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Hey: I would also recommend some reading on a couple of books by the Kovels. For decades have been the go to place for all things antique and rare. We have a book they published on foreign glass pieces.
Looking at these figures the word Murano would not have even entered our minds. Many artisians and founderies have certain styles that are associated with their brand and these stick figures would not have filled that vision of Murano Glassworks or any of the artisans whom filled thier stalls in the foundry that we can recall.
The kovel books also have a beautiful full color book on Depression glass. But those books, which may be in your local library contain colorful photos and the styles of glass pieces.
But when thinking of Tiffany, Limoges, Murano, Rooseville [pottery], et. al. these types of figures would not have jumped into our minds.
Also I would suggest trying a search on Worthpoint.com and just use glass mexican figures and see what you get.
Good luck. If I get time after my wife’s treatment today I will see if I can find anything for you also. You can also check our online store and look at a few Murano pieces we have. May help get a lock on Murano styles for you.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Boy did I dodge that. I saw the Ebay statement about going stale [like we all have discussed in the past] and had on my To-Do list to discuss with you or Dustin, Steve, etc. about setting the custom time frame to end just a day or two before Ebay hits that mark. But with everything else I had going, it was still on my To-Do list.
I also still have about 600 or so listing that I need to clean up from the way we had them set up on WonderLister. Those do not have a SixBit wrapper on them yet, but do have an “Allocation Plan” on all of them.
That is why I am wondering why SB is not ending a few items here and there on the opposite platform when sold. The Allocation Plan should handle that.
But in any case, I think I know what you did. You got all those listings down and with you saying you use an hour I recall between listing, was it the scheduled listings and hour apart that took 48 hours to relist?
Right now, we are scrambling on dealing with the “FREE SHIPPING” Push Etsy is throwing on everyone, you guys included.
In short, Offer Frre Shipping IF YOU WANT, but if you don’t you won’t get any push in the searches. Those who do will be rewraded with higher placement and being included in advertising and Etsy promotions. Don’t do it and you will just be left to trail in the searches and rankings behind those that do offer FS.
So trying to figure out how best to do this, use SB to batch edit our decision and think about if we are just going to do it on Ebay as well.
Uggh..just not enough hours in the day. Got to go vacuum for Susan.
later,
mike at MDCGFA in Atl.07/22/2019 at 1:32 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #65240Welcome back to the Forum buddy. Missed your inputs.
Thanks to everyone, for the thoughts and prayers for Susan. She had her first Chemo treatment Thursday and her next one is coming up Wed. morning. She will have 6 chemo [one per week] then 6 weeks of radiation 5 days a week, then ending with the once a week chemo again for the final six weeks.
I sat with her last Wed. and Thurs. Wed. they put a “port” into her upper right chest-collarbone area. This is so they can do all the connections, disconnections and draw blood through out the chemo. That was 4 hours. Then the very next morning [Thursday] they did the first chemo and that lasted about 5 hours but had an hour of orientation and 1/2 hr. with the doctor. Going forward about 4 hours of the drip chemo.
So far she has been tired mostly but no sickness. She spent the first part of last week finding a wig and style that she liked. It will most likely be total hair loss in a few weeks with about a year to year and half of grow back time frame. She also got some scarf like head covers that everybody says are cute.
Attitude wise, she says it is what it is and will just take it one day at a time. I am doing a larger portion of the house and kitchen stuff along with the Ebay and Etsy stores. She hasn’t been in the office to do any help in 2 or 3 weeks and may be until Dec. before all treatments are done.
One of our helpers left and moved to San Diego. Husband is military and got transferred but still have Lisa, our long time friend who helps me Fri.-Sun +/-.
Having a little bit of an issue with SixBit skipping on deleting some of the solds from the non-sold platform and contributed to me selling an item that had already been sold. I am working on a ticket request from the SB team now. Need to find out how is the best way, en mass, to cross check and find any strangling listings on both platforms that got sold and were missed by SB. Wish they were faster on their response time.
But thanks for the help offer, very kind, and I too will just be taking it day by day.
Thank goodness those 2 house got finished, closed and the new owners moved in.
catch everyone later
mike at MDCGFA in Atl.
Jay: I take all of the boxes I get from incoming purchases and bust them open at the seam, lay them flat and then cut them into long, narrow, strips. I use these to roll up and place around cups, tea pots or anything cylinder shaped for protection. The corrugated and scored rolls of cardboard is pricey so I make my own roll strips.
Then after I get enough to last a while and or out strip my storage capacity, I do throw away the over stock for awhile until I need to collect some more.
TIP: The USPS Large Game Boxes are great for just tearing them open and cutting them into strips to roll round and cylinder objects with. We find it better than the box within a box method for certain items.
Wrap item in newsprint, roll wrap with cardboard, bubble wrap that roll, then place 6 glasses side by side inside your bigger, outer box and u are good to go.
Thanks Steven, good tip on the styrofoam sheets from “fish containers” and the Sunday morning time slot. It just never crossed my mind that would probably be the day and very early that no one else would be around to hassle you about being ther or a cop driving by.
