Just try it…

I have had an interesting experience over the last few days.  We had a few things to sell after our renovation and we didn’t really know how to go about it.  The obvious route these days is eBay, but I had been told that there was little demand for these particular goods and had done nothing for months.

In the end, and failing any better ideas, we put them on eBay having reconciled ourselves to the fact we may well be wasting our time.  I did a little more research and discovered that one of these items now cost around £115 new, and there a number for sale already.  I put a Buy-it-Now price on it of £50.  Our waterbed was the thing that I really thought would be tough to move, and wasn’t at all sure it would go.    Within a few days there were about  20 people interested and I had two people wanting to pay a reasonable Buy-it-Now price.

So what was the lesson?  When you don’t know how to proceed, begin.  Learn from doing; at the very least you gain knowledge and you may just succeed.  I suspect that we could have got even more for these items but I’m happy to just see them moved on to people who want them and clear our space of them.

“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed”  Lloyd Jones

“The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.”   William Strong

Tags: experience, learning by doing, trying

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