Here comes the merchandise

Well after we got back from Vegas we settled back and waited for our stuff to arrive.
Turns out that when you order as much as we did the UPS man has a hard time lifting it. We were so excited when he pulled up and were looking out the window when out tumbled a box off the truck. It was all the poor guy could do to roll it up onto the cart to bring it up our drive way. It is not that we ordered so much of it, but it was very heavy. The jewelry was made of hematite and semiprecious stone.

Once we got it in the house the work began. We had to inventory and organize it into storage compartments so it would be easy to locate when an order came in. The next step was to get photographs of each piece to post it on eBay. (Here is a helpful tip for those that think eBay or online commerce might be easy.........Get merchandise that is EASY to take a picture of.)
It turns out that Hematite is very difficult to take a picture of. It is very pretty but does not photograph well.

I went on to eBay and found a BUNCH of people selling similar jewelry for less than we paid for it. (The second lesson to be learned from my mistakes is do your research BEFORE you buy something to sell.)

As I mentioned in my first post. We had gone to Vegas with no idea what to sell. We found the Jewelry and bought some thinking eBay and Flea market. We bought it without researching how much we could turn around and sell it for. Sounds good so far huh?

Well after seeing that eBay wasn't going to be as good of an options as we thought at the time, we turned to the local flea market.

It turns out our local flea market has a bunch of people that are selling GARBAGE and the crowds are small. On some days there are more vendors wondering around than customers.
About one third of the vendors are selling things that have been "salvaged" from some curbside trash heap. (sadly I am not making that up. One mans trash.....) Well we didn't have a lot of choice in the matter, the other flea market doesn't exist so this was what we had to work with.

Well we looked at our Jewelry and thought "what else should we sell?". Jewelry is okay but we needed other things out there as well. Since we had acquired a lot of cards at the trade show, I went through them and pulled out all the companies that had websites. We looked at make up, purses, toys, home decor items, electronics and even "As seen on TV" products.

We placed orders for more products and set up a table at the flea market.

(More Later)

Middleman
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