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[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Hey Frostys: Here is a link to a short reply I did to another member asking approx. the same question. This is a shorter version of a long post I did some time back [you may be able to search for it], about how humans “see” color and how the male – female color cones see color differently. Look it up, may be interesting reading. But the short of it is said in the other reply’s color isn’t going to be supported by Ebay as a reason for INAD or u get a neg. You may take the item back on the grounds that you you want every customer to be satisfied but not at your expense. They request for a return, they get a label, they pay for the return, you credit the initial amount and then you list and resell.

Here is the short link. Armed with this type of info. not many reps or supervisors know how to combat it.

>> https://www.scavengerlife.com/forums/search/yellow+and+blue

Good luck…

Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by MDC Galleries & Fine Art.

[Doublythumbs]

June 11- 17

Things are really doing well with my eBay store! If this keeps up, I really could start doing this full time!

First sale of the week goes to this Schwebel’s advertising bread knife. I picked this up at a thrift store for a dollar. It was in really nice condition and I thought someone out there would love it. It took a few months, but it sold for $20. Thinking about it now, I probably should have priced it a little higher as it was the only one on eBay, but oh well.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-Yellow-Schwebel-039-s-Advertising-Bread-and-Bun-Knife-8-1-2-034-Serrated-Blade-/302328051291?rd=1

I’ve been recently expanding my knowledge on flatware. When I saw all of this Longaberger flatware in a Goodwill Outlet bin, I scooped them up. Since I didn’t manage to find any complete table sets, I lotted like-pieces together. Here are two soup spoons. They had a few scratches on the face, but I sold them within a week of listing them for $22. I paid about .50 for the pair.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Two-2-Longaberger-Flatware-Replacement-Soup-Spoons-Woven-Traditions-Design-/302345109459?rd=1

Here is my highest sale of the week. I’ve been sitting on this old Victor Phonograph horn for well over a year. I bought it at an auction for $7.50, and I was worried that I overpaid. I finally got around to listing it a few months ago. I was willing to take just about any offer because it was so big and was taking up a lot of room. Well apparently a museum in Australia needed it, so they bought it for full price of $160. It took me about an hour to pack. I hope it gets there in one piece!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Victor-Phonograph-Talking-Machine-Record-Player-Horn-Part-No-8197-/302181870527?rd=1

Finally, I’d like to talk about these swimming trunks. Not that they were a high dollar sale, but I just found it amusing that I could sell and old retro pair of swimming trunks. I found 7 or 8 pairs in an old gym bag that came in a lot at an auction. I don’t remember how much I paid, but these each came to probably less than .50 cents. I sat on these for a while too because I just had no interest in listing them. Well I was taking care of my death pile when I finally decided what the hell. They all immediately gained a lot of attention with views and watchers. This was the first pair to sell for $19, and I sold another pair a few days afterwards for $35.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-California-Shores-Blue-and-Red-Swimming-Trunks-Cotton-Polyester-L-38-40-/302296526873?rd=1

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

I agree. Color is not a valid reason. And just for your information… Women and men see color differently. [I have posted a longer post here before about how the brain and eyes see and translate color you can research if interested]. But suffice it to see that the color gene is recessive in women and only about .4% will be color deficient and then only in the yellow / blue spectrum. Men have the dominant gene and about 8% to 10% will be dieficeint and then in the red/green range. So with just this info alone you have a good argument as to why someone saying that the color is slightly off shade or not as they see it on their monitor is reason enough for them to side with you.

Then lastly when was the last time the customer had their monitor offcially color calibrated by a color technician using the proper instruments. And who is to say that the customer or thier kids have not played with the color adjutments under the lip edge of the monitor.

so I think you are well in the clear as far as fearing any negative feedback or problems about color being an issue. 🙂

mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta

[Ryanne]

i love all the adjustments you can make now in the ebay photo editor, especially because a lot of us are just using our phones to take photos through the app. we’re not even saving the photos or editing them on the phone’s software, it’s all directly through the ebay app. but i would like to be able to adjust the color temperature when items look too blue or too yellow depending on how the phone interpreted the color of the item. the iphone i’m using for photos seems to hate blue or red objects and the color is never quite as it is in person.

[Linda Shields]

I love this idea. May I also add How to repair things? If I had a YouTube channel I would do demos on how to repair things for reselling. One of my favorite things which I use often is repairing small ugly white chips in porcelain items. I use crafting ink pads (the kind used for rubber stamps) and I have a few different basic colors. Use a cotton swab to apply ink from the pad onto the white chip to blend it in with the surrounding color. You can blend brown and yellow to make orange or blue and green to make aqua for example. Rub the colors in with a tissue and repeat until it doesn’t show. Be sure to mention it in your listing and take a photo of “touched up chip”, but when it doesn’t show people don’t really care. And of course I use permanent felt tip markers to repair small odd spots on leather purses or shoes when they are colors that are easy to match.

[omfug]

some of my sales from the last week or so:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/514749329/antique-edwardian-black-silk-beaver?ref=shop_home_active_7

bought at a local auction for $25, sold for $95

https://www.etsy.com/listing/482221070/antique-opal-and-blue-gemstone-princess?ref=shop_home_active_12

bought for $60 all in at a local auction, sold for $125

https://www.etsy.com/listing/279926514/1970s-salton-hotray-food-warming?ref=shop_home_active_3

Thrift store find for $5, sold for $30

https://www.etsy.com/listing/502023436/green-yellow-swirl-creamed-spinach?ref=shop_home_active_17

part of a jobber lot from an online auction, cost was about $10, sold for $55

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Give this a try. On anything “unglazed” [which is probably bisque] or any surface as a matter of fact, try Benzine [that is lighter fluid]. It has a high “Flash” point, which means it evaporates extremely quick. Use a cotton T-shirt piece of rag, soak a small spot on the torn rag piece of cotton and try that. Do a small section at a time and as you do the areas, just blow on the area and the Benzine will flash off in half a second. This way you won’t be leaving anything on the surface to “soak into” the porus surface. Things like “Goo Gone” or “Goof Off” will have a petroleum base, which is oily, and those oils will start to soak in and cause slight staining.

