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Unsure at first glace, but may I suggest you unscrew those two screws and see what you may find inside? It might be a home made item or DIY Clock Kit then they placed their own mark on the back. I had two friends once who made lots of clocks from parts and kits they bought and then assembled and then branded them under their own name. One lady worked from her home workshop and the other guy, he opened up a small mfg. facility and had 3 people that worked for him and assembled the components for his own designs.
So who knows.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
See if this is it. Link is below but don’t know if you can see it, but maybe but unsure if online price will show, so copied it below.
Here is a link if you can see the pictures. Seems very close.
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/mens-large-blue-nike-clemson-tigers-1786262676Men’s L large blue Nike Clemson Tigers pullover rain sideline jacket windbreaker
Sold for: $23.50 Item Category: Sports Source: eBay
Sold Date: Oct 23, 2015Excellent condition, men’s size L Clemson pullover wind/rain sideline jacket by Nike. Blue with orange accents, zip-open mesh ventilation on front, knit neckline, and paw print and swoosh logos on chest. Measures 27″ across the chest, 31″ long, and sleeves are 36″ long from the middle of the neck to the tip of the sleeve.
Hey…
go to easyauctiontracker.com
It is a spread sheet built on Macros and does everything you have there but does it automatically by pulling in everything from Ebay. All you will have to do is input a small amount of data into the “Inventory” tab. Min. data you could use, is what you paid and a sku number. But just a little bit more info. like date bought, where bought, quantity and short description makes for a better report.
Calculates all the details without having to manually input all of the stuff. Just some basics.
Couple of other members here use it. Personally as you guys know, I like a more robust system like WonderLister or SixBit, but still with a small amount of input, these programs rock and roll, but are for a PC. But since you are doing an Excel SS I am assuming that you are on a PC.
Look at the screen shots to get an idea.
mike in atlanta
Good Morning CT Lady. Did a search on one of the databases we subscribe to and found some information for you, see below.
Yes, find out how many pieces are in the set and what the distribution of pieces are, salad plates, bowls, dinner plates. You can see partials and larger set prices below.
And yep.. they are certainly a BOLO at the right price. Colors do matter.Also as I have mentioned before paid databases are a better source for historical prices, in our opinion. While we still look at Ebay – Etsy solds, they are usually the last place we look. Too many Ebay sellers don’t do their research and many times underprice their items and of course they sell them. I see some of those Etsy prices you list at $14 to $28$ dollars. We would quadruple those prices and go from there working backwards through make an offer [like Ryanne does] and using various, short weekly sales. But again just an opinion on here.
* Block Chromatics Red Lavender Lot Of 43 Germany Dinnerware Set Bowl Plat… Block Chromatics Red Lavender Lot Of 43 Germany Dinnerware Set Bowl Plat Sold for: $408.00 Source: eBay Sold Date: Apr 01, 2016
* Large Lot Pink-Lavendar Block Chromatics Dinnerware, Germany Large Lot Pink-Lavendar Block Chromatics Dinnerware, Germany Sold for: $389.00 Source: eBay Sold Date: Jun 07, 2015
* Block Chromatics 43 piece Modern Dish Set – Gold/Brown Block Chromatics 43 Piece Modern Dish Set – Gold/Brown Sold for: $360.00 Source: eBay Sold Date: Nov 08, 2010
* Block China Chromatics Red-Lavender Set-4+settings Rare Block China Chromatics Red-Lavender Set-4+Settings Rare Sold for: $300.56 Source: eBay Sold Date: Nov 20, 2007
* Block Chromatics Coffee Mugs Red Lavender Block Chromatics Coffee Mugs Red Lavender Sold for: $235.49 Source: eBay Sold Date: Oct 15, 2013
* Block Chromatics Bowls Red Lavender Block Chromatics Bowls Red Lavender Sold for: $213.99 Source: eBay Sold Date: Oct 13, 2013
* 6 Block Chromatics Germany Vintage 70s Red / Lavender Dinner Plates 6 Block Chromatics Germany Vintage 70S Red / Lavender Dinner Plates Sold for: $203.94 Source: eBay Sold Date: Oct 13, 2013
* Block Chromatics Salad Plates Red Lavender Block Chromatics Salad Plates Red Lavender Sold for: $200.00 Source: eBay Sold Date: Oct 13, 2013
* Vintage Block Chromatics Germany Dish Set Plate Cup Vintage Block Chromatics Germany Dish Set Plate Cup Sold for: $154.00 Source: eBay Sold Date: Aug 07, 2008Hope this helps,
mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaI hope so too for you Retro TWV. But many times blurriness and seemingly slightly out of focus comes from slight movement of the lens. And this in turn usually comes from a slower shutter speed or wider aperture opening or both, trying to let in more light due to low light or under lighted conditions. The slower shutter speed is trying to let in more light by staying open longer and the aperture setting is allowing the shutter to open up wider. Even automatic point and shoot cameras and phones need light and in turn will automatically compensate by slowing the shutter speed down, so it stays open longer to let that needed light in and also pulls the shutter open as far as it can go. A bad side effect of this compensating slowness an opening size is just the slightest movement of your hand, body or even pressure pushing the release button or your breathing can cause a little movement and that in turn creates some blurriness as well as can cause a depth of field issue which may focus on far objects and not closer up details.
