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That’s probably it AF. If Ebay has “approved” grading services and PMG being one of the bigger and more established and respected you may have hit the nail on the head. The algorithm just picked it up as something suspicious, couldn’t make sense of it and killed the listing.
So maybe a little work on the title like Lincoln Wheat Penny Collectible Coin Dated 1932 Graded Slabbed by Numistrust Co [80 characters] or some such variation to get a few key words in there like Lincoln, Coin, Graded, Collectible, etc., etc. Repost and it will fly like a champ?
Good luck Ryanne…
Mike at MDCGFA in Atl.
Antique could have been right except that a search of the top 5 or 10 coin grading companies does not have a first party grading company by that name.
But another search for 3rd party grading companies and there is one called ….
NGC – Numismatic Guaranty Corporation of America – P.O. Box 4776 – Sarasota, FL 34230
and a 2nd one called
NCS – Numismatic Conservation Services, L.L.C. (a division of NGC) – P.O. Box 4750 – Sarasota, FL 34230
and a 3rd one called…
NTC – Numistrust – 7154 N. University Dr. Suite #210 – Ft. Lauderdale FL, 33321-2916So a company by that name does exist.
Here is the link I found and there seems to be a lot of them in the 3rd party classification.
Maybe Ebay has had some fakes or unreliable grading from the 3rd party companies and have them on some sort of list due to mistrust or too many complaints.https://www.bestcoin.com/Rating-Coin-Grading-Services.htm
This link is a list of companies surveyed by a higher ranked company trying to get data on standard grading procedures within the industry and of course they included 3rd party ones to see if there processes were reputable and consistent with industry standards.
I don’t think 1932 would be a grading number. Some companies I have seen in the past grade from 1-10 or 1-100 but to have a grading system that goes up to 1,932 would seem out of line.
Now you have the address you could actually call the company and see if they can shed any light on the actual coin [the 1932 may be some type of inventory control number] for them. Once you have the data, when you call Ebay you can clue them in.
As Antique Frog says it’s a wild haired guess at this point.
mike at mdcgfa
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Ryanne, in any case. I believe in the old saying that knowledge is power. You are an anchor store, so give them a call and ask, hey what’s up, educate me so I know in the future. What if you had a whole collection of these and the only difference was the dates and-or condition. You would create one, then duplicate the listing 50 times and the edit the dates and list.
Then, you would have 50 listings with the “Error” unknown to you and you would have 50 listings killed. So, I would call and ask.
Just my opinion.
mike mdcgfa
Weird.. But just an observation. How is it that you normally list from the USA and should be on the USA main site platform and the listing is showing a British Sterling pound amount? Never seen that on any of our listings.
Next the US dollar amount of $124.99 does not equal $95.90 it equals $99.41 but I would think that is some sort of an internal Ebay calculated amount error. At lest according to a quick Google online currency converter calculator.
The title seems OK and does nothing more than just states what it is, and that info. is also actually printed on the item, so don’t see a problem there.
In you own words, give Ebay a call and see what they say. If you got this posted on the United Kingdom site, then shows it ships from the USA as a point of origin? Were you doing some research on the United Kindom platform, then got an item listed on there? Worth asking so you can watch out for it in the future.
Other than that, who knows???
mike at MDCGFA
07/12/2019 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64826Simon: I noticed the word “Turbo-Lister” in the link string you attached. Turbo Lister was an old offline listing program that was abandoned by Ebay years ago. It used to be a way to gang list items and track and control inventory after BlackThorn was abandoned.
Turbo Lister got so clunky and outdated, Ebay gave up trying to patch and fix it. It was a mess, but a user could create scheduled listings with TL.
About 7 or 8 years ago, part of the BlackThron employees left Ebay and formed their own companies. Chavi Rogasti formed WonderLister and John Sloan formed SixBit both of which are used by members here and talked about a lot.
Both of these programs offered a transition from TurboLister users over to their programs for those still left on the abandoned TL.
