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.
@downrightspecialkids wrote:Bob, you always have such clear goals. I am just a mess!
So, as usual, my goal is to get organized and sell at least 250 items this month. I really need to set up a plan for the organization, because I just never have enough time.
I only have 'clear goals' due to years of having the same goals. 🙂
I'm starting to organize my personal listed inventory similar to what we use at work: Since most of my PC equipment is static-sensitive, I will bag each piece in anti-static bags, seal them, and then apply an inventory SKU label (SixBit offers one) so I can be sure I'm shipping the correct item. 🙂 That part was easy... the part I neglected was to update SixBit with the container I stuck each part into... and I've got 15-20 containers scattered & stacked around my room, so finding things can sometimes be a bit... uh... "challenging". Seems it's much easier to fill & stack those things than it is to move them, one by one, until you find the one you need.
Lesson learned.
Sold a few things since so far in January. Right now, eBay is outselling FBMP -- I get lots of "is this still available" or "I want it" messages on the PCs listed, but then no one shows up to actually make the purchase! FBMP has FAR more tire-kickers than eBay! Very Frustrating!!
So the big news is.... we both got Covid! Kicked in the week between Christmas & New Years, confirmed that Friday (New Years Eve), and we'll be out of quarantine and masked up for work by Thursday. We're both vaxed and boosted, so it's was basically a headcold for me and slightly less for my wife. Both have/had sore throats and gravely voices, and the lethargy!! I spent all day Thursday and most of Friday just sleeping on the couch - drifting in and out, and snoring up a storm (according to my wife!). Most of the kids got the same, youngest a few days before me, oldest has had sinus issues for a month, and their sister is even more unwilling to leave her house (so her soon-to-be-ex husband and son brought some home for her). The grands and their significant others almost all got it, with only the very youngest getting away without getting sick... or so we think (our oldest has the youngest grand and seldom goes to the doctor - long story).
It's been the strangest Christmas in years! I think next year we'll go back to the old-fashioned, everyone meets at Grandpa and Grandma's place for the day. There are some family traditions you just don't want to mess with...
Stay safe everyone!
-Bob.
@firesteel_surplus wrote:Keep my sales under that dreaded new $600 threshold for 2022.
Other than that...TRY and I mean really really TRY this year to get some of my stock down and under control this year because I have a lot of stock to post.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooommmmmMMMMMM past that 600 bucks lickety split.
Mike
Firesteel Surplus
PS...that was for all of 2022. I misread that. I didn't see it was just for Jan.
January is the first step to the rest of 2022.
I've picked up a couple more sales, one was even over $10 net!! 🙂 Got a couple of systems from work sold - actually got FBMP buyers who showed up!! But when I got back to work, they had 'cleaned up' and now I have no place to set up each system config we're selling (single monitor/dual monitor) so that I can get Windows updated and properly configured before the buyer picks it up! We're talking about a small table and chair, with a power strip for the three electrical cords in use. But... it was an empty, flat surface... and those don't stay that way long in the warehouse. You should see the floor... someday, maybe we will!! 🙂
Mostly taking it easy - still running a bit tired, but there are a number of reasons that could be causing that, and it's getting better, just slowly. Do NOT care for the cold weather!! I thought I had left that up in MN!! Memphis is supposed to be wet & dreary all 'winter', not cold, icy, and frigid! Harumph!!
I did get some more PC parts listed, and a few more elongates. Going to have to really put in some effort if I want to use all my 250 listings this month... I've got most of my elongate stock tied up in Fixed Price listings, but only for 29 days. Once I get to 500 units, I can post 250 the last week of one month and 250 the first week of the next and have 500 listings for most of that second month!! Just trying a few options to change things up a bit - already have a bid on one of the newly posted elongates, but that's true with almost every batch of "new" inventory I post. That's why I post them as auctions ... when a rare one comes up, the bidding is fun to watch! 🙂
-Bob.
