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You might want to lay off shipping anything to Hong Kong for a couple of weeks, till the situation re the protests gets resolved.
I watched a video of a carton reducer some time back- it appeared to be useful for reducing the height of cartons, but I’m often building cartons up from flat sheets (like TV boxes). Also when the demonstrator used it to cut pizza, things got messy.
Thanks- been using the back side of a box cutter, never thought of that!
I use titanium coated blades in a stanley knife (don’t know what the US equivalent is). They last a lot longer. The side of the box with the flap for the join has to be slightly shorter, otherwise the box is a bit askew. If you’re sourcing boxes from the street, check that tom cats haven’t marked them- I really don’t know what it is about cats and cardboard boxes.
06/26/2019 at 3:07 am in reply to: Link within my listing was removed by eBay…anyone know why? #64135If I add info I’ve gleaned from somewhere else I add the author’s name. One of my listings got critiqued by the editor of a specialist collectors’ periodical (who makes a habit of filling his copy with such stuff). He got a namecheck in my next listing, just to see if he’d mention the mention of him in his next issue. Didn’t work.
Years back, a well-known High Street retailer of somewhat conservative fashion employed a Leicester firm to replace “Made In China” labels with “Made In England” (I knew one of the seamstresses). That ended in litigation, but the tradition continued, and the city became the world centre of dodgy labelling.
Worst one I’ve seen (on TV) was a lady who lived in a 300-year-old house in the centre of Bridport, Dorset. The kind of house the Mayor of Casterbridge would have lived in. Mummified horse in a closet. A variety of cat and dog corpses scattered through the house. This in the centre of a busy market town in the 1990s.
Looks like it’s got the teeth of an omnivore, not a carnivore, so I guess it’s a pig. A bracket in Carrera marble. If it is a pig, probably from a high-class butcher’s shop, with maybe a matching bull’s head. Don’t clean it- apparently marble’s easily damaged.
It looks to me that this is a dodge by the buyer- the GSP part is a bit opaque as far as the seller’s concerned (I can find how much the buyer’s being charged, but it’s a bit of a palaver). The buyer gets you to invoice them for the sale price only, because you don’t think to add the P&P since you never had to specify it in the listing.
Alternatively the buyer thinks that the GSP charge is too high (sometimes it is).
Whatever, your gut feeling is right!
Bamber Gascoigne’s “How To Identify Prints” is a good (and readable) guide to the various processes. Seems to be two editions- the first is pretty cheap secondhand, and covers all the traditional stuff.
Another interesting blog is Modern Printmakers, although it hasn’t been updated since March 2018. Also the writing style is a bit idiosyncratic.
The buyer should have received an invoice from eBay through the Global Shipping program. When I sell something to an international buyer and the item is listed to be sent via GPS I can’t invoice the buyer directly- I get an error message. Caveat- that’s the situation on eBay UK.
If that’s what’s happened here, then the buyer should have received an invoice from eBay. If you invoice them through PayPal you (probably) won’t be able to send it via GPS. Personally I’d leave it- it’s unclear why the situation has arisen, and you won’t benefit from sending a separate invoice.
I meant black ’40’- went to edit it and got locked out as a spammer!
The Frame Blog for a very time-wasting introduction to the world of high-value frames.
I learnt my lesson with a large signed print by a Nottingham artist who specialised in birds. Purchased for £2 from a car boot sale; the artist’s website indicated that they were selling prints for around £250. Had it reframed for a cost of about £75. Sold at auction for £5 (which meant income exactly zero after costs).
I recently bought a large piece of cloth which seems to be some kind of Polynesian artefact. Whatever it is, the original owner thought enough of it to have it professionally framed (and properly framed- not like the rubbish that many framers get away with) in a heavy 4 foot by 2 foot frame. Cost me £20. Frame, with its 4-inch wide mouldings, must have cost the owner around £150.
Gothic or Old English script on the middle (could be O T G, Old Timer’s Guild? Probably not) Red ’40’ suggests whoever had the pin spent 40 years doing something.
Bloke keeps on getting parcels nicked off his porch. In despair, he rigs up a camera, gets a video of a strange character in a brown cowl striding up to his door. Whips out a toy piano, plays a few notes, puts the piano back under his cowl, picks up the parcel and walks off.
Bloke takes the video to the coppers. “Oh, that’s Felonious Monk.” “And his sticky jazz hands.” “Why you showing us that, anyway?”
Suspect it’s more likely a shopping bag holder. Doesn’t seem to make any sense for hanging a purse or a handbag, and explains why it’s rated for 20 pounds.
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