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I have a great answer for you. Go to this link… http://www.flippertools.com/
One of the SL members created a web site a good while back. He has several small apps built into this site. The Fit Shipper Calculator and the Fit Shipper for listing. Click on both of these and put in your dimensions and weight. His site will tell you which is the best way to ship your item, what is the best size box, which is the best carrier to use and what the cost is. You can either use the commercial rate which will be your Ebay discounted cost or not.
Keep this tool book marked and you will never have to ask your question again. If you don’t know where your item is going I usually use us zip code 67547 Kinsley, Kansas. That is the center of the United States and is equi-distant from all points north, south, east west.
My quick use of it says your wheel would go via FedEx at approx. $25 if you can get it into a customized [cut down or make your own box] of approx. 24″ x 24″ x 10″ ,+/-. But you experiment with it.
Good luck…
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Ok let’s try a different approach.
How about wine list and or menu covers. Hard covers with the center tie string is used to slip folded pages of a wine list or menu under so the customer can flip through the pages. But also allows the restaurant to be able to slide out single pages when they need to make changes. It saves on costs of making changes instead of having menues that are stapled at the spine, they need to make just a few changes, but have to throw out the whole menu because the pages don’t come out.Formerly being in the printing business pages are usually printed on both sides of a sheet, then trimmed, folded and collated together in sets. Then delivered to the customer. they in turn just grab a “set” of pre-collated pages and slide the stack under the center cord tie down. Printed pages are usually 11×17 then folded to 8 1/2″ x 11, or 17″x22″ and folded to 11×17 or printed 2 up on a sheet 24″x30″ then cut and folded at 12″x15″.
So that being said the hard menu covers would be about a half inch to an inch larger all around.
So, just a stab at it.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
I have a slide “viewer” also. Will be using it on 4 boxes of slides that I will be getting to after vacation. It holds a stack of 50 slides in a small stack on the right side. Press a button and it slides the bottom slide over under a magnified viewing area which is back lighted and you view it in the middle section screen. I plan to then photograph that image and hopefully use it. Press the button again and it pushes that slide over to the left and that viewed slide goes into the finished [viewed stack] and a new slide is pulled from the right side stack, then rinse and repeat for all 50 slides.
Tip. Make sure you use some dust off and blow all dust and lint out of the viewer and also use a wet wpe to clean all plastic or glass areas very well. Then it is best to also use a liquid slide cleaner [just wet a lint free wipe and rub between your thumb and finger to get both sides of the slide at the same time=I use my camera lens cleaner] and wipe each side of the slides for the best quality image.
I will see how this goes for us mid July.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Found a trunk emblem and they are flat on the back. But the later model trunk emblems sold in the $65 range also
mike at mdc in atl.
The square patch has a history in our databases of being sold at-around approx. $20 x 4 sales to a high of $34.99. So I would list it at around $48.95. That would leave room for a Sale of around 15% off plus another 15% for an even lower offer and you still wind up with the approx. $35 sold ones.
The round one, approx. $15.99 and would do the same as mentioned above. List at $22.50 to leave room for a sale and offer or a deep discount sale and / or offer.
As far as the 3-D emblem from what I can see in a few databases, I would venture to guess either a steering wheel logo emblem or some wheel center decoration emblems. A set of 4 emblems went for $60 but unsure if we are comparing apples for apples. But in any case, without knowing for sure, I would also bump that item up and allow for the above.
All of this though is just an “opinion”. And that my frined along with $.50 will get you half a cup of coffee. LOL 🙂
Hope this helps…
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries & Fine Art in AtlantaHey… I made an error on my comments. I didn’t get your later replies above “through my email”. I just came here to the forum and looked up your last comment. Sorry if you read my previous comment because it was incorrect.
My last email into outlook was yours sent this morning at 6:48 AM EST and one from “Beverly at Far Out and Fabulous at 10:57 AM EST. That’s been it all day.
Nothing else has been coming through into my email dashboard in Outlook but maybe due to the upcoming holiday no one is online or has anything to ask or say. But that would seem unusual for this bunch 🙂Sorry for the confusion…..
Later….mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hey T-Satt:
I wanted to make sure I got you the correct answer and it has been so long since I made the transition from TurboLIster to WonderLister. I went straight to the tech team to get it straight from the engineer’s mouth.
Here is the answer:
#1 Does WL retrieve any and all scheduled listings that are previously set up in Ebay scheduler and have not gone active yet at the time of setting-up and start-up of WonderLister?
ANSWER:>> A Definitive Yes!
#2 Will WL also retrieve [pull in] all of the drafts that have already been created within Ebay or will all of those have to be re-created from scratch in WL once a new subscriber gets signed up?
ANSWER: >> Not sure as there is no API to retrieve just the draft listings, so, guessing that drafts will get retrieved as part of normal import of other listings.So on the second question you will have to see. Personally I had templates set-up in Turbo-Lister and WL did pull those in as “inactive” listings but that was years ago.
