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Thanks for everyone’s input! In the end, I just listed it for around $15 and hope to move it out quickly :). It certainly doesn’t appear to be a great purchase despite being made of cashmere.
The photo shows up on this post. Thanks for any help you guys can provide!
I had to re-post my question. I goofed when I tried to include the link on this post. Sorry!
Well, a mini-experiment gone wrong to the tune of $35.36! I haven’t gone through and raised all of my flat shipping charges on my 900 listings this year after the shipping costs (FedEx SmartPost especially) went way up. Because I’m tired of eating the difference and losing profit as a result, I finally decided to try shipping shoes–specifically a pair of Dr. Martens open back sandals–in a Padded Flat Rate Envelope. If those of you who successfully ship shoes that way have said in the past to wrap them in bubble wrap or protect them some other way inside the envelope, I must have missed that bit of advice. I didn’t add any protection except to seal them inside a plastic bag. The buyer got them, sent a photo of the damage to the insole at the heel of one of them, and rightfully asked for a refund. Back to shipping in a box I suppose! Do you all think I can make a claim with USPS for the damage caused in shipment? Any advice would help, thanks!
I appreciate your help, thanks! Now, time to figure out if they really are bakelite or not…
I really appreciate the response and the effort you put in to help me. The only problem is, that link leads to MY listing on ebay :). I went with the info I had and listed it the best I could. The main issue I have is that I don’t know whether it can be classified as mid-century modern, or is it later (like the 70s)?
Here is a cool clock I found at a thrift store. It is marked “Beltz West Germany” and “Westminster-Whittington Quartz”. It plays one of twelve different children’s songs/lullabies on the hour. Which is more accurate to describe it: mid-century modern, 70s, or something else?
Does anyone know what pattern this lamp shade is? I believe it is a Quoizel, but I’m hoping someone recognizes the name of the pattern. Thanks! Hurricane lamp shade
Does anyone know eBay’s official policy on selling the game of Jarts? There are several listed, but I have a feeling they are supposed to be banned.
I’m hoping someone with Worthpoint can follow this link and let me know what the item sold for:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bk-sweeney-st-1270-cummins-diesel-507907072
If that didn’t work, the title of the item is RARE BK SWEENEY ST-1270 CUMMINS DIESEL INJECTOR VALVE ADJUSTMENT TOOL KIT SET PW
I’m trying to save my Free Trial on Worthpoint until a time when I have a bunch of items to look up. Thanks!
I read your post with such a heavy heart, Doublythumbs. I prayed for you right away and will keep doing so. Thanks for letting us all share your grief.
For anyone who only describes defects and flaws in the “Condition description” box when you’re listing on ebay (ie, not in the main “Item Description” field), you may run into problems with those listings when they are imported into Bonanza. I just wrote a more thorough explanation on the “Bonanza” page. It is #15706. Hope it helps!
Warning about an important part of your ebay listing that does NOT import to Bonanza: the Seller Notes that appear under Item Specifics and also near the top under Item Condition. This could be a major issue for those of us who make notes about flaws, defects, and other condition issues in this section and nowhere else.
I’m pretty sure I learned on the Forum here that it’s a Best Practice to keep the main body (ie, the Description section) of our ebay listings to a bare minimum. I used to list what I called “Notable Flaws” in this main section, but I changed that practice awhile ago. Now when I’m listing, I describe all those condition issues in the box titled “Condition description,” which shows up, as I mentioned above, as italicized print near the top of your listing and as Seller Notes in the Item Specifics section.
The problem is that Bonanza does NOT import that information from ebay. In fact, the response I got from a Bonanza rep is that “…eBay does not send us that information during the import so we are unable to add that to the listing.” For me and anyone that lists like I do, potential buyers aren’t able to read about flaws and defects unless we manually add them to each Bonanza listing. The rep continued, “We would recommend that you state everything necessary about the item in the item description. eBay does send us that information.”
I had to cancel and refund a $50 Bonanza purchase because the person did not have access to the flaws and defects. (In my case, the added dilemma was that not all the photos from ebay imported either. The rep acknowledged that that was Bonanza’s mistake, a glitch in the system at the time.) After purchasing a pair of plates, the buyer messaged me to say how happy she was that she found them, and she hoped there were no chips in them. Well, I knew that I had noted a chip in one of the plates in my ebay listing, so that’s when I checked my Bonanza listing and there was no mention of the chip, and the photo of the chip was one of the photos that did not import. She decided to cancel after I explained the problem.
Bottom line, if you only note defects in the “Condition description” box on ebay, you either have to manually enter them on Bonanza or remove listings with defects from Bonanza altogether. Hope that helps!
