ANTIQUE GERMAN 835S STERLING SILVER TEA BALL W/CHAIN Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 134.43 Time Left - Bid Count 9 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Crystal River, Florida See more about 'ANTIQUE GERMAN 835S STERLING SILVER TEA BALL W/CHAIN' Description webuyit Store                 ANTIQUE GERMAN 835S STERLING SILVER TEA BALL W/CHAIN DescriptionANTIQUE GERMAN 835S STERLING SILVER TEA BALLThis is a beautiful 835S sterling silver tea ball made in Germany. It has the hallmarks under the hinge on the outside of the ball which include a ‘half moon and crown mark on the left side, 835S, and the maker’s mark on the right side. It measures approximately 2 ½ inches tall and 5 inches in diameter. It weighs approximately 32.8 grams. It is in wonderful condition, shiny and bright. It includes a chain approximately 4 inches in length with a hook on the end.URGENT MESSAGE REGARDING COMBINED SHIPPING!   IF YOU PAY BY PAYPAL AND WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FREE SHIPPING AND YOU ARE STILL WAITING FOR ADDITIONAL AUCTIONS TO END, YOU MUST SEND AN EMAIL BY 9AM OF THE MORNING of YOUR PAYPAL PAYMENT TO DELILAHS AT TAMPABAY.RR.COM AND ASK HER TO HOLD YOUR ITEM UNTIL YOUR OTHER ITEMS END.  YOU MUST INCLUDE THE ITEM NUMBER THAT YOU NEED HER TO HOLD.  THE SAME IS TRUE FOR ANY OTHER METHOD OF PAYMENT, YOU MUST NOTIFY US ALONG WITH YOUR PAYMENT.  OUR SHIPPER (DELILAH)  IS VERY EFFICIENT AND SHIPS AS SOON AS SHE GETS PAYMENT!  WITHOUT AN EMAIL OR OTHER NOTIFICATION TO HOLD, SHE WILL NOT KNOW YOU ARE BIDDING ON OTHER ITEMS, AND SHE WILL SHIP WHAT YOU HAVE PAID FOR RIGHT AWAY!  We have other items on eBay this week, so see below about free shipping for additional items.SHIP AS MANY ITEMS AS YOU WISH FOR JUST ONE SHIPPING FEE! (including any items that end within one week from the close of this auction) NO EXTRA SHIPPING FOR ADDITIONAL ITEMS WON! (ADDITIONAL INSURANCE MAY BE REQUIRED, BUT NO EXTRA SHIPPING! - see further details by scrolling down on this page) SO SEE *ALL* OUR AUCTIONSPlease wait for your invoice from ME or calculate according to the fees under SHIPPING in this description. Often eBay shows the wrong initial price of shipping (for this one, it is 7.50 which includes the first $100 of insurance as well) Ebay is NOT adding on the insurance when they send end of auction notices, and insurance is MANDATORY. They also don't combine our shipping, so if you've purchased more than one item, you might be charged too much. Our entire shipping policy including info about shipping additional items at no cost (except insurance) is also in the SHIPPING paragraph below. Thank you. P.S. If you KNOW your shipping, you can pay at the end of the auction.  For example, just ONE item, and under $100, you can pay with no worry. WE HAVE MANY OTHER TERRIFIC TREASURES -- ALL WITH NO RESERVES....SO....PLEASE...See Our Other Auctions For Many More Treasures From This Same Estate And A Few Other Estates. We Gladly Combine Shipping (See Below). We Provide Up To 24 Photos For Each Item. Since The Condition Of Antiques Is A Very Subjective Subject, And Most Of Our Items Are Between 50 And 100 Years Old, We Expect Bidders To Use The Photos As The Primary Item Description. Any Other Descriptions Are Provided As A Courtesy And They Are Our **Opinions** Only!Please Check Our Feedback. We Are Honest And Reputable Sellers With Excellent Feedbacks, But Paypal Is Getting More And More Bold In Taking Sellers Money Away From Them So We Must Make It Very Clear That Our Photos Are As Much A Part Of Our Description As Our Words! If It Were Not For Paypal Being So Unreasonable And Biased, It Would Not Even Be Necessary To Say This. Perhaps Someone Better Than Paypal Will Come Around? Be Sure To See Our Shipping Under The Shipping Category In Our Written Description - Just Below The "Payment" Category. Ebay's Shipping Section At The Bottom Of The Page Is Often Incorrect Due To A Technical Problem We Are Having! Payment PAYMENT OPTIONS: