Alright ebay, I WON'T Sell!!

slimfandango

wubbles wrote: »

To be honest I think theres a group of people in eBay who have to justify their job by making these changes.

I think you just hit a very big nail with a very big hammer.

Sellers are fed up with this garbage. Who thinks of them?

Break your back to get top rated. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo you got top rated? Now we'll change everything for everyone so it's really really hard to keep it. And for senseless cr*p too. Send a package to Greece. Obv customs sit on it and poke it. She writes 'where the f is it? Opens case'. Obv I should have bought a delorean and sent it a week before she ordered it. Not my fault. Oh yeah, she gets it...but Ebay APPLY A DEMERIT mark against my account, cos she opened a case asking where it was. And it's not her fault..they kind of force her to. Bunch of sadists. Cannnot waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttt for some company to come along and give these guys some real competition . Sold a few things on Etsy. Setting up my own websites also.

slimfandango

likelyfran wrote: »

Sorry for late return to thread, has been a lot of illness in our house.

Hmm - yes, silver is generally defined as a 'precious metal' so that's what I go on.
I buy quite a lot of jewellery - little bits and bobs - from ebay and have bought lots with sterling thrown in and am often surprised as the seller could sometimes have made quite a bit on the item(s) had they sold them separately. A £30 vintage bracelet for example.
I also got some 9ct gold earrings from Etsy from an English seller for about £2, literally.
But then, I've got a good eye and I'm crafty at spotting things that other people don't.

Yes, I agree on the different venue for selling - a nice shop in London, SW, would do very nicely - INFLATE those prices!!

yes, this 'selling' together thing happens lots.

You want a printer? 100 pounds. Sold.

You want 5 printers, a hammock and a picture of David Hasselhoff playing Jenga with Madonna in a bathful of swarfega? 230 pounds.

People are allergic to excess/stuff they don't want. My house is full of this stuff lol.

Not David Hasselhoff though.

StumpyPumpy

likelyfran wrote: »

Nah - to my mind, costume jewellery doesn't contain any 925, well, if it was a big crochet brooch with a tiny little 925 charm hanging off it or something, I would call that a costume item but a 925/sapphire ring - sorry but to me that's the lower end of 'fine', regardless of the presence of CZ, especially as no-one with half a moral would knowingly try to pass off CZ as 'diamond'

It isn't my definition of fine jewellery, it is the jewellers' definition. No "proper" jeweller would ever sell anything using CZ as "fine". (I use "proper" here to distinguish between the trade of Jeweller and a High Street jewellery retailer)

Silver absolutely counts as a material for costume jewellery - a lot of costume jewellery made around the war and up until the present day is made using silver. The costume equivalent of a "fine" diamond and platinum brooch is silver and rhinestone.

I was once given what I think is a pretty good description of fine jewellery which is simple but brutal: Can you make money out of each of the component parts? That is, if an item was smashed to pieces, could you still sell each part for scrap. Obviously you can with diamonds and gold. You can't with CZ; and silver is only worth 2.5% of the value of 9ct gold so it really isn't worth the effort unless you amass a lot of it.

Obviously, this doesn't mean that costume jewellery can't be valuable or expensive, you just need to look in the nearest Tiffany stockist to see that - and the definition of "fine" is a bit of a moveable feast, but in this instance I think that eBay have got it spot on.

SP

alykatz

likelyfran wrote: »

Exactly, you'll get offered less than peanuts by any established dealer, for small 925 items, so I don't go there.
I look at it more from a woman's eye (perhaps, if I may be so sexist :rotfl:) - sometimes we buy something just because it's pretty or relatively rare, as, say, lots of vintage 70s 925 pieces are, not for their value by weight or whatever.

When you say 'rings' in the last bit, I think you're underestimating the power of 'vintage', and vintage these days, starts at the 1980s generally.

The rule of thumb is anything over 100 years old is antique and anything over 20 years vintage.

Like you i buy a lot of jewellery bits and have spent a long time reading up and learning. I have had quite a few fab bargains where sellers dont know what they have or dont drescribe/photograph properly.
But have to agree with others in that anything with cz in it is only costume jewellery, thats not to say it isnt worth something just its not classed as fine.