Gary Hendrickson
12-19-2006, 09:14 PM
Beginning in 1977, and continuing for many years, the English author Jonathan Gash wrote a series of mystery novels whose main character was a down-in-the-heels East Anglican antique dealer known simply as Lovejoy. Lovjoy suffered from more than a few character flaws, but he was also a divvie.
A divvie is someone antiques communicate with. Lovejoy could walk into a room filled with expensive antiques and one or two of them would literally scream at him - "I'm a fake, I'm a fake." He could enter a room filled with junk and the one valuable item in the room, buried under boxes of dross would scream "here I am, here I am" to him.
Lovejoy knew that in order for antiques to speak to him, he had to spend time in places where antiques might be found. He wasn't going to hear them if he spent all day sitting around the house noshing on the fried sandwiches he was so fond of.
I don't profess to be a divvie and I don't find most fried sandwiches that appealing, but in one way I'm just like Lovejoy. I don't believe I'm any better at finding antiques, collectibles, or other things that can be profitably sold on eBay than you are. In fact, I don't believe I find any of those things at all. I believe they find me. All I do is regularly put myself in places that offer them the best chance of finding me and giving me a shout-out.
You may say I'm crazy. Or, you may just say "that may be, but I'm not interested in selling that kind of products on eBay."
That's all fine and good, but I propose to you that it doesn't make one bit of difference what you want to sell on eBay. If you don't regularly put yourself in places where inventory can find you, you aren't gong to have much to sell and your days on eBay are numbered.
If you want to sell a product that you can have drop shipped, you'd better regularly put yourself in places where the perfect drop ship product can find you or your eBay business will never get off the ground. If your goal is to be the number one seller of Coach purses on eBay, you had better regularly put yourself in places where Coach purses hang out or you are doomed from the start.
I visited seven thrift shops and two antique malls today. In a few of them I heard voices saying "look at me, look at me."
What did you do today?
A divvie is someone antiques communicate with. Lovejoy could walk into a room filled with expensive antiques and one or two of them would literally scream at him - "I'm a fake, I'm a fake." He could enter a room filled with junk and the one valuable item in the room, buried under boxes of dross would scream "here I am, here I am" to him.
Lovejoy knew that in order for antiques to speak to him, he had to spend time in places where antiques might be found. He wasn't going to hear them if he spent all day sitting around the house noshing on the fried sandwiches he was so fond of.
I don't profess to be a divvie and I don't find most fried sandwiches that appealing, but in one way I'm just like Lovejoy. I don't believe I'm any better at finding antiques, collectibles, or other things that can be profitably sold on eBay than you are. In fact, I don't believe I find any of those things at all. I believe they find me. All I do is regularly put myself in places that offer them the best chance of finding me and giving me a shout-out.
You may say I'm crazy. Or, you may just say "that may be, but I'm not interested in selling that kind of products on eBay."
That's all fine and good, but I propose to you that it doesn't make one bit of difference what you want to sell on eBay. If you don't regularly put yourself in places where inventory can find you, you aren't gong to have much to sell and your days on eBay are numbered.
If you want to sell a product that you can have drop shipped, you'd better regularly put yourself in places where the perfect drop ship product can find you or your eBay business will never get off the ground. If your goal is to be the number one seller of Coach purses on eBay, you had better regularly put yourself in places where Coach purses hang out or you are doomed from the start.
I visited seven thrift shops and two antique malls today. In a few of them I heard voices saying "look at me, look at me."
What did you do today?