02-05-2017 06:38 PM
I sell CD's and have about 10 thousand in my place in boxes. I usually put the ones listed on ebay in a couple of CD shelving units but sometimes for whatever reason they never made it in there. I sold something yesterday that wasn't where it was supposed to be and I spent a good 8 hours looking for it. I found it finally and am relieved. This has happened only a couple of times before and each time I say to myself, I will file this right away. I thought I would post a pic of my ebay CD shelving organization.
Has this ever happened to you? Do you have a good method for keeping track? What's does your system look like?
02-05-2017 06:52 PM - edited 02-05-2017 06:54 PM
Yep. Only yours is about a million times more organized than mine.
My 1140 items listed represent only a fraction of what I have on-hand and theoretically available, and my inventory system is like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I dropped a case of diecast cars on my own face this week because I tried to move a whole stack of cases at once instead of just one at a time like a smart person might do. Sometimes, I have to clamour awkwardly to reach across a tall-boy dresser after climbing on my desk to get there. I have also fallen off my desk doing this. It is a task left to someone more nimble than I am. With more room for storage. Or fewer items to sell.
There was only once where I searched for hours and still couldn't find something listed. I sent the buyer an identical item with a note of apology and a bonus gift. (This was back in the day where each item sold was exactly the one depicted as opposed to a self-taken image of that character.) The buyer was still pleased. Given the statistical law of averages, it's bound to happen again.
02-05-2017 06:53 PM
(Oh, and of course, I found it the next time I went looking for something else. It was in a box I had forgotten I had moved to another section.)
02-05-2017 07:16 PM
I have no patience so my system looks like this every two weeks:
02-05-2017 07:17 PM
My books are coded based on content.... and in relation to my store categories. I have bookcases arranged by province... and then other categories..... such as art... bird .... mammals.... and then categories in relation to military... and on and on
In your r situation each item can be coded on the basis of the order it was listed.
Some booksellers place books in a bookcase based on when it was listed.... As the book sells the books are moved over..... leaving empty spaces in the code sequence... but not in the bookcase
Your storage sequence could have started with number 001, as the very first item listed on eBay.... while your most recent listing would have been 1121.... or what ever it is
The code number is recorded in your listing... and you will never lose track of inventory available
02-05-2017 07:23 PM
OP..... Your store categories can help you organized your listed inventory...
and then your inventory that has not been listed.
If I have more than one copy of a listed book, the listed book has a slip of paper sitting on the inside of the front cover...
All of the same book are stored side-by-side....
Nothing gets lost.... However, sometimes it takes sometime to find the right book that sold....
The books do not get lost.... I am the one that gets lost.
02-05-2017 07:51 PM
My stuff is all in ebay item number order. (my items are all in envelopes or boxes or something that I can write the item number on and file accordingly)
Because I sell stuff from wee single stamp to bankers boxes full of stamps, there are 7 "locations" a given item can be found.
Each location is sorted in eBay item number order.
Generally heart palpitations come from me writing 201799242124 instead of 20179924142 on the item number and filing in the wrong spot (mod, these are fake item numbers) or because something is in a different location than is normally the case. Sometimes I've put something small in a very much larger envelope, for whatever reason.
Also some days it seems mysterious elves put the item back in the location it was supposed to be in when I checked it the second time....
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02-05-2017 09:01 PM
But oddly-shaped toys without their own stackable packages get repacked into storage boxes so that my a majority of my storage area looks like this:
Except not sideways. That's a mobile device deficiency using the Community site.
02-06-2017 01:34 AM
Dress patterns-- Four bankers'boxes by manufacturer then by pattern number.
Books- Four shelving units (down from 10 back in Ottawa) by author.
Stamps and postcards- redboxes (it's a philatelist thing, you wouldn't understand) each marked by type : Commonwealth, USA & Foreign, Canada & Newfoundland, postcards, Smalls.
And two totes of stuff I really should get listed RSN.
And four bankers' boxes of postage that still needs to be packaged.
Ian gets back from the auction tonight and I shudder to think what he will have brought home for me to list.
02-06-2017 11:22 AM - edited 02-06-2017 11:25 AM
My filed listed items are unimpressive because they're scattered through several locations at several sites.....and they're boring in their stacks anyway...an example of one place...
02-06-2017 11:25 AM - edited 02-06-2017 11:25 AM
I am sorry to say that I cannot view your pic.
Oh wait, I think you're editing your comment at the same time as I am posting.
02-06-2017 11:29 AM
Yes I'm (re) learning how to properly insert pictures.
My bigger problem, which many other stamp dealers and likely others here suffer from is called "acquisition syndrome" where one just buys too much stuff....
These are pics from the largest warehouse, its all stuff that will "someday" be listed....
02-06-2017 01:04 PM
Holey Moley
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02-06-2017 04:04 PM
Ian got back from the auction late last night.
And at breakfast announced "I have more postage for you!".
My next husband will be a philanderer not a philatelist.
02-06-2017 06:38 PM
@femmefan1946 wrote:Ian got back from the auction late last night.
And at breakfast announced "I have more postage for you!".
My next husband will be a philanderer not a philatelist.
You might not always like what he brings home either. 🙂
02-06-2017 06:45 PM