Hand-Made Beaded Jewelry For Sale

Hi Everyone,

I still have those two previously talked about bracelets for sale and have just added more. The two bracelets are winding down so if you want them, now is the time.

See My Selection Here (Note link may need copy/pasted in bits due to line wrapping):

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New to the selection:

A lovely 16" Genuine Black Onyx Gothic Necklace. Vivid contrast between the ruby-red star-cut beads and the gleaming black onyx stones. Perfect for goths and non-goths alike.

A versatile 16.5" Silver & Black Goth Bead Necklace. Another goth-like piece. Glossy black hematite beads are accented by jet star-cut beads and short silver bugle beads. Also can be worn as a dual strand bracelet.

An elegant 8" Genuine Lazurite Beaded Bracelet. Hand selected lazurite stones are accented by delicate gold seed beads. Also features unique square-edged turquoise beads and short royal bugle beads.

A gorgeous 20" Genuine Jade & Green Cat's Eye Necklace. Perfect for St. Patrick's Day! Hand picked genuine jade stones add an exotic flare to this beaded necklace. Vivid green cat's eye stones accent each piece of unblemished jade. Gold egg beads, green star-cut beads, and long dark green bugle beads complete this intricate piece. Matching earrings also available! See below.

A glittering pair of earrings, but not just any earrings. These are full 2" dangles with hypoallergenic hooks and genuine jade and green cat's eye stones. Perfect for St. Patrick's Day! Each piece of jade, a total of 3 pieces per earring, is hand selected to ensure a pure, unblemished balanced look and are accented by glistening green star-cut beads. Short green and gold bugle beads make these earrings absolutely radiant. Matches the necklace above!

See My Selection Here (Note link may need copy/pasted in bits due to line wrapping):

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Reply to
Elaine
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Hi,

Please put AD in the subject line and you can use

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Reply to
Barbara Forbes-Lyons

Isn't everything here an AD? (Hence the "Marketplace" in the newsgroup name) :-)

Ebay Url's are annoying (especially for us sellers). Another way around it (be it not the best) is to set your wrap lines longer when you send it. I have tried the "tinylink" method but sometimes they lock up or linger. Not a good way to direct traffic. :-(

ARTEMIS

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AUCTIONS NOW AT EBAY
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Reply to
Artemis

Sorry, Artemis ... she also crossposted to rec.crafts.beads which is where this posting is coming from. We just ask for it for courtesy.

Thanks, Mary

Reply to
meijhana

She also posted to rec.crafts.beads, which is not a marketplace group. :-)

Reply to
Barbara Forbes-Lyons

Oh I am sorry, lol I noticed it AFTER I hit the sent button. :-(

So busy listening to the radio here and laughing, I should have waited and read the "newsgroups" line. :-/

My apologies all!

ARTEMIS

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Reply to
Artemis

I am sorry I posted to rec.crafts.beads and any other newsgroups that I posted the ad to that weren't for ads. I am extremely new to this and didn't realize there was a set rule. I figured, "hey it's beads, I'm trying to let people know about my beaded stuff, so I'll post here". That's how Yahoo! Groups work so I thought this was the same. Guess I did a blunder *blush* sorry. I just want people to know about my sales.

They are my first jewelry auctions and I really want them to sell. I put lots of love and attention, not to mention high quality materials, into every piece I make, so I want each piece to do well. I know it's highly unlikely with all the competition out there, but one can hope, right?

My boyfriend suggested google groups and showed me this program - Xnews, so I dove in head-first. I didn't even see posts with AD on them listed. Anyway, If anyone has an idea on how I can get the word out about my sales I'm more than willing to listen since I have only 18 hours until one of my bracelet's auctions ends and it has no bids.

With Xnews I don't know how to change the margins, if it's even possible. I have put a page on my site linking to all my auctions though and that address is shorter, but I'm worried my account will get overmaxed frequently with so much traffic.

