All Entries in the "Selling on Ebay & The Charm Cellar" Category
Valentines Day Heart Vintage Jewelry
Valentines Day is just around the corner. Have you bought yourself a piece of vintage heart jewelry lately?
Shopping At Renningers For Jewelry
I found lots of great vintage jewelry – fine and costume – at Renninger’s Antique Market in Mount Dora Florida yesterday. I’ll be featuring it in my eBay shop. Check out my pretty finds……
Collecting Vintage Costume Pins And Brooches
I’ve been collecting vintage charms and creating bracelets, as well as selling them for a while now, and lately I’ve started to collect vintage costume jewelry lately. Pins and brooches in particular. I love the figural shaped pins and pins with colored stones the most I think.
Where Do You Buy Vintage Charms?
I get this question from customers from time to time and the answer is “from various sources”. I live in central Florida and the antiquing prospects here aren’t as robust as in the midwest or northeast United States. It’s just not easy to find nice charms at the antique fairs in my area.
Summer Travel Sale on CharmCraze-y’s eBay Site
Through the end of June I’m offering a 20% discount on all travel related souvenir charms in my eBay store. Summer is here and people are planning their vacations so it seems appropriate to give a discount on charms that commemorate summer trips. Actually I’m trying to clear out some inventory from my eBay store as I’m moving a portion of it over to my Ruby Plaza shop, CharmCrazey Too.
CharmCrazey Too On Ruby Plaza
After several years of selling successfully on ebay I’ve decided to change my focus. In April of this year the Ruby Lane marketplace introduced its new sales venue, Ruby Plaza. This site is designed to offer a wider range of items than its parent site by allowing sellers to list new items in the areas of home décor, jewelry, and handcrafted items.
Stamps.Com Integrates With Zen Cart – Good News For Me
Today I read the announcement that Stamps.com has integrated it’s postage software with the Zen Cart open source shopping cart program. I’m delighted because my new website The Charm Cellar runs on that platform. Until now I had to manually input customer information into the Pay Pal shipping program in order to print a label. Now I will be able to import shipping data directly from my website, even if a customer pays by check or money order.
30 Day Blog Challenge
I’ve thrown my hat into the ring and decided to participate in Jeanette Cate’s 30 day blog challenge starting June 1 (today). I will be writing a short blog post every day this month. The objective is to cultivate my writing skills, build blog traffic, focus deeper into my vintage jewelry niche, and build on-line relationships.
CharmCrazey Too Ruby Plaza Flagship Store
I’m very excited to announce my new Flagship sales venue on Ruby Plaza, called CharmCrazey Too. Ruby Plaza is a sister site to Ruby Lane that accepts a wider range of merchandise. For the moment I’ve got some vintage charms for sale and also all sizes of my Snapeez jump rings.
Vintage – Almost Antique 14K Gold Charm Bracelet – A Sad Story
This is one of the most beautiful solid gold bracelets I’ve seen. The charms are huge and have tons of detail and are adorned with large jewels. It belongs to a friend of mine who acquired it from his mother’s estate after her passing.
Vintage Silver and Enamel Travel Shield Charms
These beautiful and brightly colored shield charms are fun to collect and they’re on sale for 20% off through the end of April in my Charmcraze-y ebay store. One can make a collection from any number of themes, from places you’ve visited to different flowers of the world.
Vintage Charm Bracelet With Springtime Enamels
Just thought I’d post a photo of a vintage charm bracelet I just received in the mail. I bought it on ebay. It’s mostly sterling silver, and all enamels, and there are several Thomas L. Mott charms.
The Charm Cellar is Open for Business
It’s been a while since I started visualizing having my own site where I sell vintage charms. About a year ago I began with a vision and now it’s finally ready.
Thomas L Mott – Vintage TLM Charms For Sale
I’m a big collector of Thomas L Mott vintage charms. As I sorted through my collection recently I realized that I have a few duplicates and have decided to offer them for sale. Most are bright and pretty enamels and some are sterling silver with a warm vintage patina.
News About My Vintage Jewelry Business
My new website “The Charm Cellar” should be ready soon. I am eagerly looking forward to testing my skills at selling vintage charms on my very own independent site. Also I bought a new program called Phpbay that allows me to showcase my favorite ebay categories and searches on my blog pages.
Snapeez Locking Jump Rings Free with Every Vintage Charm Purchase
It’s a new marketing strategy I’m rolling out. These are amazing little devices that snap shut pretty securely when used to attach a charm to a charm bracelet. I haven’t lost a charm yet and I’ve been using them for a while now. And they are much less expensive than soldering by a jeweler. It’s [...]
Charmcrazey’s New Prince Charming Logo
This is fitzcharming. He’s my new logo graphic and I’ll be working on changing out all my internet and printed material in the next few days and weeks. Don’t you just LOVE him? He comes in many different poses so I believe he will be very versatile in my business. He’s sans charm bracelets at [...]
Snapeez Magic Locking Jump Rings Now Available From Charmcrazey
I’m so pleased to now offer for sale in my Bonanzle Booth and in my ebay store the incredible Snapeez Locking Jump Rings. I wrote about these magic rings in a previous post and have since had many requests for them. So I contacted the distributor and I am now an authorized reseller of these [...]
I’m Going to My First Jewelry Trade Show
I just received my badge and preview guide for the Orlando Gift Show and Jewelry & Accessories Expo to be held January 24-26 here in town. I’m psyched. This will be my first trade show and I’ve been taking notes from Lisa Suttora’s WhatdoISell audio training on how to navigate trade shows. She tells about [...]
So Much Vintage Jewelry To Sell
This morning I started thinking about goals for 2009, and decided that getting my jewelry inventory listed for sale would be a good start. So I dumped it all out & started to sort. But before I did I took this photo, which is about half of the box. So now I have a list [...]
Mindset Matters
This afternoon I listened to a webinar called “Mindset Matters” given by Lisa Suttora, founder of WhatDoISell.com. This came at a perfect time for me. I have to admit that the past few weeks I’ve had days when I question my ability to do on-line sales. Between the economy and the ebay foolishness my sales [...]
My Strageties For The New Ebay Promotions
I’ve been doing some testing with the new Fixed Price 30 format and the free shipping that Ebay is offering now and have decided for my particular niche it isn’t really helping my business. There are a lot of variables involved and I haven’t officially calculated any profit or fee savings using high tech formulas [...]
My New Life As An Entrepreneur
Today I officially gave my resignation notice at Ernst & Young, the accounting firm where I’ve worked for the past 12 years. I’m scared to death but I’m determined to make a life for myself as an entrepreneur. This was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made and very emotional for me. I’ll be [...]
