Feb

27

Blackwells now has a journal on AOL, so feel free to visit us there and chat.
We would love to hear from you! The journal is: http://journals.aol.com/howtostopebay/how-to-stop-ebay/

Don’t forget you can sell all your items, jewelry, collectibles, stamps, coins, antiques, clothing, furniture – it doesn’t matter what it is – all items are only $2.99 each to sell on Blackwells Live Auction.com.

See you at the auction!!

Feb

24

If you want change, if you want to sell your items online, then it may be time for a
change – it is time for you to try a LIVE Online Auction.
  Do you want to sell now with a live online auction or sometime later? The answer: NOW!
  The following is a compare/contrast example from Blackwells Live Auction.com on the benefits of a live auction over a static auction.
 
Live Auctions: How to aggressively go after a buyer:
 
1. Items are showcased in a preview for up to 14 days.
 
2. Your Item is presented at a Live Auction for Sale.
 
3.  Your item is sold or not sold and you will know immediately. Your item will have a great chance of selling as it will be presented to the Internet in a Live Auction Setting, where competitive bidding prevails. Live Auctions are the best.
 
4. Not all items sell right away. Some of the reasons: price too high, quality is an  issue, not the right buyers at the auction. This can happen at any auction.
 
5. Tip: You can rotate your inventory on our site until you find the right buyers to bid for your item.
 
 Being aggressive means you search for a buyer.
 
Static Online Auctions: Passively waiting until a buyer shows up
 
1.  Show your item on a static page.
 
2.  Put a buy price on it or let it gather bids.
 
3.  Hope someone that wants it, finds it.
 
4.  Hope you do not have to negotiate.
 
5.  Hope you make a sale.
 
This type of selling is stagnant and lacks the charm, suspense and excitement of a Real Live Auction.
 
 Being passive means you wait for a buyer to come along.
  The benefit of a live, online auction: They are good for the seller as well as the buyer. The buyer finds what they want at a fair auction price. Visit an online auction site today: www.blackwellsliveauction.com

Feb

20

NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy - presents its Interior and Product design summer programs for the year 2008.
(I-Newswire) - Be part of a team made of young International designers and start creating and developing a project in Milan, the cutting edge of creativity!

NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts - offers a wide choice of Summer courses in Interior and Product Design at two levels: Introduction and Studio.

If you have just finished highschool and your dream is to be an Interior designer Introduction to Interior Design Course ( from June 30th to July 11th ) is what you are looking for. Start your personal research, recognize the different typologies of living spaces and interact with the city in order create your own interior lay out through drawings, pictures and texts!
And if you are already an interior design student, do not miss the chance to stimulate your creativity and improve your knowledge getting new inputs from NABA instructors, who are all professionals actively working in the world of Design, and apply for Interior Design Studio Course ( from July 15th to July 25th ). You will develop your project starting from your own research and will be led by instructors to the presentation of your project through digital media and hand drawing.

Have you ever asked yourself how objects are designed and created? Have you ever thought what a design process is? Enrol to Introduction to Product Design ( from June 30th to July 11th )  and let creativity lead you through the development of your project from a white sheet of paper to a final presentation in digital format.
Participate to seminars and visit design studios and get acquainted to the culture of Product design in Milan!
Would you like to work in a team under the supervision of an established designer, attend specific workshops focused on materials, case studies and history of design? Attending Product Design Studio ( from 15th to July 25th ) you will explore and understand the main aspects of Product Design and will able to present and discuss your project in a public debate.

Introduction level courses ( from June 30th to July 11th ) are aimed at whoever wants to start exploring the world of Design, whereas Studio level courses are meant for Design college students at 1st,2nd, 3rd  year and for professionals who would like to have a refreshing experience in a young international environment.

What are you waiting for? Make your project for this Summer!
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More Information www.design-summer-courses.com/interior-design-courses
 

Feb

20

(I-Newswire) - Most of us want to update our living space once in a while. The monotony of the seeing the same decor year after year forces even the most languid of us to try for a change in decor. Besides, if you last decorated your house in the 80’s, you may be tempted by the incredibly attractive options of home decoration offered now. If it is the cost that has been keeping you from trying to redecorate, you can rest easy. This article will show you that it is possible to redecorate your house on a shoestring budget. Read on to find out how.