Sorry again,

Elaine

Reply to
Elaine

Elaine -- Hi, sweetie. First of all, please put "AD" in the title of your post so that those who don't want to look at ads, do not have to do so. Second of all, just like Beadshop (where I think I also saw two posts from you, which is against the rules of the newsgroup), you are trying to sell finished jewelry here to people who make it themselves. Not your best market.

Good luck with your auctions.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Reply to
BeckiBead

By the way, I see you have a bracelet listed as "genuine lazurite". I don't think there's any such animal. It sounds like one of those "stones" created from rock dust and binding, colored to approximate something between lapis lazuli and azurite.

Tina

Reply to
Christina Peterson

Ok, first off I'm sorry I am doing "wrong" things here, but if anyone would make a manual for newsgroups I'd be the first to buy it. I'm only familiar with Yahoo groups which are nice and simple compared to this. I'm also new to posting and selling anything. I took cross-posting from a suggestion in the program I'm using - Xnews. I didn't know it was something that was "frowned upon" by readers. As for the AD thing, I didn't see a single post with that on it and still have only seen a select few with it. FA & FS seems common on marketplaces, so I've started using those on them and will use AD on the others now that I know.

When one is new one blunders numerous times, you all know that, yet you criticize just as harshly as if I was a veteran at this. Lighten up alittle will you? I'm not some evil spammer out to make your lives miserable, so don't treat me like one.

As for the genuine lazurite, there IS such a thing. Lapis Lazuli is mainly Lazurite with Calcite and Pyrite intrusions. My stones are lazurite, without the large intrusions of calcite and pyrite. Any light patches in my stones are faint traces of calcite. See here for pictures:

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I may not know my newgroup etiquette, but I know my stones. Elaine

"Christina Peterson" wrote in news:1076750519.847532@prawn:

Reply to
Elaine

Elaine -- we were very nice about our comments to you, and I would suggest that you do the same.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

Reply to
BeckiBead

Oh good. I'm glad you're sticking around to ask questions.

Cross-posting -- One of the problems with it is that many people cross-post to several groups but don't participate in any. That's not being part of a newsgroup; it's just spamming. Also, what works in one group might be a no-no in another group. Like the AD thing here.

This group, RCB, is for sharing information. We sometimes show off something we've done which is posted on a web site. If it's something on eBay, it's supposed to have "AD" in front of it. This doesn't always happen, but, for example, we have 4 of them (threads) today. If someone wants to share a picture of something someone else has for sale that they like, then they don't write ad; and usually there are a bunch of them in a post.

We also share information about tutorials, where someone might look for a specific item, sites about photographing bead stuff for portfolio or eBay.

When we share stuff that's personal, or about the weather we are supposed to put OT (off topic) in the subject line. That doesn't always happen either.

"Lurking" is the best way to get a feel for the rules and also a good way to get a feel for personalities. I don't think anybody really came down hard on you. But I say that, knowing the personalities here. Believe me, RCB is one of the most friendly groups I've ever come across. Very co-operative, eager to help. So please don't take offense where nothing personal was intended. I will admit you might have gottn a couple short responses due to a couple of people around here who were spamming here on purpose.

Thanks for the link. And the correction.

I went to look it up in my Audubon (and yes, I should have done that before my other post) too. I see that the lazulite in your link comes from Afganistan. Is that where the stone you got is from? I see we also have it in North America, and that it also goes by the name lapis lazuli here. There was another stone I went to first because it was first in the index. Lazulite. They look very dissimilar except for general color. The structure of Lazulite looks more translucent and crystaline, though I see the lazurite from afganistan has a crystal structure too.

How did you get your background in rocks ? Geology? Jewelry? Traditional properties?

I'd like to invite all of you at, RCM to come take a peak here at RCB. We're a bead group (not other crafts, except periferally) but since many people here sell their products, there's a lot of good marketing information here. Kandice is especially good for marketing information.

Thanks for your response.

