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Got you! But also for newer SL who did not get the old thread and list this may help with them to even know which company’s and names to be aware of to steer away from before they list. Bet there are companies on there that all of us may not know either. I am amazed every time I look over it.
Might even be a good list to a print hard copy and keep by one’s desk to just reference as they are listing to cross reference and then to work on alternative wording from the very beginning of a listing.
mike at MDCGFA
Ryanne check out this link.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-mustache-cup-with-built-in-strainer-teaThe page has a couple but the description on the mustache cup was strange but made sense.
I think the side rim is too low to support a brush with handle.
mike @ MDCGFA
@ Amatino: Yep.. the whole list has been posted on here way back when this topic came up before. When I last went to the Ebay link and printed out the complete list of the companies that are signed up for the VERO program it was about 3 to 4 pages and somewhere around 350 companies. And that was 5 or so years ago.
Kleenex = Tissue
Xerox = FacsimileHere is the Grand Link of all the links…
This takes you to the page that lists all VeRO companies and each company name links to the individual company’s VeRO policies / statements. It’s a bunch. Funny that a name like Delorean is still on the list even though the company itself has been defunct for decades.
As far as myself, Sigalinni a member on this site site alerted me to an Ebay seller who has copied our whole listing, including our company logo, our photos, our descriptions, our SKU and inventory numbers, everything and is using it on their site.
So when we talked to Ebay one rep said they would look into it but nothing happened. Then when we spoke to another rep and he found out we are a registered corporation in Georgia, he suggested we sign up for the Vero program, then send the Ebay seller who ripped us off an official Cease and Desist letter and then report them to Ebay through the Vero program. We are in the process of doing all this currently. Since we are a corporation we meet the requirement of proof but there is some complexity to the whole process. We are working on making sure our logo, company name and slogan are officially copyrighted and researching Ebay registration rules and the Trade Mark laws. Then we will use the Vero program to report “listing lifters” and “site thieves”.
Hey for what it’s worth..
mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art@Simon: We have had 2 VERO’s on Ebay over the last 3 or more years and one on Etsy. All three were taken down, we got a letter saying cease and informing us we were not authorized resellers of the products and got a notice from Ebay and Etsy.
John Deere are right up there with Velcro about there brand, photographing and showing their logo’s, using there wording, etc., etc.
As Jay has always said, their are those who have been caught and those who have not and just a matter of time. If they zero in on you and you have that many up and you get several in a short order of time, Ebay will react. Maybe as Amatino says try a mash-up of words like J.D. Tractor, or the world famous green and yellow tractor brand. etc.
Also make sure that you are showing an image of their equipment with the right color combination and in the right place. Some old toy tractors have been re-painted and if the exhaust pipe and sun canopy is not the right color, and the color sequence and background colors on the patches on their hat, they will get you also.
Just an FYI.
mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine ArtThanks Julie. I knew you were up around Rome from past convo’s with you. I Was hoping you would chime in. There are a couple of other members that are from the Atlanta area on SL.
We did do a router re-boot and reconnected all wireless devices and so far everything is running fine except Ebay / Seller Hub. Guess I will just give it a little while.
Thanks.
No access to Ebay Seller Hub down here in the Atlanta area. the “DownMap” shows a yellow circle in the Atlanta area. Yellow being the least severe outage. No Orange or Red in Georgia.
Is Ebay down for anybody else? We haven’t been able to access our Seller Hub for a few hours. Get a “Sorry, We Are Working on It” message. No shipping labels or order access.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
I agree with Mark. Any major carrier will prefer a packing list either inside the box or in a sealed Packing List plastic pocket stuck on the outside of the box in case the original shipping label gets damged, scuffed up, really wet, etc., etc. It is a safe guard against label damage and it is professional.
My larger printing company had to put packing lists into every box for our customers like Walmart, Home depot, Michelin Tires, General Electric, Seven Eleven, Taco Bell, KFC, etc. because they ordered so much from us that they use those packing lists to reconcile what was in the box or boxes from us, to match up to their copies of their Purchase Orders and to identify any back ordered items.
