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12/05/2017 at 11:55 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 337: If You Build It, You Will Have Storage #28182
See if this has any interest for you.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
12/04/2017 at 10:21 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 337: If You Build It, You Will Have Storage #28023Now you are ready for tall shelving, numbered bins and a numbered inventory system. Great space and good luck.
Have you decided on a heat / cooling system yet?
You guys are going to own so much land and property up there that you will need a big sign out at the entry road that say’s something Like “Scavenger Life Valley .. Gateway to the Unique” just like the “Ponderosa” on Bonanza. LOL-LOL 🙂
Here’s an idea for another income stream.. take some of your land [out back], mark it off in small rectangles, cut a dirt road to it and rent out the spaces to campers. A niche would be to rent to all “Airstream” owners. Wouldn’t it be cool to see a dozen Airstream trailers all lined up side by side. Just thinking outside the box.
mike in Atlanta
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12/04/2017 at 10:03 am in reply to: Question on silver plate, what silver colored metals tarnish? #28020Things as far as objects go are just not made out of “solid silver” for the same reason that not much is made out of “solid gold”. Gold is made in a “mixture” form like 10kt, 14kt, 24kt because solid gold is soft soft that any object made from pure gold would bend, break, etc., etc. The mixture allows the material to be firm and stable enough for mfg. objects from yet carry large amounts of gold. Same thing applies to silver.
Maybe give this link a try. It is a discussion [thread] that has been going on for a long time. It covers a lot of territory on this topic.
https://www.finishing.com/204/43.shtml
Your question already has the answer. If it is unmarked no .925 which is 92.5 percent silver, then it is not considered all silver and is probably plated or chromed. I belive that all “pure silver or high content silver” that is imported into the united states needs to be stamped as such and maybe made in the USA. Here is a link that may help you research your question further.
Hope these links help you out.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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12/02/2017 at 8:34 am in reply to: Question on silver plate, what silver colored metals tarnish? #27895As far as what we do, if it is silver there is either a hallmark but in the USA, we believe must carry an engraved or stamped .925 on it. That means it is real silver. Then following that suit is silver plate and pewter. Real pewter usually has a hallmark and many times several. Silver plated will state
silver plated”, Electro-plated, double, triple or quad plate and about half the time a company’s name on it. Then of course comes “stainless”If we don’t see any of those markings we will just stick with silver toned, a pewter like finish, and in item specifics or the description state the item is “unmarked”. Our thoughts are if it has an intrinsic value then the makers will put as much on it as they can to boost the actual retail selling price when it was first introduced into the market place. If nothing is stated on the object, then the mfg. had nothing to offer to induce a sense of value in the marketplace in the first place. So, we go with the “tone” route.
Also, another thought is that with so many different countries making alloys and who knows what the compositions consist of and if there is no international level of quality standards, with unmarked pieces who knows what the alloy composition is made from, what minerals or ores are more readily available in various countries, who knows what one has with unmarked pieces. Would a test kit provide a definitive answer to all those variations? Don’t know.
But just our method of trying to speed listings along or trying to buy higher end items.
the team at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hi VintageClassics: Go to the ScanvengerLife Home Page and click on the “Resources” tab. Then scroll down and you will see the scales that Ryanne and Jay either use or recommend. We have one of the large ones and 3 of the smaller ones listed here on SL.
Good luck
Well.. Guess there is some truth in “Fate”. I get my just rewards for jumping in on the subject “ship it or cancel it” discussion. And OK I know a big laugh is coming at me.
But first for the record, yes, I know the difference between $65 and $1,600 dollars but guess what just happened to me all within less than about an hour? We got a cha-ching and my wife Susan turned to me and said what did you sell that Dooney and Bourke cross body purse for $.99 for and with FREE SHIPPING no less. I said what??? Yep.. I accidently used an old auction $.99 & free shipping template in WonderLister, filled in all the data, attached photos, did my description and all the item specifics. Except didn’t see it was an old auction template and that it had a $.99 pre-filled in field and I listed that purse for the $.99 instead of $69.99 !!!! Du-oohhh!!
So I guess I get my just rewards. LOL-LOL-LOL. But as some stated way up this thread, an extra thousand is a different story.
I won’t even mention this to the buyer and will ship it tomorrow morning for free. My loss for not paying attention for the last few days while I was reading and posting so much of the SL posts on this thread and all the replies.
Fate just jumped up and said, “Got ‘cha”. You can check my solds and see it right there at the top. Oh and by the way, I uploaded it and went to get take out pizza around the corner. By the time I got back, may 20 minutes it was sold. Talk about a buyer catching a quick mistake. I know people troll Ebay for just this sort of thing, as we all know.
So out it goes and boy did the buyer get a nice Christmas gift.
With a smile on my face or should I say “egg” and no stress in my heart, I remain a loyal Jay and Ryanne fan and very respectful of what they have done through the years and for all the advice I have gotten.
I guess I need to hit the tip jar also as part of my penance while my wife is going back through our listings over the last few days to make sure I didn’t do this on a few earlier listings over the past few days.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
That’s a hoot!
Oh and don’t turn your brain off. Seems like you have great detailed info. Promise I won’t go to the well too often 🙂
That is the difference between “we will” or “we may”. Big difference and does leave plenty of wiggle room.
We will suspend you or we may suspend you. I like the may better.
We still have a divide as to when the sale has consummated. At delivery of funds as the Wiki article says or at the delivery of the article to destination. That needs to be defined first.
As to T-Satt stating FOB destination. We sell the item when funds are psoted. The delivery is on us because we have been hired or sub-cintracted to deliver the buyer’s item to him because he has paid us to do so. They pay for shipping. They give us money to provide that service, so of course we are obligated to carry that service out and if fails we are on the hook, but that doesn’t change the fact, the object was the buyers at moment of payment.
