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That is exactly what Susan just said to me. She said she maybe would just put it in this springs yard sale that we do occasionally. If not then maybe relist early next year.
Thanks AE.Amen to that AE. It still grips me that every time I open my listings or do a search on my items I get a hoard of other sellers images thrown in my face.
One thing I used to do, but not any longer is when I created my description I would insert about 50 lines of carriage returns at the bottom of the listing. The results was when Ebay was showing other sellers items at the bottom, those carriage returns drove that Ebay bar down by a long way. so far I was thinking nobody was going to scroll down 5 and 6 swipes past all that white space just to get the bottom of the listing and only find more Ebay advertising. But after I rebuilt some templates in WL I just stopped doing that. Guess if I wanted though I could use WL and do that in one fell swoop. Just a thought I guess.
Good point and if I sent it to him free outside of Ebay and he then goes and revises the negative feedback and says something about me sending it to him for free, Ebay may see that and come back on me for doing an end run around them, since the initial contact was through Ebay.
The Video by Todd Alexander just starting lsiting the top things you need to do to saty on top of Ebay search, and best match. Man, wish I had relistened to this a year ago. Going to redo some work in WonderLister based on what I am hearing. He also is talking about ending listings and relsiting or keeping listing live. Also now touching on the Ebay bulk lister but just discovered somethig about this video, it cuts short the Q&A at the end that I think used to be on the original upload of it. May be worth a look to see if I can find the original YouTube post. this may be a repost of it, unless I am not remembering correctly about the Q&A at the end.
Wouldn’t it just be easier for everybody to listen to the YouTube video. I am letting it run again right now and it is extremely interesting. The notes I took at the time was in ballpoint pen on a pad on my desk. Those sheets were sticky type and I had them stuck to the bottom of my monitor for a fairly long time. But I think I may have also transcribed them into a MSWord document. I will have to do a search and see if i saved it somewhere. If I find it I will post it. May also be good to start a new thread.. something like What is Cassini, or Prepare to Tackle Ebay Search Engine.
Back to listening to this video, I am hearing things right now, that means a whole lot more to me than it did several years ago, because I now know more about WonderLister, auto listing, categories and Item Specifics. As he is talking about Item Specifics and relevacy scores mean a whole lot more now that Ebay changed that topic and we have now reduced the copy in our description area and placed a whole lot more of emphasis on Item Specifics.
I think I am going to relisten to this video again and maybe take “new notes”, now that I am more experienced.
Got to do some “home handyman stuff with wife for a while now”.
Well guys, here a very interesting situation. The negative we got was because an buyer purchased an item that we couldn’t find and had to cancel and inform him that we couldn’t find it. Also told him if we found it we would send it to him at that time free of charge.
well we went to pull a candle holder from bin #1413 and low and behold there was the winged hood ornament item in that bin. The item he had purchased that we couldn’t find on March 30. The same item he gave us a negative on.
So now the question of the day is, should I contact him,tell him we found it and then follow through with sending it to him for free, or just let sleeping dogs lie? If we send it to him, like we said, he may decide to change his negative feedback or at least maybe we can ask him.
Now the second question of the day is, if we do want to send to him [we have his address in PayPal], do we send it to him which would be outside of Ebay. Or tell him we would relist it for $1 one dollar and free shiping. Let him re-buy it and then refund him his dollar. That would make it totally free for him.
Any thoughts on this since we have now found the item in question?
mike at MDC Galleries
Boy am I late to this discussion. didn’t see it or would have jumped in earlier. But you have outlined our thoughts almost to a “T” ๐
With WonderLister, and of course you with SixBIt, we can set all of this to happen automatically. Jay’s reference to them trying it, was still the Manual process, even though using “bulk edit”. That still is not creating rules and code as we can in our WL & SB programs. Settings listings to end completely, come off line and then relist with a new, fresh Ebay ID number, get picked up as new, and be seen as new by Ebay is done automatically and behind the scenes within these listing programs. It is about as automated as it gets.
The interesting we also see in WL, is when items are being relisted, if WL picks up a signal from Ebay that a listing now has some type of issue due to Ebay changes, WL kicks it over into a “needs to be reviewed” folder and doesn’t relist it. we then can go to that folder, take a look and correct any type of issue that was reported by Ebay, then click bulk upload and send them on their merry way.We have not done the analysis like you have but have just run more on the gut feel that we are correct, but you have expressed in words what we were feeling all along.
