It could be the browser you're using. I use Netscape...gonna look at it with IE and see...hm, no, that's not it either....they both work for me. Unless it's your version of your browser? Do you have the latest? Sometimes that can cause problems, too. Other than that...i dunno.
I ginally did get to see them. I had to use "Show picture". Even then it took a while - and I'm on broadband.
That's what I had to do also - I'm on DSL.
Use tables - that's how I do it. Here's a sample of my HTML - remove the spaces in the tags for it to work.
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< /td > < /tr > < /table > < /center >I have no clue why, but sometimes I can't see any pics on eBay at all. I use a plain old modem, but it happens occasionally. I think the traffic is just too high or something. I log off and try later. But it is frustrating.
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I'm sorry you can't see the pictures in the posting. Unfortunately I am too much of a newbie to be able to tell you why.
The text and picture included in the ad are all available here:
- Sandy
I think most of what I have to say has been covered, and even answered, but here goes anyway.
I am not fond of the yellow/amber/orange range, or of white either, but that pearlescence is absolutely wonderful.
The orange text you already said you didn't intend.
Regarding the price/postage things:
$4 is a pile to pay on postage. I always include the postage when I "see' the price, but $4 still will make me uncomfortable. Adding some of the postage to the price would help, and also making insurance or whatever an option is a good idea. Personally, I often pick up my mail from my post office box after hours and sometime don't want to have to sign for it, especially when it's a lowish cost (eg for a single bead). I also think it's odd that you list a price for "within USA" -- what about Canada?
What actually bothers me most is that the opening is not listed. I really don't give a rat's ass if the opening bid is listed as $10, if I can't buy it at that price. To me reserves are sneaky and dishonest. Don't ask me to make a bid that you can turn around and say, Neener, neener, not enough.
Tina
If my husband were home I would ask him! I had the same problem when I changed to an HTML auction listing, and the DH fixed it (he's a web programmer, whatever the problem was, it was obvious to him and apparently easy to fix).
It'll probably cost you less than two dollars in a bubble mailer. It costs me about a dollar US to send a bubble mailer with a bead in it to Canada, first class with delivery confirmation. I usually tack on .50 to my shipping to pay for packing materials (organza, ribbon, envelope), and insurance is optional at $1.30. Most people don't choose insurance, but I've never had a bead lost yet.
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I totally wasn't sure what to do about the opening bids and reserve bids. When I tried to make them the same I got a message that they couldn't be the same. And then a friend said that I should let it start lower. I honestly didn't know what to do about this. I know that in "real life" auctions (horse sales for example) the bidding always starts below the reserve and then works around it but obviously e-Bay is different. I really was at a loss as to what to do about this. Your comments are making it obvious that I shouldn't ever do that again.
As far as the shipping "within USA" I can't recall if that was a default setting but I put in my description text the following: "Shipping is $4.00 US to Canada and the United States."
My lesson on this issue has been to include shipping as a consideration when I determine the offering price.
And with all due respect, I am sorry you don't like reserves but I am not Corina who can depend on her 99 cent starting price end up in the hundreds of dollars. I can't afford to not have a reserve price. I will endeavour to ensure my starting price is my realistic minimum that includes shipping from now on but I don't know how well that will serve me.
Thank you for your comments though. They are appreciated.
- Sandy
Some people don't mind reserves, but most people I know dislike them. I like an opening bid to reflect the lowest acceptable price. Just tell it like it is. And I agree that a .99 opening bid is not for most glass artists. (The "neener, neener" bit is just my inner child peaking through).
I hope your auction goes well, and will be watching for turq and green. And hope to get lucky.
Tina
Reserves are tricky critters. For one thing, you don't want the starting price so high that no one will put a bid in. And the higher your starting bid is, the higher the fees are, which reduces your profits. But lots of ppl are turned off by reserves. So it's a kind of catch 22 deal. I haven't had much success with reserves, so I don't usually use them. I also list at JustBeads where you aren't as likely to get lost in the crowd, plus it's free to relist until the item is sold. That kind of frees me up to start with higher prices to begin with - higher meaning what I really need to make on the item - rather than a low, ridiculous, beginning bid with a reserve.
As a buyer, I usually avoid reserve auctions because I feel it's too frustrating.
I like Corina's beads, but I don't understand why there is such a beading frenzy over them. Lots of other glass artists have equal or better things up and hardly get a glance. IF I had the $$$ to invest in designer beads right now, I'd certainly rather win 5 auctions by less know artists that one high priced one. IMHO of course!
The bead is STUNNING! I like the surface the bead sits on. Great photo
I too, don't like the orange printing. I understand the idea behin
reserve pricing but as a buyer I usually avoid such auctions
If the item price is within my expectations then FREE shipping is
THRILLER for me. I do NOT like sellers who profit from shipping...no saying you were trying that....but, I would have assumed such had I no read your post
Silly me: I have not bought any beads, yet, so I very new to this lovel
craft. Any chance, for us newbies, beaders could mention size in inches too? I hope this isn't a cardinal sin....I just haven't learned how t measure any other way
I, too, have learned a lot from the feedback here. I wish you GREA
success with your beads on eBay
Beck
- Kitty Fluf
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Hi Becky,
For a quick reference, an inch is about 25mm ----- 6mm is 1/4", etc. Since most beads other than seed beads are measured in mm (eg, 6mm round druks, 10mm round jasper, 9 x 7mm glass ovals), metric measurement are probably easiest for most bead purcgasers.
What work do you like best to do?
Tina
"Kitty Fluff" wrote
Sandy -- time to stop apologizing for "mistakes" you think you made on your first-ever Ebay auction. So what. Too much time spent on this.
Kisses to you, and hope you are spending some time getting the next set ready to go up for sale!
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows
Hi, Becky (from another Becki). I have a wooden ruler with inches on one side and mm on the other, LOL. Just like in grade school (which was over a thousand years ago, it seems). Then I can look up the sizes of the beads.
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows
Tape a ruler to your monitor -- one with both metric and "English" measurements. A "plus" would be one that includes circles in common bead sizes.... Ring's & Things has a neat little freebie one they pass out at their trade shows-- 6", 15cm, 2-8mm circles, plus definitions of "gross", "mass" and "kilo". And their URL....
I think there is something similar in the Fire Mountain main catalog-- a whole page of different bead-related measurements. And in "The Best Little Beading Book", by Wendy Simpson. Kaytee "Simplexities" on
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