eBay My World: valeriegrimes( 11268)

Hi, I'm Valerie. Thank you for stopping by. 2007 is my 10th anniversary here buying and selling on ebay. Primarily, I am a seller. And I absolutely love meeting new people and making them happy return customers!

Early on (back in my teens)I started collecting anything to display my hand-made cakes: cake plates, silver serving pieces...as time went on I became more knowledgeable about the items I was collecting, I sold my first pieces from my personal collection, so I could afford the higher end pieces! 15 years of table and kitchenware collecting has definitely increased my knowledge and this is my primary focus, as it is something close to my heart! I also have a 17 year old daughter, so sometimes I put her things on ebay she has finished with, so she can afford all the others things teenage girls love one day and toss the next :D

I recently moved from a victorian home to a WWII home built in 1943. I like to decorate in the era the home was built, so Im currently collecting 1940's pottery, dinnerware and furniture. Although I am constantly looking for Victorian Silver, sterling silver, early american pressed or pattern glass, victorian colored glass, original art and quality furniture, from almost any era.

EAPG, victorian silver, pre-1940s art pottery, vintage advertising poster art pre 1950, music...I love music.

English, some spanish

Baking, cooking, refinishing furniture, diy projects on the house and yard.

As of Oct 2008 Ebay has now banned all paper payments this means I can only now accept the ebay owned Paypal for all transactions. I am sorry ebay has taken this step.

I ship Monday through Saturday. UPS does not work weekends, but I can still drop the package off at the UPS store. All facilites are closed Sunday. I ship within 24 hours of a cleared payment.

All items are returnable in the condition as sent for full refund of the items cost, shipping non-refundable unless I have made a serious mistake. In the rare occurance of my mistake I will also refund return shipping. I try my best to work out every situation as best I can. Insurance is optional and extra for packages sent priority mail. If you chose not to insure a fragile item and it breaks, I will not issue a refund. I wrap very well and with 10 years shipping experience have learned how to make sure an item arrives safely, however sometimes there is nothing I could have done and something breaks. I recently went back into my files for 10 years and found 11 instances of damage during shipment, 4 in my first 6 months of selling. I have had well over 10,000 shipments. I am proud of my shipping record!