Before I forget to mention it, I want to remind you all about the eBay Radio Party this month on June 22nd and 23rd. How fun that I get to go to Vegas and teach with some of my favorite people; the list of speakers is fantastic! It includes Griff, Marsha Collier, Janelle Elms, Cliff Ennico, John Colder Ice, Debbie Levitt and Cindy Shebley.

I am bringing Houston, Indy and Mo with me. It is going to be a blast and hopefully I am going to hit some thrift stores with Diva Dawn and other Queen's Court members.

Also, there will be great corporate sponsors in attendance. Kabbage, Doba, eBay, Page Mage, Ship Rush, Stamps.com and Terapeak. I am really hoping that my great friends from Terapeak (Denise and her crew) and Kabbage (Marc and his crew) are in Vegas. Terapeak and Kabbage made my Las Vegas LOL event a huge success. You guys are awesome and so are the services you provide to us eBayers!

If you haven't signed up yet for the eBay Radio Party, here is a link. The dates are June 22nd and 23rd at the Flamingo. Cost of admission is $75 if you sign up now. See you there!

I have been spending a lot of time at Headquarters and working diligently to get it "semi-perfect" for Live Boot Camp. I have downgraded from perfect to semi-perfect. Let's be realistic I have opened several boxes on my way through the "Alps."

My mom was here recently for a visit (let's be honest, she came here to work like a dog for me) and she got a bunch of tea cups and saucer written up from my antique store inheritance boxes that came from the "Alps." I listed one of the really neat Lenox architecture series sets and it sold! Yay! It sold for more than we had it priced in the antique store. eBay amazes me!

You can see this listing here.

This year's live boot camp at HQ with a lovely view of the Alps in the background (ha ha) is going to be more important than ever before. So many eBay changes and how we will be dealing with them will be our focus.  Six people have signed up! YAY...You can reserve your seat now (only 14 spots left). Read more about it in the Special Announcement section. The detailed informational page is ready to read. Click here to learn more.

You know I have been hearing the usual anti-eBay grumbling and I have to tell you, I tune it out. Instead I focus on listing, listing and more listing. This May was one of our best months of selling on eBay in quite some time. There are many things to attribute this to but I will tell you this, with the new eBay changes for final value fees starting on July 6th, I have cut the girl's hours way down to protect my bottom line. Carmen and Mo are only working about 12 hours a week each. And Deborah has moved to San Francisco (I miss her ).

Even with these cuts, we sold almost $10,000 of OOAK (One of a Kind) items at great margins in May doing this with Carmen just shipping, Mo listing 100 things a week, me listing 100 things a week and me pulling all I Sell sheets, doing all the bookwork and answering all the questions. It can be done and done successfully! This is a new twist on my business that we are going to teach you at Live Boot Camp.

And FYI, eBay's fees (even with the new changes going into affect on July 6th) will still be cheaper than Amazon. So no more time wasted complaining. Just get it done! Where else can we do what we love doing (turning trash into cash) and make this kind of money? Enough said.

I walked into my local thrift store on Monday and could NOT believe the collection of vintage Starbucks mugs on the shelf!

Check out this one that Mo listed. It was priced at only 49 cents!

You can see this listing here.

Then I couldn't believe my eyes when I spotted this pair of Japanese cloisonné vases for $7.99 each. Japanese cloisonné typically sells for much more than Chinese. This pair of vases had a bid within hours of being listed!

LOL footage has all been shipped! Please read the special announcement section as the price is increasing on June 13th. Click here to learn more and place your pre-order. This set rivals Boot Camp in a Box and the final price will be going up accordingly. We have heard great things about it! Read some of the new testimonials in the special announcement section.

Here are Indy and I afterwards. She did NOT want to take this photo and kept saying. Let me go, I want to go back into the assembly and celebrate with my friends.

Speaking of celebrating, I am almost finished with the first section of the flatware eBook. This initial section of the flatware eBook should be emailed out by Mid-June! I am so excited about it. Just like the Dinnerware Success eBook it will be delivered in three volumes. You can learn more and place your preorder in the Lynn Recommends Section.

After Indy's wonderful recognition, I couldn't believe it when I got a letter in the mail that Houston was being honored at an eighth grade ceremony for a humanities award. Wow! Not only did he graduate with a perfect 4.0 the past two years, but the teaching staff also honored him. Only about 35 kids that night (out of 450) got awards. I was very proud and for once it wasn't for athletics !

I can't believe this, but yes, I will have a high school freshman next year. My mom took us all out to celebrate "everything" at the old Charthouse restaurant, (now Bananaz and soon to be Gigi's Island).

