Odds Ends Old New Stuff LOD Enterprises we close out June with figure news. LOD Enterprises has reissued some Barzso Buildings and is showing future items from their Trojan War line. Rahway has sent additional information on Expeditionary Force. Rahway has also clued me into Mars showing painted versions of some of their figures.
Note, we are fine. I have not been posting much lately as I have other things to do. One of those other things was finally updating this computer to Windows 10. I just hate to update things. Next month I have to join Ebay’s Management Payments, which can’t wait to see how that foul up things.
Odds Ends Old New Stuff LOD Enterprises
Expeditionary Force Update
The current plan is to release the medieval armed peasants in August 2020, after the 95th riflemen before starting the WW2 Japanese sets in September.
Heads (plus hood-cape) and arms are all interchangeable. We will expand the medieval range with supplementary sets for scots schiltrons (highland dress), swiss halberdiers, Spanish almogavars, and men-at-arms in chain-mails (horse & foot). In due course, we will do the Non-European armies of Mongols and such.
I too will be force by Ebay to use their managed Payments by July 15……Everytime they change things it makes it harder to use Ebay and get reports that actually help me sell and/or costs me more money and time.
I agree it is so frustrating to be a seller.
What they tray do is get a generic one time fee per transaction while giving buyers and seller more option payment .So this time Apply won’t be need much as you can accept wire transfer, E check E card ,gift cards and others to receive payments or to make purchase .E bay will deal direct with the payment unless buyers choose paypal that still will be available .This happen after few years when Paypal split off ebay and increase their fees and because so much returns and scam payment ebay insurance have a lot waste covering for it or losses.
There i category sale listing re work that will create more issues as seller will lose category listing ..
The hold mess could be follow in eCommerce blog here .
https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2020/5/1589343646.html
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/getting-paid/managed-payments-on-ebay?id=5090
I’ve mentioned before I sold some extra figures on Ebay, I guess it was some fifteen years ago. Back then it was pretty simple. I registered a credit card with them, did the transaction, they deducted their fees from the credit card. I got paid by Money Order, as I recall. I think PayPal wasn’t even around yet (So it might have been more than fifteen years ago; since I stopped moving around in the Army the years kind of flow together). Real simple. I didn’t mind paying Ebay its percentage because after all, they did provide the market.
For the past couple years I’ve considered selling some of the backlog of figure sets sitting on shelves and in my closet I know I’ll never get around to. But every time I go nosing around Ebay to look into selling I am put off by all the fees and hoops it seems you have to jump through to sell. My own take is it’s gouging. I am willing to pay a fair fee for the benefit of the marketplace but I don’t want to give my stuff away or have the majority of my profit taken up by fees. JMO
IT’s too bad toy soldier collectors and sellers can’t set up their own selling marketplace–or even advertise somewhere and someone could email and set something up. It’s a hassle to set up one’s own website, esp if you are not a regular seller.
Any ideas?
Check the for sale section in Playset Magazine.
Has anyone had good luck selling through the Trading Post part of the unpainted plastic figures website?
BTW: Great news on the new offerings from LOD.
I won’t bother selling on eBay anymore. The fees make it impossible for you to offer a good deal and still make any money. It’s appears obvious to me they are just looking to squeeze more out of you and now there are more States demanding you pay tax. The vultures have gathered around for the feeding.
My thoughts exactly, Greg.
Why the H**L do I have to pay Washington State tax on an item that I buy on Ebay that’s in a DIFFERENT state?!?!
States are now able to collect tax on your purchases from other states.
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/tax-information.html
I will post this here as not idea where to post but looks interesting curiosity to me ,any ideas how often these happen in MARX playset ?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MARX-BATTLEGROUND-GERMAN-LOT-WITH-UNBORN-SOLDIERS-ON-SPRUE-ERROR-1-OF-A-KIND/113868173643?_trkparms=aid%3D777001%26algo%3DDISCO.FEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225086%26meid%3Dbad657a24848422a90798e91d66f9d9e%26pid%3D100651%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dnone%26itm%3D113868173643%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057%26algv%3DPersonalizedTopicsRefactor%26brand%3DMarx&_trksid=p2380057.c100651.m4497&_trkparms=pageci%3A6f9d0b2d-bc06-11ea-9a34-74dbd180f5ad%7Cparentrq%3A0d3803c01730ad4bb3f434d0fffdd906%7Ciid%3A1
Kind of a gruesome way to describe it!
Just put defective sprue? Interesting but what do you do with it?
Very likely it was part of the Marx landfill. It is worthless in my book.