November 27, 2004
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Shout Hallelujiah! for computer-geek nephews and other such lifesavers…
Yesterday my nephew, xanga’s own acebathound, saved my sorry arse again.
Well, maybe I wouldn’t go that far, but he sure saved me a lot of work.
He was out in this general vicinity for a Thanksgiving visit to his girlfriend’s parents, on the way home from visiting his grandparents in Delaware, so he stopped in and helped me retrieve some lost data from my old computer. In particular, he retrieved a bunch of eBay auction listings, including all of the gift basket listings. Today I uploaded a bunch of them to eBay. Just in the nick of time for the holiday season, too. Since I ship these via Priority Mail, they will arrive with plenty of time to spare, if anyone buys them, that is…
here are a few of the holiday baskets:
Golden Reindeer Basket
Enchanted Forest Basket
Christmas Angel Basket
Holiday Welcome Basket
Snowwoman Basket
Golden Angel Basket
and here are some of Natureannie’s body-mind-spirit Baskets:
Happy Buddha Basket
Peace Basket
Honor The Earth Basket
Magic Moon Basket
I started setting up my worktable in the garage to make up some more gift baskets. I have more of the saved/rescued eBay listings to double check, update and upload, including all of my eBay store stock. I also have more books to write auction listings for. And boxes and boxes of household stuff and other miscellaneous inventory to auction. It looks like I am well on my way to getting back into my eBay business in a big way, when I finish up a few more of the house and yard chores I need to get done before it gets really cold.
If you would like to see my gift baskets, books, and whatever else I have for sale, there are two eBay link buttons up at the top of this page, between my current weblog entry and my xanga banner, quote box and other top of page stuff. One goes to my book auctions (eBay seller id books-2-read) and the other goes to my eBay store and other seller account (eBay seller natureannie) If I ever get around to listing my used stuff (clothes, household items, collectibles, etc…) I will add a third button for my “online yard sale” eBay seller id, which is, coincidentally, adifrentdrumr.
I am very proud of what I have achieved so far on eBay, last week I crossed the 1000 feedback mark on my book account, and combined with my feedback on my other two accounts, that makes a total feedback rating of close to 2050 — with 100% positive! That really proves to me that even if I am not making a lot of money, I am at least satisfying my customers with both good quality merchandise and good customer service.
Now I just have to work on that “making money” part….
Comments (8)
Oh, yes! Great stuff!!!!
You know JennyG, right? She is looking for Xangans to buy Christmas things from….I should tell her about you…
These baskets look wonderful! And you have every reason to be *very* proud of your achievements on eBay! 100% positive feedback sellers are hard to find… which is why I’m certain that everyone looking for a cool Christmas basket on eBay would be more than confident to buy from you; you are a sure thing!
wow! you and orlando both are ebay entrepreneurs…happy monday!
Those are beautiful! I may just have to reopen my PayPal account. After another Xangan had her identity stolen through hers, I’ve been a little leery about renewing my account. Now, I may have to reconsider…again!
Peace and Love…GFW
I love that snowman basket
Aren’t computers (and nephews) great?!
Your baskets look great…congrats on your eBay success. eBay is one of the most wonderful inventions in the history of the universe. It supported me and my family for several years while I was doing the middle-aged school thing. Now I’m too busy with my multiple jobs to list much, but I still enjoy buying stuff (too much stuff). What you need to do is find a really good factory outlet store to shop for stuff to list on eBay….
Making money is an important part of it
Those friendly computer geeks are handy. In another life, I’d like to be one. Glad he helped get things straightened out.
The baskets are lovely. each one has a very distinct feeling. It took me a couple minutes to recognise the deer as part of the one basket. Boy, did I feel dumb when I figured it out. My favorite is the Enchanted Forest basket, but they are all quite striking.