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Hey Christine: We keep Worthpoint open almost all the time. As soon as I clicked on your link it opened directly to that Worthpoint listing. They sold for $129 0n 8/29/2012. Here is what the listing description says.
“YOU ARE BIDDING ON A BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF ANTIQUE 1920’S BRONZE CLAD WEIDLICH BROTHERS BOOKENDS. THEY MEASURE APPROXIMATELY 5.75 INCHES BY4 INCHES WIDE BY 3.5 INCHES DEEP. ORIGINAL AND FULLY HALLMARKED WITH THE WEIDLICH BROTHERS WB FOUNDRY MARK ON THE REAR AND NUMBERED ” 641. ” EXCELLENT CONDITION AND NEAR PERFECT. BEAUTIFUL COLLECTOR BOOKENDS. I SHIP WORLDWIDE. PROFESSIONAL PACKAGING GUARANTEES SAFE DELIVERY. EMAIL ME WITH QUESTIONS AND FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FEES. GOOD LUCK.
About Weidlich Brothers: Weidlich Brothers Manufacturing Company operated in Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1901 until the 1950’s. W.B. Mfg Co (Weidlich Bros) of Connecticut has been well documented in the Silversmith journals of well known artisans of the Art Nouveau period. The company made some of the finest heavy (quadruple) silver plated and electro-plated items in the early 1900’s.”Good luck with your listing. Nice find.
Mike & Susan at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
I use OneNote [the same as EverNote]. It is great. Also synchs with phone. One click and up pops “sticky note” like squares on my PC screen. I name each sticky note by topic Personal To-Do, Business To-Do, Long Term To-Do etc., etc. When I click all of the ones I created pop up on my screen which can show up to 12 notes and still be large enough to be read. I can add and delete the notes as needed. Also any line item will synch to my Outlook calendar and I can set an alarm if it is a short term to do today or tomorrow type of thing.
But bottom line is I use the “Business at the Speed of Thought” axiom and if I didn’t have a quick way to jot down my To-Do items on a list, I would forget half of them.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Hey Linda.. Interesting. Maybe it is just your local USPS but I see my
“Over sized mail box” from out of the window in my office. I see our carrier reach in, grab our packages and then scan then on the spot. Within less than 60 seconds those scans show up in my Ebay Dashboard. Maybe, just maybe, your carrier is not scanning your packages right away. Some carriers I am told will wait until they get to a safe stopping point and scann, some wait until they get back to the local PO and then scan as they unload thier trucks. Which by the way IS NOT what they are supposed to do, but they use this technique so they get their routes done faster and get back to the office. And some carriers don’t scan and let the internal guys do it when they load items into the larger trucks to transport to the local distribution center [larger PO].But I have talked with our local Post Master more than a couple of times and this is what she said. Carriers are “supposed” to scan in the field at the time and point of first contact. They are furnished with hand held scanners for this purpose and those scanners cost them $1,500 each. They happen to be re-furbished FedEx scanners BTW. She said why would we buy those and pay that much and not intend for them to use it. She has also said she wants to know who is not scanning in the field because she will call them out on the carpet. Fire them, NO but will certainly tell them, to scan in the field. She also said she is aware of the new guarantied delivery programs, both for Ebay and Amazon and her boss stresses for them to enforce the scanning process. Not doing it just to finish their routes early or to get out of the heat or cold is not acceptable, especially with these new programs.
So hopefully as these programs sink in and more Post Masters get in the groove, we will see timely scans and also that data showing up in our dashboards in a timely fashiopn.
Mike at MDC Galleries & Fine Art in Atlanta
FYI: USPS Priority cut off is 1,728 cubic inches which is 12 x 12 x 12 inches. BUT they know they still have some of those “Old “C” size boxes” floating around so I am told they just let those ride. Then after 1,728 cubic inches you have to change the shipping method over to Parcel. Parcel has two calculations to be made. Dimensional weight will start to be imposed after you reach 108″ gathered from the longest dimension added to the girth, which is a complete circle around the shortest part of your package. The Dim. weight amount charged will vary as the weight and distance the package will travel increases. The dim. weight is applied UNTIL you reach 130″ of the length + Girth. at 130″ then USPS Parcel Select and 70 lbs. of course is the final cut off. At this point you will need to gravitate to UPS or FedEx.