Now I know our buyers are not those types of companies, but that is the way the pros do it and as already stated, it is a safe guard back up system to label damage.
If you want to save money or time, as a former VP of Operations there are a ton of other ways to save a whole lot money than one slip of paper.
Also agree with Jay and a few google searches will eventually get you to a few scientific focus studies done that shows it does make a difference.
But, here is the BUT, that always changes for us because we run Sales all the time, anywhere form a 10% Off up to 30% to 35% Off. We run FLASH Sales for 5 to 7 days long and do that 2 to 3 times a month.
Every Store Wide Sale at a discounted amount will change your prices to almost every digit depending on the percentage of a discount or Sale you are running. So the last digits are a moot point, unless you are going to set your prices in stone, never change them and never run a Sale or offer a coupon, etc., etc.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art.
I agree with Almasty and yourself. The USPS is a greatly needed part of the infrastructure and not having them as a source, even if they increased the prices somewhat is still a resource for businesses large and small and very vital for the smaller online sellers.
I could weather the storm if they even raised prices a buck on each class. I have said here on the forum before, I would rather see them raise prices a dollar at a time every two or three years, rather than $.25 to $.45 once or twice [or more in years past] all the time.
Yeah.. I was taken back by the information I was finding. We all have klnown for a very long time that the USPS was skating on thin ice and could never seem to pull itself into the black, but they seemed to limp along in the red. Now that the Virus has hit I guess they are just overwhelmed.
But to look on the brigther side, I don’t see them going anywhere, for the time being with a $75 Billion bucket of monet throwrn at them, but I don’t see the USPS as a Chrysler Corp. and being able to begin operating in the black and ever getting to operating profitably. They never have in the past.
They would have to raise prices a whole lot and then try to compete and market with the bigger guys and they have never been able to do that in the past decades, especially with having 5 Committee Members from Congress on their board or whatever they have as a guiding body. No Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, or Money Sharks there.
They also have a fairly heavy pension / retirement plan to support.
This, just like everything else is going to be a wait and see how everything shakes out six months or longer down the road.
mike at MDCGFA in Atlanta
Hi Sharyn…
Don’t know what information is or is not shown to non-members so here is the complete listing. Maybe the description may have some usable content for you to gleen keywords from or the Ebay category is helpful to us at times.mike at mdcgfa
Home > Worthopedia® > Jewelry
PJS 14K Yellow Gold 8.7 mm Tahitian Pearl Diamond Ring Size: 7
Pricing & HistorySold for $108.01
Sold Date Sep 30, 2013
Source eBay
Worthpoint Category Jewelry
Original Category Jewelry & Watches : Vintage & Antique Jewelry : Fine : Retro, Vintage 1930s-1980s : RingsPJS 14K Yellow Gold 8.7 mm Tahitian Pearl Diamond Ring Size: 7 Ring gorgeously pairs a stunning 8.7 mm genuine Tahitian pearl with six diamonds of approx. 0.02 points each to create a style that’s simply stunning. Metal category: 14K YELLOW GOLD Stone Category: TAHITIAN PEARLS MM: 8.7 mm Total Diamond Weight: 0.12ct Hallmarks: 14K PJS On shank. Size: 7 Weight: 4 grams Comes in a lovely gift box ready to be gifted. I believe this is a Peter Jon Shemonsky’s creation, but Not 100% certain. There is a PJS signature is on the shank. View images and be the judge. Priced to sell, this beauty is not to be missed. Please check pictures for details. Take a moment to view and analyze each image as they are also a part of my description. Item pictured is the actual item you will receive. BUYER HAS 5 DAYS TO PAY OR ITEM IS RELISTED AND AN UNPAID ITEM CASE WILL BE OPENED! If you have any questions about this item, please feel free to contact us we will gladly respond. ATTENTION: No International shipping.. 14 day return policy ONLY if item does not match the listing description. PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE LEAVING NEGATIVE FEEDBA
I agree with Ryanne. A do it yourself slip mold made cup and hand glazed [painted] then fired. Probably from a public ceramic studio scenario like Ryanne mentions.
