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Sharyn, Just took a look and if the same product then it is a few bucks less expensive than the FaceBook company.
We used to pay about $.10 per sq. ft. of small bubble and this breaks out to $.03 per SF.
Thanks,
Mike at MDCGFAThanks a bunch Sharyn: Bought dbl. rolls of the large and small bubble..bubble wrap. Much better than the stiff, sticky or static prone, half perf’ed junk I was getting before.
Thanks for the link and have it stashed away in my contact manager under shipping supplies.
Appreciate that and for getting us on the track to better quality wrap at a very low price.
Mike at MDCGFA
Ok, what is going on. Ryanne did you coax Jay into going out to one of your sheds and lock him in for a few days until you and your helper changed every single one of your Ebay listings over to FREE SHIPPING!
After all these years of Jay digging in his heels on Free Shipping and being a staunch advocate for “Calculated Shipping”, how in the world did you get him to give up the ghost on this subject.
Jay’s mantra of not building in the prices out to a certain distance like zone 5 or zone 6 and closer buyers having to pay more and as a seller further buyers costing you guys more.. I have to assume, you went all in…Free shipping on almost everything you have in your store, what criteria did you guys decide on using to cover the free shipping?
We have always built in a Zone 6 charge by weight and size, except for any DIM Weight and sizes. But now I see you don’t have too many items below the $10 mark and into the mid twenties, so I again I am assuming you guys built something into all the listings.
Did I miss that you announced this move or did it just recently happen and I just never noticed.
To Jay.. Welcome to the Dark side! Jack up the prices, add $10 to $20 to every listing, turn on make and offer and Free shipping and let it rip. LOL 🙂 🙂
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine ArtAnd if they are definitely returning them, don’t issue any refund until you get them back and inspect. Sometimes you may not get back what you sent, etc., etc. Then once you inspected, then decide to follow Jay’s advice on what and how much to refund.
mike at mdcgfa
@ChristineR: Same question for us as posted by MyCottage. Any type of Sales / Sold Data available for Mercari?
As far as getting items on Mercari, no problem for us because we use sixbit and have worked out a work around, just like T-Satt has to be able to cross list on all platforms and control everything from within SixBit. So, only questions is like MyCottage asks, what are the Sold numbers for the longer Tail Vintage items, quantity of sales and prices items are selling for. Though we will use the same prices we currently use.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Probably the latter. We do offer both free shipping on a majority of items and free returns. So maybe as you said, new and not fully implemented.
Thanks for the reply.. mike – MDCGFA
@ the Seam Store:
Hey, I don’t see the report you mention in any e-mail messages, both Outlook or my Ebay Messages. Maybe only sent to select sellers or maybe only anchor stores?
mike at MDCGFA
Jay: Same type of experience when we went to the Orlando, FL bins during a few trips down to visit our daughter when she lived down there a few years ago. While no one “claimed” a whole bins, people were pushing and wedging in between my wife and I. Also as we looked through stuff and trying to dig down to the bottom of piles, everyone just threw there discarded looked through items left and right and kept piling the broken and pieces of stuff over on top.
The other issue we had was with the shoulder to shoulder acticity we had to keep our cart behind us and we had several items taken out of our cart when our backs were turned. Finally Susan and I took turns, one of us belly up to the bins, and the other standing with the cart behind. We would grab an item then just pass it back, like a quarterback hand off and the other putting in the cart. We also used our estate bag cover that has sold on it and threw that over the cart.
We have only been 3 or 4 times. We don’t sell clothes and the higher end home decor, collectible items are few and far between and if found were all nicked and chipped up. No Limoge, Spode, Tiffany, Waterford, Roseville, Fenton pieces in any of those bins.
Even though we had our work gloves, many items were extremely smelly, water soured, urine or mold smelling. Susan didn’t like those trips at all and said she has no interest in ever going again. Just not our higher type of items.
Estate sales and Auctions is where we find the higher end types of items we prefer to sell. We may pay a little more, but our return is better. Last year we averaged $6.42 per item purchased and our average item sold price was $52. We just didn’t find items that would give us that type of return in “bins”.
Plus we like to go to auctions early, do a preview then go sit down and eat and take our time running a few apps and seeing the trends and comps, make a decision to buy or not buy and create a specific cut off point of which we won’t go above when bidding. Can’t do that kind of on the spot analysis at a scrimmage push, pull and grab environment.
