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Pin This To Your Face

Have you seen the Wal-Mart commeercial with the young girl telling Dad “we can pin, post, tweet, snap, tag, text & share”? Yeah, sometimes I feel about as confused as her dad looks. But these are things we baby boomers need to learn about. In my case, I need to learn how to use these avenues because I have an eBay store, oohshinycollectibles (shameless promotion #1). I’ve been selling on eBay for 2 years now, and boy, has it been a learning experience. Here are my products, how do I get people to see them? We’ve all mastered email, but email seems to be going the way of the dinosaur, get with it people! So I have a Facebook page dedicated to OohShiny Collectibles (shameless promo #2), a Pinterest page appropriately named  oohshinycollectilbes (SP #3), the aforementioned eBay store (SP #4 or SP #1 x 2) and this blog that I’ve been neglecting because, well, who has time to sit down and type up a blog? Oh yeah, stop rescuing so many Farm Heroes and you might be able to squeeze a little blogging in. Priorities. I’ve been mulling over some things I’d like to write about, things I’ve learned in the past 2 years of my OohShiny (shameless promo #5) experiences. Hopefully, you’ll start reading more blogs from me. Feel free to comment. Learning together is fun.

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Daily Quote: Silver Screen: Women of Steel

“Oh, Sammy’s so confused he don’t know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt.”

Why yes, I do love chick flicks, my favorite being Steel Magnolias. And yes, I’ve been pretty confused of late. Sell on ebay they said, it’s fun they said. I thought they said it was easy, but now that I mull it over, nope, nobody said it would be easy (is that another movie quote? can’t remember).

Are you confused yet? Sorry, I’m having an ooh shiny moment (see first post). I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’ve been selling my shiny objects on ebay for 2 or 3 weeks. And much like Sammy, I’ve been confused. Very confused.

When I started selling, I wasn’t sure where to start. Being a “just do it” type, I grab something and go with it. I’ll sell this vase. What to do first. Weigh it? Okay, it weighs 1 pound 8 ounces, but wait, I need the packaged weight.  Here’s a nice box. So I lovingly lay OohShiny vase to rest in its box, wrapped in bubble wrap, surrounded by packing peanuts, all cozy comfy ready to ship to the buyer halfway across the US, who’s anxiously awaiting the wonderful treasure I’ve found. Okay, it weighs 2 pounds all packaged up in the box. Great, let’s list it. Oopsie—no picture. Take it out of the package, strew packing all over the office, you get the picture. Before I can take the pictures, the packing materials must be cleaned up and put back in the box for later. I then take the pictures, load the pictures, now let’s list it. Wait–how much is it worth? Is anyone else selling a vase like mine? Woa, how are they selling it so cheaply?

Eventually, I do get my items listed. Now where’s my watch?