AD Some of my Orphans on Ebay

Lovely stuff but time to trot out my patented Su's Reasons Why It's Not Hard To Ship Overseas:

Dear Jim;

Remember when we were kids and our moms told us to eat up because there were people in Europe who were starving and would happily wolf down our rejected macaroni and cheese or liver and onions? Well, those poor people have grown up, and thanks to the thousands of envelopes of food craftily sent overseas by school-aged children who knew that starving children in Europe would be glad to eat these interesting food groups, these people now have grown up and have disposable income. And they'd LOVE to stuff that money into an envelope, or even send it via PayPal in US dollars to your waiting hand. Yes! And all you'd have to do in exchange is permit these now well-fed folk the pleasure of being able to fondle your focals, roll in your boro and in general just have a good old beady time. What do you have to do? Just say Global Priority! Yes, amen! Say it again, Global Priority! Or even Air Mail. Why here on r.c.b. we have conducted our very own version of the Airmail Shuffle, using beads provided by some of the finest bead artists around, and each and every time they sent out a package marked Air Mail or Global Priority, that package arrived at its destination in the hands of someone in Europe!

Can we say halleujah and YES! I'll ship internationally!!!

Thank you for your support.

-Su

Oh, yeah. Nice beads, wish I could bid on them.....

You can! Id be happy to fondle them briefly then ship them on to the UK. :-) Just for you, cause you didnt get all testy over the bead licking episode. Diana

Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but while he requires payment in ten days, Kandice requires payment in seven. He requires contact within two day, Kandice within three.

Not picking on you, Kandice... It's just that you were "handy" because I had your auctions up looking at the wording that the other fellow appropriated. LOL!

I'm just saying, I don't think his auction rules are so horrid. Maybe I'm missing something???

Tink Check here for available work:

LOL. And would they arrive wrapped in maple leaf packaging?

Thanks for the offer. I may have all my eBay wins sent to you if you want to have a quick feel.

-Su

I didn't say anything about requesting payment in 10 days. I don't know where you saw that in my post.

to follow-up to my own post... i don't normally bid on auctions that require that I contact you at all. As a seller, i feel that it's MY obligation to contact you!

As a buyer, I feel it is the seller's obligation to contact me.

As both a buyer and a seller, my faves are : I win, you have listed your paypal addy in the ad, i whisk the money to you, you send my item, we exchange feedback , all is well.

Again, I don't do well with silly rules, part of why I stopped being a lawyer.

Those silly ones i didn't agree with got me fined a few times ... the seller ones, if I don't agree, I don't bid. And that makes everyone happy.

Oh Su, I love your "Reasons"!!!! And yes, I was one of those kids who would've happily bicycled my eggplant parmesan to the post office for Global Priority Mail, given the chance.

KarenK

LOL I dont know that you can trust me that much.. One, yes....but multiple wins, I'd try to count on you forgetting a bead or two. It might come in a maple leaf... or something similar. :-) Diana

... and I would have been the kid waiting to ambush you along the way, eat your eggplant parmesan, and subsitute my cream of carrot soup with onions.

-Kalera

I don't require contact in three - I request it. I've never ever left negative feedback on someone who hasn't made contact in three days - I usually just send a reminder to them. I don't threaten negative feedback in my descriptions, either. I think it's all in the wording. And I have been really leniant on the payment thing - especially if the buyer emails me to explain. Tactful, respectful wording makes all the difference in the world. If the buyer feels you're talking down to them, they won't bid. :) You can pick on me Tink, I don't mind! :)

Well, by contact, I personally mean any kind of contact at all - including payment. Of course I invoice the buyers right after the auction ends, and if they send any email or payment, that's contact. My request is that people who are mailing payment or need extra time to pay send me an email letting me know. It's not a requirement, though. Just clarifying my last post while responding to this one. I agree that there's some wording in Jim's auctions that is a turn off. :)

you may request it...his "request" is not so nice, shall we say???

Very uncaring. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Jim Moore is a respected member of this newsgroup. He might not post often, but he is a member. And didn't your mother ever teach you... "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all?"

Is this the way you would treat any of the _other lampworkers_ in this newsgroup if you didn't care for their selling policy? Apparently so... you keep going on and on about the wording in his listings in more and more posts, showing just what a bitch you really are.

Go on the rag in some other newsgroup.

Linda

Wow, I think you're the only one here who resorted to name-calling.

I think people have been a bit blunt, but not cruel, and no one has called Jim any names. I can understand if his feelings are hurt, but he's a grown man; he can speak for himself, and usually does, if I recall.

-Kalera

I totally agree. :) Same with the line about things not cutting it. I understand the need for sellers to try and protect themselves, but talking down to customers isn't going to win business.

Wow. Okay, first of all, I don't think this is called for. Second - there are no members - this is a public newsgroup where tons of people post and even more people lurk. Anyone can post - anyone at all. There are no prerequisites - everyone can post, whether respected or not. I agree that Jim is respected, but I don't think that was in question. Some of us were taken aback by the auction descriptions, and were helping him out by telling him so. He can benefit from taking some advice, or not. Maybe there could have been nicer ways to say things, but calling someone a bitch is even more uncalled for than criticising someone's auction style, IMO. Linda - I am not trying to start a flame war, here - I am just really suprised by this post. Is there something I am missing?

Huh? What IS uncaring is leaving "appropriate" feedback after 2 days. IMHO, which is one of the reasons I wouldn 't bid on his auctions. I cannot possibly fathom what appropriate feedback would be after 2 days.

He wants people to buy his beads and writes such things as :" (I was out of town for the weekend or I was away from my computer just doesn't cut it) ". You might want to think about who is and is not caring.

I don't know who you are, or what makes you think you can call me names.

And ya know what? I'll comment on anyone's auctions as appropriate.

He is inconsistent in at least one policy, haven't read all of his auctions.

And your response to me speaks much more about you, then it does about me. Whoever you are.