This week I was fortunate enough to be endowed with a lifetime collection of buttons from a local estate.  I sorted through them for days, taking out what I thought were the better ones...the ones that stood out as unusual, or of extreme quality etc.  I am really not a button expert but I selected about a thousand from this collection that I estimated earlier to be about 25,000 but is likely mouch more than that considering how many buttons fit into a large ziplock bag and that these would take about two large garbage bags to have held them all.  Anyway some great buttons from the last century right up to about the 80s period of retro throwback clothing.  There are tons of bone, wood and deco buttons as well as glass, stone, porcelain, clay, metal, military, artistic, animal, sport and fashion buttons.  I will always get the best shipping rate possible for larger orders and tried to break them up so no one had to buy too many they not have wanted to get the one(s) that they really did want.

So again in the how can it even be true game of ebay, I find myself scratching my head wondering what just happened.  Does it sound unreasonable that I would not want to take an echeck?  Paypal holds them for up to 14 (interest bearing of course) days and no one has ever been happy about those delays.  It is like surface mail, I don't offer that either, even though people say they are happy waiting for the item surface can take up to 42 days before I can make a claim against it for loss...do you want to wait 42 days...no one does, let alone 42, plus the 14 plus the 5 it takes for the payment to be initiated in a lot of cases.  I really prefer to sell and item and have it in your hands in 14 days, which is not always easy from Canada to begin with but it seems to be the point at shich people stop saying fast shipping etc and says things like simply thanks...but then give 4 stars etc when the item is clearly postmarked that I shipped earlier than listed etc and therefore out of my hands...but that is another blog.  To have a few listings cancelled is not fun, I fixed (LOL "fixed"...I took out what offended someone anyway) 40 listings, and cancelled 30 some more in my store to fix later...the store isn't free of course either, but I had 5 listings that had bids and they cancelled one of those today.  I have 4 more and wrote all those buyers to let them know perhaps I was an idiot to include the line in the listing, but in no way would THAT idiocy end up affecting a smooth and normal transaction should their listings get cancelled then, not to be overly concerned as to why and then not rebid.  I guess for now, I will continue to offer paypal until I can set up my own merchant account instead that is approved or course and I will not discourage bidding by saying it upfront, but I don't plan to take echecks and if that is where it ends...obla-di olba-da life goes on.

As always...thanks for reading, feel free to comment.

Paypal and ebay, quite a team.  One can claim ignorance of the other though they operate like a tandem bike and through the ignorance, a lot of fees, charges and holds exist.  A hold to anyone who can count, is them stealing interest from you, they have always held deposits and transfers from/to canada but now they feel it is prudent to hold funds in the name of buyer protection and confidence.  So in short, they hold my payments for high risk items such as blow up barbie furniture for ten dollars and empty watch boxes that sell for 20 dollars.  Some of the things that make me laugh is like the ads on ebay..."why do so many sellers use paypal" then branching into a whole raft of reasons why that completely ingores the obvious that you HAVE to offer an electronic option, well, that is convenient for them eh, and unless you have a merchant account, there are not too many options, I am sure they hold stake in all of them...a monopoly I thought was illegal and holding the money 21 to 30 interest bearing days has to be criminal and to top it all of, they are working for me...worst damn employee ever, stealing tons of money from me and CERTAIN to be shortening my life with every issue and instance.  I love here as it is not ebay, as an opine, I can think and say just about anything and I am glad you have decided to read on.  It likely seems funny from your end, but it will not be when you try to sell something or really want to make your self laugh, ask them a question sometime and check out the useless response.  In short, I used to love ebay but after all the friggin fees etc and having all those people work for me, it is the worst business arrangement ever.  It would be like advertising in the local paper, then having the paper send me a bill after for making the sale and to really compare, if the buyer had issue, or claimed to have issue, to be the same, the paper would then have to harrass me and steal from me and try to hurt my reputation, instead of just being what it is, a meeting place or a directory...ebays involvement post sale is a frigging joke too.  I pay you to stay the fk out of my business, not try and make it as unenjoyable as possible by allowing paypal to facilitate another theft of my items.