AD: Ending & New Auctions

That's an awesome set Starlia! Well done!

My fingers are itching to click bid bid bid bid bid bid!

I LOVE the new set, Starlia.

Thank you Barbara & Candace. It was my first set since I've been back. I have an organic to put up but I just don't want to mess with the camera stuff right now.

"The color combination wasn't as I had expected but it's a lovely set for autumn."

Everyone -- don't say stuff like this. Just say "It's a lovely set for autumn." WHY would you say this? ~~ Sooz

Those are utterly wonderful! Very nice work!

-Kalera

starlia wrote:

Sooz is right. Just say it's nice... unless you truly hate it. I once had a set I truly hated, and I put it up for a penny with the disclaimer that it was ugly and looked like entrails. I just didn't want anyone to feel misled, you know?

Unless you want to tell a nice little story about why the color combination wasn't what you expected.

-Kalera

Dr. Sooz wrote:

Thank you.

It's a nice story. The set wasn't the colors I had envisioned once pulled from the kiln but I'm delighted with the outcome.

Yes, that *is* nice... but not really a story. Just a statement. If you don't want advice, just disregard it. It's a nice set though, and making any statement that may be perceived as negative, or disappointed, may impact the bids it receives, which would be a shame. And though I am sure you don't intend for that statement to imply anything negative about the set, it does come off that way... it sort of implies "I didn't intend to do this but oh well, it's nice anyway". I think Sooz's point, with which I was agreeing, was that unless such a statement adds something to the auction, it's better from a selling perspective to just leave it out. You could simply say that you're delighted with the set and leave it at that, unless you wanted to elaborate and tell the reader

*why* it isn't what you'd envisioned, which would give them a little story to go to go with the set.

Your particular auction is incidental; I am just agreeing with Sooz that *in general*, it's mystifying as to why artists will burden perfectly nice beads with a negative-sounding statement when it's just as easily left out.

-Kalera

starlia wrote:

Precisely. It sounds like the artist is making an apology. It's unnecessary. ~~ Sooz

Okay. I get the BIG hint. I'll not do it again or I'll be flogged with cocoa bats. I promise.