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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 22, 2017 10:46:16 GMT -5
What is this new ebay shopping experience? rockjunquie help me! It won't even let me eliminate the buy-it-nows from my search! How do I just shop for auctions of lapidary materials in the horrible new universe? I'm in the lapidary materials category, and every time I click the "Auctions" button, the screen blinks, then drops me back to page one of the search, with "all items" checked. And, it won't show the ending time of an auction unless you click through! Aaarrrrrrggggghhhhh! Are they TRYING to make me switch to buying on FB? (Not that I need to buy more rocks, but, you know, I WANT to sometimes!) |
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 22, 2017 10:56:09 GMT -5
Crappy!!!!!! Try logging out and back in. I'm not having any trouble.
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kevin24018
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Post by kevin24018 on Aug 22, 2017 10:59:12 GMT -5
What is this new ebay shopping experience? rockjunquie help me! It won't even let me eliminate the buy-it-nows from my search! How do I just shop for auctions of lapidary materials in the horrible new universe? I'm in the lapidary materials category, and every time I click the "Auctions" button, the screen blinks, then drops me back to page one of the search, with "all items" checked. And, it won't show the ending time of an auction unless you click through! Aaarrrrrrggggghhhhh! Are they TRYING to make me switch to buying on FB? (Not that I need to buy more rocks, but, you know, I WANT to sometimes!) eBay>Collectibles>Rocks, Fossils & Minerals>Lapidary Materials>Rough Minerals for Cabbing towards the bottom left Buying Formatsee all All Listings Auction Buy It Now just select auction if you don't want to see the buy it now as far as the time being displayed etc, you have to choose that stuff in your settings |
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kevin24018
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Post by kevin24018 on Aug 22, 2017 11:00:29 GMT -5
Crappy!!!!!! Try logging out and back in. I'm not having any trouble. I use chrome, might be a browser issue too, dunno, haven't had any problems and I'm on there almost everyday, several times a day "window shopping" |
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 22, 2017 11:06:46 GMT -5
Hm. Might be firefox messing up. Will try some other options later. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 12:17:00 GMT -5
Might still be ebay's constant experimenting, too. If you ever elected to participate in their beta testing, go and turn that option off to see if makes any difference.
I noticed a few days ago that they are requiring "Buy It Now" buys to be paid immediately even from a seller who allows combining more than one item. Used to buy from them and combine multiple (auction and Buy Now) items, but now it insists on immediate payment unless going through their cart system, which does no good if you still have an auction item waiting to close. I'm not sure why they'd change to not allowing to add items after a Buy Now, but it cost the seller a lost sale on two items.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 22, 2017 14:57:14 GMT -5
Might still be ebay's constant experimenting, too. If you ever elected to participate in their beta testing, go and turn that option off to see if makes any difference. I noticed a few days ago that they are requiring "Buy It Now" buys to be paid immediately even from a seller who allows combining more than one item. Used to buy from them and combine multiple (auction and Buy Now) items, but now it insists on immediate payment unless going through their cart system, which does no good if you still have an auction item waiting to close. I'm not sure why they'd change to not allowing to add items after a Buy Now, but it cost the seller a lost sale on two items. I had a problem like that before, too. I messaged the seller and was like- What's up with that? Can't I combine shipping? He was so upset! He had no control over it and had no clue how or when it happened. He vowed to also use make an offer when using BIN, so that if I wanted more that one item, I could combine. I don't think the sellers are in on this stuff. Kinda like the etsy nonsense. |
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 22, 2017 16:10:59 GMT -5
I quit Ebay long ago.... I know to many sellers anymore,so I just go to their sites and (Or) homes and buy what I need....
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Post by zarguy on Aug 22, 2017 17:15:58 GMT -5
eBay is being weird for me today too. From All Lists, I click on eBay Bucks. It goes right back to the page I'm on.
We'll see if it's better tomorrow.
