toben88
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posted on March 6, 2004 02:39:01 PM new
Ok here is about 1/3 of the jewelry to I have - how should I sell it - all at once or in small lots. I have no idea how to describe it.
Can anyone tell me if the 3rd and 4th pic are worth anything?
OK I listed it --
Click here --->Live Auction
Click here --->Jewelry
[ edited by toben88 on Mar 7, 2004 06:37 PM ]
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kiara
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posted on March 6, 2004 03:58:30 PM new
Ah, the dayglo tag jewelry is back again. 
Looks like just cheap costume jewelry to me, including the cameos. Look for maker's names on it and for sterling silver marks. If so, describe them and take closer pics.
Otherwise, sell it in a lot or several lots and hope for the best. Check out some of the jewelry lot auctions on ebay and you'll find ideas on which way it sells the best. Otherwise perhaps take it to a local shop that may purchase it.
You were given some good advice on what to look for and how to list it here. Why do I get the feeling that you want someone else to do all the work for you?
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&id=501083&thread=500559
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&id=501124&thread=501124
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&id=530722&thread=530722
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 6, 2004 04:02:47 PM new
I'd sell it by the pound.
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kiara
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posted on March 6, 2004 04:11:15 PM new
One seller gathers up piles of this stuff and then when he's ready to sell it he displays it in a jewelry box and always tells the same story about an old man that walked into his shop with it or how he found it in an attic and how it looks like some could be real gold but he's not a jewelry expert. He shows a crappy ebay picture of it just spilling out of the box and he gets pretty good prices compared to some sellers who piece it all out.
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OhMsLucy
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posted on March 6, 2004 04:52:57 PM new
Kiara says, "Why do I get the feeling that you want someone else to do all the work for you?"
It's because you're right, Kiara.
As far as Toben's junk jewelry, Fluffy's idea is the best. Sell it by the pound, to be used for crafts. I sold a 15-pound lot a while back, it brought $31.00. (I don't know what ever possessed me to buy it but it only cost me three bucks so it worked out okay.)
Lucy
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auctionACE
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posted on March 6, 2004 05:35:51 PM new
Say it's Sterling Silver at start it at one cent and charge triple for the shipping. Thst's a popular way to sell inexpensive jewelry.
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wgm
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posted on March 6, 2004 05:38:53 PM new
It must be nice to live in a perfect little world, ace. Perhaps you could stop selling and devote your time to helping those of us less-fortunate and less-perfect than you with some pointers...
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kiara
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posted on March 6, 2004 05:46:04 PM new
Some are so busy monitoring everyone elses auctions for infractions that they wouldn't know a piece of sterling silver jewelry if it jumped out and bit them in the azz. 
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classicrock000
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posted on March 6, 2004 05:48:39 PM new
and dont forget to list it under J.U.N.K.
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toben88
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posted on March 6, 2004 05:59:09 PM new
Ok I am going to sell it in large lots - everything in the pictures posted at the top of this thread are in the first lot. Listing will start tommorow night - look for it in ---> My ebay store
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buyhigh
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posted on March 6, 2004 06:32:11 PM new
Did you check to see if the watches were the jeweled wind up kind? If you have any decent brand name ones you might list these individually especially if they run.
buyhigh
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toben88
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posted on March 6, 2004 06:53:18 PM new
watches are not running as will be stated in auction - they only one that looks like its worth anything is the guess watch
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auctionACE
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posted on March 6, 2004 08:39:12 PM new
Quite a different response to the same thread on OTWA eh?
I was only kidding about the Sterling Silver for a penny and tripling the shipping.
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GeneralFunds
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posted on March 6, 2004 08:39:28 PM new
Just a suggestion but I had some minor success selling a friend's costume jewelry. I would suggest putting all the necklaces together as one lot, earrings in another, etc. If the rhinestone pieces are in good shape with no missing or "flat, dead" stones, you might consider grouping them by type as well. Depends on what you expect for pricing.
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stonecold613
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posted on March 6, 2004 09:45:51 PM new
It must be nice to live in a perfect little world, ace. Perhaps you could stop selling
No there is an oxymoron. You are assuming that the doofus actually sells things. With all the time he spends on the computer and eating his bon bons, and who knows what else he is doing, there is no time for that loser to even have time to sell anything.
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Libra63
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posted on March 7, 2004 02:18:36 AM new
I would do as Generalfoods suggests. Lot the necklaces, then the bracelets, Pins, Tie Clasps & Tacks etc. Start low and hope for the best. I did notice one necklace in Image#9 0230 that is quite popular. I think the color is red and it is plastic. If you have more of that type lot that together and it is thermoset or thermoplastic check it out.
