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Ditto on the Brother printer.
The XL cartridge is rated at 2600 pages. I bought my printer on sale at Office Depot a while back for $100. I couldn’t be happier.
If you look at Resources tab on this site, Ryanne explains it all. She also has a video on refilling the cartridges.
Good Luck
http://www.estatesales.net has auctions as well as estate sales listed and is worth a look. I have better luck in this area with them.
11/05/2019 at 5:15 pm in reply to: There may be a major glitch when you resist unsold items … #70103When you end an item and sell similar from the “ended listings”, it is not removed from the “ended listings”.
You need to manually delete the items from your “ended listings” after relisting as “sell similar.
If you don’t manually delete the items from the “ended listings” it creates a real mess when you end more listings to “sell similar”.
I don’t believe this is what’s going on with the original posting, but though I’d add it.
To keep track of things, I run split screens when ending listings and doing “sell similar”.
Well the above item I bought on 10/29 says it was shipped on 10/30 and then there are a couple of scans by the seller, but USPS has not received the item yet. I wonder if the seller has the item yet. By the way the estimated shipping date is 11/06, still 2 days away. We’ll see if it makes it.
I solved my own problem. I have reactivated my Amazon account. I’m not going to buy from these high volume sellers anymore on Ebay. If I need to, I’ll be sure to buy at least $25 of stuff at a time to get the free shipping from Amazon.
Ebay is still a great platform for buying and selling unique items. I think they have completely missed the mark on selling new stuff and commodity items. The high volume sellers are very good at gaming the system regarding shipping times and defects.
The link is dead now. It was a store full of those Gondola shelving.
Wow, look what I found in the free section of Craigslist.
https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/zip/d/chino-all-kinds-of-shelving-4-14-high/7009629040.html
10/29/2019 at 8:37 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69769Hi Simon,
Too bad about the power outages. I’m glad you’re not getting directly affected by the fire.
Some are getting the blackouts down here too, but it’s nothing like up there. Fortunately, I live a little too far away from the fire areas to be affected.
If you’re thinking about getting a generator. I highly recommend the Honda EU2200. It’s about $1200, small, portable, reliable, quiet and very efficient. The only drawback is that the fuel tank is small, but you can easily attach a 3 to 5 gallon boat tank (gas can) to it and it will run for days.
It’s limited in power 1800 watts (2200 peak), which is like having one outlet. It will power a refrigerator.
I guess tonight is supposed to be extra windy, at least in the south.
I hope you get your power back soon.
I just ordered a fairly inexpensive new bicycle part on Ebay. The item cost between $5 and $10, with free shipping.
The first thing I do is filter for items located in the US only.
There is no way I’m aware of, to filter by feedback rating.
The first promoted listing came from a seller with 94% feedback rating. The biggest negative feedbacks concerned very late shipping or no delivery, no contact. Moving down the list the feedback ranged from 94% to about 98%. The shipping estimates were 9 to 20 days.
Eventually I found a seller who could deliver within 10 days and had a feedback rating above 99%.
Even though the item is located about 100 miles from me, I do not anticipate it arriving early.
I don’t require next day delivery, but it would be nice if it was by next week.
Since it appears these high volume sellers are a big part of Ebay, it makes sense for them to start a fullfilled by Ebay program.
Hopefully, it won’t drive up the prices of everything.
A while back, I was having an issue with tracking not showing up. It was strange, but due to a software glitch, the Post Office showed the tracking on their internal servers, but it was not accessible to me. I was also having shipments delayed.
As others have stated, you probably want to start with the Post Office and take it from there.
Good Luck.
I’ve been having these issues too, as a a buyer. The last item I bought, said they ship the next day. Somewhere in the listing it also said, there was a 5 day handling time. When it hadn’t shipped, I contacted them and found out, the items with a 5 day handling time are not in their inventory. (some form of drop shipping). I cancelled and ordered from someone else.
I wish we could filter our search by feedback percentage, but that doesn’t always tell the story. These high volume sellers word the listing vague enough to make you buy, but with enough wiggle room that they don’t get defects, when you are disappointed.
Maybe the new Ebay fullfilment center will take care of these issues.
Wow, this inventory thing has become a hot topic.
I don’t think there’s any right or wrong answer. But I do feel that the wrong inventory system is the one that is so complicated that one suffers paralysis from analysis and never gets it started.
That being said, mine is very basic. The item location is very simple and means nothing except for the item location. B10 is a great example. I also try to include a letter in the location, so it is easy to search for in the computer, if I need to.
If I want to see what’s in a bin, I merely search my items by description field and enter the storage location code. I end up with a list of all the items in that bin.
I have items in bins, on book shelves and in individual drawers. Each of those is labeled and every item has a location code.
I simply place the location code in the item description. I have no other backup, so if Ebay ever erases my descriptions, I’m in trouble.
I have a roll of wide masking tape and a sharpie I use for labeling the bins. Sometimes I’ll put a piece of clear packing tape over the label to help secure it.
Any item can be in any location, so I am vigilant in making sure the inventory system is properly maintained. If I remove an item and forget where it came from, I look it up, before putting it back.
If a bin, starts to get empty, I put a small piece of masking tape on the outside, so I can fill it later.
Before I moved, I had an entire bookcase as an item location. That was not too smart. Now I have a location code for no more than one shelf, and sometimes two on a shelf.
Before I moved, I consolidated my storage and temporarily moved it into a paid storage locker. Later, I moved it into my new house. Along the way, I got lucky, lost nothing and every item shipped on time.
The key is to come up with a system and try not to make it so complicated that you don’t get started. Then start an inventory system with your new items, as you list them. Over time the other items can be put in inventory bin by bin etc.
My hat’s off to Mike and others who have complex SKU systems with multiple redundancy built in. I imagine this becomes more important as you have more people involved with your business and it continues to grow.
I’ll be curious to see what you guys decide on.
10/18/2019 at 12:09 pm in reply to: ONE pane of glass broke – expensive shipping – what do I do? Please help! #69246Do you really want the broken lamp back, enough to pay the shipping?
As long as you believe the damage is legitimate, Id pay her and move on.
Believe me, the minute you do and the case is closed and you will be happier and will forget about it.
We’ve all been there before. It’s not fun.. not at all.
Good luck.
Sometimes, if I get some type of weird error or systems error when revising, I just change the price by a penny and it resolves.
I was just revising a used cassette tape and has a bunch of required item specifics to fill in regarding the condition of the cassette, the case, the inlay etc etc etc.
I’m sure glad these are the changes we asked for.
Congratulations on the weight loss.
I bet your knees and ankles are feeling much better too.
Way to go…!
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