May I suggest to make a small sign and just post these couple of numbers in or around your shipping area and you will be good to go.
Mike at MDC Galleries & Fine Art in Atlanta
07/29/2017 at 9:31 am in reply to: What Sold On eBay: Dictaphone, Weather gauge, Coleman cooler, Cobalt blue bowl, Transparency film, Leather Duffle bag #21012Hey Steve: When I saw your movie screen sold that got me digging through the basement. I found ours just like it AND a Kodak Carousel Slide Projector and two extra carousel slide trays. The projector still works.
Due to the size of the screen and the shear weight of the projector, probably a bad idea to try to sell everything as a complete slide show set-up. So will probably do the screen as one unit and then the projector and trays as a item unit.
But question on shipping, did you just piece together your own long box and cover it up? I have done that for tripods and fishing poles before, and secondly how did it ship and what was the [approx.] cost if you can recall? I estimate a home made box at about 57″ x 6″ x 6″ = 2,052 cubic inches. Since that is over the 1,728 cubic inches for Priority, I guess only regular parcel ground but is still under the dimensional size cut-off. Did you throw in any extra special handling charge to box that baby up and if so, may I ask about how much?
Thanks for any feedback….
Mike and Susan at MDC Galleries in Atlanta-
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07/27/2017 at 2:29 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20930T=-Satt: Great field reporting on the Ebay Open event. Interesting tid-bits that I am sure we all will be discussing once the event is over and things start to get reported that they heard about. Everything sounds very interesting.
What surprised me was 81% of the “Solds” are NEW Items. That means only 19% of Sold Items would then be in the used-vintage-old category. Humm.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
07/25/2017 at 11:23 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20759Hey T-Satt: Get a quote on them to do that. I did and it is hundreds of dollars, form both SB & WL, if I understood the line items correctly. BTW: WL & SB both do it, but at the extra cost.
To date I am just storing photos now on Google drive which reduces space consumption on the office rig.
To Jay: One thing you will like about both SB & WL is the “Inventory Management” part of them. I added a custom field to WL long ago. It is called “BIN LOCATION”. After we list an item we also put the bin number we stored the item in, into that field. So how is that useful, you may ask? Well several things, one is that you can print out a list of all of your “active” listings and customize that report to include location, cost of the item, total cost of all inventory, etc. Second, each morning I open up WL and first thing I do is print out a “Pick List”, one of the reports both WL & SB will do. It prints a one line summary of each item sold all on one sheet. It shows a small thumbnail pix of the item sold, the title used on ebay, the associated SKU number and the bin it is located in. This would be a great list to just hand your helper each morning, she goes to your [NEW STORAGE BUILDING WITH ROWS OF NUMBERED SHELVES AND BINS] and she grabs a rolling shopping cart, and then just walks down the rows andpulls everything sold and needs to be shipped that day out of the bins and brings them all to the shipping area. OR, thirdly you can print out all of the “Packing Lists” for each item instead of a consolidated list and then you can place each PL with each item you pull.
Another neat thing you can pull is a report that is sorted by item name then shows where it is stored, or you can print a list sorted by the BIN NUmbers, numerically [001 – 1,000 etc.] and see what is in each bin. This way you can dedicate a certain number to contain only ties, or shoes and when you buy more of those items you can see what bin numbers you use to hold those like kind items.
Finally a good reason to have this all on your own computer is as stated, in case the internet goes out for some reason, also these files can be exported quickly into spread sheets if you want, you have more control by “owning and maintaining your own data”, and it is less costly to keep it own your own rig [but make sure you do proper back ups]. As T-Satt said you can have it put into the cloud but both SB & WL will charge more for that service.
