Monthly Archives: March 2007

Ok, been a while since I last blogged as I was pretty much tied up with a few stuff at the moment.  So far nothing much interesting happened, apart from a lot of tourist coming in and out of the shop.  Anyway, working on something new at the moment and hopefully business would pick up even more

Just now, there was a commotion  outside the shop.  Couldn’t really catch what really happened was that, apparently these people went and bought stuff from a Chinaman.  And they heard a rumor stating that the Chinaman back stab them, so basically they came here to find out.  Anyway, eventually there were a lot of onlookers and passerby, so pretty much nothing happened and everything was settled in civilized. Oh well.  That’s pretty much what happened today..  Got to go..  Will do some advertisement posting..  Wonder will I really get paid.. Hmmmmm…
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    This is a true story of a young college girl who passed away last month in Shah Alam. Her name is Priya. She was hit by a lorry. I dont wanna mention the name of the college. She had a boy friend named Shankar. He stays in johor. Both of them were true lovers. They always talked on the phone. You would never see her without her handphone.

    She spent 3/4 of the day talking to Shankar. Priya’s family knew about their relationship. Shankar is very close with Priya’s family. Before she passed away she always told her friends, “If I pass away please cremate me with my handphone.” She also said the same thing to her parents.

    After her death, people couldnt lift up her coffin. Eventually, her family called their neighbour, a “bomoh” from Thailand (Pak Darin), who is a friend of her father. He took a sit and started speaking to himself slowly. After a few minutes he said, “This girl misses something here”. Then her friends told Darin about her wish. He then opened the coffin and placed her phone and SIM card inside the casket. After that the coffin could be lifted easily. Everyone was shocked. Priya’s parents didnt inform Shankar that Priya had passed away.

    After 2 weeks, Shankar called Priya’s mom. Shankar said,”Auntie, I’m coming home today. Pls cook something nice for me. Dont tell Priya that I’m coming home. I wanna surprise her.” Her mother replied, “You come home first, I wanna tell you something very important.” After he came to Shah Alam, they told him the truth about Priya.

    Shankar thought that they were playing a fool. He was laughing and said, “Dont try to fool me. Tell Priya to come out. I have a gift for her. Pls stop this nonsense”. Then they showed him the original death certificate to him. They gave him proof to make him believe. He said, “This cannot true. We spoke yesterday. She still calls me.” Shankar was shaking. Suddenly Shankar’s phone rang. “See this is from Priya. See this…” he showed the phone to Priya’s family. All of them told him to answer. He talked using the loudspeaker mode. All of them heard his conversation

    Loud and clear. no cross lines, no humming. It was the actual voice of Priya & there was no way others could use her simcard since it is nailed inside the coffin. They were so shocked and asked for Pak Darin’s help again. Pak Darin brought his master (Tok Chen) to solve this matter. H e & Darin worked for 5 hours. Then they discovered one thing…
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    Stumbled across this article while going through some travel spots for our honeymoon. I remember this person came to the shop and asked tons of questions and wanted to find out more about antiques. So Deluxe took some time to answer all his questions, and finally we managed to find out it was published some time last year. Oh well, it’s all good but there are some items which he might had wrongly stated. Anyway, it’s all good.

    Anyway, back to updating this blog. Pretty much nothing happened yesterday, apart from a crazy fella came into the store and tried to ask money from the tourist. He kept on pestering the customer and asking for money, till Deluxe had to give him some small change so that he would go off. Sigh, and some more when I told him I will call the police, he boldly made a statement that the police won’t catch him. Unfortunately this person had been caught by the police too many times, until the police wouldn’t want to bring this guy in again. Oh well. Guess that’s life, poor fella also couldn’t make a living so I guess this is how he survive. Today just managed to clear off some stuff for eBay. Will be taking some more pictures in another day or two. Anyway got to go now. Got to get ready for practice later tonight. Have a nice day.

    Oh yeah, I posted my Sony Ericsson P900i for auction in lelong.com.my. Deciding to let it go, as there are some more features which I think I would need soon Anyway, will prolly do a comparison on both eBay Malaysia & Lelong on it’s pro and cons on this.
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I’ve received a called from France & Taipei once again a few days ago asking us to check our design as well as the photo outcome.  Apparently, what happened previously was that we were not suppose to look at the design because we didn’t wanted to add any more pictures to it. Whereby after consulting many people who went passed it, said it’s not worth it to spend so much on the wedding pictures.  After looking at it, we were pretty much impress on what they did to it.  Quite satisfied with the outcome of the whole editing.  But we’re not sure how it will be like on the book.  Anyway, we wouldn’t want to think about it too much already as long as we have it, is good enough.

