Month completed: February 2010

One of the accessories we sell at work is a microphone adaptor that works with the iPod touch.

Just plug one end into the iPod, and plug the other end into your iPod headphones, and hey presto, you now have an iPod touch with a microphone, which means you can start making calls (using our iPod calling application!). Read more about it here.

To help sell a few of these, I have just done a trial using eBay. Here’s a snippet of the listing.

In the past I have used eBay only to buy things (books mainly) so I was keen to see how it would go.

I was quite amazed by the results.

Within a few weeks all the adaptors I put up were sold, and people were still asking for more. All this with very little effort from me, apart from setting it up.

One thing that surprised me was the keenness of buyers to get feedback from me. Almost as soon as they had paid, many of the buyers contacted me wanting feedback. Which is fine, and given they were all good buyers I was happy to give them all positive feedback.

When I move back home from London in a few years, I will definitely use eBay to  sell (get rid of) my valuable household items (useless junk) that I have lovingly accumulated (hoarded for way too long)!.