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KaytanaPhoenix

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  • in reply to: SPark's 2014-2015 PYOs #922649
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      Oh my goodness! That Phoenix is stunning!! 🙂 Very nice work!

      in reply to: More Mini Keeper Colours? #922648
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        I’m enjoying them in production colors as well, soon as I have the funds, I absolutely intend to buy a Morpho MK, it rapidly became one of my favorite dragons… and a Peacock would also look absolutely lovely in my collection (I revert back to the GB batch where there was one that looked similar to the peacock color and I LOVED it!)… and I’m thinking an Opoponox would be to die for! – (Absolute side note, the Opopnox hatcher that was on ebay was adorable! – I hope to see that color go production on more pieces!)

        But this is all my opinion 🙂

        in reply to: Ebay set Global Shipping when I originally specified it OFF #922610
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          I’ll check closer next sale I get for that shipping ability! My bf /finally/ got a label printed! So this whole thing is just an obnoxious and ill timed learning curve…
          I think I’m just going to continue USA only on ebay til it releases funds right away (which has always been my plan, til Ebay changed my setting under my nose), then I’ll look over the options more closely, but I fear the same kind of thing happening like you mentioned… sadly I just don’t put much past people, especially on ebay

          I was just reading about this horror story…what a nightmare. The one safe way around that hassle is to only offer Priority International to Canadian buyers (I can’t speak for other countries of course). If their only option is USPS Priority, which allows for tracking and insurance, this would never happen to you again. Even if your parcel is actually lost, you would still never be out of pocket again because of the insurance. Now, speaking from experience, if I decide I want to risk First Class mail option, meaning the value and availability of the sculpt is such that I’m okay risking the slight possibility of it getting lost, I’ll ask the seller to send it First Class, and I always appreciate the opportunity! BUT I assume responsibility over what happens to it. If the WS is expensive and OOAK, then Priority plus insurance, is the way to go. You could still give a Canadian buyer the option…First Class: Use at your own risk and you as the seller do not assume responsibility for lost parcels. Or you could make it mandatory that the parcel be sent with tracking and insurance to cover you, in the event of a loss. The Canadian buyer could be made to put that he/she assumes all responsibility in the payment comments, and ebay purchase comments – this would cover you in the event of a dispute. And just an aside: I can tell you, that even the jump in cost from First Class to Priority is FAR better than the cost of the Global Shipping Program. Please don’t give up on shipping to Canada 🙂

          That is actually how I ship to Canada when not on ebay.. I will ship First Class, but I’m not responsible for what happens to it once it leaves my hands, but I prefer shipping Priority if I can. But w ebay, it becomes a new ballgame and ebay definitely has rules built in that make it riskier for sellers (their overcompensation for when it was super risky for buyers) so I just wanna be sure I know how it can back fire before setting it up…
          Otherwise I don’t mind shipping international, I offer it on my ads posted here.

          in reply to: Ebay set Global Shipping when I originally specified it OFF #922596
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            I’ll check closer next sale I get for that shipping ability! My bf /finally/ got a label printed! So this whole thing is just an obnoxious and ill timed learning curve…
            I think I’m just going to continue USA only on ebay til it releases funds right away (which has always been my plan, til Ebay changed my setting under my nose), then I’ll look over the options more closely, but I fear the same kind of thing happening like you mentioned… sadly I just don’t put much past people, especially on ebay

            in reply to: PYO Unicorn Horns #922567
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              Isn’t it the same horn? Or do the ‘polished silver’ get a varnish coating?

              in reply to: Ebay set Global Shipping when I originally specified it OFF #922549
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                I can’t win… heh… so I decided it was less hassle to say screw it, and ship the darn thing than try to cancel the order, right? … except! … my boyfriend can’t get the shipping label to print (He prints it from work cause we don’t have a printer.. nor really a place to put a printer, lol) … and hasn’t been able to get it to print for days now *sigh*

                in reply to: Gothic Unicorns #922542
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                  A random search looking up a color idea, brought me to stumble into a daily dose of cute!


