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Yep like Sharyn mentions. Our CPA uses a spread sheet I prepared just for this purpose many years ago.
The principle works off square footage.
The sheet has the total sqaure footage of our house, living, basement and garage.
Then 12 columns across for each month with several rows down. I place each months utility bills across for ea. month, Gas, elec., then mortgage, cell phones, internet, etc.Then at the end of each row, I have a cell that contains the sqaure footage of the garage, basement, attic, under bed storage and full bonus room over the garage. Then I also have a spot for what percentage of the line item or area is used for the business.
Then I have formulas built to auto calculate based on the square footage of the area being used, the percentage of the total square feet and those percentages auto calculate the dollar amount, based on my monthly bill inputs and I get a total amount of the allocated space used for the business.
Our CPA loves it and I talked with Mark Tew a few years back and he seemed to buy into it. Also helps to be either an LLC or corporate type business structure. Also small equipment like printers, computers, label printers can all go into small equipment and expensed and large equipment can be depreciated. We have bought some art equipment for the studio that ran over a thousand.
If you don’t have a CPA get in touch with Mark. I would have had him do our taxes, we have to do a corporate return before March 15th and then personal by April 15th and Mark can do both for you. Also I checked his prices and they were in line with local smaller firms here in Atlanta and even a little less on some forms. Also he understands online selling because many of his clients sell online. Some local guys we used years ago, just din’t understand the concept of reselling older vintage, used items which were not bought brand new. Figuring out inventory costs and COGS is interesting with sellers like us. Especially when you sell your own old stuff that is 30 years old and no paper trail.
mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
This is interesting. never thought of that, but maybe spot on. So far with 1,200 items approx. and usually the offers are in groups of 6 to 11, and some items been in the store for a long time, it will take a while to plow through all of them. Add to this that we are always adding more, maybe we won’t run out of ones to offer to, but interesting thought.
mike at MDC Galleries
Working fine for us also. On the desktop: 9 yesterday morning, 5 in the evening and 7 this morning.
No idea on the phone.
mike at MDC GalleriesYep.. Well said. Have fun.
12/15/2019 at 6:30 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71685I agree whole completely.
We have the following on our packing List, only and not in our listings.
Thank you for your order, prompt payment and the complete information made for an easy transaction.
We hope everything arrives safely and you are completely satisfied. If you have any concerns please contact us immediately so we can resolve any issues.
If you are content with your purchase and our services, we would appreciate you taking a few moments and leaving us feedback. We have done so for you.Kindest Regards,
MDC Concepts, Inc./ MDC Galleriesand that is it. We offer Free shipping, free retruns up to 90 days, everything is insured, we use a “cocoon multi-layer wrapping process and always are running Sales. That is all we are going to do, if you are Happy, great, glad you are, if you are not, contact us, tell us and we will see what we can do.
That is it, end of story.
🙂 🙂 🙂 mike at MDCGFA
Don’t be too nervous. We have all been there but don’t make yourself sick over it.
It is just as Jay and IndySales state. All those factors come into play.
Something to remember, there is several places where J and R have said, we all started somewhere, we all had zero feedback, we all had a first Sale, we all had a first return at some point starting online Sales.
Buddy, just settle in, you have a lot of firsts to experience and some will test your grit and metal. But though SL is much smaller than a place like Reddit [Jay’s local hangout place], here you will get a lot of help from others that have been there done that and don’t mind sharing.
Jay calls my posts, which number up and over 750 ++ I think, “Walls of Text” because being Southern, I write the way I talk, and that is a lot. But many others have great posts on here and stick with J and R and you will learn.
Also learn to Search the Old Blog and the new forum. If you have a question, problem or issue try that first because at some point in time we have all probably written about it, maybe even several times.
Use “Control and the F Key and a Pop will appear down below and then type in your search term. You can even ask for the finds to be highlighted so you can see the matches better. Or, also use J and R’s search bar.
In any case you will get a lot of help here and without much grief. Just be open and honest with all of us and we will respond in like kind to you.
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art in AtlantaYep, just as Ryanne says. AND BTW at 21 lbs. you will probably be able to ship the package for about half the cost via FedEx. Ebay does show FedEx but you have to look for the tab and click for the other shipping choices.
The shipping chart hanging above my shipping area we use shows about $21 to $22 dollars for us to ship that weight from Atlanta to LA 90501 using FedEx Home Delivery [NOT SHIP SAVER]. About the same travel time +/- a day or two.
Now one caveat… that will be for any package that is under 1,728 cubic inches. But even if it is larger and then gets classified in the DIM [over sized Dimension] weight category you will see that with the DIM Weight pricing tier it will still be far less.
