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Bodyville

Questions on replacement balls.

Know your balls!  We sell gem balls designed as a replacement for the TOP ball on belly rings, as bottom balls are usually soldered onto steel balls.  While you can buy a gem ball and put it on the bottom, it will face DOWN, not out, as the picture on the left shows.  TOP DRILLED balls face out, and these are not generally available. 

We sell balls and ends for both 16g and 14g body jewelry.  Above you will see a comparison of sizes.  Top balls for belly rings are usually 5mm.  But we also sell smaller 4mm sizes as well as bigger 6mm and 8mm sizes.  Again, all our balls are BACK drilled, and will show straight down if put on the bottom of a belly ring.  They are great for top balls, or on any other body jewelry such as tongue barbells, labrets, twisters, etc.

How to Measure your Body Jewelry

Body jewelry is measured as a straight line between the two widest points, but never counting the threading.
Here are two examples below.

Questions regarding shipping

Shipping & Handling Costs

Shipping and handling costs have skyrocketed for shippers.  After the "forever stamp" was created, delivery tracking costs doubled, even though postage only went up a few cents.  What a surprise that first week.  To top it off, fees are ever increasing, listing fees, final value fees, store fees, plus our packaging costs.  We use bubble padded envelopes, plus bubble out bags.  If you look for these items at the post office, or office supply store, you'd understand why the shipping costs are what they are.  Then of course there is the cost of paper and ink and labels for printing packing slips and postage labels.  It all adds up pretty fast.

Delivery Time

We ship 1st class from Portland Oregon.  Delivery time is about a day for CA and WA and about 5 business days for east coast states.  For Canada and just about anywhere outside the US, average time is 2 weeks and in some cases 3 weeks.

 

 BODYVILLE was born after my teenage daughter got a belly ring, and started spending a ton of money at the mall for body jewelry.  which was a LOT more fun. I love getting to know people from all over the world, and I think it shows in my feedback. Outstanding customer service with great E-mail communication and fast shipping is critical with us. Having a great time doing it is pure icing. :)  Although we have an online presence, for Bodyville, we are currently selling most of our products on Ebay. 

Through Bodyville we are able to sell sizes of replacement bars and balls that nobody else carries, and we were soon shipping all over the world.  Then we were contacted by an imaging studio to specifically make maternity belly rings of a certain length.  While we had been doing this previously with 16mm long PTFE tongue ring bars, we saw that others were now offering bars of an inch and 2 inches long.  It was an effortless transition, and we decided to emphasize the maternity side of things, and while we sell a few items on Ebay, we are one of the top pregnancy belly ring sites on the web. 

We are now working on expanding our selections, and will be adding some exciting new things for non pierced moms who have been feeling left out.  So keep watching.  As always, if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please let us know!

Thanks again.

~Jeanne

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