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Welcome Midge! What a pretty kitty!
Steve – I recently bought & listed a sewing box just like the one you just sold; however, it isn’t quite as nice or in as good of condition. It doesn’t have the yarn hole or the detailing on the top. I priced mine lower, and it will sell eventually.
This is a 1967 Boy Scout Handbook. Normally these go for about $10, but I noticed that this one was signed by Joseph Brunton, the chief scout executive at the time. I don’t know if he was all that important, but he did have a Wikipedia entry. Bought for less than $2, sold for $19:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182910668165I bought a box lot full of vintage Fire King at an auction recently. I paid more than I normally would, but I knew these would sell. I am familiar with the green dinnerware called Jadeite, but I found that the blue stuff, called Delphite, is also desirable and seems a bit more rare. I paid about $2 for this set of 5 dinner plates; sold for $49.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182894117183Whenever I list my son’s old Cub Scout stuff, it sells very quickly. This listing consisted of items from his first grade or Tiger year. Sold for $26.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182918361456From reading all the retail arbitrage folks here on the forum, I know that Anthropologie is a big seller. I paid a bit higher than what I would normally pay for three dog plates at Goodwill recently for $6.40 each. The first to sell was this Whippet plate that I reduced a bit to $19 because of a rough area in the glaze I found after bringing it home.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182899125086Like Steve, I’ve sold a few older items recently. This is a vintage fire starter. It sold once to someone with a bad address, so I had to cancel and relist. Paid about $2, sold for $24.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182579724948I thought about getting cards with my logo, username, ebay store address, and a comment like “Thanks for your business”. Or something like that. In the end, I decided it wouldn’t help much, sort of in line of what Jay is saying. Maybe it would help in getting more buyers to leave feedback.
I don’t see an exact match, but, yes, it could be. I decided to put “Sevres?” in the title, and an explanation:
“The hallmark on this oyster plate is similar to other Sevres marks; however, I was not able to find an exact match. It might be a maker trying to imitate Sevres. Either way, the piece is very nice and of good quality.”
I had to do something like this recently. If you used ebay to print the label, then you can use the email from when you created the label. Print out the tracking information as well, which you can get from the FedEx website. The ebay sale will be your retail receipt. Basically print out anything that is relevant.
I will not ship fragile items with Smartpost due to the insurance issue you mentioned. I do offer it on some items, but I put it as the last option. I figure if someone is searching for the cheapest shipping possible, then they will find it. Otherwise, I stick with the USPS or FedEx Ground. Note that FedEx Ground can be cheaper than Smartpost when the package gets real heavy and/or big.
I’ve never had the problem you had with the item taking a vacation cross country, or at least not that I’ve noticed. But, I don’t ship with it as often.
Makes sense. Another thing that confused me was the gray hair. I know that she died relatively young.
When my husband and I were still dating, he spent a year and a half in France as part of his job’s exchange program (he works for a French owned company). One of the times I visited, we went to the peasant village she had built for herself to get away from Versailles and pretend to be a commoner.
Thanks! Looking at the Google images of Marie Antoinette and comparing to the plate, I don’t see the resemblance. But, it is a painting and someone interpretation of what she looked like, so I’ll go with it!
That listing is definitely the same plate, but I’ll be selling the three together.
AdventureE –
Thanks, but I had looked at images of other oyster plates and haven’t found anything that looks like the one I have. I also had found your second link. That is the one with Revol porcelain. The words on the back are similar, but the hallmark is different.
Thanks for looking, though!
I only count new listings as well. I look at the number I have currently in my store, I subtract the number in my store from the previous week, I then add back in the number of sold items from the week, and then make adjustments if I ended or relisted something.
Yes, I didn’t see other casseroles going for higher prices, and, yes, it does have some damage. It does have the stand and burner, which appears to be a bit unique. Your paella pan definitely looks nicer than what I have.
The 925 mark is called sterling silver. It is 92.5% silver and the rest are other metals, mostly copper. The other metals make the silver more durable. Pure silver is too soft to be of any use as a household item.
I did have an item once marked with a slightly different number, I think 950, which is just a higher silver content. Sometimes the item is just stamped “Sterling”, and you can assume 925.
Mike – Thanks for the link discussing this issue.
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Awesome building! We don’t have land anywhere near what you guys have, but it is 0.57 acre. We’re thinking about a large storage shed in the back.
I recently listed a Copco casserole with a stand, and I have it at a much lower price than your pan. Is there something special about a paella pan, or do I have mine listed too low? It does have some loss of enamel on the lid:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182937663938As far as the Kewpie doll goes, I posted in the What Sold section two weeks ago that I found an article about weird things people collect. One was haunted dolls, and a related category of scary dolls. Using “zombie” in the listing probably helped sell it. Here is the broken down scary doll that I sold for $19 in three days and received positive feedback:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182902713043I did have a customer pay by echeck once. She informed me that she was paying that way, and I think the ebay notice email said something to effect that I should wait until the echeck posted before shipping. Perhaps the caller didn’t read the email carefully, or there was a glitch in the system.
Anyway, here are my numbers:
Week of Nov 26 – Dec 2
* Total Items in Store: 1200
* Items Sold: 22
* Cost of Items Sold: $27.30 + $13.27 Commission
* Total Sales: $371.12
* Highest Price Sold: $49 Set of 5 vintage Fire King blue (delphite) dinner plates
* Average Price Sold: $16.87
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
* Number of items listed this week: 29I had one funny issue where I thought I had a non-paying customer. However, she responded saying that she couldn’t pay and she was getting a message to contact the seller about shipping. Long story short, she is in Georgia and accidentally selected Georgia as the country. When I went to invoice her, I was only given international shipping options. I didn’t think anything about “Georgia” being listed twice. Took a few days to work it out!
It does come out on top, so maybe they did sell it at that crazy high price?
Hey, free shipping!
I was able to find the sold listing, but flipper tools couldn’t give the price because it’s a multi-quantity listing.
So, that makes me think, they could have had a relative in another state “buy” the item with a $10 best offer, and then shipped them an empty box. Then, it would look like they sold one at the high price.
