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Wow! .. That’s a whole lot in that space. Essentially a 20’x26’=520 sq. feet holding 8,000 items. But then I assume you go fairly high up to acquire cubic sq. feet.
A regular 2 car garage which we are in is usually about 22×24 sq. ft. so not much smaller in flat sq. footage than the area u have allocated to Ebay inventory. We have about 1,200 items in there and on4 7 foot high shelves x 14 feet deep.
We are quickly running out of room but do have some spaces on the shelves left and can do some condensing. It does help if like you, to have some items like patches, trivets, shirts, caps, etc. or smaller flatter like items, We have a lot of 12x12x12 in type of stuff, dish sets, water pitchers, bread box sized items. Don’t think we could squeeze 4,000 items in [half of your inventory] in the same 4,000 sq. feet UNLESS we start to use smaller than and flatter than a certain number as a metric and criteria for future buying.
And we do have 3 isles for walking in between our rows of shelves which also takes up some sq. footage.
Luckily, we have a storage center right up and around the corner from us, about 3 minutes driving if we don’t hit the two lights. So that is our back up plan when we outgrow the garage and some attic space we haven’t used yet.
Re: bcfol440 … Well what do you know. The last sale we went two was a residential house, located at the end of a cul-de-sac street, way up on a hill. I grabbed one of her business cards then looked up her LLC on the Sec. of State site and she is listed as the owner of that house. Her listed business and location states, Reselling Service Industry with the business location stating as a non-commercial residential area. So Bingo.
Wonder if you are located in the greater Atlanta Metro area and we ended up going to the same lady’s residential showroom?
Her business card also says she does house staging for real estate agents. These perminent items in her showroom could easily be loaded on a truck and taken to stage a home. She may have a bunch already staged around the area and she uses this high end home as her storage unit for her inventory and periodically opens it up for an estate sale to either thin out her inventory or to sell it at such high prices that if you are one of the “sucker” customers she makes extra income. She had items marked at over $700 and $800 dollars that should be about $125 to $175 which we would like to get in the $25 range.
Same concept we figured was going on at the first sale. Hundreds of people buying a few items at a time but yet no one empty space out of thousands of items.
I overheard one of the floor walkers asking an antendee was going to the “Auction” next week. They said no, but where was it going to be held. The floor walker said some address where it was going to be and also said, it was a rented commercial space for the “supposedly large collection” that did not sell at the estate sale this week. So, a slam full estate house after thousands of buyers and not one empty space inside and a rented commercial space for an auction.
Yes, there are professional estate sales companies, buying items, merchandising houses and or locations and calling them “estate sales”. I am just guessing but maybe the use of the term “estate” is from either the items came from real estates all around the country then trucked into these big city location, or it is bought merchandise, and the fact it is being sold in a home they can legally call it an “estate sale” or even stretch it to the point that if you buy this item it can be displayed in your current “estate” [i.e. own home].
I asked a few questions to dig deeper and didn’t get any answers. i asked who the former owners were, did one spouse pass and the remaining person was down sizing, did anyone go into a nursing home, if they were collected it seemed that they collected everything and had no focus, etc., etc. but no valid response. Just generic answers, like they traveled and bout stuff.
So if you are in Atlanta these two were Mary Monroe LLC and Peachtree Battle LLC. [but the pEachtree Battle was a dba of another corp. name I saw on some collateral material up on the check out desk.
Just some tips for those who are hitting the highly advertised estate sales in this area.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta.
I was just typing a reply.. Congratulations on the Uniform and going to inform you that 2+2=4 not 5 LOL.. :-). Have you had your coffee this morning? 🙂
Great grab on those higher end items. we went to an huge estate sale yesterday. It was last day and there were hundreds of cars. we had to walk blocks to just get to the front door. Lines of people filing in and lines waiting at 4 cashiers to check out. Uniformed police officers on each of the 3 floors and atleast a dozen or more of floor walkers. No bags, purses allowed inside, had to be checked. all items had to be hand carried out and placed on holding shelves. Everything was priced sky high. So even at 50% off and no extra negotiations by the way, the half off price was almost the retail selling price. Very unusal and nice eclectic items but a small folded Fenton vase that sells all day long for the $40 range was priced at $95. Most items, and there were thousands all over the place, and for being the third day, we think they were bringing in items to re-stock each day, were in the hundreds of dollars each.
