Forum

What is your eBay work space like?
 

Well,

I have a cramped space with a table in the corner and two computers sitting there. The table is filled with all kinds of crap and papers.

I get so cramped I hate working in this area and when I leave my wrists hurt from the position I am in with all the crap around me.

What is a setup I can use where my hands wont be hurting after, and I won't feel cramped up and hate working there. This way I can sit for hours at a time sifting through accounts, printing labels, packaging, etc. Without after 5 minutes wanting to move to a more open area and relax there.

Anyone care to share there setup?

I have a large desk that I made (flat panel solid wood doors drilled together with legs attached), a book shelf that stores all the files I ever use, and a second desk with a wireless laser printer/scanner, dyno thermal printer and PPI stamps.

Above the second desk I have selves that store spare printing labels, A4 paper and packing supplies. Across one wall in the room are about 60 draws that store all my stock. On the back of the door is a potal bag that everything is popped into when labelled, packed and PPI'ed.

One set of locked draws under the desk that I keep spare hard drives, spare laptops and and personal information in.

TV (xbox and laptop connected to it) on another wall, with a sofa underneath it.

Office is 9 meters by 6 meters approx.

I have one room with just my computer and a comfortable chair but still get those pinch nerve feelings in my neck after sitting for a while. Sitting at the computer is the part I least enjoy. I do enjoy packaging and shipping. I have a nice room setup with a long table on one side where I bubble wrap my items and package and label and on the other side I have a lot of shelving around the wall with all my items all neatly organized

A second master bedroom turned into an office with 12 computers, chairs, a small refrigerator under one of the tables, shelving for the new items I sell, a photo area, dry erase boards on all the walls, sticky notes, a tv on the wall, a radio, my ipod etc etc.

Oh yea, my phone bank along one wall with phones plugged in charging waiting for my fav company to call me. NOT.

Daughter said my office looks like one of the computer rooms at school.

When family comes to visit this office is on lockdown.


They think I make websites for people!!!! :heh:


And we do get a lot of week long visitors for a free vacation living close to the ocean and having a pool.

What I do is private other then one daughter has her own stealth ebay and sells on it and does very well. She uses on of the computers for her stealth account.

Packing is done in the garage or at my warehouse depending on where the item is. Antiques and collectibles are done at the warehouse and new items are done here.

I did used to have a small fridge, but the little buzzing sound it made was annoying beyond belief. I have now resined myself to walking to the kitchen to get something cool.

The buzzing from my computers drives me nuts.

Piece of crap Toshiba laptop gets hot and the fan runs constantly.

Dont buy a junk Toshiba, gets hot and the batteries are useless.

I used to hate this with my old laptop. Just got a new HP with 'coolsense ' technology. Finally I can hold the laptop on my lap without being annoyed and/or burned

I have my Asus, my drawing desk and my TV, cable combo around 15 feet from me. I alternate between accounts and finishing art commissions :D

Now That is the REAL Trade Secret,,,,I will never disclose how Im Organized,,,You will have to Kill me,,,I Know that some users here would Looooove to (Kill Me)

Now THAT is LAZY! You sound like the British answer to ME!
:pound:

Jeff,,,we are going to have to Change your User Name to: Fred G Sanford,,,thats S-A-N-F-O-R-D,,,and the G Stands for "Good God"

I just made my office inside Sandy's office since it's so huge!!!

post pics! I'd post mine but it just looks like a workstation, a few printers, and my inventory is in the garage which I'm fixing up right now.

Use a can of compress air and blow the air into the openings on the back or side of the laptop or any laptop you have. I am sure the dust is making the laptop hot. I run protein folding programs on all oh my laptops at 100% processor speed and my laptops never get so hot. I blow them once a week and every 5-6 weeks I brake down the cooling system to clean out the dust.

Just step outside slapped - stop being a hermit - I have few snipers trained on your door but...we cant be kept waiting :mad2:...

Protein folding programs...nice!

My work station is split into 2 locations - my apartment in one city and my house in other...nothing super elaborate

I am in the process of finding and building a 64 core server folding farm. It means 4 processors on the same motherboard. I have the motherboard just need 2 more processors, I get them cheap and used. I run a program called BOINC.

LOL

Wow. I never expected this mess from you Jeff....

:nono:

Get it cleaned up NOW...

Yotano211, you are a good person! I like the fact that you run these programs when your computer is not in use. I do these types of things too as I never turn off my PC's and laptops. They might as well help do some good!

If you like the idea of helping to solve problems like aids, cancer, etc. and you don't have money to give, letting them send little packets to your PC so your processor can calculate and send back the results is a fine way to do it and it costs you nothing extra.

If, however, you normally turn your stuff off, then it would take extra electricity.

Don't you think I know that?,,,You see what happened to Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) In Rome Yesterday,,,Real Sad,,,

How it looks on Monday, and how it looks on Friday. Saturday and Sunday for cleaning lol. Pic is my actual work area.

The best work area is when I'm laying In bed operating accounts with my iPhone making money laying down , got to love this job

That was bad - so young.

LAN party at sandy's house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :nerd:

6 foot desk corner of bedroom.
6 tabletop computers all stacked on top of each other on left side of desk.
All computers have user accounts p touched on side of computers
wall in front of desk has hard copies of excel sheets used for tracking and user accounts.
4 monitors on desk.
multiple phones on chargers on right side of desk. Phones have tel # p-touched on them along with google #'s attached.

6 foot table next to desk has printer on right side next to stack of computers on desk.
Next to the printer have a stack organizer with supplies for shipping labels and paper.
Under table I have 5 totes with different shipping envelopes and boxes.

Last 4 feet to the left of table I have different color table cloths that I use for back rounds for pictures.

Mess??? But I just threw away all the pizza boxes, lasagna pans, McDonald's and Wendy's bags. I DID keep the Long John Silver's stuff, though - it has a 12 year shelf-life!

:pound:

Now that Explains the Cat,,,,,,,

Bois still waiting on you to step out slapped - they are mad tired :mad2: just come out hah

What sort of shelving or storage bins do you guys use to keep all your shipping supplies in? I'm a bit of a spaz when it comes to having things orgranized and thats one thing that drives me crazy, all the usps boxes and the other poly mailers I use are all so varied in size that I have yet to find any sort of system that keeps everything looking neat and fits everything.

I just leave the poly mailers in their box. I mark on the box the size with a black marker in BIG letters. My shipping boxes are next to the poly mailers according to size. Its not really organized but its neat and it works for me. I order poly mailers in 100-200 at a time. Boxes at around 50 each size.

I think the LAN wont work, Sandy's computers are too slow from overheating. hehehehe

I only have 3 size of packaging. 6x2 inches, 6x9 inches and 12x18 inches. ALl stored in boxes above my packing desk, with reserves stored in boxers under the desk.

Anything larger than the usual items I sell I usual hand wrap in parcel paper.

I call it my closet!

This is where all the stealth magic happens!

http://i42.tinypic.com/t5fya9.jpg

haha that lamp... it's a... it's a... well, it's a leg!

I wondered if anyone would notice it.

This is a great post.

of course, I notice all things that must be italian... FRAGILE!

I also use doors for a desk but mine are on an L shape - works a treat!
Gives me lots of room for stock in the draws underneath, and papar trays on the top. As well as an imac and three laptops, iPad for incoming emails.

Is this your workspace SAUSAGE


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lyXe6pXEme...0/DSCN1647.JPG