The $880 printer I sold at the first of the month. Then the buyer arranged for deilvery. I kept that object, HIS object in my garage for 3 weeks before it was picked up. I was responsible for the safety of his object until he picked it up. That object was not mine because he paid for the printer the day I accepted his offer. If after 3 weeks I had done something else with that printer or e-mailed him that I decided to keep it and then refunded him, I would be the person to have broken the deal, contract or whatever we are going to call. It.
I don’t see how I could claim that printer to still be mine after I accepted the $880 bucks into my paypal account. FOB Point of Sale in my book. If my neighbor then came over and saw it and said he would give me $1,500 for it, based on how I understand what I had agreed to with my first buyer, I guess I would have to say sorry it is already sold. And if my buyer had emailed me to cancel after I deposited his funds, he would have broken the deal and would be trying to get me to take “HIS” object back and refunding him the money.
I guess as I said, we need to have a real legal, definitive answer to when is the object’s title of ownership transferred to the buy and then from that decide as to when a seller no longer has a right to do anything with it.
All of this is just a very, very gray area.
mc at mdcg
Amen!
AdventureE-ThriftShift and T-Satt: Oh boy don’t you just love it. I pulled that link into MS Word and our User Agreement is 7,426 words, 45,674 characters, 198 paragraphs, 770 lines and 20 pages long.
At a quick glance, saw areas to arbitrate, Pursuant Statue Code quotes, the use of the words “will” and “may” which greatly vary an agreement, indemnity, Disputes, disclaimers, Holds, Intelectual Property, Listing and Purchasing Criteria, LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS OH MY!!! and tons more. Got to love a well worded Agreement and would you probably think, worded in Ebay favor?? Duh! 🙂 But, really who has read all of it and who can decipher it.
WELL .. Yep.. ThriftShift this is your kind of swamp. Deep, murky and clogged with weeds. Hummm wonder what your service fee is, if we ever get shut down for some sort of wierd VERO or such, let’s go get ’em. 🙂 Just kiddin ya’ll. Just a joke….
As Father Mulcayhe [sp ??] on Mash used to say… Jockularity..Jockularity!! 🙂
mc at mdcg
Hey Jay.. I just thought of something about all these back and forth posts today. I remember way back years ago when the episodes were in the teens or low double digits and you said at the end of one of the pod casts. “Come guys, we haven’t had hardly any posts, will some of you reply and post”. Those days were maybe a dozen or two total posts for the whole episode. Well watch out for what you ask for, you may just get it. LOL… Now you have “tons” of posts every week.
I remember when you and Ryanne answered every post, sometimes within minutes. Now by the time you or Ryanne get to reply a whole slew up posts get posted. That is just so cool.
I also think you have said a couple of times, that it would be neat when the Forum could run itself with minimum moderation. I even noticed during this new house project that your frequency did diminish since you guys were so tied up.
It was even a few weeks ago you were asking for more detailed and in depth questions and topics. Looks like you opened up a good one. Remember the long “what constitutes COGS – COG Cost of Goods and Cost of Goods Sold long, long thread?Now that T-Satt is around that may be another good one to revist since Dec. and as T-Satt said “year end” is just a few weeks away.
But funny, you used to asked for more posts, now it is request to organize our posts, put in right catagory, and pull in the reins a little. LOL.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Yeah as Jay says.. and we all are fairly thick skinned and Jay does a good job of letting things roll off his back and also he can give as good as he gets sometimes. But as he says, we are all open and it is about seeing things from a miriad of different perspectives and we have only had a few that were really mean and trying to create havoc and bad vibes. Those were a lot of the anonymous people back on the old blog but on the new forum and with Ryanne screening and everyone having to sign up, it is just most of those like us trying so thourh things out there on the table to talk it out and learn. I think Jay calls it, running this up the flag pole and seeing what happens.
In a since we are all in this “together”. many have spent many hours posting things here to just help. And if “coming from left field” occasionally, it is all OK. Remember as Susan just said “I am a piece of work”.
So Jay won’t get down. Actually we may be wanting to rent Jay house and come up and maybe help him with an inventory system if they have a need or desire.
mc at mdcg
Oh ThriftShift, where were you 3 hours ago! Would have saved me from a lot of typing. 🙂 LOL. Well that takes care of that. Didn’t think about the Buyer’s and Seller’s agreement, which yep, as you said we all agreed to when we set up our accounts, but no one except a legal eagle reads much less understands most of the time.
Thanks for the detailed post and clears the air on the “legal” issue of a cancellation.
Didn’t know we had a “legal eagle” floating around. Now that we know, you may get shout outs every now and then or we say, good question to ask ThriftShift!! LOL.
mc at mdcg
IP… guess that is what we all do at thrifts. We have found several items in the past year or so that was scribed “Tiffany’s” on the bottom. We bought for $2.19 and sold for hundreds. So, it is the same thing.
Also when I buy art prints, I know when I have a hundred bucks in my hand and it has a $2 sticker on it. I don’t do what the “American Picker” Mike Wolfe does and say, “OH it is worth a lot more than that” and then offer a lot more. I pay the $2 and smile all the way to the bank. So the door swings both ways.
Guess it falls into the category of “Knowledge is Power” type of thing.
mc at mdcg
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T-Satt wouldn’t the “accrual” accounting method take care of that? Once we shipped we invoiced within hours. Then that invoice fell into the accrual of the final months figures.
Also our CFO operated as well as the IRS that as a manufacturer that anything that was past the 50% point of being made, meaning after printing and finishing, that it was not an asset but we could invoice and that became receivables. Then at year end was tallied as “receivables” to us even if still in house in the loading doc area. But I could be wrong and I am going back a few years now and maybe just can’t remember accurately.
mc at mdcg
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