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Hey Retreo.. One of the benefits of using WonderLister or SixBit is all T-Satt or we have to do is click on all states that has this law and the tax for that state will be charged and the collecting tax part is done automatically and we can generate a financial report for whatever period we want, monthly, quarterly, annually, etc. and just pay the total amount shown.
I also believe Ebay also already has a list of all the states and all a seller that uses Ebay listing will have to do is set all the states that has the law and Ebay will charge customers accordingly and properly give a report also.
Until it becomes a Federal law I doubt if Ebay will collect the charges and pay for us. We will just have to pay per state, like the “in state” sales works now. For example if 16 states do this, then I would guess write sixteen checks and send out. But the funds will already be in our paypal account because Ebay will add it to every state we have checked off to collect it for.
The petition we signed was to try to get our representatives to drop this issue altogether. It is on the news [radio as we are working today]. The bill passed the House of Reps. some weeks ago. It is up for Senate vote shortly. Wondering if it will make National News tonight?
Anxious to see what the outcome is. They say it is like Interstate vs, Intrastate laws. Truckers have to have licenses to carry goods to various stores across state lines and they seem to want to tax items coming in across state borders; or something like that. Not sure, but you mention Federal, it is because the Feds keep arguing about it that the state decided to lay the local groundwork in hopes that it will serve as a model or food for thought to the reps on the national level.
Boy we sure hope not.
mdc at mdc in Atl.
Good catch… Yep..We have had a good friend helping us since last fall. She does about 10 hours per week on Fri. Sat. Sundays. I start the drafts in WL, log in new inventory and tag all new items, then wife does the cleaning, inspection and photography, Lisa then opens the WL draft and fills in the middle apart of the listing such as description, item specifics and checking off standard areas within WL and then it is saved to our Ready for Review folder. I then open the listing later and do the pricing and add keywords, attach photos and upload. All in all maybe 10 min. each. per listing.
Also Lisa takes our Ebay listings and does the copy and paste cross listings on Etsy. Though we have that process on hold, while we wait on WonderLister to get it’s Etsy module up and going.
But yep.. 3 of us on weekends. Also this allows Susan and I to spend more time in procurement.
Here is one to watch out for.. Georgia’s New Retail Sales Tax for Online Seller’s. This may set a precedent that rolls over to other states. But as it stands now and if it passes the Senate, [I think today], then Online Sellers will have to collect and pay Sales Tax on items sold to customers in Georgia when they live and operate from other states.
The catch is in the two numbers they use. The first says if you sell $250,000 to Georgia residents, but the other number of interest says OR 200 ITEMS sold to residents of Georgia. If we are reading all of this correctly if you live and operate your online business and sell online and sell 200 items or more to buyers who live in Georgia, then the Georgia dept. of Revenue wants you to collect Sales tax and send it to GA. even if you don’t have a physical office, warehouse or store within the state.
In the past we only collected state sales tax for buyers who lived within the state where we lived and operated. So no big deal for us. But what about all of you guys? Have any of you sold more than 200 items to Georgia residents? I would think that some of you guys who have thousands of items in your stores and sell a high volume of items, may possibly have accumulated over 200 items sold to residents of GA. Don’t know?
We signed a petition several times over the last year about this and Ebay sent us a bolier plate letter to sign. We got answers from all of our state representatives and they said they were watching the situation closely, whatever that meant.
The word is, if this passes in Georgia, then a domino effect might start to happen on the state level in other states. The GA representatives also say they are just echoing what they are seeing and hearing at the National level.
But in any case we really hope we are not understanding this and the implications, so any comments would be interesting. Here is the link….
the team Michael, Susan, Lisa at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Agree with above, but if you ever do get a negative for color, search this forum for color and color deficiency and color blindness and use what you find as your argument. Many humans do not see color correctly especially men.
There is lot of details in a reply we posted one time here on SL and you can find it here someplace if you search. Don’t think any rep will be able to combat the scientific facts on color deficiency and would probably reverse any complaint about color. MAYBE! :-). But worth a shot to be armed with the details and then see if you can maybe even get the “neutral” removed if you have the time. Otherwise save your argument for the move serious negative feed backs on color. Also may be neat to have a saved blurb on color to send to a customer.
COLOR BLINDNESS DEFICIENCY TEST!! If you are interested, male or female.. take this test and then see how your color vision stacks up. If you are deficient you may want to have someone else confirm-double check your color observations stated in your descriptions.
http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/
the team at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
That is the best thing to do and agree with all who replied.