After dinner, my mom and I took a tour of the iconic building (had our photo taken) and when we went outside to find the kids, they were nowhere in site. Then I looked up. Remember, my grandmother always told me to look up and down when out sourcing items to sell.

There was Houston on top of the mountain behind the restaurant showing the world his joy for life. I am very blessed to have such great and happy kids.

Last weekend, Houston's future high school team, the Palm Desert Aztecs made it to the CIF (California Intramural Federation) Division 4 Championship for Baseball at Dodger Stadium. The team is lead by Ryan Garvey (Steve Garvey's son) so of course we couldn't miss it. It was so much fun to be in Dodger stadium with almost the entire city of Palm Desert and still the stadium looked nearly empty.

The Aztecs lost 7 to 0 . Since we were going into LA anyway, I made it a business trip (I apparently deliver furniture now ) and sold this fantastic hidden revolving bar for quite a bit of money. I paid $100 for this at a neighborhood sale about three months ago.

See the listing here.

We drove the piece of furniture into downtown LA, transferred it to my brother's SUV and then he would eventually deliver it to the Venice buyer's home. It also gave Houston, Indy, Lee and me a chance to have dinner at a really cool restaurant in downtown LA called Casa.

Here is the view from our egg-shaped outdoor booth.

Because I have been so focused on writing the eBook and dealing with the end of the school year, I have had to skip ezine writing. Mo had a great idea. She asked me, "Why don't you rerun one of your older ezine articles that is still pertinent today. Just like they do on eBay Radio and Oprah." What a great idea Mo!

I deemed it fitting to run the one from 2006 about bottlenecks in your workflow space. It was perfect because I wrote this one just after Mo had quit working for me (that was the first and only time!) It was also perfect because I had just read some posts on the Queen's Court about getting organized and how to best utilize your home space.

Please don't miss this week's feature article "A Five-Point Plan to Fix Your Workflow Bottleneck".

Oh, before I forget Mo and I SKYPE interviewed for a reality TV show this week. Wish us luck! It was a blast. And a huge thanks to Lisa Suttora for letting me know about this opportunity. Lisa is amazing!

This is one of the photos of Mo and I that I sent to the
casting company for the reality show tryout.
Fingers crossed.

Happy eBaying!

Flatware Success eBook!

Great news! The first section of the Flatware eBook is almost finished.

Here is an email that we sent out to those who have already preordered:

We had intended to have Volume One out by the end of May. Due to a family emergency and an "in the field" case study this did not happen. We are on target to deliver Volume One by mid-June and I promise you it will be worth the wait! Not only do I discuss different flatware manufacturers to buy and those to pass by :), I also get into metals and the value of certain precious metals. It has been fascinating for me to write about this and also include ways for you to turn scrap jewelry and metal into cash.

 I did a really fun field study when I wanted to sell some gold (you probably know that gold is at an all time high....over $1,500 per troy ounce). Do you know how to calculate what your jewelry is worth? Where to sell it for the most money? The difference between troy ounces and avoirdupois ounces? I didn't know all of this either and it is fascinating...I include all of this in Volume One of the Flatware Success eBook. I can't wait for you to download it in the next few weeks. This is a resource that will enable you to expand your eBay business into this valuable category.

Now you won't be confused at thrift stores when looking at shelves like this anymore. Yay! Click here to preorder.

To learn more click here.

The Table of Contents looks like this. (This is subject to revision.)

Introduction

1. Types of Flatware/Hollowware
Pewter
Brass
Aluminum
Armetale
Stainless
Silver plate
Coin Silver
Sterling

2. Manufacturers to ALWAYS buy
3. Tricky Manufacturers
4. Manufacturers to NEVER buy
5. Best Selling Patterns of All Times
6. Patterns to Buy
7. Designer/Artists to Buy
8. Good Colors—Gold wash, Plastic?
9. Good Themes
10. Different Countries
11. Identifying the Different Pieces
12. Terms and Definitions
13. Where to Buy?
14. Research in the Field to Make Quick Purchase Decisions
15. How much should you pay?
16. Single pieces to purchase vs. Entire Sets
17. Research at Home
18. Pricing and How to Sell
19. Shipping
20. Condition and Seconds
21. Cleaning
22. Photographs
23. Categories
24. Title

Let's put it to the test--a Case Study

It was very strange, but as I was unpacking a box at HQ, I found a flatware storage chest. In my grandmother's handwriting on the price tag it said, "Box for Silver Flatware." I love seeing my grandmother's writing on anything and this was especially significant to me as I am writing this eBook. I think she approves and it is going to turn out fantastic!

Don't miss out on the special pre-order pricing for this eBook.
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We even have a 3-part sales plan! Order in three payments here.