My husband
and I have our house up for sale.
Whenever it sells, we will have 17-years of accumulated “stuff” to move.
So, we
decided to get rid of some things. For
years we’ve been collecting “tshatshkes” (trinket, toy, bauble;
knick-knack; ornament), and they are just sitting in a closet. Some are antiques and/or vintage items.
My husband and I thought we should try to sell them
online. Over the years, we have
purchased a thing or two and sold a couple things on eBay, but we are far from
experienced sellers.
We photographed all the things we wanted to sell, loaded
the pix into my computer and began to place our ads.
What a production it turned out to be! We were posting
15 items. First determining the category
was a bit of a challenge. Some items fit
into more than one category, and other things didn’t seem to fit into any of
the categories offered.
When we went to upload the photos for each item, some
wouldn’t load for some reason (wrong number of pixels?). We had to retake and reload pictures
repeatedly.
The next obstacle we faced was determining the
price. We had looked up most of the
items on eBay and other sites to see what they sold for, but the prices varied
dramatically. Since we really want to
sell these items, we decided to go lower than most of the others, and we put
them under the “buy now” category. In
the Buy Now area, we had to select the lowest offer we would accept. We wanted to make a little money at least on
these items.
Our next step was to think up a title for each ad. We had to try to think up titles that would
grab buyers’ attention. I’m not sure how
successful we were, but I think I would have stopped to look closer if I was
buying instead of selling.
Then we had to think of a description for them. Six of the items were beautiful vintage perfume
bottles. I inherited them from my
mother. They are all glass, some with “jewels,”
some with raised designs. We had to come
up with descriptions that were different for each one. I didn’t even know what to call a couple of the
items. They were “tshatshkes.”
After posting about six of our 15 items, I realized I
had skipped the “location exclusion” section.
I do not want to have to send them outside of the United States. I had to go back to the original six I had
already posted and correct that section.
All in all, this process took us – wait for it – nearly four
hours! After all that work, I certainly
hope these items sell.
Our Sunday was a new and interesting experience.
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