The 60 day number is incorrect as jay says. it is 90 days. Here is where it came from, there is a link here on an Ebay seminar given by an engineer that is an Ebay employee [or was at the time, he has on an Ebay shirt with logo], that was part of the team that developed the Cassini search engine. as he gives his talk about how to maximize and enhance a sellers store and benfit from the at that time newer cassini, that at around the 90 day mark the code they wrote into Cassini begans to see listings as stale.
here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6znSUKtKH0
Listen to this YouTube video. it is eye opener. He explains just how Ebay is looking at listings. But listen carefully, I forgot exactly where he says it, but he tells you at what point that Ebay will just start to consider items going stale [or not as much interest to Ebay]. They also watch other criteria. but another interesting thing is this is a guy Todd Alexander, an Ebay emloyee is explaing how the Cassini Search engine is working. How much more evidence do I need. Not much, since he worked on writing the code for the algorhytm, I think I believe him. Not going to argue with a guy that is explaining to me how they make the dang thing work.
Now that may have changed now, but it is a very interesting explanation and he offers. he tells us that it is not about the lowest price, not at all, so what does cassini look for? well, he tells us. so I said listen closely, I even took notes when I first listened to this. I am streaming it now, and again, I am hearing what we need to do. He just asked how many people in the audience has a single item at a fixed price. he tells how to make it appeal to more people.
So go take another listen and see how it compares up to the charts and rules you are using to analyize your data. You may discover some new insights that may bring a different angle of attack on your data.
Just some more food for thought. especially the Q&A at the end.
Yes, I mis-read your original also. I see you did say painting, like a lithograph.
If it is a painting, it would have to the one and only original that photo offset prints came from later. If it is “the one and only original”, then like Ryanne says, “thousands” or more. Yes a museum piece and after appraisal, then auction house in NYC.
Sothey’s has a quick appraisal service and if they find evidence of authenticity and have an interest they will take the appraisal further. Check out Sotheby’s web site on this link:
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auction-estimates.html to start the “get an Estimate” process.Now to make doubly sure, you want to discover if you have a Giclee print on canvass [copy] then it is embellished on top with clear gel over the print underneath to simulate brush strokes. The best way to do this is with a strong magnifier. Take at least a 10x or better 20x loupe and then top closely at the brush strokes. What you are looking for is two things. Fisrt, is if the direction and motion of the brush strokes follow the same shape and contours of the obejct that is being defined. If the black areas [your image] are going vertical and the brush strokes are going across it, then this may be an embellished print. Second you want to look at different angles at the brush strokes and see if the strokes have any height to them and if so, if you catch the light just right, are the higher tips of the paint seem “clear” of solid with color. If clear then it would indicate a “clear over coat”.
Now this may not be bad because it could still be an original painting but with a clear protective varnish on top of the paint. That is very common. But back in those time periods the use of a varnish coat was usually applied as a thinner coat just for protective reasons. Not to simulate “brush strokes”. The simulation of top surface brush strokes is more of a modern techniques which has become popular due to the invention of Acrylic paints [1960’s] and forward. Then even more often used as Liquitex developed the formulas for thicker matte and clear Gel Mediums Coats.
In todays modern world, all of the discount stores are loaded with Giclee prints, which are highly fine reproductions from high level Ink Jet printers that do not use the typical litho half tone dot patterns, but a fine mist spray from the ink jet heads. Then these prints are quickly over coated with thick clear gel to simulate brush strokes and then passed off as original paintings. Goodwills are full of them, so are TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, World Market, Target, Walmarts, etc., etc ad nauseum. Most people now a days can’t tell the difference. Just another problem we have with China. But that’s another story.
Hopefully this sheds some more light on the “painting” you have.
Running an Ebay store is like playing a round of Golf. You may not have the best score number wise, but as long as you are always moving the ball forward, you know you are playing the game correctly!
