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06/25/2018 at 2:37 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43464
I agree with T-Satt. Within WonderLister or SixBit these app handle not only multi-platforms but multiple stores within those platforms. They would be a better way.. Be real careful doing anything back with TurboLister.
It was getting very buggy back when it was active, it is old “spahgetti” code. then when abandoned nothing has been written to fix anything. The old Blackthorn team and TurboLister guys left Ebay and formed their own companies. Chavi at WonderLister and John Slocom of SixBit all used to work together on BlackThorn and TurboLister. They have had thier own companies for about 5 years. I would not encourage people to jump back into TurboLister, but that is my opinion only.If any thing, I would maybe [just maybe] download the trial version of one of these app instead, then download your store into SB or WL and then upload back into another store. But a waord of caution.. these 3rd party APPs are powerful relational databases. They have a ton of features but saying that also come with a learning curve. If all you have ever done is list with the Ebay app, then my guess is weeks of learning these programs and how to navigate them.
Yes File exchange is also an alternative but that too takes work and is not just a seamless click and it is all done.But all this is again just my opinion and there are others much stronger in 3rd party apps, file exchange and the such who may be able to chime in.
Mike at MDCG&FA
06/25/2018 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43455@ T-Satt: What do you mean by a review. if you mean just a sort-filter of low views or impressions that is available on WL & SB both with a click of a button. You must mean something else.
06/25/2018 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43453Good point you make about having it hard to recruit the talent then on top of all the issues having to deal with users face to face at Ebay Open shortly.
Guess they better practice the “oh my goodness, we are so sorry” speech.
And dont forget it was a few years back, the Ebay engineer that worked on the Cassinni search engine actually came out and said that stale listings were being written into the code and that would be a factor. That is why some of us abandoned the GTC-List it Until Canceled model of J&R and started using 3rd party app to end our listings every 30 days and relisting them as “new” and with new ID numbers.
So my WonderLister program and I have also re-downloaded SixBit and am running both simultaneously, having them end and auto relist our items. Troy [T-Satt, Mark-S and us], have 10 or 20 listings that are ending every day and our software, just auto relists them as new, gives them a brand new Ebay ID, clears the sales, history [who cares about that any way any more]. as far as Ebay’s Cassini is concerned we are listing beand new things every day [NOT- just the same ones over agagin]. But we still are seeing the Summer slow down.
Then we also use Promoted Listings and run periodic sales. It is all part of the “Brave New Wprld”, we are in. Business at the “Speed of Thought”.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art.
06/25/2018 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43448Right there with you brother. Even if she got everything in her store for $.10 or even $.05 I would not want to put in that amount of time for that amount of sales.
Good thing I am ramping up my art studio again. I can make my own paintings, sculptural wall mirrors, clocks, lamps, table sculpture, wall hangings and the such. Doing that creates saleable products and satisfies my need to “make stuff, so 20 year old vintage along with my art-sculpture can go on Ebay and Etsy at the same time”.
P.S. Got some things worked out on the SB Trial and working on a new customized Listing Template. Also talked with JC at SB and discussed Shopify and “yes” it is on the drawing board and SB will be creating an interface for Shopify. I also discussed them on how WL was doing auto-SEO on Social media and he thought it was a great idea and was going to add it to the SB “To Get Down” list especially since the Twitter postings were so easy and I told him about the Instagram method. Send the first display picture. The only caveate’ is that you have to host your own photos, [which we do on that new 4 TB external HD] and have a real name / rename for your hpotos. U can’t use Ebay photos because Ebay renames all photos with a jumbled code. But if all SB users will host and name thier own photos, them InstaGram will work. JC seems very interested. So maybe SB will be a real multi-platform App by the time everything falls into place.
Mike at MDCG in Atl.
06/25/2018 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43445T-Satt .. are you “Feeling a Shift in the FORCE!” ๐
06/25/2018 at 1:16 pm in reply to: Please pardon this rant about sellers who charge ABSURDLY high shipping rates. #43440So, a question… Would you have bought it for $23 and Free Shipping and Free returns? We do this sometimes just to hide the shipping cost into the item cost. Then we run Sales almost weekly at 15%-20% Off. So if this was our item you would see it listed at $23, then crossed off and above that showing on Sale for $18.40 and we would ship it to you Free [our cost being $2.66] for the shipping. This way we would have made $15.74 on what you are seeing as a $6 item.
So, would you have bought it at The $18.40 price knowing you wanted to replace a childhood memory?
Just wondering …
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
06/25/2018 at 11:52 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43420Just FYI… Our Sales are down 67% from the past several months. But ahead of last year because we do have a lot more items listed than last year.
06/25/2018 at 11:48 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 366: How To Run A Small, Local Business #43419I sort of agree overall. A SL member who has sold a ton of clothing on Ebay [Cyndi] “Amazing Taste”.. has been lowering prices for some time now. A quick glance shows.. out of 709 items in her current store approx. 400 [over half] are all under $15.99 and a bunch have Free Shipping on top of that.
