Queen of EBay

I have gotten myself heavily involved in selling my Something Fishy shirts on EBay this past week and have neglected my blog. Sorry... but this become addictive after a time. My first sale occurred the week after Easter while I was in Dillon Beach and though I continued 'selling' items the next month, I didn't have any sales.

The past two weeks, shirt sales took off. A Hawaiian guy in Kona liked the looks of my "Island Girls" shirt, a brightly colored red and blue and yellow creation with 1950's bathing beauties reclining in palm trees. I figured if I could sell Hawaiian shirts to genuine Hawaiians then I was off and running. So I started hammering away on the Island Girls shirts. And I found there were a lot of extra large and double extra large men on EBay looking for a way to stand out in a crowd!

I purposely kept the price low when I started out, selling them at about half the amount I normally would at the Landing. Bill said I was going to go broke slowly but I figured that was the best way to start. This past Monday, at the end of an auction on a 2XL shirt, I had my first bidding war going on. A man from California who badly wanted it for $20. was bid up to $36. before he 'won' it. The other dude emailed to ask if he could have a "Second Chance" at it, meaning, if I had a second shirt just like it, he would buy it at his highest bid, which was $35. I checked my stash of fabric. There was just enough of the Island Girls print to make a 2XL shirt. So Monday night I sent him a twenty four chance to buy the (still unmade) shirt for $35. and I danced gleefully around the living room telling Bill I was "Queen of EBay!"

Tuesday morning, I got the shirt cut out but didn't get to the actual sewing of it because I got busy with the purses I've been making and when the twenty-four hours was up on Tuesday evening, I was hurt to discover that the Second Chance Buyer was not interested in pursuing his chance at the Island Girls shirt after all. Since I had it cut out already, though not sewn, I posted another sale on EBay, adding that I was opening the bids at $25. but if someone wanted to, they could "Buy It Now!" for $35.

So Wednesday morning, I sat down and started sewing it up. There was a message on there first thing from a man in Texas asking how big the chest measurement was. I answered him and set to work. At one thirty, I took it off the machine and wrapped it up, and put it away. I went to the computer and fired it up and Lo and Behold! the man from Texas had weighed in thirty minutes before, struck the "Buy It Now!" button and paid by PayPal. He was ready for me it send it. I wrapped it up and delivered it to the post office before three o'clock.

Now... that's what I call Poppin'! And that's why, at least for a day, I felt like Queen of EBay.