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That is hilarious. And T-Satt could put together an A-Team from SL members. LOL 🙂
Sharyn, Mark, Brian and others: Speaking of the Estate Sales topic. Yes we too do the Estate Sales. Most post online and show lots of photos. Then we go on the last day to get the lowest prices. But we are usually so disappointed that so much of the nicer stuff we saw in the photos is gone. sure, there are things left behind, but also some fairly junky or made in China stuff. Great prices but much less selection.
So question on ya’lls procedures. Do any of you go on the first day [usually huge crowds or waiting lines], or late in the second day [usually no lines or waiting], create the “piles” of items you want and then haggle and bargain hard? We have done this before with varied success. If the dealer sellers know us, then usually yes. But then we have just as many, that tell us, we can only do usually 10-15% off on the second day and stick to it. Even if I create a pile of stuff they don’t budge as much as the 50% to 75% we can usually get on the last day. But here is what I tell Susan sometimes, 75% off of junk is still junk.
So what are your methods for working your way through the full price, less price, lowest pricing tiers that come on the aging of days vs. the selection and quality of items that start to diminish the moment the doors open?
Mike at MDC Galleries
Hey: I saw your post late, been super busy last few days. But thought I would through some cooments in on this item that may help you with the remaining ones.
These are called “cuts”. They are inked “relief” [flat surface] and printed with a letterpress, as you have them listed, or Vandercook press. They do not have anything to do with “silkscreen” at all in any form or fashion. They are made type high, .923 or .937. They are etched plates mounted on wood blocks and printed by way of pressure down on the paper and the block. Same process as old newspaper letterpress hot or cold type. It requires a type setter to “Lock” these “cuts” into place inside of a “chase” and at times depending on the type of product or publication, magazine, newspaper or in this case an individual card.
The screen printing process requires a “stencil” to be made and mounted on mesh [fabric], which in turn is also stretched tight on a wood or metal frame. Very much like the way a canvass painting is stretched. Then ink is “pushed through” the image onto the paper by using a squeegee to pull across the surface and “push” the ink through.
Suggest a quick Wiki lookup of Screen Process [silk hasn’t been used in decades] and then Lino Type, letterpress, gravure, and advertising cuts. Then you will have a whole new list of key words to use to list that may help to sell faster or for higher amount to the specialized collectors. Just a friendly suggestion.
I know you may say well there are a ton of others using the keywords “silkscreen” in their listings. Yep, I see that and everyone of them are incorrect.
So, knowing there are people who collect items from the printing industry, you may have a better chance of selling the specific type of collectors. Some may be artists who will even start using these plates or cuts, start re-inking them and running them through a press again and issuing and selling re-prints, called re-strikes or Remarque’s.
I sold 5 or 6 advertising cuts late last year. They were much smaller than your plate, made for single color printing. Granted they were about advertising which made it a cross collectible, Carnation Malted Milk advertising and got about $40 to $50 each. Listed them separately.
Just thought I would try to help you out with some of this so that you may have a better chance of getting the others sold.
Respectfully submitted…
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine ArtRTWV: As far as Worthpoint goes nothing is listed. I thought maybe I had too many keywords to match so I cut the search back to Xerox 400 and nothing. So maybe someone with TerraPeak.
Mike at MDCGFA
Makes this whole process seem interesting if one does participate in the Hassel Free Returns Program, which we do. In the program, we get a notice of the buyers desire for a return, we see the reason, then at that point if we accept it, the label is generated and sent to the Buyers and automatically at our expense, and taken out of our PayPal. Then after we get the return and inspect, it is at that point we can issue a refund. I guess it would be at this point if we disagree we would have to contact the buyer and tell them that we will be issuing a refund LESS the shipping cost so we get reimbursed for the Pre-paid label?
In the last few years it has been getting so wonky, that it gets hard to figure out what is really the best way to do all this stuff. Even J&R don’t state “how it is” any longer, their comments more are along the lines of, “I think this is the way it is suppose to work,” or “yeah, TRY THAT and if not call Ebay”. Hard to set a standard methodology when the process changes rep by rep, case by case and rule change by rule rule.
And not much longer we will be getting our next “Ebay Update”. Joy oh Joy!!!
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Same for us Jay. we use the big Ikea bags for both the packages and for loading items we buy at auction. Our carrier will either take the Ikea bags to the PO and bring back the next day or just unload it into the back out on the road and walk the emtpy back up to the porch. She loves all of the Ebayer’s on her route, because when they do a hard count every few months, the more packages they get and load, the more the route goes up in value. She is rooting for us to get several tho9sand items listed and make multiple sales each day. she is seeing the summer slow down and is asking us what is happening and hopes it will pick up.
Yep!.. Well gonna stop wasting Jay’s band width before he tells me to knock it off.
