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laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
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OK, it's not coins but I guess I could use some advice as this is my first attempt at selling on E-Bay.

Any and all comments are appreciated.image

Book
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks good to me. I love old books.

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  • 21Walker21Walker Posts: 1,762 ✭✭✭
    Looks good here also. I would have tried to put a number on the shipping costs.....Thats about it ..........Rick
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    It's La Dance des Morts with a c,not s, but you can't change it now, the shroom has a bid and I intend to outbid him as usual. image
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    Or maybe I'm wrong and it's la danse.Most certainly. I was thinking in English. image
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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    I used the spelling as shown in the book-in 1789 they used s instead of c-check the title page photo-it cost me an extra .15!image
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • JamminJJamminJ Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭
    The good:
    solid return policy
    lots of pictures
    hionest description of flaws
    low opening bid

    Suggestions:
    1. Take paypal. Paying with a credit card offers protection when buying from low feedback sellers.
    2. Specify shipping costs. At least ballpark it for domestic destinations.

    Looks like a neat book, good luck!
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Looks good, just don't expect any real bidding for another 6 days 20 hours.
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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭
    I'm going to be keeping an eye on that one, I love morbid old books!image

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  • 1960NYGiants1960NYGiants Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm going to be keeping an eye on that one, I love morbid old books!image

    Be advised, I did not consent to this use of my photo while on a date with a young lady! My lawyer will be in contact with you.

    image >>



    And your gender is? image

    Gene
    Gene

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,454 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>And your gender is? >>


    imageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimage

    DPOTD-3
    'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'

    CU #3245 B.N.A. #428


    Don
  • martmart Posts: 108


    << <i>The good:
    solid return policy
    lots of pictures
    hionest description of flaws
    low opening bid

    Suggestions:
    1. Take paypal. Paying with a credit card offers protection when buying from low feedback sellers.
    2. Specify shipping costs. At least ballpark it for domestic destinations.

    Looks like a neat book, good luck! >>

  • martmart Posts: 108


    << <i>The good:
    solid return policy
    lots of pictures
    hionest description of flaws
    low opening bid

    Suggestions:
    1. Take paypal. Paying with a credit card offers protection when buying from low feedback sellers.
    2. Specify shipping costs. At least ballpark it for domestic destinations.

    Looks like a neat book, good luck! >>




    I agree with all of the above but I would have had the pic upright so its easier to see !! And as for the shipping charges, you can at the original listing use the shipping calculator & all the work is done for you !! Potential buyers can just click on "calculate" & it will tell them the correct shipping charges with no work on your part !!


    Mart
  • martmart Posts: 108
    Sorry about the first post but I wasn`t logged in !! Have no idea why it printed twice !! M
  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I'm going to be keeping an eye on that one, I love morbid old books!image

    Be advised, I did not consent to this use of my photo while on a date with a young lady! My lawyer will be in contact with you.

    image >>



    And your gender is? image

    Gene >>




    Ummmm, I might have looked closer at that picture!image

    I have been working out to get rid of the teats!image
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    WNC Coins, LLC
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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    I'm going to be keeping an eye on that one, I love morbid old books!

    I want to thank you for bidding Aethelred (I actually thought of you when I pulled the book off the shelf to image it-lots of olde and dead folks in it) but someone already outbid you, item is up to $56.51 in just a couple of hours. I was really worried about that .99 start but needlessly I guess. A little nerve-wracking as a new experience for me...image Thanks to everyone who helped get it started.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • TegTeg Posts: 135
    Hi - no expert on this - but that's never stopped me before.
    Three things that could stop me bidding

    1) You say you will ship worldwide - but your payment options make this difficult (paypal much easier)
    2) How big is the book? Size and weight would also give me a better idea of shipping costs.
    3) Unclear if you are charging shipping at cost , or cost + packing + labour + eBay fees + markup, people
    from this board know that you will be fair - strangers will not.

    Minor pedantic points

    1) I think Merian was Swiss and that Basle is in Switzerland not France.
    2) Not from the middle ages - and Merian was not medieval, more "Reformation" ?
    3) This is presumable a re-print, if so it might be better to make that explicit.
    4) The pictures are good (but sideways), if you described a few of them -
    Skull , dancing figure etc etc. This would give you more keywords that people
    might be searching on.

    Well you did ask!
    Seriously I think the listing is good - I am in the same boat - about to list some
    books on eBay for the first time, so I have been giving this some thought!

    Good luck

    Teg
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