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we do link to Cyndi’s store in the blog post, you can probably message her there through ebay.
it is definitely best practices to reply to every message, that is true for any online business, even if the answer is “nope”. and i think a lot of scavengers here would agree that they even message people with unreasonable offers etc. but sometimes there are just cranky and crazy people messaging you with long drawn out stories and we mostly just ignore those and don’t engage, which seemed to be the case with Linda’s message up top.
as far as jay and i giving gifts, we general don’t. we don’t really celebrate with gifts. if we want to have a fun night on our birthday we go out to eat or something. every now and then we give each other a surprise tech upgrade on something. like jay wanted a newer ipad for traveling and i got him one used on ebay as a surprise at some random time of the year.
we have everything we need and more from the waste stream. if we need something, we get it for ourselves. and if family want to give me presents, i say i want practical things like coffee or money! that being said, i did find some really nice jewelry for a great price for some gifts this year, so i love giving presents, but we just don’t put much emphasis on it at certain times of the year.
that’s a great story. i just watched a show on netflix called “cheapest weddings” some of them have budgets of 6k! i’m like, that’s still too much. as i like to say, that cheapest wedding is no wedding (very swedish, most swedes don’t get married these days). after almost 14 years not married, we’re still going strong. whatever works for you.
we are working with a volunteer web dude to help us show the most liked post somewhere on the sidebar or up top in the forums. agreed.
would love to see documentation of that. i do actually respond to most people with a “nope, sorry”. sometimes they actually just buy stuff outright even after that. but sometimes i just ignore, especially if they keep asking the same thing over and over, like offering the same low price over and over, i just ignore, don’t have time to say “no” every time.
depends on the weight and size of it. basically you want to make sure it’s not going to get damaged, esp if you’re shipping media mail which is ground and can get roughed up in transit. sometimes i’ll wrap a book in cardboard and then put it in a polymailer or bubble mailer, but if it’s really heavy it goes in a box.
ebay allows people to sign in as guests. so they can make a quick purchase without a full account. that’s what those accounts are.
i have had a few people make multiple purchases from me, one from their guest accounts, the rest from their established accounts (i could tell because of the same shipping address and name). for that case, she might have forgotten her account info and just wanted to buy quickly. but her other purchases were from an established account that was several years old.
i think they’re just trying to make it as easy as possible for people to buy with no hassles and no long sign up process.
409 cleaner on a q-tip, rub it on a piece, if it turns mustard yellow, it’s bakelite. good luck!
the signature is interesting. this is an old lamp. anyone recognize the marking? i believe you are right it says “David” in a stylized script/seal.
or you gotta love clothes shoppers who ask a bunch of questions about color shade, fit, smells, holes, pets etc etc. sometimes we want to say “if you have this much doubt about a used item on the internet, you should probably buy it in person”.
