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Friday, September 23, 2022

Looking for Serious Bulk Bead Buyers, time to close out that part

 





So.  A few images of various beads that are up on ebay, all the time.  If you haven't looked, or this caught your eye, it's a few examples.  A few things are already moved into some small bulk listings, having hoped to have moved a few things on already.  But it's not going fast enough, by far.  Starting to really need a few of these older business things to move. If you are interested in the current lots, or any of the glass beads that are already up, this would be the time to purchase.  Fire polish, Swarovski crystals, delicas, stone cabochons, pressed glass.  Whatever I can sell, needs to go.  I will be still keeping or re establishing a few categories, but for now, if it's part of what sells, or an interested negotiation, I'll consider letting it go.

I hope to organize, offer much bigger lots.  Unfortunately, where I am, I can't recount and take grouped pics, etc....it's mostly going to have to be what is on ebay already.  I can't say I'm interested in negotiating for pennies.  A somewhat decent lower price, on perhaps some rather large boxes of beads as a bulk purchase.  Good for bead stores, and heavy jewelry making creators. I'm not looking to make deals on small amounts---I want to send bulk boxes out of quite a lot of it, if I can manage.  Like in the $500 and up range. I need to see about $3k worth of stuff disappear, as an ideal, in about the next month.

Anything I still have, I will try to keep and still be trying to sell off.  The bead selling is over. I will still be stocking some stones.  And I will still be selling, in general, US and China dropship, some liquidation lots, Japanese items, handcrafted things as quickly as I can make them.

Since it looks like it's about time to do another physical move.  It is what it is. Another long distance trip, in between place, still. To get serious about knuckling down for working and making items. It would be nice to make a dent in the bead inventory, have a few bucks, and get on the road soon.  So check out the ebay listings for bead related items.


Other than that, I am also revamping some of my other website things, you may see a lot of things disappear. Trying to get more streamlined and up to date. Grab the stuff when you see it--it could be gone, soon.

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Pixel Cactus, and another hop, change in work habits and platform

 


Another little quick finish.  Cactus from Pixel Hobby.  A one plate design, 4x5", with black frame.  So it's all finished and ready to go. This was not a daylight pic, hard to get, right now, so I may redo that. 13 colors, nice little cute add in a Southwest style. It's currently up on ebay .

And, about ebay.  I may be not selling on there in dunno, another month or so, have to see how it goes.  If so, nearly everything I have is already loaded to two sites on Bonanza, plus a lot of other things on my website, which will be continually getting a revamp.  I may reactivate etsy, as well, once ebay is perhaps mostly gone.  

The main problem is stress.  The last couple years have now been incredibly difficult to keep up with, both on a personal level, and a reseller level; some of the worst of my life.  And I seem to be paying for it, now, physically.  I need to do a nosedive out of the extreme stress levels, or I'm going to have some severe phsyical symptoms, beyond what already seems to be appearing.  Ebay does not cycle for renewal until February, but I don't think I can wait that long; they are my biggest stressor.  My website is not in shape that I want, so many China sellers and items have not survived the pandemic, and a lot of the listings are now somewhat obsolete, or taking forever, again, to get. I've been adding some US derived items, or steadier suppliers, working on a new email and site offerings, for some time, and I expect it to take a bit longer, but a lot of the remote China offerings, (including diamond painting kits), will be taken down, and I am not sure which items I may keep, as yet. My new back office app for that is also quite challenging, nothing working there how I would like--and I have tolerated an extreme amount of lack of info, miscommunication, delays, service failures, disrespect etc. that I'm just done with. So I have to manage nearly everything, in a different way. It is what it is. And, about time, that I can start doing more craft projects. I have some small items that are nearly ready to go, before I dive back into some bigger items.  I've also bought some inexpensive jewelrymaking supplies, beads, again, to get back into some easy jewelry making; it will be a little bit before I buy more of the quality items.

In the meantime, I've moved....again.  Starting to lose track of how many times I've bounced around, this year.  And this place is temporary, as well. Not very quiet, and not exactly on my own schedule, which is not ideal.  Estimating I will be here a few months though, so I'm trying to make the best of it.


Anyway, I will have another update quite soon, as I'm almost done with a little purple butterfly cross stitch, and I do want to showcase all the finished work, so I'll check in again in a few days. Be well!