Susan had a few small items, but after what I was telling her what we would have to list them for, she just got frustrated and put her box down and said let’s go.
We then hit one more sale down the road and it was the same thing. A whole house full to the brim on 3 floors. The lady said she owned the house. But I think what we have figured out, is some of these people actually buy these high end homes, them “BUY” a lot of the merchandise or import some, then use the actual house they pay a mortgage on as their showroom and run perma-estate sales out of them.
There was no way the lady in the last home was living there. All of the bedrooms were full, the bed and floors covered and all the walls, even up to the ceiling and everything had a price tag on it.
So, we never thought of this, but maybe rents in the strip malls or commercial rents anywhere are super high and some require a 5 year lease, that maybe buying a home, or renting a home for 6 months, then just move in stuff, set it up as a display space, and run estate sales out of it. Then go rent another home, and move the sale there for another six months.
We don’t know, but something, we think is fishy is going on. There is a law now about a company having a prepetual ‘going out of business” sale running, but maybe this is a way to get around that, and just have a perpetual “Estate Sale” running. Maybe they then buy complete estate sales else where and just keep loading it into the owned home or rented home until, slap full, then run a sale followed by an auction, then close up and move on.
Any thoughts from others on this experience?
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
JUST FYI.. Shipped today an item we paid $75 for on Sept. 18th and it sold yestrday for $350. We knew what the value was. A couple of weeks ago we purchased 4 items for $50 to $75 that we have listed at the $250 + range. But we also picked up 62 items that are listed in the $40 to $65 range.
So it is always a mixture, like Jay mentioned, and you do both the low end and the higher end at the same time.
We also now have gotten to know who the estate sale managers are and what kind of clientele they cater too. We know if we see a sales by estate seller A then expect to see items in the hundreds of dollars all over the place. Also in Atlanta we see where they are located geographically and we immediately know it will all be fairly high end because that area is all one to four million dollar homes. On the flip side we know areas that the highest median home prices are $150k and they are going to be full of Tupperware LOL 🙂 [you get the point].
If you use the paid databases, which we do for research and or as you said, have some knowledge in certain areas it is not as big of a gamble.
Plus our best high end items are almost always at the estate sales in the high end areas vs. auctions. And as we have discussed before, at estate sales, you know you have the item if it is in your hands. At auctions you wait hours for something to just present itself, then it is a coin toss if you end up getting it.
Just tossing in a couple of cents worth. 🙂
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta.
Jay.. Oh I agree by all means. The $100 items are much harder to find and we don’t limit ourselevs just to those price points. Gracious no. But my point was same as yours, it is nicer to sell the same dollar amount and have to pull, pack and ship a whole lot less.
I was just commenting that it’s nice to have that few items to deal with to get $600 plus dollars in Sales.
FYI.. Our current inventory shows $6,000 in cost and we have it listed as $50,000 to sell at [which is approx. 8 times the buying cost]. Who knows after we either take some offers or have a Sale of some sort. But we haven’t used a Sale in about 2 months. Things seem to be selling OK without running a Sale.
Breakdown out of 1,124 items as of today in our store: The avg. buy it cost is approx. $5.50 per item and the Avg. selling price is $45.00
17% of our inventory is listed at under $20
83% is listed at over $20.00 per item
52% at 583 items at $20-$50 ea.
26% at 296 items at $50 and higher
5% at 55 items at $100 or moreSo as you see the $100 plus items are certainly in the minority.