And don’t forget one of Jay and Ryanne’s mantras. .. ABL [Always Be Listing}. ๐ ๐
Same for me. Honor the Sale. We are responsible for monitoring our store, our merchandise, and our policies. About 3 weeks ago I used a template that had a dollar $1 for the default price for a pair of womens, black Brighton shoes. Forgot to change the price and it sold within a day or two for the dollar. Luckily it did not have free shipping on it, but if it had, I would have still sent it to the buyer and just absorbed the loss and chalked it up to the cost of doing business.
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Hey Christine:
Yep found it. Sorted by highest price sold on July 2016 for $90 framed. Now consider couple of things.. It is a reproduction [4 color offset lithograph printed only in CMYK colors], the signature is captured from the original and reproduced in the plates and the cost of the frame, which is probably worth about half the price.
The fact that the one you have is as you say “a different color scheme”. usually CMYK litho repros try to match the original painting as closely as possible. But if you have an image, that is EXACTLY the same image, then it has been exposed to a very large amount of sunlight and some of the colors have faded out. I can spot repo’s from 50 feet away in the antique mall booths. They are all a bluish, purplish color. The yellow and red colors are not light fast and fade quickly. Any repro, DVD, album covers, posters, art print, anything that has that bluish-purplish overall colorization is a cheap repro. that is faded and not worth the sheet of paper it is printed on.
This artist is very interesting because not only did he work in the Bauhaus group, but worked in Italy for advertising clients and the Joseph Albers, author of the interaction of color, which his color theory is still taught in art schools today, invited him to the USA and he taught at the Black Mountain College of Art here in the US. Some other artist from the Bauhaus school that are worth researching or at least looking at some of there art is Paul Klee. Paul Klee was a Swiss-German painter, Oskar Schlemmer. Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school, and Lรกszlรณ Moholy-Nagy.
The Bauhaus was a German group of artist and designers with their focus on “Form Follows Function” motto, where most of them were designers of industrial, functional, utilitarian objects which in turn got manufactured. things like dinnerware, flatware, blenders, furniture, room settings and things like that. Anything from Bauhaus artist group are highly collectible and bring high prices. MOMA [the Museum of Modern Art] has a large collection of Bauhaus designed items and many Danish Modern and Office Furniture still bought today are of the Bauhaus design. Some metal chairs go for thousands of dollars. The plastic style chairs that Jay and ryanne sold some time back and others like those are again, variations of the modernist Bauhaus designs. Very interesting subject and group of artists and worth maybe looking up just for your knowledge base. Will help when watching out for MCM type of furniture and home decorative accessories.
It came after the Art Deco period but was the fore runner of the Mid-Century Modern phase. Many of the MCM objects were variations spin offs of Bauhaus Designs and styling.Here is the link to the WorthPoint.com page:
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=xanti+schawinsky&category=So hope this helps. Good Luck.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
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Done this also and nope. This have a long paragraph of countries that are excluded but all of the preferences mention here have been checked and double checked. The overide the GSB program is NOT checked. Opened each region continent sections and no countries are checked, except now one “Moldavia”, ๐ LOL, which I tried as suggested above, nope and double nope. I have a list of 3 or 4 things I wish to discuss with an Ebay calla and this topic is still on the list. Just waiting until I have the time to sit and go through all of it with a rep.
Yes HabNab, it was the Worthpoint ones I was seeing.
Go to this link also and one can see several jackets. The highes being about $1,100 the next $900 on down to about $450. The $1,100 one says it was custom made for Burt Reynolds. Bohlin made saddles for the stars in Hollywood, so I guess some clothing also.
Here is the link:
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=bohlin+jacket&category=
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Duchamp is smiling in his grave. Here’s to the Armory Show.
Yeah there.. Just now saw your post. As I stated several months ago when you posted this that I have had this issue also for a very long time. Nobody really understood at Ebay either and I was hoping at some point someone would post a work around or a fix. I have had no Foreign Sales for the whole time, Due to I think, that every country on the planet is in my “Excluded List”, even though in my preferences as Advent.E says, I don’t have any exclsuions checked off.
So, now I will try your work around and go and select just one country to “exclude” and see if all of my listings will reset and all of the exclusions will go away.
Since we only use the GSP, the only exclusions should be the ones that Ebay’s GSP will not ship to.
Will let you know if it works for me.
Mike at MDC Galleries
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