Ok .. Pilgrim! 🙂 “I am gonna move that toe, I am gonna move that toe!” [couldn’t help myself]
Guess you can tell I am getting buggie sitting here all day long.
mike at MDCG
T-Satt .. well done! … I am probably going to have to go way back in my archived memory to trip you up. Since I am older and was brought up on TV, I’ll slip some past you sooner or later! 🙂 🙂
Funny about the weight. I had a 47 lb. pkg. back first of the summer. Our reg. carrier is small and I went to the door and said i would help her carry it. She refused and said she had it. She is a small lady but just snatched it up and said at the same breath, I only have problems with the ones over 65 – 70 lbs. I asked what was the limit and she said, just like at UPS, 100 lb. we are suppose to take unless the overall size is larger than what our arms can wrap around.
So just being cute, I said so I can box up and ship a hundred lb. barbell set. Reply was …Yep!
23 lbs. I am 69 years old and can get that with one arm.
I think .. “What we have here, is a failure to communicate!” [t-satt ??] 🙂
mike at MDCG
That’s a great solution. I was just thinking of something similiar for trash cans. this is even better.
Good thing these carriers were not part of the Pony express! Nothing would have ever gotten done. Sorry to any postal workers here. We do have some.
mike at MDCG
Talk about splitting hairs. You would think that the porch is just a few more steps away from the garage door. Is there a rule that has a distant limit a carrier can walk? Think not. What did someone from USPS do, come out and use a rolling measuring wheel or 100 ft. tape measure and measure it and discover that the garage was within the limit and the porch was not? I think not.
Sounds to me that like so many people have posted, that no one at USPS really knows all the rules completely and they are open to individual interpretation.
We hang a small tag that sayd we have pkgs. on front porch for for pickup. They see that, go get them and then removes the tag and puts it back inside the box. We use it every time we have pkgs. too large for our “over sized” box we bought. Our distance is 15 yards [45 ft. +/-] distance away.
Our biggest problem is with all of the subs on our reg. carrier’s day off is with the subs scanning our packages at point of pick-up. Reg. carrier scans right away and puts in the back of truck. Subs, never scan even though I have talked personally with every one of them multiple times. But distance has never been a problem.
Wonder if your mail box got hit by a car and knocked over, would they just not deliver your mail until you replaced it? What if it took you two weeks to get it replaced.
Just makes all of us wonder sometimes.
“What a world,..what a world!” [t-satt the quote is for you..what movie?] 🙂
mike at MDC Galleries
And the big Meh! for us is what they said in item #4, that I posted above, is that they want sellers to use the “Seller Hub” to do their listings. For those of us that use, SixBit, WonderLister, InkFrog and others, those are 3rd party apps. These app allow users to not only manage their inventory with lots of business tools but also to cross list on several other platforms all in one place. So by opting in and using the new Ebay Payment process, we would have to only use the seller Hub to list. So that is going to knock a few out.
Maybe the 3rd party apps will get access to the Ebay API’s but that would come way doen the road. Plus by listing on Ebay, Etsy and Shopify all from one dashboard we can track all sales from all 3 places regardless of how the customers pay for the purchase.
As everybody has all said, including yourself, we think we will just wait and see and let others work out all the kinks.
Mike at MDC galleries
Don’t know where to put this Jay, so if you figure out a better place, move it on over.
But, I just got an Invitation to opt into the first roll out beta trial of the “new payment processing” that ebay is going to move over to over the next few years. This is the second page of the invitation. The first part just says we were randomly slecetd and if we do wish to “opt in”, click on the reply tab and we will be added onto the list to get one of the early invitations to try the new payment and banking system we heard about in the last Seller Summer Update. Guess it is the European company, wasn’t it Adrian or something like that.
But I then went over the the FAQ page to see what they were asking and saying. this is what is posted there. So interesting things. But I especially noticed #4. That they will be askig the Sellers who sign up and use this to use the seller Hub for Listing? Are they laying the ground work to have Sellers who use SixBit or Wonderlister or other party listing and inventory management systems to not continue with those and to only use the Ebay Seller Hub?
They said in the summer update it would take a few years to migrate over to the new payment company but once completed, then we were all guessing that will be ebay’s choice instead of PayPal.
Anyone else get this “invitation” and what are maybe some thoughts on these FAQ’s.
Mike in Atlanta
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How will I access my funds?All cleared funds will generally be paid in a daily batch and directly to your bank account, regardless of how your buyer chooses to pay. From your bank account, you can access your funds directly, with no need to transfer funds between accounts. In addition, we’re working with our financial partners to enable even more options for speedy access to your earnings.
What will I have to do to sign-up?Your invitation in September will take you to a sign up page for a quick and easy enrollment process. After you enter a few personal details like preferred bank account for payouts and your social security number to verify your identity, we’ll manage the rest. We will automatically update your existing account and listings and transfer your existing listings to the new payments model. For new listings, we’ll ask you to use Seller Hub’s listing page and any existing listings APIs you use.