For Funsies and Giggles here are you and Ryannes numbers from Sept. 2014.. You had 3,553 items listed and they broke down this way. That you would just like to reminisce. 🙂 🙂
3553 Range 9/2/14
.01 > 5.00 10
5% 5.01 > 10.00 49
182 10.01 > 15.00 12315.01 > 20.00 449
34% 20.01 > 25.00 335
1222 25.01 > 30.00 43830.01 > 35.00 6
35.01 > 40.00 771
35% 40.01 > 45.00 28
1248 45.01 > 50.00 44350.01 > 60.00 257
60.01 > 70.00 42
70.01 > 80.00 128
15% 80.01 > 90.00 57
516 90.01 > 100.00 32100.01 > 200.00 225
200.01 > 300.00 75
300.01 > 400.00 26Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
I’m with you TTR: We use our Ebay supplies for Etsy also. We have developed a “cocoon” process of protecting our items since almost all are glass, ceramic or pottery and porcelain. Our Ebay feedback is loaded with compliments on the heavy duty packing. Only had 4 things broken since 2002.
I was packing the items we sold yesterday and as I was packing we kept getting the cha-chings. Wife Susan said we should post on the forum what these sales were about.
Quickly it is something Jay brought up several years ago and after we closed down 6 antique booths we divested ourselves of the cheaper items. Jay said he rather pay $20 for something if it could sell for over a $100 and then sell less items but for the same monthly dollar amount and have to ship less, than sell hundreds and hundreds of cheap items and Ryanne pack herself to death on all those items.
So, one of the few times, going to throw a few quick numbers out there. Only sold 7 items between yesterday and noon today but for a total of $606 [avg. $300 per day] and those cost us $110 to buy.
And over the last couple of years we have been finding items that we have listed for $100 up to 3 or 4 hundred. Just picking what we feel is higher end items and we don’t mint spending $25 on something if we can sell for $150 +/-.
Just thought I would mention it.
By the way, since this week is about all time numbers, back in 2013 when Susan and I were deciding about shutting the antique booths down we were trying to decide if full time online e-commerce was going to be for us we tracked all of Jay and Ryanne’s sales for that full year. Highest item they sold, how many they sold, what they paid for it, how many items were under $10, and every item they had in increments of $10 per tier.
I still have that spread sheet, Btw the way I did that for every member of Scanveglfie that reported numbers that years. i tracked thousands of solds, cost and selling prices. That makes a very interesting buy list by the way.But back on point. Jay said in 2013 that is when he wnated to buy higher end items and sell them for higher dollar amounts and get out of the “sweat shop” mentality.
I wonder if I ran that anaysis now, how many items J&R have under $10, $15, under $20, 25, 40, 50, 75 etc., etc. and see how that compared to what he said his goal was back then.
But in our case what he said really stuck. Back then our avg. per item buy price was $22.00 per item. Now we have that cost down to an avg. of in the $7 range and the items selling in the 10 times that and up. And we haven’t even started on all the art prints in our formewr company portfolios.
Just thought I would throw some numbers out for a change. But I rely on general ledger and journal accounting and P&L sheets mostly.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
The two small round discs are ball markers, used on the putting green. When you land on the green or make a putt, especially if you ball is close to the cup and possibly in the way of another golfers line you place one of the small round buttons right behind your ball to “mark it’s place” and then pick your ball up. When your turn to putt comes agagin you place your ball right back down, directly in front of your ball marker, let go of the ball then pick up the marker and put back in your pocket.
The long two prong tool is a divot repair tool. This is used when you make your final approach shot to the green and you hit a high arching ball up in the air and it land down hard and solid on the green. You walk up to the spot where your ball first hit, especially if the green is alittle wet and push the tool down into the grass on 2 or 3 sides of that ball depression your ball just made and push down and twist a little, thus pulling the compressed dirt and gress back up to level and “repaing” the hole-depression you just made. After fluffing up the turff, then slightly tap it a little with the edge of your putter to “pat” it back down smooth. Sort of like repairing a “pot hole” in a road.
