eBay Sale

@Kouponkaren I think one time I sent an extra gospel cd with the one I sold. But I've received little extras at times like lip balm.

@1creekgirl So do you put small freebies in with your eBay packages when you mail them out to people? If so, what do you send them? I always include an actual hand written thank you note. They seems to appreciate that.

@1creekgirl Wow, cool. I have never received anything like that. I will have to think of something cool to send. Maybe I can make some bookmarks and include them when I send books that I have sold.

@Kouponkaren The stock market is a forward looking "venture," and ultimately has only one direction. UP. It may fall and even crash, but where it leaves off doesn't matter, because before the next drop it is always higher than its last high before the drop. The best time to buy the markets is right after a bear market starts or the whole thing crashes. Consider that the markets lost 60% in 2009 right after the financial collapse in 2008. We went from 13,000 at the high on the DOW down to around 6,000. Even today it's at 33,000. That's 154% higher than the 2008 high and 450% higher than from the bottom after the crash. These short term events will only serve to make me a crap ton of money. The ones who won't? Obviously the ones who panic and sell or don't bother to invest at all. lol Ten years from now the DOW will be 50,000 no matter what it does tomorrow, next month, next year, or over the next three years. It could halve tomorrow to 17,000. Doesn't matter. Mark my words.

@porwest I agree. I did it last night though and so far, it hasn't worked. Oh well. I have tried to do a little investing in the stock market. That hasn't been going to well over the past year!

@Fleura Most people don't even sell things as an auction now. Most sales from eBay sellers I have spoken to are usually from a "Buy it Now" listing. Do you list items that way?

@Kouponkaren Usually I'm just selling stuff that has little value, if I wasn't selling it I would just give it away on Freegle or take it to a charity shop. So I set the starting price as the minimum I would accept (to cover the fees and postage plus a pound or so) and if I just get one bid, that's OK, it was worth it and I get rid of stuff. Obviously sometimes I get more than one bid and that's a bonus. But it's certainly changed from the way things used to be (I first sold some random odds and ends on eBay about 20 years ago).

@Kouponkaren I'm glad it was.

@just4him I agree that it was great. Any eBay sale is a good sale as far as I am concerned!

@Kouponkaren Maybe I should consider it too.

@nela13 I have been doing it for about 10 years and of all the ways I earn money online, eBay brings in the most.