To Buy or Not to Buy

Apologies to my loyal readers for not posting sooner. I have had a visit from another black dog this week so i've been rather pre-occupied.

I finally managed to get out and about to visit my favourite Melbourne charity store. Unfortunately, since the Manager of the store resigned over 5 months ago, the quality of the store's items have dropped dramatically. No longer do I find Scanlan and Theodore camisoles or fancy italian leather shoes. Instead, there's an influx of Target and Kmart brands. Don't get me wrong, these brands are great for wearing but not for selling on Ebay unless of course they are BNWT (brand new with tags) and you are content with making a couple of bucks profit.

New sellers will find that over time their taste in items for re-sale will change. For instance, I used to literally fight other shoppers to score a pair of leather or synthetic shoes all to make a profit of $10-20AU. Nowdays I wouldn't blink twice at such a low profit or some of the brands I used to buy let alone a pair of synthetics! Over time and with experience, sellers learn how to establish what's hot on Ebay and the market price their item is expected to fetch. Before choosing, experienced Sellers learn to take into consideration the time it will take to clean and list the item and whether all the work required is worth the expected profit.

Getting back to my visit at my favourite store, items of interest were a pair of Von Dutch pink runners hardly worn for $8.00. Von Dutch is a highly counterfeited brand so intuition told me to keep moving. Coming across a pair of stripey rattan sandal thingies (pictured above), I had a flashback of seeing that style of shoe in the latest Shop Till U Drop fashion magazine. Not really wanting to purchase them incase my memory was failing me, a quick trip around the CBD assured me that this style was the latest for spring. Not quite sure if they would be a hit on Ebay and never hearing of the brand "KD", I faced the decision serious shoppers regularly face, "to buy or not to buy". I left empty handed deciding to sleep on it but knowing from experience they will most likely be gone by the time I decide to buy them tomorrow. It's always the way!

Coming up: Who is "gucas" and if I met him i'd lift my hind leg in disgust!