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Yeah.. way to go! I didn’t get the reference even though seen this movie many times. Even have a sealed copy of it and had it listed for awhile. Oh well. LOL!
Good job Jay.
Mike
Yeah.. try writing code – formulas using DOS 1 on a amber screen with only a flashing cursor showing.
How is this DOS! b Run.. <break>, “2”+”2″=<4> break line, line cell ref. “C3″, return.Hows that to just typing in $C$3
Or =AVG(C1:C230) which will average all of the numbers found in the column C from cell 1 down through cell 230). Way easier now. LOL. Plus at 69-1/2” years old, I am way too old for all this stuff now. LOL π
Well having a Masters Degree in Fine art and Majors in Contemporary Modern Art and Silkscreen Fine Art Printmaking, you pose a completely understandable reference.
All of my colleagues have said that I am the enigma in that I am both left and right brained. I can on one hand, create a large, free flowing, totaly abstract piece of art stemming from nothing more than a blank canvass starting point and at the same time was a professional operations VP and worked with doing motion and time studies on the mfg. floor and in and designed and formulated spread sheets my whole life. All the way back to VisiCal and Lotus 123. How is that for an old reference. π π LOL
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This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by
MDC Galleries & Fine Art.
Yes, just as T-Satt says for sure.
If you think like an Operations Manager or Financial Officer of your company, these both are great tools to automate many process and for data analysis.
If you operate like many of our friends who operate antique booths, where all they know about their business is that their receivables is in their left pocket and their payables are in their right pocket and if at the end of the month they are happy to have money left in either pocket then these programs may not be for you.
And with all due respect to your background and experience level, both programs do require somewhat of a learning curve and to what degree will depend on how much you already know about operations, standard operating procedures [SOPs], Financials, [P&L, COGS, COA] and of course some knowledge about using and navigating a relational database. Very doable, but the more you know about these things the quicker [shorter] the learning curve.
But do check out the videos on both company’s web sites. Reveiwing these will be the key to answering your q1uestion as to what you should expect to gain from using either of these programs.
Good luck… mike
I used SixBit for about a year. Been using WonderLister for 3 or 4 years. Several members here on SL use either WonderLister or SixBit. Both have a trial period for you to get the feel.
Yes there has been a ton of discussion on both software programs. As Advent.E says, search on both app names and you will find a lot of threads. been discussed several times along with a long list of benefits several members have posted.
I also suggest you go to both web sites and view their tutorials. They last 2 to 3 minutes each and cover about a dozen topics on how they are of help.
Good luck…
Mike at MDC Galleries in AtlantaHe was the Saddle maker to the stars. He also did a few custom clothing items. What article of clothing is it. I found a jacket and a cowboy hat both for $500 to $600 dollars.
Do you have a shirt, vest, chaps, pants, cuff protectors, spurs, ?? Without knowing what article you have it makes the search fairly broad. By using the article name in the search it will narrow it down and maybe I can find a few more hits.Mike at MDCG
RT-WV: That may be an option but he wasn’t happy when we first notified him that we couldn’t ship his purchase. We apologized in an email to him and informed him we would keep looking but we were just unsure if the item was still in our inventory someplace or that it got donated earlier and we forgot to kill the listing. We offered at that time to refund him 100%.
His only reply was .. “Keep Looking”. We went ahead and refunded the next or so. Susan said she was fairly confident we donated it with the pile that went to GoodWill but not positive. I looked again several rows above and below and didn’t see it. So I think once we found out it was not a real hood ornament from a Packard automobile but a generic winged lady repro and damaged besides, we just pulled the inventory tag and threw it into the donation pile.
That has been well over a month ago and what we think happened is Ebay sent one of those emails that they send to customers who have not left feedback after a month goes by, he got it and then decided to give us the burn.
At this point unsure how he would react and we can’t say anything else. we have apologized twice, gave him his money back and the listing is gone. What more could we say??
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MDC Galleries & Fine Art.
We use google Drive also and also have a OneDrive account [that is the MicroSoft product] but Google gives a user one terra byte of FREE DATA storage and that is a lot.
If you start using up a terra byte of storage, it may be time to clean house a little bit and delete the oldest of your photos that were associated with your Sold list. Once a year we look at our solds and open up Google drive, search by our 4 number code, those photos pop up and we bulk delete. Cleans up the drive and frees up a lot of space.
Another tip is to also just have an external drive plugged into a USB port. You will see the named drive in your directory tree. Just plug in a phone, high light all photos, cut then either paste or move those photos to your external hard drive. You access them the same way, by just attaching them to any listing app you are using.
Unsure if this makes sense, but an alternative.
Thanks guys. Will reply to the feedback shortly. What can you do; c’est la vie.β From French, meaning βthat’s life.β
Michael, Susan and Lisa .. the team at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
SmartParts Small Equipment PartsThat’s what I thought. Do I get a badge or something for “joining the club”?