The third tool you have is a spike tool [wrench]. When you clean your shoe spikes, many times a golfer needs to unscrew the spikes and clean them and the threaded studs that they screw onto. The two small points fit into two small holes that are on standard spikes, but metal and the newer soft spikes. You use this tool like a wrench. Insert the points into the holes in the spikes and twist counter clock wise to remove, then after you replace the spikes after cleaning and have finger tightened, you use the tool to “tighten” and snug the spike back up.
The divot tool and ball markers are carried in a golfers pocket during a round. The spike tool is used only at home or the club house to clean your shoes. When finished, everything is stored back in the pouch and the whole thing is usually kept in one of the many side zippered areas on the side of a golf bag.
Hopefully this gives you both key words and a complete description for that area.
P.S. they don’t go for much. Most golf gloves come with a snap on ball marker on the wrist section of the glove. Snap it off, use it, then snap it back on the back of your glove. Purists usually use a dime, place it down and then tap it on the top with their ball to push it level with the grass. It seems to not deflect your opponenets ball as much as some of the snap markers. And some purists complain about rounded bumpy markers and if they miss a putt will blame your marker if it is too thick.
Create a divot and not repair it, everbody will yell at you, not clean your spikes, when your wife will yell at you. That’s why most golfers just leave their shoes in the garage. easier than cleaning.
As Jay says, many, many corporations hand these out at Charity and Corporate golf outings, usually imprinted with their company logo. Some golfers collect ball markers, but mostly for large corps. like Shell Oil, Coca-Cola, Mobile Oil, Buick and things like that. They also collect logo golf balls and display on a wall rack. Sure you have seen many of them.
Unless this is something from a tournament where someone like Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Bobby Jones [or any of the great hall of famers used], then not worth much.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art.
Yep.. Our assistant Lisa just Googled grapefruit bowl and then followed a Pinterest photo by visiting a store called countrykitchen.com and There they were. So Bingo! .. Antique frog. Non-slip grapefruit bowls, who would have thunk! “What a Country!”
mike at MDCGFA
Yes, I have had this problem for almost a year. Have spent sveral days in a row, just recently with them. They called me back every morning at 10:00 EST and we worked on it. Had to get a 3 way conference call going with the Ebay rep and their own tech team. It is a problem thay have had for awhile and can’t seem to get it fixed.
They have several tickets open on it and admitted that there are others it is affecting. this isn’t a new issue by any means either and they admitted that too.
I have to run for this evevning but will log back in tomorrow and brief ya’ll just a little more.
It has nothing to do with any of your settings, preffernces, contry excludes, country includes, how you ship, business policies or anything like that. And that came from several Ebay employee going through all of my settings line by line. It was a crazy three or for days. So unusual for Ebay to call me multiple days in a row at the exact time [a call apointment] and keep working on this.
At this time there is still no fix. I have a current open ticket number but so have I had them in the past.
so until, tomorrow.
Mike at MDC Galleries
Jay is correct. SB & WL do some of the things to help keep them in synch and they both are making updates and improvements almost monthly, but 3 or 4 platforms fully automated, not yet but it is on the drawing board and forth coming from them. WonderLister has an Amazon interface, Shopify [which I am helping them with and am having some good success] and an Etsy interface.
SB has their Etsy interface up and going but Troy will have to tell you how much of it is automated.
WL also send all of our new listings to Twitter and we get followers from those almost everyday. They are also working on an InstaGram interface. That we are pushing WL on because as we start listing our portfolios of artwork [we are close to start listing those], we think IntaGram will be good to boost traffic to our Shopify store.
The Shopify interface is synching to some degree. As a test for the BETA testing experiment, I deleted all of our Shopify store day before yesterday. Then I did a synch from WL to Shopify and WL took all of our 1,136 litstings and did a Refresh of our Shopify store and all 1,136 listings were re-populated into our Shopify store in less than 3 minutes. Boom!
Another automated synch is I am experimenting with price and quantity chages in both Shopify and also Ebay and every 10 minutes WL does a scrape of data from both platforms and if it detects changes it changes the blck line of text to red and present a message that a change on one of the platforms was detected and will up date those changes. That is working from Shopify to Ebay and then from Ebay to Shopify.
