Hi faithful customers! I am selling star wars stuff and silver plate or sterling novelty spoons this week. Thank you, thank you, thank you for buying from me, keep it up so I can keep my power seller status. I continue to be rewarded by you with perfect 5.0's on my thirty day dsr's. The museum has continued to be a delight. The Wisconsin station WLAP is interviewing me on Friday the 27th and a UK tv WGSN is interviewing me next. It just continues to fun and what I wanted to happen. The sign is so cool, my husband made it look like a giant lunchbox and it features graphics similar to the the two girls on the kaboodle box. If you are a lunchbox collector, you will love. I have had people from all over stopping in, even the UK this week. You have to drive by my place on highway 20 if you are going north on highway 5 or highway 101 to Washington, Oregon, Fort Bragg or Redding areas. It was the old firehouse so it is in the middle of town. I am on a scenic corridor so a lot of people also take this way to slow down and enjoy the wildlife and lakes in our area. We have been in 12 newspapers because the Sac Bee article got picked up by the UPI. The cool part is I can just take something off the shelf to list for you guys. During club99, I am selling 1977 and anniversary stuff. Look for Star Wars 1977 bubble bath and new movie action figures this weekend! Check the latest write up about my lunchbox museum at Lake County News on the net here! Plus one in the Sacramento bee here! My auctions end on Sundays all the time or the third Saturday of the month. I love this new top rated seller, finally they are treating me right for being a good seller. :) Check out my friends at club99 for 99 cent auctions starting on Saturday, November 14. There will be hundreds of items with no reserve. Woo whoo, this year is my 10th anniversary buying and selling on ebay. I only need 124 more feedbacks to hit my 5000, too. Well ebay fixed the international seller shipping DSR problem so I am back offering wares over the border. Thanks to everyone who left those 5's on my DSR's even though USPS was slow. My 30 day numbers are still good with 100% positives. Don't forget to be specific as possible with best match search or you will not find auctions. If you want to see things ending soonest or the most reasonable, you need to change your search on the drop down menu as BM is the default. If you love a certain seller's items put them on your favorite seller list or keep their items in your favorites or bookmarks so you can find their cool collectables. :) Search is also changing spelling or your terms if they think you are wrong about what you want. For example vinyl ponytail became vinyl records with ponytail songs instead of my items that I collect pre Mattel era. Hol99 auctions start Sunday, November 29, 2009! Enjoy the variety of holiday items, no reserve items while you can from great sellers. Club99 is a group of sellers dedicated to bringing back the excitement of bidding to eBay. We have 99 cent no reserve auction events on the second Saturday plus the following day Sunday and special events on the last Sunday of the month. After you shop here, just click on the club99 box to see more sellers and their event auctions. Our auctions always start without a reserve. Come join the fun and bid, bid, bid! Don't forget hol99, November 29! hol99 Auctions CLICK HERE! For Club99 info or Current Event Details & of course Sellers in the Events! CLICK HERE And if you like to chat about the online auction business of life, here is a fun place to find it below at The How Cafe Forum. You find out stuff faster there when there is a new problem with ebay. :) You can chat about internet auction, life, meet new friends and find long lost ones from the long lost otwa or honesty chat forums plus you can find experienced ebay seller auctions at our link. 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Item Start End Price Title High Bidder/Status 220516327879 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:50:52 $9.00 Yellowstone Cleopatra Round Terrace Haynes Color Print No Bids Yet 220516327176 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:46:49 $9.00 Yellowstone Tower Falls Haynes Color Litho Linen Print No Bids Yet 220516326732 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:45:12 $9.00 Yellowstone Grand View Haynes Color Litho Linen Print No Bids Yet 380181503380 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:23:29 $9.00 Yellowstone River Lower Falls Haynes Color Litho Print No Bids Yet 380181503285 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:22:16 $9.00 Yellowstone Golden Gate Canyon Haynes Color Litho Print No Bids Yet 380181503159 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:20:46 $9.00 Yellowstone Kepler Cascade Firehole River Haynes Print No Bids Yet 380181502977 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:19:25 $9.00 Yellowstone Jupiter Terrace Color Litho Haynes Print No Bids Yet 220516322208 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:18:05 $9.99 Star Wars Kathol OUTBACK Darkstryder WEG Book RPG 1996 No Bids Yet 380181502490 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:16:33 $9.99 Star Wars Endgame Darkstryder WEG RPG BOOK 1996 NOS No Bids Yet 220516321783 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:15:11 $9.99 Star Wars Kathol Rift Darkstryder RPG BOOK WEG NOS 1996 No Bids Yet 220516321668 Nov-24-09 Nov-29-09 22:14:29 $9.00 YellowStone OLD FAITHFUL Geyser F.J.Haynes Color Print No Bids Yet Go see all current items for sale by this member.