                  It’s called a Pudú, a South American Miniature Deer! This is a baby, and omgsh! So cute!
                  I realize it would probably only be good for a test paint (unfortunately) due to the spots, but I think a gothic would look gorgeous like this! Also had the thought of: moose; elk; white tail deer… I especially like the idea of red deer, they sometimes remind me of the color of elk, but don’t have a giant white butt ;p haha and the ones that are more red are gorgeous too!

                  in reply to: Gothic Unicorns #922538
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                    A very random question…

                    Are there any plans to try and get Gothic Unicorns back into the store? I adore these guys, and I’m wishing like crazy that I had extra funds to at least try to make a bid on the “Brown 2” gothic on ebay right now.. but drooling over him got me wondering about production/limited production ones?

                    I would go absolutely gaga over coloration’s similar to these





                    and I especially like the green gems in the collar… (I just love how green contrasts with brown and gold)

                    I could do a batch in another color, like buckskin pinto, or something.

                    I personally like the more solid colors like in these photos
                    (not patches/pinto) but I would be curious to see what you come up with 🙂

                    in reply to: Happy Birthday, KaytanaPhoenix! #922505
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                      Aww! Thank You everyone 🙂 I had a really nice day, I spent my b’day with my boyfriend and my family 🙂 and spent today playing my new PS4 😀 (My bf is awesome!)

                      in reply to: The "I got my swap!" thread #922412
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                        I’m enjoying seeing the swap photos! These have turned out great so far! 🙂

                        in reply to: Ebay set Global Shipping when I originally specified it OFF #922410
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                          Well, if I learned anything from this.. it’s people *hate* GSP, I had no idea they were so horrible on buyers… and to think, one of the items I am dealing with is a $12 shirt shipped to Norway o.o I can only imagine what that person is *really* paying for that shirt…

                          I think there is a place where you can see what the buyer ACTUALLY got charged, I think it’s hiding somewhere on the order details page. A long time ago I sold a $12 wallet via global shipping. $12 wallet + $3 shipping to Kentucky hub + ebay charged $36 (!) for the “global shipping”. $36!!!!

                          I started selling on ebay about three years ago. Do you have any little things laying around the house that you could list for $1? When I started selling, I grabbed a handful of Garbage Pail Kids cards from my junk drawer and listed 50 of them for a buck each. After ebay took their cut, and paypal took theirs plus that 30 cent transaction fee, I didn’t make any money at all, but it jump started my reputation as a seller. Do you think a few quick sales like that would help boost your sales number quickly?

                          Hmm.. I have some old Magic the gathering cards I could probably do that with… didn’t think to use the worthless ones in $1 bulk sets as a sales booster to fill in the numbers.
                          Thanks for the idea!

                          I’ll also see if I can find where the buyers total cost is… darn website can be impossible to find things, I usually just Google what I’m looking for on their page and let it find the darn thing! Lol

                          in reply to: Ebay set Global Shipping when I originally specified it OFF #922403
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                            Well, if I learned anything from this.. it’s people *hate* GSP, I had no idea they were so horrible on buyers… and to think, one of the items I am dealing with is a $12 shirt shipped to Norway o.o I can only imagine what that person is *really* paying for that shirt…

                            I never got around to calling today.. I should have, but with a headache, I just wasn’t up to the.. uh.. heh.. headache… I looked at where the package is going, and the one I might cancel is going to Mexico, so depending on how I am feeling tomorrow, I might just suck it up and print the shipping label and be done with the whole thing… though I will be calling at some point about the whole situation, as I know for sure it wasn’t me who clicked that one dumb setting, and it had to have happened recently, cause those listings had been up for a while, and then 2 sold within a couple days of each other…

                            I seriously have never been able to get the “releasing X amount of funds for shipping” … my dad even spent an hour on it one day, trying to figure out how to make it work when I couldn’t figure it out, and we just gave up.

                            I do find it weird, if I read things right, when an item is shipped with GSP, once it reaches their hub, I am no longer held responsible for lost/damaged items, because they look at things at the hub to assure it’s all ok (To make sure they’re not held liable for something I did, and I’m not held liable for something they did – Also, usually where Windstones sent GSP go all wrong, from stories I have heard, as they don’t always double box, even though it was originally shipped that way) – So if they check things out, why do I still have to wait for it to deliver and/or 20 days to get my money? o.0

                            Unfortunately, until/if I find something new to use, Ebay is the only place I know of where I can do auction style… unless it’s a Windstone taking offers here… and some items are just oddball things that need a broader audience to get a nibble..