WonderLister and SixBit both offer free scheduled listings and is a feature Troy [T-Satt] uses regularly. Using scheduled listings within SB is a way to end each of your listings at a set day and time, then have SB auto re-list and upload and re-set for another specified time frame.
Some people still end listings every 30 days and other every 90 days, etc., etc. Using these 3rd party apps still allows a seller to do that even though Ebay has stopped those time frames and made eveything all GTC. With SB you can still start, stop and auto re-list in any time frame you want AND it is free. No charge for scheduling anything in both WL and SB.
07/12/2019 at 8:35 am in reply to: Seller Makes an Offer to a Watcher and a New Offer Comes in from a New Buyer #64821That’s cool RTWV: I have never seen that before. That would help many of the new buyers from thinking that 50% thru 75% is a great first offer and don’t understand that too low is too low. I know as a seller we can set an auto decline, but if Ebay has a way to track what our average “acceptance” level is and feeds that to the buyer that is going to make an offer, that would help that buyer maybe getting an “acceptance” quickly.
mc@mdcgfa
07/12/2019 at 8:22 am in reply to: Seller Makes an Offer to a Watcher and a New Offer Comes in from a New Buyer #64820Thanks guys. Jay that is not quite the scenario but I will go ahead and accept the formal offer that came in.
I didn’t send out multiple offers waiting on the first reply. A potential buyer messaged me and just asked if I would consider taking $75. i replied Yes and then sent him an offer. Thenwhile waiting on the first guy to respond an offer comes in from a brand new person, whom I didn’t send an offer to.
But Liz and your comment takes care of the issue for me. That is no matter how many offers are out there, regardless if I sent them or if they sent them to me, or what order they were sent or received, I can take any offer I want regardless if I sent the offer or they sent the offer and not wait on the first guy I sent my offer to.
In other words, if the guy I sent the offer to myself, if he takes too long, I take the next offer that is sent to me.
I just thought if I made the offer and that offer was good for either 24 or 48 hours, the item was now “tied up” for that time frame to allow the person I sent the offer to time to get around to accepting or declining it and only after the 24 hrs. or 48 hours have past, then is the only time I could accept an offer that comes in from a buyer.
Since I sent the first offer, it seems like if I then change my mind after 7 hours goes by, I can just “abandon” that offer “I Sent”.
So if the time frame doesn’t mean anything, then a seller is good to take any offer regardless of how many he send out and how many he gets and that is good. Just wanted to to clarify.
Thanks guys…
mike at MDCGFA
07/11/2019 at 10:41 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64795Thanks Nancy. I mentioned this to her last night and she said she would start some research today. She also said she would come up to the office and do photos during the times when she feels better.
Appreciate the input and concern. We are praying she will survive and make it through all of this. After 50 years of marriage we have been a “team” for most of our lives. We first met in high school in 1966 and got married in 1969. Been together ever since. So I will take her to treatments everyday and we will see how it goes and where we are around mid November.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
07/10/2019 at 7:21 am in reply to: Get Priority Placement in US Search with a Free Delivery Guarantee #64745I have book marked about 8 or 10 current or former SL posters / members who have Etsy stores. Some going back to Flim Flam and Omfug, and even earlier. I think. Troy does, totommyto, us and several others. I have approx. 25 Etsy stores bookmarked that I follow and think some of those I did get from SL members saying in their posts they had Etsy stores.
Some said years ago that they made more on Etsy than their Ebay stores. Etsy fees are still $.20 for a 3 month listing so $.07 per item per month. Etsy fees are lower and almost all of our Sales are for the full price. Every now and then someone will message us and offer a lower amount but not often.
So far this year we have had 58 Sales for a gross of $3,125 in Sales, about $53.88 avg. per item sold or about 10 items per month for about $520 per month. Items sell for more on Etsy and higher priced items seem to sell well on Etsy and almost no offers, which come primarily through a private message asking if we would take less and they mention an amount. If we agree, we just go and change the price to that number and tell them they have 24 hours to buy or we will change the price back. Etsy doesn’t have a formal “Make an Offer” process.
