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04/25/2017 at 4:39 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 307: Getting Ready to Sell While Traveling #17066
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
I agree with HabNab. I have never seen any paint by number that varies from having the customer diverge outside of a straight outline of the color areas being applied. Not to say the users can’t try to blend a little but usually not.
On a side note, in order to get the design that one follows onto the panel it usually has to be screen printed onto large flat pieces of canvass that are held down on a perforated vacuum table and held into place by vacuum as the workers draws the squeegee across the canvas and prints the image. Then these canvass panels are cut up, stretch wrapped around the stiff board and glued. The same way the blank ones are made you see in the art supply or Hobby stores.
In this case this is a thick 3-d dimensional piece it looks like. While we did 3-dimensional pieces at my plant it was a much more costly and slower process if done by regular screen printing and still more complex if run through our larger digital presses. Which would raise the cost of a flat panel to a very high piece cost.
So, I think it is a resign or plaster base unit and then either a free hand painted design [or maybe a transfer pattern of some sorts on top] with probably acrylic paints then dried. Don’t think there is much value there.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
04/14/2017 at 11:49 am in reply to: Make Buyer's Comments When Receiving a Best Offer Available After the Fact #16608Yes you are correct to a degree. Here is the last bullet point…
* “For listings in which the seller has specified shipping costs for the item, the Best Offer price includes only the listed item. For listings in which the shipping costs aren’t specified, the buyer can choose to include shipping costs in their offer.Also on the “Accept Offer” page it states acceptance of this offer is for the item only and does not include shipping.
I include my shipping costs on all my items or it’s free shipping, so we have no items that would allow for the buyer to try to include shipping. Now that I am thinking about it, how does a seller list something other than paid shipping or free shipping. Which means as stated above the only time they can negotiate shipping is when a charge for shipping is not stated by a seller. Kind of wierd to even say that, but if you do have shipping charges stated in your listing then trying to negotiate it or get it included is not allowed, which is all cases for us.Also by accepting that kind of an offer you have to go and alter the listing. Also Ebay makes money off of shipping charges. But those are other points.
Thanks for the Kudo and glad something I say at times may help others. Guess that is what the whole community is about.
mike at mdc galleries in atlanta
04/14/2017 at 9:06 am in reply to: Make Buyer's Comments When Receiving a Best Offer Available After the Fact #16594I always drop this line in any offer I get that states to include shipping in their offer.
Thanks for the offer and as a courteous reminder it is against Ebay policy to negotiate shipping terms in an “Offer”. See http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/best-offer.html. So how about 35% off at $49.99. Closer to a win-win. What do you say-A Deal? It’s a nice item.
If the offer doesn’t include free shipping. I just use the Following:
Appreciate interest & offer-Understand wanting a deep discount but 50% off at $25 on this specific item is a tad low-How about 25% off at $37.50-Us down $12.50 you up $12.50-Closer to a win-win-What do you think-A Deal?And just for the record… we end up selling [as a guestimate] about 75% of our items that have offers sent to us. We decline about 80%-90% of the first low ball offers of anything lower than 45% less than our asking price, then we counter offer with the above and that usually results in about 75% or so in completed sales. If they decline our counter and come back with a counter-to the-counter we usually accept that which is usually at about 25%-30% off the original price. So we do convert a lot of the “offers we get” into sales.
The blank box as we see it, is not a “terms” section, it is a “Comments-Notes” section. We use it as an area to create your personal one on one mini auction with a potential buyer. Our dislike is that this area only allows 250 characters. So our only wish is they would make the area a little larger and allow a few more characters like to be used.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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04/07/2017 at 3:32 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Eyeglass cases, Prince guitar picks, Nodder mug, B&O phono cart, Vintage camera case #16210It is a big chunk of the monthly income but worth it if we can finish up all those remaining items. We have 776 active listings in our store but have about 400 to 500 more [we think]. If we can get to 1,500 in a few months I think the increases in Sales will make her payment easier. Also once caught up, we may be able to go it alone, but we just were not getting ahead with eliminating those death piles. We can’t make sales if we can’t get our merchandise in front of the customers. Inventory sitting in our garage is like a dept. store getting their orders in but leaving it sitting on the loading dock. Just wasted opportunity.
mike in atl.04/07/2017 at 3:18 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Eyeglass cases, Prince guitar picks, Nodder mug, B&O phono cart, Vintage camera case #16208Well color me informed :-). Thought it was just for our local Home Owners Assoc and surrounding neighborhoods.
