parkman
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posted on October 30, 2005 02:22:21 PM new
Is it just me or does it irritate anyone else when you sell a $10.00 item and the winner comes back and gives you a long list about how to pack it (good box, bubble wrap, peanuts, etc.)? Now I have over 5000 positives and I do believe I know how to pack. Oh well...guess I should be glad to sell anything these days. Oh well...just wanted to vent so now that I have told all my helpers and friends on vendio I feel better.
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on October 30, 2005 02:27:51 PM new
parkman,
you're not alone. it irritates the h_ll out of me when people tell me how to pack!
maybe this will be therapeutic...my vent this afternoon is rescanning and re-thumbnailing 68 images that if my FORMER webmaster would have said they needed to be a certain size, i could have done so the FIRST time. in the process of re-locating the images, scanning, etc., i have gotten myself into two fights with my hubbie, because i'm so upset about reinventing the wheel, and hurled one phone against the wall when it had the nerve to ring. (it felt great) my husband has wisely fled to the yard.
there, now i'm grinning slightly. 
http://stores.ebay.com/postcards-postcards&refid=store
http://www.vintagepostcards.org
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on October 30, 2005 02:43:29 PM new
while i'm venting, does anyone know how to get rid of the blue outline around my logo? i made the logo clickable but didn't see where to put in a command like border=0 to get rid of the blue.
[ edited by vintagepostcardsdotorg on Oct 30, 2005 04:14 PM ]
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parkman
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posted on October 30, 2005 03:02:41 PM new
Hey Vintage...Now I am grinning too. Thanks!!
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NEGLUS
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posted on October 30, 2005 03:05:40 PM new
I don't know how to take care of the logo problem vintage but I'll add to your woes .. your store link says "store not available" - I think it's wrong.
I figured out what's wromg with your store link - you have an ampersand where you should have a question mark - btween the name of your store and refid.
http://stores.ebay.com/postcards-postcards?refid=store
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http://stores.ebay.com/Moody-Mommys-Marvelous-Postcards?refid=store
[ edited by NEGLUS on Oct 30, 2005 03:14 PM ]
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sparkz
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posted on October 30, 2005 03:21:57 PM new
To get rid of the blue border, take the same telephone you threw against the wall and throw it at your monitor. Works every time!!
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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sthoemke
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posted on October 30, 2005 04:05:46 PM new
What irritates me more is when people who haven't even bidded yet expect you to describe exactly how you will package an item.
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toasted36
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posted on October 30, 2005 04:09:35 PM new
lol vintage ! My hubbie has been known to run for the yard for a few hours too
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hwahwa
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posted on October 30, 2005 04:10:45 PM new
better yet,BURN ALL YOUR POSTCARDS,money is not everything !!!!
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on October 30, 2005 04:21:48 PM new
neglus - ha! i knew it wouldn't work. i deliberately changed the ? to an ampersand as part of an experiment. you are right, receiving the message from eBay that my store "doesn't exist" does nothing for my temper this evening  it should be fixed in this post.
and hwahwa - burn the postcards? hmmmmmm...that sounds like a GREAT idea right about now. (i had an almost irresistable impulse to deliberately crush a few of them, wad them up in little balls and throw them out the back door while i was in the full throes of my fit about rescanning!)
i despise scanning...does anyone here actually like it? (my hubby isn't a reader of this forum and doesn't know that "phase ii" of this postcard biz involves palming all future scanning off on HIM. hehehehehe
hey sparkz - i did once take a monitor that was going to get trashed anyway, and i threw it out of an attic window of my old home. that felt great, too, to watch it hit the ground with a huge thud i highly recommend it.
evul postcard lady
http://stores.ebay.com/postcards-postcards?refid=store
http://www.vintagepostcards.org
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carolinetyler
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posted on October 30, 2005 05:18:33 PM new
Don't you love it when they ask you to double box something AFTER they have paid - thus increasing the shipping cost. I just had one, I told her I would cover the additional shipping cost as a courtesy - it was a very small framed print.
Now, to make matters worse, she's emailed me to tell me she wants to return it, it doesn't fit in her collection and it's not as I described.
I can't even answer her in a civilized manner at this point, I'm going to have to wait at least a day to be courteous.
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 Caroline
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vintagepostcardsdotorg
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posted on October 30, 2005 05:28:32 PM new
caroline,
don't you wish public stoning was still legal?
http://stores.ebay.com/postcards-postcards?refid=store
http://www.vintagepostcards.org
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mcjane
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posted on October 30, 2005 09:43:51 PM new
caroline, tell her for refund follow these instructions exactly: repackage in the two original boxes & then put both in a larger box & send it back, insured.
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LtRay
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posted on October 30, 2005 11:01:17 PM new
Vintage,
Your husband is not lonely in the yard. Mine goes there often too <g> I love it that I married a man intelligent enough to get the heck out of the house when I'm in a rampage, lol.
As for the idiots who tell you how to pack, I've had a few of those too. One was on an elaborate cuckoo clock. I just couldn't help myself.
I took each single part and saran wrapped, then bubble wrapped, then taped the bubble wrap on with about 5 layers of packing tape, put each of those in little boxes, stacked them in a huge box and filled it full of peanuts and rough cut styrofoam. It took me a while, but it felt so good as I chuckled for the next week thinking about her trying to get all that tape open and then vacumning the styrofoam.
Bet she never critized some one's packing again! She even left good feedback.
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sanmar
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posted on October 30, 2005 11:46:09 PM new
Oh, Shixx, I get this often. I have only been buying & selling china for over 10 years & some Yahoo tries to tell me how I should pack china, ya right!
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
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classicrock000
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posted on October 31, 2005 04:25:36 AM new
"To get rid of the blue border, take the same telephone you threw against the wall and throw it at your monitor. Works every time!!"
Sparkz-I dont want to declare you a genius,but I tried that this morning...and ya know it works!!
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Beauty is only a light switch away
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MAH645
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posted on October 31, 2005 10:41:35 AM new
What sends ME running for the yard is after a customer buys items on auction or in the store and pays for them one by one making you think that is all they are going to buy,then e-mails you they want them boxed together with combined shipping rate. Meanwhile Hubby has it ready to go. The last one that did that sent me and the cat to the yard,we hid under my car until it was safe.
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Two men sit behind bars,one sees mud the other sees stars.
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parkman
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posted on November 2, 2005 05:00:20 PM new
Okay..I have to say something else about this...the person who bought this item is from Canada. I sold another item to someone in Canada a few weeks ago..same deal about telling me how to pack it. I packed carefully and on Oct 22 received an email stating item received..please leave feedback..Thanks. (I didn't leave feedback because she had not left me any). However..tonight I get an email from her asking where her item is and stating she had not received it and when did I mail it. I know there are some great people in Canada that buy and are nice but seems like everytime I sell to Canada I have a problem. Is it just me and I apologize to the nice people in Canada?
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bizzycrocheting
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posted on November 2, 2005 05:03:42 PM new
Parkman -- I sometimes get this. I write back and tell them "not only did you receive it, but you wrote to me on such-and-such a date to tell me that you received it."
Diane
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toasted36
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posted on November 2, 2005 05:08:11 PM new
I'd just send her a copy of her e-mail saying she received it.I would think that would be proof enough for e-bay or paypal.Its not just Canadians that do it.I've had 3 or 4 USA buyers do it over the three years.We just have to hope the feedback system catches up with them and warn other sellers to look out for possible trouble.Some people can just be a real PITA.
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