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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
03/15/2020 at 5:24 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 454: Being Frugal During A Global Pandemic #75140Jay 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.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
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03/15/2020 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 454: Being Frugal During A Global Pandemic #75137FYI… If you still have magazines, catelogues, user manuals, comic books, hard and soft cover books, YOU ARE NOT OUT of TOILET PAPER!! Duh! LMAO 🙂 🙂 🙂
mike @ mdcgfa
Yep was just going to state that but Sharyn beat me to it. Tenn. has a fairly long list of things in the clothing and food categories that are non-taxable.
mc @ mdcgfa
Oh Ryanne: Yep I think you should go and read through the link you set. About 4 or 5 posts down there is a running thread from a user JSC and the administrator Alexia. Read on down through it.seeing things like have to set a start date, some banks only allow 30 to 90 days, have to use .CSV imports into Excel then back to Wave, glitchy categorizations, manual monthly updates, Wave doesn’t treat PayPal as a bank so pulls in data differently, etc., etc.
Now that thread seems to go back into 2018, so maybe Wave has fixed itself, but from I had seens some time back when I was switching Wave just didn’t seem to grab my attention and I ruled it out along with Sage, FreshBooks, Mint and a few others. There really are not many out there that are really good at all the accounting requirements of a dbl entry professional level program for the small business owner on the cheap.
mike
Wave is also known for not integrating with many banks also. Only going back so far or being error prone. Complaints have been documented for some time about how Wave won’t synch with users bank accounts. Some banks I read even charge a fee to let Wave synch with them, but unsure on that.
It was not too long ago that wave was more of just an Invoicing platform for contractors to create and send invoices to their customers and accept payments against those invoices. But then they decided to gravitate into a receivable / payable system but unsure if it is a fully functional double entry bookkeeping and if so, then maybe being newer to it than Quicken and Quickbooks.Personally I have tried other apps when I was looking to go from QuickBooks full blown app to something less costly and involved. I couldn’t find much other than Quicken. I tried one app back then that pulled a bunch of garbage from PayPal and I dumped it due to the issues it had with PayPal. Even Quicken had a problem once long ago.
So be careful with all these apps that claim to be an accounting program as in real double entry [i.e. General Ledger with accompanying Journals for user entries] vs. glorified invoicing apps with some add ons for handling receivables.
Something else I observed, when I leave the word WAVE out or any other Brand name out of a google search and just search for best bookkeeping apps, top 10 accounting apps, etc., etc. Wave doesn’t seen to show up in most of them. But, many of the better apps have a charge associated with them. At some times, when you pay a little something you get a better program or support. With Quicken, I can call them right now and someone will answer within a minute or two and stay with me until finished. But haven’t needed help with accounting in a long time, since i cut my teeth 20 or so years ago with Great Plains accounting [big guns-high cost] in my printing company, then QuickBooks desk top when I started my other businesses.
Nothing more than just an opinion …
mike at mdcgfa
Timo: By the way. just an addendum to the above.
Usually tea cups with lids are used for steeping individual cups of tea and keeping the steam locked in. Hot water is poured into the cup, then a tea bag or a tea ball is placed in the water and the lid placed on top during the steeping process.
Also it is handy for moving the cup around to prevent spills and just to keep the tea hotter, longer.
Have fun and as Jay and Spock says: “Live Long and Prosper”
mike @ MDCGFAHi Timo: See if this helps any.
We use a couple of Asian character recognition sites for identifying Asian characters. One is ghanzi and the other is Nciku which you can get to by clicking on a link in the PinYin News [see links below].We use our mouse and draw in what we are seeing. The apps identify the nationality or the marks and translate what they say, in most cases.
Find Chinese characters online by drawing them with your mouse
This newsletter pinyin above explains about Nciku
https://www.qhanzi.com/
https://dict.naver.com/linedict/zhendict/dict.html#/cnen/homeThere are several others that pop up on a Google search for Asian character identification
Of course a Wiki search tells one all about crazing. What it is, why and how it happens. It is a flaw and devalues objects, but we still sell items with crazing but we always make sure we note it in the conditions area and in the description and classify it as heavy, light, or faint almost imperceptible with the unaided eye.
We use a 10x loupe on all our ceramic pieces looking for crazing.
Good luck
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine ArtThat’s what Susan said. She said that she always buys gifts for us with cash because i keep such a close eye on everything. I even have called her before and asked how her lunch was at the restaurant 5 minutes after she paid.
Don’t get me wrong, i don’t track Susan, it just so happened i was doing the numbers for the day and saw it pop in.
But you are right, if it was a gift for someone, bet she is not a happy camper now that I emailed her and asked why the dispute of the charge like Sharyn suggested.
BTW didn’t hear anything back from her-them after I sent the email inquiry.
Well Hi to you also.
This is copied from Worthpoint. No description present.
Pricing & History
Sold for $16.99
Sold Date Oct 26, 2016
Source eBay
Worthpoint Category Toys, Dolls, Games & Puzzles
Original Category Toys & Hobbies:Vintage & Antique Toys:Other Vintage & Antique ToysGood luck,
Mike at MDC Galleries and fine Art.
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