In which no news is good news!
Today at work I’m listing some of the company’s extraneous hardware on eBay. It’s pretty fun, but the boss is out of the office right now so I don’t know if he wants me to put reserves on the switches or not.
Next I’ll be meticulously unfucking a 60+ page legal document I scanned and OCR’d yesterday. (I hate MS Word. I think I might just put all the text in Notepad, do all the needed find’n’replaces, and THEN put it back in Word. Word is a bossy, nosey bitch, who thinks it knows what I want BUT IT DOESN’T.)
After a few days of unseasonable balminess, it’s chilly again. I’m under-dressed and my desk sits in an Arctic zone so my fingers are freezing. (The rest of the building is at least five degrees warmer than the spot I sit in. I hope this spot doesn’t turn out to be the warmest zone in the summer. That would suck.) I’m half tempted to run home real quick and get, like, a down comforter or something. I can’t feel my toes.
My roommate Truck said something hysterical the other day. At the time I said, “I am so gonna blog that,” but now I can’t remember what it was. (Plus he’s so weird that most people don’t get half his schtick anyway.)
I can’t think of anything else to put parentheses around, so I think my work on this post is done.
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(I don’t care for Word either, but I must use it at work.)
Word sux. -m
Reserve: If item is used and doesn’t have all it’s booklets, cables, and the like that came with it; find a new one, multi it by 60% (0.60), that’s your reserve. Or 50% if you’d like to be nice to the eBay buyer. If it’s new in the box, and you’re anxious to get rid of it? Then multi by 75%. No need to take a bath on it.
JMO!
Do you find that items with high reserves tend not to sell? (I’ve only done it once, with a very high reserve, and it didn’t sell. I was wondering if it was a phenomenon.) -m
Naturally, it depends on the item. If it’s relatively new you might get a bid over the actual value so no reserve is needed. Other times, no one is even looking for whatever you’re selling so few bids…
But if you have something people are looking for, it’s relatively new, have the box, books etc., and you paid retail, then a very high reserve is in order. If it’s crap or EVERYONE wants one…no reserve.
Etc, etc, etc…
Start with a 75% reserve on the first used unit you want to sell. If it goes fast and for more then the reserve, you’re good. Otherwise, adjust.
Best advice EVER!? Clean it. Make it purdy before the pictures. Even spot paint it if needed. LOOKS always mean more then FUNCTION. When you write the copy? Try to use female words…and don’t be honest. Be creative instead.