Ok, so after having a tiff with one of the girls in Customer Supports from eBay, I was finally able to speak to someone that could hold a conversation without taking offence to an upset customer and had more brains than a Nincompoop ... Jason, "The Human" that I spoke with informed me of the following, "The Buyer Protection Plan is to protect the buyer from a falsified, damaged or lack there of an item. eBay states that everyone has to give their credit or debit card to eBay for the purposes of identification and or the Buyer Protection Plan. It is stated that once the seller reaches 25 sales with an adequate number of good responses, over $300 in sales and 90 days of selling then the person can maybe change the method of payment from a debit or credit card to PayPal. But it is at the discretion of eBay. So in other words, if a buyer opens a claim against the seller...The seller will either have to cater to the buyer to make sure they r happy or it goes to the Buyer Protection Plan. At that point eBay investigates the case. If they find that the seller is at fault eBay will withdraw the funds from the debit or credit card that the seller listed.
I ended up giving my card to eBay. However, I think that once I sell the last of the items that I have on there currently I will close my account with eBay. There are plenty of other sites out there ready and willing to support my business in a less stressful environment!!!

Thanks for the tip. I have something similar to what u were describing... not as detailed. I got about 2 months into the spreadsheet and then found it too cumbersome to go out with pen and paper jot everything down. come back home input in comp, then do the research on ea item. I usually use the ipad for research so that I can be out in the living room with the kids... For me, it seemed that I was duplicating a lot of work. I donno. Maybe I need to invest in a separate server that all of my comps run from. At least that way I can take the ipad to the storage facility inventory there and have it go directly to the spreadsheet...? Sound expensive. I will try the spreadsheet again. I like nice and neat. I have good penmanship but having it all organized and the numbers totaled all the time is real nice. And the paper doesnt rip in spreadsheets... no matter how moany times u turn the page.

  I am so angry with eBay! Ok so last night I went in to my eBay to edit one of my listings. When I was done editing I clicked done... Well I got this big RED blinking notice that I could not proceed with these changes until I give eBay either my credit cRd or debit card number for purposes of protecting the buyer in case of a bad or misleading item that they purchased. In the text of the big blinking RED text it is clearly stated that eBay may take out an undisclosed amount from the card that I HAVE to give them. Then it was further stated that if I do not give them my credit or debit card information they will close my account. Oh and I can change the method of payment if I contact eBay and get their permission!!! What the heck! What person would allow a company access to there account or credit line for an undisclosed amount OC money? I sent them an email to state how angry I am with them. I will update here once I get. Response from them. My account has not been closed! All of my listings r active. I just cant edit any of my listings?

I was in rout. My husband got the unit before I could c it. I think he got caught up in the moment. And he was on the phone with me talking about buying the unit while he was bidding... It got away from him! DOOOOOOOooooooo. I actually still have one antique vanity table that I'm tryin to sell for 200. If I can get rid of that and a few other items I think we will hit about Even by the time we sell the few salvageable items out of it. For example; there was a craftsman cabinet that I sold for 100 a green vintage dresser/cabinet shabby sheik style for 65, a really cool mid century dresser for 125, some recyclables for about 130 I think... Ummm there is this cool bird cage that I can sell for about 100. And then there r about 30 dang baskets that I need to list. And a whole bunch of lil shelf type things. U know how terriers collect random items... Well this was one of Rhodes units. Like we had about 50 keys??? Not old cool keys but mail box and house keys. Most everything in that unit was transformed into something else!!! Oh brother.  I think we will have one last yard sale before the yr is up... We don't want the neighbors gettin all upset cause we r congesting the alley with our buyers.  no really we don't. Cause we need to do this all over again next yr if we r gonna survive. Oh yea. The crappiest thing about this unit... There was cactus plants all over the front of the unit. By the time we got done loadin all the garbage up we were crying cause we had so many lil needles in our arms, hands, legs, .... And anywhere else we touched.  thanks for readin this post. Will talk about our latest hunt in a new post. Nothin exciting...at all

Ok so I was out surfin the web tonight... tryin to find alternates to Cl. Well,,,, Drum Role ........ freeclassifieds.com

I just opened a new add there. Seems super awesome. User friendly. Integrates with Cl,Facebook and twitter. Theres even a free templet that you can use and they allow u to copy the templet to other sites like Cl. I am all giddy. Has anyone else heard of this site? Am I the last one to know... :0) let me know what u all think.

I found a company on craigslist that now comes to my place and picks up the non working appliances and pays me 25 per machine. I just did a search for appliances and found this guy. Saves us the trouble of haulin it over to the recycling center.

I am so dang excited that I have found this website! I have felt sooo alone in the big world of auction hunting and then trying to research... And then pricing.... And then selling.... OMG I could spend all night on here reading all these cool ideas that ppl r just giving out. It truly is a relief. Thanks to everyone.! Now i am going to bed cause my 2 kids will be up bright and early in the morn... Yawn.