One of the cardinal rules in redecoration of the house on a budget is to have a specific goal in mind. Unless you know exactly how you want the house to look finally, you may continue on a wild goose chase, thereby wasting a lot of money on things you do not want. Study each of the rooms in your house and try to understand what is making your rooms look renovation worthy. Is your bedroom too cluttered with many bedroom furniture pieces? Do you want your living room to look formal? Would you prefer a soothing environment in your house or an energizing one?

Once you have understood what is wrong with your current decorations and decided exactly how you want the newly decorated house to look, the process of refurnishing will get much easier. Moreover, you may realize that you may have to remove a few items to give your house a clean look. This could mean you actually earn money by selling those pieces while redecorating your home!

Another way to ensure that you change the look of each room without spending a ton is to change the wall color. You could also get attractive wallpapers that can update any room dramatically. With a dash of eye popping color any room can have an instant face lift, saving you the cost of new decorative pieces. You could also use interesting fabrics to throw on sofa sets or hang on a wall. A great way to stay within budget is to write down everything you need for the house decor. Note down the wall color you think will look best or the type of wallpaper that you would love to have. Once you have jotted these things, you will not be tempted into buying other things in the store.

A little research of home accessories and furniture stores will help you save a lot of money too. You can check out the auction sites that offer great decorative pieces at very low price. There are other auctions like estate auctions where you may find not only great furniture pieces but also other knick knacks like wall hangings, photo frames, mirrors, vases and even appliances. Remember to check the condition of every object before buying.

You could also visit the yard sales and garage sales that offer many opportunities to get items at throwaway prices. So keep your eyes and ears open for any information about sales relating to home decor. With a little effort and lots of creativity, you will be able to transform your old home into a new one.

Visit : http://www.gowfb.com

Feb

17

(I-Newswire) - Every challenge coin collector is out there looking for the best deal on a challenge coin and there is no doubt going to a real estate sale is usually the best, not everyone can go to one. The next best thing is an online auction and there are so many but not for coins. You will find two sites on the website auctioning challenge coins and they are eBay and Challenge Coin Auctions .com. eBay is the one that everyone knows and shops. The latter is an upcoming auction people are starting to take notice of. Finding a deal is not the easiest thing out there because of the vastness and saturation of the market. People are just making coins just to make coins.

Knowing your price scale for coins can be an important thing along with being able to distinguish between a remake and the real thing. The best thing currently to defend against getting the wrong thing after you paid the price is belonging to an informative community. A lot of people don’t realize how important both of these ideas are in being successful. Just sitting in front of your computer buying away without ever being a part of the bigger picture is like your first day at school and no one to send you off on your first ride on the school bus. It’s a dangerous market with things like the mass production coming from Korea. People think they are buying an authentic 4 Star Gneral’s coin and they are really getting an unapproved copy of one instead. These things can be avoided when at the auction block. 

The previous example was a great example of how a community could easily have stepped in and someone like myself that has full knowledge of the coins coming out of Korea ( because I was stationed there ) could have saved you the $10 when you thought you were getting a coin worth $300 at a steal. Instead you get a coin at a counterfiet price. How you would like to be paid at the end of the week for 40 hours of work in fake $20 bills? The answer is always that you wouldn’t.  Take a step back and think before you get out there with your wallet at either challenge coin auction site and remember you have support waiting in the wings, all you have to do is google the words :challenge coin group” or “challenge coin trading” to get you in the right direction. 

This process all together doesn’t take long and you will find a lot of great people. A little advice though is never use the forum only to your benefit. If you contribute back enough you will reap better results from people versus a take only relationship. One day you will find yourself helping someone new in the hobby as well as you found yourself on day one. You gain a lot of pride and enjoyment out of the whole process and find the hobby experience multiple.  Never forget that if you have the time to bid then you have the time to ask people about what you may be bidding on.

Feb

17

(I-Newswire) - If you’re wondering how to fix registry problems on your computer, you’re not alone.  This is a common problem among users of Windows computers.

The fact is that cleaning the registry and fixing registry errors doesn’t have to be difficult.

A new web article by RegistryRepairSolutions is helping computer users fix their registry problems quickly and easily.

For more information please visit:

http://www.registryrepairsolutions.com/how-do-i-fix-registry-problems-on-my-computer.html

Feb

14

Hope everyone has a sweet, sweet day!