Jay, FYI… I used NextDoor.com three weeks ago and advertised for a helper for us to get on through all of the old antique booth death piles. Found a young lady, she lives two blocks down from us, worked years ago as a paralegal, speed types and is doing about 10-15 hrs. a week for us. She just left and in 4 hours she got 19 listings done in WonderLister for us and saved in a “Ready for Review” folder. All I have to do is review what she has done and edit as needed, attach photos and price and schedule for upload within WL.
I think this is going to get us through all those tubs of small items we pulled out of those 6 booths. Hopefully we can get all caught up in 6 – 8 weeks. Then we will see where we go from there.
Thought this may be of interest to you guys.
Mike in Atlanta
04/07/2017 at 3:07 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Eyeglass cases, Prince guitar picks, Nodder mug, B&O phono cart, Vintage camera case #16205Oh, Now I see you are out of WA. Sorry about not looking at that. Guess I am like a lot of my own customers and don’t read the item specifics or description for all of the details before I jump into an email or post. Guess you are probably thousands of miles away.
Sorry about that mike in Atl.
04/07/2017 at 3:04 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Eyeglass cases, Prince guitar picks, Nodder mug, B&O phono cart, Vintage camera case #16204Good afternoon Beverly: Something in your post caught my eye. We too are subscribers to nextdoor.com. So I wonder, if Nextdoor.com is just a local thing, then are you in the NorthEast section of the Atlanta Metro area? Maybe NextDoor.com services sub-division all across the USA and your group is not local to mine. Our NextDoor.com encompasses about 15 to 16 neighborhoods that all adjoin each other in North Gwinnett County.
Just wondering if we are neighbors?mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Oh I agree with you Jay. I meant and maybe wasn’t clear, if you have your own web site and have to SEO it from scratch, you are your own web master, then it is a fairly in depth endeavor, that I feel needs a good amount of study to be good at it. But not just for Ebay and filling in the keywords in the categories. In that respect you are correct. Pretty easy is correct. And I agree about it being low on one’s to do list if listing needs to be done.
Back then, I like Linda states below, changed a few back then and never got back around to it. It is still on my old “to do” list and still I haven’t gotten back to it. At least it is just the categories and if one doesn’t have too many then should not take long.
Sorry I wasn’t clear about that.
mike in Atl.
Jay here is the link to your posts about Key Word use back in 2015 along with some links that hopefully will still work.
Hi-de-Ho Scavengers…
mike in AtlantaHey Jay.. Yes we did discuss it back on Friday 4/3/2015. I just searched and found it among all of the 2,500 or so discussion of my saved favorite and interesting topics of yours. If you can search back through the old archives you will find several posts / discussions of key word updating. You even have a link to some Ebay pages that Amazing Taste posted that has the “rules” sort of how to do it properly, not get caught in spamming, how to list them and also the answer to other peoples questions on how to do it correctly.
I gave up on the discussion back then because proper SEO is a fairly deep and somewhat complex subject as e-commerce has suggested in past posts and I agree. I spent several years taking SEO courses, using SEO Utility Tools, KW Ranking, while building a few web sites and studying how Google reacts to them. Also Googles Panda and Penguin changes to it’s algorythem’s roll out caught a lot of people using black hat tactics and got rid of millions of garbage web sites.
Also many peole don’t kow, but Googles “spiders” and “bots” crawl the web constantly and there is som much out there it takes Google months to get around to crawling a web site or changes to it’s content. Don’t expect to change some keywords and then go and look on Google to see if you appear. It doesn’t work that way.
It may take 2 to 3 months for Googles “spiders” and “bots” to even find your site and meta tags. Then it will analize it for content. Then “proper” content, then once found will start to post it in results. Then if it will start to look for fresh content, thus “changes” you make. Google likes to see changes to content it has found by you so you can get an Alexia Ranking. Then They will also look for spamming, repeated words, no relevant content and just on and on.
Knowing just tons more on SEO that is one reason I dropped out of the discussions years ago, because proper SEO, site building, and the logistics is something that just can’t be taught or explained in a forum post.
