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Tuesday April 29, 2008

Spring cleaning and eBay

I spent most of the weekend doing "spring cleaning" type of activites. Keep in mind, I'm big time type A, so having a list and crossing stuff off the list is quite a nice feeling.

In the last few week, when picking out clothes for my kids, not a regular happening, I always find the shirt that doesn't fit and the "high water" jeans... So on rainy Sunday, we pulled all the clothes from the closet and only put back the items that fit. We lost like 1/3 to 1/2 of the clothes. A fair amount of them are now on eBay. We have more than 40 auctions running and will probably sell $500-$800 of stuff that still has life in it. Name brands like UnderArmour, Boden, Izod and Polo sell like crazy and thankfully my little one with all the cool threads is easy on her clothes. Seems that we get better than 50% of the price back on lots of items, so the next purchase isn't bad.

I could do a whole series on selling on eBay, but not today. If you have stuff to sell, first be a buyer. See what you like in a seller and what annoys you. Build up your feedback score, I'm well over 400 at this point and don't sell until you cross 10 or 20 positive feedbacks.