week, it's into the paper recycling bin or to the thrift store for them. I wrote descriptions for a few sewing patterns and knitting booklets that I plan to add to my store inventory. And I'm scanning the pictures pages from McCall's Big Book of Dolls & Soft Toys To Knit and Crochet book. I want to have lots of great pictures to include in the listing when I post it for sale.
Scanning pictures of books and patterns is incredibly boring and I wouldn't do it except that people don't seem to want to buy crafty things unless they can see lots and lots of pictures of the crafts they can make if they buy the pattern or book.
The process goes like this. I open the book to the right page, position it squarely on the glass, lower the cover, and click "save". The scanner hums and whirrs while it captures the image. Then I lift the cover, turn the pages to the next picture, position it on the glass, lower the cover, click "save", and so on and so on.
While the scanner hums I've got 60 to 90 seconds to dash around and do other things - crop and rename images, print mailing labels, wrap parcels, read email, reconcile my bank statement, look up info on a stock I'm thinking about buying, check what's happening on Vox, read the comics, etc. I tried working on my taxes during the humming minute but a minute isn't long enough to do a multi-step capital gains calculation or to add up the pile of 2006 shipping expense receipts and I make too many errors. I tried doing Sudoku puzzles during the humming minute but again more focus and concentration is required than the humming minute allows for. Only simple things work. I found out I can crochet during the humming minute.
So I finished another cap tonight. Ends sewn in and everything.
I think I'll try to sell it on eBay.
I'll call it The Humming Minute Cap.
I've been staring at this dress sewing pattern all evening and it's making me CRAZY!
Puh-leeze, somebody buy it soon out of my eBay store and let me get rid of it before it corrupts the rest of my inventory!
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Submitted by little♫miao.
I bought this huge stack of really great costume sewing patterns with the intent of listing them for sale in my eBay store The M31 Emporium. Trouble is they don't sell themselves. You have to take or scan pictures, write listings, and then post them up on eBay. Work, work, work. I just want to play, play, play.
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