Depending on the time you take on the item, you will have to keep wetting the cloth due to the fact the Benzine will keep flashing off quickly, so you have to keep re-wetting the cloth.

We use Benzine all the time. We usually buy 2 or 3 cans of it when we go grocery shopping. We sometimes will wet a large area and wipe off a whole piece to get the yellow, sticky haze from a cigareete smokers house. Kitchen items that has years of cooking grease coating a whole piece will clean up nicely and the colors come to life.

We use Ronson Brand, in the yellow and blue can. That seems to be the purest of them. BTW Benzine was used for many years as “Dry Cleaning Fluid” at your cleaners. If you are going to be using a whole can on a large object, we suggest opening a window or having a small fan for ventilation [unless you are a child of the sixties and like the “Buzz”.. LOL :-)]. But point it away from the piece and your rag. Remember it flashes off very quickly.

Give it a try in a small test area first and if works, then have at it !!!

mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta

• This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by MDC Galleries & Fine Art.

[michael d]

crystalachey,

Not a bad system, and it works for you so that is really all that matters. I think the problem would start when you add a helper..or even two helpers.

What if the top has two primary colors, or it has no primary colors but equally shares four colors? What if its color is Burnt Peach, Bluish/Green or Greenish/Blue, Taupe or whatever other crazy colors people label some of their clothing. Then it can be interpreted differently by each person listing and pulling.

The other problem I have is space. Let’s say black is the primary color of most of your tops and bottoms (Your store is now up to 8k items) you now have boxes and boxes stacked up and marked black 1-80 but you have an entire empty section near the solo Yellow Top Size Small Box and the Green Top Size XXL. You can move black boxes over to the under utilized sections but, this will complicate pulling black items as they are now in two or three different locations.

You are limiting your options by not utilizing the empty space in each box. It may not be a problem now, I am not sure what your available space or items listed hover around. But, as you grow you will want to squeeze every drop of space out of your current storage configuration before being forced to expand your storage. Trust me I went from rec room storage to single car garage, two car garage and a basement, 1.5k sqft office and now I am in a 3k sqft warehouse and still running out of space.

Ultimately, go with what works best for you, each time I changed my storage area I had to completely retool my storage methods. I am hoping this plan and space holds me for awhile longer.

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Hey Retro Treasures WV – I do have some information for you but first I would like to use this reply as an example of why I think the “NEW FORUM” format will be such a great thing. For years I have flagged and color coded many of the SL posts. Blue for questions, yellow for answers and green for very note worthy.. I then have saved all of them in my MS Outlook program which is where I have all of my RSS Feeds directed to that come from SL. This way they are all searchable for my use. I have thousands of topics and replies flagged. Then whenever I need to research something that has been said here on SL I use the MS Search function and bingo up pops the information from past SL episodes and posts.
The topic of a “Forum” has been touched on for a long while and now thanks to J&R it is a reality. No longer will I have to flag thousands of things I find important just to be able to search for them
But here is the short comings for just the short term near future. We don’t have a large volume of data posted in the new forum format. So I still will keep my searchable folders just to be able to answer question such as this. The problem is I can tell you the Episode and date but the whole thread and discussions are on my rig. So you will have to go and search here at SL for the dates below and find the replies in those Episodes Comments.

Hope you can get to the information easily and quickly. If not, let me know and I can open up those episodes in a heart beat, copy and paste the discussions and threads back to here.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta

This is what popped up when I entered “ozone” as a search term. These are just the headings shown in my Outlook, but if I click on any one of them, I get the full conversation about removing smells from inventory items.

From Subject Received Size Categories In Folder
Mark S Well, you know my answer for this: Ozone generator… 10/25/2015 9 KB Scavengerlife Saved Tips
Mark S Wayne: It might work with books, but you would hav… 7/18/2015 10 KB Scavengerlife Saved Tips
Kate Here’s some more government information about … 7/18/2015 10 KB Scavengerlife Saved Tips
Kate The EPA notes that ozone reacts with (and gets rid… 7/18/2015 9 KB Scavengerlife Saved Tips
Mark S My link didn’t work. It is http://www.forevero… 7/17/2015 8 KB Scavengerlife Saved Tips

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

See you are up. What time do you guys usually get? I try to be up around 6-6:30 and in my office by 7.

Question.. You say you are moving all of the “former” comments over to here. Are going to try to categorize them according to the topics you already have set up. I mentioned a few weeks back in a post that I have subscribed to the RSS Feeds through Outlook. Then this menas they are saved “offline”. Then I use my Outlook categories to segregate them. Blue flag for questions, green flag for answers, Red flag as very important and yellow for need to keep this. Then after a thread is dead at the end of a few weeks, I delete everything not flagged, the balance is saved. Those then are searchable within Outlook. I have about 3,000 comments saved [can you believe that], anyway. Now when you guys bring all those comments over.. are they just going to be posted by date, chronologically or are you going to do searches on them and try to find those that match certain key words and place them by topic. Just curious as to how you were going to do all the old posts. If you do that, then that will mean I can probably delete all of my thousands of saved RSS Feeds from SL and clear up some HD space. Mike in Atlanta