Auctiva Emporium: gulf-war-vet

I've been selling cookbooks on ebay for awhile now, and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to how they sell. Some I've listed multiple times, and lost money by listing them, only to have it sell on another go round for an incredible amount. I usually try to schedule my listings on Sunday's, so they end on the same time the following week, as Sunday's are the day that has the most ebay traffic. Sometimes things are slower on ebay during the summer, because people have so many other things to do, but instead of taking a break like I usually do during the summer months, I plan on listing twice as much! My wife is really getting onto me about my cookbook collection because it takes up so much room, so she's making me get rid of most of them, plus a lot of other stuff I have.

I've got a couple of books for sale about gardening, used to collect those also. My family business for most of my life was a plant nursery, so I consider myself an expert if anyone wants to know about this. One of the books I'm selling is called eating better for less, which is really a guide to managing your personal food supply. Important stuff!

It's always a dilema to me whether or not to relist an item that doesn't sell or not. Ebay fees have gotten so high, it's quite a gamble, it's not unusual for me to have three or four hundred dollars worth of ebay fees at any given time. I hope people realize how much it costs to list on ebay. When I have to relist something, I'm just hoping it sells on the second go round just so I break even.

I'm really not sure what blogging is, I guess its just writing whats on ones mind huh? It's kind of funny, I sit here and list cookbooks from my collection while I'm listening to Insane Clown Posse, two things you wouldn't think would mix. But yes, I like cooking and obnoxious rap.