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rarriffle
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posted on March 7, 2004 04:01:39 AM new
i noticed what looks like a locket in one picture...if so, list it alone. lockets sell well and there are many jewelry lovers who just collect lockets.
if you do this, make sure you taka a picture of it opened and give the measurement of the locket piece.
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paloma91
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posted on March 7, 2004 04:22:54 AM new
Why not try to separate it by colors. White/black, Pink, red, green etc and sell it in lots like that
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stopwhining
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posted on March 7, 2004 05:28:09 AM new
why not just donate them to local thrift shop and save the listing fee.
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CBlev65252
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posted on March 7, 2004 06:39:20 AM new
why not just donate them to local thrift shop and save the listing fee.
Ya, and let the workers pick out the good stuff to sell on eBay themselves. Have you noticed that once upon a time you could find some good collectibles at the thrift stores and now you can't? A friend who works at one told me the workers take out the good stuff, buy it themselves and then sell it on eBay. Or, as is the case with the Goodwill, they run their own auctions.
Cheryl
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hammerchick
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posted on March 7, 2004 06:50:47 AM new
If you sell piles or grab bag type lots of costume jewelry separately and one person wins more than one lot, put the lots in separate bags marked accordingly even if then all mailed in the same box. I learned the hard way - lady kept insisting she only got one of the two lots she had paid for when in actuality I had just put it all in the same bag.
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bob9585
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posted on March 7, 2004 08:03:59 AM new
At our local Goodwills, the staff can only buy an item AFTER it has sat on the front counter for a full day.
This is an affluent area so lots of good clothing comes thru, some smaller items, but the " here every day at 8::00 " crowd get most of the best collectibles.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 7, 2004 01:53:41 PM new
bob: That may be what the rule is, but the practice can be entirely different.
Do a Google search on "goodwill santa clara fraud marrs". Note that Andrew Liersch, the former President of Goodwill Industries of Santa Clara, was indicted last year as part of a continuing investigation into a huge fraud scheme that involved sisters who were Goodwill store managers. Liersch had funnelled big bucks into Swiss bank accounts and fled to Guatemala to escape prosecution.
When the scheme was uncovered initially, Goodwill Industries was all over the press proclaiming that no one in management knew about the fraud. Yeah. Right.
Goodwill is rotten from the top down. That is the only reasonable assumption to make.
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CBlev65252
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posted on March 7, 2004 05:12:07 PM new
Fluffy is so right! Where do you think the collectibles come from on their auction sites? They are not things left to sit on the counter for a day. IMO, Goodwill takes out the good stuff and leaves the junk. Every Goodwill store I have visited within a 30 miles radius of me is nothing more than a junk store. Besides smelling bad, the items are haphazzardly thrown onto shelves and hung up where ever they can find a space.
On another note, the local St. Vincent DePaul's store is neat, clean and has very nice items.
Cheryl
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on March 7, 2004 05:25:52 PM new
Goodwill has its "boutique" stores, as well, where some of the supposedly-good stuff is sent. There is one on upscale Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park, where it competes with the Junior League's "The Shop" and the American Cancer Society's Discovery Shop to see who can be the most hoity-toity.
There is a St VdeP in Mountain View and another in San Mateo where you can actually see them doing good works. That's what a charity thrift shop should be.
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toben88
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posted on March 7, 2004 06:38:22 PM new
OK I listed it --
Click here --->Live Auction
Bid it up - then split it up and sell it individually
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OhMsLucy
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posted on March 7, 2004 06:52:25 PM new
I thought it was left in an abandoned house by a derelict tenant. Was the tenant your in-law?
Hmmm...
Lucy
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wgm
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posted on March 7, 2004 07:00:30 PM new
Just an observation - you really should make use of the spellcheck Vendio offers.
Also, how can you ship this First Class for $7.95?
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toben88
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posted on March 7, 2004 07:19:14 PM new
Thanks for the shipping - I usually sell lighter items.
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And I did a spell check. Did I miss anything?
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wgm
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posted on March 7, 2004 07:27:38 PM new
I see you revised earrings - that is what I was referring to. Also, "broaches" would be better than the singular since all the other items are plural, and judging from the photos there are more than one.
About my comment about First Class - I wasn't referring to your price to ship First Class necessarily; I was referring to the weight limit of the USPS to ship it First Class. I see you added $10.00 to the First Class total, but state how heavy this lot is. Anything weighing over a pound cannot go First Class.
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