OK, last day of the month and posting the last of these spreadsheet shots.

The stats area of the forum shows an average of just below 24 posts a day, so the figures for the last four weeks
definitely show a decline from that...considering that the stat average from the forum covers something like two years of averaging.

Was going to an auction today and looking forward to it as I have done well at that location.

Yep...CANCELLED !   Bummer, but there are always more upcoming.

Meanwhile, I hit up a Salvation army  as-is auction and got a whole shelf of electronics for $5 and after getting out
the half-dozen items I wanted gave the rest to another guy so I didn't have to do the work. (shelf is 4 feet wide by 2 feet deep and stacked 3 feet high).

Since Jeff appears in the preview for the July 10 show....he might be the new Dave Hester!!

Guess they need a "bad guy" - but HOLY CRAP - enough with all the corny, hokey sayings and comments!!  

Don't care for Jeff myself and apparently some others don't either. See link below which is an article published on the internet.  I am also posting it in the "In the News" threads here on the forum.

'Storage Wars' controversy, Jeff Jarred and his handicapped parking permit


http://www.huliq.com/10061/storage-wars-controversy-jeff-jarred-and-his-handicapped-parking-permit

I have heard people say they like to photo and post merchandise staight from the unit before they move it or just leave it there and sell from the unit to save time. I never really understood this because everything I get needs to be inspected, cleaned, & researched before I post it for sale. There are very few things I find in a unit that are "ready to sell" the way they are found.

If I rent a purchased lkr for the first month ($30 deal) it would be because of quantity involved and shortage of space in other places I store items, and I definitely photograph items there after checking them out. Most of the spots I would rent are large lkrs and have electricity for checkig items.

Since I don't have a smartphone or an iPad with a camera, I really can't comment on the quality or capabilities of their cameras, but I know for the kind of photos I place on eBay/Clist that the macro capability is important. As I said before I might post 3 to 20 photos in a listing and they are all done with html within the text, not using the standard approach provided by eBay/Clist.

My best camera can focus as close as 10" on a label on a motor, a box, etc. Having a photo which can show the texture in a canvas bag (as an example) is important to me. Sometimes I have to NOT use a picture because too much detail is shown...no one in real life can see the tiny imperfections that a real close-up shows.

So aside from the "convenience" factor of the phone/iPad shots, I'll stick with what has worked for me.

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On a similar note my daughter who is going to China on a two-year teaching assignment tells me that her iPad with a camera can easily connect with Skype to other iPads through some super-connect program that dials directly to other iPads, where she and I have to have some pre-arranged agreement for a Skype call to my web-cammed laptop. THAT would seem to be a real advantage to a mulit-purpose device.

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I guess I am just old-school when it comes to having dedicated devices for dedicated purposes. On a hike my camera with 10x optical (and much-more digital) zoom can take a quite close-up picture of an animal at some distance; I doubt a cell-phone cam can do that, though for "snap-shots" it can't be beat.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Episode #1 tonight....
Now the values are on par with Auction Hunters.

New buyer (taking Dave's place ?)....Jeff.....doesn't impress.


Episode #2 tonight.....

Jeff...wants a level playing field.....wise up chump...it's every man for himself and the auctioneer plays favorites !

We have several auctioneers who "didn't see" that last bid that buyer "B" placed, so buyer "A" gets the lkr.


Jeff ?  (rasberries !)

Barry: flies to Vegas to check out his car parts...price will be so inflated he won't lose money this time..or will he?

Next new episodes, July 10, 2012.

One of my friendly competitors almost makes a science of gettig lkrs with appliances....maybe because the sides of his 20 foot box truck say "Maytag" and have a pic of the Maytag man !

Anyway, he gets a lot of them and typically sells ones like you described in the $400 to $500 range. It's a hell of a lot easier to ask a price and come down than it is to ask a price and go up ! 

Just wanted to throw out that the CL iPad app sucks.  Use to work but after new update.....

Nope, I don't use it, but I don't use the eBay app for iPad to post either. I use both for looking at my sales and for looking up something I am interested in at the moment, but FOR ME, I can't imagine using EITHER of them for posting or for buying. ( I should say I use clist from Safari on my iPad...I don't have the app).

I guess I am just old school, but I like the more secure and solid feeling I get from doing postings and buyings from my home computer.  

I have wondered why people would post a sale item on eBay (or Clist) when it could be done later at home. Maybe users here can answer that.  I have seen listings on eBay that say "posted from my Android" as an example.

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The only reason I can imagine is that with some iPads (and the smartphones), you can take a picture of the item and post it from a remote location away from one's main computer.

In the 8 plus years I've been selling on eBay (and Clist) I have posted almost 1000 items for sale and each item has an average of 10 pics (some have 3 some have 20). At $.15 per picture (and 10 pics each per 1000 items) that's $1,500 I've saved in picture costs BECAUSE I use HTML to publish the pics WITHIN the listing, not in the usual eBay style.  Using that approach from my iPad would be a stretch I'm sure. (and my iPad doesn't have a camera !)

Or you do like me and have a number of so/so or blah jobs that you need to do but keep putting off.

Look up procrastination in the dictionary and you will likely see a picture of me as a prime practictioner.

Today I packaged and delivered 2 items to UPS store and that's the sum total of "productivity" from 8 a.m. to the current 2:30 pm Pacific time frame.

Just can't get motivated today.