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Why is improving one's business considered "greedy?" I've never understood that at all. Businesses are in business to make money. Period. That's it. If a factory in the USA has workers that feel they "deserve" $20 an hour + benefits to push a button, then I don't blame the business for moving...

I've never found ivory around here. When I was in Alaska, every other yard sale had a piece or two of ivory.

That sure made delphite sound awesome. In my experience it doesn't sell for that much or that cheap around here. It brings just enough money that you can't make any cash selling it online. And it is seen so infrequently, too.

That was true before the "recession" hahaha. Expect to see lots of people sitting on their porch in the big city, too. They didn't have jobs before, so don't expect them to have jobs now. I see no economy issues in my neck of the woods. I do speak to people from time to time who are complaining...

It is like that with the USPS. Both parties have to be willing to participate. If a seller thinks I'm going to mess around waiting in line at the USPS dealing with insurance over $50, they're a funny seller. Signature is what is useful. I would be an angry seller if they lost 1%. *knock on...

Take my word for it, if you accept payments by PayPal, then you abide by their terms. The item can be returned. Period. All the buyer has to do is file a SNAD claim and they will win. Odds are ebay will even pay for the return shipping.

Borden-Stock.... Thanks for coming back to answer my questions. I'm always trying to learn what makes a collector collect what they collect. :) Spray paint can collection, like many other forms of collecting, is something completely new and foreign to me and I appreciate you helping me...

I was using the 4,500 number as a reference for people in clubs with the potential to pay $25/year for their hobby. There are gobs more people in our area that detect. I've personally met a few dozen and told them about our club and they have never showed up. There are even other locals on this...

NRA.... Now that's a bad example. They have 4.3 million members. So with over 1 billion dollars coming in a year just from membership, of course they can have full time employees and real influence. Let's be EXTREMELY optimistic here and say you could get 10,000 members to pay $25. That's...

Where is famous turtle when you need him? He would keyword the hell out of this bad boy!

Yeah, a lot of sellers I think try to see what they can get away with. Since I was buying the items as collectibles, the condition mattered to me. A lot would immediately fire back with offering $10 off the item. Some immediately refunded and said to keep it. Others treated me like a criminal...

I had to stop buying because I was returning too much. It became too much work. It's honestly amazing how many sellers with 5000+ fb list an item as new / factory sealed and send you a used item missing parts. Or when you spend $150 on an item in sealed / mint condition and they just slap a...

I guess I see the returns accepted differently than you do, IP. I've never accepted returns due to buyer's remorse. I put in my terms that returns are accepted if the item is misrepresented. Plus, over the years I've bought thousands of items off of ebay. The sellers with NO RETURNS listed all...

I accept returns because one, due to ebays silly algorithms it will improve your search results. And two, I've not purchased from a seller on many occasions because they didn't offer returns and purchased from a competitor for more money. But this is also what I do full time, so I don't mind...

I don't watch the show, but a few times in the past while working for auction houses I've had the fortune of picking through a hoarders house to prepare the good stuff for auction. Talk about a blast. I wish I had a list of hoarders and could offer their family money for the contents of some of...

I use the same test for the women I date.

My simple test is this... Is it marked with any of the recognized markings for sterling/silver? Does it look hand made by a skilled craftsman? If the answer is yes to either of those, I will buy. If not, then I assume it's not silver and will only buy based upon what I think the desirability...

Listen to Iron Patch and jerseyben. They know what they are talking about here. There are some basic rules you need to learn about ebay. Just consider this a lesson and remember that it's the best kind of education that you can get and it didn't cost much. Be thankful it wasn't a $400...

Seriously? They are wheat cents.... You are concerned about "profit" with your wheats? Just throw them in an jar. Write on a piece of paper how many you put in. When you had 5 more, update the sheet of paper. There is no profit in wheats. Even if you found 100 per box, that's still just $1...

Your search would be much easier if you stopped at a detector shop before Thursday and upgrade. :) An Ace 250 in tall grass? Might as well just throw a random rock behind your head and go dig where it lands. You would get the same results as you have the past 2 hunts there.