A 30 lb package for us FedEx Home delivery from Atl. to LA is $29.00.
Here go to this link. This is a shipping calculator to use for boxes over 1,728 cubic inches [LxWxD]. Click on the clear tab to remove the pre-filled numbers, drop in your weight then your dimensions and it will auto calculate your cubic inches and then show you what pricing tier [level] to use
I just did a 24x12x12 example for you at 21 lbs. from Atlanta to zone 6 which is Denver, Colorado and it says to price it out at the 25 Lb. rate due to being over sized and falling into the DIM Weight rate chart. So to Denver it will cost you $25.00 and the USPS charge is showing at $$46.81.
The reason I use Zone 6 is because I have a package in my system right now and didn’t want to loose my numbers. But going on out 2 more zones will still cost way less than USPS.
AND BTW you can use USPS boxes if you wish because FedEx accepts packages done in any type of marked boxes, theirs, USPS or plain vanilla generic. Just tape it all up good.
Here is the link: https://www.fitshipper.com/freeTools/dimensional-weight-calculator.html?x=13&y=13&z=13&weight=13&method=Priority
By the way the guy who worked up this tool [calculator] is a SL member and has been interviewed by Ryanne and Jay several years ago. I an our assistants keep this tool open in our browser tab every single day.
Good luck and hope you can save yourself $20 to $30 bucks.
Kindest Regards and Welcome to the ScavengerLife Forums,
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
SmartParts Small Equipment
and soon to be added .. JR SprayFoam, LLCThe 25 Lb. FedEx charge will be
Yep agree but there is a regulation that you need to pay attention to.
As long as the envelope does not protrude more than 1/4″ thick. It has to be able to slide through a feeler gauge they use to kick out envelope that are too thick AND the internal item has to be flexible enough to allow the envelope to bend as it goes through the high speed sorters. The sorters will take the envelope around several roller like pins and they bend / flex around those rollers at high speeds as the zip code readers scan them and then send them down the correct shute.
Watch this video of actual USPS machines and employees operating the machines and at work. Amazing that we don’t pay a whole lot more for what all goes into delivering our “stuff”.
Watch this YouTube video of a Pitney and Bowes high speed sorter for like kind mailing.
Very fascinating. and the flexibility that is needed is toward the end when they run a sorter with it open and you can see inside. This picture is worth a thousand words on how a “Flat envelope” needs to be in order to be handled. If not it gets kicked out [not shown in this video] but then goes to hand sorting, which slows down the process or gets returned to the sender because if over 1/4″ thick it should have been shipped and paid as a First Class Package.
These videos are amazing and shows what, in my opinion, is a great job the USPS does in handling all of our stuff at what I think is a very good price. Kudos to them.
But unfortunately all of our customers are not aware or don’t understand Logistics and what is involved and what goes into getting their purchases to them. $12.00 to ship a 2 to 3 lb. package 3,000 miles in 2 days and going door to door from Atlanta to Los Angeles.
Just my opinion.
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
SmartParts Small Equipment PartsSharyn: Off Topic but your link and source for both the thin and large bubble wrap is great. Got a sample roll of the thin today and it is soft, non-static prone and tears off perfectly.
4 large rolls to come in a few days.
Thanks very much.
Mike at MDCGFA12/09/2019 at 2:01 pm in reply to: Should I or Shouldn’t I – Less IS Data with a Little More in Description #71486Sharyn: Got my first thin bubble wrap from your source and link you provided.
Bingo! It is the soft feel, non-static cling type and the perfs are all the way across the roll and tears off just fine. This is like what we used to get but that vendor disappeared.
Now the 4 rolls of the large 1/2″ bubble is due in a few days and if it is like this 3/16″ small bubble it will also be perfect and at a very good price.
Again, thanks so much for the tip and source.
Mike at MDC Galleries.
Try Asking Ryanne if she will change your “showing Name” if you really want too.
3 or 4 years ago, maybe more, when I first signed up on SL I used an old handle name “HUNCRELAN”. Ryanne made fun of me by trying to pronounce it. It was Hun-cree-lan. She asked where it came from and I replied it was the first 3 letters of a street we used to live on. Hunter Creek Lane.
So I asked and somehow she changed it for me to our business name, MDC Galleries. I think she said that the original name had to stick on my account profile but she could changed what was showing to whatever I want.
If you will look all the way down at the bottom of SL to the members signed it, it always shows Huncrelan but under my Logo Icon, she got it to show our business name and as you know I also always sign my posts with my first name and our business name.
Maybe Ryanne can do it for you if she isn’t too busy with her Shampoo and Booze podcast work.
