The dough! Get it, the dough. One of my favorite things about having children are all the jokes that no one gets. Masa is probably stretching it here. The girls and I made tamales for Christmas Eve. Chicken, Monterey Jack cheese (just a smidgen), and homemade salsa verde. Definitely an IOU recipe post.

Drum roll, please … $375.57! 27 lots of fabric (the total does not include my all time highest eBay sale of $70.99 for the karaoke game).

What sold?

Here are the completed listings (eBay requires you to sign in to your eBay account in order to see completed listings so you’ll get prompted for that via this link). Matching sets and designer labels, that’s what it’s all about.

Top money maker: I purchased the Maison De Noel kit from Moda several years ago. I opted to make another project with the fabric and ended up with half the kit, some remnants and the pattern left over. Lots of bidding on this baby. I think this lot also benefited from the “this fabric is no longer available but it’s some of the prettiest fabric ever printed” phenomena as well.

To kick off this selling extravaganza, I pulled all the fabric I wanted to sell from my shelves. Once it was all down I debated between “color coordinated” sets vs. “themed sets”. SOOOO glad I went with the latter choice.

At the top of the bidding were designer names and eclectic, hip themes. People that purchased the sets with boring names got a very good value. I do that myself as a buyer on eBay, I look for values that get overlooked because they don’t scream “very cool, you must have me”.

I cut a lot of my odd ends into 5″ and 3 1/2″ squares depending on how big the remnant was. That was a short lived strategy. It’s a lot of work to cut fabric squares! I ended up doing one big lot of these squares which sold high.

Was it worth it?

Most definitely. I never regret giving something a go. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I always learn a lot in the process. Am I going to turn my energy to becoming the ruler of eBay fabric sales? NO WAY!

Man, did I gain respect for those of you that do this full time. It is a lot of work. From the process of readying the fabric for sale (ironing, organizing, double checking for flaws), photographing the lots, creating the listings, answering questions, processing sales, packaging the items (this requires actually keeping track of exactly who bought what and keeping the cat off the stack of fabric), shipping, and leaving feedback for buyers, I got a true education at eBay University.

I also fully acknowledge that I had more bidders because of all you guys checkin’ out the goods (thank you!!!). If I’d made any less I really would have questioned the value of my time.

I totally stress out about making sure any one that buys anything I sell is happy with their purchase. If I sold full time on eBay I’d be a nervous wreck!!!

Thanks to everyone that’s commented on the last series of posts. If I didn’t answer the question you had be sure to leave it and I’ll respond in the comments.

Back to regular programming…

Selling on eBay - Part I (Taking Pictures)
Selling on eBay - Part II (Auction Template)
Selling on eBay - Part III (Shipping)
Selling on eBay - Part IV (Packaging)