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No need to create another Main Forum Folder, just put this new romance sub-folder under “Sourcing”!! LOL 🙂
Just a follow up thought. Maybe contacting Mark Tewes for a follow up interview with his take on the new tax laws and how it may relate to the e-commerce sellers.
Also don’t forget, some politicians are trying hard to push for Sales Tax to be collected on every sale outside one’s own state and then submitted to those states we had sales in, their share of the taxes. We signed a petition on this not too long ago and got several replies back from our Georgia Congressmen and saying they are working on stopping it but I think they said it may still be “in a committee” thing.
mike at mdcg in atl.
Hey Jay:
Just in our own case, we have been a sub S Corporation for many, many years and it has always been a pass through scenario for S-Corps. Nothing new there. What may be different is the percentage rate though, if that is what you are asking about.
The new scenario I think is that as a Sole Prop. and LLC you can use the pass through process. But as you said a question for the CPA-Accountant. As of early dec. ours couldn’t answer any questions because he was waiting to see what was passed. Now they are all scrambling to dive into the weeds-details.
Maybe some of the accountant type members here or maybe Mark Tewes will chime in with the real details.No problem DT:.. We use 6% mostly. Ebay has a drop down menu that shows the trends / averages being used by most sellers by the categories that items are listed in. We see some way higher and some lower. But in Vintage, Collectibles, Home Decor the trend is 5% to 6%. High end fine art and real costly antiques are some of the higher ones but can’t remember how much.
mike at mdcg in atl.
P.S. … Is there really such a thing as “too much shipping supplies”? Not in our book. We will take everything we can get. In boxes if we have surplus we cut them up into custom sizes and include in our inventory. We also do the same with the USPS boxes. Cut the USPS Shoe Box in Half all the time. Makes a very handy 7x5x5. I order 25 shoe boxes from the PO and then immediately cut and resize 10 of them into 20 7x5x5. Only takes a few minutes.
We also use a simple “corner crush down” method to splice two of the shoe boxes together to make a 28″ longx7x5 box for longer items.
For newer sellers you can cut, splice and dice any USPS regular priority boxes [EXCEPT Flat ] as long as you also use the “Priority” Rate costing.
mike at mdcg in atl.
Brian B: .. You hit the nail right on the head. And T-Satt said it just right also and just the way we feel. We use PL for all of our 900 ++ items and our report is showing most of our sales are coming from within the grouping of PL. It is what it is.
Think of this, isn’t that the same as buying an advertisement in the newspaper, Largest ad costs more and gets bigger space. Home Advisor and Angie’s List work the same, pay more and as a home handyman or service provider you get presented and promoted in more zip codes for a fee, buy up into any service and get more juice. Those that buy million dollar minutes at Superbowl get presented, no pay no see. Just the way it works.
So I think it works this way in almost any e-commerce offering on a wide offering format site.
mike at mdc galleries in atl.
They also have stopped offering the 18″x14″x12″ oversize box. The largest now is: 16x12x8 and the only square offered is 8x8x8.
Albee: Sharyn is correct on both counts.
BUT.. if you mean by asking “at that point”, you mean “instant payment” at the time of acceptance, then no. Even if you have “instant Payment” turned on and shown in your listing, once your item goes to the “make an offer” stage, then whoever accepts the offer or counter offer, the seller or the buyer, then “instant payment is not in effect” and they can take their sweet time about paying.
It will be up to you [the seller] to send periodic notices to your customer to pay up and if not when to decide to open a case against them.
We send a polite in case this slipped through the cracks reminder message after 24 hours, then a pay up or we open a case message after 48 hours, then open a case on them after 72 hours. No exceptions, no buts. Most pay up after the first or second notice. A couple don’t pay and get the open case and one or two a year will then email us and ask to cancel.
mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta
Sorry Mark. That did not cross my mind. I do have the Silver Level subscription. Sorry about that. One gets used to navigating and forgets about who can and can’t see or do something if they are on another plan.
mike at mdcg in atl.
Highlight everything you want included in the export, then place cursor in the grid area and right click. Look down the drop down list to you come to “send to clip board as XML/Tab delimited, click on this and u get a pop up, then select Tab delimited with or without header and click save, then go to spread sheet and select your paste function. You may have to work on the formating somewhat. But I guess it is whatever one is comfortable with. But either way will provide these more in depth loks at the overall numbers, for those that are interested.
I am familiar with the SQL server and where it is but nothing about writing queries for it. I know SQL from the Control Panel, Services folder because of and on I have to go into the Services folder, find the WonderLister SQL and turn it back on. MS SQL seems to just stop working and stops running periodically.
I also have several other older SQL servers that were for a couple of other apps I use to use for the home remodeling & estimating software. But those are not used now but just never deleted those SQL Services they used to use.
Being a complete novice on queries for the SQL Servers wont it be easier to just create a custom view in WL, using only the columns you want. Then filter WL any way you want, both outside of and within the grid, then sort and then just export as a .CSV file and open in Excel. There you do the number analysis and write your formulas at the top headings or on cross over tabs or sheets. Excel is the champ at number analysis vs. most databases.
With regards to WL allowing acess to their Windows code, it never hurts to just ask. All they can say is either yes or no. But I thought some developers use MS Azure and go through the cloud to do developing across continental boundaries. I know WL has a team out west, in either Neveda or Utah but also in India. So unsure how they are team working on projects. I have stayed out of their way for a few months, letting them work on the Shopify and Etsy projects without bugging them. Don’t want to create a Ren and Stimpy thing there.
Hey Mark: I noticed you have mentioned the manipulation of WonderLister several times. Are you talking about actually changing the coding for WL so these re-arrangements work directly in the WL app, or are you talking about a spread sheet whereby you export the customized columns / view data from WL over to your spread sheet then write the formulas and add or deleted the data columns as you see fit?
Go to flippertools.com. It is a website operated by one of the SL members. In the middle of the menue are two selections called Fitshipper calculator and fitshipper for listing. These two tools will show you how to ship, who to ship with [usps, ups, fed-ex], what size box, for any size and or weight object.
All you do is put in a couple of numbers and it does the rest. If you don’t know where it is going many people put in the zip code that is dead center of the USA and that is 67547. That is halfway from los angeles, new york, miami, east coast, etc. If you know exactly where it is going [a current sale/sold item] of course put that zip in.
This member has several tools on his site that are very useful. I believe Jay and Ryanne have even interviewed him in the past.
mike at mdc galleries in Atlanta