My point is, I checked out the light box listing. No where does it state the output of the LED lights in Wattage or Kelvin readings anywhere. So depending on that factor you could possibly end up with the same issue. That is why I would recommend a translucent light box with the LED lights, but you can also ADD extra lighting if you need it by shining some extra light from your current bulbs to bump up the light factor so your camera will open and close the shutter faster and also not open it as wide.
One way to help this is to use a tri-pod and a shutter release cable which will eliminate most of your movement but I find that cumbersome and slows us down. So more light and brighter lite is required. We use 4 – 500 watt out put range flourescent bulbs, two per stand. But I find this is not enough for our satisfaction.
I like the model you are buying because of the size. 24″ x 24″ x 24″is a great size. We have one we never use due to the size limitations.
Also we still use our DSL camera in manual mode instead of automatic mode because I can change the shutter speed and aperture setting on each shot I take and can do it on the fly with my right little finger as I point and shoot. BUT with any camera if you are shooting below 1/80th of a second you will be prone to movement thus blur without a tripod. Actually 1/125th of a second is best to have real sharp pictures. BUT in order to get this speed you must have brighter lighting surrounding your object so your camera or phone does not slow the shutter speed down to compensate for lack of light.
Lighter backdrops help because they bounce more light back at the lens and the lens adjust for that and while open and close faster. Darker colors like browns [wood floors], dark blues, and black absorb light and thus less light is reflected back and again the lens opens wider and slows down. But we do use these colors on occasion to showcase crystal / glass objects better, the facets and etchings in glass show better when they pick up some dark color close to them, but we have to make compensating factors in our lighting and camera settings.
Now this is not intended to be a “lesson” on advanced photography, nor is it all inclusive and comprehensive, but hopefully sheds some “light” 🙂 LOL on helping to improve ones product shots.
Interested in your follow-up feedback on how well this new light box does for you.
respectfully Submitted,
mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaHey Jay: Funny thing came to mind after reading your response(s).
To quote from the movie “War Games”:
>>> Comment from WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war and after running through a series of possible nuclear first strike and response scenarios says, “There is no winner in this game. The only proper response is not to play! How about a nice game of Tic Tac Toe Dr. Falken!”
LOL 🙂 mike in Atlanta
I signed up for Hassel Free Returns a good while back. Makes things a lot easier and we can still apply our 20% restocking fee if we wish and also not offer to pay for return shipping. These all depend of your preference settings and also the circumstances.
Also had a “please Cancel” request yesterday for $35 and again today for $104.00 both saying “Sorry, my kids were playing with my phone”. Which is bunk.
I have a whole folder of Word Documents that I click, copy and paste as a reply. Even though we have hassle free returns, I have special comments that I reply with.
In these cases the snippet we paste in the reply box contains, a lower price Offer since we all can use the Make an Offer in the Reply to customers, but also we state that we are seriously committed to customer safety with regards to account security and strongly advise them to change their Ebay and PayPal credentials, since obviously their children now have access User ID, their password for both Ebay and PayPal, and God forbid the kids do it again and charge a $1,000 order.
Kind of let’s them know in a sly way that we really know that the kids didn’t really do it. And then we end with saying hopefully the lower offer will prompt a purchase and we hope to see thier order come through in the near future.