We have two Pet Smarts not too far from us, each in opposite directions. I have been buying a 24″ wide x 8 ft. long 1/2″ thick insulating blue board from Home depot and just cutting it up as needed. Will check out the Pet Smarts this weekend and see what they may have.
TeamViewer is free. Has been for many years. The only paid version is the Commercial version. The Commercial version is used by companies who do remote in service on their customers computers. If you ever had a technician do a remote session then they use the paid versions and it is also more robust.
But for small guys like us, a version can be on each computer for free. Just download the APP [make sure it is the free version] and install on your rig. Do that all on your devices. Each install has a separate pass code to access but it also allows a setting to be able to let anyone connect any time based on a single master password the main computer user sets. That is how we do it.
If you had TeamViewer on your rig right now and I gave you the master password, you could log onto my computer and have full control of all functions on my computer.
They even have a TeamViewer for cell phones. When I am sitting and waiting on Susan at times, I open TeamViewer on my phone, log in and then I am in full control of my at home office computer.
I like doing this instead of using like the Ebay pr Etsy apps separately because my office computer uses the desk top seller hub and that view and functions much better, has more control than using the cell phone Ebay APP which is truncated for the cell phone.
OK, a draw back is that doing this you will be looking at the larger monitor that is on the home office rig, but you can do the finger spread and enlarge the image, but you may have to scroll sideways a little bit.
But bottom line FREE to access your main computer remotely from anywhere.
There are competitors out there, one is called “Log Me In”, and others. I found after trying several TeamViwer is the fastest of all at the time I was comparing.
Take a look. Here is the link:
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/credentials/free-for-personal-use/mike at MDCGFA
Yep.. you hit the nail on the head as far as how to do it.
Go to your business policies preferences, then when there, click on the heading above the Type field to sort and they will align alphabetically and all you shipping policies will be right together.
We have 5 policies that cover all 1,200 + listings. Click on the blue edit and you will be able to change the handling time. Do that just 4 more times and you are done.
Ryanne and Jay held out on Business Policies for a long time. It was discussed here on SL numerous times, think it was a year or more ago, but finally one day she posted, WOW! Love Business policies and the rest is History LOL 🙂 Yeah one of the better things Ebay changed for the better.
I had one this morning. The item was an 18 1/4″ tall metal urn-vase.
The message read could we convert the 18-1/4″ into a “German Metric number”. ???
I replied didn’t know Germany had a different metric system than other countries on the metric system??
I converted it for her on an online calculator in about 3 seconds, sent her the link to it and asked for her to double check us and another link to a Wiki page that said Germany went to the Standard Metric system in 1876.
At least she didn’t ask me what shade of red it was.
mike at MDCGFA
To clarify one does not “take” the database with them. Our home office desktop stays on 24 hrs. 7 days a week [except when I do clean up and maint. on the operating system]. But the desktop is always on. We use “Team Viewer” for remote access just like many technicians do.
We have Teamviewer loaded on 3 rigs. When away to trips or vacation I take my lap top with me, turn it own, open TeamViewer, enter my master password and I am instantly connected to my office desktop. It works just like I was sitting in front of it. I even have 2 monitors on the office desk top and all I do is toggle between the two on my laptop.
Now the surprise. Because we also have SixBit loaded on another rig in our office [yes we have two workstation in our office area], if I so choose to leave both of those running 24 / 7 our helper can open her personal laptop which has TeamViewer also loaded on it. She opens her TeamViwer and enters her password and BOOM she is now logged into the other office laptop. That laptop runs simultanesously with the office desktop. So she is going to Alaska next month and she can tie into the 2nd laptop and work on SixBit. I can sit here at my desk and watch her computer screen-mouse move as she works on it and I can continue to work on SixBit on mine and they don’t interfere.
Now if I take off on the road while she is still in Alaska working, all I do is open my TeamViewer, log into my rig and VIOLA! we are both working on 2 office computers from 2 off site locations thousands of miles apart, yet SixBit is working just like if we were sitting back here at the office side by side. Fully functional database operation. All our photos are stored on a 4 terrabyte external hard drive Drive F: Either one of us can be loading photos if we choose or creating brand new entries from any blank templates we have store.
The database never leaves our office desktop which is always here in our office. That 3rd personal laptop of our helper doesn’t have to have SB on it because she access the office laptop from her rig using TeamViewer once logged in.
Many newer guys to SixBit can gain a lot of insights into what SixBit can do by going to Google and searching for the Ebay open last year in Las Vegas and searching for SixBit, and searching for SixBit Demos on YouTube and participating in the SB forum instead of here on SL. No offesne, but so many questions have already been asked and answered on the “real” SB forums that you can find almost anything. And if not, then ask on there and you will find hundreds of users of SixBit only that can answer your inquires.
I would take a guess there are not more than 10 or so [just a guess mind you] of SL members who use SB and or WonderLister and or Ink Frog. Also SixBit technicians Steve Leah, JC Ryan, Dustin Sherburne and even at times John Slocum the founder and owner will chime in. Can’t get a better source for answers thaan that.
