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05/19/2018 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40378
Mike,
Also, maybe you can slow down a bit. 12 hours a day, 7 days a week is a bit much even for us younger folks. Maybe just work less hours in a day or take a day or two off to recharge. Remember the old saying that you have to stop to sharpen your blade? Seems like the schedule is wearing you out and you just need to take a little time off.
Mark
05/19/2018 at 3:52 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40377Mike,
I didn’t give that info to them about the table\column. I had to look it up and I guess I got lazy when I sent the message to WL.
I think the WL product is pretty good. They just need to beef up their documentation and support. could see though if you were not good at technical stuff that WL could be confusing.
Mark
05/18/2018 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40334Mike,
When I look at the database level, the data is not in the table. So, I don’t think this is a front end user interface error.
I think that either ebay isn’t sending the data (most likely in an xml) to WL, or WL is getting that field and then “dropping it on the floor” instead of putting it in the DB (but only for the USPS data is being dropped, Fedex data is getting there).
The table\column it should be going into is:
[WonderLister].[dbo].[Transactions].CMP_ShippingCostToSellerThe weird thing is that my Fedex shipping cost is in this field, but not USPS. That may be a clue.
I deal with this type of stuff all the time in my regular job. It is just a matter of the developer tracking it down to see what piece is not doing what it is suppose to.
Mark
05/18/2018 at 1:10 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40286Mike,
I am a little confused here. I am not talking about shipping I do outside of ebay, of course they won’t know that. I mean the shipping that is selected inside of ebay when printing the labels. I would think ebay and WL have access to that.
That chat thing with WL is a little wierd. If I remember correctly, it wasn’t an interactive type of thing. I didn’t see any response in my email either.
Mark
05/18/2018 at 9:26 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #40270Mike,
To be clear, I am seeing “Shipping Charged” to the user on the sales report.
What I am not seeing is “Spent on Shipping” which I would assume means my cost for the shipping. This column is all 0’s.
That is the thing I don’t like about Wonder Lister, the documentation is not very good. Also, I send chats and they don’t respond. I tried calling them, but that says the google number is not available. I think they should improve in these two areas. My two cents.
Mark
Jay,
Yes, like they say, you never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. It is all left behind with the family,
the estate sale, or at the garbage dump!Mark
05/14/2018 at 2:49 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39889Mike,
The free version of Microsoft SQL Server db is 10GB. I think I am only at 3-4GB right now with about 2400 listings. One day I am going to hit the 10GB limit. I think to get more space with Microsoft would be costly. Does WL have a tool in place where you can archive off some data?
Mark
05/14/2018 at 1:25 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39876Mike,
I would also like to know the answer to recording Bonanza and Truegether sales in Wonderliter because last time I checked, godaddy didnt do that. I record those sales in a separate spreadsheet tight now.
Also, for some reaso , WL only tracks my shipping cost for fedex, not USPS. Can I assume that is one of those glitches they want to fix?
Mark
05/14/2018 at 10:47 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39848Totommyto,
Wonder Lister takes care of this for me. If ebay were to ban me for accidentially listing fske items or some strange thing like that, then i would want all of my listings with pictures available.
I think it is a small price to pay – $5 month for 1000 items or less or $10 month for 2500 items or less. Plus all the other features. Of couse you are going to have to put in a little time in to implement and learn it.
I view this like godaddy – a necessity.
Mark
05/14/2018 at 8:25 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39832Tam,
Yes, Bonanza sales are few and far between. I have 2nearly 2400 items in my store snd i only get 0-2 sales a month on Bonanza. For forecasting purposes, i assume 2% sales of my gross on ebay for Bonanza and Truegether combined. That is pretty close. Fir exampke, if i sell $25,0000 (no shipping inc), then i would expect $500 in sales from Bonanza and Tryegether. Not much, but for virtually mo extra work, i am fine with the that.
I think etsy will be worth it for me when Wonder lister will export your listing there with little effort. From what others have said, i would expect only 5% of my gross on Ebay because i only have 400-500 vintage items for etsy.
Mark
05/14/2018 at 8:11 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39829Jay,
Ok, i won’t expect anything from that then. If i do make a sale, then it will be a bonus.
