I am a new seller on ebay. I am selling for 14 days my jewelry, no one sell(only 2 clicks) on my 60

[bijurjewelry]

Hi, I am  a new seller on ebay. I am selling for 14 days my jewelry, no one sell(only 2 clicks) on my 60 items. Please, can you enter to my page "Bijur Jewelry" and look through whats wrong with my listings, why nobody buy my items?

Thank you for your answer.

[jklfindings]

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Rhodium plating is very common on gold, platinum, and silver jewelry items.  Rhodium is a white metal in the platinum family that is both very shiny, and prevents tarnish on silver.  It's used on platinum and gold, becuase platinum is dull, and white gold isn't as white as most people think.  It's used on silver to prevent tarnish.  Just because a silver item is rhodium plated, does not mean it isn't solid silver.

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OK ... but as a casual jewelry buyer ... I would not know that. And I am willing to bet that a buyer looking to purchase a St Christopher medal for their child or grandchild wouldn't know that either.

The way the OP has it worded, it makes absolutely no sense 😞

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Oh I agree that the average buyer will have no idea what it means.  There's no reason to mention it.  To much information is just as bad as to little.  I was just commenting on the fact that just because it's plated doesn't mean it isn't solid silver.

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For plating, no, there's no marking.  If you walk into a jewelry store and see white gold or platinum, 99% chance it's rhodium plated.  Silver is a bit different, certain manufacturers will rhodium plate, while others won't.  Silver can be polished to a high shine, and rhodium almost gives it a fakey look in my opinion.  Rhodium is also not cheap, so plating silver is usually not very cost effective.  

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Why is it then that the "new" silver coming out of say, India, or China, looks so fake? 

I understand some is fake, but not all...

Sorry this is off topic a bit everyone, but I'm just learning jewelry and this has me perplexed. 

It has a plated look, as been poured on or dipped, yet it is claimed to be sterling? 

[fashunu4eeuh]

Hi, welcome to the boards.

I am looking at your listings on my mobile, and the descriptions are unreadable. The font is tiny and there are no breaks or paragraphs. Ebay has a Mobile Friendly Checker program so you can see for yourself how the listing looks. Below is the link. With half of sales coming from mobile users, it is important to have your listings optimized for smartphones.

http://www.ebay.com/tools/sell/mobile-friendly-test

Your titles need work. Drop the store name and include descriptive keywords instead like size, weight, material, gemstone names, color, etc. This info should also be included in your Item Specifics—a crucial part of the listing because its used in Search and ranking.

You’ve made a good start , so build on it and heed the advice given. Good luck to you.

[jklfindings]

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For plating, no, there's no marking.  If you walk into a jewelry store and see white gold or platinum, 99% chance it's rhodium plated.  Silver is a bit different, certain manufacturers will rhodium plate, while others won't.  Silver can be polished to a high shine, and rhodium almost gives it a fakey look in my opinion.  Rhodium is also not cheap, so plating silver is usually not very cost effective.  

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Why is it then that the "new" silver coming out of say, India, or China, looks so fake? 

I understand some is fake, but not all...

Sorry this is off topic a bit everyone, but I'm just learning jewelry and this has me perplexed. 

It has a plated look, as been poured on or dipped, yet it is claimed to be sterling? 

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I wish there was a simple answer to that lol.  You can break jewelry coming from China/India/Thailand etc into 2 groups.  Large manufacturers that have been around forever, and have moved their manufacturing to these countries to lower manufacturing costs.  Then there's the cheap junk coming from these countries by no name manufacturers.  

The legit companies (and there are a lot of them) are using rhodium to plate their items to make them look better when they reach retail.  Silver jewelry has gone through a huge boom in the past 10 years or so ever since the gold boom.  Engagement rings in silver, diamonds in silver, huge name brand designers in silver.  So these manufacturers are trying their hardest to make silver look like white gold, so as to grab the portion of the market that can't afford gold any longer since the prices of gold have skyrocketed in those 10 years.  

Now the junk coming from these countries is a lot different.  Rhodium, Platinum, Gold, and Silver can all be plated on each other easily.  If you are starting out with a prouct that isn't actually a noble metal (say nickel) you have to go through multiple steps of plating to actually be able to plate a noble metal onto the item.  So what they do is use another shiny metal.  We have always called it chrome plating, (not sure if it's actually chrome though).  This makes it really shiny, but eventually it will peel and crack. 

Hope that helps a little!  It essentially boils down to retailers paying more attention to silver over the past several years.  It used to be the "cheap" jewelry, and just a step above costume jewelry, but retailers have finally found a market for it, and they are doing their best to make it look like white gold.

[donngreen_36]

Stop listing obviously mass produced stuff as handmade.

It's deceptive, and opens you up to item not as described cases for everything

[penguins_dont_fly]

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For plating, no, there's no marking.  If you walk into a jewelry store and see white gold or platinum, 99% chance it's rhodium plated.  Silver is a bit different, certain manufacturers will rhodium plate, while others won't.  Silver can be polished to a high shine, and rhodium almost gives it a fakey look in my opinion.  Rhodium is also not cheap, so plating silver is usually not very cost effective.  

