As our more astute readers may have noticed, Morgan was featured in the latest edition of Timeout Chicago, as a "vintage seller". There were a number of misprints, and we here at Manly Vintage wanted to set the record straight once and for all. Can you believe they sent a ONE LEGGED reporter to interview Morgan? Apparently, they're so cheap they can't even afford a whole reporter. Anyways, we decided that these inaccuracies could not stand, and we had to do something.
Please see our annotated version of the article below:
Unfortunately, things are not going to work out between us. I am so sorry for rushing into a relationship.
Before meeting you, I only dreamed about machines like you. When we first met I found you irresistible, hip, and that chrome trim made my knees shake.
You were always so eager to hand me a beer. Remember when I first put eggs in your rack? Golly you have an amazing rack.
Trust me baby; when I say it’s not you, it’s me. I should change for you, but I can’t. I need someone who can handle all of me; I’ve got too much baggage baby. Move on.
I will never forget when I first touched your curves, or laid eyes on your mint green interior.
Morgan and I found a couple of bowling pins. "Let's buy these.", I said. "Why?", Morgan struck back. "Well, we could have a competition to see who could sell theirs first. See who takes the best pictures, makes the bowling pins the most appealing." The goal: See who can sell it the fastest. The only rule is that we have to keep the bowling pin at the same price as each other. Morgan set the opening price of $30. We'll see how that goes.
If you sell on etsy, you might notice that you only get a certain number of characters for the title of each item on your shop page. This same character restriction increases to 23 in the search result pages, and if the etsy gods are being nice, will increase to 23 when you end up on the front page. This is a screenshot of one of Morgan's items.
His are the bears on the right. See how it doesn't let him finish the word "black"? This restriction has been lingering in the back of my head, so I decided to tackle it.
How many characters can you have?
18 or 23 depending.
Anything other than 18 characters, including spaces, will not show up on your shop page. Anything more than 23 won't show up in search results or the front page. This *might* not be a big deal to you. Unless. Unless you start to think about the fact that those words are like an advertisement. And you want your item, whatever it is that you have, to stick out, you've got to make the most of those 18 characters. Yes, pictures are SUPER important, but I think maybe the first 18 characters of that description are as well.
I'm going to start using a site like Letter Counter, which tells me the exact number of characters in that title, so I can be sure that potential customers get all the goods up front.
Don't forget that whatever words you have in your title *will end up being searched for. So please feel free to add on after what you've put in those first 18 words. But I'm willing to bet thinking about how to use those first 18 words effectively will be really helpful.
After the Vintage Heaven sale in Wicker Park Jayson and I did some serious evaluating of our friendship up to this point, you know like; do you like my new glasses? You owe me twenty dollars? I can’t stop thinking about your wife, is this going to be a problem? Do you think we should start selling clothes?
Well the answer to the last question is yes, Manly Vintage will start having men’s clothes available, at least at the next Vintage Heaven and Vintage Bazaar. Nothing against chicks selling men’s clothing if done right, but from what I’ve seen it has been poor selection and quality; we had one seller admit at Vintage Heaven she literally grabs stuff for guys without even looking. You know, and damn it, those fashion obsessed male hipsters deserve better than that.
I don’t know what will happen in our individual online shops, and I have tried to sell some clothes before with little success, there are some guidelines I’m going to stick to. Like modeling the clothes myself, or one of the other hot married dudes I know. Also to never look like those virgin douche bags modeling men’s clothes on sites like Etsy…I guess that’s it. So lets review 1) model the clothes, no shirt on a hanger, on a wall 2) model in a way that does not suggest I go home at night to a bottle of lotion, but to a wife who has dinner ready when I get home.
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