Now what I am banging on is for the tech team to expedite this same process to include the Etsy platform. But as for now, I we are doing a manual process for our Etsy store.
What we do for an Etsy listing is we do a copy and paste from the Shopify listing directly off of a web browser where we have opened up our domain name. The Shopify listing has the complete Ebay data in it. Shopify holds the title, price, condition, description and Item specifics complete. WL when it creates a Shop. lisint can pull all of this data from Ebay and places it in our Shop. listing including photos. So all we do is copy that “full” listing from Shopify and then paste that whole thing into Etsy. Takes about 10 secs. But we do have to then attach the photos to the etsy listing. So a Shop. to Etsy only takes about 60 to 90 secs. and then publish it. But still a manual process.But WL tech team is working on getting this to also work just like the Shopify module.
In SixBit [Troy and Veronica use it] along with other members, has the Etsy interface up and going better than WL but they do not have a Shopify module going at all and talking with the SB guru JC [Troy’s friend], not going to in the forseable future.WL does already have an Amazon interface and I see a lot of “tabs” for moving data into Amazon but since we don’t have an Amazon store and Amazon doesn’t lean toward one of a kind used stuff, that feature is really of no interest to us.
Now there is a big hitter in the multiplatform field, I think they are called ASA Inventory Management systems, [unsure], but they are a big e-commerce application, and at the time I researched were hundreds of dollars per month=thousand per year and for large companies with, hundreds of thousands of items and listing them on several web sites and large reselling platforms. Way out of our league as well as an average Ebay, Etsy type seller.
I sort of rambled agagin, but maybe some of this will help.
The problem I found trying to decide on all of this is which is the best one to go with. Well, they are so diverse and both WL and SB do have a learning curve and they furnish different types of reports and offers different types of features it takes a long time to make a comparison. I used SixBit for 3 months, then 6 months with WL, both tria versions, was having to learn to navigate both the whole time. Then gradually went and stayed with WL. But I will say I did go back to SixBit a year or so ago due to thinking it would be faster to get the Etsy store going. But after deciding on our own store in our own domain name and seeing WL was further along on that venue I dropped SB agagin, [Sorry JC and John] and jumped back into WL.
But a word of advice and see if troy and Mark agree, it took me over a year to settle in and that is a long time of which I could have been just focusing listing within Ebay itself. So working with these programs will take up some time and I had to look at it as an investment into my full time business. AND I think once you finally decide, you will have to stick with one or the other. Bouncing around will cause some issues. But once lock and loaded with either WL or SB then a full time seller will never look back to just using a one platform approach and doing it all in either the Etsy, Shopify or Ebay internal forms and processes.
When we list in WL and Troy in SB, we use just one form, one style screen and we both have customizable controls to allow us to see only those sections we want and how we want to see them. SB being a little better at that for the time being.
OK that … was the mug and a half of coffee answer along with another wall of text for the Scavengerlife infrastructure!!! 🙂
Mike and the management team at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
SmartParts Small equipment Parts divs. 🙂Jay.. Boy that would add to the avg cost of our goods to add a $25 trip charge to the cost of going to thrifts, sales, auctions.
In Atlanta the Ubers are running $50 for a 36 mile trip to the Atl airport. That’s $1.38 per mile. Atlanta is really spread out as you know first hand. We source all the way to Marietta sometimes. That’s 40 miles west. If we came back with 50 items that would add $55 over there and $55 back or $110 round trip or $2.00 per item to our COG. Yikes,
But just kidding around here. I get your point. Many oldster’s [which Susan and I are], do just need to get to the doctor, groceries, a friends huse a few times a week.
Just to throw an opinion in. The vast majority of accidents are rear end collisions. I think it is way up in the high 70 to 80%. So what I think would be a much faster help in that respect would be a quick modification to the auto braking system already out on the market and that is that your car would automatically begin braking or slowing down the closer you get to the car in front. I believe 10 feet [a full car length] for each 10 MPH. So at 60 MPH your auto braking system would keep you 60 feet behind the car in front of you.
