Given that we sell more V/G condition titles than LIKE NEW, can’t agree w/ you.
We do include extremely detailed CONDITION NOTES, often 20+ lines, for a hardcover, divided into: Boards, Text and DJ. For a paperback: Spine, Text and Cover. If the buyer actually reads the listing, they should have a darn good idea of how the title appears.
However, I don’t have the enthusiasm or vitality I once did-and we have 10 boxes of unlisted titles-5 of which I bought on a buying trip before New Years (shoulda known better; the better-half tried to restrain me, but it’s an addiction.)
I have not bought any inventory since early December.
But Wednesday, I plan to go to the flea market and find something different to buy.
I forgot to change mental gears. I was thinking of Very Good as an old time booksellers condition, not the Amazon condition which implies greater condition.
My kids were taught cursive in school around 15 years ago, I’m pretty sure it is still taught. Both boys, they never wrote much cursive since, and print their signatures when needed.
I still write Thank you! and sign my first name on packing slips.
FBA, no thank yous for your orders.
About the time this thread ended, sold a Good-condition copy of The Palmer Method teaching-cursive brochure( including Imaginary-Line papers), which brought back nostalgic times in 2nd/3rd grade writing classes. Had to be able to write cursive well enough since once began 4th grade, forced to use a fountain pen, including messy ink cartridge, instead of printing in pencil, for all schoolwork except math.
Grateful when allowed us to use newly marketed BIC pens toward end of 5th grade. Our moms musta been glad too, since used to return home, hands/clothes drenched in blue or black ink!
Thought we’d probably never sell the brochure due to rough condition-but apparently someone is out there trying to refresh skills or teach them!!
When our friend @selg, in creating this topic-thread, mentioned anticipating 4th Grade, cartridge pens were the very first thing that sprang to mind in a recollection of my own childhood grammar-school experience (‘elementary school’ had not yet quite become the prevailing nomenclature way back when I was a eager hatchling,* @ least not in southern states).
Like you, I was pleased by the subsequent launching of Bic®’s initial product line - but well into adulthood, I maintained correspondence with family, friends, and business contacts where I felt it de rigueur to use fountain pens; in select cases, despite the societal demise of such niceties in the wake of technological advance(s), I still do.
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NOBODY seems to believe that I’m actually a human, so I tease back with a (false, or so I say) declaration that I was hatched, rather than birthed…
Also attended a grammar school in 4th/5th grade, the so called ”stucco building”.
I was a solid child, though even my well-fed self was startled that the old stucco wall collapsed when I leaned against it when removing my golashes-really dating myself- in 5th grade . In these litigious times, parents would sue!.
Instead, my teacher/principal took the occurrence matter-of-factly. Sent me to the school-nurse who washed my face/ arms, removed the stucco from my permed hair. stitched up a rent in my blouse, and placed a few strategic band-aids. Didn’t even bother to phone my parents, which frankly, still floors me!
I was left to inform mom & dad re: scrapes/ patches/ state of my clothing. My highly-strung mother sent a letter of protest to the teacher(in cursive)-she suffered more than I did.
The financially-strapped school district didn’t bother to repair the wall- we walked around the gaping hole for the rest of the year. Maintenance removed the resulting mess on the “cloak-room” floor. Recess was longer as they did so and I was celebrated!.
Much later, a friend informed me that her mom had graduated from the same building, then the town high school, in 1925!
Reminds me of my college days, when we had T-shirts printed for the 70th anniversary of our dorm building!
But not, as you might think, 70 years since it was built, but rather, 70 years since it was last renovated!
Try as I might, I’ll NEVER be able to wrap my head around the notion that it’s EVER appropriate that the public educational system should be shorted of funding for any competing reason.
The Miss Read series, by Dora Saint AKA Miss Read, teacher in an English village school in the early 50’s-70’s, discusses their cloak room! The two teachers, one for students Americans would call kindergarten-to-2nd grade and the senior teacher, Miss Read, grades thru the 6th, spend a good portion of their day in one. Removing wellies/raincoats plus preventing fights and students leaving w/ other’s weather-appropriate gear.
As for @Racing_Stripes, I had a desk similar to this in 3rd grade! Double-desks firmly welded to the floor -where I sat w/ the PK-preacher’s kid-whose experience w/ me as seat-mate-musta encouraged his family to relocate to another part of Texas the next year!! Or so my older brothers teased me!
I have to fold my packing slip for the padded mailer. I place the small jewelry box in the fold. After the fact, I constantly get the question “What size did I order” which is clearly on the packing list. Shows me how many don’t even look at the packing list so maybe both sides is the answer
I do as well and in addition I put the ring in a 2 x 2 foam cell envelope with this sticker but still… only on Amazon because this customization information does not show up on their “orders”
We don’t use Amazon packing slip … we use our own packing slip. Amazon packing slip shows coding for custom input and created customer issues so we create our own packing slip.
We have 2 surfaces with up to 7 different inputs. The text inputs for the engraving shows two lines that gave us problems …
Text Display Color (NOT Color Fill): BLACK (#000000)
Font Name: Verdana
We had issues with people complaining that the engraving wasn’t color filled black and others that thought they could use what ever font and emoji. Simplest way to eliminate issues was to provide our own packing slip which got rid of the Amazon coding lines.
Mine show like this