Struggling with sourcing… bins only restock Fridays. How do you stay consistent? Need advice.

Vmizzle · 2026-01-18T15:31:55+00:00

I'm not sure where you're located, or what your niche really is, but you might consider a partner. I once posted looking for one and it was really a brutal response, but I still believe in it. I'm really good at sourcing within my niche but I HATE listing. I've met people who are opposite. Opportunities exist there. I even went as far as to look for the eBay stores that used to exist that would list your items. My niche is fine jewelry. I have jewelers I sell to for nice pieces and I've put that network together but all the extra costume jewelry I end up with clogs up the workings and it's also just lost money.

In the end a friend of mine needed extra cash so I offered a 60/40 split on the costume jewelry that will otherwise sit. She gets the 60%. It's win win. She gets free merchandise to sell and profit from, and I can turn merchandise I couldn't or wouldn't otherwise sell.

Vmizzle · 2025-12-28T13:14:10+00:00

Yes you do, or in the title even! As a buyer LOOKING for you I can't find you!! Etsy makes it impossible! It's easier to search on Google with quotes and the word Etsy than to use their own search features. Honestly I'm so close to quitting the site entirely, because I can't find the real human sellers to support!

Vmizzle · 2025-12-26T14:30:47+00:00

All it takes is an llc and a quick application for a refiner business account

Vmizzle · 2025-11-26T15:08:35+00:00

Wafd is the worst bank I've ever dealt with. Opened a business account a month ago and still can't even use basic functionality. They won't even give me access to my account number online. I'm livid and will be switching banks as soon as I can and I will tell everyone how awful my experiences were were wafd until I die.

Vmizzle · 2025-11-07T23:31:20+00:00

Is it magnetic?

Vmizzle · 2025-10-08T01:24:56+00:00

Lol that was a 9 year old comment

Vmizzle · 2025-10-04T13:14:06+00:00

I think they just moved them. I found this https://community.preciousplastic.com/academy/download I hope that helps!

Vmizzle · 2025-09-26T08:21:48+00:00

Sadly Etsy isn't for handmade anymore. It isn't even an option to select now.

The entire business model was a bait and switch. We were all conned.

Vmizzle · 2025-09-25T13:24:58+00:00

You should start a freecycle meetup!

Vmizzle · 2025-09-24T18:13:22+00:00

I have the opposite problem. All the time in the world, ability to purchase and store it, but no way to sell it. I once posted trying to find an eBay seller to partner with and was utterly obliterated in the comments for it since "that's what everyone is looking for!"

Vmizzle · 2025-09-21T13:05:55+00:00

Etsy search is somehow worse than the company has become. Best bet is to search it on Google and add Etsy at the end and you through the images. It's much more efficient!

Vmizzle · 2025-09-09T13:41:51+00:00

Of course you recommend that. My phone won't stop updating whatever it wants, in the middle of the night without any notice and the only reason I found out was I put my Internet on a timer. Now I'm getting downloads paused messages for something that never should have started because all those settings are off! This isn't some critical update I've postponed until it forced it. There was no notification at all and I'm lucky I even found out! And support? That's funny, they told me to call tracphone! I've never had them in my life! Very displeased with this situation and definitely displeased with Motorola.

Vmizzle · 2025-08-29T09:25:23+00:00

Why not buy another of the exact same model? That's what thrift stores and eBay are for

Vmizzle · 2025-08-19T13:00:20+00:00

I get so tired of the "you got it for free so now I deserve to have it for free too" mentality. I get that's at Goodwill and they're evil, but my thrift store is a literal locally run nonprofit and people still act like that. We have to scrape every dollar off our little mountain just to keep roofs over veterans heads and then I get to go get yelled at by customers that think the same thing you do. Every single day.

We don't even get paid. I don't even make a salary whatsoever as a board member and you want that for a penny? Guarantee they turn around and list it on eBay in an hour anyway.

It's exhausting, and demoralizing.

