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Art Supplies do sell when. Good brands that is. We sold a set of Grumbacher soft pastels for $125 about 6 months ago. Left over from my art school days also. Never used pastels that much, just acrylic paint. But also still have some technical ink pens, pencils and charcoal items to be listed. Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Yes, do as Ryanne says, check out FedEx. Think what you are running into is “DIM WEIGHT” issues. [that is dimensional weight. USPS has I believe an 84″ cut-off before the rates jump way up. That is the total distance around the “girth” [thickest part of the package plus the length added to that. If over 84″ , bam high costs. BUT FedEx I believe goes up to 108″ so that results in a much lower cost.
One of our members here on SL has the FitShipper Tool. Great utility. Bookmark it and use it to help you in these borderline situations.
Link here: http://www.flippertools.com/fitShipperListing/Also check out his other tools. He has one that you put in your dimension and it will tell you the best size box to use and also which is cheapest way to ship. Gives dozens of options per item shipped. mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Thanks AmazingTaste .. Wife and I are definitely going to do so. She has already switched over to using “props” and taking great photos with added embellished items to help curate the item’s image. That way we can still use the photos for both venues. We include a fine print line in the description area that says the props are for demo.-photography purposes only and are not included.
We have also now got our own domain name and are going to build our own website that will not rely on Ebay or any other venue. We will then build and drive traffic directly to it by way of organic traffic, links, SEO and a couple of other connections. I did this for our home remodeling and insulation business and it worked, so why not for our vintage store. mike @ MDC Galleries in Atlanta
I agree with Ryanne and imjosh but also check this first. This depends on your seller status, but with TRS plus our discount is so much that in almost every case we ship, our cost for USPS 2 Day Priority is less than regular Parcel Post or any Flat rates. So, depending on the size and weight, use one of the “Shipping Calculators” and see what your cost would be first. And also if Priority is just chump change more, just do it any way and eat the few cents. .. Mike @ MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Yep… That is exactly what I was talking about as I saw the replies getting narrower as more replies came in. Think it is due to the CSS not being what is called “Responsive”, but seems like you know and have the code. Good call and hopefully Ryann and her tech guy can get the code in place. mike in Atlanta
Hi.. Yes, I have done it for years. But here are a few tips. Due to the heat which creates static electricity doing a few things will make it almost trouble free. First only load a small amount of sheets at a time. When slow I only load 10 sheets, when busy 15 or 20. The reason that as sheets are pulled through the printer, the label front coating is very prone to static build up and at times will cause two sheets to stick together. Then either they both go all the way through and you waste a sheet because it prints on parts of both sheets or it jabs.
I run all 10 shts. through using only one end and let the sheets pile up in my top catch area. Then after those 10 shts have been used, I flip the around and use the other side. After they have gone through the “hot” printer once, they don’t slide apart very easily, so when you put them back in, fan them apart and blow some air in between the shts. prior to putting them into the printer.
In other words keep the sheets “fluffy”, loosely separated as much as possible by blowing between them and fanning them. If not, you will find that many times 2, 3 or more shts start to stick and pull multiple shts behind them through the printer at the same time.
The full half sheet labels are worse about this. The slightly smaller labels with a small border around them leaves a thin matrix on the sheet and this acts as a spacer and keeps the sheets from sticking as bad. Some people find that the matrix sticks inside the printer. though I never had this problem. I am going back to the smaller labels [2 on a sheets] with rounded corners after I am finished with the full half sheet labels.
Hope this helps and is clear enough. mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Just hit your end key and you auto jump to the bottom of a thread. Hit your “Home” key and you jump to the top of the thread. That should do what you wish it to do. Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hey Retro.. I have asked this before but what about selling personal items you have had for years and have no idea what you originally paid for it and certainly don’t have a receipt for after 20 years. So taking your example of the $50 book sale, what would the COGS be?
My accountant didn’t seem to have a good, clear answer. I have researched and also nothing clear. Even called IRS and they couldn’t answer. I have several thousands of dollars of old personal items sold this year, so what about a COGS?
One source said to show the exact amount of the Sale, that way you don’t owe any tax and the IRS doesn’t owe you anything. An even wipe so to speak. Another source said to only take 50% of the Sale Price as a COGS sold. That way the IRS gets some tax and you get some deduction benefit. mike in Atl.
Never mind.. the Edit Tab has re-appeared. oh well. Very interesting stuff the last few days.
Just working things out. I am coming along. Got new name, new photo up from Gravtar. I did notice that the “Edit” tab is gone from the upper right area.
For Ryanne, when you change to a bigger and bolder font, don’t forget to create a slightly light grey background. About a 5% tint into the white will make the type face not “Vibrate” and be more stable to the human eye. This was covered in more detail in that article I sent you a link to, but I know you are swapped. Swamped is maybe not the word, try “buried alive”!! mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Yes Brian… The “b” button in the Reply box area, does convert our replies to the HTML Code , which is HTML coding for “BOLD”. Good discovery. mc in atl.
Yep.. I agree with Brian. Looks much better. And as a test I just typed this reply and clicked the “b” tab. Guess for Bold. It into an HTML code in. It is called . So going to see if my reply shows bold as yours. mike in Atl.
Hey Lee.. Down in the Atlanta area we got about $2.80 per square foot of roof line area [not SF of building floor area] for 2″ of “CLOSED CELL” foam. That was about 4 years ago. This may be different now due to the increase in construction. Many new homes are being built here around Atlanta using foam. Open Cell foam for residential, wood construction and Closed Cell for Metal. Residential I was doing about $1.75 per SQ foot for 5-1/2″ of Open Cell. It expands higher due to the porosity of the foam. Closed cell is like a styro-foam cooler-harder. Open is like a foam pillow, softer and squishy.
The further north you go, the thicker it has to be applied in various climes. It is priced by the board foot. 12″ x 12″ x1″ thick. So if you need 2-1/2″ inches it will be more per SF.J&R will probably have to get an estimate from someone out from the DC area. Not just anybody can spray foam. Very expensive rigs [trucks or large Trailers]. Our rig cost us $150,000. You need to be certified to spray foam. But what great stuff. On HGTV Mike Holmes on Holmes on Homes.. loves foam for almost every remodel he does. Especially underneath over the garage bonus rooms. It makes the room livable.
In a metal building also, the corrugation adds to the material consumption somewhat. If you also want to do the walls, you need to add that SF into the total. So say a 1,000 SF slab building with a slight 3/12 pitched roof might have about 1,200 SF of Roofline and 4 walls of 10 high x 33= 330 SF per wall x 4 walls = 1,320 SF of wall coverage for a grand total of 2,820 SF over all x $2.80 per SF = approx. $7,896 +/- todays prices, material & labor changes in your area, etc. You would defiantely need to get an estimate from a local installer. But man oh man what a difference.
My old web site is still up, but not for long at http://www.sprayfoamandmore.com Go there and read all about foam, pay backs, technical stuff and many FAQ’s. Not a fancy site but contains years of data on the subject.
Good luck and stay warm … mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta.
P.S. by the way, I love Vintage reselling way more than I did the remodeling and insulation business. But I did love the art and printing business for 35 years. 🙂
That did it and it changed it universally also. Cool. Now to work on my “Gravatar” image. And yep.. the replies are flushing right and extending down. See that you have that on the list to fix. Boy, you guys sure are gluten’s for extra work loads. But you are young and just think, when you are in your late 40’s or 50’s you may be fully retired and just laying back. mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