But I suggest give the SixBit forums a try. Also you can get a glimpsee of upcoming news.
Good luck..
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
I agree Liz. Think you are spot on. Why tempt fate. We too have had a few over the years but did not repeat the same items and mistakes agagin. Each time was for a new and different item and each of those cases we just didn’t know, so they informed us with their VERO letter.
mike at MDCGFA in Atlanta
Country Lane: SixBit does 3 platforms and is in Beta Testing for a 4th.
T-Satt and I use the Duo edition which allows the Ebay Platform then you can select if you want either Amazon OR Etsy but not both. Troy and i have Ebay and Etsy shops so that is how we have it set-up and also we have 2 other work stations for helpers to tie into the server which is on the desktop in the main office area.
SB basically takes our Ebay listings and posts that same listing on Etsy right after we post it on Ebay. There is a small amount of manual tweaking to do because their are a few dis-similarities between Ebay and Etsy and there is nothitng that can be brought over automatically. But that does not take more than half a min. to get done.
SixBit now has it’s Shopify Interface Module in Beta Testing and that will be added soon once it is de-bugged. At that time we will be adding our Shopify Store into the mix and we will have SixBit co-ordinating everything for all three platforms. I talked with SixBit 2 years ago and stressed how Shopify would be a good add and even shared how WonderLister was doing it. It just took SB a while to get around to all the coding that was needed.
The main reason I stress Shopify is even though it is not a selling platform, thus doesn’t bring customers to you, you have to generate your own through correct SEO and Social Media Marketing, it provides a complete back-up of your whole store, every item, and if Ebay or Etsy ever pulls a stunt or you get caught in a big policy change like Etsy new FORCED FREE SHIPPING change [kinda], then as a seller I will have the Shopify store already going. Think of Shopify as a way to save your whole store, payment gateway, prices, photos, description, everything in a great store front on the internet and the domain name, policies about how you conduct your business, what and how and who you want to ship to, everything is under your control and you control your feedback, no listings pulled down, etc., etc.
So having SixBit completely stock my Shopify Store and have my complete store lock stock and barrel backed up and functioning is worth it to me. And SixBit will use your one Ebay listing to populate the other two and also delete sold items from the 2 sites where the sale did not take place, so you don’t have to worry about selling something that is already sold.
Then on top of that you get a complete financial break down of what has sold, where it sold within the Finacial reports section. And troy has SB set-up to handle all of his shipping through a 3rd party that is less costly than Ebay. I think he has Pirate Ship set up but unsure because I think he was going to change that.
In any case, yes SixBit does eveything you say, and much more. Variations, multiple quantities, free scheduled shipping, auto end and auto re-list items to keep them fresh and a lot more.
BUT it comes with a cost. SixBit’s Duo version which we use [Two Stores handled by SixBit is first month free trial then $99.99 per month from then on. And when they get Shopify added and working then that will most likely be called the TRIO version and was told that 3rd store module would be adding maybe another $25 to $30 bucks to the total price and then having a Shopify Store runs another $29.99. So for 3 stores to be synched and run by Sixbit and with the Shopify store it will be about $159.98 per month. Then if a seller gets large enough to upgrade Ebay from a Premium store to an Anchor store that difference will have to be added.
But as i said, that Shopify store is a safe guard. Think of it as a “Safe Depsoit” box for your complete store. And as time progresses you will be building customers and traffice to your store via Google and all the other various marketing mediums.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Thumbs up Sonia. This is a new one for our SOP manual. Will type it up and add it to the folder.
thanks..
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Amen RTWV. Jay, I whole heartedly agree with what everyone has said. People like that can just go pound sand.
There are a couple of other YouTubers and PodCaster ladies whose voices are so high and schrill it hurts my ears to listen to them, thus I just don’t listen anymore. He should just do the same if it bothers him, go away, it is his problem not yours.
And again, one of those “anonymous” people that I have mentioned before that used to get on here and take exception to everything everybody was saying, not listen, criticize all of us who were just trying to help and they all hid behind the “anonymous” banner. I am glad Ryanne stopped any one from signing up using the “anonymous” name. Even with an alias handle name, and only one person that can use that name, keeps an eye on that sort of thing.
mike
Welcome back Mark and thanks for the tip. Don’t think we have watched before but will check it out. We did start watching one that was close to an X-Files type of show but can’t remember if this was it or not.
Many things do film in Atlanta. One used to film out at the antique mall where we had our booths. Pain in the butt when we were trying to be moving stuff int our booths and they wanted the whole mill to be “quite” as they filmed plus they took up all the parking with their trailers.
Many people around Atlanta are always on casting calls to play extras for a few side dollars. I believe Julie here on SL is someone who plays some extras.
I will check the show out and check out the shoot location. Something maybe fun to do on a weekend.
mike in Atlanta
Another quotable Quote for the Archives, …. “Grumpy Buyers are Grumpy!” 🙂
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