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Also the 1st quarter shipping supply discount coupon comes out. We have already done our shipping box inventory and ready to place our order.
Just for extra info.
One sold July 2016 and is listed on Worthpoint.com. Here is the link:https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/david-harden-primitive-look-folk-art-1822556302
The sold price is $22.00 in case you can’t see it.
Oh I don’t know, thought I saw that somewhere and thought you might know. I just did a few minutes research and guess it is not a requirement. The topic is spoken about more as a “best practices” type of thing seemingly under customer service categories.
After reading a few examples of the dumb or insulting questions buyers send I understand a “no response”. That will save me some time in the future. I will just ignore them also.
I have a “Present” question for both you and Jay. How do the people that can find, buy, get almost anything they need and or want at the lowest prices ever possible, ever decide on what to “BUY” each other as a Gift? 🙂
thanks.. mike
Hay Ryanne: Just reading and had a thought. Oh and Merry Christmas by the way.
I like Linda, usually answer by way of a flat out “No” or “Nope” or occasionally just say “Make me an Offer” [who knows]. But the question is doesn’t Ebay state as sellers we need to answer the majority, if not all of the messages we get sent or questions asked” I thought I read somewhere that it is part of the metrics they track and that we need to answer most of the inquiries we get. If we just don’t answer thought they track that somewhere for whatever reason?
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art
Here, Here Steven …
and shorten the time a buyer has to pay after an offer is accepted. We get cancellations at times and the buyer says outright, please cancel, I found either a nicer one or a cheaper one. Had one of those this week.
mike at mdc galleries
I think you have mentioned that more than once over the past years. One would think that the more tools Ebay provides for the full time, professional sellers as you call them, that we would be even more successful and in turn they would flourish and hopefully have less issues from sellers and buyers alike.
I hope they don’t get the bright idea, that if they are going to provide “some things”, that like you say, Premium and Anchor would get the same tools and not break it up into tiers, like the shipping supplies. The more you pay Ebay monthly, the more tools you get access too and the longer the history of Sales will be.
They probably won’t buy one of the listing services like SixBit, WonderLister, InkFrog and others because of the big push of those services to include cross listing on other platforms like Etsy, Shopify, Wix, and others. That is a big tool for those programs and Ebay would have to cull out a lot of code and neuter them to just provide tools for enhanced Ebay use. Just talking pure speculation here but wouldn’t make sense to have atool that allows a seller to have their own web site store and build SEO guidelines to push / drive traffic to the sellers own store [like we are getting ready to do] and away from the Ebay platform.
Again, just flapping my jaws.
mike at MDC Galleries
Yeah.. you are correct Jay, it was Ebay’s own data, but TP did a great slice and dice analysis of the data and also offered charting and graphing so you could see seasonal peaks, momentum trends and the like. Where Ebay just sold the “Sales History” to them and also WorthPoint.
That is why I said above that someone like T-Satt and others here that create and build spread sheets with haevy formulas may find that TerraPeak will do what they are currently doing only for them. I never knew if TP allowed customization of columns and the such. I did subscribe to it years ago and used it for about 6 months or a year [can’t recall] but found WP gave me what we needed and for less. Now, maybe a different story.
This could be interesting in the way many look at their numbers, sales through rates, velocity and such. We all will need to keep our eye on this and maybe give it a try and all compare notes after they start implement things. Probably will be a lot of information in the Winter Update also.
Mike at MDC Galleries
That is interesting and would be great. We have always used Worthpoint for description ideas and keywords and also the historical prices. But as Jay has always said, prices more than a year old don’t hold much value-use for him and Ryanne, but having a year’s worth of solds would be of interest to him.
We used WP because it was only $14 per mo. subscription back then and we have been able to keep at that costs. Terrapeak was about $25 to $29 if I remember correctly so we went with the cheaper and also did not have the interest in the newer more current items that TP seemed to focus on. They seemed to have data on mostly electronics, games, and stuff like that. Being a vintage hard goods store those stats did not hold much interest.
If Terrapeak will truly be free [part of our store offerings] and still offer all the tools they currently offer, then we will save money by dropping WorthPoint and saving that 14 per month WP fee. Great!! TerraPeak offers description analysis and suggestions for improvements, suggested key words, and stats that T-Satt and others would love. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
Interesting that currently we get 90 days of Ebay history, TerraPeak offers back to a year and the WP is from a year back to about 7 years. One year would be sufficient and one would think that WP would probably loose a lot of subscribed members.Just thinking.
mike at MDC Galleries
Don’t know what volume the one you have is but here is one, 3rd edition Vol. 1 for $128.00.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vol-1698206996
and then two more 2nd edition for $24.99 ea. but who knows how they sold them. If auction maybe they went for too low. But then who knows what the Lauren info. does for it.
https://www.worthpoint.com/inventory/search?query=bungalows+Camps+and+mountain+houses
I was already in WP looking for something else and thought I would just take a quick look for you.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hey A/E: Appreciate your interest and input. That was very nice of you.
mike in Atl.