                            Oh, and Kim, to what you mentioned, quite honestly, if I did cancel this order, what difference is 10 vs 9, when the minimum is 25, it’s going to take me a good long while to reach 25 with or without this 1… but the money invested into this 1 before I get it back on the 17th of Dec, does make a difference. I’m on a much tighter than normal budget right now… and hence why tomorrow there will be Classifieds ads posted… I’m to the point of even debating selling the blank PYO Kitsune I have instead of painting it and selling it… Long term Vs Short term.. my issues lie in the short term…

                            in reply to: Future pebble sculpts? #922402
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                              How about goofy Akita?

                               photo IMG_0724_zps96c81ed3.jpg

                              what… How can he bend like that???

                              I’m not quite sure. She was chasing her tail. She’s pretty flexible for an 85 lb dog.

                              I want a pebble of this! *giggle* XD Awesome photo! lol.. I have some funny photos of my dogs laying in odd ways, but none quite this drastic in angle, lol!

                              KaytanaPhoenix
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                                Aww! I adore the Kitsune! 😀 You did a great job on the fur! 🙂 and the colors remind me of the Kitsune I’m planning on painting XD I just wanted to finish another piece in the same color scheme, I’ll show you photo’s when I get them 🙂

                                I’m so excited to see more from you! You’re catching on really well 🙂

                                in reply to: Ebay set Global Shipping when I originally specified it OFF #922344
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                                  Im not exactly sure how things work when you live in the US and use ebay… but I have bought items from ebay, from US sellers, who DONT use the Global Shipping program. I personally HATE Global shipping… it adds on Import fees etc… which more often than not, if it had been just sent normally to me, I wouldnt have even been charged customs fees anyways… yet because of this I had to pay it. I therefor try very hard to avoid sellers who use global shipping. Again, Im not sure how it works on your end, but cant you ship outside the US without using Global Shipping? And why does ebay hold your funds? I used to sell on ebay years ago, and never had to wait like that… but again, that was years back so Im guessing things have changed.

                                  Ebay sent me a survey a few weeks back on a transaction I did with a seller who used global shipping, and I had nothing good to say about it. The fees were unwanted, and the tracking numbers didnt work.

                                  Etsy is a place were I see cool things for sale, not sure how that works to sell on that site. I have bought from there though.

                                  Yes, there is a way to set Ebay to ship internationally without the Global Shipping Service… and honestly I would trust shipping it myself 120% more! People use it because people think international shipping is hard, and Ebay makes it “easy”
                                  The reason I don’t ship internationally at all through Ebay is because until I hit 25 (I think it is) sales (I’m at 10, including the one I’m going to try to cancel), they hold ALL of my money (Including the shipping, though there is *supposed* to be a way for up to $15 released right away for shipping, never got it to work though) until 3 days AFTER a tracking # shows as delivered, or something like 20 days from payment if there is no tracking number, or USPS is dumb and doesn’t scan it as delivered.
                                  This is all to make buyers feel more “secure”, if you screw someone over, the money is still there to refund with, and they figure after XX amount of sales you actually aren’t trying to screw anyone over and finally release funds immediately, but I’m nowhere near that number because I don’t sell *everything* on Ebay (I avoid it when possible, anymore)
                                  On top of that, even when shipping with Actual Cost, there is still money coming out of my pocket, because Ebay takes 10% of ALL the money paid, including shipping, and Paypal takes their 3% of ALL the money… This doesn’t seem like a whole lot right off… but lets think about the fee’s on a $200 Windstone shipped internationally for $40 – The seller is now out $31 of what the buyer paid .. Also, hence why the Global Shipping Program is popular, sellers only pay to get it to the shipping Hub in Kentucky… less fee’s for sellers.
                                  And the way the fee’s work, is they tally all those up into an Ebay invoice that’s billed monthly, instead of just taking it straight from the original funds.
                                  So now, I not only have to pay for shipping, but I will also have the ebay fee’s to pay, and likely all of that BEFORE I get the money from Ebay because they’re running me through a ringer, that I quite specifically opted OUT of… and all of this, riiiiight perfectly among the Holidays, when I am trying my level best to make money to spend on Christmas, and instead, I’m going to be worse off… Hence why I am going to call tomorrow and do my absolute level best to get one order cancelled, because the money I would be bringing in *eventually* isn’t worth the cost of it *now* – So now I’m going to be looking into selling Windstones, I didn’t originally want to sell, just to make up for this, so finely put, clusterf***…

                                  Needless to say, I’m beyond frustrated… which is so helpful when I am also sick. – This week has sucked.

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