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I just set up all of my books for sale on half.ebay.com and am waiting for them to be sold. How long should I wait before I change the price I am selling for? How do I know when it is sold? How often should I check it?

I literally just made this account and haven’t sold anything yet. Do you think someone would buy from an account that has a 0 next to it?

Well this made me a bit depressed. Here goes:

About 7 months ago in August, I was looking for odd jobs online.
I came across this driver advertisement for somebody who needed
to be driven around for school textbook deliveries in my area. It offered
100 bucks a day so I took it. When I came to the house to pick her up
it was to my surprise that she was a beautiful girl same age as me.
So basically for three days I drove her around my area delivering school
textbooks, it was a 16 hour shift every day. We talked alot and connected really well.
During the job I was bored out of my mind and thought hey shes
pretty cute, but I never thought of having any feelings towards her.
I even knew she was from the other side of the country as she had
told me from the begginging this was part of her summer sales job.
So she was in my city for a 3 month vacation/job. After the last
day of being her driver, She paid me, we hugged and she thanked me
for all my help.
And being me i thought nothing of it. Until the day after she got on that flight back home…
for some reason I kept thinking about her. Until this very day I still think about her.
I have her on MSN contact and we still chat sometimes, but shes in university and I
dont even have a job lol. I have dreams about being with her alot and
as soon as I wake up, for the next few days I would constantly think
about her. I wanted to tell her this, but I am scared I would sound like
some freak/pervert since I only met her for 3 days.
Time flew by and I still think about her alot…whats wrong with me
and what should i do?

- Jason

East Publishing Company is doing an analysis of a proposed new finance textbook.
Using the following data answer (a) through (d).

Fixed costs per Edition:
Development (reviews, class testing, and so on)$18,000
Copyediting$5,000
Selling and promotion$7,000
Typesetting$40,000
Total$70,000

Variable costs per Copy:
Printing and binding$4.20
Administrative costs$1.60
Salespeople’s commission (2% of selling price)$0.60
Author’s royalties (12% of selling price)$3.60
Bookstore discounts (20% of selling price)$6.00
Total$16.00

Projected Selling Price$30.00

The company’s marginal tax rate is 40 percent.

a. Determine the company’s breakeven volume for this book:
i. In units.
ii. In dollar sales.

b. Develop a breakeven chart for the textbook.

c. Determine the number of copies. East must sell in order to earn an (operating)
profit of $21,000 on this book.

d. Suppose East feels that $30.00 is too high a price to charge for the new finance
textbook. It has examined the competitive market and determined that $24.00
would be a better selling price. What would the breakeven volume be at this
new selling price?

Okay here’s the thing, i’m taking principles of accounting and i have a midterm very soon .
i’ll admit it’s not my favorit subject but still am trying to understand it the best i can .
i solved the exercises i have in the text book and done alot of work on them and one of them was the one i’ll write below …. if some can please give me the answer cause i don’t think i got it right ……… that and if u can name any textbooks that can help me i would be extremely grateful ………………

here’s the problem :
A business has an outstanding credit balance in the provision for doubtful debts amounting to 3,200$ at the beginning of the financial year ; 01.01.2009. the Blance sheet of the business at the year end 31.12.2009 showed a balance of 2020,500$ in the sales ledger. if the earlier experince indicate that 1% of the debtors remain unpaid , compute the amount of provision foe doubtful debt and double entry that will be entered in the accounting books to refelct the above situation at those at the close of business on 31.12.2009 ……..

Great ideas are born at universities, where students are challenged to think up new solutions to problems. Once class is over, these ideas often gather dust. At the University of South Florida, however, a small company is now turning great student ideas into reality. Rather than have student inventions remain on the sketchpad or be purchased by someone else, Rehab Ideas is striving to put them to use.

Rehab Ideas is run by Professor Stephen Sundarrao. He introduces his engineering students to people with disabilities. Then, he asks his students to create products that will help these people.

A few years ago, Travis Watkins was one of Sundarrao’s students. When Watkins was asked to design an engineering project to help people with disabilities, the first person who came to mind was his father. His father had once cherished walks along the beach. However, an illness known as Lou Gehrig’s disease had left him in a wheelchair, unable to walk. Regular wheelchairs cannot go on the beach. So Watkins came up with a solution. He created a sturdy, wheeled platform that attaches to a wheelchair. It moves easily over uneven, rocky, or sandy ground.

Watkins’ wheelchair platform is one of a handful of student creations that Sundarrao believes has potential. Other Rehab Ideas products include an aluminum crutch that folds up neatly to fit into a purse. There is also a mechanical arm that can grab a textbook out of a backpack attached to the back of a wheelchair. Rehab Ideas products add to a commercial field that includes replacement body parts, swimming fins for people who have lost limbs, and adaptive equipment for hunting and fishing.

Rehab Ideas products range in price from $695 for a tray that attaches to a wheelchair to $4,495 for the beach wheelchair platform. Student designers get a small cut of the profits, said Sundarrao. More importantly, they have the experience of seeing their designs become real products for sale. This is an opportunity that most college students don’t get. It is made possible because Rehab Ideas is part of the University of South Florida’s business incubator. A business incubator is a program that helps young businesses get started. For a price, the University of South Florida’s business incubator gives students and faculty support and guidance. It also provides materials and work space.

There are many business incubators at universities around the country. Mike Shipp is director of rehabilitation services at Louisiana Tech University. He says that business incubators not only help businesses, but the universities, too.

“I think what universities recognized several years ago is, if you want to attract … and keep good [teachers], and bring new students in, you have to do what you can to support their research and ideas,” Shipp said. “Everyone gains from that.”

Sundarrao and his students are certainly gaining from the university’s support of Rehab Ideas. The company’s clients are benefiting, too, but in a different way. Christopher Rhoades is 19. He uses a wheelchair. Recently, Rhoades visited Sundarrao’s class. His mother accompanied him. She watched as Rhoades maneuvered the wheelchair platform designed by Travis Watkins. She cried as Rhoades used the mechanical arm to take a book from the backpack behind his wheelchair.

“It just seems so simple but yet it’s such a huge thing. [It is] one less thing that he has to ask someone else to do for him,” Rhoades’ mother said.

I have several text books I’ve used within the last few semesters. Most of them I bought brand new but the next semester they required a different text. Now I’m stuck with all sorts of text books on various subjects and was wondering if it was worth my time to put them as a bundle on ebay. I know some people buy them at garage sales and thought someone might want them for a library or just to practice or read info from.

You know how, at the end of the semester, university bookstores do “buy-backs” where you sell your book back to them for less than what you originally paid for it……….

Someone told me that if you buy a textbook online,
and try to sell it to the bookstore during their “buy-back” sale,
the bookstore will accept it, and buy it back from you.

Is that true?