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#97689 - 12/05/06 02:03 AM
for sale at BWS?
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Registered: 11/11/04
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Loc: Colorado
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Hi Dotsie, should we have a member "For Sale" forum? I have pendants I'd love to sell to BWS sisters at a discount.
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#97690 - 12/05/06 02:08 AM
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[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 10/08/04
Posts: 1274
Loc: MD
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Hello Lynnie, Good to hear from you and I second that motion and sounds good to me .
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#97691 - 12/05/06 05:11 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Sadie]
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Registered: 09/29/06
Posts: 80
Loc: Midwest
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I have a website and Make Fortune Cookie Soaps! www.bathbuddys.comNancy
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#97692 - 12/05/06 07:42 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Bathbuddys]
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Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 992
Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii
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Lynnie, sounds like a great idea : ) Cindy
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#97695 - 12/06/06 02:59 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Edelweiss]
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Registered: 11/11/04
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Loc: Colorado
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Dotsie, what do you think? I'd love to see what our sisters are sharing without having to go to each web site. We use each others' services, too. Hannelore, if you click on my web site and go to the products page you will see the pendants. Thanks for asking!
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#97696 - 12/06/06 07:56 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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I have always been interested in purchasing my BWS sisters' books but it seems to be that they are only available by way of Amazon or some other similar agent. I would really like a signed copy. Is there a way that we can go about that and still purchase by way of PayPal system? As I live across the pond, purchase and shipment via PayPal will make the process much easier for me. Or is there another way that I am being too shortsighted to plan around? Western Union perhaps? If that is an agent accessible to any. Would all the writers please revert to my post when able?
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#97700 - 12/06/06 04:22 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 03/22/05
Posts: 4876
Loc: Canada
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Lola, many of the women here do sell their books off of their own websites using Paypal (like me). I'm an avid Paypal user now - I prefer it to using a credit card over the Internet. I think there are a few who also sell directly via email and personal cheques (like me). I don't know if that helps at all...the best way to go about it is to contact the authors directly and just ask them what they can do for you.
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#97701 - 12/06/06 07:40 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Eagle Heart]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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Hi, Louisa, JJ and Eagle: Many thanks for the quick response. I could easily purchase your books online but I want a signed copy which I am not sure to have otherwise. I now hope to do this direct from you. Could you please set aside a signed copy for me which I intend to purchase by way of Western Union which is the most expedient method of payment under the circumstances. Could you also please quote me full amount by way of PM inclusive of postage and shipping costs. I still have your addresses from the card exchange list and would gladly send off payment as soon as I hear from you. Please mind to label it as printed matter as well.
Carousel Kisses A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Throne Eagle Born to Fly
Eagerly awaiting for copies of the above!
Could I purchase other books from the rest as well?
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#97702 - 12/06/06 10:39 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Lola, my book is also available via my website via Paypal, like Eagle. I also sell my books from the trunk of my car, like JJ! I LOVE to send signed copies directly from my home. It is so personal. Hey, you all, I found my book for sale on Ebay. Some person who collects books is selling a used copy of my book. The listing says "signed by the author." I think this individual got a copy of my book because I donated a copy to the local domestic violence agency. The agency puts EVERYTHING they get up on ebay for funds! Anyway, one day while I was volunteering, I saw my book on the desk of the person at the DV agency who puts the stuff on Ebay. I wondered what it was doing at her desk because I knew this person wasn't reading it. All I can hope is that the signed copy flys with angels into the hands of someone who really needs the book. How's that for tracking my own book?
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#97703 - 12/06/06 10:44 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Girlfriends, I think I put Dotsie on the spot by asking if we could have a sales forum. There must be a reason why this hasn't been done before. So we'll just keep the dialogue going amongst our boomer selves as to what talents, gifts, and abilities we have to offer rather than asking Dotsie for a decision she probably already thought about. Oh, Hannelore, the pendant is the only item for sale on my site other than the book right now. I have bunch of pendants that I made for a fundraiser luncheon for a domestic violence agency. I was supposed to be the key note speaker. Then, the agency did not have the funds to have the fundraiser, and I had already paid for the parts and made the pendants. The agency and I were to split the profit from the pendants (if any) after my costs were covered. Well, I made all these pendants, then the luncheon was cancelled. They are called "A Drop for TEARS."
