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Also notice that with each reply, the replies get Indented over to the right. If you have a long thread back and forth, is it going to just keep going to the right or will it “wrap” back to flush left and start again. My reply above is only about a inch or two wide and if it was long as I am prone, it would be a mile long. mc in atl.
Cool Beans [ saw someone else use that phrase. Must be a Southern Thing]. How do we get the Avatar to show as a photo. Went to the “Gravatar” link and read over but didn’t reigister. Is that how to do it? Seemed simple enough. mc in atl.
What about the “Handle” question. Since we can’t change our handle name, can we un-register and stop using that registration and name. Then re-register with a new name and it be our store name. Like get rid of Huncrelan [which you laughed at a few years back any way LOL :-)] and then my handle be MDC Galleries? mike in Atl.
Ryanne something for you and Jay to research. It will make a world of difference. Look into having the complete inside of that metal building spray foamed with “Closed Cell Foam”. Foam is 94% efficient as compared to only 32% efficient for fiberglass. Don’t worry about the “R-Factor”. Foam out performs fiberglass by 3 to 400 percent.
I had a spray foam business here in Atlanta right before retiring and going full time Ebay. We sprayed many metal buildings here in Atlanta. You guys will be way cooler and warmer during the seasons and your utility bills will be way less. If you are going to heat with wood or some alternative fuel, your work will be way less also. Yes , it costs more than fiberglass but the pay back is super fast and your comfort level will be so much better.
Just something to think about … mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Good mornig Ryanne: Just having coffee and your post here made me think of something. Google will crawl Forums and pick up pages to index. [see this short tid-bit link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/271467/how-search-engine-bots-crawl-forums%5D
If you guys get the internal pages set-up and link them up correctly, then the new pages to a thread will get crawled and indexed.
What is my point. Then if we all sign up using our domain or store names as our handle, each time we post and also include our store names in some threads about our new inventory purchases, then Google and other search engines will pick those up and help drive organic traffic to our stores. I think this is a good reason to maybe not use the Anon #1, Anon #2 if you have a store / business / or your own domain store.
So, with that being said, I know that our handles here can’t be changed. Then can we just stop using the handle we signed up with like “Huncrelan” amd re-register with a different name like our web sight domain name?
…. Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc., MDC Galleries and SmartParts EquipmentThanks Omfug.. So we have 676 current listings that would be $135 / 4 mo. = approx. $34 per month. At 1,500 items it would be $75 mo. [which is what our Premium Ebay store is]. So cheaper until we max out at 1500. Fees are about equal. Not bad.
Can we use cut and paste from Ebay Descriptions to at least speed that process up? Then of course without a synch, if we sell on one platform, then we have to manually end the listing n the other platform. At our sales levels, that would not be much more admin. work at all. Shipping we will figure that out I am sure without much problem.Thanks for the feedback … mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hey Omfug.. Mike in Atlanta here. Using an old handle as Huncrelan.
Wife and I discussing Etsy this whole weekend. Did some Google research. They seem to make it sound fairly simple. Are we correct, that we could actually post all of the items in the Etsy store if they are vintage [20 + years] and who knows how to dead on verify that? We are also assuming from what we are seeing that we could get all of our Ebay items synched or transferred over [by some method] without having to recreate those listings. And lastly, we think we understand it to be saying nothing to pay at all except when an item sells, or is it $.20 ea. to list and then the extra fees if it sells.
Don’t want to burden you down with a bunch of stuff. If you think a call to an Etsy rep will get most of these answered let me know what you think.
Maybe Jay would ponder an Area-Section-Category specific to Etsy.
Thanks… MikeOn the topic of access to Ebay data. Unsure but a thought what may influence that. I think Ebay owns TerraPeak which you get a full years worth of archival data BUT it is subscription based. Then they also make data available to WorthPoint which is from a year back to about 5 years or more. So think Ryanne may be correct. They “sell” the older data to outside sources and even to a company of their own. So if the “old” data is a revenue stream for them, you would think they would be reluctant to just give it away. But no facts to back this up. Mike in Atlanta
See you are up. What time do you guys usually get? I try to be up around 6-6:30 and in my office by 7.
Question.. You say you are moving all of the “former” comments over to here. Are going to try to categorize them according to the topics you already have set up. I mentioned a few weeks back in a post that I have subscribed to the RSS Feeds through Outlook. Then this menas they are saved “offline”. Then I use my Outlook categories to segregate them. Blue flag for questions, green flag for answers, Red flag as very important and yellow for need to keep this. Then after a thread is dead at the end of a few weeks, I delete everything not flagged, the balance is saved. Those then are searchable within Outlook. I have about 3,000 comments saved [can you believe that], anyway. Now when you guys bring all those comments over.. are they just going to be posted by date, chronologically or are you going to do searches on them and try to find those that match certain key words and place them by topic. Just curious as to how you were going to do all the old posts. If you do that, then that will mean I can probably delete all of my thousands of saved RSS Feeds from SL and clear up some HD space. Mike in Atlanta
Well Good Morning: Grabbing coffee and seeing what progress you have made.
I agree enlarge the font some and maybe just a little bit thicker stroke, but that may happen automatically with the font increase.Couple of other topics to maybe include, since I have bookmarked so many questions about these. Photography [what camera to use, what settings, white balance, lenses, staging, props, depth of field, automatic vs. aperature and shutter speed settings, lighting, light kits, etc., etc. has been tons of questions about these]
Next Topic: Cleaning- Glass, Brass, Metals [how to polish brass, silver, difference between all the various metals, how to remove stains, smells, what detergent, etc., etc..ton of these types of questions and follow up comments]
Electronics [TV’s, Radios, Walkmen, radios, how to find, fix, what to buy to skip, how to ship, games, consoles, CD, DVD’s, VHS, Tapes, parts, etc., etc. [again many questions and answers been posted and answered here also]
Just a few suggestions as you asked mike in Atlanta
No big issue. I guess I just wasn’t understanding that I was to replace the “suggested” P/W with one of my choosing. Once I did that I got a message that the User Name was already taken. i knew that wasn’t the case, because how many Huncrelan’s do you have, yeah right. So, I just did password reset and tried Huncrelan again and put in my desired P/W and was good to go. I think it was just maybe not clear to me which was my error. Long day as usual and I am that early morning person as I have said before.It’s cool. We’ll how many and how fast everyone gets themselves set-up.
Glad to see you got things rolling. I saw you started the transition early this morning and some old RSS Feeds stopped. So was just waiting for you guys as i continued to list today. Way to go guys. mike in Atlanta
