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Goodwill does NOT have a good reputation among the charitable organizations that are ranked according to how much money actually goes to the people and places that need it. Their CEO was reported to be paid an enormous salary.. It was compared to Salvation Army in one report I read and Sally’s does much better in all the metrics. Every Goodwill I’ve gone to in the last three years is full of super cheap imports….all new…and virtually no used items except a few ragged looking racks of clothing. They have become much more like a Dollar Store except the dollar stores have better merchandise. I love my regional thrift store and go there once a week on senior day, which is 30% off anything in the store. I routinely find something great and often a whole cart of “great”…which is why I have death piles piled on top of death piles. I can hear them groaning now….”list me…….list me” in their creepy Halloween voices.
I agree that this was probably part of a set. And maybe for a specialty drink. Like those tall skinny glasses that were for “Zombies”, a drink popular in the 40’s-50’s. It’s cute as a button, though and I would keep looking because if you can find the exact terminology for it, it will help a lot with the sale.
Two words: Shot Glasses. Don’t.
I’ve been selling for almost 18 years on eBay now…not always full time. I started out with depression dishes/glassware and odds-n-ends. You could sell ANYTHING back then. Unfortunately, I have weakness for dishes and glassware and barware. But I am so much more selective now. And mostly I’m just trying to get rid of the enormous amount of that stuff I still have. This is the best time of year to sell dishes. I just looked at Homer Laughlin’s red transferware with Currier & Ives scenes on them. I have about 30 pcs to sell. I have watched the market rise and fall on these over the last ten years that I have had them. This is the highest I have seen them in a while. So I dug them out of storage yesterday and will be listing asap. I did just sell a repro set of Pink Willow dishes, service for 8, on Facebook Marketplace for $75. I had packed up a service for 4 and was going to list them in two lots. When I weighed the box, it was over 16 lbs. And I thought, no one’s going to pay the shipping, so on a whim, I put them on the Marketplace and they sold the next day.
So that’s my backup for things that are “meh” but still nice….This week alone, I did a little over $300 on the Marketplace…and paid NO FEES. I usually end up meeting the buyer at a mutually convenient location, which is rarely over 5 miles away. People search according to their geographic area, so it makes it easy to connect. I mostly stick to stuff I don’t want to ship and maybe is too generic to sell on eBay. This week on eBay has been much improved over Sept. Happy selling!
For some reason, I seem to get the new version of everything eBay rolls out as soon as it gets implemented. The first few weeks I hated it and had to go back to the “classic” version a few times to do what I needed to do. There was a link at the bottom of the new page that said something like “how are we doing?”. I left them feedback on nearly every label I printed because there were so many things missing that I thought were valuable options. Over the last couple of months, they have gradually fixed most of what I thought was wrong. For example, in the beginning when you clicked on “ship next item”, it just took me back to my store. The only thing that’s really annoying now is the “assumed ship date”, which is in a place on the page that I find it hard to see…probably just me….and it doesn’t stay on the date you select for subsequent labels. So if on the first label I print, I choose Tuesday and I’m printing on Monday, it just keeps reverting back to Monday on every subsequent label. Now on the page is a yellow banner announcing that Fedex labels are being added soon. They also announced early on that the classic page is going away permanently…I thought the end of summer, but it’s still there. And international labels still revert to the classic.
When they roll out the new stuff, I try to get used to it sooner rather than later, because so far, they’ve never gone back to the old version.My store was closed for a month, and when I opened back up and shipped the first item, the new shipping page opened up. I had no clue…I’ve been trying to “learn” it, having read that the old version is going to be phased out after the summer. I always seem to get the new versions of whatever they’re rolling out.
First of all, just printing a label now involves so many more steps…then there’s the decrease in the amount of insurance on priority (from $100 to $50 of coverage). Although sometimes it still shows $100 of coverage. WTH??
If you want to add insurance above the $100, the only option is to use Shipcover.Interestingly, when you select an international item to ship and hit “Print shipping label” it sends you to the old page.
You cannot send an email message to your buyer from the page anymore.
I have left them feedback every single time I have printed labels on the new system. I didn’t notice a difference in prices from old to new because I was mainly printing on the new page. Today I will start tracking that also. Between this issue and the RIDICULOUS missing photos issue, I have spent most of my “work” time trying to fix the stuff they have screwed up.
I noticed this a couple of days ago when I went into the bulk editing feature to start adding free returns to my listings. I noticed a couple of flags on items in my evening wear category, which said something like “add additional photos to this listing to increase sales”. I thought that was weird because I always have 8 or more photos on most listings. When I went to the listing that was flagged, only the gallery photo was showing and all others were gone. Going back to the bulk editing page, I found 8 others in the same category that were flagged for having only one photo. Now I was really starting to hyperventilate! I guess the “good” news is that I have pretty much all my photos saved in Iphoto library…..after the disaster a couple of years ago when they changed the photo size requirements. The bad news is, there are 30,000 photos, in chronological order, but honestly, I only have a vague idea when I took most of them, going back 3-4 years. I just revised a couple and reloaded the additional photos. All my listings are GTC.
I did a random check of other categories and so far, haven’t found any others with problems. I’m mostly trying to ignore it all and hope it fixes itself and goes away before I have to do anything else. I only call eBay when I have to solve a customer issue, because my experience has been that when it comes to technical issues, they are useless.Just throwing this out there, but in Morocco and other Arab countries they have a pottery object called a “tajine” or tagine to cook saffron rice in and it has a tall, cone shaped top on it. Is the writing definitely Asian? Could it be Arabic script? How big is it? I think it’s some kind of steamer/cooker. Maybe google some images to see how they compare.
Curious if anyone is noticing a surge of new buyers with weird, seemingly auto-generated, user names (on eBay)? These new buyers have less than 20 feedback and many have 0 feedback. Mostly they seem oblivious to the basic workings of the site, refuse to communicate and so far, don’t leave feedback. Good news is, they ARE buying stuff…but I had an issue with one of them when I accidentally damaged the wallet as I was packing it…it was minor, but I wanted to be totally up front about the issue. I contacted the buyer…with zero feedback and weird name…via eBay messages several times saying I would deduct money from the purchase price and ship for free if she still wanted it with the flaw. No response. I have messaged her, emailed her multiple times at her PayPal email and still nothing. I finally printed out my emails to her, mailed the items and deducted the offered refunds from her PayPal. I also noticed when I look at their PayPal accounts, that they are listed as unverified. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Thanks! Jena
I had a pretty good source a couple of years ago and could get them in big quantities, but when I tried to look the guy up again, he had disappeared off the internet. I’m also looking for a new source now. The other thing I thought to do was post a listing on my neighborhood web site called “Next Door” and just ask if anyone had peanuts they wanted to get rid of. Maybe find a free source that way.