Feb

14

Window Shopping Fun

February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I’m not sure why it is so nice to collect things like stamps, toys, watches and antiques, but it just is. I know I am not alone in this because it is a big business.

Not too long ago my daughter wanted to buy some vintage clothes so we headed off to some second-hand stores and it turned out to be a great experience. While she was looking at clothes, I was looking at “stuff!”

 I found some amazing watches ( I am a watch collector) and some great antique chairs. On this trip I didn’t buy anything, it was merely a window-shopping trip, but my daughter did find some vintage coats she liked.

One of the coats was a brown and black fur coat. While we assume the coat was fake due to the price tag, she is thrilled just the same and I am happy to know no one will be picketing our house over killing little loveable animals. I live on a farm by the way, so they would probably quickly realize we would never buy real fur.

On our shopping trip we also found a blue cape that was worn by some famous lady who ran some famous benefit ball in the 1950s. We weren’t familiar with the lady or the ball, but the $375 price tag stopped us regardless.

The best thing about our day of looking at “stuff” was that when we go back again, or go online, we will find all new stuff next time. I would love to find a really old watch worn by someone famous while conducting a famous benefit…but if I don’t find it, I can always buy a cape.

Feb

13

By Jan Westmark

When it comes to owning automobiles I think I am in a class all by myself. In fact, if I was smart I would check in the Guiness Book of World Records to see if I could find a category to win such as “Car owner who has had the most cars with big glass windows.”

It all started my senior of high school. I was 16 and I really wanted a jeep. My dad said no, but I could have his bright, neon yellow Gremlin. Gee, thanks dad. So for my whole senior year I drove the yellow Gremlin and looked like I was a wannabe school bus driver. All the glass on the Gremlin made it easy to see me, so there was no hiding from the fact that I was the driver. I should have taken that car to an auction and saved my pride, but I knew the auction guys would laugh at me so I didn’t.

Somehow I managed to survive that ordeal and make it to college, meet a guy and get married. (Of course I never told him about the Gremlin, tht would have sent  him running!) Then the car we had broke down and being poor college students we were in a big jam. My new husband’s stepdad was a Cadillac dealer and called us up and said he had a car we could have.

 Whooppeee!! A cadillac, we were in heaven. Until we saw the car, which wasn’t exactly a Cadillac but instead, and prepare yourself for this, a Pacer station wagon. Gee, thanks stepdad. The car curse continues!! If you thought a Gremlin was bad, imagine now driving around college in a Pacer station wagon. We looked like an experiment gone bad from NASA!! Again we were too horrified to even take it to an auction.

The amount of window cleaner needed to keep the vast amount of windows in the Pacer was out of our budget, so we just drove around humiliated and with smudges on the windows!

That was 20 years ago and thankfully I have never owned another car with that much glass. But I did buy stock in Windex and became very wealthy all as a result of those two cars. Ok, not really, instead I just learned that it doesn’t matter what you drive, it just matters how fast you can jump out of it and run away when someone is looking that counts!

Feb

13

(I-Newswire) - Myrtle Creek, Oregon – Addressing the growing interest of casual and serious teddy bear collectors, Patricia Twitchell announced the opening of the Just Bears and Stuff eBay store. With well over 1,000 items available for immediate purchase, Patricia Twitchell aka The Teddy Bear Lady of Myrtle Creek, has one of the largest selections of Boyd’s Bears on eBay. Also available are Bearington, Cottage Collectibles, Deb Canham, Fairie Glens, Pooh, Steiff and much, much more.
To visit the store and view the full selection go to http://stores.ebay.com/bearwatch-aka-Just-Bears-and-Stuff or go to eBay and search with the words “bearwatch aka Just Bears and Stuff”.
“I am not new to selling teddy bears. I opened Just Bears and Stuff Gift Shop, located in Myrtle Creek, Oregon in 1993. As the market needs changed and the Internet became a huge part of our market reach we saw the need to open our eBay store,” says the Teddy Bear Lady of Myrtle Creek.
The response to the eBay store has exceeded all expectations. With new items being posted daily, shoppers will find an incredible selection for virtually any taste.

Patricia Twitchell
541.863.6037
manager@justbearsandstuff.com

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