Our Ebay store grosses during good-strong months about $2,000 plus and on slower months [late spring and summer] about $1,300 to $1,500 per month.
We plan on eventually having all items cross posted on both platforms EXCEPT for those items that are not old enough to be classified as 20 year old vintage [pre-2000] on Etsy. A loop hole is on old stuff, some things can’t be dated so we list it even if unsure.
Currently we have 1,212 items on Ebay and 581 of those are also posted on Etsy. The only reason we don’t have all of our Ebay items on Etsy is because we are working on updating and re-formating several hundred of our very old items that we listed years ago and need to be updated within SixBit first before we send on over to Etsy.
07/09/2019 at 4:38 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64726Just got my bay box shipment and noticed a sticker on the box that mentioned “Sales Tax”. In my post over in the shipping forum on my post about having a slim selection of supplies to choose from, I also mentioned a few things I personally thought Ebay could consider to help Sellers out a little bit more.
One of those suggestions was to allow those of us who have a formal business structure to provide our Federal ID number and State Tax Resellers ID number so that we do not have to pay all of the various states Sales taxes that are now being imposed in 26 states I think.
Well the decal said to go to the following link: ebay.com/salestax and register your Tax Exempt Dept. of Revenue Resale number. Well that is good to know. By doing so, anything that you buy that is part of your business or inventory that we source off of Ebay, anything for your business that is to be resold, we won’t be taxed on it because it is all for resale and will be taxed to the buyer at their end when they purchase from you.
How far that can be stretched, because some things while not for actual resale are used in the process of making an object saleable, but that is a fine line for your CPA.
But thought I would share in case you have a Dept. of Revenue resale number or business license in your state.
I haven’t jumped over there yet but will do so shortly and see if there are any snags.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
07/09/2019 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64723Thanks to everyone for the special thoughts and prayers for Susan.
Tomorrow is the group meeting with the hospital chemo and radiation team. Schedules will be set-up, a small injection port inserted for chemo and a small abdominal tattoo to serve as a target for the focused radiation. Supposedly after tomorrow we will find out the start date and appointment times for the coming 18 weeks.
Thanks again everyone for your thoughts and hopefully Susan can walk away from all of this by next year as a well person.
07/09/2019 at 11:37 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64720Same goes for us here at MDCGFA.
And if time is more of a consideration than just money, use the ad income to to hire a person who can handle the technical side, moderate and all Jay and Ryanne would do is post their once a week pod-cast. Cut down on the amount of time they spend actually reading and replying in person.
Johnny Carson ended up having co-hosts do his shows for multiple weeks in a row. Do a weekly 45 pod-cast and save up some stuff for a longer once a month pod-cast and cover several bigger topics more in dept.
So lots of things to think about that may cover either the associated costs or the time constraints.
But again, just an opinion.
mc@mdcgfa
07/09/2019 at 11:09 am in reply to: Get Priority Placement in US Search with a Free Delivery Guarantee #64716Yep, I got an Etsy update and read this same article about an hour ago.
It was posted in an older Seller Update but that was end of last year if I remember. In any case Etsy is going to request Sellers to go with free shipping on items over $35 and offer it on smaller dollar items if the total purchase reaches or goes over $35. Their incentive for Buyers to add a few more items to their shopping carts to get Free Shipping.
Here is the link to the email from the Etsy President for those who want to read his complete statement. We got this in our email box yesterday.
https://view.e.etsy.com/?qs=02f05644376c956cda4a7f7cb97b313f076e268d7166876dd71b09786574bccc109f06142d2052ae83aa291164d2f62d5f3a4097d400d592c8f238d44063273b78727a7a1a30195cAnd here is the link to the Etsy suggestions and help on how to go about doing and implementing the Free Shipping Program. It even has videos.
https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook/article/get-priority-placement-in-us-search-with/540244125961Etsy right out front states to add the cost into the pricing of your item and even has a few tutorials on their suggestions of how best to handle all of this. And to offer Sellers their incentives to do this they come right and say, up front, you offer free shipping and you will be listed in all searches, advertising, sponsor pages and online and even television advertising up top and in front of those who don’t.
