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Yeah.. agree and also the payers will get their “special tools” which will help to grow their business. Well then I guess those who do not pay, will not get those tools. And if you DO HAVE those tools then I suppose Etsy imagines that you will out perform your competition. If you out perform, then you will, I guess make more Sales and Make more Money.
Sure, maybe they won’t mess with the search results, but what will those “special tools” do for you if you have access to them as opposed to those who don’t? Hmm…
Haven’t watched the video yet, but will after we return from some errands.
Mike at MDCG in Atl.
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MDC Galleries & Fine Art.
06/14/2018 at 11:26 am in reply to: When being frugal, an ebay seller, and a scavenger combines for a perfect score #42487I feel for you buddy. When our daughter was in high school she was on a field hockey team, soccer and a fast pitch softball team which she also joined a summer travel team. All of that sports equipment really added up. Body protection and use gear.
We finally sold the last of it a few years back. It took a long time to sell but eventually it was all gone. I still found a sack of about a dozen softballs a few weeks ago and a metal bat. But think I will just donate those to be rid of them.
She is 40 years old now, but still complains when she saw something of hers she left at our house listed in our stores. She was still thinking she could move on with her life for 20 years and leave all that stuff back at our house for FREE Long term storage. She soon got the message. HaHa LOL 🙂
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Yep.. Got it on and off all day yesterday.
None so far today.
mike at MDC in Atl.
Well, well, well… Here is a copy of the exact Email we just got. Note what they also saved for the “last paragraph”. They have implemented a 2 tier store level subscription. You can continue to use your store as is or upgrade to a subscription – membership.
Now I wonder what they are NOT GOING to do for the basic level sellers that they WILL DO for the Subscribers? Do you think maybe more juice, more exposure, more specialized placements, more tools, more analysis, etc., etc.?
You bet cha’. You pay more you get more. Just like all the other platforms.
Here is the email: …
Dear Seller Community,We’re writing to tell you about some changes at Etsy. We’ve been helping sellers on their creative journeys for 13 years now. We’ve focused on making Etsy the best place to run your creative business, and we’ve listened to sellers like you to learn more about what you need from us.
Now, we’re planning to invest even more in bringing buyers to Etsy, building seller tools, and improving your seller experience. To help make this happen, we’re updating our fees, and we’re adding some new features.
Effective July 16, Etsy’s transaction fee will increase from 3.5% to 5% and it will also apply to the cost of shipping. All other fees, including listing fees, will remain the same.
We’re also introducing new optional feature packages designed around the needs of sellers at different stages of growth, so you can access the right tools at the right time for your business.
If you’re happy with the services you currently use on Etsy, you can still access all the tools that are currently available to you without paying a monthly subscription fee. But if you want to do more, we’ll be offering two new plans: Etsy Plus, with tools to help businesses grow and express their unique brands, will be available in July. Etsy Premium, with more advanced tools for larger-scale businesses, will launch in 2019.
Explore our video and website to learn more about what’s changing and look for more information in the weeks to come. We’re excited to see what’s next for all of us as we continue to invest more in growing your business, together.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Hey Retro WV: We have friends who are Mormons and they [and Mormons] are big preppers. When I asked how long they could go, they said about 7 years. They have metal shutters that go over all windows and doors from the inside and screw into place. Have 7 years of stocked food. Collect rain water in several 250 gallon tanks, eat from their own inventory to deplete older stock and replaces that with newer stock [first in first out method], has plenty of guns and thousands of rounds of ammo including automatic weapons [or semi auto] inclucing assault rifles, has flares, generators, basement panic room, cars with custom options built in like armored car [customized Escalade] 55 gal drums of fuel stored and all within a surburban sub-division. It is all hidden in special storage spaces and is totally inconspecuous.
Some people will be around long after you and I are gone after several weeks. he says the biggest threat will be the civil unrest, anarchy and total riots when those of us run out of everything after 2 to 4 weeks. That will be when I will be watching carefully. He said after several months we will be all dead or gone and his exterior surroundings will be less hazardous.
He sounded like the old Charleton Hestom movie Omega Man and a newer Will Smith movie called “Alone” [I think].
So even after diaster strikes, he says there will be “haves” and the “have nots”, but you will have to protect what you have if you are one of the “haves”.
Interesting to say the least.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
We certainly would buy into this. As you already know we build the shipping cost for Zone 8 into all of our Free Shipping items, which is mostly First Class but some are heavier. We have some 4 and 5 lb. items as Free Shipping and we have a $15 to $20 shipping charge built in. On top of that we also pad by another 30% to allow for Sales and Offers either singularly or combined. So correct… No such thing as Free Shipping.