Hey Amatino: Suggestion… there are magnifying apps for your cell phone. Many are free but they limit the power of magnification. Buy them for $2.99 and you can get up to 60x [I think]. Also there is a small “Macro Lens” that is available to buy that just snaps onto the back of your photo which allows “extreme close-ups” of small details. It is great for stamped jewelry, art and stamp items, fiber viewing and tons more. I think maybe Ryanne spoke of this sometime in the past. But may be worth a small investment as a business tool.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta.
Have at it A/E: No problem with you doing that at all. Also maybe a reminder that both the new forum and the Blog Archives can be searched. J&R have a search field on the right side bar. Another way to search is by holding down the control key and typing the letter F for find. Then type in the search term, click to highlight the found terms in yellow and that will take you to wherever you want to go.
Once I get my sea legs under me on the other two independent sites, I will then explore many other topics on art, forgery, fakes, color, techniques, mixed media, materials, framing and matting techniques, setting up a studio, how to stretch a canvass, how best to ship art done in different mediums, archival quality vs. commercial quality, 85 line halftones vs. 133 line and higher what and why, simulated brush strokes vs. real brush strokes, various etching techniques like intaglio vs. relief printing, matting prints – die cut vs. hand french cut-dbl & triple matting, mezzo-tint, shadow boxes, and just tons more. Things we used to teach students through a complete Bachelors and Masters Fine Art program. Just tons of stuff to cover, which most will be outlined in those new web sites.
Also a whole lot of the printing and mfg. technique information applies to stamps and stamp collecting, posters and sports cards. I have been collecting Mint US Stamps since I was a young teenager. We are in the process of splitting up thousands of the stamps into yearly lots which we will be liquidating also. Many subjects such as centering, perfing, cutting, etching vs. litho printing of stamps and sports cards all apply. I can grade cards fairly well. I know which ones to send to PSA for high end grading vs. those to not waste the money on.
The bottom line is to capture, draw and pull as much traffic away from the Ebay and Etsy platforms that we can so that we are not so subservient to the whims of their rules and policies. Develope our own following, repeat customers, collectors, and mailing lists which WonderLister provides to us. That’s the beauty of a 3rd party listing software. We have literally thousand of email and home addresses, phone numbers and full contact information we have gathered through the years. So, time to start marketing directly to that customer base. We will see, but at my age I could die and never get one page completed.
So organize here on SL any way you see fit.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Good Morning:
I see what you mean now. The use of the word Ebay threw me into thinking you meant a forum on Ebay.
Oh sure, organizing here would be great. I have tried to find a spcific topic here on the Forum and while yes you can search a topic, it does come in the form of pages upon pages of posts that contains the search term but maybe not applicable.
Have at it. That would also help me for the time I need that content for my new site. That is one of the reasons I sign my posts mike at mdc galleries in Atlanta, so I will be able to search on that specific phrase and sort out all of my art responses.
Unfortunately I have only been using that signature for the more current posts.
Sorry I didn’t grasp your concept.On the old “Blog” Jay used to have a section specifically for this, called the Something like the area of knowledge so members could go to that tab and create posts about specific topics. It had a lot of pretty good posts that were topic related but most members just kept asking the same questions within the “blog” and in return those answers got spread out all over the place and were hard to re-gather back into one “whole”.
Thanks for the Kudos and interest. Hopefully the data will help. I have an outline for the topics I am going to place on our new web site and the plan shows a build out of approx. 250 + pages so far along with our art pieces spread throughout for sale. Going to be interesting to cram 6 college years, two art degrees, 40 years of professional teaching and commercial printing experience into one web site experience. The ultamate goal is to do the same amount of business through our own two web sites as we do on Etsy and Ebay and then maybe drop Ebay and Etsy altogether. I know of several who have done that and also a few that still do both.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
I just dropped off a 29 lb. box that contained a wooden, 3 drawer 148 pc. set of bronze dinnerware about
26″ x 19″ x 8″. Big and heavy, at FedEx for Home Delivery. The USPS was about $40 +/- and FedEx was about $21 +/-.Whenever in doubt book mark here and go here to get the best rates, who is best and what boxes to use.
http://www.flippertools.com/ then go to the fitshipper sections [I use his tools a lot] and just input the sizes and weight. The developer of this sight has been interviewed by J&R and recommend his site also.Good luck.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