Tina

Reply to
Christina Peterson

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:12:19 -0500, Elaine wrote (in message ):

I'm a veteran, and have been around Usenet for 16 years now, and you aren't the first person I've heard with this same complaint. Heck, you aren't even the thousandth person I've heard complain that they don't need to follow the rules because they're newbies, and consider Usenet to be a fine place to post ads for free.

Usenet is where you are posting - newgroups make up the entity that is Usenet. It is an entirely different culture than Yahoo Groups. What you've done is the equivalent of walking into a church during a funeral, dancing in the aisles naked, and then complaining when people told you to knock it off. What you're doing is that out of line.

The marketplace newsgroups were created simply because most newsgroups want to be free of advertising. Rec.crafts.beads is extremely unusual in that it welcomes advertising, but makes one small condition: that you preface your advetisement with the "AD:" designation. If you had lurked here for even a day, you would have seen dozens of ads that all conformed to the netiquette here. This is a high traffic newsgroup, and not one day goes by without ads or off topic postings. (Off topic postings are also welcome, as long as they are marked with the "OT:" designation)

You haven't been treated harshly by Usenet standards in the least. You haven't been mail bombed (thousands of messages designed to bring your ISP to its knees, and get your account terminated), you haven't been flamed, and I doubt that anyone contacted you at your home to tell you off. I've known many spammers whose employers were contacted and some have lost their jobs for what you have done. None of that has happened to you. A few people told you to follow the rules, and that as it.

Consider yourself lucky. All the things I just described and more are common means of revenge against spammers, and you are one, whether you say so or not. People who post advertising in an inappropriate manner are spammers, and most readers will never give you a second chance. As for your statement that you aren't out to make our lives miserable, well, of course not. You don't care one iota about whether we're miserable or dancing in the streets with happiness - all you want is our money.

If you were telling the truth when you said that you want to find out how to fit in on Usenet, here's a link:

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It outlines the basics of Netiquette in an amusing way. If you prefer not to read satire, there is a "Starting an Online Business for Dummies" book at Amazon, which has a whole section on "Usenet for Dummies." Do yourself a favor - you've totally wrecked your credibility here with your advertising and petulant complaining. Get yourself a new Hotmail account, learn the proper way to promote your online business, and start again.

Kathy N-V

Reply to
Kathy N-V

For anyone's information:

Lazurite:

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Lazulite:
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Ahh. I love the internet - there's so much info you can find with just a few keystrokes!!

Mj

Reply to
Mj

Kathy, you are so full of yourself it's not even funny. You are a bloody Usenet terrorist, spreading all sorts of lies. Why don't get a life and stop flaming like a lamer, eh? Leave innocent newbies alone. Elaine had not "lurked" on Usenet before, I introduced her to them as a way to help sell her beadwork that she just started on. I'm a usenet veteran and I have never seen anyone post such rude BS. I think you're the one who ruined your rep, if you ever had one. I'm sure lots of people think you're a real witch (being mild) after that last post.

Maelstrom

Reply to
Maelstrom

And.. your point is? I'm an actual witch, and *everybody* loves me here. :o)

Blessed Beads,

Arondelle

Reply to
Arondelle

We do, we do and it takes one to know one. :=))

Reply to
Margie

Well Elaine? There you have it. He introduced you but did not educate you. I'm sorry, hon. :=(

Reply to
Margie

My, my, my - somebody took their nasty pills today.

Kathy - I KNOW I won't have to tell you this but ignore this crap. Elaine will have to learn that there are ways to do things within the newsgroups. and each group is different. Cross-posting is rarely ever a good idea. I've found RCB to be a very lovely collection of people. I've seen no rivalry/competition between people who produce similar products and they encourage others to try new things. Geez - if only the rest of the world could be so supportive!

Reply to
JL Amerson

Show of hands in agreement? La, la , la. Beuller?

Hmm, hmm, hmm...waiting,waiting....

A usenet veteran would know enough to lurk on a newsgroup or look for a FAQ before spamming.

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lgreene

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