Fortunately for us, the people who gave us  a lot of problem weren’t there.  So it was all good.  They need to brush up on their customer service skills, but the one who attended to us was great.  They need to learn from her more..  Anyway, we managed to get back what we paid for and the agreement that we had for everything.  So it’s all good.  I guess, that settles that.  But we would still need to go back there to choose the gown and try it out as well.  So I guess, everything is on it’s steer back on it’s course now.  As now we will be getting some legal documents done.  Have a nice day.
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    Had a long talk with Deluxe yesterday, and one of it was thinking on how to expand our eBay business. Yeap, during our marriage counseling we were told that even though Husband should be the head of the house, but before making any big decision we should always discuss about it so that it will bring out the best solution to give the best results. 2 heads are better than one ya?? Hehehe.
    Ok back to the story, so apart from selling antiques which we are quite satisfied with the current sales outcome, but somehow we still feel that we can do even better each month. So we need to fully utilize the resources we have, and so we came to a conclusion that we should start another different account and try selling other products. So this will be my very first post in the eBay category, on how to start selling in eBay.

    Before creating an account, which I will show how on the next post in this section. I will answer all the general questions regarding eBay.

Who Can Sell on eBay?
    Basically, anyone who is 18 and above can sell on eBay. Housewives who have extra time and too many old clothings where she does not know where to get rid of, a fresh graduate who is still couldn’t find any place to work or even a retired person who wish to earn an extra buck or two.

What Can I sell on eBay?
Once someone told me that eBay is a big trash can, and we are all scavengers. You can practically find almost anything on eBay, from baby pins, toiletries, to even used cars. So you won’t be surprised if you can sell your old pair of jeans which you can’t fit in, to someone else for quite a reasonable price. “One man’s junk, is another man’s treasure”.

Where Can I Sell on eBay?
    Just as long you have a PC, and Internet connection you can start selling on eBay.

When can I sell on eBay?
    It’s up to you to decide. If you have plenty of time, but you do not know what to do with it. This would be a great time to invest in.

How can I sell on eBay?

1. Do your research – which will be explained on this post
2. Take pictures
3. Describe and list your items
4. Receive payments and send your items

    Ok, let’s get started. First we need to list out the products that we are planning to sell, and where to sell it first. Most likely I recommend one should start selling at eBay Malaysia, because it is still free and it has the basic features before heading out to the real site to start selling. Let say we plan to sell T-Shirts, just type in at the top right corner T-Shirts and click on the search button.

    After that it will display a list of T-Shirts being listed by other sellers. Have a look inside of the details and see what type of T-Shirts they are selling. See how much they are selling, and if you can get cheaper prices for your T-Shirts you might be able to make an extra income out of it. Always do take into consideration of packing materials, petrol to travel to the post office and other stationaries as well, and calculate how much you can really earn from selling one product. Will elaborate more on this on another post.

    It is good if you can keep an account on what you sell and how much is the actual cost and everything. So that it will help you save time on decision making in the future such as listing on eBay paid sites, or even opening up a store in eBay.
    Anyway, before I end this post, here are a few do and don’t you should always practice, when selling on eBay.

Don’t

1. Copy and paste other people’s listing, pictures, details and etc.
       This is a very bad practice as it tends to make not only one lazy and will not learn anything from it. The actual people who start this listings worked very hard to design the page and everything. So please consider.
2. Sell Fake / Imitation Products
       Selling things like this will definitely get your account suspended and would have a small chance of getting your account reinstated, plus people will not purchase anything from you again if you do managed to get your account reinstated. So don’t risk of losing potential customers.
3. Runaway With People’s Money
       Apparently, there are indeed many people out there are taking this opportunity to cheat people’s hard earn money by selling maybe high end products lower than the market price. Whereby the buyer actually banks in the money, and the seller never send it. Unfortunately for us, Police are not being very helpful and won’t do anything much about it. So chances of the person being caught is like 1/10, unless there are a group of people who will be willing to really hunt the person down. You may not get punished now, but there’s always a saying “What comes around, goes around”.
4. Create another account to bid on your own items
   This is a very serious offense. Plus you would not only get your account suspended, people will not trust you anymore. Remember, trust is the most important factor here on eBay. Without trust, people will not even dare to buy anything from you.

Do’s

1. Price Your Item Correctly
       The problem nowadays, not only being seen on eBay but as well as the shop around here. People are throwing prices off the rack. One item can be easily sold at RM20, but just because they want to get volume they throw their prices to maybe RM10 or just a little bit more than the cost price. So if you see someone selling at RM10, then sell at more less the same price or slightly less by maybe 5-10% to get your business started. Remember that this will be a win-win situation, if you sell at a higher price then start selling at that price.
2. Be creative
       Not only by making your listing creative, by having your very own unique product you can make a nice profit out of it. And make sure you know your product very well, so that if you have buyers who have tons of questions you’ll know what to say
3. Be courteous
       Just by saying thank you, or it has been pleasant dealing with you can make a huge difference when you begin to sell. People would always come back to you for your products and to be honest won’t even mind paying slightly more if you are nice towards them.
4. Not give up easily
       Sometimes, maybe no one will buy your items at first. It’s always good to try and try again. Learn from your mistakes, and review why people do not want to purchase your items. You might also consider of lowering your prices, or change your layout to be more presentable and so forth. Once you managed to get the ball rolling, you won’t be able to stop it

    Anyway, I think I’ll stop here for now. I’ll post some more on this topic in another day or two, and hopefully will have more examples to give as well And also do visit the forums on eBay as you will meet tons of other sellers and they might give you another tip or two on this. Have a nice day.
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