Again that opinion along with $1.50 gets you half a cup of coffee! 🙂
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
SmartParts Small Equipment PartsHey Retro.. Just hear say from my end but isn’t AMEX a Charge card not a credit card. A friend has an Amex business card and he says whatever amount he puts on the card has to be paid in full, 100% at the months end, unlike a “credit card” which allows the user to make the minimum payment, [if needed] and interest gets charged on the unpaid balance.
If this is true, that would be the deal breaker with us. But we have always have a business VISA or MasterCard with Cash Back points to redeem for cash back into our account.
just asking more than anything.
Mike at MDCGFA in Atl.
Holy Cow, what a story. This is just one of 3 or 4 reasons we do cross list and are working on our own Shopify store. SixBit does all our cross posting, tracking, deleting and providing full financials broken down by platform for $99 a month. We look at it is “Store-Business Insurance”.
But what a nightmare and cost.
But one BIG question, given Ebay has it’s VERO program. Are you an authorized seller of NBA Products. From your volume it seems you must get multiples or wholesale lots of pre-produced gear from a licensed printer or mfg. to stock a store as large as yours. Guess that is what the lawsuit would be about.
But 8,000 boxes at $15,000….WOW! Though only $1.88 per box mailing to you, still times 8k of them. Then where do you store them and the time to get everything sorted out and a new inventory set up locally.
You have our due respect on handling all of that. Good luck on it.
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc. in Atlanta
Mark: And if OSHA ever found out you would be required to wear a yellow hard hat, yellow safety vest with day-glow stripes, metal toe shoes, wear metal mesh gloves, use a slow return re-tractable tape, Long pants and take a safety course on how to wear and use such safety appearral and if you buy all certified safety equipment it would run hundreds of dollars per outfit but you could still get hurt.
Saw a cartoon once of an OSHA Approved safety device to protect an employee from acceidents using a hammer. It would weigh 100 pounds, cost thousands of dollars and the employee would have to be strapped into it. LOL.
So be careful out there. It is cheaper to stay safe than be protected by government programs. LOL. Just being silly, it has been a long day.
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art in AtlantaCheck out this link from the Ebay Community. Someone asks your same question and see the answers that follow. In summary for USPS yes that size will work, but distortions can create some errors, for FedEx and UPS no, they require 4×6.
Hope this may help if you read through all the replies.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine art in Atlanta
Howdy: No one tool is going to handle that many platforms, or atleat ones most normal people can afford. The more popular ones like SixBit, WonderLister, InkFrog can handle two or three, but even then you have to pay as you upgrade to the version that will handle them
Search Troy Satterfield or T-Sat and you will find his method for using codes in the custom skew field to handle Mercari, Posh and Etsy while only using the Mid Range cost plan of SixBit.
We use the SixBit Duo version to handle Ebay and Etsy in almost automatic mode [almost]. But Troy has a system whereby he uses sku codes added to his inventory numbers to track which items are on which platforms. But when he makes a Sale on one of the odd ones, he has to enter a manual Sale Order to keep the financials correct and remember to delete that sale on all the other platforms.
To me this sort of takes away the use of 3rd party software to help reduce the work load. Instead, in my opinion, may be back to putting in as much time using SixBit as he was using his own spread sheets. Don’t know. Probably need to see if Troy will see this and respond. But he has been very tied up with a ton of things to handle, so he may not be onitoring SL much any more. I know I have cut back on SL as well.
But if you search the forum some months back he does explain a little of how is setting it up to keep and eye on and track a larger number of platforms.
Don’t know if any of this was of any value. Good luck with it.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
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When you set up your shipping policies, we use the lesser cost method. We select “Parcel Post Package” as the Free Shipping choice, then we also list 3 or 4 other methods besides. Ebay allows you up to 4 [I think], so we always use all four of them. Next we list, Priority along with UPS and FedEx.Then when a buyer checks out, if they want Free Shipping, it defaults to the Parcel Select, but if they want anything else, it shows to them as options and if they decide to choose any of those, they will see the cost to “Up Grade from Free Shipping and will be charged the extra.
We have only had a few cases where the buyer selected to upgrade to faster shipping, usually due to a deadline or special need for their purchase to arrive quickly.
If you haven’t set up your shipping policies you can do so from your account preferences or do the manually when listing, but policies is way faster, easier and a one time investment in time.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine At.
That is correct. Been that way ever since they began the program. To get the full dollar amount I usually have to spend a little over the $50 in our case and pay the difference. If your order comes up short, then that is it.
One chance to order and only that one chance to try to get the full amount out.