I do get a chance to reply which will be posted under his comment. Will post something positive like ..
“We apologized and refunded 100%. Thank you for your patronage and for Supporting American Small Business”. Please visit us again!”
What do you think?
Mike at MDCG
Hey Mark.. no problem man. You can sell an item if you are sure it is not a fake, but you can’t show there logo, name or such. You also can’t say, like your Ebay article says, “like Lululemon”. Nope can’t mention there name. And again many don’t care, they like the “free advertising” but others, nope.
So in our case we know which ones are touchy and just avoid them. This is an issue almost as old as Ebay itself. The VERO program as far as Ebay is concerned is to keep them out of hot water and lawsuits. They get sued for “allowing it”. So as your article says, throws it back on the original company and says, if it bothers you, find those listings yourself and report it to us. Then we will do our part and inform the Seller to take it down or usually they take it down. In order to comply with the law that is doing their part and keeps them free and harmless. But personally, I don’t think Ebay really cares. If they did there would be a whole lot more listings killed. Ebay just targets the ones that the company targets themselves, I think is how it works.
There have been other threads on VERO here at SL and maybe a search will bring those up for your review also, or maybe some legal eagles can chime in.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
You beat me to it. Was typing the same thing but u got it first. The design, colors, logo, and name are trademarked, registered [by big companies] and you can’t say it, or show it. But most companies don’t care. The VERO group seem to have an issue. It is Tissue not Kleenex. A facsimile not a Xerox.
As an artist and former printer publisher, we could not include any names or logos in any of our companies promotional material without permission from the original company.
Also as an artist, you may buy one of my artworks, you may also resell my artwork, you bought the object and can resell the object. But I still own the copyright to my name and signature from creation to grave, unless you buy those from me also.
Yeah, funny how all that works. Some artists both musical and visual have even gotten copyrights on their “style” or lyrics. recent court cases of law suits against contemporary singers using just a few short notes from an older song. Wonder how Andy Warhol got away with the, should I dare say it outloud!!! “the Cambell’s Soup” can ??? LOL.
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MDC Galleries & Fine Art.
Mark there is a list of companies that participate in Ebay’s VERO program. Search on the term Participating VERO Companies. You will be amazed at the number of companies on the list. If I remember several pages [hundreds] all alphabetical. Now how many of them “actively” scour the platforms for unauthorized selling is the question of the day. John Deer, Velcro etc., are just the more popular and active ones.
If you want to know which companies brands you are really supposed to be wary of, then take a look at this list. It will bring new meaning to your phrase “we will have little left to sell”.
As you know we are a long time user of WonderLister and also used SixBit for about a year.
Yep, we can create as many drafts, with and without photos and store them in any type of folders we wish to create and organize them anyway we want. I have had one or two partial drafts in our “Needs More Research” folder for maybe a year. Just never got around to it. It is still there just as we left it.
Also since this is a stand alone database that has captured every bit of data about your listings and sales on any platform you use, you own that data. jay has said it before. Why doesn’t Ebay provide access to our data since we own it. Well they do. They give it to you for a period of 90 days. Using WonderLister then captures that data every ten minutes and in turn we now have it forever. Even if you stop using WL, the database still works and the data is yours.
Every person that has bought from us since 2002 is in our database along with there home address, even their phone numbers along with their email address. That will now become our email mailing list for our new Shopify Store, which we are just a few weeks awy from going live.
W have the Silver Plan at $25 per month, not just because it allows 5,000 active listings, but because of the extra functions that you get as you move up in the plan levels. Our plan provides us with 6 extra functions that we use frequently and find of value, especially the ability to create “custom fields”.
There is just so much more that WL and SB offers it just can’t be covered in a forum type post.
Mike at MDC Galleries
AdventureE hit right on it Mark. We did a short thread on this topic about a year ago. I have gotten several such letters and we discussed it here on SL. Search John Deere and Velcro and it may pop up. But if you are not an “authorized” reseller they don’t want you selling their products, period. And an authorized reseller means you have applied to the company, been vetted for several criteria, agree to their terms, etc., etc.
Ebay, Bonanza doesn’t care until they get notified by the company, then they have to stand behind it. Ebay has a VERO program which is an agreement with companies to work as partners with them and don’t know about Bonanza. Several of our letters came from Bonanza and one letter from a legal firm representing the company and it was basically a “cease and desist” letter saying stop selling products from this company because we are not officially authorized to do so.
We took ours down immediately and threw them into our summer yard sale. We never buy any John Deere items at all and we see them all the time at not only yard sales, but auction houses. I would guess that auction houses are not authorized either but maybe some law about liquidation of estate items may cover them.
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