What was the thing you realized, discovered or were advised about, that made selling noticeably easier or more successful? I'll go ahead and share mine (a packing materials thing) but I would love to read a variety of answers, not just something like mine but any kind of change you made that revolutionized your selling. Could be a photography thing, listing thing, ebay site feature, postal carrier thing, category focus, time management, sourcing, heck even an interpersonal relations thing! I mean, if divorcing your spouse freed up a ton of space and lowered your stress, and that made the biggest impact on your sales game, share it!
Me, well it seems small, it's literally small actually, but boy does it help on a nearly daily basis: I sell lots of itty bitty things, jewelry, coins sometimes, etc. and I love the easy convenience of the self-adhesive vinyl envelopes (I use the free Ebay ones I get with my store subscription coupon, but if I didn't get those I would probably cough up the money to buy them from Uline or whatever). But up until a point, the problem was always: how to protect fragile items inside the envelope? I just don't trust bubble wrap by itself, I think there should always be some kind of hard vessel. Sometimes I'd have the right size of used jewelry display box that came in a mixed junk lot but it would typically need cleaning up first, or I'd sit and cut up cardboard and make a goofy-looking 'box', and I've even resorted to using empty plastic bottles for pills or whatever, that sort of thing. To prevent having to wander around the house seeking a vessel with every sale, I started acting like a neurotic hoarder of smaller-than-a-fist size containers, at one point I had two space-hogging laundry baskets full, and yet fairly often I'd paw through both of them and still not have a satisfactory container.
Then one magic day I was in Dollar Tree and I spied THESE glorious things. Surprisingly sturdy mini-containers with lids, both round and rectangular shapes, 1/3 cup volume each, in pacts of 10, for $1.25 (actually this was back when everything was still $1.00)!!!!! Get this --they weigh only a quarter-ounce each and the lids pop on really snugly, no need for tape. It's also such a 'clean' look for the buyer to open up, no tape to peel, no wrestling with stuff to protect the precious item only to drop it from all the wrestling, and then they have a free reusable little container if they want it. I get thanked for it all the time. And the best part for me? --60 second packing and putting on the porch, then back to bed!!!
@gurlcat wrote:My need to ever print color is so rare, I would rather pay for printing at an office store than have to go there far more often just to replace 'cyan' or whatever color is empty or the printer THINKS is empty just because it dried up, and it won't even print in black/white because of corporate greed/sadism, lol.
I know you now have a Brother monochrome printer, but regarding the color printer, you might want to check its Printer Preferences menu (not the Printer Properties menu) to see if there's a black-only option under the grayscale menu. That allows you to print with the black cartridge only. For example, this is where to find it on an HP printer:
Hope that helps...
