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Realised sales, last Saturday.
Didn’t know that Pakistan now has a big carpet weaving industry! I used to see the Indian rugs around- they were rumoured to be woven by prisoners, but they were pretty awful- acid green and red, and roughly woven. Chinese sculpted rugs were also common.
Acquired a 12 foot by 16 foot antique Tabriz carpet once, from an early 1900s house. Didn’t have a car, so I moved it on a bicycle. Slowly.
Last time I visited an antiques fair, dealers were asking about £40 for acid-washed Afghan rugs (the kind of golden-coloured ones that were deep red before they were washed). Not selling. I paid £8 for two unwashed Afghan rugs in good condtion. Local auction house in Nottingham (who have just revamped their website so their results aren’t yet available) regularly sell rugs and small carpets, hung on racks so they can be inspected. Something 12 foot long would be too big for the sale.
When I have seen large carpets at auction they haven’t sold- for example a 20 foot roll of new Axminster failed to start at £80. A carpet 50 years old has half-a-century of household dust embedded in it, plus the life that lives on dust, so it’s even less desirable.
01/09/2020 at 2:52 pm in reply to: Item listed AS-IS FOR PARTS in every possible place, buyer wants to return… #72720Since it is just a message, reply by telling them you clearly detailed the non-working as-is condition in the listing and hope for the best.
I wouldn’t (if it were me). Tell ’em “I’m glad the item arrived safely. Thanks for your custom.”
After all, the transaction’s fine- the customer paid for a non-working item and they got a non-working item, which is what they wanted. If you say that you clearly detailed something, gives the impression you’re pulling a fast one.
Hey, works for me IRL (shrugs shoulders).
Must admit, doesn’t look like Murano to me. The base is a good indicator of the quality of the piece, e.g. this piece*, which has a base which has been ground flat and polished, with scratches from wear. Also it looks like Murano bowls have flat rims, and the colour is more evenly dispersed.
*yeah, scanned inkjet prints 🙂
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Antique Frog.
Can’t see any upside at all as to flipping ‘phones- too much competition, too many pitfalls. There’s probably a dozen shops within two miles of my house that sell used mobiles. That’s why I suggested ones with removable batteries- niche product 😉
Got a return rate of 0.14%. The last returnee purchased a magazine for £3.50 and returned it as “it wasn’t what I expected. Was expecting to learn about embrodiery and that”. Cost me £10-odd in total by the time eBay and PayPal stuck their fingers in the pot (this is because I got free returns). Would have been cheaper just to refund and tell the would-be stitcher to put it in the recycling bin.
Nearly had a return on a £700 camera once, but fortunately I’d described it as “non-working” and once the gentleman who’d bought the camera re-read the listing he realised that he’d made a mistake.
So, what I’ve learned is a) be really pernickety about describing things b) sell stuff that you got for free or cheap, and don’t want back anyway- saves paying for the return.
A friend who worked for a major UK reseller of used ‘phones reckoned there was a demand for ones with removable batteries. Allegedly they can’t be tracked by law enforcement when the batteries aren’t inserted.
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Looks to me like shop fittings, owing to the unusual shape. The speaker stands I’ve had tended to be heavy, with means of firmly attaching the speakers. On these, they’d just slide around. And off…
This happened before, probably in the early 1990s (rusty memory). Remember seeing abandoned cars in the streets; think at least three were Volvo sedans. I had a Volvo estate briefly until the clutch failed- learnt two things about Volvos. They run about 10 mpg, and the insurance is really expensive because you can cause a lot more damage with a Volvo.
‘Phoned up a firm of breakers in Nottingham, and they took them away on lorries. Think they paid £160 each, to be dismantled for spare parts. Weight about 1.25 tonnes, scrap price paid for cars now (2020) £60 a tonne, so they probably paid a small premium for the parts.
We get scrap hounds here, depending on the price. Must be moderately low at the moment- somebody pushed a Sunbeam Alpine out onto the street, and it took two months to disappear!
You can get $500 for a car body at the scrapyard? I didn’t get that for two complete high-roof Fiat Doblo vans last year.
Don’t know how it works in the US, but in the UK/EU one can’t sell used car parts on eBay without the appropriate licence (that’s from my limited experience, so there might be a workaround).
Having scrapped several cars, if it was my car I’d sell it to a car breakers (who in the UK insist on it being complete). Might not get very much, but it’ll save you getting involved in disposing of the non-saleable parts and the fluids.
Says “Statement of faith” yet (unless I missed it) there’s no faith required- just a list of behaviourial requirements.
Which preselect a group that don’t smoke, take drugs, catch STDs, drink to excess or have lawyers on speed-dial. Most of my neighbours are like that, so if they amend it to “Must attend church 3 times a month or a mosque 2 times a day” they could expand their membership somewhat.
Maybe one of a pair of supports for a brass planter or trough. The ring doesn’t look like it’s been designed for lifting- the grub screws seem to be to stop it rotating.
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