It’s been a busy week. We shipped over 100 items that sold during the two weeks we were on holiday vacation. And now we’re just starting to get some returns from people who say items didn’t fit, etc. One of the items is the $1600 necklace we sold, so listen in to hear how we’re […]

Happy New Year y’all! The perfect time to talk about your goals for the next twelve months. Some of our goals include super fun things like paying off debt and figuring out how to properly hire our assistant. What are yours? We mentioned that we got a Paypal Working Capital loan to help us finish […]

We love the new Scavenger Life forums because of the ideas/claims that other sellers have about their eBay business. But many times sellers don’t have much actual data to back up their hypotheses (a theory is a hypothesis that has been tested and can be successfully repeated). So we like to run little experiments with […]

Last week we had a discussion on the forum about how free shipping might be a accelerator for sales. We’ve always been clear that we find the concept of free shipping to be a bait and switch since sellers always raise the price of the item when adding free shipping. I guess it’s just a […]

Interesting conversation on the forum about the glut of clothing sellers on eBay (and elsewhere) and the reasons why. This speaks to the broader question of ‘is there too much online selling competition to make a living’ now that there are weigh-n-pays and smartphones everywhere. We think it’s just a matter of time before the […]

We’ve had a steady stream of sales on eBay since the summer, but we certainly haven’t seen crazy holiday sales that we all love. Are people buying less this Xmas? Are we not selling the right stuff? Who knows! All we do is list. Stuff is selling; we’re making money; all is well. Ryanne found […]

This week, we had a steady flow of sales which felt great! In fact we sold about sixty items which is a big volume for us. That’s almost ten items a day

This is our first podcast after the election that has made Donald Trump the President of the United States. We clearly remember what it was like during the eight years of George W Bush: the expensive, devastating war that we’re still fighting and one of of the worst economic crashes this country has ever seen […]

James Collins is a good friend of ours. He’s also one of the well-known bloggers who focuses on Financial Independence aka “early retirement”. (If you haven’t read his series on the stock market, do so now). In our first conversation, Jim helped us understand how scavengers can leverage even small amounts of extra money selling […]

This week we’ve experienced the full craziness of being self-employed. Because we’ve decided to invest in our eBay and rental businesses, we’re spending all the money we saved up over the past year (plus some). And we can’t even be sure if we’re making the right choices. Is it smart to build a huge storage […]