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05/16/2019 at 8:57 am in reply to: Reporting my 72 hr Listing ban on ebay for being a violator… #61988
It’s a good lesson. If my personal experience is any guide, ebay will be monitoring your listings from now on, but especially closely in the immediate future. When this happens it’s good to have a heightened awareness of some of the more obscure eBay prohibitions to avoid running afoul again, like the random company merch that is aggressively VERO enforced, postal uniforms, and things like that that a seller might have listed.
If it were me and Craigslist was not an option, I might consider putting the other knife away for a year and then including it in a junk drawer lot in the generic Collectibles / Wholesale Lots / Other Collectible Lots because the knife buyers scour those listings. But it’s still taking a chance.
Personally I have not found stamps at 60% face value (there is some counterfeiting of the Forever flag rolls so I don’t recommend some of the too-good-to-be true pricing on those from low feedback sellers) but I don’t spend much time searching or monitoring for deals. Last year I bought 500 unused mixed sheets of Forevers for $223, at that time $250 face value, so about 11% off. Here’s an active listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1000-New-USPS-FOREVER-Stamps-Mixed-Lot-Please-see-pictures-for-details/123768295964?hash=item1cd12a521c:g:t1gAAOSwUIJc21t1
I don’t know how to stop it but I wish I did. It’s unnerving the amount of information that is out there. I was on a bank website yesterday attempting a transaction that prompted a series of multiple choice questions that were intended to identify me. I’ve run into these before and they can be a bit bizarre and really make you reach deep into memory. For example they list a number of addresses and ask if you lived at any of them. But yesterday one of the questions was “Betty Smith lives in ______?” and gave four different cities. “Betty Smith” (not her real name) was my first wife. Our (no fault) divorce was final in 1988.
05/11/2019 at 4:02 pm in reply to: Help Identifying a logo on double deck of vintage playing cards? #61695I tried isolating one of the bird-like things and doing a Google image search of that but nothing came up. It’s certainly suggestive of an airline, with so many logos having stylized birds, but there are thousands to search. See airlinelogos.net.
Could be a train logo, too. Or just a decorative motif.
I have never seen anything like it. If you had not said it was a letter opener, I never would have guessed that. To me, the shape of the blade is not right for a letter opener. I think the long part is a handle and the end with the dragon is the business end.
But for what, I don’t know. Maybe it is to pick up something flat with the bottom wire? The dragon says Asian to me.
Oh I hate dealing with people like that. Business is business, so if it’s worth it to me I swallow my pride and be as nice as I can be – I think obsequious is the right word – all the while reminding myself that this is worth it because I will come out on top. It is hard to resist using every trick in the book to pull one over on them, though. As far as I’m concerned, anything is fair game and I will tell lies upon lies to gain an advantage.
It’s like the flea market or antique store dealers with no price stickers on anything and if you ask how much an item is and they won’t give you a price, they’ll say “oh that’s like $100 to $150”. Grrrrrr….. So I pull out a $20 bill and do my best to waste their time and annoy them with a persistent low ball offer. See how long it takes before I can get them to lose their temper. Of course I won’t get the item but the entertainment value is priceless.
I am going to do this. I’ve been salting away patches, postcards, stickers, and low value military pins, badges and Distinctive Unit Insignias to put in a second store with slow shipping and no returns that will never be TRS but I won’t care.
Well, if I ever get around to it – can’t really call a big shoe box worth of stuff a death pile so it’s not a bee in my bonnet quite yet….
I think this was discussed and IIRC there may be buyers who are watching but who opt out of receiving unsolicited offers.
The CSRs swear they’re “working on it” to get the new shipping page glitch-free. To paraphrase Jay (sort of), it’s a good thing eBay doesn’t make heart pacemakers.
05/07/2019 at 8:02 pm in reply to: Shipping options hidden on some items. I asked Ebay and they said… #61452I’m getting the same single option to DC that Sharyn is. Are you giving a Priority flat rate large or medium box option for the bowl? Either one would be cheaper than $23, even at full retail.
Great podcast. The “in between work” indeed. My sniping sometimes introduces me to those new sellers who are obviously struggling to keep up on the in between work. Unfortunately I may contribute to their demise as it often seems they’ve gone out of business when I go back to see what else I might get from them for dirt cheap.
Noteworthy, I thought, about the new seller update: it appears that many new subcategories will be added in the Business & Industrial and Restaurant & Food Service categories in June. I would have to assume that is to accommodate a significant increase in listings in those categories. I guess I still have not wrapped my head around the concept that the commercial world has really taken to the land of used shoes for B2B trade, despite reading Simplicio’s many useful contributions to the forum illustrating that. Home Improvement and Food & Beverage are expanding, too.
Oorah, Marine. I got issued my first Risdon pin in basic at Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri in 1979. I was one of the old men of the company at age 23. I have to admit that I skated – hung out with some Vietnam-vet re-enlistees who gave me the good gouge on how to stay out of the line of fire. And I was picked as a driver for the drill sergeants so I spent most of the road marches sitting behind the wheel of a follow vehicle.
Yeah, I’ve been amused and impressed by your Etsy sales. You definitely have your finger on the pulse of the shabby chic buyers.
Hmmm – there is much useful knowledge to be gleaned from everyone’s sold items today! Thanks!
Issued to troops of all services for their laundry bags from time immemorial not to mention probably bought by the millions by civilians over the years, these vintage Risdon Key-Tag jumbo safety pins appear all the time in the bottom of box lots and at yard sales for quarter. Lot three of them up and you’ve got a reliable $19-plus-shipping repeat seller, I have found. You can buy them new, the exact same item but I guess they’re too shiny for people.
This large holster is specific to the M1901 Steyr Mannlicher pistol, a very early military semi-automatic of which there are very few out there. There are more of the holsters than the pistols on the market. It went for $99 plus shipping and would have been up for twice that if in better condition.
This camel whip or prod from Pakistan was a family estate item. They spent many years in the Middle East and spent a lot of time at the souq, buying stuff like this to hang on their walls. It sold for $67 plus shipping.
This vintage Blauer police coat with liner took a long time to sell, which surprised me. I guess the color is probably not attractive. But it is proof that people will buy winter coats in spring. It went to Canada for $40 plus shipping. I guess it is still cold up there. Another family estate item, different family.
I can’t imagine why I never tossed out these filthy, torn, rusty, mid-‘60’s GM/Chevrolet seat belts that I found basically glued by dirt, grease, and rust to the floor of a project car I bought years ago (and I’m surprised they made it through multiple moves) but I’m $22 plus shipping richer for not having done so.
This heavy brass handmade trench art “medal” of unknown provenance came out of an auction box lot – I have about $2 in it. I’ve had it for a while; googling, researching, and noodling on what its military connection might be, without much success. The red ribbon and red paint in the engraved word “VALOR” suggest US Marine Corps, but the combination cover on the head suggests this could have been for a pilot / aviator or a US Navy chief petty or commissioned officer, with the shipboard environment (Navy and USMC) perhaps being most likely to provide the scrap brass and tools to make it. I finally figured I wasn’t going to learn any more about it and that I should just let it go. I wish it could talk. It sold in less than a month for $59 plus shipping.Thanks, I did not know that. In March I processed a return for an item that shipped in a PFRE and it came back in mine, taped back up, and eBay only charged me the same $7.33 for the return label. It was from Minnesota so I think the shipping by weight would have been more, but maybe not. That’s been it for returns for me for probably 12 months or more.
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