Within A Quarter Inch

more ribbon than you can shake a stick at...

More for sale at the nut house...

THE GREAT FABRIC DESTASH HAS CONTINUED...

I JUST LISTED A TON OF FABRIC ON EBAY - IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A GREAT DEAL - CHECK IT OUT!

ALL AUCTIONS (AND I HAVE INCLUDED LOTS OF FABRIC IN EACH AUCTION) START AT JUST 0.99 CENTS! NO RESERVE! I MUST BE CRAZY - BUT, YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT...

    

shownotes for episode 20 - schlepping your wares on Ebay

Selling online with Ebay - Advice from an amateur - please remember that this is just friendly advice - I have no affiliation with or training from Ebay.

Recommendation - sign up with Ebay - it's free. Look for things that you would be interested in purchasing - take note of people's choice of category that it is listed in.  Take note of the photos - just one? Many? Are they compelling? Take note of the seller's description, their shipping charges, and their feedback rating.

Once you have a feel for it - take a look around your sewing room and ask yourself, 'can I turn some of the items I am no longer in love with into a little money with which to purchase stuff i AM in love with??'  That is the key to casual selling on Ebay.  Don't think about how much money you could make - but just concentrate on cleaning out the old stuff and getting a few sheckles for it at the same time!

Some helpful things for easier selling...
Take lots of photos - make sure they are clear - if you blog, then you already can!

Find an online source to host them.  That's just fancy for Flickr or for Picasa web albums (my choice).  I also love Picasa as a photo organizing system on my computer. Once uploaded to the web album - you can either get the html for embedding a slide show of all of your images directly into your item's description (in addition to the 1 free photo given in your Ebay listing).  PICTURES SELL! You can also use the html for a single photo and add it to your listing (instead of a slideshow).

Use the turbo lister from Ebay - you can create a template to use again and again - saves a lot of time!

Oh and remember - be nice to your buyers - they could be a friend of yours and you don't even know it!

AND definitely - don't charge anymore more for shipping than your actual cost of shipping. Would you want to pay for it??

I will certainly answer any questions you have - but give me a bit of time for responding - super busy movin' lady right now!!

Oh and consider yourself lucky that I am not sharing any more of the diaper rash than I already have!!

I've started the de-stash....

I have (sadly) started to go through my stashes of craft supplies, both from the fabric/quilty world and the paper/mixed media world.  I simply cannot fathom MOVING all of that to another State!

What's even more shocking is that I have accumulated all of this stuff WHILE living in California for the last 5 years - yikes!

So - if you head over to Etsy - within a quarter inch - you will find fabrics.  SPECIAL FOR PODCAST LISTENERS AND BLOG READERS (JUST CONVO ME THROUGH ETSY) ANY SET OF FABRICS WILL BE ONLY $10.00 RATHER THAN $15.95!  Come on now, you have to admit that is a great price!  Sold out!

You will also find some great scrap bags of fabric - and the special is buy one get one free!!Sold out!

Over on EBAY I am selling the mixed media craft supplies (paints, glues, walnut crystals, a collection of 32 (basically unused) twinkling H2O's, etc).

Because of how Ebay works, I can't do anything about the final prices, but if you do win one of the auctions - then include in the comment box during checkout that you are a listener and I will ADD MORE GOOD STUFF to your box (no extra shipping!).

Thanks for your support everyone!