The next suggestion is for pressure sensitive brake pedals, How many times have we seen brake lights in front of us, but we don’t know how fast they are de-accllerating? So if you are just lightly braking your rear brakes lights come on normally, but as you apply harder and harder compression, the lights in the back start to blink, then flash, the with real hard braking, the whole back of your car starts flashing both red, white and blue lights, signaling hard emergerency braking is taking place?
Just asking. Sure it would add to the price of a car, but since cars cost more than my first house, what a few hundred dollars more, especially if it could cut down on the largest cause of car crashes and lives saved. An acctual life saving additive to automobiles.
But what do i know, I am just drinking my coffee and thinking, instead of listing, which I should be doing. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sorry I am late to the game. Where do I go Coach! 🙂 LOL I have been tied up doing over 30 hours of HTML bulk eiditing and coding to reformat the way our listings look so they will transfer and look better on the Shopify cell phone APP.
So, T-Satt got a lot covered and most of what I scanned is spot on. But I will address your questions by number also to maybe add more to the inquiries.
SO here comes the wall of text.. get ready to have your eyes glaze over.#1. Wonder Lister is not web-based, but SixBit is.
>>> Yes and No. WL and SB use an SQL database and that resides in your Microsoft operating system and cpmes with your windows operating system when you buy or install your operating system. Thus, both WL and SB create a brand new SQL Dbase when you install the programs. They both have their own names. So I had a SixBit dBase and a WL Dbase installed at the same time. Those databases both reside on your hard drive, both do auto back-ups and I have redirected those to my 4 TerraByte external hard drive. In turn I have that HD backed up by Carbonite, One Drive and Google drive in the cloud. That is how you can have quadriple back-ups of your Dbase residing both on your hard drive and in the cloud. I also keep my photos in a seprarte file on the External and have them backed up also. The reason I didn’t let SB or WL both store the photos, it makes the Dbase extremely large and the MS SQL server is limited in size. I maxed out my SixBit Dbase after I downloaded my Ebay store and started getting warning messages I needed to step up and buy the larger version of SQL for $150 a month. Nope, so I broke my photos out of the SQL Dbase and save them on my external. So I host my own photos, but they are backed up in 3 other locations. I can retrieve my whole photo groups in a heart beat should they ever get blown away.
Both Dbases from SB and WL are fairly small without the photos being contained in them and there is no fear of outgrowing those now.store that If I understand this correctly, I have to host my own database for WL but save SB to the Cloud.
>>> NO! This means I’d still have to invest in Cloud Storage. NO! I use the free OneDrive and Google Drive accounts for my photos. My OneDrive Free cloud storage is 1 TerraByte that comes free with my MS Office annual subsctiption.#2. Credit card is required for WL but not for SL. I’m assuming this refers to the trial period. Do either of them work with PayPal?
>>> My WL monthly subscription [$25 per month] is charged to the PayPal account. I can’t remember if they asked for a C/C because that was so long ago.#3. I like that WL offers auto back up. It’s one of my worries with EAT, purchased off Mike’s recommendation, that I miss a week (or something) bc I forget to back up. I have severe ADHD. Forgetting is normal for me and I have to very particularly create systems/routines to remember stuff. Even then, I can forget something important.
>>> Both SB and WL do auto backs of the SQL Dbase and saves it on your own computers hard drive. The problem with that is if you get a HD crash or the Blue screen of death then they will be lost right along with everything else on your rig. I have my auto back up redirected to my external HD. You can select where you want the auto back-ups saved to with both programs. By having them on my external hard drive, then Carbonite auto picks up those files – back ups daily and I always have a cloud back up of them.#4. Features – I don’t know enough about any of these features to know how important they are/not. For example, I like that WL offers delivery tracking and sales reporting, that SB does not, but don’t know how useful order tracking would be, which SB has and WL does not.