But to give credit where credit is due, the maker, even if a hobbyist, is a crafter. So i would use words like hand made by artisan, crafts person, hand signed and dated. It also is vintage, since Etsy declares anything over 20 years old is vintage and you have the date to prove it.
Also agree with Ryanne, who the crafts person is is not important and really adds no value.
Just an opinion on how we would do it.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
To bad it is a PO Box or maybe FedEx would have been less costly, but FedEx doesn’t take PO Box addresses.
I concure with Jay. But going forward, if you want the complete backing and protections of the GSP program, just stick with the countries that GSP covers. When we get requests through messages only if we ship here or there, my reply is we only ship to countries listed in the GSP program. Simple as that.
Makes it so much easier to have a standard SOP and stick to it. For us having a large list of SOP’s for most situations just takes the pressure off us, keeps us from getting into possible touchy situations, and the size of most Sales are just not worth the extra effort or potential issues.Just my opinion with only my first half of cup of coffee.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
Jay and Ryanne… Go check out Quicken for Home-Business and Rental Property. I think they have newly added web – mobile and Mac to its capabilities. Also, in the Business version it handles real estate rentals. Go to the highest version and dig into all the details and go through all the tabs and comparisons. The Business version runs us $99 per year BUT I think they have a 40% off for a certain period running right now.
This was my best bet short of going back to QuickBooks which was just to over blown for our level and costs $369 per year.
Quicken handles investments, has charts for cash flows, by day, week, month or any time period. Will handle equipment purchases, asset allocations, constant net worth, keep mortgage payments all auto downloaded, HELOC payments, all credit cards auto download, all bank accounts. Has a whole lot.
Yes, comes with a bit more of a learning to navigate curve but easier than QuickBooks which I used for years.
And if Quicken won’t give you everything, then QuickBooks is probably how you are going to have to go.
I never did buy into the GoDaddy thing after hearing about it here on SL and then checking it out. Never provide the in depth and thoroughness I was used to from QuickBooks.
There are not a lot of choices out there for higher level accounting software for the small business at a low cost. Some packages we used to use were in the thousands per year. Great Plains being one of them, then we went with a custom system. We tied into our whole company. time clocks, payroll, etc.
While Quicken does NOT have built in payroll, you do what I think you have been doing by keeping those funds in a separate account and create an account in Quicken. Keep using your payroll service as a standalone, etc.
I am not an accountant-bookkeeper by trade but some of the SL members are and they can maybe jump in. If your own personal CPA can’t advise you, give Mark Tews a call. Maybe it would be a good time to schedule him for another pod cast, but it is tax time for him. Most CPA’s prefer QuickBooks because Intuit makes a CPA Master Version and all they need to do is keep their Master updated each year and they can remote into any of their client’s books and make General Ledger entries or handle digital files. But again, I didn’t see the need for QuickBooks.
I think your big hurdle has been cloud-web based and for the Mac which I think, correct me if I am wrong, but it has a Mac version and Mobile is set-up and so is the cloud.
I just did a Synch a few minutes ago. Took about 60 seconds. Quicken pulled in 7 accounts, personal check, per. credit cards, business credit cards, PayPal updates, heloc data, petty cash data, rental history, up dated my business equipment assets & depreciation, investment update [ugghhh], our home inventory [belongings not Ebay inventory]. The eBay account comes in through PayPal and Etsy goes directly into the business checking account.
All of these have the expense or income accounts already assigned to them. That is an upfront teaching [set-up] you do just like you did in GDB, but once learned, you don’t have to do it again except for new accounts or vendors. Also pulled in my outstanding Invoices I have billed to a couple of vendors I do business with.
Does a lot, but as compared to GDB I think it does a whole lot more than GDB did, but I never went much past a few months with GDB.
So after all that downloading in about 60 to 90 seconds, I clicked to exit and it says one moment please, synching your Quicken data to the cloud, wait 10 seconds at most, Then said exit now, then I click exit. Done!
Just check it out and see if it is really the web-cloud thing you want and if it is now for a Mac and if so, maybe try it out. You must go somewhere now that GDB has fallen out of the picture.
Catch you guys later….
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
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