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Ship *  * Worldwide
When the United States Postal Service postal rates changed in 2007, surface
packets to foreign countries disappeared and international Global Priority was broadened to include special boxes
in which may be included MANY
books, etc. weighing as many pounds / kilos fit into the box.
For one or two books, the old special mailer was still available.
They changed rates again on 18 January 2009 -- the following reflect these new shipping costs
Unless noted otherwise in the item description,
ALL shipments to the United States are sent via Priority with Tracking = $6.10 **
Canada / Mexico are sent
via Global
Priority
= $11.35 ** other countries are also sent via
Global
Priority
= $13.35
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to this seller talking to YOU,
personally, about his awesome items --
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It's never too early to beat
the 2009
Christmas rush!
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To make my item descriptions somewhat easier
to load, navigate and read, I have moved all of the details of
my after
- the - sale information, such as How to Pay, How
I Ship, Where I Ship To,
and other useful information in English
and Spanish to a different web page, which
opens in a new browser window for convenience
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A collector packrat of MANY things since a teenager,
from clocks, paintings, drawings and sculptures, seashells and
fossils, autographs -- and books about these things! I call all
of my goodies my JUNK or TREASURES, meaning
anything that I really like and find inspiration in -- and learn
something from!
I have degrees in science (geology/palaeontology =
fossils) from the US and Spain, and the acquired research
skills carry over in ALL of the goodies which I still actively collect.
A lot of the things in my collections have
animal motifs. Beanies and plush bears
are cute, cuddly and imaginative, relatively inexpensive and just
plain fun! I also raised
Seal Point
Siamese and Sphynx cats, and had a Koi pond with some really
big fish -- my pets have included bats, a chinchilla, raccoons,
snakes, a tarantula named Hillary, scorpions a pal collected in the Sahara,
Amphisbenids, and Picnogonids as well as other sea critters I collected
myself along the New Jersey shore!
I taught science for over 30 years, from
the grade school level to graduate courses at a Spanish University
-- and had to retire prematurely due to disability. My sales of toys, books from my personal library,
art works and other items from my nearly 50 years of collecting helps pay the PILES of bills which the partial
pension falls short of covering! Unfortunately,
while still teaching, I used my credit cards to their limits, and I can never seem
to keep up with the continuing monthly payments, which like God, seem to be infinite!
PLEASE remember that a friend, who MAY visit once or twice a week,
does me a non-paid favor and takes my stuff to the post office for shipping
(as mentioned in my winner's email) -- I RARELY leave
the apartment due to my arthritic hip - and relatively recently
developed computer
butt. Your new goodies are ALWAYS sent
as quickly as is humanly possible. IF you are in a really big hurry,
along with your payment send me a FUNCTIONAL Star Trek
teleporter module for instantaneous
teleporting (please send module REGISTERED
to ensure delivery as my mail service isn't
the best!).
Would you believe that I really have fun
at this eBay thing (in spite
of the enormous workload and frequent frustration -- maybe I am
just a masochist?). Someone else will appreciate and learn from
an item which has meaning for me, and it does give me a nice warm feeling inside
to think that they will continue enjoying some my stuff even after
I am gone <<sniff>> !
It takes me MANY sleepless nights
to do a small batch of my items (SunCat
is a ONE MAN venture -- EXCEPT for the shipping part), and I always attempt to make
the blurbs as informative, and sometimes as humorous as possible,
within socially/politically-incorrect norms (you may have noticed?)
-- always experimenting with different fonts, COLORS and formats to present them
as appetizing to graze as I can. MOOOOOOOOOO
I do not just sell stuff -- I try to introduce
a friend, my
item, to the viewers, adding historical,
personal and other details when I can, and am constantly searching
the WWW for information about things to be able to make my item
descriptions more of a learning experience rather than just a
simple 2-line ad in the FOR SALE section
of any local newspaper -- maybe it's the result of my years of
teaching experience?
And PLEASE do NOT refer in your feedback to what you win as MERCHANDISE
and that you thoroughly enjoyed your BUSINESS transaction! I am anything
BUT a merchant or business man, and I am ONLY offering my own personal
treasures 1) to help pay off some of my many recurring bills and
feed the kittys -- 2) I could use the room and don't want to break a leg
tripping over boxes of goodies -- 3) since I rarely
go out, it gives me something to do -- 4) it helps me
take my mind off many things, perhaps MORE important, that I rarely
seem to get around to doing - thanks to eBay!
