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I like the simple “please contact me if there are any issues” solution. On the buyer’s Purchase History page in their eBay account will be a big, blue, top-of-the-list button that is labeled “RETURN THIS ITEM” so I don’t think eBay could make it much easier. But returns very rare for me and I’d rather hear from the buyer first. Sometimes buyers are grumpy and won’t follow through on a return. If you sell in a category with frequent returns, don’t want to be bothered with buyer messages and just want items shipped back as quickly as possible, you could say something like: “If you need to return this item, please initiate a return through eBay on the Purchase History page of your account and you will be provided with a shipping label to return the item. Your refund will be processed once I receive the item in good order.”
If you havent price compared pirateship lately, I suggest you do
I second that. Lately, PirateShip’s Simple Export rate has been trouncing eBay’s International Standard by several dollars and of course they both beat straight USPS First Class International. I recently had a 4 oz item go to the UK for $10.99, where eBay was $14.00.
I didn’t know that FedEx and UPS offered free labels so I’ve ordered them on eBay; search “4×6 Fanfold Direct Thermal Shipping Labels for Zebra Rollo Printers” for purchase options. You’re looking at about $12 – $15 for a box of 500 at the moment, and the sellers are all China-type, high-volume commodity sellers even if you select for US location so reliable delivery can be luck of the draw. For this kind of item, I try to select for higher feedback generally and see if they’ve got good feedback for that item recently, then I hope for the best and order. Seller ID’s are meaningless as they seem to change so frequently.
I have been very pleased with the Rollo X1038 I’ve been using about 4 years. It prints on 4×6 Direct Thermal Labels, same as Zebra. Easy, plug and play setup and it’s easy to set eBay Labels and PirateShip to always print that size (except eBay Labels won’t print USPS First Class International in a 4×6, at least the last time I tried which was a while back since I’m 100% on PirateShip for international shipments now). I buy the labels in packs of 500, fanfolded. My label volume is significantly less than yours, though, so you may want more features or you may find it not as durable.
I miss you guys and I miss posting sales here. This year continues to be abysmal on eBay for me (averaging about 2 sales a week since Jan 1!) but I’ve been very busy with life otherwise. Here are a few interesting things from late last year:
Here’s a nice postcard sale – a real photo of the Skagway, Alaska Public School circa 1940 by Dedman’s Studio 🙂 that sold for $35 plus first-class package shipping. From a large antique store lot of postcards for which I paid $1 each. More than I like to pay for a lot, but I cherry-picked them so I knew they were all good.
https://i.imgur.com/2Oy6kaR.jpg?2
This old Jenn-Air stove top electric griddle was left over from a renovation. Despite its well-used condition it sold for $44 plus shipping.
https://i.imgur.com/Y5ja3I5.jpg?2
Here’s another 1990’s reissue 1/25 scale model car kit from a flea market lot of models for which I paid $4 each. This one is Richie Evans’ #61 ’30’s Chevy bodied Modified stock car and sold for $59 plus shipping. All the models from that lot are sadly gone now – a great example of Jay’s go-all-in strategy that paid off well for me.
https://i.imgur.com/6Oa92cx.jpg?2
The generic term for this US Army Graphic Training Aid Soviet Weapons Whiz Wheel as a piece of ephemera is volvelle. It sold for $14 plus shipping and was something issued to me in the Army around 1980.
https://i.imgur.com/iBxOCva.jpg?2
I’m not much for the country look for household items but a surreptitious peek at the eBay comps told me that this framed farm scene tile from Potpourri Press would sell when I saw it in a thrift store for $5. It went for $25 plus shipping, but I notice the market has softened on this stuff since last year. Actually, the market has softened on everything, hasn’t it?
It’s a nutcracker.
Though when yours was manufactured it was “patent pending”, it was eventually awarded a patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2506822A/en
Or: Industrial Steampunk Distressed Copper Pipe Desk Table Lamp
If that’s an e27 socket that takes an Edison bulb, I would add that in description.
If that doesn’t work, the way I can get to is by googling “pr rookwood raven bookends engineer society of cincinnati”
I’m not able to search within pinterest, I guess because I don’t have an account.
That’s weird. Sometimes I see it here and sometimes I don’t. Let’s try again:
There was a pair with that inscription on Chairish, according to this pinterest post:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/442619469646111097/
I think you’d want to remove the felt to show buyers the marks which would date them and confirm Rookwood source and mold number. According to the Ohio Secretary of State, that nonprofit corporation had that specific name only from 1943 to 1978 and went out of business in 2010. Of course Rookwood was in Cincinnati and these items could very well have been commissioned by the society for some award, gift, or commemoration during that period. If you can translate the monogram, you might be able to figure out the name of the artist since the specific Rookwood artists were known.
Rookwood has been reproduced but it’s hard to imagine the Chinese counterfeiters would bother with a set of bookends and the extra work of the inscription. They’d go for the art deco style vases and such. The Rookwood company was revived in 2004. It still manufactures items with the original molds but they are dated accurately on the base along with the logo and mold number.
The sale was for $14.50 but it was in 2013 so not that helpful for today’s market. I would mention the dog breed in the title.
Spoon warmer! Figures Antique Frog would get it eventually. Started dealing in antiques by selling trinkets to the Romans who showed up in England en masse on holiday, way back when.
That’s a great link about obscure cutlery. Puts me in the mood to dig for marrow, with a side of snails in aspic.
Interesting item – I’ve never seen such a thing. If you haven’t yet tried it, I have had good luck identifying odd unknown items using Google image search on my iPhone. Sometimes it takes a couple tries viewing the item at different angles and a busy background seems to throw it off but overall it works better than a photo search on desktop. If you do figure it out, please let us know what it is.
The title song on Incense & Peppermints was such an earworm, and you just put it back in my head. Thank you very little!
For those who have never heard it, here it is, but don’t say I didn’t warn you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rw1_FNdy-Y
In other news, my sales are still in the pits as they have been for the last two months and not worth reporting.