Now we don’t type all of this each time. We have, as I said Word documents that we just have to edit a few words or a line and its good to go. We have one for requests to cancel, how do you pack items, requests for information that is already contained in the description or item specifics and so forth.
Just a tip.
But don’t you just hate the “my kids did it excuse”!!
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hi Simon: This has been stated several times on SL both in the old blog and new forum. By me, my accountant and other members.BUT get ready, there are a couple of members who have a strong financial background who oppose this method and have good reasons why, and offered them in rebutal to this seemingly simple method.
I have provided these numbers for my CPA for many years and he is good with it but just so have a heads up, be prepared for the rebuttals that will be forth coming, just like I had.
If you are interested, this new Forum format is “searchable” and I invite you to search for Cost of Goods, COGS and the like and you will see many opinions and comments on this topic mostly in the “Doing Taxes” Topic that Jay set up just for these discussions. Take a look, a lot of comments there.
Good Luck…
Mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaYep.. Example at an auction Friday night. We did a preview earlier in the afternoon and while digging around saw an original case with Eldan marked on it. Open the case up and it was a double layered box of which only the top layer had content in it. Guess what, because of SL and creating our BOLO list and remembering, it contained 44 pcs [partial set] of Eldan Stainless “Canoe Muffin” pattern of spoons, forks and specialty pcs. Won the auction as a second bidder at $7.50 and estimate the chest will go for around $5 a pc. x 42 ++ = $200 plus dollars. We also did the same for some Disney character drawer pulls. Box of 20 pulls of Winnie the Pooh that will list at $10 each=$200 and got the whole box for $5.00.
It is things that you learn like this from just going back and reading through what everybody has sold over the past several years and you will build your mental BOLO list.
On Sat. we sat through another auction, higher end stuff, we had 17 items on our Want to Buy List and got out bid on all but one. But these were items that all would sell for hundreds of dollars but it had my cut off point because of what I knew I wanted to be my profit spread. We did get an Antique Victorian, Silver and glass pickle jar. Never been mentioned on SL but our databases all showed them have sold for $300-$350 dollars at about a 67% sell through ratio. We got it for $80. Smaller Margin Percentage wise than we usually get but higher dollar item so $80 will get us about $220 gross +/-. That’s all we got out of the 17 item list and it took 5 hours of sitting there. I swear, they had those special chairs that after 9:00 they automatically double in hardness. LOL..:-)So see, as Jay says, you just have to start, use your head and work at it. This is a job, just like anything else and it’s your business. I easily work at this 50 to 60 hours a week. But I do when I want, where I want, do it in my pajamas if I want, but you still have to put in your “quality time”.
You will find and hear on SL, over and over, what should I buy, where do I buy it, what should I pay for it, what should I charge for it, how do I clean it, how should I store it, even what is it. And the answers are at your finger tips, most of the time, but you have to create lists, bookmark places and answers, archive articles, research other places other than Ebay Solds. I use Ebay almost as my last pricing source, but we do pay for outside databases that give me tons more data, so that is a cost of running a business. One especially for real antiques for the higher dollar items.
Good luck and hope to see your numbers posted someday and maybe I will include your “highest item Sold and selling price in my spread sheet database.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Well Steve the answer to this question is right at your finger tips. I did this about 4 or years ago and got a great list of things to look for [BOLO]. It also will give you what the approx. selling price is and also you can work backwards from that and decide about what you should pay for it, depending on what type of gross profit margins you are looking for.
This is what I did and what I encourage you to do.
First either take a piece of paper or create a simple spread sheet.
Next start with the recent what sold videos here on SL or look at each weeks posting of the members store data.
Next write down each item that each member reports that they sold and what they sold it for. In the posts you will see the highest priced item sold for that week and what it sold for.
Now write those down on your list or in your spread sheet.
Repeat this for one year, just like I did. After doing that I had a list of over 1,000 items that sold and what they sold for.Now J&R have made this task very simple because they have everything organized so well, you can start with this weeks podcast and work backwards. I bet in about a few days you will have a huge list also along with what they sell for. Now just divide that what sold for number by whatever profit margin you would like and that will give you an approx. price of what you should be paying.
Example if you see a stack of a certain type of flatware or knives listed and they sold for $80 and you would like to make at least 5 times your investment, then $80 / 5 = 16. So if you see anything that is the same item then you should pay $16 or less. And of course “less” is better.