Apple Computer first came
out with the Macintosh in the 1980s.
I have worked with several always cutting edge and extremely innovative
models over the years (hey, and they
all still work purrrrrfectly! -- oh, yeah,
I have also used those copycat clunkers/foot warmers from the Dark Side, and quite frankly, they really do suck! No wonder
I usually see them hidden
under a table rather than sitting on top!).
I presently use 2 different Macs
for my eBay pics and item descriptions -- and four information-packed
WWW domains / web sites. Since I am definitely NOT MENSA material, I wouldn't know html if it byte me -- so I use Adobe PageMill to do
my web pages and eBay item blurbs FOR ME (incidently, you
too can find this fabulous easy-to-use software
right here on eBay, and usually at a really cheapo price!) My first web
domain is over 7 years old, and has developed from several pages
of things I am interested in to a virtual labyrinth of subjects
and hopefully useful FREE information which is
updated regularly. Hey -- and none of those cutesy shopping carts
or paid advertising crap on MY sites! (old-fashioned
me, huh?)
** STOP IN AND VISIT ME SOME TIME **
An
Eclectic Experience is filled with all
kinds of personal tidbits about me and my collections -- as well
as my own brand of humor and somewhat meticulous, sometimes convoluted
sense of presentation. And while you are there, CHECK
OUT what
I hope may be helpful hints for successful
online * buying * selling * trading *, including auctions,
WITH samples of
forms for organizing your hobbies, files and even cataloging your
collections.
I added a section on the PITFALLS of online deals,
just to give you an idea of what may go wrong -- and sometimes
does!! Boy, do I have to update THAT part one of these days
-- and add many illustrated details about the US Postal Service and their really
sucky service!
* * NEW * * -- After I reached
the big 3000 feedback mark I started issuing Cat  Dollars!
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Who
reads  books anymore?
Anybody who has an ongoing active interest
in any subject, be it antiques, art, jewelry, toys, sports, pets,
photography or collectibles of any flavor! Since before the Library
of Alexandria until now, collectors, those who sell things, students
and researchers need this info for obvious reasons. After a few
years, your book shelves, filing cabinets and drawers of index
cards become filled -- not to mention the space that these storage
artifacts take up.
I have many and wide-ranging interests
and tried to read/learn as much as I could about them -- I have
always been a real data/info packrat, and preferred having the
books right on my own shelves rather than looking for them at
a distant library and having to return them again! My book shelves
must number at least 100 (not even counting the scores of boxes!),
and I have 10 five-drawer legal-size filing cabinets overflowing
with stuff!
You may notice the frequent mention of
personal computer database in a lot of my item descriptions.
THINK ABOUT IT -- how many books, index cards and file folders
filled with info do you have on your favorite topic? How long
does it take you to find a specific thing when you really have
to? Now imagine that all of this information, including pics,
could be contained on one or a couple CD/DVDs, which take up
very little space -- and you only have to type in a search word
or two (just as you do on eBay) to have everything that is related,
from all those reference sources right in front of you on your
computer screen in an instant! How I wish I could have started
the database thing 20 years ago - but the smaller/faster computers/laptops
and the present day possibilities of refined easy to use relational
database application programs weren't even imaginable back then!
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MY
PAL ADDING NEW ITEMS ON eBay
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SI, los
dos podemos leer y escribir el español y el alemán |
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YAWOHL,
beide können deutsch und spanisch lesen und schreiben |
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BUT, sometimes
we both have a problem with freekin' English! |
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This
page was updated with the help of an
Apple
 G5 iMac -- the Perfect Home / Office Computer
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updated on
Monday,
16 March 2009
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Stop over for a bite *  * I'd love
to have you for dinner!
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As an additional treat, any winning bidder who has taken
the time to read down this far will receive a 50 cent discount on all winning bids
on items in 2009
-- all they have to do is request
SunCat's 2009 Treat with
their acknowledgment email and they can simply deduct that amount
from their payment. Thank you very much, and I wish you and yours
a purrrrrrfectly Happy,
Healthy and Peaceful 2009.
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