What are your Goals and Plans for January 2022?

[rosachs]

New Year's Day is all about setting Resolutions - things we want to change or improve about ourselves or our situation in life.  So... what are your plans and goals for January 2022, in particular, and for the year 2022 in general?  Are you moving on/out?  Planning to expand?  Staying the course or plotting a new route?

So let us know what your thoughts are, and then please come back a few times after that to share how well you've been doing or what's had to change to accommodate the reality that change is a part of life.

-Bob.

[karmy2005]

I reached my goal today, currently at 813/800 with 8 days left. My personal record of 1159 sold items in a month has a chance to be smashed. 

Good luck and happy sales to everybody.

[rosachs]

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@karmy2005 wrote:

I reached my goal today, currently at 813/800 with 8 days left. My personal record of 1159 sold items in a month has a chance to be smashed. 

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I'm jealous...and yet a bit relieved that my sales haven't hit that level.  I'm trying to relax my way into 'retirement', not come charging in with all four barrels wide open and the lake pipes a roarin!!  🙂

18 orders/18 shipments to date - best month in a while.  My PC parts are starting to pick up, and that's a very good thing.  I purchased a few testing tools that should help me check out a bit more of my inventory so I can move them from "as-is/for parts" to "used/tested".  Doesn't necessarily change the price much, but does seem to help make more sales.  🙂

Made contact with a gentleman here in town you recycles electronics, PCs and other things.  Not sure how active he is - we're going to get together this coming weekend (I've got a stack of stripped steel chassis he can have for free - I need the space more than the cash) and discuss something, not quite sure what.  I'd like the opportunity to review any PC equipment for possible resale opportunities - motherboards, graphic cards, memory... there are a few easy parts to remove that can make some level of profit.

In the back of my head I'm hearing that wee voice - the one that got me to attend a meeting for a few items of personal leftovers but turned out to be a major business account for 8+ years.  But this time it's reminding me that reselling parts that 'fell off the truck' or came from systems of questionable origin could be more hassle than it's worth.  It's a hassle being me sometimes.  🙂

We'll see.  I've sold 5 or the 6 refurbished PCs I posted to FBMP... and had to deal with way way too many tire kickers who just seem to be wasting time (theirs AND mine).  I mean... why ask "is this still available" on something posted less than 30 minutes ago?  Really?  Things sell that fast??  Oy.....

-Bob.

[chapeau-noir]

@rosachs  Made contact with a gentleman here in town you recycles electronics, PCs and other things. Not sure how active he is - we're going to get together this coming weekend (I've got a stack of stripped steel chassis he can have for free - I need the space more than the cash) and discuss something, not quite sure what. 

Whatever it is, it will probably be interesting and perhaps profitable!

At any rate, still on plan - more is leaving my inventory than coming in and slowly selling down - I kept saying I was going to do this over the last year, but I'm actually doing it now!

Also on a major house cleaning now - I want to get back to where I was in my 40s (an excellent decade) where I had actually not very much - just the things that made me happy, and very little inventory which I just kept turning over.  The DH has begun to follow my lead, even though he's always had more than I have had (we're second marriage) - possibly because I'm the one who does the selling so he's gotten the spark to start clearing out, too, and see what we can get for our stuff.  Some years back we sold down our bike gear pile (we were a marriage of two gear heads and OMG, the piles of bike parts we had between us!) to a manageable level, so it seems to be books and old software now, camera stuff, etc.  More fun than clothing.

[route66gif76]

15/27 made i sale

clay

[debbiet22]

Sold 2 more Sunday.  16/20 for the month.  The last week I have added some more new listings.  Will continue to add more this week.  Will then see if they help weekend sales.  I have been listing a mix of different items.

[downrightspecialkids]

Nice work Karmy! I can't imagine having to pack that many up, even small cards have to take a lot of time when you have that many!

Keep them coming Clay!

Joe, you had me laughing with the "One-eyed Joe" and hoping the boating trip isn't on a yard sale day! Priorities! 😄

Debbie, that is me with the listing: go from room to room and bin to bin, picking and choosing. A few years ago when @kikirocksrockin was an active member of this group, she said she was going to just start listing a box or tote at a time without digging, and I said I was going to do the same. It didn't happen!
I am loving the Facebook group I found and instantly recognized Postcardcountry.  I see there are a lot of people in over their heads with junk, just like me, but some much worse. I can't see paying hundreds a month for storage of stuff that is just sitting there being ignored. 

January has been really strange for sales. The beginning of the month was dead, which was strange since I normally do well in January. I always figured after shopping for everyone else, people bought for themselves after Christmas. Not this year! But the last week or so, things have finally picked up. I hope it stays this way. 

I'm AROUND 225-230/250. I have had several cancellations this month, which is incredibly frustrating, especially when several told me they put in the wrong address, but not a one of them repurchased with a correct address, so I think that is just an excuse.