So I have just given you a method for creating a 1,000 item list of what you should be on the lookout for. All you have to do is put in the hours to do the research to build your list.
After we built a list of over 1,000 we used to carry a print out of the SS with us, but we have it memorized now and don’t need it. And of course you will get many new items in each weeks podcast.
Bonus Tip: When you create your list and you start to find duplicates of the same item sold, which we did find, then just add that sold price to the first one you had and average the two SOLD PRICES to get and avg.
So put in the hours and due diligence and you have the worlds best BOLO list right here at SL at your finger tips. 🙂
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Thanks Retro WV: I usually do sales using MDM starting on Tues-Wed and end them on late Sunday night. You are correct the Sales do move items.
And since we worked through the end and relist and get the correct price back into the listing it really no bother to end or relist using WL or SB. Literally can be done in 20 secs. Drag a highlight over them, click end, then immediately hit relist. BUT you bring up a very good point and that is that mother Google does like things to be araound for awhile. The longer the better. It takes 2 or 3 months for her spiders and bots just to find and crawl stuff. Then the longer it sits they get to see it several times. BUT mother Google likes to see “fresh content” also. So to have Google pay attention and not abandon you, would one not need to go back to listings and write, new fresh copy, alter descriptions and titles to satisfy mother Google and have her not abandon crawling your site-listing? It also is a very grey cloud about how Google along with it’s Panda and Penguin algorythms are treating Ebay listings. That is a whole story about Ebay and Google which we will leave alone. But still with our stores hidden down line under Ebays main URL, is Google really paying any attention anyway.
I did an experiment about 6-8 months ago. I put a very crazy spelled word into the lower corner of a lot of listings just to see if it would be found by Google. It did for a few listings then after a while they started to drop and eventually sank into oblivion on Google. I can still find them but I know the word to type into the Google search bar.
But back to your point. Even though it is easy to relist, if it is just a waste, then why waste the time. Do as you say, just keep on doing the short sales and leave the rest alone. That way I won’t have any issues with WL or SB not relisting at the incorrect price.
Hey buddy, where were you 4 months ago. Maybe just going in this direction woulkd have saved me all that time screwing around with those software techie guys. LOL :-).
Anyway.. I am going to probably just drop the end / relist thing for now.Thanks ……
mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaJay.. Didn’t you get your Mac as a scavenger bargain? If so and you have used it for years it has used up the depreciation on it. Just dump it and get a suped up PC for $400 brand new and write it off again. Small investment for the productivity gained. If I was making what we want to be in our store, I would just buy you one and give it to you as an early Christmas present. :-). Fully people will buy a $700 phone, a $300 DSLR but not a new or used PCI. For the cost of a label printer you could have half the cost of a PC. And you noticed nobody took up my challenge a week ago to explain to me why a MAC out performs a PC to the extent that a MAC is worth paying 3 times the cost of a PC. I still think most MAC users just don’t know. BUt that’s an opinion guys.. don’t bombard me with why do I dislike MAC statements. I don’t, I just can’t see the benchmark results of how the MAC Chip set and motherboard out performs Intel nest Quad Core processors. The other items like keyboard, cooling fans, power supllies, bus slots, cards, periphs are all just about the same only the cost more.
Let me ask it this way, is buying and owning a MAC like buying a Coach purse? Is it just a status thing or does the Coach purse really outlast, outperform, is heavier material, thicker leather, thicker thread that is used to sew with, heavier metals used than say another “good brand purse”? [not a fake brand mind you]. Is it not just a status thing?
I don’t know, but this PC has run like a champ for 6 or 7 years and if anything goes wrong with it, I just pop off the cover, pull the part and replace. Most expensive thing may be the mother board or say the SSHD drive for about $80 bucks.Clue me in please from a technical side. I am probably just wasting time here but temptation to throw in the probe was worth a shot.
If I get beat up.. I will give before the fight starts.
Oh AT.. Want to mention to you. So far I found an interesting glitch in SixBit and it may be the killer for me right now. Be very careful that you don’t “force end” a listing while an item is on sale then “re-list it. [those of you that do the kill relist for all the reasons we have discussed here on SLF and won’t get back into] The reason is that SixBit will Relist the item at the discounted price and not revert back to your original price. I discovered this happening on WonderLister about 6 months ago and worked with their tech team and WL got it worked out. So I called into SB tech. support, they are aware of it but have not figured out how to get SB to stop doing it. They said that Mark Down Manager is real funcky and creates the proble. Also stated that Ebay is coming out with a new developer interface and API’s for developers very soon and they are hoping that the new internal upgrades will allow SixBit as a developer to fix the relist back at your original price.
