I hope that this is okay to share here.

[mommaknows]

This is the first time that I listed something and it sold in an hour or two. Not a big ticket item just the opposite, but one of my favorite reads. It just made me happy and I thought I could share it with you all since maybe you'd understand. 

Thank you for listening. 

Pretty dreams. 

[chapeau-noir]

Was it the book about Grandma Gatewood? One of our most incredible and unsung heroes!

Great sale, and I'm glad you were able to spread the word!

[mommaknows]

@chapeau-noir  Yes, yes it was! She is inspirational and the book is such a great read. 

I'm thrilled that you know of her. 

[simply-the-best-for-you]

That's always such a nice feeling!  Then again if you're a pessimist like someone I, ahem, know, you immediately start questioning yourself that you didn't charge enough for it 😄

[fbusoni]

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@mommaknows wrote:

This is the first time that I listed something and it sold in an hour or two.  

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Thanks for sharing, I really enjoy stories like this.  

Allow me please to pile on and share my sole two similar experiences (in 25 years on this platform).

The first time: a porcelain butter dish from the UK.  The top had a small chip but the bottom was like new.  Buyer wrote to me to tell me that she had the identical butter dish, with a perfect top but a chipped bottom.  A match made in heaven and the dish sold in about 5 minutes, likely because I put "chipped top" in the title.  

More recently, a pair of hand crafted bookends... the artist is well known and her work is in great demand, and as far as I could tell, I had the only full set on eBay (with original tags to boot).   I paid next to nothing for them and am too embarrassed to share the sales price, but they too sold in about 15 minutes.   I was so worried about getting them to the buyer undamaged that I shipped each one in its own 12x12x12" cardboard box.  

I was so excited over this sale that I went out and had a hand made wood fired pizza, against my doctor's orders.

PS: Just read about Grandma Gatewood.  What a phenomenal woman... I will keep her image in my mind's eye when I am exhausted after hiking a few miles at a local nature preserve.  😁  I learn a lot from these forums.

[meme6253]

Perfectly fine to share your story, Thank You!

[mcdougle4248]

Congratulations on your quick sale! Wishing you many more.

[chapeau-noir]

Grandma Gatewood is like the patron saint of endurance.

I think my fastest sale was a pair of JNCO Slacker jeans which sold in just under five minutes - I had gone back to double check my listing and was confused as to why I couldn't find it lol.