We never know where any item has come from. It could have stayed in several homes before you aquired it.
Think about every time you go into an Antique Mall, Thrfit Store and how that environment smells. That Antique Mall smell is a combination of all of the items environments out gasing into that one environment. They all smell about the same no matter what state you visit them in. That is a combination of musty oils, polish, smoke, mold, mildew and god only knows what else. Those odors are also absorbed by all of the products placed in those environments.
so agree whole heartedly do not put anything into the Description area / listing that states about not having odors, smells, stains, etc. If anything state that it probably does, but that is wasting space. It is a description area, so describe the item and insert Product specifications / Item specifics.
As a last reminder, also wash your hands after handling your merchandise, before you pick up any food or eat and keep your hands out of your mouth until you do. Some of our old antique mall buddies wore gloves while handling their inventory. We just wash up after handling our stuff all day.
the team at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
Ryanne.. Saw your post this am but had to run to a doctors appointment and did not have time to reply. But before I do to save some time, did you get a solution for this issue yet?
Sure was. I read it. Here it is again for review.
almasty wrote:
I had one angry Rosicrucian take down like 20 Rosicrucian pamphlet lots of mine a few years ago. That still stings. I paid $100 for them and barely made my money back on them before that happened (I suspect that’s how I ended up getting them for so cheap in the first place!). I still don’t know what to do with the lots I have left, ugh.
It makes sense when it’s the literature of the organization, to an extent. I don’t understand how the patches can be considered in the same class of “belonging” to the organization as the “secret” literature could (it’s really sleep inducing stuff, and it has for the most part been reprinted repeatedly anyway).
If they do contact Ebay, you’ll probably just get an “ebay removed this item” letter from them, even if the vest has already been sold. I know it makes no sense, but I guess they just send out letters like that sometimes to protect themselves.
I bought a late 1800s/early 1900s Masonic robe several years ago off Ebay for really cheap with no problems. That one was issued by the Masonic Supply Company. I see they go for a LOT now! But anyway, they have no problem with their clothing items being resold on Ebay. This organization that tried to buy it back from you is probably just upset that they weren’t able to buy it back first. That’s why they are saying “oh, please return it to us as a gift.”
I find this sort of amusing because I’m listing through a large box of Masonic material right now. Lets see if the crazies come out for me (please don’t)!
Agree with Jay. We too have sold masonic and Fraternal club items. Copyrighted doesn’t mean you can’t sell it, it just means you can’t reproduce it and make more of them, i.e. copy and mfg. for resale.
Every visual artist, painter, sculptor, photographer, musician in the world has copy rights to their material / art object as soon as they create it and sign it. But onces someone buys it, they can resell it for whatever amount they want. They own the art object BUT you can’t have Giclee prints, photograph it or repaint a copy of it and then turn around and sell your copy.
As Jay would Say [hey that rhymnes], List it and Forget it. Resell it if you can.
Look up Robert Rauschenburg [visual artist] and find the story about where he sold one of his earlier works for $185. Then decades later he was at the Sotheby’s Park and Benet Auction house when it sold for Millions. A reporter asked him if he felt cheated that he had sold it for so little and now it went for so much more. He replied, I thought it was a good price at the time. He [the customer] bought it, he owns it and he can sell it for whatever he can get for it.
We will look for it online and good luck.
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Arts in Atlanta
Thanks for that info. T-S. Which reminds me I asked one of our agents a few months back and she never got back to me. I will check with the other one. The first was an independent agent and the one I am going to call now is our auto-home insurance agent. Probably one I should have called first anyway.
mc at mdc in atl.Or sued for selling old planters, plates and wall decor! :-).
Now maybe a home owners rider for the destruction of your inventory by fire, water from a busted pipe since you are in a basement, or something like that, maybe.
We use MileIQ. Best out of several we used.
Auto mapping of every trip you take over 5 MPH. It records mileage as long as I have my phone with me. It will eventually learn certain address and auto classify them as personal and business. example your Doctors office vs. a thrift store or auction house. It shows every trip as a one line summary and you either swipe it left for personal and right for business. It also shows you 2 small postage size maps side by side. Your start from and go to. So if you don’t remember where you went, enlarge the map and it shows you that you went to the local Home Depot.