Edited by Lynnie (12/06/06 10:45 PM)
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#97704 - 12/07/06 12:19 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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Hi, Lynnie: I have been trying to PM you! I'd love to purchase your book. And yes, a signed copy is very personal and those that I have, I am very possessive of.
I also reckon your proposed sales forum is a splendid idea in that anyone who has anything to offer can, at the very least, be found in one common section where they can put up a link to their website. It makes it easier to navigate through as well as it allows for time to serve purposes of exploration into what each BWS sister has to offer against demand. I presume, most shop online anyway. Unless, of course "Recommended Links" already serves that purpose. Personally, I find RL very time consuming for purposes of "window shopping" because of the many other links tied up to it. I have jumped from RL to Arts & Crafts to Books at Main Page etc. I would have loved to have purchased my Christmas cards here.
Anyway, just a thought from my end without meaning to impose.
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#97705 - 12/07/06 12:40 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Hi Lola, I just changed my preference for email so that I can get emails from my boomer friends. I will go to the post office tomorrow to see how much the postage is to London. Are you an American living in the UK? You did not impose anything except a good idea.
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#97706 - 12/07/06 12:44 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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Hi, Lynnie: Yankee as a doodle. I am from Manhattan but have been living in London for nearly 17 years.
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#97709 - 12/07/06 03:44 AM
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#97710 - 12/09/06 05:40 AM
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Registered: 11/11/04
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Loc: Colorado
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Lola, I thought I sent you a PM but apparently I did not hit the send button. I found the WU closest to me. I brought the book into the PO and asked how much to London. Fast is $10.00. Slow boat is 5.00 and that means 4-5 weeks. PM me and let me know what you'd like to do. You will have a great collection of books from babyboomers in your homeland!
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#97711 - 12/09/06 06:44 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Princess Lenora]
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The Divine Ms M
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 4894
Loc: Orange County, California
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Lola, my book is available only through me, and OF COURSE every copy is signed! Businesswoman that I am, I take all forms of legal USA payment except for food stamps, first-borns, and ex-husbands (there's a reason why they're EX!) Since it's paperback, shipping would be $3.35 airmail letter post (4-7 days.) Ladies in the USA, if you have a scale, you can figure out postage at home at www.usps.com Be sure to weigh it with packaging.
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#97712 - 12/09/06 10:04 AM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: meredithbead]
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Registered: 07/06/06
Posts: 1521
Loc: Alabama
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Lola,
My book is available signed through my website. Like most of these ladies, I take credit cards over the web (not paypal) and I take checks...I agree with Lola on the first-borns and ex-husbands...food stamps I might consider!
And Bertha would love to go to London to see the Queen...sorry JJ...there is another one!
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#97716 - 12/09/06 11:51 PM
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[Re: Louisa]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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I must apologise for posting this here but find it more expedient than indiviual PM's as the information falls under same circumstances. Do I take it that all quotes are final and inclusive of air mail postage to London? I went to Western Union today and "que horror" they were charging me £12.00 per transaction! As a result, US$ Amex Travellers Cheques by "signed for delivery priority mail" will be sent off on Monday for the books. Post offices close at 1:00 P.M. on Saturdays here. Post should reach you by Friday if not sooner. Many thanks.
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#97721 - 12/10/06 04:23 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Louisa]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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I actually checked US postal rates online so that I could have a fair idea of what shipping costs would be and gosh, I came away from their website confused than enlightened. Too many variable rates to apply. I understand why there would be different rates. Postal workers probably are just as baffled.
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#97726 - 12/12/06 03:03 AM
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[Re: Louisa]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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BWSisters, we are so LUCKY that our LOLA in Englad wants to read our books! Each of us has a very different book. Mine is so serious, while JJ's is a humor. Thank you LOLA for your interest in what we are writing here in the USA. I took my book to the post office and told the clerk "How much to send this to London?" and he gave me the aforementioned information. (see above post) I have sent stuff overseas by boat, and it took up to 3 months. Never again will I do that! Oh, the clerk did say there is no media mail for international. Just slow boat or fast air. I also had media mail in the US take FOREVER to get to its destination, and the books arrived torn and tattered, even though I used a bubble wrap. So, that's the scoop on my end!