Since transferring over to WL it has streamlined and changed my work flow so much that you will find a new way of doing things rather than how you may have been doing them inside of Ebay anyway.Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc
MDC Galleries & Fine ArtThat is what I was told during my last discussion with the WL Tech Team. We were discussing the Etsy interface and asked specifically if they would venture out with a date. They reply was “early fall” then later it was mentioned “Maybe even early Sept.”. So, that is not engraved in stone but at least something to hang our hats on.
P.S. Guys there was also some talk of by mid 2018 a Shopify interface “MAY” also be on the horizon. So I am looking forward to having my own store under our own domain name on the world wide web, our Ebay AND Etsy store all being run from one dashboard “command center”. Still don’t know how the financials are going to be separated but will know more as the project moves along and gets developed to a greater extent.
WL also had an Amazon Interface but the Tech Team said they saw all the problems with Amazon and Amazon jumping around with all the screwy changes long before everything started to hit the fan and WL gave up and abandoned that work. Instead they acellerated and refocused their R&D toward Etsy and Shopify. I know there was some BETA TEST stuff with Shopify in early Jan. 2017 and I think it may be well into the works of coding. I sure am keeping my fingers crossed on that achievement also.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
“Live to Create and Celebrate”Good Morning T-Satt:
I use Quicken Home & Business version. [Used to use QuickBooks for decades but now that I have sold off my other larger businesses and sort of retired – Ha-Ha] I no longer need all of the full functions of QB so Quicken is doing the job just fine, now that I have the Transactions Categories all set-up.
As you already know, Quicken pulls in everything from PayPal and assigns the categories automatically, but you do have to have “those categories” pre-set up in a “Category List”. Make sure you “classify and categorize the transactions” and Quicken will “remember” those in all future downloads. The only thing is they will not assign the category to individual sales because each of those transactions have a different name on them [the customers name] so each are one of a kind transactions as far as Quicken goes. So every week when I do my auto download from PayPal everything is auto filled in, except the sales. It is obvious which are Sales because the category name is blank and also u can see that the dollar amount is in the deposit column [money into your account]. All I do is hold down the control key [on a PC] and highlight each of those lines [each sale], then right click my mouse button and a drop down menu appears. click on “Assign Category” and then select Ebay Sales [which I already have set up in my Category – Chart of Accounts] and click enter. Then all of those Sales get assigned to the Ebay Sales category and I am done. So maybe less than 30 seconds to categorize any and all sales. Other than that all other transaction are automatically categorized according to my original set up of categories such as dining, inventory purchases, Ebay fees, Ebay shipping payments, and many others.
So check over your set-up and make sure you have set up all of the account category names you want to use and then as those show up in your down load they will be remembered after you assign the transaction to that category. This is just about how Go Daddy works also. Ryanne also has to do some first of the month work with GDB also, and I would guess it is to “assign transactions” as “Sales”, but just a guess.
Any way hope this helps speed up your work in Quicken.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Late to the Birthday Party. May you both have many, many more to come and that are all Happy and Healthy ones.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
and as our store logo slogan says “Live to Create and Celebrate!”Well that is probably a good reason for it. There are controls as to how often you want WL to update and synch with Ebay, but mine is set to synch every 15 seconds [I think]. So I get fresh information with regards to how many impressions, watchers, number of offers, immediate Sales records, PayPal amounts paid, cost of labels, Profit and Loss statement is updated every 15 seconds which of course requires WL to stay in constant contact with Ebay and PayPal. It is just a few seconds behind Ebay and in some cases [when Ebay is running slow] I even get information from WL before Ebay posts it.
Also I guess you know Ebay just doesn’t allow anyone to access there data. You have to have a “Key” to access it. SixBit and also WonderLister have access to Ebay’s data because they are a pre-approved partner with Ebay. In SixBIt you have to go through a total “key” authorization to allows SB to access your account and so do you when you do the initial set-up with WL. That has to be renewed I believe annually. I don’t know if these programs have to pay Ebay to acess all of this data on behalf of their subscriber customers. And if they do, this may also be a reason for some of the subscription fee. You are aware that TerraPeak is just Ebay 90 data on steroids and Ebay owns TerraPeak [or atleast used to, but think they still do]. If you want the data from Ebay for further back than 90 days, then you have to go to TerraPeak to see it. That is why I subscribe to “WorthPoint”. It gives me data more longer than a year ago. I know you have said you don’t see any value in data over a year old, but many times I have found only 3 or 4 sold items of some fairly rarer item that was sold 18 months ago and I only found it on WorthPoint, along with many times great descriptions, back ground data and keywords I can use.
On another WonderLister note, I have a User Folder set-up called Sold on Another Venue and every time a Sale is made on Bonanza, WL moves that item to my Sold Off Ebay folder and I click on it as a Bonanza Sale.
With the Etsy fall roll out all of the constant synching back and forth will also being done for that platform as well.
As for your two stores WL will keep track of all of this by separate accounts. 5 for us at the Silver level is allowed.
