Written July 17th
Where to begin? A very good week selling. Much better than the prior two weeks which had me doubting my efforts. I was listing every day and selling nothing. I had three days in one week without sales. It is unusual for me to go one month with three days of no sales.
But things turned around this week. 17 items sold, all paid for. I sold a lot of unique vintage buttons and looked over the garage two times and could not find them. The week before I had to cancel an order because I could not find a pattern from the 1930s and I certainly did not want to cancel again. I would have probably lost my good standing with E-bay. So I sent a large box of better buttons....I hope she doesn't report me as not as described.
And then I almost got scammed and if he weren't so stupid, I may have had it handed to me. He offered 200 for my Liz Taylor as Cleopatra Barbie and I took the bait. He asked to pay via pay then told me to look at my email for a message from pay Pal with instructions for shipping. The he wanted to know when I was going to ship it. That irritated me. I told him in the morning when the Post Office opened. I sent the shipping So I purchased a shipping label from Pirate Ship and sent him the info. That when he made his fatal mistake or I would have put the doll in the mail and he would have gotten it and gotten me. BUT, he texted me to read an email from Pay Pal saying that I was not eligible for a $200 transfer and needed to open a business account. AND that he had to put an additional $200 in the account and I was to reimburse him the 200$ blah blah blah. I went WTF?!! Actually I said WHAT? I have been dealing with PayPal for years and have never run into this sort of malarkey. I told him I was gong to contact PayPal. He told me I didn't have to that he was on the phone with them right this moment and everything was okay. I called PayPay and after a few minutes realized it was a scam. I cancelled the shipping label and blocked him. This type of Drama needed this type of ending. Saved.
Took my daughter to the Auction with me. We were late because that is just the way it is with her. Always late. I missed out on one of the lots I dearly wanted, but I have realized just wait, something else with come your way.
I got the Barbie's I wanted (60$) and the two pictures I wanted (Sawyier and Native American drawings) spent maybe 55$ on those two. Got the Fiesta Ware (only three pieces not nicked or chipped damn it) And with everything else I wanted and did not want (emotional bidding) I ended up 150$ over Budget. HA!
I made a trip to one of the local Flea Markets and was totally wowed over by some of the lay outs of the booths. Lot of great ideas to have my own booth in one of the three very close Vendor Malls around this area. Pricing was also a major factor at the Flea Market. Many similar things I have were on display at the market. A wicker plant stand, 64$. A jaguar statue with green eyes 75$. Circle of Love figurine 20$. Vintage evening bags 42$ But most important were the ideas I came away with to make my booth stand out and attract attention. That is the name of the game, along with having quality merchandise.
Saturday afternoon the world caved in. My step daughter had an incident while staying with us. Don't know what actually caused it but she was unresponsive in the bedroom having fallen out of bed and was crumpled on the floor. My step son, her brother was also here (too long a story to explain) and called 911. They revived her with Narcan and she has been in the hospital almost comatose ever since. She has become more responsive the past two days since getting a feeding tube in her.
Life is so precious and you never know when it will come crashing down around you. Make reselling so insignificant and inconsequential.
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