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I was just looking at that same box yesterday. I have a bunch of lego minifigures to photograph and was thinking about getting a small light box.
The problem is that the minifigures is pretty much all I’ll ever photograph in it, so is it really worth the cost?
So…I did a quick experiment during my break. I just stuck two sheets of 11×17 paper together and pinned it to my cubicle wall. Here is the picture of the setup and the results. The only lighting is overhead florescent office lighting.


So in closing, I won’t be wasting money on a photo box.
12/02/2016 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Buyers fishing for partial refunds after the fact -What would you do? #7088A skein of acrylic yarn is $2. This is the kind of buyer that is simply not worth the time to interact with, but you’re committed at this point. She’s buying a used kit, what does she expect? At this point if I were you I would offer a $2 partial refund just to shut her up. No more, no less. You may get a positive feedback out of it. If that isn’t good enough then she can send it back for a refund. If she tries to initiate an item not as described case, you can get it overridden based on your description and message history. She has acknowledged that she has to pay return shipping already.
Some “fishers” are perfectly content to get a tiny minnow on their line.
12/02/2016 at 2:06 pm in reply to: Ebay Shipping Information, Statistics and New Freight Program #7081Totally! All the knock off Chinese crap that takes a month to arrive is always free shipping. That has to influence the statistics more than a bit.
The built in photo editor in windows 10 is pretty good for just casual editing.
12/02/2016 at 9:43 am in reply to: Ebay Shipping Information, Statistics and New Freight Program #7068With free shipping you get a competitive advantage with far away customers. I use selectively use free shipping on some items and I know that 90% of the time a west coast buyer will buy it. The majority of my customers are east coast and I would be pricing myself out of the market if I added in shipping to the farthest location.
One other item to consider is my target buyer. My ideal buyer is one who pays full price of $60 for a used 90’s windbreaker tracksuit. This type of person is not going to bat an eye at paying another $12 for shipping too. They’re already paying $60 for a used freaking ugly track suit! Obviously $60 means something entirely different to them than it does to me. Generally if a potential customer asks me for free shipping I see that as a red flag that they will be a problem buyer.
I’m using the SKU section, but ebay has not made the sku field mobile friendly. You can’t add it to the listing on mobile and you also cant see it when you pull up “awaiting shipment” items. So irritating!
Does anyone know how we can submit a request to ebay to add features? The SKU function is badly needed on mobile for shipment picking.
12/01/2016 at 1:09 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Inaugural invite, trigger finger mittens, back saw, expanding file #7001They were most likely nixie tubes. Super cool retro technology that a lot of makers reintegrate with modern electronics.
If you are full time and you phrase your wording right to your insurance agent, you can actually lower your insurance.
For example, I currently have a 48 total mile round trip to my day job 5 days a week. That does not make my car a “business related car”, but it does affect my insurance rates. Now lets say I switch to full time ebay selling. I would tell my insurance agent I no longer have a commute and work exclusively from home. If they ask what you do, you say you do online retail sales. None of that is a lie, and in reality you DO drive less than someone who commutes to work.
11/29/2016 at 1:27 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 286: Black Friday, Just Another Day on eBay #6828A great old PC accessory to keep an eye out for are “clicky” keyboards. They are big, bulky and every key makes a very distinctive “click” when pressed. Modern keyboards run on a switch matrix and individual keys just connect two wires on a mat together to complete a circuit. A clicky keyboard has dedicated switches for every button. Can be sold for $50+ pretty easy.
11/29/2016 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 286: Black Friday, Just Another Day on eBay #6826.
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11/29/2016 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 286: Black Friday, Just Another Day on eBay #6825I thought it was quite funny on this weeks podcast to hear that Jay genuinely thought that bringing Politics into the forum would not cause anger, strife, division, hurt feelings, and cause people to leave. It is this way in every forum I’ve ever been to no matter how the moderators tried to contain it to a subforum. It always spills over in passive aggressive ways to all areas of the forums. Now many folks here will start to dislike each other and make assumptions against other fellow trash elves. We’ll probably lose a few very valuable members of the community. In short, this sucks and I hate seeing the division lines forming.
I just want to remind everyone that hitting that submit button is not a requirement. Sometimes just typing out your thoughts and deleting them can be quite therapeutic.
trading card (baseball cards) storage boxes.
So now that everything has aired out for a week, things are ok. Even my garage smells neutral now, which is nice. Before it had a musty, mildew smell that I knew wasn’t great to breath. The shoes I tested with are fine. The worst offending pair have no odor at all.
The ozone unit I got is likely way too powerful for what I need. Next time I use it I’ll just run it for 5 minutes or less.
If you just go in and ask, they’ll save you as many boxes as you want. No need to dumpster dive. Walmart will save any size you want or you can just go in after 10 pm and there are boxes everywhere.
You can see the breaks in a conversation over time. Thread resurrections and such.
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