We don’t watch clothing much anymore but our daughter, her friends and others we know, all shop on PoshMark or other similar platforms as opposed to Ebay. Our daughter says Ebay is just old fashioned just like you mention, as far as a shopping experience goes.
We have 3 tubs of some of her clothes she has outgrown through the years and we even have some that still have tags on them but see many sellers of these non luxury brands selling for $9.99.
Also u mention that many others are getting in on selling there stuff. Well nobody researches their “stuff”, and price according to a few “quick looks” at what others are selling at and they just keep going lower and lower. Nobody is trying to shore up the market, just under cut and dump. My neighbor says easier than having a yard sale, putting out signs and having to stay home and bake in the sun all day.
But as Ryanne and us too say, where else are you going to find a rare piece of Italian art glass for your collection other than Ebay.
Mike at MDCG in Atl
Here are the top sales in the top 12 states since 2013 [as far back as WonderLister goes for our database]
Georgia is in the middle sort of for last year and all time. But again if they exempt $200,000 or less in Sales OK. Don’t think number of sales would be used because you could have 50 sales at $10,000 each, they would want the tax on the dollar amount.
Buyer state Buyer country C u rre n cy Qu a ntity Sale
amount
TX United States USD 148 4675.97
CA United States USD 135 5308.59
FL United States USD 88 3145.49
NY United States USD 88 2838.71
GA United States USD 56 1480.11
PA United States USD 55 1713.16
IL United States USD 55 1662.94
OH United States USD 50 2003.39
Ml United States USD 45 1217.74
VA United States USD 40 1060.46
MA United States USD 37 1170.67
NC United States USD 36 1037.97Here are the top 12 states we sold in and the number of Sales and dollar amount in those states for 1/1/17-12/31/17.
Buyer state Buyer country Currency Quantity
<>=;> amount
CA United States USD 36 2363.31
FL United States USD 35 1144.68
TX United States USD 32 1368.37
NY United States USD 26 708.1
GA United States USD 24 722.48
OH United States USD 23 937.47
Ml United States USD 19 486.67
IL United States USD 19 729.48
PA United States USD 17 504.2
MA United States USD 15 503.65
VA United States USD 15 374.51
TN United States USD 12 722.5Our average Sales price per item Sold was $43.25 x 479 items = $21,718 [Boy these numbers are just so easy with SixBit and WonderLister, just a click of the button]. So, I would assume we are small potatoes as far as Sales Tax goes or if there are exempt limitations. But as we grow and double at least all T-Satt, Mark S, others and myself have tpo do is click a Sales Tax report from our apps.
Only had 5 Sales since 5/23/2017 [little over a year] for $185.43 Total despite it having all of our feedback and hundreds of listings from Ebay. The synch number is off by about 30 or 40 items. Considering I dont do anything to maintain it, guess that’s $185 I wouldn’t have had, but what’s the point unless I need to figure out something that can be done that doesn’t cost anything to “apply some juice”.
I thought I heard Ryanne say that she was deleting all of their stores items off of Bonanza. Well I think this may be why we, personally, haven’t seen a Sale since last fall. They are pushing Store Memberships now along with their original “Turbo Boost” for traffic “juice”. So agagin as I said earlier, you pay us we will show you to customers, pay us more and we will show you more. That is just like the Angies List, Service Magic, Home Advisor or Kudzu. If you are a home remodeler, service tech or home handyman, plumber, electrician, etc. you pay us for leads and we will give you contact info for those who respond to our advertising.
Here is some of the content in an email we got from bonanza today..
follow this link: https://www.bonanza.com/memberships?utm_source=BonanzaDirect&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=anniversary_sale
Anybody on SL doing / paying for these tools and extra exposure on Bonanza? If so, are you seeing any benefit? Anybody even getting any sales since the fall off of Bonanza? Just curious.
Well that is totally cool. From the look of the house-architecture seems like old Atlanta. Was it around the Grant Park / Zoo area. Sure seems like it would take a major renovation to be turned into a bed & Breakfast.
Hey… Didn’t know you were in the Atlanta area. She is middle aged, un-married so she is alone, EXCEPT for two dogs. A mid-sized hound and a full sized Dalmation. She needs a fenced in yard, so she thought out in rural area to find a good sized yard.
I used to also be a home remodeler and spec home builder [for a while besides my art and printing career] and I told her we could maybe find something inside the loop, buy it, demo and rebuild as others are doing in that area. Also she is seeing some of those total re-models being flipped by re-habers and re-sellers in a price range she can afford. That would be the best of both worlds. Inside the loop in the Dunwoody area and with a back yard.
Any tips or pointers for her would be a great help.
Thanks,
Mike at MDCGFA06/22/2018 at 10:29 am in reply to: Love the brand name, but would eBay allow it in your Title? #43154That’s great. Funny as it can be. ๐ It says “Floral Fragrences”. HaHa . Wonder what your breath smells like after you drink it?
T-Satt. BTW.. doing all SB tutorials today. Liking it more and more. Has many things i had to get WL to code for me already built in, plus I can understand John’s voice so much better and the videos are much more thorough. Thumbs up.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
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