Lynn
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 23, 2017 10:07:36 GMT -5
It worked better on my work computer. A little bit anyway. Still showed ending time as "4 days 6 hours from now" or some nonsense.
What facebook groups do you guys like to buys slabs from?
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Post by Tommy on Aug 25, 2017 11:24:55 GMT -5
What facebook groups do you guys like to buys slabs from? Our local guys catmandewe and roy jump around a lot  but they are currently selling here: www.facebook.com/groups/FullMoonRockShop/Personally for me, outside of Tony and Roy's page I barely look at any of the slab sellers anymore. It used to be (last year) you could find some real bargains on slabs on Facebook but now most sellers have become auction happy and prices are skyrocketing out of control. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism - and God bless them they can sell at whatever prices the market will bear - but I refuse to pay many times over what I can buy the same slabs for at gem shows where I can see it, touch it, smell it, and examine for cracks. I guess it's easy for me to feel this way because the west (including socal btw) is blessed with shows and sales. The Facebook slab auctions seem to be driven by buyers from the east and south who don't have the same access. |
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 25, 2017 12:28:55 GMT -5
Will check that one out. And yeah, I hear you about the prices!
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 28, 2017 8:10:22 GMT -5
*sigh* I gave up on E-Bay quite awhile ago. Used to use it to sell my sword/knife collection and some slabs and specimens. They just kept changing too much and becoming more and more expensive and complicated. Did well on prices at auction but a whole lot of trouble and E-Bay kept selling my stuff to international buyers when I asked them not to. All the customs paperwork and foreign rules and payments was just too awful...Mel
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Post by roy on Aug 29, 2017 10:42:18 GMT -5
What facebook groups do you guys like to buys slabs from? Our local guys catmandewe and roy jump around a lot but they are currently selling here: www.facebook.com/groups/FullMoonRockShop/Personally for me, outside of Tony and Roy's page I barely look at any of the slab sellers anymore. It used to be (last year) you could find some real bargains on slabs on Facebook but now most sellers have become auction happy and prices are skyrocketing out of control. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism - and God bless them they can sell at whatever prices the market will bear - but I refuse to pay many times over what I can buy the same slabs for at gem shows where I can see it, touch it, smell it, and examine for cracks. I guess it's easy for me to feel this way because the west (including socal btw) is blessed with shows and sales. The Facebook slab auctions seem to be driven by buyers from the east and south who don't have the same access. we try to bring the best we can for a fair starting price im going to do a buy it now on the last Saturday of every month to help balance things out we also have rough on Sundays ! Also we have brought in Andy Ferre' he also has been selling some nice slabs every thursday so hope that some of you all here will check it out |
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 29, 2017 11:09:52 GMT -5
What facebook groups do you guys like to buys slabs from? Our local guys catmandewe and roy jump around a lot but they are currently selling here: www.facebook.com/groups/FullMoonRockShop/Personally for me, outside of Tony and Roy's page I barely look at any of the slab sellers anymore. It used to be (last year) you could find some real bargains on slabs on Facebook but now most sellers have become auction happy and prices are skyrocketing out of control. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for capitalism - and God bless them they can sell at whatever prices the market will bear - but I refuse to pay many times over what I can buy the same slabs for at gem shows where I can see it, touch it, smell it, and examine for cracks. I guess it's easy for me to feel this way because the west (including socal btw) is blessed with shows and sales. The Facebook slab auctions seem to be driven by buyers from the east and south who don't have the same access. Suuuuuuure, blame it all on us rock deprived Southeasterners.....  |
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 30, 2017 9:08:24 GMT -5
So I figured out part of my ebay problem is that my old "saved searches" don't work any more. Now that I've surfed to the search I want (lapidary materials, auction only, sorted by ending soonest), it works pretty ok. You still have to do math to find out when the auctions close, but other than that it's ok. And this time I saved my search as a bookmark in Firefox, not in ebay.
I'm enjoying Roy's and Tony's and (etc's) facebook auctions . . . haven't found Christopher's yet.
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but they are currently selling here:
