Hey guys! I’ve been on a little hiatus because I found out on the morning of June 10th my youngest son was found deceased in his bedroom by his roommate. They ordered an autopsy but I still haven’t gotten the results. We laid him to rest 2 days after what would have been his 32nd birthday. So I took some time off to deal with things. But I’m back and I’ve already sold several items out of my store and I am determined to sell everything I currently have by Christmas so I can have new inventory next year! How has everyone’s summer sales going?

I am sure everyone is aware that we will very soon not be able to use USPS Priority boxes on Poshmark. (Sept.12) If I had the space I'd get boxes for free and break down. Then you deal with boxes of all different sizes and it becomes messy. I will be using my Ebay coupon to buy boxes but with 4th quarter upon us I will probably get rid of all the USPS boxes and take back to the post office. Then stock up with boxes to use on Poshmark. I will use polymailers for most items but I do sell bundles and sometimes high end shoes that need a box. Looking at Grainger and Uline but I'd be paying $1 a box. Does anyone have any other ideas besides dumpster diving? I am saving boxes but it won't be nearly enough for 4th quarter. My sister went to USPS today and the employees have never seen free ground advantage boxes and this is in a major city. We will hopefully see them next year but that won't help in 4th quarter this year. Thoughts?

I have been on vacation for two weeks. This is first time we could go to two NASCAR races during the school year. This is because I switched rolls to a full-time reselling and a very part-time bus driver, as of June 2025. It was the opposite. During this time I have been thinking about my business. I have decided, when I get home tonight, to open a second seller account on eBay. Before you ask, I have researched it on eBay and spoke to a representative at eBay. I'll share to you what I told the representative. I'm keeping my current account as the business because it's established, just changing the email to my business name @yahoo.com. The second account is for my personal items family items, items that may sell that I bought at the bins with personal money. I think my personal items are not making my store as successful in regards to the numbers, averages, store success rating. Several of my personal items have sold, so I'm believing in this decision to be a great start to becoming full-time. There are several more changes I'm going to implement but this is the biggest.

Would anyone be open to recurring weekly classes on how resellers can implement AI into their business? This would cover from basic concepts to complex ideas, what I'm working on. This is to help entrepreneurs become more efficient in managing their businesses. Would this be valuable to anyone?

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. Do you know that if you promote your eBay listings using the Dynamic Rate, or in a Campaign, that if and when you end those listings, and try to remove the Promoted status, it doesn't get removed it passes on to the listing once it is relisted? I usually end all my promotions once an item is ended, because I treat it as a new listing and wait to promote it at a later time. You can go into the listing once it is reposted and remove the promotion, but it will not let you end the promotion while it is in the draft mode waiting to be relisted. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows this.