So what you are paying for is quick access to technical support, how to instructions and help, them doing constant updates and improvements based on customer recommendations, them constantly “pinging” your Ebay and Etsy account and updating your inventory, sales, financials and profit reports every few seconds across multiple platforms, also reimbursing them for the research and development of their software in the first place and then for them to keep improving SB & WL as an expanding tool, just like we all have to reimburse for our medicine prescriptions from Pharmacy companies, and other things.
What these programs will do has been posted in many other past posts but as an exercise, I would suggest two things, first go to SB & WL web sites and print out a list of what all each will do, and then compare that list to what you know or think Ebay does. Next form your own questions that you can’t find and pick up the phone and call them. I did for several; companies and ask the big question, “What do you offer or bring to the table that Ebay doesn’t and what do I get for the fee that I can’t get elsewhere”?
And then lastly, you said earlier, what if you ever get kicked off of Ebay for some reason, well you will have your whole store right there on your own computer, just open an Etsy Store or create your own web site and everything you need to populate that new store platform is right at your finger tips.
Just continuing to share experience(s) of off line listing and inventory software stories.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
07/25/2017 at 8:11 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20749Yes there is a cell phone app. But using it on a cell phone to remote control my home office rig, which has double monitors is like trying to fly a passenger jet plane using a Wii controller! LOL 🙂
The phone app is like all type of complex apps, the print and screen layout is just too small to be able to handle things comfortably. But some people still do it, but we just prefer a larger screen. I have never been one to try to run a business only using a phone, but some do.
Mike at MDC Galleries & Fine Art in Atlanta
07/25/2017 at 7:57 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20745So sorry to hear about this DoublyThumbs. Our prayers go out to you and your girlfriend and your neighbors. We had a basement flood many decades ago in Ct. and the water came up to the upstairs floor. Totally covered the basement and ruined everything, so we can relate to your heartfelt pain.
As Scavengers we all are sort of Troopers and organizers. I am sure after you get all of the administrative details out of the way, you will just start to “pick” the situation, save and clean what you can, and inch by inch, will start to rebuild the inventory. God has strange ways to test us at times and the one thing you can do is to simply keep going, through the tears and pain, just pick up and keep going.Like the mantra ABL [always be listing], switch to JKG [Just Keep Going] mode.
Keep us all informed and if you have any questions, shoot them out to the SL community, even though we are all mostly far away, we can still maybe provide some answers for you.
Take care…
Mike and Susan at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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07/25/2017 at 7:25 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20742Good Morning T-Satt: Thank the Lord for Coffee! And I hear drinking it everyday now prolongs one’s life and staves off Alzheimers.
Yep.. we use TeamViewer also. Our home office rig has to stay on when we are gone. Each computer has an ID number assigned to it. We set the office rig up as the “host” so to speak and we “allow” the separate ID number that is on the laptop “access” to the office number. Sort of like computer “A” allows” “B” to access. You have a password for each computer so when on the laptop, from any location-anywhere, we click on the TeamViewer Icon, input the office password and it then connects.
Tip-Trick. We bought a second monitor for the home office rig. So with two screens, on TeamViewer it recognizes that and all we do is click the 2 screen button to switch back and forth. If I am listing on the road, I keep a browser open on the second monitor and WonderLister open on the first and just click back and forth to switch monitors and multi-task that way.
Nice thing is also you can also transfer files between our laptop and the office rig. If we need a printout of anything we “transfer” our file to us [laptop], then print it out on any local available source or put on a thumb drive and take to a printer locally. Don’t have a small travel printer because hardly ever need a printout.
We can also do a re-start of the home office rig, TV will disconnect for a few seconds, then auto reconnect when the office rig is back online.
WARNING: The only thing you can’t do or have happen is for your home rig” to be turned “off” while you are gone. There is no way to turn it on remotely unless you call a friend-family and have them go turn it on.
