Ebay - Website - Holiday deadlines

We have been putting in the effort to get a number of fun miniature post and dangle sterling silver earrings on eBay. We currently have about 145 different items listed and on some of the designs, we have more than one in stock. We have decided to list the items on fixed price instead of doing the auction format. In most cases, the post earrings will start at $9.99 and the dangle earrings will start at $11.99. Also, we are continuing the free shipping on regular mail in the U.S. Click here to see our eBay listings.

We are hoping to add another 25 styles of earrings to eBay by the end of this week. Some will be miniatures and some will be Christmas designs.

Some charm and pendant styles have been removed from our regular website. We are doing this since stock was out or very limited on these items. We will be separating our show stock from our website stock completely so if an item is limited online, email us at aldagifts@msn.com with the item number in the subject line and we will check if we have more of that item in our show stock. Check out our website by clicking here.

We also want to let our customers online know that we will be closed from December 21-25, 2008. We will be selling at the Portland VA Hospital on December 22-24 but will close early on the 24th in order to get back home. The last date for mail orders to ship out will be December 20, 2008. Express (overnight) and Priority mail will be available.

Seattle VA Hospital Show

This week, we will be set up for 4 consecutive days at the VA Hospital in Seattle, WA. Normally, we don't do more than 3 days but due to the Monday holiday, we were asked to do the rest of the week. During this hectic week, mail orders will still be shipped out but it will be difficult to reach us by phone during the day. Best to leave a message with an evening or weekend time for us to call back.

Ebay free shipping sale on sterling silver earrings

We are back doing shows again and spent most of this week selling at the American Lake VA Hospital in Lakewood, WA. We did well with the jewelry especially our selection of men's sterling silver rings as well as our Harvey canes. We also brought out some of the Native American made pottery that we purchased in the Four-corners area of New Mexico. The pottery is Navajo made and comes with their certificates of authenticity. We will try to bring a few smaller pottery items to the college shows that we do later this week.



We have been busy adding more items to our eBay store as well as continuing to run a free shipping special for our post and dangle miniature earrings. We are currently relisting the pairs that did not sell during the first auctions but appeared popular in the searches. Other pairs that did not show much traffic have been moved to the Buy It Now category in the store inventory. We are offering a Best Offer on these for folks who want to get a small discount, especially if they are purchasing multiple pairs. (We have the settings set for a minimum price but if you are planning on purchasing at least 5 pairs, we can negotiate an even better deal.)



We are hoping to relist the dangle earrings this week as well as any duplicate pairs of some of the earrings that sold in the first auction. We are running this special to clear our stock. Some earrings are already sold out while we still have multiple pairs for some of the other designs.



We are also in the process of getting out some fun, miniature Christmas earrings including several Santa designs, a cute Christmas stocking, reindeer and more. We have a few pair of Halloween designs that we are making a priority to list this week. If they don't sell in a 7-day auction, we will move them to our booth in South Tacoma Antiques and Collectibles south of Tacoma, WA. More information on our shows and the antique store are found by going to our main website http://www.aldajewelryandgifts.com/.