At least they are open about it. Ebay for years has kept whether they do or don’t do special things for those who offer free shipping. One of the conspiracy theory topics.
We have almost 600 items on Etsy and about 1,200 on Ebay. The goal, using SixBit will be to try to get almost all of our items cross listed since most will qualify.
So, simply put, Offer Free Shipping, build it into your prices and we will give you preferential treatment. Don’t offer Free Shipping and we will handle you differently and with less attention than those who do. “DROP the MIKE!”.
So if I am going to have to do this for the Etsy listings and they are cross posted then we will have to think about just going ahead and doing it on Ebay since they will be the same item.
But as we have discussed before here on SL the only way to get your butt covered is to take the furthest zone and build the highest shipping cost into your items OR to build in the mid-point of the United States and build that in and make money on the shorter shipments and loose a little on the longer shipments.
BTW, Kinsley, KS or Lebanon, KS and approx. zip:67547 is considered the middle of the United States.
The USA is 2,680 miles across from New York City to Los Angeles, so 1,340 miles would be a mid point across. So build in 1,340++ miles or about 5 USPS zones into your item’s price by taking the estimated SHIPPING weight [object+box+packing-dunnage] and that would give you the averaged out scenario. Any buyer you ship to closer will pay more and any buyer further away will pay less. When the buyer pays more, you make more, when the buyer pays less you make less.Then of course the extreme of this is to build in zone 8 prices into all your items and you will make more on everything you ship except for the buyers located in zone 8 itself.
The whole philosophy to all of this hoopla, and Etsy is publically saying it for once and for all, is that buyers are lazy, they don’t want to or can’t do the math, they will pay more for something if they “think” they are getting free shipping, even though it is not. The other thing is with the shipping built in, the buyer has no way to separate the cost of the item from the cost of the shipping. So it makes it tough to comparison shop. Is the $50 they just spent a $25 item with a $25 shipping cost OR a $40 item with a $10 shipping cost OR a $10 item with a $40 dollar shipping costs. They don’t know and seem not to care. As long as it says FREE SHIPPING.
And, Etsy is saying they did the experiments and TEST [there you go Jay] and they say, more Sales Result from those with Free Shipping. And they believe it so much, they are now willing to promote it heavily and offer incentives to do it and disincentives to not do it and PUBLICLY saying so. In other words, NOTE to our Sellers, Beware, if you don’t do this then we are not going to help you much. You want some type of Promotions, then do it yourself, run a sale or pay for Special Promotions, but those Sellers with Free Shipping we are going to help them out.
Back to Ebay, it has long been tossed about if Ebay does this but no one really knows, thus still a conspiracy or mystery theory.
We have bounced back and forth on this for several years now and looks like time for us here at MDC Galleries to re-think it all again.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
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07/08/2019 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64687I would guess J&R would know the traffic stats. SL has about 5,600 members and I usually see about 40 to 50 logged in at the bottom most of the time. Many whom seem to stay logged in continually. So don’t know about random visitors that can pop in.
Maybe Jay will drill down some numbers on this and see if they do stay, if the ads can generate enough cash to cover the expense of a “Forum Helper”.
mc@mdcgfa
07/08/2019 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 418: Brick & Mortar Store Is Not For Us #64684@MDJ: Sounds good to me. And if the costs of a helper for J&R to handle everything for them could be easily covered by paid ad clicks then, it seems like that would be the way to go. But, the BIG BUT is IF the ads would produce enough clicks. Most of us are hardcore resellers with our own outside, local sources and with only about 5,000 SL members are there enough non-members who visit regularly to provide enough clicks to earn enough money.
Looks like an experiment for Jay is in the wind. 🙂
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