Check it out at the TeamViewer web site. We use the Free version, no ads, fully functional. Good luck with it.
Yep, the screen customization is a nice function of SB, but you can only do a couple of sections and WL does have a 3 view split screen now. We also keep all of our photos now on Google drive which also cuts down the space. We only pay $25 a month for WL as compared to your $70 was it? But SB did have a little bit of a “Jazzier” look to it but not worth over twice as much and WL is always making a lot of improvements. BUT both are great to use and they do so much more, faster than Ebay, especially when soon we will be able to do Etsy and Shopify along with Ebay / Bonanza all from one master dashboard-intergrated piece of software.
Here’s to automation and using your brain and not your back!! 🙂
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc in Atlanta
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07/24/2017 at 8:07 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20713Yeah I am curious also. SB cost more, the database is way larger, takes way more time to back up, uses up the MS allotment of the SQL server due to it’s size, WL is going to handle etsy and Shopify [which is one’s own store], so yes, I am super curious also.
T-Satt I saw your statement about working remotely. I will do a short post, maybe tomorrow outlining the App / software we use, how we do it and what our process is and the other things one can do with remote access software. It is really cool. While we were down in Orlando visiting my daughter, I was up hours before anyone elase and I was running my store from there each morning in full screen and full power mode.
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I absolutely agree that there needs to be a store level / tier in between the premium and the anchor store and many others also agree. I think Jay even has it listed in the forum section of suggestions for Ebay to consider. That is just too large of a gap to jump in my opinion. Even just one at a 5,000 tier would be better than what the jump is now.
mike at MDC Galleries Inc. in Atlanta
Hello again Sandra KC: I have a little more information for you with regards to your questions above. I decided to go straight to my friend who is the CEO / Owner of WonderLister and copied your questions along with my answers to you for verification. I also included the ones I was not sure about and his reply back to me is copied below.
Hello Mike,
All your answers are absolute on target. Regarding the Sales Promotion, yes, WL lets you create your own sale promotion and add listings to that promotion. You can also take listing OFF sale anytime you so wish.
Kind regards,
ChaviSo, hopefully this all helps you and I guess since he verified eveything, that may also include the fact that they are going to be out in Vegas. Look them up and if you see or talk to Chavi tell him you got the info. on WL from Mike in Atlanta and also plug Jay and Ryanne and Scavengerlife.com
Good luck and anxious to here all about the Vegas scene after you get back.
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc. in Atlanta
MDC Galleries & Fine Art and SmartParts Equipment divs.To determine what some metals might be. What is cast iron [especially if it is painted and we can’t see the raw metal] and Steel and Stainless Steel, all are magnetic. Cast aluminum, brushed aluminum, nickle, and all alloy’s are non-magnetic.
Also we use it when quick checking out in the field if sterling silver jewelry has sterling clasps or not. Magnet testing of silver is “iffy” but it is good as a quick test. Real sterling silver is 92.5% pure silver; the most common alloy used to harden it is copper, and neither of these metals is magnetic. A chemical test is best but that is not something we can do when walking an auction or estate sale.
Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc. in Atlanta
MDC Galleries and Fine ArtOne of the ScavengerLife members created this “GREAT” web site a few years ago and it is very useful in determing what shipping should be, what alternatives you have, which way is cheapest for both you as a seller and also as a buyer.
I even belive Jay and Ryanne have this “tool” listed in the SL section of “Tools and Resources. I have it book marked and use it all the time on my heavier and larger packages when creating my listings and selecting which shipping policies I should offer as options. I put in a 12x12x12 and your weight. But, since I don’t know the actual box size or the ship from or ship to zip it is probably not accurate. You can go to the site and put in the correct numbers and it will show you which box to use, what carriers are available and what the associated costs are.
I suggest you also bookmark the site and use it often in your listing process. I play “what if” with it all the time. What if I use this size box, what if a pound more or less in weight, etc., etc.
Hope this helps somewhat…
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