As E-commerce is indicating between the lines, before making too many strong statements about SEO, I suggest that if interested you make yourself a student of it. Maybe take a class at a local community college or better still, pay some one to optimize your own domain web site.
It is a whole topic unto itself. This is one reason I have not proceeded with my Shopify Store as of yet. I own my own domain name and have it parked. But to go live with owns own web site you need to speed a lot of time and have the knowledge to drive your own traffic to your store, then convert it. It will take a lot of upfront work, then constant working your store by writing new, and relevant content almost daily. I am too old now and choose to work within the confines of Ebay’s infrastructure.I use Ebay because that SEO is already being done for me, but it is still Ebay’s traffic not mine. Ebay closes down, we all close down.
I think I will jump out for now.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
04/05/2017 at 4:56 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 304: Do a little bit today, then do a little bit tomorrow #16072Hey Linda.. All I found on our subscription databases are stock certificates with his and Fargo’s names on them. The certificates runn from around $100 up to $400 +/- but who knows, that may be because of the stock as much as the names or signatures. Also maybe even the stock certificate number. But no signed photos. i will check again later and see if maybe different key words will bring up something.
mike in Atl.
Think you just discovered “DIM Weight”. It is not so much the weight as it is the size. 15x15x8= 1,800 cubic inches. The USPS regular Rates usually apply to packages around 1,725 +/- cubic inches [somewhere around there]. After that there starts to be a “added costs” that applies to extra cubic inches and the actual weight.
Goggle Dimensional weight and you will get tons of stuff about it. We also have had several discussions here Ryanne, myself and others over the past several years about it. That is one reason USPS stopped making Box “C” size which Ryanne and I and others also horded tons of them before they quit making them.
12 x 12 x 12 is about the cut off point and the largest priority box USPS furnishes now. For you quickly, is there room enough for you to trim your box down enough to have it fall under the dim weight size? If so do it. If not then other carriers are a better bet.
Go to our SL friend at http://www.flippertools.com. his site is a great and useful tool that will allow you to select the proper size box for your item and also will show you the best carriers to use for the best price. Then box your item accordingly.
I like Ryanne and others can do my shipping wieghts by memory except when it starts getting close to the DIM Weight. Length is not the issue so much as the LxWxd. But also there is a cut off of Girth + Length and if over 108″ [I think] USPS won’t even take it. UPS even makes a beaded chain they will give you to use to measure with. It has a “Large Bead” on the chain that represents where their Dim. Weight kicks in. All Carriers have it, but each carriers numbers are different. Then if the girth plus the longest length is longer than the whole chain, then they won’t take it. The USPS web site has all of the correct dimensions for you. But 15x15x8 = 1,800 cubic inches is probably your problem.
So, hit Google, read about DIM Weights, Max. sizes for USPS and certainly use the “Flipper Tool site.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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Here ‘ya go. We have used this for several years. Just have to change the date each time. This shows the last date we used which was to go to visit daughter in Orlando this past Christmas. Made a bunch of Sales and two Canceled because they wanted quicker. Most just don’t see it in the listing because most people buy on their phones and don’t review the whole listing in the first place. So, this just reminds them.
Hope this helps
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta“Thank You” for your recent purchase.
As a courtesy reminder, in case you didn’t notice, that all items in our store are marked with an extended shipping / handling time, due to our scheduled vacation which started Dec. 19th, 2016. We will resume our shipping on or before Fri-Sat. Dec. 30th-31st +/-. The estimated time of arrival is calculated and posted in the listing.
If for some reason this does not work for you, let us know as soon as possible via Ebay Messages and request to cancel your order. We understand and will honor your request as quickly as we can. Once we have canceled, you in turn must also “Approve the Cancellation”.
If the stated delivery time is acceptable to you, no further action is required and we will ship upon our return.
Thank you for Supporting American Small Business.
Kindest Regards,
the team at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries & SmartParts Equipment divs.Shortcut.. you are most welcome, Glad to share knowledge. This is the only forum I would do so.
Here is a thought. Maybe a donation in your father’s name to an Aviation museum would be a thought. Forgo the dollars you may get in return for your dad’s name being displayed along with the piece and accompanying documentation.
I know there is a very large, an interesting museum at Fort Benning in my home town of Columbus, GA. But that is the Infrantry and Air Borne Museum. I am sure there must be an Air Force equivalent somewhere. Just a thought.Mike in Atlanta
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