Credit cards through PaypalUS money orderPersonal Check in very unique circumstances. Email for approval first. There MUST BE A GOOD REASON you can't get a money order, and your check will be held till cleared.International bidders must send payment in U.S. FUNDS ONLY - Paypal,  or a Postal Money Order.YOU MUST SEND PAYMENT WITHIN 3 BUSINESS DAYS Shipping SHIPPING RATES & POLICY: WE SHIP MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY USUALLY WITHIN 24 HOURS OF WHEN YOUR PAYMENT IS RECEIVED. NO SHIPPING ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY. WE CANNOT SHIP ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY. READ OUR FEEDBACK, MOST OF OUR BUYERS ARE SURPRISED AT JUST HOW QUICKLY THEIR ITEM ARRIVES! U.S. SHIPPING FEES TO ANY U.S. ZIP CODE:   For a FULLY INSURED PRIORITY MAIL up to a 2 pound package. NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR EXTRA ITEMS. Please keep in mind Postal Rates have gone up!7.50 up to $99 in Final Value 8.60 for $100 to $199 9.70 for $200-$299 and so on... Add $1.10 for each additional $100 over $300 NO EXTRA FEES FOR ADDITIONAL ITEMS SHIPPED AT THE SAME TIME - YOU MAY HAVE TO PAY FOR EXTRA INSURANCE OR EXTRA WEIGHT BUT THERE ARE NO EXTRA CHARGES FOR EXTRA ITEMS.You will NOT get a notice that the item has shipped, We don't have enough staff to send emails when we ship, but we ship so quickly that by the time most sellers are sending an email that the item has shipped, our bidders have received their items.Rates are for USPS PRIORITY MAIL, FULLY INSURED with PROOF OF DELIVERYWe can NOT ship with other carriers, only the US Post Office - We are in a Rural Area and our options are limited. We will NOT ship without Insurance & we DO require a SIGNATURE to show package was received - If you are not home, the mail carrier will leave a postcard telling you your package is at the post office. DUE TO THE NEW POLICIES OF EBAY AND PAYPAL WE *MUST* GET A SIGNATURE!  It is their position that if a seller cannot produce a signature that the package was received, then it was NOT mailed!  This is the only way we can protect ourselves, and YES, it does raise the shipping, but we cannot afford to have ebay or paypal rule against us because we did not get a signature.WE DO NOT VARY FROM OUR SHIPPING POLICIES...PLEASE DO NOT ASK! INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES & POLICY (Don't bid unless you read -- we do NOT change our shipping policies even if you ask!):$25.00 USD up to $99 in Final Value Add $1.50 for each additional $100 Rates are for First Class Airmail Parcel Post WITH Insurance We will NOT ship Global Priority due to past experience with packages lost or stolen in Europe & Australia WE SHIP MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY USUALLY WITHIN 24 HOURS OF WHEN YOUR PAYMENT IS RECEIVED. NO SHIPPING ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY.You will NOT get a notice that the item has shipped, it will be received rapidly.We actually DISCOURAGE International bidding, because the fees are so high, especially because we MUST FULLY INSURE EACH ITEM.  See US shipping to find out WHY we must insure EVERYTHING.  However, you can factor the shipping cost into the amount you wish to bid. The reason we try to discourage international bidding is because some people try to blame us for the high postal rates that are out of our control.  It is much less expensive to ship without insurance, but to protect ourselves and the buyers, we will NOT ship anything without insurance! PLEASE DON'T TELL US HOW "OTHER PEOPLE" DO IT.  MAYBE THEY HAVE NOT TAKEN A LOSS YET FROM EBAY OR PAYPAL BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE PROOF OF INSURANCE! WE DO NOT LIE TO CUSTOMS ABOUT PRICE PAID! If you are not willing to pay the shipping, PLEASE DO NOT BID! We know other sellers ship for less, but they do NOT purchase Insurance, and that is against our policy. We do NOT make money on shipping! You will see that when you get your package.Whether or not you wish to bid, after considering the high cost of Insurance, is totally up to you.DISCOUNTS ON SHIPPING MULTIPLE ITEMS: Great news! You can ship as many items as you like and shipping fees will only increase according to weight and insured value, no additional charge for extra items shipped together!  