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Here is a similar crock that sold for $51: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blue-amp-Gray-Robinson-Clay-GRAPE-VINTAGE-Butter-Crock-with-Lid-Akron-Ohio-/164499655630?hash=item264cf18bce%3Ag%3AF1MAAOSw6HdfqHmy&nma=true&si=7B8HjH65ztcno4bpCJWATdE%252FMKU%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
That seller says it’s a Robinson Clay Products Company pattern but many companies manufactured similar blue and white embossed stoneware from the early 1900’s up until the 1940s mostly in the American Midwest. People do call lidded crocks about this size butter crocks.
Excellent! But your recent work also gives you the power to do that. Doesn’t work if you’re coasting.
I only sold 4 items, all low price, last week so I won’t bore you with the details. Re the podcast:
The 1 ounce 1st Class regular letter is still .55 but the prices for 2 and 3 ounces and for nonmachinable letters have gone up. (I was reminded of that the hard way when I had a DVD returned for insufficient postage.) Generally First Class Mail Packages have only gone up a bit. Now 16 ounces going across the country from Florida is $9.90 retail and $5.98 discounted.
Jay, your milk story had me rolling on the floor. There are some here who may not remember your legendary road burger. I am sympathetic as I have been known to eat pretty much anything even though there have occasionally been memorable regrets. (Like the time I ate a couple slimy Slim Jims out of an outdoor gas station vending machine near Buena, NJ, at about 3 am, on August 20, 1978.)
You ought to learn to darn socks to get more life out of ones that are getting ventilated. It works great, especially for wool.
Lastly, I am surprised Ryanne let you get away with your comment about New Hampshire and Vermont being the same. C’mon, it’s the difference between Adam Sandler and Orson Bean! Sheesh.
Last time I saw something like that, I was 75 clicks above the Do Lung Bridge.
Hah! Yeah, Col Kurtz was carving it out of human finger bones.
Well, hard to imagine that at a Pier One, even in Albuquerque.
I’ve been meaning to post again, really I have …. Here are some sales from a ways back since my last post:
This is a rare version of a 1970’s German military Eickhorn rifle bayonet and scabbard in pristine condition purchased for $70 at a gun show and sold for $225.00 plus shipping.
I was disappointed to discover that big and heavy late 20 century US Naval Academy Lucky Bag yearbooks do not go for much. This 1986 edition went for $36 plus shipping. It was a family item.
Here’s an example of something that I’ve seen sell for more at a flea market than on eBay, there being a “I haven’t seen one of these it’s really cool” price for clad US halves and dollars at the flea and a lower price on eBay set by the collector market. This lot of 20 circulated 1971 Kennedy Half Dollars sold for $23 with free shipping. The older, silver ones sell for much more, of course. These were part of a mostly silver coin horde I inherited a while back.
I used to do well with Cross pen and pencil sets but it seems that ship has sailed. This ‘80’s vintage 10Kt gold filled set has been listed for a couple years and I finally let it go for a best offer of $30 with free shipping. This was a family estate item.
My father kept a small horde of some of my childhood toys that turned up in his estate a while back. It was interesting to see them, though there were some things I recall having as a child that are in high demand today that unfortunately he did not save. This ‘60’s toy military 2 ½ ton cargo truck (aka “deuce-and-a-half” aka “6×6”) made by Tim Mee was among the items he had. Note the authentic dog bite marks on the hood. (About 15 years after playing with this I would have occasion to drive the full size version in the Army. And we got an old one once to blow up for training, too. It took a lot of explosives to do that, they were built so tough.) It sold for $20 plus shipping. A website with the Tim Mee name is still active and selling military playsets online. They reproduced this truck for a while not too long ago but it has been out of stock.
Here’s an item that took a surprising length of time to sell. I paid $30 several years ago which was too much for this vintage military-style tiger stripe camouflage shirt as I finally took a best offer of $48 plus shipping to get it sold which netted me about $10, not counting overhead. It was nothing special; a reproduction pattern probably dating from the ‘70’s or ‘80’s but it did have patches sewn on at some point, indicating perhaps some actual military use.
Cool shot glasses. Set of 2 sold for $31.07 on July 17, 2007. Single sold for $51.00 on Feb 27, 2008.
“Whenever I have a problem that isn’t my fault, I choose problem with shipping address.”
I’ve been doing the same for years to cancel problem purchases and it has always worked fine.
Try key words antique wick trimmer candle snuffer scissors or shears for similar items. Hard to tell the age of yours from the pictures but be aware they were a common reproduction item.
I cannot recall the last time I had an actual international return – there have been a few situations with buyer refusals to pick up when duty was due on their end or foreign postal services refusing the package and returning it. But there was an extensive discussion on international returns on the eBay for Business podcast #122 very recently that I posted about. The process they described was pretty much what you did in this case, even when the original label was purchased on eBay. You have to go on the foreign postal site and either calculate the correct postage to send to the buyer or buy the label from the foreign postal site and send it to the buyer. They suggested using Chrome browser translate feature if necessary to buy a label or calculate the price from non-English sites if necessary (and I have found that many international postal sites offer an English language version).
Griff said that if you offer international returns and agree on a cost for a return (by going on the foreign site and calculating the price) and send the money to the buyer by Paypal and upload the shipping quote and Paypal receipt, that eBay will back up the seller if the buyer tries to claim a higher amount for return shipping. Also if a seller offers 30 day returns for international sales on a returned item, the seller can make the up-to-50% refund deduction for condition the same as they can for domestic.
As for import tariff fees, if you purchase the label you have to check the box for returned goods on the customs form or instruct the buyer to do the same if you’re sending them the money so that you won’t be liable for duty.
That really is awful. As to how a 12 year old ended up playing with a live grenade, I cannot comprehend the levels of stupidity in multiple adults that would have made that even possible in the scenario that is described. And they think there were more sold!?!? It was actually a 50-dealer antique mall on US-17 south of Wilmington that was named. Maybe ATF has some independent evidence of it and it appears that’s where they think it came from, but I’d be skeptical of anyone who told me that story.