Also you don’t have to classify your trips at the exact minute you are done, it synchs with the cloud and you can sit down at your laptop or desktop and just do it every couple of weeks. The maps help us remember where we went. It also recognizes when you have stopped and not moved for a while. It records those as separate trips. example. Leave office and go to a yard sale=business then that swipes right for business, then crank up and go to lunch, so that is recorded as a trip, but you would swipe that left for personal, then crank up and go to an estate sale, then that would swipe right.
It has a dashboard that shows the numbers and shows what they add up to. How many personal and how many business miles per month. Also has a great, tidy IRS report of your cumulative mileage for year end. How many business miles vs. how many personal. And things like Doctors, dentist visits once categorized in the very beginning are reported because those trips are deductible also. It also constatnly shows you the IRS deductible amount you will receive. We have had several thousands of dollars of deductible trips the last few years, all tracked by MileIQ and all we do is include that printed hard copy of the report to our CPA.
Going to Staples for Office supplies, also a business trip. It does all this automatically and all u have to do is swipe the line alert left or right. Once it memorizes repeat addresses and you classify as a certain category, it remembers that and you will have to swipe it less and less.
It is a very valuable business tool and takes the pain of the effort of keeping a small written diary in the car and always having to write the start and end mileage down and the reason for the trip.
If you are a serious part time or full time business person this is a must. The fact that it goes with you on your phone and not attached or plugged in to the car, you never have to remember to go get it especially if you jump into another car as a passenger. It is on your phone and where ever you and your phone go it is automatically recording your trips.
Check out it’s web site to see screen shots of how it works and the various views and data it presents. You get 40 trips per month for free. If you go over it is like a buck or so for unlimited. I think we do $12 or so for a yearly subscription. Considering it tracked almost $3,000 worth of business deductions last year, it is well worth it.
Hope this helps…
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
I took a look for you… Even without a subscription you should be able to see the text-description just not the price. This verbiage is copy & paste from the highest sold for $150 on March 2011.
There was a higher price at $165 BUT it was for 3 different issues of which yours was one of the 3. So who knows how much only the #1 issue would be. But seems the larger size is the original.VERY VERY RARE LOWRIDER MAGAZINE ISSUE # 1 IN NEAR MINT CONDITION , THIS IS MY LAST # 1 I AM SELLING ,THIS IS OUT OF MY PERSONNAL COLLECTION ,THIS IS A GREAT COLLECTABLE AND THE ONLY 1 ON EBAY ,NO STAINS RIPS OR TEARS ,STAPLES ARE VERY TIGHT NO LOOSE PAGES ,SO GOOD LUCK , I ALSO HAVE A # 11 LOWRIDER MAGAZINE IN MY STORE , THANKS FOR LOOKING ,PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE RARE VINTAGE MAGAZINES Check out my other items !Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! SIZE IS 8-1/2 X 11 SO PLEASE DONT ASK ME IF IT IS A REPRINT IT IS AN ORIGINAL ISSUE FROM 1977 NOT THE REPRINT FROM 2000 THE SIZE OF THE MAGAZINE IS THE WAY YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE, THE REPRINT MEASURES 7-3/4 X 10-1/2 ,,,, I HAVE SOLD ORIGINAL ISSUES ON EBAY FOR 200.00 WITH FREE SHIPPING IN THE PAST SO DONT MISS THIS CHANCE TO OWN THIS CLASSIC ,AINT NO TELLIN WHEN ANOTHER ORIGINAL # 1 WILL COME UP FOR SALE ON EBAY.
Hope this helps,
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Funny AdventureE: I see we were thinking the same thing at the same time and posted probably within seconds of each other.
We use Goggle drive, shoot photos with phone and send to our folders on Goggle drive. Folders are by the month and year but if we get faster and more items will just create folders every two weeks or weekly . Then using WonderLister [you know the drill], we click open one of the many templates we have, fill in the custom fields we have in that particular template, click on photos which opens automatically on the Google drive master folder, clcik on those photos and click submit and up it goes. By the time Anatarestar typed all the info for Suzanne Wells our listing would be up and listed.
Just don’t see any time saver there. Our assistant works directly from the object that is sitting in her work station after we photograph it. So other than assigning an inventory sku number when the item comes into our office, we only type information one time and that is into the listing form. we have 3 work stations, 3 scales, double screen on each computer. We tag, photo, fill out a form, attach photos and upload. Pretty easy and straight forward.Mike at MDC