But if Ebay showed the Total Price to the customer, these dollar amounts “would still be added in” because “There is no such thing as Free Shipping”. All of us and Jay can say this over and over and it is correct. We buy for a dollar amount, mark that up 5 to 10 times [depending], then add a 40% mark up on this so we can do a 20% off Sale and also take a 20% lower price offer at the same time the Sale is running, then add zone 8 shipping on top of that. Seems to not bother those who really want our more unusual, rare or unique items.
But having Ebay roll all this into one lump sum for the buyer doesn’t remove the labor burden for a seller that should be weighing, measuring and calculating freight costs at the time of listing.
We have a system that has allowed us to only miss the real shipping costs a few times over the past several years.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
OK.. Wife and I are Back from putting in 117 man hours since last Friday of packing and moving our daughter back from Orlando to Atlanta. She is temporarily back with us in guest rooms and balance in storage. Man what an ordeal. Never again. But it was for a promotion, new position and a big, big salary increase. But we told her we are just to old for this.
She will be buying her own home over the next few months.
So back online but have to catch up on over 60 Scavengherlife posts and need to review the last two podcasts.
So, T-Satt: I told you to hold the thought on the two week dwell time before a relisted item can go on sale.
So with us and you using SixBit and WonderLister, we now have all of our items converted over to the 30 days, the cancel and relist automatically. What is your take on the 2 weeks dwell time that Ebay won’t allow Sales.
My quick view is since we spread our converstion of the 970 items in our store out over the whole month, we have items that end everyday and relist, but we also have items that are hitting the 15th day-30-31st day each and every day. So I think what will happen is if we highlight all listings [970] and put the whole store on Sale for say 15% off, then Ebay will automatically filter out the newer ones and just not allow those to go on Sale and the older ones will allow those. So, in summary, any time we want to create a Sale, then about half of our items will be allowed and half will not? Is that the way you see SixBit working it?
As our store grows, to Say 1500 items, the same will happen. 750 items will go on Sale and 750 will not depending on how many relists with WonderLister each and every day.
We usually run a Sale starting every Wed. and let it run through Sunday night. Then wait two days, rinse and repeat. So with our 3rd party app always ending and relistings daily I assume we can never have the “whole store” on Sale, only half of it, give or take?
Am I seeing this correctly?
Thanks,
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta and GLAD TO BE BACK!!!!Hold that thought T-Satt. I wanted to talk over his topic since we just finally got everything re-schedule onto the 30 relist rotation process using WonderLister. We spread the relisting dates out over the whole month, so we would not end up with a bunch of listings, which would have happened if we had just bulk convereted them. With close to a thousand now all end and relist on the same day is not what we wanted to happen. Of course new items we can spread out with the scheduler.
But we are down in Orlando helpng ou daughter pack for a big move back to the Atlanta area this Friday, so I was going to hit that topic of the 14 day dwell period on new listings when we got back
Speaking of being down here, the extended time didn’t stop sales. 6th time doing that to come down here in last two years and sales just kept rolling in and same thing again this time.
So hang on to that new Ebay topic and maybe I can join in the discussion when I get back.
Oh by the way we got convreted over to the Guaranteed Delivery program last week two days before we left.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art.
05/30/2018 at 11:36 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41278Well, I dug them back out of the trash yesterday and sorted into piles. There are 79 assorted software discs and original manuals. All about evenly divided into graphics programs, MS Operating systems [older versions- who in the world would want an old MS Millinium version Ugghh!!], old anti-virus security ones, and business estimating programs and then odd lot drivers and printer installers.
Guess I have some home work to do.
What is the sadder part is all of those programs I bought new at the time and represent a whole lot of money spent on them and now none have any use to me. Can also still hear sales people saying, this 8080 PC Clone is a great value at $1,500 and you can “upgrade” it every year so it will last you a very long time. Yeah, right. Lasted about 1 year to 2 at the most then everything got better and no upgrades available. Cheaper to trash and buy new!
But I digress…sorry.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
05/28/2018 at 12:34 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41128One would think that an old copy of MS XP Operating software that we bought with one license and then loaded and used up that license with the furnished key would have no value because it can’t be loaded again. But do you think that the techie guys can figure out a way to load it a second time without the license being valid?
