My hobbies....I love the outdoors!!! I like gardening, fishing, boating, four-wheeler riding.....
I also love to go to estate sales/auctions!!!! The bigger the better!!!! And I guess that is what brought me to selling things on e-bay....If you have never been to a farm auction or a large estate auction, you don't know what your missing!!! They are really neat and you can get some good buys sometimes, But then what do you do with all the stuff you got in the five boxes of stuff when all you wanted was one item out of the five boxes???? That's when I thought I would give selling things on E-Bay a try.
For me it's not a get rich overnight thing....I just can't see throwing things away that I don't want, when someone else might want it....Ya know the old saying "One man's junk,is another man's Prize"...or something like that..LOL
FUNNY STORY!!!! I have to share a funny story with you...
This spring,when the weather finally got nice, I went to my first auction of the year and as always bought way too much junk...After going threw the stuff and picking out what I wanted, I decided to give selling the rest of the items on E-Bay a try...I was so excited!!!! And so I started listing all kinds of things one night and not just stuff I had got at the auction...I just started looking around at things we have had and was not using....Things like a helmet my daughter grew out of, a Tonka Toy (FUNNY PART ONE) and a sack full of old gun parts my dad gave us,that he was just going to throw away(FUNNY PART TWO)....Well after listing these things I was showing my husband all the stuff that I had listed and people were watching and I had even gotten some bids on things and there was still 6 days left in the auction...Like I said it was exciting to me!!!! Well....My husband seen the Tonka Toy first and well he was not happy with me, because it was his when he was a boy....he didn't mind too much though when it sold for a good price!!! AND THE OTHER FUNNY PART.....It was not funny at the time....I thought I was going to go to jail...The old gun part's, I quickly learned from the viewers that I was listing item's that were not allowed on e-bay...to me they were just junk pieces...a stock with no barrel, a barrel with no stock, a part of an old revolver that was nothing but the barrel, no handle,no trigger thing, no place to put the bullets....Nothing I had fit together to make a whole gun or for that matter even part of one....But I learned very quickly form the viewers that some of the item's I had listed that I should pull the listing, because I could go to jail if I sold them....I had thought that as long as the gun could not fire or work without all the pieces it was OK to sell....Wow!!! I was in a panic...and not knowing my way around on e-bay and how to pull a listing...I thought for sure I was going to have the FBI or someone knocking on my door at anytime...Finally I found a number to call and talked to someone at E-bay they walked me through how to pull a listing and of course he told me what all the rules were and explained them to me,He was a great help!!!....needles to say it was a scary, but a good learning experience the first few weeks of selling and listing things on e-bay.....And now I'm having fun seeing what all I can sell on E-Bay !!!!!!
So that's a little about me....Just an average person looking to make a little extra spending money (to cover my auction addiction...LOL )
I hope all who reads this, finds my info useful, helpful and entertaining....Also I hope it kinda gives you an idea of who you are buying your items from...A fun,outgoing,loving and honest gal!!!!!!
So have fun and thank you for visiting my bio page!!!!!
Following info. added 05-09-2009
OK!!! Well my hubby grounded me from going to any more estate sales/auctions....LOL
He said I have too much stuff accumulating...so I can't go to any more auctions till I get rid of some things....so I will be listing things like crazy and I price my item's very cheap!!!!
The last two auction's or I guess you would call them estate sales, I have picked up lots of jewelry, glassware,antiques and other items....Some of the Jewelry have names like Sahah Cov., Emmons, Monet,Vendome, Art, Avon, and Whiting & Davis...and many more...some can date back as far as the 1920's to things up to date....
So help me out here!!! And help my get rid of my stuff..so I can start going to estate sales/auction's again!!!!
If there is anything particular your are looking for just let me know...and if I have it I'll list it and if I don't ....Wellll, then that would give me a reason to go to an auction....Right???
So just let me know if there is anything I can do for you!!!!
So far I have 100% positive feedback....
I price items cheap!!!
I ship most of the time the day after you pay!!!!
I pack everything very well!!!
AND I have great communication.....sometimes it feels one sided, but at least I try!!!!
So if anyone has any advice, suggestions, comments or concerns....just let me know...I'd be happy to help!!!!
Also I thought I might add that I use emoticons (expressing yourself) a lot in my auction's and e-mails....it's just a way to let you know that I have a smile on my face!!!!
One of my first auctions...I listed something I did not know much about and asked for people to help me describe it....I had this one gentleman that helped me and kind of insulted me, but not really. He had told me that comparing that item to whatever I thought it was, "was like comparing a Ugo to an BMW". And the message I had sent back to him had said something like, "I'm a blond...I don't even know what a UGO is. LOL :)". Then he sent back tons of apologies and said that e-mails are so hard to know what people are feeling or their emotions....In my e-mail's to him I had used lot's of LOL's and :)'s.....But he did not know what they were...so I helped him out and told him what some of them are like....
also until you can see them for what they are meant to be, you may have to tilt your head to the left to see it more clearly.....LOL!!!
LOL- laugh out loud
IDK - I don't know
BRB- Be right back
:) - smiley face
;) - wink
:( - sad
>:^) - another happy face
:0 - in shock
:P - sticking your tongue out
I guess I just figured that if you knew how to use a computer, that you knew what some of these were....I know many people do not know what these are ( Like my dad he does not even know how to turn on a computer).... LOL!!!!!
Like I had told the gentlemen..I have two teenagers and to be able to keep up with them and understand what they are telling me ...I had to learn the emoticons or abbreviations....otherwise I was so lost!!!
Well that's all I have to add for now....So have a great day and if you made it this far in reading my bio pg....I hope I did not bore you too much :)....AND thanks for looking / hopefully buying my items!!!!!
Sincerely, Kathy :)
P.S. spellcheck does not always help me... LOL!!!! :)
INFO ADDED 8-15-09 ....
My husbands mother recently passed and we will also be listing alot of his old toys...such as matchbox & hotwheel cars, tootsi toy cars and trucks, tonka trucks and cars, old orginal starwars and other action figures, cherrished teddies (she had over 150 in her colection), Halmark Orniments and lots of other misc. items.....So be sure to add me as a favorite seller most of this stuff I will list closer to Christmas time......
Thanks for looking at my ME pg. !!!!!
Have a great day !!!!
Kathy :) |
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