[rosachs]

Will likely end the month at 25 orders/shipments from 40 listings sold.  One of my regular elongate collectors stopped by this weekend and picked up 15 new Memphis Zoo elongates, which is always nice.  Even after his multi-item preferred customer discount (anyone spending over $100 on elongates is a "preferred" customer), I still did very well on those expensive-to-roll elongates.

Met with the recycling chemist - he's got all my empty chassis and we got a wee bit of time to discuss other opportunities.  There's a FBMP listing I'm looking at, locally, where the seller wants to move "1500 - 2000lbs of PC equipment" that actually is more like 300-500lbs (he kept promising 'still pulling out more', but the pictures posted are all there actually is).  I'd be buying by the pound, but I can keep the total outlay within my cash reserves and recover close to half that just in recycled metal alone.  My chemist friend is interested in recovering rare metals (chemically - I've seen the YouTube videos and have no interest in trying to kill myself by doing something incorrectly or unsafely), so between us we should be able to recover the investment AND decent profits for each of us in our own ways.  And I don't end up with piles of empty chassis and dead electronics that I know have gold in them that I can't get to.  🙂

It could all just be trash - MB hard drives instead of GB or TB drives, 386/486/Pentium antique motherboards and cpus instead of anything with even a chance of being resellable.  In which case my offer per pound may have to be adjusted.  Haven't heard back from the seller yet, so it's just a waiting game.

Babysat our youngest grandson today - from 3 to around 8:30.  He's just over two, smart, as blonde as they get with beautiful blue eyes (the ONLY grandchild to have my 'signature' traits!), and he listens pretty well to Grandpa and Grandma and is starting to talk.  Still mostly just one or two slurred words, but that's where it starts.  His older cousin learned to talk much earlier, but she's a girl (they really do talk sooner) and Grandpa spent most of her day with her and never baby-talked her.  We discussed things - even when she was still babbling, we had recognizable conversational back-n-forth.  Makes me a firm believer that the more you interact with them as human and not as toys, the faster they learn and the smarter they end up.

Overall, a good week and a decent weekend.  Rough week coming, but then getting better again for Sat/Sun/Mon.  Gives me a chance to restock my Zoo coins!!  🙂

Stay safe everyone!  Keep working on those money piles!  I'm finally marking my listed inventory storage containers so I can find things faster, and working on a great many backed up parts.  If I can do it, I'm positive the rest of y'all should have no problems at all!!  🙂

-Bob.

[debbiet22]

I ended up with 20 sales but one was canceled.  So really ended up at 19/20.  February will not have a goal as the store is on vacation for 2 weeks.  Quarantine starts early due to the bad weather coming.  Hubby is having a heart procedure done the 8th so getting out and driving is limited so thought best to shut the store down for a bit, but in the meantime will work on drafts.  

Karmy, congrats on hitting your goal and too whoever else hit goal.

We are under a winter storm warning.  3-5" of snow tonight and 6-10" tomorrow.  This will be out first big snow of the season.  We will see what we get.  It's been raining all day.  We may get sleet and a glaze of ice mixed in. 

We have enough groceries for 2 weeks.  Monday when we went to the grocery store there were complete sections bare.  The whole section of canned biscuits, crescents, cinnamon rolls was empty.  We went at 11:00 in the morning.   No chicken breast's, little beef and pork.   Corn muffin section was empty, no sugar free pudding.  So bought self-rising corn meal mix and will try the recipe on the back.  Just have to adapt.

I know this storm will hit many-stay safe!

[downrightspecialkids]

@debbiet22  our grocery stores have been like that a lot. Entire sections are just bare. I'm sure it was worse last weekend when we had our "winter storm" of 2" of snow. I had shopped earlier in the week so I didn't have to fight the crazies stocking up like they'll be locked up for weeks. When it snows here, it's never much and normally melts in a day or two. 

Bob, you have a lot going on as usual. The deal with computer stuff by the lb sounds so foreign to me!

I agree with talking to kids at a young age like they're humans leads to them being more intelligent. When I taught in Milwaukee, it seemed so many of the kids hadn't been spoken to as humans, ever by their parents. Most had such limited vocabulary and just life experiences in general. It was sad, and nearly impossible to get them caught up when they started out just behind in life.

Well, I met my goal for January, even with several cancellations. It's only the 3rd day into  February and I have had one already for this month. I with people would make up their minds before they purchased.

[rosachs]

January ended well and right as I expected.  The last week of the month is always interesting, trying to make sure I use all 250 free listings (per non-Store selling ID).

-Bob.

[Anonymous]

As a new seller, my plan is to continue to learn from those more experienced.  While I''ve had a couple sales so far, I've had a slow January so far but perhaps people are "spent" for a bit after the holidays.

I'd love to know the top three recommendations veterans have for new sellers.  Will have to start a new thread and ask.

In the meantime, Happy New Year from the chilly Pacific Northwest.

Lynne