Mike [Huncrelan-LOL :-)] at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
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Yes magic erasers, but wet the sponge-eraser with a little bit of Fantastic or water. It releases the dry bleach built into the sponge.
Also you can try Lighter Fluid [but this works better on non-porus surfaces] but still helps some and lastly if the shoes have roughed up bottoms-soles, then sand paper works great.
Also while you are out, get yourself some “Shoe Black” sole-edge dressing [this is not black liquid shoe polish]. This is very opaque and professional shoe repairmen use it to finish off the sole edges. The highly opaque nature it will cover almost anything on the bottom.
Run it around the edge of the sole and it puts a brand new like appearance to the sole edge. Almost like the armour all liquid that is put on your tires at the car wash. And lastly, we have actually covered [painted], the bottom sole completely black before. It hides any markings and gives the shoe bottom a whole new look.
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TMC: As long as the request to cancel and the buyers reason is in writing, we just cancel right away, issue the refund, block that buyer from our store preferences and then refresh the listing and get on with selling it again and get on with our lives.
We have let the Unpaid Item Assistant do a couple but the item just sits and sits as Ebay keeps sending the Buyer Notices and hoping they will change their minds. We had 2 items in the past sit in Unpaid Items for months before Ebay finally giving up. Way too long.
We now get get rid of them and dispense with the situation as quickly as we can and get on with our business. Don’t let bad buyers change your SOP [standard operating procedure] and disrupt your routine. End it, get it back on the market as if this person never showed up, and move on.
But as always, just my opinion and it along with another $1.50 will get you half a cup of coffee.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Here you go. $20 back in 2011. Jay states that prices from this far back is not a representative marker for current times.
Those with Premium stores get a subscription to TerraPeak for free. Used to cost over $20 per month. TerraPeak gives 1 years worth of data. Same info. that is given to WorthPoint except doesn’t go back 10 years.Well nothing is found on TerraPeak for this type of model ship, unless I missed using correct keywords. So WorthPoint did provide a price, but also a very good description and history of the model. So WorthPoint can provide valuable data even if very old. Just think, what if this item had a very high value back then. Could be worth more now [maybe] and a good description is given and the category it was listed in.
Just my opinion along with $1.00 will get you half a cup of coffee. 🙂
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Full Description:
25 Civil War card models, ships, ironclad, cannon on CD
Pricing & HistorySold for $20.00
Sold Date Apr 18, 2011
Source eBay
Worthpoint Category Toys, Dolls, Games & Puzzles
Original Category Toys & Hobbies : Models & Kits : Military : SeaHere is a chance to get 25 card models of Civil War ships and cannon for one great low price. Price includes shipping in the US. For y’all living out side the US, I will gladly e-mail the PDFs to you, but you will need to burn the disc yourselves. Much is owed to researcher John Wallis for helping me bring these models to market. Many of the test builds were completed and photographed by “Knife” over at . Most of these models are in in 1/250 scale, waterline model and come with a simulated water bases for display. Some are full hull models and a few are in 1/72 scale.You will get,CSS Wilmington, ironclad in 1/250 scale. CSS Fredricksburg, ironclad in 1/250 scale.CSS Virginia II, ironclad, in 1/250 scaleCSS Virginia II, ironclad in 1/250 scale, in a rust & battle damaged color scheme.USS Chillicothe, Union River ironclad in 1/250 scale.William Norris gunboat proposal of 1861 in 1/250 scale, full hulled model.CSS Palmetto State in 1/250 scaleCSS Missouri, Paddle wheeled ironclad, 1/250 scaleCSS Huntsvill, small river ironcladCSS Tuscaloosa, small river ironcladCSS Charleston, Confederate flagship, ironclad in 1/250 scaleCSS Raleigh, night fighter, ironclad in 1/250 scaleCSS Tennessee, battle of Mobile fame, ironclad, 1/250 scaleCSS Georgia, classic casemate style, full hull, 1/250 scaleCSS Georgia, barge hull style, full hull, read more
That is exactly what I am asking. Because of Ebay’s tinkering with all these categories, in some cases from the mid-point forward, the drop downs presented start to not fit the item we are listing.
In my example with the round, raised relief, stamped image of fruit that hangs on a kitchen wall, the category for wall decor then jumps to signs and plaques. Nothing about what we have. Something more useful than “signs” which isn’t even close would be something like wall decor, or wall sculpture, metal something but certainly not “signs”.
We have stopped mid-stride on some over the course of the past week and so far they have listed. I’ll have to see where these mid-stride ones are going. guess I should have checked that right away. Duh.. I am going to re-name “Multi-Tasking to Multi-Distracted”. 🙂
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