My review of selling stuff on eBay

My Bottom Line:  Selling stuff on eBay is a lot of work, but it's also nice to get things out of your house. 

I think to really be profitable, you could make selling on eBay your full time job. I have other interests in my life, like my volunteer career and my science class, so I'll just put a batch of items on My eBay from time-to-time.

I did recently buy a new cheap camera tripod and I really love my choice. It was about $40 from B&H. I used to dread trips to the real B&H in NYC and if you've been there you know why, but now I kind of miss it and I was happy to order from them. Because even though I don't want to be in their over-crowded nutso store, I know they are fucking fierce over there. There is a method to their madness.


Here I am holding the wonderfully compact Canon tripod in it's carrying case. I love the carrying case. It's nicer for storing the tripod. A tripod w/out a case is kind of a snaggly monster in your closet.

I am my own model and photographer so that helped. I just picked a sunny day and mostly used natural light and ran around the apartment changing wildly fast in and out of the items I sold.

It's best that I was home alone. Thank goodness.

Putting stuff up is way smoother than it used to be. Even back a few months ago eBay would peck you to death with all these tedious questions, but somehow they really got their shit together and the listing process is much more streamlined and looks better too.

I just sat at my desk with my items in a stack near-by and used a tape measure as I went to enter them into eBay online.

I didn't get too many dumb questions about my items. That was a relief. I do have an extremely solid eCommerce background on my resume, so I think I am good at predicting the questions the item-viewer  will have.

I set-up my auctions to all end on Sunday evening THINKING everyone would pay and I could have this big trip to the post office on Monday morning, but that was not the case at all. I received rolling payments and took several trips to the PO and LUCKILY I live within walking distance of a post office so it was pretty convenient. I just had to remember to bring my own packing tape over there.

Most of my buyers bought USPS Priority Mail Shipping service so I got to use the free packing stuff supplied by the post office. My post office here in Little Rock is SO MUCH NICER than the ones in NYC. Here in LR the supplies are stocked and the works are so eerily nice.

I had a surprising amount of international buyers.

I didn't pay too much attention to how much money I actually made. I also started almost all of my items at .99. I had rescued several of my items from thrift stores and some of my items were things I no longer wanted to use/wear, so it was really a mission of sending things off to new homes.

I would relate the prices I got to those of yard sale prices. Except for in the case of a Marc Jacobs handbag. 

heart, life, fate

A friend read my palm yesterday. I loved it. There are a few things that I googled and wanted to double-check, and it turned out she nailed it. One of the most special parts was when she found my guardian angel line. She was impressed with it, then I told her my mom passed away when I was twenty and she was so happy for me. She said she is really watching over me.

She pointed out several things that matched-up to my personality and she had my make a xerox of my palms because she thinks some changes may come about after this summer. She also pointed out the lines that show that I'm organized.

I don't necessarily take palm reading seriously, but this was a really fun exercise, a special time with my friend and I do look forward to seeing how my lines evolve as I get older. 

Playlists- Workout and for Driving

I've spent a perfect Saturday night home alone, drinking and painting my nails and doing very important work in iTunes. I've done something that's kind-of hard for me to do- I updated my workout playlist. 

Mostly I listen to this when I'm on the treadmill and I need to be entertained and motivated. Immediately with no interruption. Some of these songs could get played next week and really piss me off and get cut. But here's the first draft:


But I got stuck on this Lily Allen song and made this other playlist, Girl, Boo. Now that I'm a car-driving person again, I require fresh CDs regularly, and I like to have mixtapes to give to my friends who I see in person to show them I care. This mixtape is burning as I type.


I showed the whole screen-shot because I usually like when I discover how people name their playlists, so I'm showing you mine.

Me and Matt share an iTunes. It was hard for us at first, but now we get along in there. Sometimes I burn him a new mix and put it in the refrigerator on top of his lunch I packed for him.

#BikeChickenShit

I'm feeling extremely chicken shit scared about biking in Arkansas these days. Everyone around here is always holding their phone in their hands along with the wheel reading the screen, or speaking on their phone with the actual phone up to their ear in their giant vehicle. It's so distressing.

I wish hand-sets would get outlawed in this state. Hopefully someone is working on that. It breaks my bicycle riding heart to see people texting and driving, which is a very frequent occurrence.

I'm always outside walking. I walk to the Clinton Library the days I work there, and I walk Bonnie-dog on two big walks every day, and I pay attention to who's on their phone and driving and I'm pretty fucking scared. 

Another scary thing to think about when thinking of riding bikes here is that people have much bigger vehicles. So many people drive SUV's and huge trucks with giant tractor tires like this-

It doesn't take a 5,000 pound car to get a 100 pound woman to the mall-  Is an idea that hasn't gotten down here yet.