9 hours ago, Zelgazra said:

^ At this point in your game, I'd certainly be seeking out Calculated Shipping. I was starting out a year ago, and have used Calculated shipping for just about everything. I've made ~125 sales or so. Things definitely still sell.

If you're selling smaller sealed sets, and have planned properly by reading these forums, you'll already have the boxes you're using to ship with. Measure one for parcel dimensions, then simulate a finished parcel (packing materials etc) with each set you're selling and weigh them... record it with your dimensions. Then just plug that info into the shipping information when you post or edit your listing.

Like Phil said, a little bit more work up front, but work you'd end up doing at the point of sale anyway (to print your shipping label). If you're making ~$40 sales, and paying ~$50 to ship to the other side of the country.... even if you acquired those sets for free, you're not eating into your profits man, you're eating into your original capital. Pretty sure that's bad for business.  Calculated Shipping ftw. 

I also tag some of my stuff OBO.  Put an auto-denial number to keep out the riff-raff, but their offer also shows where they are.  I am willing to take a different amount depending on where I'm shipping to.  But I also have a decent idea of my shipping costs to different regions from experience.  Just another way to skin the same cat.

FedEx sucks. Ordered a new laptop, was expecting it today. Been home all day, go outside and find a note taped to the gate of the chain-length fence that surrounds my yard. "We tried to deliver a shipment. We'll return by 4:30 tomorrow."  All they had to do was just go through the gate, walk 30 ft and knock on the door! But nooooo, they see cars in the driveway, "hmm I'll just walk to the gate and leave" 

Edited August 2, 20169 yr by Stud-Flipper

While its definitely tragic, maybe not running from the police would be a good idea. Oh yeah, and not stealing any cars.

My iced coffee I just got at dunkin donuts - it tasted weird lol

3 minutes ago, Lordoflego said:

My iced coffee I just got at dunkin donuts - it tasted weird lol

Mmm. Iced coffee...

2 minutes ago, dcdfan said:

Mmm. Iced coffee...

Lol, that was my thought too on my way back from post office few minutes ago, but I'm disappointed....

> When you get a piece of meat stuck in your teeth, and spend 15 minutes trying to pull it out with your tongue, to no avail.

> Stepping in dog poop, and realizing it.

> Stepping in dog poop, and not realizing it.

> When you walk to the mailbox and nothing's in it.

> When you're building a Lego set and start panicking because you think you're missing a piece, spend 5 minutes frantically looking for it, and finally find it lodged underneath the last piece you expected.

> Waving at someone but they don't see it

> Trying to get someone to watch your favorite show or movie, that's very acclaimed in its own right, but they're just not interested

> Not being able to think of enough complaints to fill the bullet points that you made 

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Edited August 6, 20169 yr by Stud-Flipper

Finding a few  Kragl'd pieces in your recently CL bought 10174 UCS Imperial AT-ST. At least they're easy to replace from my spares.

Dude. Enough with the political junk.

13 minutes ago, Migration said:

Dude. Enough with the political junk.

I've been trying to even out my compliments vs complaints ratio. [emoji4]

Ticketmaster

******* Ticketmaster! Don't get me started...

Those ticket vouchers though...

******* Ticketmaster! Don't get me started...


Those ticket vouchers though...

I was trying to cash a couple in and kept getting errors.

Philips screws... Why can't people accept that Robertson is superior?

23 minutes ago, gregpj said:

Philips screws... Why can't people accept that Robertson is superior?

Because Robertson was too convinced of his inventions' superiority that he refused to license it out broadly. Because, you know, D'oh!

11 hours ago, Phil B said:

Because Robertson was too convinced of his inventions' superiority that he refused to license it out broadly. Because, you know, D'oh!

He wasn't wrong... I understand the purpose of the phillips screw in the days before screw drivers could adjust torque (for those that read this thread and don't care to google, the star shape is designed to seat fast but spin out in case of too much torque applied rather than wreck what was being joined). What I don't understand is why companies insist on using it in cases where the design of robertson is clearly a better match (robertson was also designed to seat quickly, but the tapered sides allow the friction -once seated- to hold the screw in place rather than slip).

Drywall - phillips is an excellent use.
Construction - robertson wins since you often want to countersink that screw.

Home installation of a Death Star light - philips a major failure when you stab your thumb when the screw driver slips. Nothing some peroxide and bandaid can't fix, but I should have gone with my gut and just used some of my own screws.
 

17 hours ago, exciter1 said:

I was trying to cash a couple in and kept getting errors.

Yeah, of the concerts they have available none of them have "voucher" seats left. There were a limited number of seats available for any show/venue, though Ticketmaster will have you beleive the codes will work on any show with "General Admission" on their list, it is a lie.

 

At some point I had a link that showed the list of shows with 'voucher seats' still available but I i lost it and haven't been able to find it since. *sigh*

Edited August 10, 20169 yr by KvHulk

On ‎8‎/‎9‎/‎2016 at 10:41 PM, gregpj said:

Philips screws... Why can't people accept that Robertson is superior?

I hate how easily Philips screws can get stripped (going in or out).

David Ayer and everyone involved in the making of Suicide Squad. What an atrocity.

David Ayer and everyone involved in the making of Suicide Squad. What an atrocity.

Care to elaborate? I thought it was great for what it had to accomplish in the span of 2 hours. The only major issue I had was their initial mission for the HVT. Did the government have no plan to stop the big bad (trying to avoid spoilers)? It should have been a 2-stage mission all along.

I've read some of the critics and they are holding the movie to a standard it didn't hope to achieve. The action was good. The lighthearted/comedy bits were good. The backstory was necessary and perhaps a little hasty, but that can be developed more in future movies. This was a good first movie in what I hope becomes sequels and spin-offs.

Milwaukee. Absolutely ridiculous. It's not that hard. Don't steal cars. Don't shoot at firefighters.

RIP Kenny Baker

Finally popped the seals on a set I've had "on ice" for 4 years. Books are all wavy. 

I hate my boss. I’m not sure I can last until next year to get my severance package. My job is moving to Denver but I’m staying put here in the San Francisco Bay Area.