Mark
05/14/2018 at 7:58 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39824I got this message From ebay on Saturday, “Your items are waiting in carts. Now make the sale. Lower the price by 5% on these items in shoppers carts, and we will email them to say their deal got better”
I just saw that. They showed 10 items of mine. I lowered the price on 6 of the 10, we will see what happens.
Mark
05/13/2018 at 8:47 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39803Nancy,
Yes, it is a Church rummage sale with shopping carts.
At first I didn’t get a shopping cart because I was not close enough to the front of the line to get one. But I quickly needed one. I kept asking for a cart but they kept saying that none were available. So I wanted to leave this sale, but I had a huge heavy Vintage Toshiba stereo receiver, about 20 pairs of shoes (I had brought a large garbage bag for these, but still it was large and heavy), 10 suits\jackets, and a whole lot more. How was I going to make it to the check out without a cart?!
So I decided I was going to use a chair with wheels, what else could I do? As I started to load up the chair, one of the workers I had asked for a cart brought one to me! They really had great volunteers at this sale.
So yes, I wish all rummage sales had shopping carts. My MO at these sales is to grab all the good stuff as fast as I can and ram it into a large garbage bag before it is all picked over. With nearly 5 years of experience under my belt, this is usually an easy task to spot the good stuff quickly. The hard part is doing it fast enough and having a place to put it all so that no one picks it up from me. Shopping carts would solve this issue for me at all Rummage Sales!
One of the Big 3 Rummage sales that I go to does not allow you to bring anything in with you: no bags, no carts, nothing. That is the most challenging sale of all. I usually get a worker or two or three help me carry it all to the exit to pay for it.
Mark
05/13/2018 at 7:45 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #39796The buying spree was because of a huge rummage sale that was going on. This rummage sale is one of the Big 3 for me in my area. The place is packed and I find tons of good items for good prices. On the first day, I packed a grocery cart (it appears that they borrow them from a local grocery store for this huge sale) piled high with some great stuff. So I go to check out and I have close to 20 pairs of shoes\boots which were $2 each. As the lady is counting them she asks me what I am going to do with all this. I said resell. She asked if I could really make money reselling it. I said yes. She said “Even after you pay for shipping?” I said yes. I guess she couldn’t believe that I would actually make any money with the items I was buying. She must have assumed that I would only get $5 – $10 for each pair of shoes and then after shipping costs I wouldn’t make hardly anything! Wow, I really had to laugh to myself. In reality, I paid $144 for about $1600 – $2000 of items. I have only gone through part of it so far, but the average price will be around $40 for each item.
Then, that rummage sale had a bag sale and half off sale on Saturday morning. I filled 3 decent sized bags with some great stuff. The mens suits were 1/2 off, now only $2.50 each. I found 9 that were top quality and bought them. I think the diamond in the rough there was a Johnny Carson suit from circa 1949 – 1962. I know the time frame because of the Union tag on it. I will ask a good price for that suit.
Mark
05/13/2018 at 7:06 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 360: Is Diversification a Myth or Reality? #3979505/06/18 – 05/12/18
Total Items In Store: 2,372
Items Sold: 25
Cost of Items Sold: $90 (around)
Total Sales: $949
Highest Price Sold: $90 (Johnston & Murphy Shoes)
Average Price Sold: $37.96
Returns: 4
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $ 275
Number of Items listed this week: 0This week was a whirlwind of sales at the beginning of the week and a buying spree at the end of the week. All good, but very exhusting!
I learned a new negotiating technique that I have never heard of before, it is called rain! I went to garage sales in the rain and the ones that were open were so glad to see a customer they would give me just about any deal I wanted within reason! Also, there was a neighborhood sale of over 85 houses participating that had a sale going on the whole weekend while it rained. This guy told me that their city only allowed them to have 1 garage sale every 6 months (I would like to see them enforce that). That added fuel to the fire because now I knew this was the only chance for most of them to sell their stuff.
The sales whirlwind was strange – strong sales Mon – Thurs and slow the rest of the time. That is about the opposite of what usually happens for me.
I will post my buying spree below.
Mark
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