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No such thing as “enough” Flap and Flip Flap Cats! The more the merrier! I’d love to see some small flapcats too — new or restock of some of the versions.
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I did not see the email Melody sent at 3:25 pm today telling us about the items now available in the store until 7:00 pm because I was stuck on an interminable call with my boss. I would have bought the bantam in emerald peacock and the curlie in black violet peacock, but of course they are all sold out now. Curse work! (except that if I didn’t work, I wouldn’t have the money to buy any of these, so . . . .)
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LOVE your bantam conga, VS.
There are so many of Melody’s sculpts that I’m in love with, but I feel like the bantam ticks all the boxes. There are some I like more, but personally I feel like it’s the perfect size/detail/design/cost ratio for collecting. Seeing them all lined up like this fills me with joy.
They really are a great size — large enough for creativity, small enough to find room on my shelves.
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This is great news on both counts. Thanks again for everything you’ve done with this collection!
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I’ve bought many items from the Classifieds here over the last couple of years. Every transaction has gone very well. Good people in this community!
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Information about copyright infringements or possible problems should be emailed to Melody’s husband John. He handles those things. It’s OK to post them here as well but they may not be seen.
Thanks, I just sent him the one I saw.
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I’m looking for:
1. Pebble Red Fox (the curled up version, not siting, in the basic red color)
2. Pebble Arctic Fox, preferably mostly white, but I would consider others
3. Bat-winged Flap Cat in black ice
4. Flap Cat in orange & white (either type of wings)
5. Curled Dragon — in black violet peacock, emerald color shift, autumn leaf or blue morphoMagentas-Cat
There is a blanket being offered on Etsy that shows a dragon’s head breathing fire. The dragon is definitely a Melody dragon:
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These cards are so much fun! I wish Melody would turn one or two (or more!) into boxed Christmas cards we could buy on CafePress or Zazzle and send to friends. I know a number of people who would love to receive them.
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Wow, that’s crazy! I mean, they own Paypal; isn’t that enough control? It sounds like another excuse to raise fees.
I have bought an item off Mercari (a Breyer horse, not a Windstone) and found it was easy and the transaction wnt fine, though Mercari sends me WAY too many emails. Maybe I’ll start shopping there more.
No Facebook for me, though – I’m not willing to hand over that much personal information to a company that’s had multiple large-scale privacy breaches and basically done nothing about it, even if the info doesn’t include my checking account number!
I agree about Facebook. No way I’m joining that, even to find Windstone items I want.
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I recieved the same notice from eBay 3 weeks ago. I even tried calling them to let them know that I do not have a checking account (I do but I refuse to use it for anything online) and have to have my funds sent to PayPal. I was told, “You have to open one.” When I said I will not open a checking account just for eBay I was again told ” You have to have one.” I then said, well you are now losing a long term seller over this. And I was told, “Well you need to open one now.”
I also explained that some people need a place to send funds that may not be as easy for an abusive significant other to find. (I’ve done some work with women trying to leave abusive men and their PayPal was the only place they could hide funds that they weren’t as worried about them being found). Once again the response was “Well they will need to open a checking account for eBay.”
Literally I felt like the gal was a broken record player as she would not say anything else nor offer any other option.
And so I pulled my sales ads from eBay and I will not be returning as a seller unless they again allow my proceeds to be deposited into my PayPal account.
I also looked into giving eBay my PayPal routing number but that will not be accepted by eBay either as “PayPal is not an actual bank.”I went looking for an alternative to eBay for selling and kept coming across a site called Bonanza. I had not heard of them, but if you Google for alternatives to eBay they come up.
With Bonanza you open a shop to list your items. The longest part of that was picking a shop name that wasnt already taken.
Here is a link to their FAQ for their sellers page that answers questions about how to set up a shop and what their fees are…
https://www.bonanza.com/site_help/booths_setupBonanza also has a way to import your seller ratings from ebay (and a few other sites) to them. It shows how many stars you have and the number of feedback left for the last 100 pages But does not show the details left by buyers. It will say that the feedback is from another site.
As a seller starting at a new site I find it beneficial to have my 5 star rating show. It gives buyers at least some idea that I have been a good seller in the past.You can also import you listings from a few other sites to them. I did that with one listing and it ended up taking a bit longer as those get reviewed before being put into the viewable listings which can take up to 48 hours.
Hope this helps a bit.
I’ve also found Windstone items on Poshmark and Mercari. Very few listings on each though. I’m not a seller and so far have not bought anything on Mercari, but my only Windstone experience on Poshmark was terrible. The seller did not know how to safely package the items and put multiple items in one box, with only brown paper separating them. Lots of damage. I was too inexperienced a buyer at the time to ask about how the items would be packaged.
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If that is the case that Paypal will be phased out and everyone will be forced to go through ebay’s payment system, I’m going to stop using the site for anything. I’m not giving ebay my bank or credit card information. The one thing I like about Paypal is it doesn’t show that info to the site I’m buying stuff from, so if I can’t go through Paypal that’s it for me!
I hope they back off from that. What a terrible idea. I’m only a buyer so far, and PayPal just works for me. No hassles.
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