What's your favourite task relating to selling on eBay?

[sin-n-dex]

Now for a more fun topic... what's your favourite task in regards to selling on eBay? I realize everyone likes the ka-ching receiving money part, but if you didn't have sales to attend to on a particular day, what would you most like to be doing?

My favourite part is the treasure hunt to find things to list. On my most recent two trips I got some items to list and I have to say that day of sourcing was the most fun on the entire trip. It's kind of like having a psychological high searching through treasure, I feel like a kid at Christmas when I find something.

I was at the B&M store this past week doing some "looking around" as we call it when I go there to source. I found a box in a corner that had some stamp albums and I felt very excited digging through the box to see if there was anything good in there. I similarly like buckets of coins or tokens to fish around and see what I can find. I often focus on things I know are popular (especially if I know what it is, and the B&M store has no clue, I get my best stuff that way). I often get Arabic coins that they couldn't be bothered with identifying. As long as it's clear enough to take a good picture, I'm all for taking them for eBay.

I try to have at least one sourcing day each month at the store, and whatever I get to look at tends to be whatever's lying around that they haven't gotten to yet. (Or sometimes I get a text to come in and see if a collection interests me or not, that's pretty exciting, but only lasts for 30 minutes at lunch time). In the case when I'm offered, I usually take it home and have a good look there... it's so tempting to look through it when I'm supposed to be working, but I resist the urge until my shift is over (if I got it at lunch that is).

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[buyselljack2016]

Transferring the $$ from my linked checking account after a payout would likely be my favorite task🤣

[tarotfindsandmore]

I love love love sourcing for my store!  I sell only fun, frivolous things.  99% of what I source I would never dream of buying for myself.  

[casprrr]

I love treasure hunting! Unfortunately I end up buying a lot more inventory than I sell, but it's enjoyable. I also love researching and learning about the antique glassware that is my specialty.

[lakefor94]

Sometimes I have a pickup truck load. (6 foot bed with a full topper, backseat and passenger seat full. On occasion, I have to take the 16' flatbed and pickup 2 or 3 wrapped pallets as well.

I get a kick out of sorting thru it and picking out the expensive and popular items. Those get listed 1st.

There are some items that I have to figure out exactly what they are and what they are used for. I run across some very nice surprises at times, monetarily. Fortunately,  most items have a part number so it ain't that hard most of the time, but still interesting. 

[fashunu4eeuh]

My absolute favorite part is doing the research on interesting items i unearth. Things that my gut instincts say could do well on eBay. 

[pastimpressions]

Composing feedback for a valued customer who has expressed true satisfaction in what they have purchased/received from me.

This is a double delight when it is one of my repeat customers!

The single greatest experience in the whole process is knowing that an item I love has found a happy home and will be equally loved, utilized and appreciated. That is truly gratifying.

It is a poetic closure to the dance of the sale, the careful packaging, the shipment & the delivery.

It is the release of all tension in the anticipation of order fulfillment.

It may sound like corn straight of the cob, but this is on a former Boy Scout's Honor 🇺🇸

[chevymontecarlo88]

Sourcing for sure. Especially when i get a call/lead about a vintage instrument and the details about it are unknown or somewhat limited. It still gets me going. 

[mr_lincoln]

@sin-n-dex 

Using the Scheduler once I have a bunch of listings in the same category ready to go live.  It is especially useful for Auction format so they can be set to end on specific times sequentially ending "X" number of minutes apart.

The other benefit is once they are in the Scheduled file I can go in and Add my Notes which designate which inventory lot they are from so when they sell I know where to record the sale price.  I wish Notes could be added in the Listing tool then I could just add it when I create the listing.  

[bashort]

buying stuff to sell , I love it so much that if I never bought another thing I will probably never get everything that I already have listed.

[richard1rst]

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@sin-n-dex wrote:

 but if you didn't have sales to attend to on a particular day, what would you most like to be doing?

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Having made my fortune I now get to Metaphorically smell the roses. (Some of you have seen my classic cars).

I am a retired custom cabinet and woodworker - but I still have a full workshop. So on slow days, returning to my roots, I am doing a full house remodel. In years past, I was always building other people's designs where budget was always a consideration (or I didn't get the job). But now I get to do my own designs. Given that the first line of my will says "Being of sound mind and body I spent every danged penny I had before I died" (wish I could see my heirs faces) budget is no longer a consideration. Top Drawer all the way.

One long stairway just going up and one even longer coming down. And one more going nowhere - just for show.

[1786davycrockett]

Oh, very easily the hunt!

When my wife and I plan an out-of-town trip, I naturally scope out the surrounding area, for used book stores, antique shops, flea markets and thrift stores.

It never ceases to amaze me, the numbers of small, hole-in-the-wall joints that still don't bother to research their inventory on-line -- I have uncovered so many rare items in that fashion, simply because the store owner was simply overwhelmed with too much inventory.

One of our annual getaways is about 2 hours north -- we've been visiting there nearly every year for about 30 years.  And, each time, I always have that urgent itch of anticipation:  what will I find inside that old church basement this year?  And, without fail, I walk out with a couple boxes of old books that the proprietor (bless you, Mark!) just can't be bothered to research.

The hunt has always been more fun than the selling itself -- and I've been "on the prowl" for over 60 years now.

Time, maybe, to leave a few scraps for the young'uns to scavenge. . ..

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

@sin-n-dex 

One of mine has always been the getting stuff from A to B. What I have done most of my working life. Shipping to anywhere and everywhere. Over the past almost 20 years I have shipped to approx. 75 countries world wide, all the States and Provinces + the far north. US  Air Force bases in at least 5 countries and several located in the USA. Also have shipped to the Canadian embassy in Sweden and 1 strange order addressed to Canada Post. Not complaining. All good when any parcels arrives as addressed and customer is a happy foreigner. 😉

Now with duty/tax being collected all over the place, packaging regulations and the new rules for shipping to the UK this has become much more challenging. Throw in how expensive it has gotten shipping internationally and doing it safely it definitely is not for the faint of heart!! Especially for items of lower value.

#2 would be doing the research of my finds.

#3 Money arriving to my bank account isn't bad either!!! 

[rileydone]

I mostly sell rubber & clear stamp sets and my favorite thing to do, is to make a greeting card, that goes with that stamp set. Picking out the colors and design, gives me a lot of creative joy. The buyers get the card when they buy the stamps and so my little art projects are all over the country. Customers have told me they enjoy seeing how to use the stamp sets and love that they get the actual card. Lots of repeat customers.

[allthingssurplus]

Are we in high school or business.  How about talking about how to increase sales and how we can get eBay to repair all the poor working programs.