Every find you're too busy with life to deal with your eBay store?

[sin-n-dex]

A few days ago I needed a boost because I was lacking in motivation. My brain seems to be corrected where I feel listing stuff might be a good idea, this has gone on two or three weeks that not much has been listed.

But my full time job is totally crazy and giving me migraines every day that I am having issues keeping up on the store. Since I'm not listing, sales have slowed, so I have 1 hour before work each day to pack orders, and that's been enough time to get everything packed, even on days with the 45 minute commute to the office.

I'm very much looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow (but not too late, I want to take some pictures when it's light out, but before the sun shines in my room... there's a 3 hour window in the middle of the day that I can't take pictures this time of year, because the sun shines right into my entire room). I'm hoping to feel rested enough to do listings tomorrow, but I have to do photos. It's dark later and earlier in Canada so I can take many pictures on work days, I do it all on the weekends.

I kind of wish work would calm back down a little so I wasn't so tired in the evenings and could spend some time working on my eBay store, but my wishes have not been answered yet.

C.

[titipeo]

Perhaps determine if keeping the store is worth it. The body next rest, otherwise health issues, fatigue, sleepless will take a toll on you. Lok out for yourself first, once you do everything else will fall into place.

[toomuchstuffagain35]

Or you have some current health issues that make it hard to do the taking photos/listing stuff and you're still sourcing and starting to feel like a hoarder rather than a seller as the unlisted stuff piles up.

[dhbookds]

Sometimes, I mutter "this too shall pass".......more than a few times a day......and it does......

[richard1rst]

More often than that I feel  I'm too busy with eBay to deal with my life?

Something about smelling the roses

[12345jamesstamps]

I don't think of it as too busy to list items ...but maybe enjoying the finer things in life.

I don't want to be Amazon...some sellers do...some act like it on eBay actually...next day shipping...that will never be me.

I enjoy listing items for sale but I enjoy my wine club friends every week, scary movies and going to the gym to stay young.

Some days I have a lot to ship out...but you know...I also like the days I have no sales like today and don't need to ship anything out tomorrow...and yes...tomorrow is a day with my wine club friends enjoying someone's birthday this Saturday.

And, of course every day in the 60's and usually no rain helps where I live.

[lakefor94]

Listing is very tedious work. Most all computer work involving eBay is tedious.

There are times when I don't feel like listing, sometimes lasting a week or two. Right now I am working thru 4 pallets of items. Nothing but an **bleep**-whooping that I have to get thru before it starts raining Wednesday. (2 pallets are still outside on my flatbed trailer.) I have to at least get those sorted out and in my office and garage.  The wife won't be happy if I take over the garage again and she can't get her car in. Have to get-r-done. 

I have a men's breakfast tomorrow morning at 8am and then another engagement at 10am that involves some skeet shooting and I don't know what all else. I need the refresher time before hammering on the work Sunday or Monday thru Wednesday. 

Perhaps make some time for yourself if possible.

[sin-n-dex]

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@titipeo wrote:

Perhaps determine if keeping the store is worth it. The body next rest, otherwise health issues, fatigue, sleepless will take a toll on you. Lok out for yourself first, once you do everything else will fall into place.

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Unfortunately I need to keep doing both (working and eBay store), or I won't be able to afford to eat...

Stuff has gotten so insanely expensive in Canada, and since I have a house I can almost afford, which is half as expensive as where other people live... I'm trying to hang on to it so I don't have to rent (which will now cost me $3200 a month for a similar sized space).

C.

[sin-n-dex]

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@toomuchstuffagain35 wrote:

Or you have some current health issues that make it hard to do the taking photos/listing stuff and you're still sourcing and starting to feel like a hoarder rather than a seller as the unlisted stuff piles up.

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I suffer from chronic migraines, but some $800 a month medication makes them go away within a few hours of getting them (but sometimes I have to take these pills every day to keep the migraines away). Thankfully my work offers insurance that pays for the meds (which is one of the main reasons I keep the job, even when it's stressful, but less stress would probably mean less migraines).

Fortunately I don't own most of my inventory and what I don't own is in the basement at the coin shop, so if hoarding is happening it's there, not here. As long as I don't have to look at it all the time or live in a room with 6 feet high bins of stuff, I think I'm OK. My livingroom is less lived in because I'm working on a stamp collection (which is here while I take it apart), but I do feel for the most part my house has livable space.

C.

[sin-n-dex]

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@lakefor94 wrote:

Listing is very tedious work. Most all computer work involving eBay is tedious.

There are times when I don't feel like listing, sometimes lasting a week or two. Right now I am working thru 4 pallets of items. Nothing but an **bleep**-whooping that I have to get thru before it starts raining Wednesday. (2 pallets are still outside on my flatbed trailer.) I have to at least get those sorted out and in my office and garage.  The wife won't be happy if I take over the garage again and she can't get her car in. Have to get-r-done. 

I have a men's breakfast tomorrow morning at 8am and then another engagement at 10am that involves some skeet shooting and I don't know what all else. I need the refresher time before hammering on the work Sunday or Monday thru Wednesday. 

Perhaps make some time for yourself if possible.

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Saturday nights are "family time" every week... so looking forward to that. (But then while doing family time I sometimes think "shouldn't I be putting up listings or shipping stuff?")

I'm on vacation in a week and have plans to spend it in the basement of the coin store. With COVID I haven't been travelling, but I am travelling in February and will be offline for a month, so spending time at the coin shop working (while my regular job is paying me to be on vacation) seems like a good way to pay for stuff. I also like working at the coin shop and it doesn't feel like work. There's no computer, no ebay, no listing stuff, no shipping stuff... it's just me at the vacant desk of the day (as most staff are part time and don't work every day), with my coins, tokens or stamps packaging stuff up that can later be photographed and listed.

I've got some baskets of loose stamps that came in the great big collection that need sorting, and I did buy a coin order a week or two ago that needs to be packed up so I can photograph it. I figure any day without using a computer is a vacation, even if what I'm doing is some form of "work".

C.

[inhawaii]

I hear ya.

It's late Friday afternoon for me right now.

I would like nothing more than to go home in 2 hours and rest/nap.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) I have ebay orders to pack.

There are also tons of stuff I could/should list but I just don't have the energy.

Maybe over the weekend?

Have a great weekend C!

[12345jamesstamps]

I work on cruise ships and been east and west of Canada....and also in Canada. I only found Montreal and Quebec expensive. Gosh, my 2 bedroom rent control apartment with a space for my motorcycle in garage is $2000. or maybe a little under. I can see Canada now being expensive with the fires and the destruction I saw in Halifax from the hurricane last year. 

[titipeo]

Not sure if this an option, but perhaps take a look at subletting part of the house, might help in easing the financial burden. then again, it also bring other issues. Just a tough. 

[12345jamesstamps]

That won't happen. I was on a cruise ship for 2 weeks in Canada last October near the hurricane . I kept my store open and emailed everyone on a purchase when item when be shipped. I made great sales!

I used my iPhone to work without a computer. Good luck.

[byrd69er]

I stopped selling here two years ago this September. No regrets....only congratulations to myself for going at it on my own and being successful. I have a client list of over 100 people who keep me plenty busy. No need for photos, no long descriptions (a dynamic detailed spreadsheet does the job), no listings to watch, ship when I want to, nobody else's rules to adhere to.

I suggest a rest.........and a re-evaluation of priorities and an assessment of your time to commit to the second job.  Fancy words for....take a vacation. Doesn't need to be permanent.

Take care.