Hi faithful customers! I am continuing to list a bunch of star wars rpg books right now. Thank you, thank you, thank you for buying from me, keep it up so I can keep my power seller status. I have been very busy opening the museum. 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. This week I am selling 1977 stuff and anniversary or new movie stuff, too. Look for it Thursdays! 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 hol99 auctions starting on Sunday, October 25. There will be hundreds of holiday themed items with no reserve. Woo whoo, this year is my 10th anniversary buying and selling on ebay. I may hit my 5000th feedback this year, too. Well ebay fixed the international seller shipping DSR problem so I am back offering wares over the border. My lunchbox museum store is looking so cool plus we put up 50 more lunchboxes so I will be making a cool utuber so you can see it cyberly! The sign is up and the yellow brick road floors are painted. The sign has two girls walking down the street with a lunchbox that says retrodeb in it. 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 October 25, 2009! Enjoy the variety of holiday theme, 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, October 25! 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. For more great items from HOW Cafe's Ebay Sellers... CLICK HERE To Visit HOW Cafe... CLICK HERE To protect bidder privacy, when the price or highest bid on an item reaches or exceeds a certain level, User IDs will be displayed as anonymous names. For auction items, a bold price means at least one bid has been received. Note: Anonymous names may appear more than once and may represent different bidders. Item Start End Price Title High Bidder/Status 220506823394 Nov-07-09 Nov-14-09 14:28:11 $9.99 Vintage Lady Remington Sperry MS-120 Electric Shaver No Bids Yet 380174147043 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:18:08 $9.99 Pod RACER Red Star Wars Ep 1 Vinyl Rain Coat Sz 6 NWT No Bids Yet 380174146961 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:17:28 $9.99 Star Wars Journal Amidala Anakin Luke Leia & Bookmark No Bids Yet 220504856126 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:16:21 $9.99 Heir to the Empire new republic star wars BOOK WEG RPG No Bids Yet 380174146760 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:15:06 $9.99 Empire Strikes Back NPR Audiobook CD Star Wars Unplayed 2***q 220504855819 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:14:04 $9.99 Galactic Uplink Star Wars Audiobook CD Fan Magazine No Bids Yet 220504855754 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:13:34 $9.99 Alien Chronicles Crimson Claw audiobook CD star wars No Bids Yet 380174146560 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:13:02 $9.99 Alien Chronicles Golden One Audiobook post star wars CD No Bids Yet 220504855552 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:12:10 $9.99 Far Orbit Proj. Pirates Privater Star Wars WEG BOOK RPG No Bids Yet 220504855276 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:10:21 $9.99 Star Wars Kathol OUTBACK Darkstryder WEG Book RPG 1996 No Bids Yet 380174146253 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:09:48 $9.99 Star Wars Tapani Instant Adventures CARDS BOOK RPG WEG No Bids Yet 220504855119 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:09:09 $9.99 Star Wars Galaxy Guide 2 Yavin Bespin WEG RPG 1995 BOOK No Bids Yet 380174146142 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:08:28 $9.99 Star Wars Scoundrel's Luck HAN Solo RPG WEG Book NOS No Bids Yet 380174146057 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:07:54 $9.99 Star Wars Endgame Darkstryder WEG RPG BOOK 1996 NOS No Bids Yet 380174146002 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:07:24 $9.99 Star Wars Classic Adventures 4 RPG WEG BOOK Roleplaying No Bids Yet 220504854825 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:06:55 $9.99 Star Wars NEW Jedi Order Heretic I audiobook cd sealed No Bids Yet 380174145859 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:06:16 $9.99 Star Wars Tapani Player's Guide 1997 SC BOOK RPG WEG No Bids Yet 380174145715 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:05:24 $9.99 Star Wars New Jedi Order Traitor Audiobook CD sealed _***m 380174145622 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:04:43 $9.99 Star Wars Imperial Double-Cross WEG Book RPG 1997 No Bids Yet 220504854435 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:04:07 $9.99 Dark Empire star wars HC 1993 BOOK WEG RPG Roleplaying No Bids Yet 380174145433 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:03:05 $9.99 Star Wars Ep 1 Phantom Menace CD Read Along Book sealed No Bids Yet 380174145345 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:02:17 $9.99 Star Wars Classic Adventures 5 RPG WEG BOOK 1998 NOS No Bids Yet 380174145240 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:01:27 $9.99 Star Wars Black Sands of Socorro WEG RPG Book roleplay No Bids Yet 380174145086 Nov-02-09 Nov-07-09 22:00:13 $9.99 Jedi Academy Sourcebook Roleplaying HC BOOK WEG RPG 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. :) For my regular and club99 auctions featuring 99 cent sale items, I am using exact shipping with a choice of first class/media or priority. I always combine for the best rate and discounts, the more you buy. 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. Please 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 for everything except shipping price 4.8, so I can get the discount. YIPPPEEEE!!!!) Now they are telling me I am eligible for the new Top Rated Seller Badge on my auctions 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 can retire 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. And if you are really wanting to read more about my crazy collection, I am also in this entertaining and advice filled article about my ebay business written by Dane Golden for the Argus Courier, a paper in Petaluma my hometown. It is a little dated as there have been so many changes but it still gives you some basic insights in the crazy world of selling on ebay.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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