A Rose by any other name…
This was a bit of a surprise to us…the demand for old and previously owned perfume! Which proves the old saying, one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. This is also the fun part of our shopping for profit, discovering little known facts about the world around us.
A genuine Chic Parisien, the House of Guerlain was founded in 1828 by Pierre-François Pascal Guerlain. The first store was located in 42, rue de Rivoli, Paris. The Guerlain family owned the House until 1994 when it was sold to the LMVH group, the French luxury goods giant. As of 2008, Jean-Paul Guerlain, a fourth generation perfumer of the family, is still active as an adviser.
Shalimar (1925) was created by Jacques Guerlain (Pierre-François Pascal grandson). As its name suggests it is an oriental fragrance. In the Guerlain website it is described as a voluptuous, sensual and bewitching perfume (quote: “wearing Shalimar means surrendering control to the senses”)
Aramis is one of the oldest of the Estee Lauder Company’s more than twenty-five recognized brands, launched in 1964 as the first line of cosmetics products designed specifically for men.
The signature Tommy Hilfiger cologne was launched in 1995 and has warm scents of cinnamon and cranberry.
Calvin Klein, a pioneer of designer jeans, underwear and the wholesome, all-American look, and launched Truth Calvin Klein Men in 2002. It is a scent drawn from nature. This aromatic, sensual, woody fragrance is centered around a clean, watery, green freshness that is accented by aromatic basil and fresh cardamom. Sexy. Masculine.
Loris Azzaro (b. 1933) was a French fashion designer, known for his glamorous party dress creations for French high society women. He found success rather quickly. With his first store opening in 1962, his business had become well established by 1968. Over time he dressed many celebrities such as Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren and most recently, Nicole Kidman. In 1996, the male fragrance Chrome came onto the scene and is now one of the top selling men’s colognes in the market.
Tags: aramis, calvin, chrome, cologne, fragrance, french designer, klein, loren, perfume, scent, scents, shalimar, sophia, tommy, truth, vintage
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Posted on 17 June '10 by Leilani, under Bonanzle, eBay. No Comments.
I thought he’d have gone a lot sooner, but I guess the right person just found him.
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Posted on 21 May '10 by admin, under Announcements. No Comments.
My wife and I are new to this online selling thing, so we are constantly reevaluating our methods. Well with the major price hike that ebay has announced for March 30th, looks like a lot of sellers are reevaluating. From what I have read some sellers are saying that their cost of selling on ebay will double. A lot of sellers are saying that they will quit, that the increased costs will completely eat up any small profit margin that they had left.
In our limited experience, since our items are unusual, some, one of a kind, we are kind of stuck with the high prices at ebay. We have everything listed at Bonanzle as well, but things just don’t get seen there as much. So it goes without saying that the sales are low. But our costs after listing at Bonanzle for almost 5 months - zero dollars.
I have learned alot reading the message boards at ebay, I guess they do these rate hikes every year, and they do it very cleverly, ebay’s pricing structure seems to be written by the IRS, full of loop holes, all obviously designed to glean ebay a penny or two on each transaction. I have even noticed software glitches that always seem to error in ebay’s favor. (keep your eye on the gallery check box, it has very very annoying glitch that costs you 35 cents, regularly)
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Posted on 11 February '10 by admin, under Bonanzle, eBay. No Comments.
The biggest thing that we have learned about ebay is that it is time consuming, I thought that we would have a lot more time to write here. From what little I have had time to read on ebay’s forum boards, everybody has the same complaint, about all the time it takes to create listings and maintain them.
We are always looking for ways to speed up the process. We are using the turbo lister program that ebay gives away for free, sometimes I wonder if we don’t spend more time fighting with it, than we would listing on ebay itself. I do like the fact that all of the listings are storedfor future reference.
Thought I should publish a link, since ebay’s website is such a pain to navigate, it’s almost like they think the more time they can keep you searching for something the more money they make?
Turbo lister: http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/
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Posted on 27 January '10 by Randy, under eBay. No Comments.
We are planning on using this space to blather about the things that we are learning about selling our extra things online.
Also to tell about new things that we have found at the estate sales that we haunt.
We are learning quite a bit about finding the value of our things online, we will share some tips, and probably some of the stuff we learn.
We can announce when we decide to sell something extra special.
And of course LOTS of links to things that we are trying to place with new owners!
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Posted on 5 December '09 by Randy, under Announcements. No Comments.
Just trying to make a little room in the Garage for our moped built for 2.
