Help a girl out: 11 pendants on eBay going cheap!!

Oooh arrrgh. She be right.

That's the story we heard in Cornwall too, but I was too busy having clotted cream and playing in the sand to pay much attention.

We did drive past Frenchman's Creek, for all you duMaurier fans. It's almost inaccessible now even by car, I can imagine it was wild back a hundred years ago.

"If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark -- Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!"

-Su

You've been at the Shag and Puffin again!

-Su

My god, it's like engaging in an exchange of insults with a seventh-grader.

"Yeah? Well, you're ugly, and your mom's fat too!"

Come on, man, something with wit and vigor. I beg you.

I think she was busy moving into a house you could never afford on what repair projects involving glue-chip pay.

This is excellent advice. The only thing I would add is that you can build an eBay following, but it takes time, consistency, and willingness to take a loss for several months.

OTOH that's just business.

Just for the record, advice to the original poster is an official waste of time. She posted once and never came back. We are talking to ourselves. LOL

Becki

Ahhh that's a good point. It also tells a lot about why she's not selling her work for what it's worth... if she was willing to stick around for the good advice, she might start making some money.

Speaking for those of us who mostly lurk, she may be reading the responses, just not replying.

Well, if this is the case, a "thank you" would certainly have been in order! Lurking is no excuse for inconsiderateness. I have been burned many times in exactly the same way Dr. Sooz mentioned. I don't mind sharing and I do it often, but I HATE it when someone asks, "how did you make this?" Then I send 20 minutes of my time explaining and offerning advise. And then I don't get so much as a thank you in return! I am starting to feel a bit jaded now and I don't help as often as I once did. Oh and I'm not picking on you Cindy, just commenting on people who do this sort of thing and how much it annoys me.

Teresa

I have to agree too! I write a bi-weekly column on beads and then I get emails on how and who and why etc..., I take the time to email and give them all the info I can and then not even a Thank you - jeez! Kind of makes you not want to help anyone.

Denise

OK I emailed Amy the following, maybe she got scared off by the Troll and didn't realize that others didn't agree...

Hi, Amy - I just thought it would be nice of you to dr> I have to agree too! I write a bi-weekly column on beads and then I

Well in all fairness if she truly wanted advice, she would have to wade through a lot of crap to find it in here. LMAO. Not everyone has the patience. Plus, the stuff she posted closed the next day. I doubt very much if she came back after that. She wanted to sell her stuff, and her stuff was sold.

Becki

Man, I sure hear that. :( It's so disheartening when someone emails a question (*especially* when they could have found the answers by doing a little Web sleuthing) and I go to the trouble of answering, providing links, etc, and they never even say thank you.

(Or worse yet, act put out because it doesn't sound as easy as they wanted it to.)

You have a point.

I do try to thank people for their responses to my questions. Sometimes, I'll just give a general thank you but sometimes I do reply to each person. (Not just here but all the NGs and mail lists I read.) I forget that not everyone had manners drilled into them as a child .

Whoa -- I don't usually get around to my newsgroups only once or twice a month. I have a few things to contribute...

1)Thanks to the poster who poked me to follow up--it was indeed time!

2)Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions and constructive feedback about my post, my work and how I chose to post it to eBay. Truth is, my goal was accomplished: to clean out the studio. I'm happy people were happy to get deals. Likewise, I'm happy to have learned a great deal -- I don't intend to make a living off of eBay, but now understand that if I want to do anything, I need to do it differently.

3)Thanks to even the rude idiots who posted; at least now I know who to killfile.

4)My apologies for my mistakes! I am a long time reader of the groups, but have been a lurker more than a poster for some time. I meant to put "AD" in the title, but was distracted!

The funny thing is that while the auction did go wrong, the result was that I got a follow-up job and TWO other offers to buy work. =-)

Amy

Hey Amy,

Thanks for replying! And I'm happy to hear that even if those auctions didn't go well, they were the beginning of something else for you!

Speaking for myself and a few others I am sure, I am just floored sometimes by how rude, selfish and inconsiderate some people can be...I think we are becomming a bit sensitive to anything even remotely similar...so it wasn't really you that set this off. The sad thing is that it is a growing trend and not just an occasional thing. Maybe it has to do with the society we live in now where instant gratification is the norm. People are taught that they have the right to nearly anything they want, just ask, and it should be yours. Of course the beadie world isn't the only place I've seen this so I gotta think it is just the way society is these days.

I had someone want to know how to make a goddess bead. I explained that mine are made very intuitively and free form, I rarely make them the same way twice and it really wasn't something I could explain in an email but I did provide a link to a goddess tutorial written by someone else. I explained that this goddess wasn't like mine but that it was a good one to begin with and would help develop some basic skills which would, with practice, allow her to work in a more free form style.. Well, she wrote back and didn't like that goddess, wanted to make ones like mine. I just couldn't understand that kind of thinking. I guess I should just be happy that she wrote back at all and did say thank you, but obviously wasn't really satisfied with my answer. I also know that since nothing was handed to her, she probably won't go far in this medium...I guess that's a good thing in a way.

People just don't seem to understand that there really are no shortcuts, ya gotta do the work!

Ok, I know this has nothing to do with what we've been talking about, I'm just rambling here on this fine sunny sunday morning so just ignore me! :p

Teresa