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That’s a good point, Clarity, particularly since this is a Ralph Lauren comforter that I hope to get a lot for. 🙂
I am now wishing that either a) vacuum storage bags were cheap enough to use as the internal packaging for shipping (the cheapest I can find on amazon for a huge bag is about $5 each https://www.amazon.com/Storage-Army-Compressed-Organizer-protection/dp/B00JQP3L7Y) or b) there was a way to make any sturdy (cheap) plastic bag vacuumable.
10/27/2018 at 11:26 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 382: Treasure Hunting with a Fishnet #50810Marie in Florida,
What I did was search for archived copies of the jcrew.com website, and then accessed them one by one, each time going to the “dresses” section of the site, and scrolling through the whole section looking for the dress and/or checking for a particular keyword.
I did it by going to web.archive.org, and then typing “www.jcrew.com” into the search bar. It then shows you a horizontal timeline of all of the archived copies of the site. I wanted to start in 2009, so I clicked in that general area of the horizontal timeline, and then on the calendar below it shows in color the days the site was archived. Since the dress I was searching for was a winter dress, I would choose one of highlighted dates in December. After you click on that, you may have to wait a minute, and then you get a VERY UGLY pared down version of their website, where a lot of photos are missing. BUT, you can still click on “Women” and then “Dresses” and voila, you have a list of dress names. Most of the photos are missing, unfortunately, but I had a fairly unique keyword to look for, so that helped me find what I was looking for. So, a very imperfect tool, but sometimes it fits the bill.
PS – it doesnt matter which one you ignore. The subscription fee comes through as a separate ebay fee once a month as well.
That happened to me when I first started using my credit card to pay my monthly ebay bill. You can fix this by changing the category of the transaction to “HIDE” and check the box that says “categorize all future expenses…” and then all future similar transactions will be hidden as well.
10/27/2018 at 4:44 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Hood scoop, Stratoscope photo, Mailbox, Carhartt vest, Amplifiers, Crescent moon shadow box #50801What is a “Grand Tour” collectible? I googled it and there are many references to uses of the term, but I couldn’t find a definition.
Thank you so much, Mike!!!!
Very helpful.Not sure there’s anything you can do. I would count my lucky stars that the buyer wasn’t blaming me for the issue and move on.
10/25/2018 at 1:28 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 382: Treasure Hunting with a Fishnet #50686dlvintage – I know how you feel. I am very excited this week to have (sort of) learned a new research tool – The Internet Archive. I used it to find the style name & number and original retail price (and more importantly, the lovely descriptive text) of a J Crew Collection dress from about 7 years ago that no longer had its style/season tag. I was pleasantly surprised to find the original retail price was over $800! I have no idea how much I’ll get for it, but it was really fun digging up this information. The tool is a bit clunky to use, b/c I think active content has been stripped out of the archived pages, but it worked! Fun and yay!
love it, MyCottage!
I do the same as Steven S.
I have a really bad case of thrift goggles, too! Glad to hear you recouped your cost so quickly.
10/23/2018 at 12:02 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 382: Treasure Hunting with a Fishnet #50582“you could take the pictures on your phone, and once the photos sync to google photos, you’d be able to download the photos to your computer and do your listings entirely on your computer if you wanted.”
I have a very similar process that happens automatically on my iphone. I take the photos on my iphone, and somehow through apple’s cloud they sync to the Photos app on my laptop. I like to do all my listing on my laptop, so this works great for me. Didn’t even have to configure anything. The only limit is the phone storage, but once the photos are on my laptop, I periodically delete them from my phone – don’t want them there anyway.
10/21/2018 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Bidder trying to get discount and free shipping after auction ended #50488Or you could open an unpaid item case after 4 days. But I like ebaymom’s solution better.
Ebay told me the same thing (no FVF refund on partial refunds) a few months ago, but I also remember someone calling into the podcast a while back who said that she “saves up” partial refunds and gets her FVF refunds for those all in one phone call to ebay every so often. So I, too, am confused by this.
I just sold 12 identical plates to the same person. I had them listed as 3 separate listings of 4 plates each b/c I did not want to pack more than 4 together in the same package. So they got 3 packages.
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