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#97727 - 12/12/06 03:23 AM
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[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 07/11/04
Posts: 2132
Loc: MA
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And mine is somewhere in between The clerk at the PO called it an "air letter." Louisa
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#97728 - 12/12/06 05:26 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: Louisa]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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Would there be a difference if books were sent off as parcel post? The UK still have book rates under "printed matter" with flat rates against weight, 1st & 2nd class, air/surface mail. Remember "84 Charing Cross Road"? The US postal service does not seem to have resolved from then so, we're in good company.
Postage aside. I was able to purchase Meredith's book by way of PaylPal through an account outside her business website. That was quite straightforward and fast with no surcharges like Western Union or other agents akin to it. Faster than "snail mail" as well. Eagle has also just posted a request at the Tech forum relating to adjustment of shipping costs on her PayPal to accommodate direct overseas orders which could be another possibility to be explored for the proposed sales forum.
As BWS grows further and membership increases overseas, so would interest in your books. We currently have friends from as far as New Zealand and Australia. So, the potential for a wider readership is there for all of you. The many books that have been written by BWS writers, as I have discovered by reading about most of them and in correspondence with you at the forums, have been written from the heart and touch on particular subjects which have universal spirit, thoughts and application. I am sure that there will be a few more from overseas in the future who will be as happy as I am to have a copy of some, if not most, of the books here. May all continue to write and I am looking forward to all your books in all forms of literature, prose and poetry.
And, JJ: You are so very kind. Truly da Queen! .
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#97729 - 12/12/06 05:43 PM
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[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Lola, you bring up some very good points in regards to international membership of BWS. I like what you said about our books being from the heart, and having universal spirit.
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#97732 - 12/14/06 03:47 AM
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Wow, thanks Dotsie! This is going to be so much fun.
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#97733 - 12/14/06 07:02 AM
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[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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My first book arrived yesterday. The Eagle has landed! It shared its journey with me and I discovered most wonderfully how, in its flight, the Eagle soars very close to God's face. I could almost hear the whispers between them. I am touched.
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#97736 - 12/14/06 09:23 PM
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[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 07/11/04
Posts: 2132
Loc: MA
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Mine is on its way, Lola. Looks like you'll be busy reading for a while I got your lovely card today. I think that brings me up to 18 now. Louisa
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#97739 - 12/20/06 07:57 PM
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[Re: Dancing Dolphin]
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Registered: 11/24/06
Posts: 2930
Loc: Belfast/Northern Ireland
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lynne
good paintings i also like the one with the leaves the best.
Your certinly gonna flower into full bloom next year lynne keep at it. It takes guts!!!
love celtic_flame
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#97740 - 12/22/06 08:19 PM
Re: for sale at BWS?
[Re: celtic_flame]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Thanks for the compliments. The leaves are dramatic, the ocean scene is mystical. Yes, Celtic, it does take guts. This year, I am going to listen to my gut and go for it, whatever it is!
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#97741 - 12/22/06 09:11 PM
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[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Queen of Shoes
Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
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Yet another great talent on this site. Beautiful Lynnie. Anything I would paint would look like someone held the brush between their toes. Those painting elephants can do better than me.
I stand amazed at the talent here.
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#97743 - 12/23/06 07:08 PM
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[Re: Edelweiss]
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Thanks Hannelore. The reason why the paintings are so modestly priced is because as a seller I want to build feedback on Ebay. Feedback is like having a good review on a book. I'd like to have some sales that are modestly priced to build up the sales and the positive feedback. Also, I wanted to encourage an auction because people get caught up in the bidding process.
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#97744 - 12/24/06 12:18 AM
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[Re: Princess Lenora]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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Got your book today, Meredith. Many thanks.
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#97745 - 12/24/06 04:47 AM
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[Re: Lola]
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The Divine Ms M
Registered: 07/07/03
Posts: 4894
Loc: Orange County, California
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