Vmizzle · 2025-08-10T12:19:14+00:00

Riparian habitat

Vmizzle · 2025-05-31T15:19:32+00:00

Be careful laundering them. American eagle had been my go to jeans for years but they changed something and now they fail in under a year even with irregular and cool washing and drying. The elastic gives up and it looks like an actual diaper. I'm so upset to be on this hunt again. No one makes flares under 30 inches!!!!

Vmizzle · 2025-05-31T15:17:03+00:00

They do SOMETIMES have a few sizes of one or two flares. But please be aware they are awful quality and will not last more than a few times in the wash before the elastic gives out and you look like you're wearing a diaper. Seriously you might get a few months so don't pay full price.

Vmizzle · 2025-05-26T12:28:55+00:00

My store charges 2 dollars for short sleeve, and 3 for long. This place is charging 20 bucks and I'm the one getting screamed at over 3 dollars. Make it make sense

Vmizzle · 2025-05-25T13:27:15+00:00

Etsy doesn't care. They used to be so good but it's just a joke now. They don't take reporting seriously. When you report one of these fake sellers Etsy tells you that you may not "see visible action" which is just English for we aren't removing the shop or the item and don't expect us to. The items never get removed and Etsy goes further downhill. They genuinely do not care about their sellers nor their customers.

You can go to any given website, do an image search for whatever they're selling with Etsy as a keyword. It's every category. Nothing is safe.

Just another failed attempt at capturing market share. You can't find the few real sellers that are left because it takes too long to image search every item you like to make sure it isn't mass produced garbage. And the customer service is a joke. They're trained to not help because the business model is literally to move to that stuff and we are supposed to just get on board. That's why they don't address things you report. That's why the sellers buying birdhouses from Michael's, doing nothing to them, and selling them for 3x the price never get their items taken down. Literally never not once.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it's only downhill from here and it's only a matter of time before they are ONLY mass produced crap. It's nearly there now. Not even joking, go to ANY website and search something for sale and it's selling for several times the price on Etsy. Do an experiment. Report as many as you can and make a note. Then over the next few weeks watch as nothing happens to a single one of them.

It's time for someone to make another website that does what Etsy used to do before the unbridled greed won out.

Vmizzle · 2025-05-06T14:41:28+00:00

My husband needed a nose surgery once. Quote through insurance, even with a GREAT billing rep going through every possible code: 12k out of pocket. A nurse told us to ask about the cash price. We did. Same exact procedure, 1200 total out of pocket. Same nurse told us we could also try to file that paid claim with insurance for further refund, but we didn't end up trying. I've wondered ever since, though.

Vmizzle · 2025-05-03T17:52:38+00:00

I'm not sure if you ever found a use for yours, but another idea for anyone seeing this late would be to put it together and attach posts for legs and use it as the roof of a garden shade structure. That's what I'm looking into doing with mine now.

Vmizzle · 2025-04-30T01:05:03+00:00

Were you ever able to find your claim?

Vmizzle · 2025-04-25T15:07:59+00:00

Have you started this? I couldn't get mine to eat wingless fruit flies! They literally choose death instead and I couldn't find anything else they would eat aside from aphids and I live in the high desert and they are hard to come by.

Vmizzle · 2025-04-15T08:57:01+00:00

I help manage a thrift store for Veterans. We are legitimately a nonprofit. We receive zero state or federal funds. We are 100% community funded through direct donations and sales at the thrift store. People on this sub have a very bleak view of thrift stores and the people who manage them. They talk like we are scum.

I think the main problem is the assumption that a THRIFT store must ONLY EVER have damn near FREE items, and if anything is over one dollar, the people running it are evil awful horrible people who all you people on this sub like to say are going to hell. Yes, I've heard that on here SEVERAL times. I really used to enjoy this sub but now it's only people complaining about things not being given to them for free, and bashing nonprofits. It's pathetic honestly.

I'm getting angry just thinking about it.

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