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I am just right now into making winter accessories. In Oz right now, it is winter. It is winter. And our thoughts turn to warm and fuzzies while our fingers, necks, and shoulders shiver with desire for warm cuddlies.

All new items are detailed in My Gallery Scarf Necklets 2010

Cheap Jewelry Beads and Supplies

Don't Scoff - Save!

Before I got into this jewelry making supplies business, I was a much more unbiased person. I was a hobbyist and I loved whenever I came across a good bargain or a bead store. But in the last year, I had become a bit of a snob. And now, thank goodness, I have come back to a more balanced, practical, and useful frame of mind.

Companies Should Stand Behind Their Mistakes

We have heard that "The buck stops here" and in recent times, they have been applied to presidents and top CEOs. I also think that similar ethics should apply to those millions of small sellers and companies that have sprouted up around the world, in large part due to the continuing success of the internet.

Swarovski New 2009 Bead Color Chart

Woowee - an impressive upgrade

I have just seen the latest and upgraded version of Swarovski's Bead Color Chart for 2009. And I am impressed.

Goodbye Ebay

Yeah! Free from the yoke of being an ebay seller

For the last few months, ever since ebay announced it's latest "improvements" for us ebay sellers, I have been working daily to clear my inventory off of ebay. Their marketing sweet words were deviously crafted to say that we would get "volume discounts" and this was what "we had been asking for" ...

Swarovski's Newest Colors and Effects

Release: Autumn-Winter 2010/2011

Oooh, woopee. I have just been checking out some of Swarovski's very latest exciting releases. There are too many for me to document in a quick hurry but I do want to mention the very notables and the ones that are most likely to be on everybody's palette soon.

Out with Ebay, in with SocExchange

to rival Ebay (yay!)

I have just come across a bit of news that feels pretty exciting and could prove to be profitable. A new buy and sell site has opened up that hopefully will challenge ebay's undesirable dominance.

www.socexchange.com.au

(Excerpt from Washington Business Journal, June 2009)

What is Ebay's Feedback Rating Anyway?

Almost every, if not all, auction/marketpool selling venue on the internet has some feedback mechanism. Usually it is a two-way street - i.e. sellers about buyers, buyers about sellers. The big exception that I know of is ebay (but of course) who in recent years decided in their "infinite wisdom" that sellers did not have the right to leave feedback about their buyers. All very well and good since eBay holds the ball and whip.

Cliff Brunton Auctions

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the last auction offered up by Cliff Brunton in Sydney, Australia and it was very instructional in more ways than I expected.

eBay Customer Service - A Joke

Just in recent times, I have had another head-on encounter with ebay. Needless to say, I don't have to declare who the winner was as I sit here in my lonely loser corner.

ebay took down a number of my listings saying that the Titles I choose were infringing their policies, in particular, "keyword spamming".