First Let's Get Down to Business!

Even though I am getting bigger, it is still a one woman show aka store and I pride myself on good customer service. To be blunt, I am doing this all by myself, well my husband takes me to the post office once in awhile if I am lucky. :) I only list auctions that end on Saturday or Sunday but I have them starting every day of the week in 3, 5 or 7 day auctions. For my regular and club99 auctions featuring 99 cent sale items, I am using flat rate first class/media rate shipping with a choice of exact priority for faster service. I always combine for the best rate and discounts, the more you buy. If you need it even faster let me know as I can do Express as well, no problem. Believe me I am not making money off shipping, hopefully the post office is. LOL! I send out all items with my mailing service, after receiving your Paypal, the same or next business day of cleared payment, even on Saturday. I cannot ship on Sunday because the post office is closed.

I post feedback after I send the item out. None of that wait until you leave it stuff here. :) That being said, contact me with any problems with the sale before leaving feedback so I can make it right. Please continue to read the entire description before placing a bid or leaving feedback. My one and only naru'ed negative is gone, thank you ebay. I have 12 month 100% feedback and am hanging on with 5.0 and 4.9 for all categories after 10 years of selling on ebay. I am excited about my 30 day DSR's, as they are 5.0, so I can get the 20% discount. YIPPPEEEE!!!!) Plus I am a Top Rated Seller because of my customer service. This is easy for me because I love keeping my buyers happy. The secret is being honest in all aspects of the transaction. Kind of like the golden rule theory. Tips for high DSR's:
1. Send an invoice immediately
2. Contact when you ship thru ebay my messages
3. Answer all question/use my ebay FAQ for generic ones before and after the transaction
4. Every tenth package ship priority instead of media or first class rate for no extra charge
5. Pack well, use cardboard to sturdy up envelopes
6. Combine shipping and use calculated shipping for large packages over a pound
7. Offer different shipping choices
8. Be clear about flaws in an item, don't say it is new, even if it is new old stock
9. Leave feedback first
10. Print shipping labels rather than handwritten with tracking
Still have a question after reading my FAQ's in my auction email me here retrodeb I will be checking email all day on my cool blackberry to solve any problem.

Check out my ponytail and lunchbox museum website at retrodeb.com here!

