posted on February 26, 2006 04:55:37 AM new
That's a really nice site--i'm gonna contact who designed it and get a quote. thanks!
enjoy the day!
Billyne
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got"
--Jackie "Moms" Mabley (1894-1975)
posted on February 26, 2006 05:51:56 PM new
Beth, try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, you might have to try a different browser.
This site offers four "FREE" gemstone jewelry selections at a time. One scrolls off every five minutes, so essentially you can have as much as twenty minutes to make up your mind to purchase. Shipping/handling, of course, is not "FREE".
posted on February 27, 2006 06:21:26 AM newit looks plain vanilla and "out of the box" to me.
I don't much care about design. Pretty pages don't generate cash. I think sometimes people get too wrapped up in the details and forget their mission is to make money.
Look at what the SilverJewelryClub people have done to build traffic: their page changes every 5 minutes, so if you like this jewelry, you will check back frequently. They also host reciprocal links to boost their Google ranking.
posted on February 27, 2006 07:14:51 AM new
It's a neat idea. I can see people going back again and again being afraid they'd miss something. However, anyone with any sense of what it costs to ship a tiny pair of earrings, knows that this stuff is really not "free". Great marketing idea, though.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on February 27, 2006 08:05:31 AM new
Unique idea on the website. I couldn't see what they charged for s/h - does it say somewhere?
Fluff, what's the deal with their auctions? They start at $.99 and ship any number of items for $2.00 flat shipping! How do they do that?
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posted on February 27, 2006 08:45:41 AM new
It's $5.99 for shipping on the website, and no, they do not combine. (If I used smileyfaces I would put a wry one here.)
I'll be able to tell you more after I receive the jewelry I ordered. (You learn so much by buying from your competitors.) I suspect that it is very light and flimsy.
I figure they pay 45 cents or slightly less for PayPal, maybe 20 cents on the gift boxes.
posted on February 27, 2006 09:03:23 AM new
It's a nice looking informational website. It looks nice, but if they have anything actually FOR SALE, it sure is hard to find.
If you actually have to login just to browse, then I'd have to vote this the "worst. website. ever."
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posted on February 27, 2006 10:00:11 AM new
While his feedback rating is not bad at 99.4%, in reading the negs and neutrals left I don't think I'd want to do business with them. The negatives the seller left would turn me off, as well. Seems there has been a long string of buyers returning items and the seller never receiving them, so no refund. I can see this happening a couple of times, but it looks like this seller has had it happen consistently. Also, a large number of bidders who never have received the item and the seller saying they never paid. Too many for my comfort level. Also too many complaints about how long it took to get the product. A lot of these comments are from people who have been this seller's steady customers from the sound of the feedback. A lot of these complaints were made around Christmas time so, that could explain some of them.
Fluffy
You may be right about the quality. There are quite a few complaints about that.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on March 3, 2006 05:43:34 PM new
I received my "FREE" jewelry today.
My first thought was, "I paid $5.99 for THIS?!?"
Needless to say, I won't be ordering again. But for the technical details:
Item arrived in a #000 bubble mailer (about 12 cents if you buy by the case at PaperMart). First Class postage of 52 cents by Endicia. NO DELIVERY CONFIRMATION.
Earrings arrived loose in two tiny ziploc bags, perhaps 1 cent or less. There's a tiny organza gift pouch, maybe 2 cents' worth.
The earrings themselves? I think the stones are synthetic, though advertised as genuine. The earrings do not match. One is 1mm wider than the other. I expect they pay 50 cents or so for these.
I'm not going to be emulating their business model any time soon.
posted on March 3, 2006 06:07:13 PM new
There were complaints in their feedback about diamond earrings where the diamonds don't match. It doesn't surprise me that the quality stinks. Free? Doesn't sound like it to me. What a racket.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