>>> Both WL and SB will have this forever. No worries. Both are even on this feature.#5. Integrations – I seem to remember discussion on both platforms having some integration somewhere, I think WL has Twitter for example, so this comparative is incorrect.
>>> WL does have an auto Twitter integration. Every time I submit a listing to Ebay, a short Twitter message is auto sent to twitter with athe Title and short description of the item. I usually get several responses back from those who follow us on Twitter over the next few days. In turn I also follow those people. BUT as Jay always says, “Does any of that actually translate into Sales, and can you prove any of it”. Who knows, but it happens automatically. They are also working on getting integrated with Intagram which would also attach aphotos with the sent message.
I talked with SB and they have no plans for any social media interface in the short term.#6. I have to admit, I like WL’s price options a lot better.
>>> Yes WL is less expensive but once finalized the Shopify and Etsy interface will be an additional cost per module, but still less than SB.
Now, a question: if I get either platform, can I do away with EAT, or do I still need it as a separate accounting program as well?
>>> That is a personal choice, but once I lock and loaded with SB and WL, I ran both for about 6 months, both at the same time, I abandoned EAT. I got everything I needed from these programs and everything was automatic. EAT, you have to manually “remember” to click on it to update it. In WL and SB the updates are automatic and by the way, Instant. They stay synched up with Ebay about every 5 or 10 minutes. But as you say EAT is only a few bucks for a whole year. Just keep EAT but EAT will still have to be remembered to open it and click for it to back up. I went about 4 months before I remembered to manually update EAT and it only can go back 90 days so I had a void in the data at that point, so I just ended the use of EAT.It’s not that expensive and it was a great help in putting together my taxes this year, but do either WL or SB do the same things?
>>> Well sort of yes and no. There is plenty of data available from within WL and SB BUT I run off a more of a standard accounting approach, use a COA and categorize our costs and expenses in that COA. That type of accounting WL and SB both won’t do. And those reports can be used by a CPA BUT they can’t be imported by a CPA directly into their tax preparation software.To clarify something Troy said. I NO LONGER use QuickBooks. It is, as he says, over kill for just online selling. I too use QUICKEN for BUSINESS. Much simpler, very much like Go Daddy and provides everything I need for year end tax. QuickBooks claim to fame is that it includes “Invoicing” so if you are doing outside work where you need to bill your customers and keep track of outstanding materials for those jobs in process and outstanding billings at year end, and prefer the “Accrual” method of accounting instead of going on a “Cash Basis”, a journal entry type of bookkeeping system is just fine. The General Ledger method is more complicated and is moe for other types of businesses. When I owned the remodeling company and the spray foam insulation company I had to use QuickBooks. But not now.
And BTW, Intuit who owns QuickBooks sold Quicken to another company and they have cleaned it up, fixed a bunch of things and it runs great and smoothly. It interfaces with our bank, auto pulls down all checking amounts, credit cards and also interfaces with PayPal.
Hey Sharyn, didn’t think about a mfg. stock photo. I may try looking for that. Then drop it into the mix. We have a couple of blank spots. Then if it doesn’t sell as a 3 pc. party set in decent amount of time, then separate into two listings. especially since we already have them up in our store.
mike at MDCGFA
Hey SS:
The outer box can be opned. It is a tuck tab / flap style. But the inner box is a brown corrugated box that is taped at each end with 2″ wide clear tape. I can tell it was the original factory tape. No tears around it and it is slightly yellowing. If I remove that tape there is going to be tear marks in the brown cardboard or I will have to slit it and then decide if I am going to re-tape it or leave the end loose.
These are not high end anything. They are more of a Stein-Mart, T-J Max, World Market item and price range. They are made in China and stamped Clay Art 2003. I have them already listed at $87.50 [I think]. So maybe too much fuss about nothing but then agagin, if they would show better out of the box and being able to see the 3-d [dimensional] angle and help sell them as a set faster or as tTt said above, sell the pitcher separately from the tray and dip bowl.
