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If it ends up being a defect, Ebay wipes its hands free of it. At least, that is what happened to me one time. They only cover it if it breaks in transit from KY to the international address.
OK, I think I found the cat. You have to go to Steve’s store and get the solds. If you don’t know his username/store name, you can search on “100 Dogs & A Cat” and scroll down until you find the puzzle.
Once in the original listing, you can click over the first picture to zoom. The cat is about 1/4 in from the left and about half way up. Above the cat is some white space and then two white dogs. Below him is a brown-spotted dog and a brown dog. To the left is a dog with his tail up with basically his bum right in the cat’s face.
Not seeing it up close, the cat almost looks like a bunny because it is standing up.
I have an old Betty Crocker Boys & Girls Cookbook that I received as a gift when I was young. Unfortunately, I did not take good care of it, so it isn’t worth selling.
I forgot to mention with my numbers earlier that my feedback hit 500 last week! Nice to see a different color star after such a long time.
I had a large number of sales last week, so I’ll be careful to pare it down:
I’m finding that vintage pennants for specific events and/or organizations can go for very good money. This Rutgers University Class of 1973 pennant sold for best offer of $50, bought for $3.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182756394370I bought this framed print for $6, and it sold for full price of $99. I found that just the prints sell for $49 on ebay, so I guess the buyer paid $50 for the framing. I had a FedEx label issue (mentioned earlier) and had to ship Parcel, which cut into my profit by about $6.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182797464773One of my parents’ friends had finally sold their parents house and gave me boxes of china, what Ryanne calls “Grandma china”. I’ve found a few really good pieces. I did my research for this bowl, but apparently not good enough. This vintage Meissen piece sold for $159, and then someone offered me $200. I honored the sale, but, in retrospect, it should have gone to auction.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182947767722I love the vintage traveling barware sets. I’ve sold one in the past, and Steve showed one in a past video. The online auction I bought it through listed the utensils as having “bakelite type” handles. I was very suspicious about that claim, so I looked up how to test for it. It tested negative for bakelite & celluloid. Considering probable age, I settled on lucite. Still, it was different than any other bar set out there. I priced it a bit higher at $49, and it sold in just a few days; paid $8.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182946098258This sale is a Russian made mink hat for $50. The interesting thing about it is that I bought the contents of a linen closet for the minimum bid of $1. As I was emptying out the closet, I found a tied up bag and didn’t know that it contained two mink hats until I got everything home. I’ve already made maybe $200 from all the vintage tablecloths, and the second mink hat is still listed.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182682045761I’m glad you have lots of these tiles, and not just one! I can see them being an accent row in a solid color tiled backsplash or wall, most likely in the kitchen due to the theme of the design.
You could sell them by the piece, and the buyer could select the number that they needed based on the length of the wall they wanted tiled. Perhaps you could break them down into two listings for good and very good condition.
I googled “made in e.c.”, and the answer is European Community, now know as the European Union.
I don’t know anything about the tile, but, obviously, it is interlocking with others of the same design. I suppose someone might need one if theirs cracked and they needed a replacement; otherwise, I don’t think it would be useful on its own.
Week of Dec 3 – 9
* Total Items in Store: 1206
* Items Sold: 30
* Cost of Items Sold: $49.74 + $0 Commission
* Total Sales: $827.12
* Highest Price Sold: $159 Vintage Meissen bowl
* Average Price Sold: $27.57
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 36Great podcast! I look forward to hearing about what happens with the Santa sale. I hope that the buyer pays up.
I had a very good week with a record number of sales. Most were not that high, but the quantity helped.
I had an issue with an ebay FedEx glitch. I had a buyer with an address in Brookhaven, GA, and FedEx was giving me the error “buyer mismatch city-postal” or something along those lines. I tried to change the city to Atlanta, but ebay’s software wouldn’t let me. After calling support a few times and waiting two days for a fix, I spent about $6 more to ship it Parcel. Annoying to say the least.
I believe that I made a mistake with my highest sale. I did do my homework, but not well enough. I got an offer, then someone paid full price, and then the original person who made the offer said they would give me $200. Looking back at solds again, I think I could have sold it closer to $250. Oh well. It wasn’t that big of a difference. I was happy for the quick sale plus I didn’t pay anything for it.
You can certainly sell them, no problem. I don’t know the legal part of whether the buyer can use them for publishing.
I was recently at an auction with slides (and I did buy a box lot, but haven’t listed them yet). Prior to bidding on one of the boxes, the auctioneer stated that these photos/slides were royalty free and could be used for whatever. Now, I don’t know that he knows the ins and outs of the law either. Certainly, general photographs of locations and buildings and whatnot would be fine. I don’t know if I believed him about the photos of people.
Mike –
On this independent site you will create, will you allow other sellers to pay you a fee to list their items? At least their items that meet your website’s criteria?
If so, count me in!
Recently, ebay started a service that authenticates high end purses. You send the item to ebay, they authenticate it, and then they send it to the customer. They take a 20% cut, but it would protect you against scammers. Here is the annoucement:
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/eBay-Launches-Authentication-Service-for-Luxury-Handbags/ba-p/27601197The notice states that other items will be added in the future. I would think that high end jewelry, including watches, would be one an obvious category for expansion.
Someone asked me about selling some vintage gold jewelry on ebay. He had taken the jewelry to a “we buy gold” service, and they offered around $1200. So, you know that the jewelry is worth much more. I told him that I would be nervous about selling something so valuable, but I would be much more confident if ebay had an authentication service for gold jewelry. I’m on the lookout for when the program expands.
FedEx is definitely better in price for larger items, although, I’ve never seen that big of a difference. You might want to call FedEx to make sure that the item will be properly insured and that you didn’t make a mistake in the calculation. I’ve found the FedEx customer reps to be very helpful.
I sort of have a similar issue right now. Ebay has a glitch which is preventing me from printing out a FebEx label because of an address issue. The rep I talked to today suggested that I send it parcel if the glitch isn’t worked out soon. The cost will go from $25.50 to $31.50. Part of that is $1.85 in insurance because Parcel only insures to $50, while FedEx is $100. My package is 15 pounds and just a bit larger than yours. It is going from NJ to GE.
Jay & Ryanne – I follow your solds, and I’m so excited that you sold the Lynn Haney piece! From FlipperTools, looks like it paid for the auction purchases as you had hoped!
Jay and Ryanne have mentioned in the past that they have calculated shipping just for this reason. In the beginning, I started with free shipping on some items going first class. I’ve moved most items to calculated shipping this year. The only items I do free shipping on is some newer books. The reason is because of the competition. I will be getting rid of most of those books in the first quarter next year.
If you are selling unique items that don’t have much competition, then free vs. calculated shipping doesn’t make much of a different in getting the sale. If you have a commodity item, and the customer might be searching using the free shipping filter, then there is a reason to include shipping in your price. Most of us here don’t deal with commodity items, so calculated shipping makes sense.
BTW, I took a look at the shipping increases, and they are very small. Most are a $0.05 increase. So, if you want to change over to calculated, you can do that little by little. Your flat rate prices should be close enough.
I bid up higher than I usually spend because the box lot had a few pieces of Jadeite, and I knew about those. I was taking a risk on the “blue stuff”. I really had no idea!
Maybe the prices are high because it’s rarer, or maybe it’s just starting to gather attention now that Jadeite has been very collectable for several years. I really don’t know, but I’ve got more of the Delphite listed, many with watchers!
