12-05-2023 01:25 PM
Because this comment came with a positive mark I'm not angry or even irritated, just ..... troubled(?) by not only the ignorance itself but the explicit invitation for anyone reading to observe it - "see photo".
And no I don't think she's a non-U.S. buyer; the address was a regular domestic one, and her name is Diane, a not-so-popular name for people as young Zoomers, so it's not like she could be more familiar with the newer quarter obverse design that just came out a few years ago, although there are plenty of the older ones still in circulation.
Oh and there's also a ruler right there.
Just saying, if you bought something for which the in-person size was disappointingly surprising, and you went back to look at the listing to see if you were somehow misled, wouldn't you want to be SURE before you aired a grievance about it? And even if that WAS a dime, then why BUY an item barely bigger than a dime, if you think that's "too small"?
Incidentally, I do sometimes shoot a second photo of an item with the metric side of the ruler, if I believe it's one that might attract foreign buyers. And I have about a half-gallon of foreign coins so I may even be able to use one of those, if the item has a very specific national identity, in which case someone from that nation may consider buying.
Curious, does anyone here have a non-currency object you use for a foolproof size reference? Cuz apparently there are coin fools out there! 😆
12-06-2023 07:24 PM
Still pretty big for a faceted gemstone.
12-06-2023 07:25 PM
I guess we need to turn the coins over to where they state quarter, nickel or dime?
12-06-2023 07:32 PM
@stainlessenginecovers wrote:An Egg?? Although you might get a buyer that thinks it's a Prepubescent Duck...
I recall once selling an eggcup with a "newspaper" attached which I listed with a photo of the egg "reading" the paper. Even back then I had to put "egg for display only" 'cause "you know".
It used to be you could "stage" your listing photos, but then buyers decided they could get everything in the photo (even though they really knew better).
12-06-2023 08:04 PM
For quite a while styling one's garments in flat-lays was all the rage on Poshmark. There were listings where I couldn't figure out what they were selling because there was so much clutter in the photo. Some would have maybe half the actual garment showing with shoes, jewellery, hats and gawd knows what else all over it. Fortunately, that seems to have died down. Styling something takes some talent, and not everyone has it.
12-06-2023 08:11 PM
The non staging (properly staged that is) took a lot of the early fun out of it.
Now it's just "here's the product (and ONLY the product) front and center"
Then they go and decide we should add a bunch of AI fluff filler for the description LOL
12-06-2023 08:53 PM
@chapeau-noir wrote:I think that's scale: See the 1/8, 1/4 and 1/2? It corresponds to the inches to feet according to that particular scale (1/8 scale, 1/4 scale, etc.).
That makes perfect sense, THANK YOU!
12-06-2023 09:07 PM
@toomuchstuffagain35 wrote:The non staging (properly staged that is) took a lot of the early fun out of it.
Now it's just "here's the product (and ONLY the product) front and center"
Then they go and decide we should add a bunch of AI fluff filler for the description LOL
That's me - I like to keep things simple. What you get is what you see.
But at least we're not subjected to a pile o' clutter AND a pile o' AI cotton candy.
12-06-2023 09:10 PM
Well (minus the AI fluff) on the upside it does make it faster & easier to list lol
12-06-2023 09:15 PM
I would never, in a million years, trust my ability to do a coolfully drippy flat-lie-with-crap-on-top. It would just look like a flat-lie-with-crap-on-top. I'll leave it to the pros. I write pretty good dreck, though, so I could do the AI thing.
12-06-2023 09:21 PM
I sometimes use the AI just to see what it comes up with, but if I ever actually use it, trust me, it's severely edited.
12-06-2023 10:14 PM
@gurlcat wrote:Yes it would be great for that, but I don't think it's the main purpose because it can measure something up to 15 feet long (that little dial with the serrated edge in the upper right side counts feet to match the number of inches, if you roll the wheel along something more than 36 inches. I guess the primary use could be for maps but only if we're talking REALLY big maps, ha.
Well, that device can measure all kinds of things using that mechanism, depending on how you want to label the dial. The gadget I had (actually I think I still have it buried in the basement someplace 🤔) was indeed for map reading, because I bought it new in the box, with instructions, etc. for doing exactly that. Having now seen the back side of yours, I agree that yours looks to have a different purpose.
@gurlcat wrote:What I can't figure out is what the other side dial is for and how it works. It says Inch To Foot, but the numbers don't make sense to me. Like look at these pictures, front and back of the same measurement I just did, rolling the wheel 12 inches along my ruler. -The front needle is at 12 inches, the serrated wheel is at one foot -great. But the back ..... is pointing to 48/96/192. By the way, when the front needle moves clockwise (to higher numbers just like a clock), the back one moves counterclockwise, to lower numbers.
I'm not sure that you're supposed to measure with one side and then flip it over to read the other as some kind of conversion. I think you have two dials for two different types of measurement.
If you zero the meter and then roll it 12" while reading the back side instead of the front (while moving it in the same direction you used for the other side), you would be turning its mechanism in the other direction, and now the back side reading will be going clockwise, as I think it's supposed to.
For example, zero the pointer and then roll the back side dial through 12" of distance, with the needle rotating clockwise, and it looks to me like it will end up at about 4:00 o'clock on the dial (120° clockwise), on the 24/48/96 mark. That indicates that at 1/2 scale you have covered 24"; at 1/4 scale you have covered 48" and at 1/8 scale you have covered 96". That looks to me like it would have technical drawing or drafting applications.
12-06-2023 11:23 PM
@a_c_green It's a scale - very common in drafting and cartography.