Here is also something I haven’t brought up before. I also have 4 consignors that I sell items for. WL keeps track of all of the items sold by each of these consignors by way of the Consignor Customer Code I have set-up. Each Consignor has an independent code. That is all I need to do is every item I list and upload I click on the name of the consignor. WL then keeps separate financial reports for each consignor. Creates a report for me showing all the fees, shipping costs, and what the percentage of split is. It creates a report I give to each consignor every month that shows what items are still active and listed, what items sold, and what the amount is that the consignor gets “AFTER” the expenses are subtracted.
Also WL keeps track of all of the sales in each state, what items are sold by state and of course I get a report of what the Sale and Use tax is a have to pay monthly for georgia. The user checks off which states they want to see the owe sales tax in. In your case you will check the box for W. Virginia [Ibelieve]. If congress ever passes some sort of internet law where we ahveto pay tax in every state we sell something in, this report will provide the amount for each state for you. [but let’s hope that never happens].
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Mile IQ hasn’t cost me a dime as of yet. Started it Jan. of this year. It gives you 40 “trips” per month for Free. As of yet we are only doing 2 or 3 trips to source per week and as such we have not gone over the 40 trips per month yet.
It sends us weekly reports to review and we have classified them and Mile IQ then remembers those trips to those addresses in the future. It has memorized every thrift store and auction house we go to by now, so we don’t even have to review those any longer. So we only see yard sales and personal trips. Swipe the screen left for personal after each drive. swipe right for business and tap the “yard Sale” category we set up. That’s all there s to it.
We also get a monthly report to print out if we wnat and then of course a yearly cumulative to date summary and finally a year end tax copy. The benefit there is every trip that has been classified by us like the auction houses and thrift store not only shows the mileage, it also has the dates, time, the stores name, address [location] included on each line item I know you see the benefit in that for the Tax man. :-). It is painless, seamless, and free up to this point. If we did more yard less then we would probably go over the 40 free trips. At that point I think it is $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year if paid annually. First time we start to hit 40 trips I will spring for the annual subscription.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Well you are going to love this.
But first a comment about the network. You have to remember that you desktop is your main rig. It is what WL is going to call your “server”. That means that the WL database resides on the C:// drive of your main desktop along with your photos. Your laptop is a satellite so to speak. While you will have a WL version installed on your laptop [that is what allows you to work on files independently on the laptop], the “stored data” that is accessed is in the main database on your desktop [acting as your server]. [[ think this may have what confused Jay when I talked about the server topic]].
Now this is no big issue… what you may love and I ceratinly do, is that by using a “remote Acess” app like “TeamViewer” you can drive hundreds of miles away, open up your laptop, start up the TeamViewer app and then access WL while on the road!! Now to those of you who use TeamViewer this is no surprise, but it allows me to continue to do my Ebay business from on the road through WL. The only thing you must do though is to leave your main desktop computer turned on while you are away. But we go visit my daughter in Orlando [we are in Atlanta] and I continue to do business the whole time I am away. The internet does not need to be turned on.
All I have to do is make sure that I do change my handling time as far as shipping sold items go.Also with TeamViewer you can also do a remote boot and start of your computer, but you just can’t turn it completely off. So if you need to reboot-restart for some reason, then do so and then TeanViewer will become live again after the restart of your desktop.
Now I know anybody can access Ebay and also do this directly in Ebay, but Ebay doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of WL.
In any case thought you might find this capability of interest.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
I also agree about paying your business. Our business is an entity unto itself just as an employee. With a good and proper COA [Chart of accounts] set up which we do], we have a line item called “Retained Earnigs” – OCRA “Operating Capital Reserve Account”. Guess you recognize those terms T-Satt. :-). In any case we make sure that those accounts get feed out of the gross income that comes from the Ebay Sales. We pay the business first before we pay ourselves. But in many cases we don’t pay ourselves “directly” but indirectly by running many things throguh our business as expenses and by doing such we don’t have those expenses in our personal lives that we have to [pay.
Examples, We use Mile IQ for mileage. We can then classify every trip we take as personal or business at the swipe of the phone screen. Well 90% of our driving is business. If we go to an auction or yard sale but need to stop along the way for a personal errand it is still a business deduction. All we did was stop for a few minutes.
Our cell phones are 90% for business so, the business pays for the cell phone bill. Our internet usage / cable is paid by the business because the only interneting we do other than listing research is just very minimal. We also take approx. 50% of all utility bills, mortgage and interest as business expense because half of our house square footage is 100% dedicated to business use. We also use toilet paper, paper plates, paper towels, toothpaste, soap detergent, magic erasers, Clorox, Lestol cleaner, Simple Green, steel wool, you name it as business expenses because we use this stuff all the time to clean, polish, wipe our inventory. So while we may not pay ourselves directly, we do have a much lower payments to have to make to live.
Now don’t get me wrong, we do have to use some of this stuff personally but we do take the deductions for only the part we use in the business.So yes, bills first, company needs second and then us last if anything left.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
