Chinese Ming Dynasty Plate Blue Underglaze 8.25" a few very tiny glaze frits on<br>the sharp points and one tight hairline that extends halfway to the footrim.<br>TW132___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for your consideration, our two main goals here are to make every customer happy and prevent returns. We work really hard to show size, condition, weight, and accurately describe our items mostly through our photos. Please look at them. We are extremely picky about what enters our inventory, if it's a contemporary item it will be in like new condition. Older items like Native American jewelry that has been worn for 50+ years is expected to have wear which is considered desirable to most collectors. Fine porcelain, glass will likely be mint unless I describe otherwise. Items deemed fancy I would never offer unless in near mint condition, utilitarian pieces are expected to have wear. We put a lot of effort into curating our inventory, so really cannot typically discount single item purchases. There are so many costs associated with Ebay and when we price it's for our website without factoring in those costs. We do not mark our items up with the intention of marking them down to the first person who comes along and shows interest.
I ask you to please realize how destructive returns are to small businesses. It often takes us a very large amount of time to locate sold items, prepare for shipment, etc. That time could be put to better use like taking our kid to the park!!! So if you are the type of person who is considering a return before you have even bought this item, or who returns more than 10% of what you buy I ask that you please consider doing this to someone besides me. We lose way more than shipping both ways on a return, with the time involved it's closer to $50 average loss off each return. Also I cannot count how many times I've deleted my "out of stock" items on the Estate Fresh Austin website as a courtesy to my wholesale customers only to later have the item returned, now we have to rephotograph and list the item all over again. This is a really big deal, I realize eBay tends to encourage returns as they just want the commission and don't care about their sellers working at a negative value. So just because I am offering returns does not mean I encourage them, they should be used as absolute last resort. I tend to do repeat business outside of Ebay, for years and years I deal with people and they never return. It is always a first time customer which makes it that much more horrible as I cannot look at the loss as something that averages out, it's just a stand alone loss. If you read this far I am extremely grateful for your time and thoughtfulness, if you reach out to me and I don't answer or don't seem attentive enough then please reach out again or directly through the website. Thanks so much!!!! Ian