Debbie Tarsitano’s Cast Glass

from Dick Stark of Potomac, MD

Wow ! That’s quite a spectacular achievement

and from Gerry Getman of McMurray, PA

Debbie does beautiful work.

from the Elegant Glass Club

Michael Krumme of Los Angles provided this piece to the Elegant Glass Club’s blog on searching in eBay.

One of our members asked me how to browse closed auctions in eBay. For anyone else who wasn’t sure how to do this, here you go:

Navigate to the category you want to be in — say, Cambridge. You can do this by just clicking on a Cambridge glass item, then clicking on the word “Cambridge” in the file path in blue at the top of that page. In this case, that item would say “Listed under category: Pottery and Glass – Glassware – Elegant – Cambridge.” This should get you in the category you want.

Note that you can click on any of the words in that file path to get a broader or narrower search. For example, if you were looking at a piece of Rose Point that was listed in a further subcategory, the file path would be Pottery and Glass – Glassware – Elegant – Cambridge – Rose Point. You could stay and search in Rose Point, or click on Cambridge to go to that broader category, or click on Elegant to go to a REALLY broad category.

Then in the left column, scroll down until you see the heading in bold “Show Only.” Then click either the box for Completed Listings, or the one for Sold Listings. Obviously, Sold Listings will show only items that sold, whereas completed listings will show all items that were offered, whether they actually sold or not.

Then from the drop-down menu that says “View” (toward the upper right of the page), I recommend clicking on Gallery View (so that you can see more items per page, with less scrolling.)

You can also use the drop-down menu to the left of that, “Sort,” to choose how you want the items to appear. For my purposes, I like to choose “Price: Highest First.” That tells me what the highest priced items were in that category, which helps me decide what items I should be looking for, or, if it’s for an item I already have, it helps me see the range of prices for that item.

You can also use this same procedure to obtain auction results for a particular item. For example, you could search “blue Versailles wine.” By selecting different options, you can see either how many were offered in total over a certain time period, or focus on what the sale prices were for ones that actually sold. This can be useful when deciding how much you want to pay for a piece.

I have suggested “How To Use eBay” as a program topic for one of our gatherings, with tutorials such as these in mind, however the logistical and technical issues have forced us to table this subject. In short, we would need to be in a location where we could have the equipment to project the computer images onto a screen, and seating arranged so that everyone could see it clearly.

Hope this helps!