All this info is under the item description.OTHER IMPORTANT INFO: Shipping fees, Insurance Fees and the Manner of Shipping are NOT negotiable. Would you order from Sears or an Infomercial and then tell THEM how to ship your item? Of course not. Our policies are written in stone, and by placing a bid you agree to abide by them. Overnight delivery is available at extra cost, so if you need it quickly, just ask. Our shipping is done very Professionally and you do get what you pay for. We use quality packing materials including bubble wrap, peanuts, etc, which we pay a LOT for, and we hire professionals to handle our packing and shipping. We insist on insurance. If you do not accept our terms of shipping please do not bid. DAMAGED, LOST OR STOLEN IN SHIPPING: In the unlikely event the postal service damages your item we will send you a signed claim form indicating the refund goes to you and the receiver of the item must take the damaged item IN ITS ORIGINAL PACKING to THEIR Post office. They will give you a claim form.  You fill out part of it and send it to us, and we will fill out the rest.  Your refund will come from the Post Office and not from us. If you feel an item is lost in transit please contact me AND ask your local post office if they have an insured package for you. 99 Percent of the time bidders who tell us they have not received their package, find it at their Local Post Office. Please do not contact Ebay or Paypal but contact ME. We have the tracking info and are the only ones who can help you. We have only had ONE item that is truly LOST in FIVE years. It can be tracked as far as arrival in English Customs and it disappeared soon after. Since every item is insured you must SIGN for your package.  If you are not home the postman will leave a card asking you to pick it up at the post office. Sometimes these little postcards get lost or misplaced so if you are looking for a package, call your post office and see if they left you a postcard for pick up.  Terms of Sale REFUNDS:OUR EBAY AUCTIONS ARE TREATED JUST LIKE REAL AUCTIONS - ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS AND WHERE IS - WITH NO REFUNDS. READ ON FOR A LENGTHY DIATRIBE TO SEE WHY WE HAVE HAD TO GO TO THIS POLICY. JUST LOOK AT OUR FEEDBACK OF OVER 99 PERCENT FOR OVER 5000 TRANSACTIONS, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE ARE STRAIGHTFORWARD, HONEST SELLERS.   THERE ARE UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT HAVE FORCED US TO GO TO THIS POLICY.  ON THE POSITIVE SIDE, WE PROVIDE AS MANY AS 20 OR EVEN MORE PHOTOS AND A DETAILED DESCRIPTION AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS OR SEND ANY EXTRA PHOTOS YOU REQUEST.  WE WANT YOU TO HAVE A VERY ACCURATE DEPICTION OF THE ITEMS YOU ARE BIDDING ON. WE ARE NOT EXPERTS ON MANY OF THE ITEMS WE SELL, BUT A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.  HERE IS THE LENGTHY EXPLANATION -- Our policy used to be that if we made an huge error, we would issue a refund. Over the past 7 years we actually never made a HUGE error, we did however, refund for missing the fact that the clasp on a cameo wasn't working properly (now we check all the clasps) or maybe I missed a measurement by a half inch, but never anything serious. We always take the stand that the customer is always right, but you wouldn't believe some of the fraudulant bidders we have caught in the act.  There are not many of them, but the ones that are out there really know how to work the system.  Then there are people new to ebay who don't have a clue.  Some of them have caused us a bunch of grief.  Any time we have had a problem with a buyer, they have had little or no feedback. The seasoned buyers have ALWAYS been happy with our products and this can be verified by our feedback as well.  