McCabe Sterling Silver Belt Buckle Sunset Trails. Measures 1.75" x 1.5" and fits a 3/4" belt. Good looking old hand engraved cowboy buckle. Selling two pieces shown, keeper isn't marked but obviously matches.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 and please take the time to read our short descriptions!!! If you do take the time to read this long essay thank you, and if you feel you wasted time reading it after you are done I apologize. 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. I do not call things silver and gold that are not made from precious metals, this is what we deal in. We sell millions a year at very small margins and we absolutely do not build in the excessive cost of returns into our prices. If I get more than 1 return per 20 sales I'm basically losing money and working at a negative value. One return eats up at least 10 successful sales. There is no legitimate reason for me to get any return as we put tons of work into showing sizes etc through the photos, we do not talk a lot of nonsense about each item because the time just does not exist. But also rather than charging for a super long nonsense description we are charging for extreme curation. We go through about 50x more stuff that we actually list by the piece and sell it in bulk lots to bring you the best. 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. At this point I am blocking every single buyer who returns anything on Ebay. Please do not take this personal, it is just the only way I have to protect myself and my business as I know it may surprise some but there are lots of people who don't return. I have dealt with so many customers for years who never return anything, I do not misrepresent anything. I know what I am selling. And while I cannot sell curated stuff for the same prices as someone who lives at thrift stores and garage sales I am also not selling that kind of stuff. Thanks again for reading this and if I do block you for returning something please do not take it personal and feel free to reach out on my website where I charge a 5% restocking fee for returns. And please take the time to know your size, etc. Thanks so much!!!! Ian