Selling stuff quick online!

I've been selling a lot of stuff pretty quickly online and loving it! So glad I thought of this idea. If you have anything you would like to sell, leave a message.

New stuff for eBay

Here is some exciting news for sellers:

• Get increased visibility, lower fees for offering the holiday services buyers want most—free shipping, fast shipping, one-day handling, and a great return policy.  You now get a boost in Best Match—eBay’s default sort order—for each of these services you offer.  From Thanksgiving Day through December 25, you’ll get 20% off your Final Value Fees for all your transactions with a free expedited shipping service (such as USPS Priority Mail) with 1-day handling. If you’re an eBay Top-rated seller, that’s an extra 20% off on top of the discount you already get! 
• Use all 80 characters in your title to include more keywords and descriptors. You now have 25 EXTRA characters in your title to draw more buyers to your listings! Read tips on how to best use all 80 characters, then revise your titles for maximum visibility.
• Get found on Google, Yahoo! and via other off-eBay searches. By including unique product identifiers like UPCs, EANs, and  ISBNs in your listings, your items can be more easily found by buyers using eBay search, off-eBay search, and mobile apps. Be sure to include these identifiers in the designated field whenever you list. Learn more.      
• Offer a generous return policy. During the holidays, allow enough time for gift recipients to sort through their holiday goodies and return items to you—at least 14 days, or ideally 30 days after Christmas.  Remember…great return policies give your listings an added boost in Best Match! 
• Ship using eBay Labels—now with bulk label printing! Print up to 50 USPS shipping labels at one time, prepare multiple shipments and more. It’s built into the eBay selling process, so paying for postage, adding insurance and printing shipping labels is a breeze, and USPS® tracking numbers are automatically uploaded to My eBay and emailed out to buyers. Check it out.
• Sell for a cause, get promoted in search. Support your choice of nonprofits helping children and families through the eBay Giving Works Holiday campaign. The minimum donation per listing to participate is just $1 or 10% of the selling price, whichever is greater. You’ll get a tax-deductible receipt and pro-rated fee credits equal to the percentage of the final selling price that you chose to donate. These listings will also be promoted in search results!

Check out the site at: http://announcements.ebay.com/
 

Selling on eBay

I would have never thought selling stuff on eBay, Craigslist and other auction sites would be so fun! I have about fourteen things up right now across multiple auctions sites and it's amazing to watch what stuff gets bought and for how much. I have had pretty some weird things, that I would have never thought would sell! Like old shoes, used clothes, a mailbox. I can't wait to get more customers and see how big this gets!

Funny Captcha

     A CAPTCHA, also known as "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" Is a type of challenge test using computer generated words or numbers, that computers supposedly cannot read and duplicate. Meaning only humans can, which is supposed to reduce spam, among other things. Most of the time, the CAPTCHAs are innocuous and nonsensical. Sometimes though, the computers generating the security key go a bit wild, offering up text that's hilarious, incomprehensible, rude, and even inappropriate!


I've collected a couple of my funny and weird CAPTCHA's and I thought I'd share them, and encourage you to share yours! I also saved the best for last!!!

"punch wife"?!

This one was very interesting.... First of all. How did it know I was married?! But yes, I suggest not following what Captchas say...

"tumultuous women"

Well, this one is kind of self explanatory. But once again, very interesting to see what the computers randomly generate.

"(I am not even going to try) oSincl"

For this one I was stumped at first... Then I figured it was the formula to figure out how fast a rocket or rocket-ship has to be going to propel itself around the moon! I knew school would come in handy someday!...

Please feel free to share your funny, sad, crazy or even weird captcha here and I'll post them up on my wall for everyone to see and appreciate! I'll even make a poll to see which one is the best if I get enough people to participate.

Interesting article I read:

Here is an article I found rather amusing. So, I thought I would share it with you here:

Strangest Things Ever Sold On eBay:
Top 10 Auctions
by Jeff Cohen

    

eBay can be a very odd place, given that you can sell almost anything you want. Here are the auctions we’ve picked as being the strangest ever.

#10 - Girlfriends: Some girls auctioned their services as ‘imaginary girlfriends’, who would send the winning bidder pictures of themselves and loving letters, which they could use to pretend they had a girlfriend.

#9 - Wedding dress: Nothing strange about selling a wedding dress, you might think – but this was the guy’s ex-wife’s wedding dress. And he modelled it, as well as writing a long screed about his ex-wife in the description. It sold for £3,850.

#8 - TV part: Producers on the TV show Ally McBeal once used eBay to auction off a walk-on part on the show.

#7 - Kidney: One man tried to sell his kidney on eBay – after all, you only need one, right? Unfortunately it’s illegal to buy or sell human organs. Good thinking, though.

#6 - Toenail clippings: A girl once sold her toenail clippings on eBay, one clipping from each toe. She got a $1 for the set – a low price for the years of joy they no doubt provided to the buyer.

#5 - Britney’s gum: Someone picked up Britney Spears’ chewed gum at a London hotel and decided it’d be a great thing to sell on eBay. Oddly enough, they were right – they got $263 for it. A Britney fan probably has it framed in their house.

#4 - Ghost: Yes, a ghost. In a jar. Well, why not? The ghost was, apparently, ‘terrorising’ the man who owned it, and so he decided to capture it and sell it on eBay to someone who might be able to give it a better home.

#3 - Virgin Mary sandwich: A seller offered a grilled cheese sandwich upon which the Virgin Mary had appeared to her – and the strange thing is, she genuinely seemed to believe it. This item, unbelievably, sold for $28,000. Some people just have too much money to waste, don’t they?

#2 - Virginity: An 18-year-old British girl sold her virginity on eBay – but it was bought by a businessman who kindly agreed to give her the money without actually taking the ‘service’.

And at #1 - Fighter jet: A state brokerage in Virginia sold a U.S. Navy F/A-18A Hornet jet fighter on eBay for just over a million dollars. It was, unfortunately, in pieces and so unusable, but they offered to put it back together and make it ready to fly for the low, low price of just another $9 million.

Check it out here on: Strangest Things Ever Sold On eBay: Top 10 Auctions

My fliers have been ripped down!

     Unfortunately, I guess the mail men or community people don't like my fliers and have been ripping them down off of mailboxes. But that is only in some areas. I have many that are still up and getting viewed and people tearing off the actual website for more information. So that is good. I just wish some people would have the decency not to take mine off to use my push pins, cover mine up with theirs, or just plain steal my push pins and throw them on the ground. I need to find another way of advertising this to more people in a better and faster manner. I was thinking about groups, but I don't know of any groups or clubs that sell stuff. Maybe entrepreneur clubs? If you have any ideas, leave a message here. 

Putting out fliers!

I decided to make one hundred fliers and put them up at library's and in communities. Hopefully that will work out and get some more traffic here. I think it would be interesting to see how many people out of all the people that look at my blog and or message me actually go through my fliers. If anyone else has any good ideas how to increase traffic to here just leave a comment!