eBay Ad Sales On Course

The eBay ad sales project is on course in many ways. At least it is moving forward. Listings are up to 1628, which is about 200 more than last posting here and closer to the hopefully magic number of 3000. There have been sales, but I don't have the figure right at hand.

I've begun using Garage Sale as my listing software. It is a Mac OSX program. Like so many good programs, it is not entirely intuitive, but it does do many things well and has some helpful features. One is an easy way to keep track of my listing productivity, something I had said a while back that I should do. Garage Sale does it for me. Neat. I am sure that it has a lot of features that I haven't tried yet, which leaves room for development.

Navy Fliers Listen Up.
I had an ad customer in Australia who wrote to me that they had a web site going with biographical information on US Navy fliers from WWII. He said that they did not have much on Navy groups from the US East Coast, so I am herewith supplying the link to his web page:

http://www.vsnavy.org

It doesn't seem to be working at the moment. It was ok when I first got it. The World War II vets are leaving us so fast these days. Go to Jack's site above and leave a footprint in the sand of time - or whatever you fliers leave. And yes, I do know what "VS" means - but I had to ask.

Next week we have to make a trip to near Buffalo, NY to pick up a magazine collection I won on eBay—too large to be shipped, he said, at least without going into the poor house. My wife used to go to Buffalo to visit relatives when she was a kid, so it will be one of those memory lane trips for her. Looking forward to it. We will probably stay at my brother's cabin at his lake near Elmira on the way home (better ask him before he sees it here first).

The photography link for selling amateur photos will follow soon.

eBay Ad Sales and Vacation

Two weeks again. I think I see a pattern forming.

Last week, my wife took a week off from her hospital registration job and we went to Tennessee for a reunion with her two brothers and their families. One brother had found a place called Hidden Mountain Resort which rents cabins of various sizes in a wooded, mountain setting. He found a cabin with enough room for all of us—I think there were four real bedrooms plus pull-out couches all over its three floors. It is in (or near) Sevierville, TN, near Pigeon Forge and the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. The cabin had everything you'd need except food. We had three fun days and got to see some of the area—the Park, caverns, lakes, shopping, go-karts. The road from I40 to Gatlinburg (I think it is US 411) is one long strip of tourist traps, some of which are really pretty neat. Bennett's Ribs is fantastic. I think we've found our next home, after the wife retires. But then yesterday, we went to the beach here (Sandy Hook) for her last vacation day. I think I would have a tough time giving up the beach and the water. Saw people in bathing suits going down to a stream in TN. I said, Wow, that's their beach! Have to think about it.

EBay listings are up to 1405 - that's only about a hundred more than last entry here. Fifty ad listings is a good day's work, but that should give about 350 a week, not 50. Of course, there are sales, but not THAT many. Only about 12 for the week. The numbers keep moving in the right direction, but it's taking a lot longer to get somewhere than I thought.

Back to the scanner.

Happy Tuesday.