This cabinet photo by an unknown photographer measures 2-3/4 by 3-1/2 inches, and the image itself measures 1-1/2 by 1-7/8 inches.  It shows a little Black girl with pig tails in her hair, seated on a chair.  There is a smudge or fingerprint above her head and to the right, and some vertical lines or rub in lower left.  The card has frayed and worn corners.   Shipping includes insurance.

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Goracoin Terms of Sale

I aim to please, as you may gather from my feedback!

You agree to the following terms of sale by purchasing an item from me:

☺☺Insurance and Shipping☺☺:

Being seasonally employed in the winter (roughly November through March), I can only get to the bank and post office once or twice a week during the winter months to send out orders; this is why I stipulate the five working day (Monday through Friday) order fulfillment time in my ebay listings.  There may be up to seven calendar days between shipments due to my wintertime employment.

From the Spring through the Fall (early April through mid-November), I usually ship on the same or next day if possible.

I base my shipping charges on the cost of mailing at the local post offices (these costs can vary from one post office to another, and don’t ask me why!), the cost of packaging materials, postal insurance, fees, etc.  Sometimes I can get a good idea of shipping costs by consulting the usps website, but sometimes I actually need to go to the post office for a quote, and that can take time.

If you think my order fulfillment time is too long and/or shipping charges are too high, please understand, I do not require or force you to purchase anything from me or pay the charges.  You know the shipping time and cost up front before you click on the buy-it-now, so please don’t use ebay’s fake-a-lew feedback system to penalize me.  Ebay uses this feedback racket to justify charging sellers higher fees on their sales. Ebay does this by lowering the discount percentage on the monthly ebay seller charges.

I do my best to insure that items get to you without problems, and have learned how to best package a variety of items in over twenty-five years of mailorder selling!

Insurance is included in shipping on individual items and/or sales totalling over $20, but for lower priced items, the buyer can request and pay for postal insurance, or accept the risk of loss or damage.  Foreign buyers can either pay an extra $10 for Registered Mail or accept the risk of non-delivery. The U.S. Post Office does not offer insurance on shipments to foreign countries unless the package is sent by Registered Mail. However, Registered Mail sent overseas can only be insured for up to $43.73. If a foreign shipment requires a customs form, it will be filled in with the actual sale price of the item or items listed on it.

In my experience the post office very very rarely loses a package, but there are those rare times when items get damaged in transit.

Once a package leaves my hands at the post office, I have no control over it!

If you receive your order in a damaged condition, it is your responsibility to open a claim at your post office, and turn over the package and contents to the U. S. Post Office. I can provide you with proof of insurance. When the post office issues a claim check to you, they keep the package and contents.  I will gladly sell you a replacement if possible, but you are free to do whatever you want with the money.

If you have special packaging instructions and/or prefer to pay extra for special shipping, let me know and I will be happy to oblige.

☺☺Ebay Checkout☺☺:

If you purchase more than one lot in my sale, please do not complete the ebay checkout until I have emailed you an invoice with the reduced postage amount. When you buy more than one lot, I reduce the shipping total, and if you pay for each purchase separately, I get charged an extra 30 cents for each item by paypal.  The fees add up quickly when I’m selling items for $2.99 each! 

Please keep in mind, ebay charges me 12% on sales, which means for instance: on a $2.99 sale I pay ebay 36 cents, plus 30 more cents to paypal, plus another 9 cents (2.9%) to paypal on top of that; this does not include the monthly listing fee of 3 cents per item.  This means a cost of 75 cents on the sale of a $2.99 postcard, and that doesn’t even include the purchase cost, all of the monthly listing fees, monthly ebay store fees, and packaging materials. That is why I ask that you please wait for the invoice on multiple purchases before paying me.  Otherwise I need to add 30 cents per item to the shipping cost.

☺☺Payment forms☺☺:

Paypal is a good system for buyers, paypal and ebay, and a costly one for sellers, who pay all of the fees connected with it!   Ebay does not like “dangerous paper payments” because then they do not collect the extra paypal fees.  They decided to force all sellers to go through paypal, which I understand is half-owned by ebay; no wonder!  Please contact me if you prefer to use another form of payment besides paypal.

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Items are subject to prior sale in the very rare instance that I may forget to remove a listing after making a sale in my shop.

Seven-day return privilege on all items, return postage paid by the buyer, provided the items are returned in the same condition they were in when they were mailed to the buyer. It is the buyer’s responsibility to pay for insurance, or accept risk of loss or damage in transit.

I do not file feedback until you do, because I am not satisfied unless you are!

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, or problems with an order!

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