What's Sellin' Oct 25th 2015

In the past couple of weeks I saw a certain theme popping up in my sold items. Deer hunting season opened in September (for bow hunting) in Wisconsin. With guns the season starts in November. These all sold on Etsy! Have you sold any hunting related merchandise? Get that blaze orange listed.

What's Been Selling and Watch Your Punctuation!

Sales on ebay and etsy have been pretty good lately. Below are some recent sales from the last couple of weeks.

I can't remember how much I paid for these vintage hand knit stockings. I got them at an estate sale. I probably wouldn't have paid more than $3. Sold for $29.99 plus shipping.

I love this vintage silk tie. It reminded me of Tiki images and owls so I used both for keywords. I got this free at the end of the estate sale I wrote about recently where everything on the last day was free. It sold pretty quickly for $24.99 plus shipping. 

Vintage levels sell. I paid a couple of dollars for this Craftsman at an estate sale. One of the windows was broken. It sold for $24.99 plus shipping. It was a little tricky to pack but I frankened some boxes together and shipped it priority. 

You probably know this already as I'm not exactly up on new movies, but the new Star Wars movie comes out in December which is right around the corner. Make sure you have all of your Star Wars items listed. 

Lastly, I discovered some weird punctuation issue with ebay. I have a listing of a .925 sterling silver item. A friend discovered when he was looking at this type of item that because I had a period in the .925 my listing was not always showing up in search results depending on how he worded his search. We played around and tested out the theory and sure enough that period was kicking my listing out of certain searches. I'm really disappointed lately in some of the things I'm discovering about ebay's search. Recently I wrote another post about it as well. So be careful about using punctuation. If you feel you have to use it put it at the end of your listing title not in the middle. I feel it's best just to leave all punctuation out but found if it is was at the end it had the least affect. And certainly don't add punctuation just for looks. I see people adding *s and !s just for looks or affect. Not a good  idea :)

How have your sales been lately? Are they picking up after the summer doldrums?

Odd Avon BOLOs

Like I said in a previous post I went to an estate sale this weekend with a mother load of Avon products. The day after the sale everything was free and I did take some Avon even though in the past I've had no luck with it. I figured it couldn't hurt and took some things I thought might sell. Well they were all duds. I'll be donating them to the thrift store next week. While doing the research though I found a couple of Avon items that have great value. I was really surprised. Can you guess what they are? Neither of them has anything to do with perfume, makeup or jewelry……OK. I can tell you're never going to get it ;)

Avon brushes and powder puffs!! Really.

Check out completeds. Hair Brushes. Powder Puffs. I gotta tell ya, brushes are not usually something I check out. I have a thing about touching other peoples hair when it's not on their head. From now on though I will definitely be on the look out!

For your viewing pleasure a few of my Avon duds. After taking this picture I decided I'm going to list the bookends. Maybe someone will ignore the fact that they are Avon ;)