THINGS HAVE CHANGED HOWEVER, with Paypal's new policy of taking money out of the seller's bank account the second someone has buyer's remorse or makes a false claim, and taking up to a month to decide if we did anything wrong, we have had to go to a NO REFUND policy.  We got stung by a buyer who has ripped off FOUR SELLERS by saying he got something that was not accurately described.  All four of us had our money taken by Paypal AND we do not have the items. Paypal didn't even see to it that this scammer returned the items.  He is the winner, he has the items AND his money back.  In our case, we even happened to have  had an appraisal for the particular item and it didn't mean a thing to paypal.  They are very biased towards buyers not sellers.  Its a shame how one bad apple (scam artist buyers) spoils everything for the whole bunch. We ended up with 2 choices, offer No Refunds at all, or quit taking Paypal.   Unfortunately Paypal has a monopoly on the on-line credit card market for ebay, so we can't afford to nix them.  And if you take Paypal they are the judge and jury as to whether or not the buyer gets their money back and they convict the seller prior to the trial by taking money from your account while their uneducated staff make decisions about condition of something they have no knowledge of.  They also tend to always rule in the favor of the buyer no matter what the circumstances.  Condition of antiques and collectibles is a very subjective matter.  My opinion may differ from yours and collectors know much more about an item than we do. That is why it is up to YOU to be the expert!  We are not perfect (no one is) but this is an *auction* and not a retail store.  If you want specific photos, I will send them to you.  If you can come to our place and see the item in person, you are welcome.  With all the photos, and all the details you should know exactly what you are bidding on.  We start all our auctions with no reserve at 9.99 so it is up to the bidder to determine condition, etc, based on our written description, our photos, and by taking advantage of the opportunity to email and ask us questions or for additional photos.  Please review our feedback and you can still bid with confidence. DAMAGED, LOST OR STOLEN DURING SHIPPING: In the unlikely event the postal service damages your item KEEP THE ITEM AND THE BOX AND PACKING MATERIALS IT CAME IN.  YOU WILL NEED TO TAKE IT ALL TO THE POST OFFICE FOR THEM TO EXAMINE.  Contact us using the Ebay My Messages method, and we will send you a signed claim form indicating that the refund goes to you and when you receive it, you fill out your portion and take the claim form and the item with its packaging to your nearest Post office.  Your refund will come from the Post Office and not from us.If you feel an item is lost in transit please contact me and PLEASE ALSO ASK YOUR LOCAL POST OFFICE IF THEY HAVE A PACKAGE FOR YOU!   99.9 Percent of the time bidders tell us they have not received their package, they find it at their Local Post Office.Please do not contact Ebay or Paypal but contact ME. We have the tracking info and are the only ones who can help you. We have only had ONE item that is truly LOST in FIVE years. We traced it and found out It arrived in English Customs and disappeared soon after. Since every item is insured you must SIGN for your package.  If you are not home the postman will leave a card asking you to pick it up at the post office. Sometimes these little postcards get lost or misplaced. About Us YOU CAN BID WITH CONFIDENCE, WE ARE  Contact Us EMAIL:  PLEASE USE THE EBAY MESSAGES SYSTEM to communicate with us or your email may get lost in with the hundreds of other emails or blocked by our spam blocker!  We usually answer email in eBay's My Messages Monday - Friday but there is no guarantee we can answer on the weekends. Monday - Friday we answer within 24 hours                 Place a Bid!