Lynn’s eBay ezine Volume V, issue number 2

I got the cutest email from my friend Kimberly Wallace in Bellingham after the last ezine.

She said:

Hi Lynn,

Happy New Year! I love the article of you and your grandma. I love the pics of her rolling your hair. It made me remember the perfect, tightly rolled curls she had in her hair. You inspire me with these articles, maybe one day I’ll put more than five things on eBay and see what happens.

Congrats on your great sales!

Kim

Kimberly,

Thanks for the email! Great to hear from you. You know what is so funny and I just realized it–I used to roll my grandmother’s hair for her to get those perfect curls. What goes around comes around.

Happy New Year!

Lynn

When I emailed Kimberly, what I was talking about was that when my grandma broke her hip and I moved back to Bellingham to take care of her in 1993, I was the one who used to roll her hair! Check out this photo of her perfectly coifed curls.

We have had a long two weeks here in California. I have been super busy but we did have a baseball tournament last weekend that was incredible. It was the biggest tournament that a team Houston has been on has ever won. I was so proud of his team and even Indiana was into it! That is a miracle in itself. She actually watched the games!

The boys won the PGGA tournament in Murrieta, CA and beat 13 other teams to take home the championship and a $1,050 check towards our Cooperstown, NY trip this summer in August. WOW! Houston said to me, “Mom, I feel like I am finally in the majors because we got paid for our win!” FYI, I will be running some charity auctions the end of February or the beginning of March to benefit the team. Please watch for those.

To win that tournament, the boys had to go four for four, winning four games on Sunday. Can you even imagine playing two games on Saturday and then four games on Sunday? The boys played twelve hours of Baseball plus six hours of warming up (18 hours total) in just 36 hours. The team did in fact win those four games!!! It was AMAZING.

Houston hit a ball over the fence in the first game for a home run. It looked to me like the ball fell just in front of the fence but when the umpire put his hand in the air and made the go around the bases sign, I couldn’t believe it! The ball had landed just over the fence! WOW! Do you think I was a proud mom? Just a little bit.

Here is Houston being greeted by his teammates after his first home run (Doesn’t that make you think that there may be more than one?)

In the next game, Houston hit one so far over the center field fence that there was no doubt that it was a home run. It went about 240 feet! Everyone started calling him H₂0. Which was pretty funny since his initials are HH, he always has tons of water in his bat bag and he had just hit two home runs.

Here he is running into home base.

And that was not the end of it. In the semi-finals, Houston hit a ball over left field but it went in between a white pole and a big yellow pole. Everyone thought it was foul but it turned out that the small white pole was the base line and the ump gave the “go around” sign for Houston to run the bases! I couldn’t believe it. Here he is with his buddy after that final home run. Thank goodness–if there were any more home runs, I would never get this ezine written!

I had been to an estate sale the day before we left for the tournament and had spent $1,000. Yikes! I needed to recoup that quickly, so was frantically trying to list while watching the games. I finally gave up during the semi-final and final games because it was just too exciting and too cold!

Anyway, I had bought four very expensive pieces of Royal Copenhagen for $240 and a HUGE collection of Heath pottery for $500. It is really weird but the photo that my brother used in last week’s ezine of my grandmother in high school was the side photo from story #75 in Money Making Madness that talks about Heath Pottery. Strange! I recommend you re-read that story to refresh your memory about Heath Pottery. It is an awesome brand!

The Royal Copenhagen pieces were the motivation for this week’s feature article called “Don’t make the same mistakes I have.” Don’t miss it.

Luckily, the Heath pieces are doing really well and I successfully finished listing them on Tuesday. I got 111 auctions out of the $500 spent and some I have started at $49.99. I should do fine with these.

Check out this beautiful bowl that already has a bid.

It appears that most Heath is done in earth tones so the colored pieces are more rare.

There are just 15 seats left for our one and only Live eBay Boot Camp of the year. Read more about it in the Lynn Recommends section.

In the special announcement section, we have some important announcements. Don’t miss this. It has key dates for making changes to your eBay auctions and some info about the USPS proposed rate changes.

Finally, we are bringing back the section where you write in with your major scores! We are looking for more of your stories. Read below to find out how to submit your stories for consideration.

Happy eBaying,

Lynn Dralle, ‘The Queen of Auctions,’ Creator of the best-selling eBay Boot Camp in a Box and Boot Camp in a Box Lite.