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😉 Thank you,thank you,thank you :yes:
Every act matters.No matter how small💞
(Wanted......Brimstone Lap)
Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.I’m trying to work on it. Unfortunatly when I try to upload the pictures it isn’t working and you can’t link them in from somewhere else.
I just got a hatching emerald emp and empress in the mail. The emp already had a small chip, so it would not have distressed me too much if he chipped a little more in shipping, but no. Now the empress is missing a horn. Why does it have to be like that?? 🙁 They were packed ok. Not terrible, but def could have been better. There is no real reason not to double box small peices… unless you’re just being lazy that day. There was just a little too much wiggle room going on.
Regarding the pictures in the guide, ebay sized them down to the size they are when they were uploaded. I tried to enlarge them, but it degraded the quality so I left them smaller.
Awesome, Peg! Thanks so much for posting that. I was really impressed-I got a 1950’s ceramic cat TV lamp
[img]http://i.ebayimg.com/13/!BwYvKhw!Wk~$(KGrHqR,!ioEv1+0FrOJBMIrvI)Fow~~_3.JPG[/img]And I mean, shoot, the thing is 60 years old maybe. I was kind of worried about it getting to me in one piece, even coming UPS. The seller sent it FedEx, and put this 2 inch thick FOAM around it! There’s no way it could have gotten damaged. It was nice to see some people care, and put thought into the things they ship.
I`m glad the packing tutorial is on ebay now. Hopefully this will result in more care when it comes to packing in the future… 🙂
Congrats on the cool, old lamp WolfenMachine! 😀
pegasi1978 wrote:Regarding the pictures in the guide, ebay sized them down to the size they are when they were uploaded. I tried to enlarge them, but it degraded the quality so I left them smaller.
Looks great! Thanks for doing that Pegasi!
Excellent tutorial!
I wanted to mention that I feel strongly that the sculpts should be placed inside of some kind of plastic baggie. Sometimes people wrap paper or tissue around a sculpt and the sharp side of crinkled paper can actually chip or remove paint – the baggies definately help keep the piece in great transit condition. Also, I have seen a piece placed into the preformed box directly and if the weather conditions are wrong (extremely hot) the paint can soften and get stuck to the box form! SO, just my 2 cents to add wrapping the sculpture in soft plastic bags. 🙂
Shipping safely costs a fairly decent sum, too. Not everyone is happy about paying for that, I have found 😡
I am so sorry about your broken Emperor, Bodine. What a needless waste. 😡 I confess I don’t know if I would be crying or cursing if I had opened that box. 👿
I just checked out and bookmarked the tutorial; SilverArrow did a great job. It is easy to follow, has good pictures to illustrate a point, and gives explanations as to why something is done. 😀
Poems wrote:Shipping safely costs a fairly decent sum, too. Not everyone is happy about paying for that, I have found 😡
a lot of time it’s the buyer that doesn’t want to pay.. I had 3 or 4 ask for free shipping on eBay this past week.. and they were international.. I’m sorry but it costs more to send there than the piece they are buying sometimes.. and I don’t make enough to offer free international shipping..
it might lose some sails but I’m not ashamed of saying no..
frozendragon wrote:Poems wrote:Shipping safely costs a fairly decent sum, too. Not everyone is happy about paying for that, I have found 😡
a lot of time it’s the buyer that doesn’t want to pay.. I had 3 or 4 ask for free shipping on eBay this past week.. and they were international.. I’m sorry but it costs more to send there than the piece they are buying sometimes.. and I don’t make enough to offer free international shipping..
it might lose some sails but I’m not ashamed of saying no..
Yep – same with me. I sent a Scratcher to the Philippines recently, and it cost $71.25 to ship, PayPal took $10.40 and eBa took $14.31 …….over $90 in fees and that doesn’t cover my time, my packing supplies – well, I don’t think I would want to eat THAT! lol But on the flip side, as a buyer I am more than willing to pay extra to assure me whatever I bought gets to me in one piece. It doesn’t matter if you insure it, your heart breaks when it comes broken! AND, I’ve always somehow felt badly for having to tell them that they pack like crap!
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