05/28/2018 at 12:31 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41127Only two things we did differently is using WonderListers Bulk Edit function, we made the complete transition of all of our GTC listings over to the 30 day automatic end and relist, so over this month everything started to get ended and then relisted with a new ID number as they came due to end on the GTC cycle. And we started a Promoted Listing campaign on about 750 items whereby we clicked on the 6% extra commission to Ebay. Guess no brainer that they will prmot more heavily something they will get an extra 6% fee on.
This is Ad campaign number 5 for us, we have been doing Promoted Listing campaigns since about Jan. this year. This month we made 12 Sales from the promoted listing for $538 in Sales and the Promoted listing fee was $31.26 extra over and above the regular Ebay fee.
Other than that just over 2 or 3 Regular 15% to 20% Off Sales, but you already know we run Sales 3 or 4 times a month and the 20% is always pre-built into our original prcing anyway plus even more to cover for offers. But I have gone over all that built in pricing stragety before here on SL.
That’s all we did. Did it about like T-Satt has done with SixBit. I think they do something very similiar.
Guess T-Satt and others using the 3rd party apps like SixBit and WonderLister are going to have to chaeck with the tech engineers and see what they say about your annoucement on Ebay’s new policy about an item having to be lsited for so many days before it can go on Sale? I am guessing the 3rd party Apps guy will figure out a way to do it all automatically just like the end and relist part of their program
Mike in Atl.
05/28/2018 at 10:48 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41108Hi Again: I usually don’t post numbers for reasons I have mentioned before, but had a good week so thought I would share a few basics.
Sold 12 items for the last 7 days for a total $730.37 for the week
Avg. of $60.83 per item
Sales up 55.1% over last period
Sold $2,577 for last 31 days
Sold $6,320 for last 90 days.
Currently 950 items in our storeJust thought I would share a few numbers since we are sort of proud of this last strong week and second quarter. First quarter was somewhat stronger than this quarter. So hopefully we will clock in over a 1,000 items shortly and be ready for a strong 4th quarter.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
05/28/2018 at 10:36 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41106Director’s Stage Note: Going forward.. Think how many negatives you guys have gotten removed through the last two years, let’s say. Now go forward and add those to your current score. how many negatives are you going to accumulate if Ebay will no longer get involved and all negatives stand because it is just the buyers “opinion”. And you don’t get to have an opinion other than a short, limited character reply.
But we all have better things to worry about.
Catch ‘ya later.
mdc at MDCG in Atl05/28/2018 at 10:02 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41102Ryanne.. Just checked those two negatives you mentioned in the pod-cast. So, I have a question. In both of those feedback comments, both buyers reference, that the item they received, in describing what they feel is damage, state that what they got does not match the photo.
So, one could assume they are admitting that the PHOTO looks good, does not have damage, they looked at the photos, they were satisfied with the item from the hptos they saw. Then in their feedback they both saw that what they got was damaged way more than the hptos.
So doesn’t this bring the situation down to just one main point. And that is that they are indirectly saying that you shipped them something other than what you were showing. You showed an item that was good and OK with them. You shipped and they now think you did a switch and shipped an identical item that was more heavily damaged.
again, with a rep, doesn’t this all boil down to their word against yours, period. no if and or buts. i liked what I saw, I bought, the seller switched and sent me something way more heavily damaged thus the seller is bad and deserves negative comments.
At what point does Ebay look at this and say, you have years of a clean record, these are harder to find items, what is the chance you have several of the identical item and are shipping only the bad ones as a replacement for the good photo one you still have.
One would think that Ebay would just catch on to this whole buyer process of claiming stuff like this and tell both seller and buyer it is one word against another. Both people are assumed to not be liars and scammers and just chalk all of these type of things up to being a wash and not let the buyer or seller post anything.
Just wondering about the whole topic of what I see is OK but what I got is not. Your word against mine thing.
mike at mdcg in Atl.
05/28/2018 at 9:43 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 362: Scavengers Are Always Prepared To Clean Out A Basement #41100I just threw out last night two 13 gal. trash bags of old software discs. Now wonder, should I go pull them out, sort them and list?
I dumped old MSOffice suites discs, old MS Operating systems, a dozen photo editor programs, drawing-graphics programs, architectural design suites, printer install discs, etc., etc. maybe 50 to 75 discs along with the manuals or docs that came with them.
My thoughts were, all of these discs have been previously install and used. Even if the certificate number or the KEY is included will these discs still load if they have been used and the KEY used?
How would one describe them, something like used, KEY available but been used, or what. Is there really going to be a market for discs that may not load or install?
Any comments to clue me in if all those discs, even if lotted together, really have any value or should I just leave them in the trash?
Appreciate any input from our tech members.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
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