Take care, Retrodeb

Here I am with John Donahue and Lori Norington at the conference where my video was shown at ebay live Chicago! I am sooo excited about it I can't stand it. You can watch the video by clicking on this picture: It was featured at Ebay Live Chicago!!! Ebay Live was a blast but way under attended from perhaps high travel costs or people not able to leave their business or people being mad at ebay. You choose. My lunchbox interview video ran all day in the community lounge...too fun! Anyway, the pinks were great, the pins were freaky, the comic book stickers were cute, and Chris Isaak was way sexy baby, especially his rhinestone encrusted dog! Here are two pics from my museum! Part of the Museum Ponytail Collection My Vinyl Lunchbox Museum Collection My Life in a Nutshell We are living at the lake full time and I have retired this year. I am feeling so healthy, vibrant, happy that I don't want to go back to teaching. I miss the kids but not the politics. We have everything on the shelves and inventoried in the museum/antique/collectable store. Duane and I have over 24 years of collections anywhere from antique ashtrays, figural salt & pepper shakers, vintage toys to whacky retro collectables of every kind, not to mention the over 700 lunchboxes now on display. Not only is it stocked with lunchboxes, there is a fantastic ponytail and knockoff vinyl collection in giant show cases. Come see us, we are now open at 3674 Hwy 20 East in Nice, California, right across from Clear Lake in Lake County. It is looking so cool inside. I love to sell on EBAY. I am keeping my head up amid all the changes that I hope will be good for both seller and buyer. I have been selling here since June 1999. Time flies by so quickly but it is still fun for me to sell and meet new people all over the world. I have met some fabulous customers! I will continue to sell collectibles for at least another 20 years as I have over 100,000 items from collection all my life. I bought collectibles instead of stocks, thank god. My goal has been to make the payment for my firehouse every month from ebay sales. I have surpassed this goal by becoming a POWERSELLER! Now I am retired and live off of ebay, too. It is not as much as I would like due to best match but it is enough for us to be comfortable. I continue to collect generic or real vinyl Ponytail items, lunch pails, metal thermos bottles, and retro fashion dolls as well as their cases. Please contact me about vinyl lunch boxes on ebay. I can't get enough of them. I am still looking for a nice Beatles, Tammy or Casper thermos bottle; a Skipper, and a Banana Splits box but I keep getting outbid by those pesky sniper programs. You know how excited I was about scoring a nice KISS box well, I finally got my Barbie dome!!! It is fabulous. Check it out below...I only got it because somebody else was a non-paying bidder. Heh, I usually don't like that but I got something out of it, this time when I got a second chance offer. Here is my my Barbie Dome: There are a few boxes below that I also acquired on ebay. I continue to find great boxes on the site. Last count, our total for boxes was over 650 and that is not counting the ones I got from the Lucas stash!!!! Things are falling into place and with me buying all of the Star Wars old new stock lunch boxes, we just can't go wrong. They are so nice and minty fresh. Some even have the promo snacks in them. Nothing like a ten year old oreo and pringles in a minty fresh New Hope lunchbox. Ha ha! Things have been crazy with ebay. Not only was I featured at ebay live for my museum, I have been getting 15 minutes of fame every year. I won the Promote "it" contest 2007. I thought when clicking on make a promotion box in my store that I would never win but I did. Then supposedly, there was an article with crazy collectors like me in Country Living magazine. Of course I was on the back of select ebay catalogs for the it promotion, too! It came to buyer id's summer 2006. I was standing in my classroom with some lunchboxes. There were three covers and I am one of them. The others are either a woman who found a pair of wedding shoes or somebody who found a hybrid car. I of course found the lunchbox Tina Teen. :) Now, I haven't heard anything about the ebay crazy collector video documentary contest that I am in but here is a recent write up on my collecting habits in About.com by Barbara Crews a collectable affectionado for the online auction collectable info magazine:Click here to read the article. Check out the progress of the lunchbox museum and my ponytail vinyl collection below. Click here for My Ponytail Vinyl and Lunch Box Site Here is Laughing Sally AKA Dixie Ha Ha Below! Go ahead make her laugh! Click to hear Dixie Ha Ha! The Museum Front Area Here is my favorite vinyl box Twiggy: Here are a couple from my teenage ponytail lunchbox collection: Favorite Links Cool John Williams Utube Star Wars Video! Recycletown Wikipedia: Star Wars Miniatures Battles! Just a note on ebay's new feedback rules. Click here for the link. I am not really worried about the new rules for feedback. If you look at the feedback that I leave, it is always right after payment was made or not made. So far, everyone has been fair except for one naru'ed bidder a few years back who was removed with the new rules and a competitor. I try to leave little for the buyer to complain about but if there is something wrong please contact me first before leaving a negative or neutral or 1 or 2 DSR's so I can make you happy. Please don't leave me low marks without telling me why. If I am doing something wrong let me know. So far I am getting great feedback but there is always room for improvement. A seller like me can only receive one or two 1's or 2's before they cannot sell or are sanctioned in some way. I don't think that will happen to me but some sellers could have problems if they only sell ten items a month. One mark on them leaves a big dent. Also when you give sellers their DSR stars for shipping time and the item seemed to have taken a long time, go to the item details on your auction page to check the shipment date documented or the feedback that I left for you as I leave the time in it. It is frustrating to both the buyer and the seller but the confirmation number tells the truth in the end. Also remember the price of shipping depends on how far away you are from the seller. Let me tell you I know as a buyer, that there are times to leave negative feedback or low DSR's but just double check or contact me before you leave me low marks on any of the four criteria. I am proud of this 100% feedback! Monday, Jun 21, 1999

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