Here is what can happen. You start an item that is listed at $20. Then put it on Sale for a week at 20% off. Then during this week, you see it is a candidate to force end the listing and re-list, when you do this, the item will be re-listed at $16 instead of the $20. Then if you just happen to not catch it and do this process again in a month or two, then it will be re-listed at $12.80. Again not back at the original $20. I discovered this in WonderLister, immediately brought it to their teams attention and we worked it out through a series of me creating and ending false sales until they got the coding right. Took about two weeks. BUT I found that SixBit has the same problem for the same reasons and they are aware of it but are going to wait. What this menas for the user is if you don’t catch this, like us, and do this numerous times, you will be selling items way less than you thought you had it listed at. I had to go back and re-list about 150 listings manually after I caught it in WL.
So just a heads up until they get this fixed in SB. They didn’t say exactly when Ebay was going to release the new codes for the developers.
Life just stays interesting doesn’t it.
Mike in Atlanta
Hi AT. As u are probably aware I am a WonderLister guy after having dumped TurboLister years ago. But I am currently using SixBit on it’s trial term. It is very similar to WonderLister so I was up and going in a day but was tweaking it for the next two.
BTW… WL & SB both are two guys who both used to work together for Ebay as developed the Blackthorn program for Ebay. Once Blackthorn went the way that TurboLister is going and Ebay started improving their own listing module the Blackthorn guys were out on their own. One group headed by John Slocum founded SixBit in 2005 and Chavi Rastogi started WonderLister.
I am just trying to figure out if SixBit brings enough to the table in the form of “Total Incentory” management than WonderLister to warrant the extra $10 per month in cost.
I agree, great photo editor built right in. I love the automatic SKU number creation and it also automatically creates a bar code for each listing. This can be used for item labeling or for pick sheets for sold items. Not that we need all of that for our 765 items and your 1500 items. But we do as you stated, I create a lot of listings by just doing a keyword search for an item, convert it to a template with one click, change a few specs to match the new item and send to “waiting to upload” folder. I usually send all of my created listings during the day to the Waiting to List folder, then at the end of the day, just click “Submit” and leave the office. In your case, all of the tons of listings you create will upload while you are aslepp and when you wake up they are all done. Guess we should mention their is no charge for bulk scheduled uploads.
I have even worked out a system 9on paper as of yet), where I can pre-determine which storage bin an item is going to go in without even having to take it out to the storage area. This way every item will have the storage bin no. on it prior to taking to storage then all we have to do is take the item to that bin and place it in. [Hint-it is based on scale weight and percentage of bin fullness by cubic capacity and total maximum cut off weight. But as stated, I haven’t got all the bugs worked out but may see if I can interest both WonderLister and SixBit in it for them to add to their program offerings.
Oh and I have heard from inside tech developement that SixBit is just about to release a new version that will also synch with Etsy. The big question is it going to cost extra or not??? In any case Wonderlister is $25 per month and SixBit is $34.95 per month. If J&R were to get a handle on this type of workFlow system, then 6-8,000 listings would be handle much quicker and the time saved could be used for other things.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
That is the way we understand it also. One thing that can be of a help is we have Parcel Post as a first shipping option. It is usually the least expensive and most customers just leave it at that. BUT, as a TRS Plus, we get such a large discount, we can ship 99.5% of the time less cost to us for Priority than the Parcel Post rates. And the Priority delivery time is 1-3 days tops, usually 1 & 2 days. So even if we, for some reason, didn’t get our package out, it is usually delivered two days early anyway. But we get up early most days and our packages are ready to go by the time of USPS. But in case we run late, we know our ladies so well and they both gave us their personal cell number, we just call them and they swing by for a late afternoon pickup before they head back to their home base USPS. How’s that for service. We always remember to give them both a Christmas gift card and sometimes during the year as a special thank you. In turn they will pick up any time we call if they are still out on there route.
Of note… We include a quick hand written note on the PL that says we upgraded your shipping to “Priority” at no additional cost to you. We have even gotten feedback that mentioned we did this for the customer.
Just a little trick to pass along if you are a TRS.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
