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Good Morning, Afternoon or Evening, whatever time it may be in your corner of the world.  Welcome and thank you for stopping by our small corner of the world.  In times of busy lives and rising prices, we have created a eBay flea market.  We mainly sell Lego products, but you will find jigsaw puzzles, books and other interesting items among the Lego products.  We are always looking for a bargins to pass on to our customers. 

With the change in eBay's policy concerning money orders, we are in the process of going through all our items and auctions, to update information.  Please bear with us, you may see different information on items.  If you have any question, please e-mail, we will be more than happy to answer questions.

We try very hard to keep down the prices of shipping by using re-cycled boxes from Keith's workplace, cutted down to fit the items we are shipping.  Some of our shipping boxes are not pretty, and may at times not be square, but the item(s) will get where they are going safely, without paying for the expense of new boxes.  We ship lots of items in bubbled envelopes, but we don't use the commerical envelopes, we have our own version that kept the item(s) safe during shipment.  We only know of one item that has broken because of our packing.  Of course we can't be reponsible for what the shipping carriers do with the packages, so insurance is recommended.  

One of the biggest questions we are asked is will you ship this auction or item to _______ (fill in your place).  The answer is yes, as long as the U.S. Post Office will ship there and as long as there is no trade restrictions to that country for that item.  Such as Italy has restrictions on importing non-wooden toys.  Also in countries where the post office delivery people don't read English then you will need to provide us with the proper address label, either over the eBay, by e-mail or if you need to send it to us by mail.  Such as we had a customer from an Far East country send us by mail, a shipping label, because he knew that his postal carrier did not read English.  Also the other part is that you are willing to pay the price of shipping.  We know that to some countries shipping is very high, and the buyer needs to be aware of that before he/she agrees to buy something. 

Wondering about when your auction/store item was shipped.  We use to send out e-mail telling our customers when their items have been shipped, but with all the spam blockers, filters and such, we have decided to stop doing this.  Instead, check your feedback, we will put the shipping date on your feedback. If your feedback hasn't been done yet and it's been over three days since your payment has cleared, by all means e-mail and check with us.  Sometimes we are alittle slow with the feedback, but we are going to attempt to keep up on it, so that you know when your item has been shipped. Then to maybe somehow we missed your invoice, so check with us, we don't mind, and will be more than happy to check on your status for you.

A word about feedback, as you can see we do have wonderful feedback, but we are human and we do make mistakes.  If it is our mistake and it's humanly possible we will correct our mistake, so please talk to us, if you have a problem with one of our auctions or items.  The neutal feedback that we have is mostly because of things beyond our control, mainly the Post Office.  Unfortunately we can not control how long it takes for an item to get from point A to point B, when sometimes it will go to point C first.  We don't know where some of these packages go before they get where they are going.  It use to amaze us, to track UPS packages across the country, using their online tracking system, the places their packages go to get where they are going is totally amazing, and we are sure that the Post Office does some of the same things. 

A word about item conditions.  We list most of our items as good or very good.  But it reality they may even be brand new.  We only list items as brand new, if we know for sure that they are new, for Legos that means we have taken them out of their orginial package ourselves.  For books that means the binding (part that holds the book together) has not been broken.  Every body has their own opinion as to the condition of items, there is no set standard on eBay that we know of.  So, we chose to list everything in the good and very good condition, and let you be surprise, for it may be new or like new. 

I was just asked a question that may be of interest to all that stop by.  That is about the custom Lego furniture and if I may add the custom vehicles.  All these custom items are created by a members of our family.  We do this because we enjoy creating items.  All the designs, are ours inspired by things we have seen, or old Lego designs, that we have modified and changed over time.  Lego did have furniture in their older creation books, some of our furniture was first based on them, but soon we modified them, and added our own ideas.  The designs keep changing, over time.  As for the vehicle designs, they are mostly inspired by digging through the vehicle parts box, or other parts, that would inspire a new vehicle design, just for that part.  Many an air or space craft part, has ended up on one of our vehicles.  When we use a Lego design, and just change the color, we will note that in the description, and what Lego kit it is based on.

A portion of the money we receive from selling items on eBay goes to charities that help our fellow humans, some are medical organizations such as Paralyzed Veterans of American, and some are religious orangizations that deal with saving souls and feeding the hungry.  Also some of the money helps our local homeless shelter.  Most all the pre-printed address labels we use when shipping auctions are from the many charities that we give money to. 

We thank the many customers and friends we have found along this journey in life.  With hopes of many more new customers and friends, from the world over.  May this day be filled with many happy moments to treasure for days to come.  May God bless you and yours, that all your hopes and dreams come true.

Thank you for stopping by, our little corner of the world.





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