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Thanks for all the info jkl 🙂 I think we are all learning a bit this morning 🙂

This just brings up another point ... OP is claiming that their items are "handcrafted". I would think that the cost of rhodium plating would be extremely out of reach for handcrafted silver items 😞

And if the items are NOT handcrafted, shouldn't they be stamped 925 (or Sterling)? 

sorry for all the questions LOL

[jklfindings]

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For plating, no, there's no marking.  If you walk into a jewelry store and see white gold or platinum, 99% chance it's rhodium plated.  Silver is a bit different, certain manufacturers will rhodium plate, while others won't.  Silver can be polished to a high shine, and rhodium almost gives it a fakey look in my opinion.  Rhodium is also not cheap, so plating silver is usually not very cost effective.  

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Thanks for all the info jkl 🙂 I think we are all learning a bit this morning 🙂

This just brings up another point ... OP is claiming that their items are "handcrafted". I would think that the cost of rhodium plating would be extremely out of reach for handcrafted silver items 😞

And if the items are NOT handcrafted, shouldn't they be stamped 925 (or Sterling)? 

sorry for all the questions LOL

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The cost of rhodium plating isn't out of reach for handcrafted items, it's just another expense to add on to a relatively inexpensive item.  All Sterling Silver sold, whether handcrafted or not has to be legally marked as such.

[donngreen_36]

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For plating, no, there's no marking.  If you walk into a jewelry store and see white gold or platinum, 99% chance it's rhodium plated.  Silver is a bit different, certain manufacturers will rhodium plate, while others won't.  Silver can be polished to a high shine, and rhodium almost gives it a fakey look in my opinion.  Rhodium is also not cheap, so plating silver is usually not very cost effective.  

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Thanks for all the info jkl 🙂 I think we are all learning a bit this morning 🙂

This just brings up another point ... OP is claiming that their items are "handcrafted". I would think that the cost of rhodium plating would be extremely out of reach for handcrafted silver items 😞

And if the items are NOT handcrafted, shouldn't they be stamped 925 (or Sterling)? 

sorry for all the questions LOL

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The cost of rhodium plating isn't out of reach for handcrafted items, it's just another expense to add on to a relatively inexpensive item.  All Sterling Silver sold, whether handcrafted or not has to be legally marked as such.

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Wrong.

https://www.stuller.com/articles/view/national-gold-and-silver-marking-act/

While the law requires that gold and silver carrying a quality mark also carry the registered trademark of the person or organization responsible for the guarantee of quality, there is no United States law requiring that gold or silver be quality marked in the first place. If a quality mark appears, so must the trademark. Whereas a quality mark alone is meaningless, the appearance of a trademark serves to assign the responsibility for fraudulent quality marks.

[doubledz-a2z]

Rookie Mistake.....WAY TO MANY ITEMS LISTED WITH RUSHED DESCRIPTIONS.   Chances are NO ONE has even seen your listings in searches.    You have too many items listed with no sales so you have no sell through rate which is a BIG FACTOR in search placement.   IMO you did not need a big store right off the bat.   For a brand new user with that much ready inventory seems to me you are really just starting over with a new ID.   Could be wrong but just my opinions.   I would try to concentrate on listing some of my best items (Valentines Day) and par down my listings.  Take ACTUAL PHOTOS OF YOUR ITEMS and act like you love them as much as you want your buyers to.  NUMBERS DO NOT EQUAL SUCCESS.

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Yep. same here - really weird

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When I look at your pictures, I'm totally turned off.

They look over enhanced and/or as if they were CGI pics.

Even the "color change" for the stones is extremely unrealistic and poorly done.

[odditiesandantiquities1]

If I may ask, where are you getting your inventory from?

[jklfindings]

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For plating, no, there's no marking.  If you walk into a jewelry store and see white gold or platinum, 99% chance it's rhodium plated.  Silver is a bit different, certain manufacturers will rhodium plate, while others won't.  Silver can be polished to a high shine, and rhodium almost gives it a fakey look in my opinion.  Rhodium is also not cheap, so plating silver is usually not very cost effective.  

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Thanks for all the info jkl 🙂 I think we are all learning a bit this morning 🙂

This just brings up another point ... OP is claiming that their items are "handcrafted". I would think that the cost of rhodium plating would be extremely out of reach for handcrafted silver items 😞

And if the items are NOT handcrafted, shouldn't they be stamped 925 (or Sterling)? 

sorry for all the questions LOL

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The cost of rhodium plating isn't out of reach for handcrafted items, it's just another expense to add on to a relatively inexpensive item.  All Sterling Silver sold, whether handcrafted or not has to be legally marked as such.

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Wrong.

https://www.stuller.com/articles/view/national-gold-and-silver-marking-act/

While the law requires that gold and silver carrying a quality mark also carry the registered trademark of the person or organization responsible for the guarantee of quality, there is no United States law requiring that gold or silver be quality marked in the first place. If a quality mark appears, so must the trademark. Whereas a quality mark alone is meaningless, the appearance of a trademark serves to assign the responsibility for fraudulent quality marks.

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Wrong

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2009-title15/html/USCODE-2009-title15-chap8.htm

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I wish there was a simple answer to that lol.  You can break jewelry coming from China/India/Thailand etc into 2 groups.  Large manufacturers that have been around forever, and have moved their manufacturing to these countries to lower manufacturing costs.  Then there's the cheap junk coming from these countries by no name manufacturers.  

The legit companies (and there are a lot of them) are using rhodium to plate their items to make them look better when they reach retail.  Silver jewelry has gone through a huge boom in the past 10 years or so ever since the gold boom.  Engagement rings in silver, diamonds in silver, huge name brand designers in silver.  So these manufacturers are trying their hardest to make silver look like white gold, so as to grab the portion of the market that can't afford gold any longer since the prices of gold have skyrocketed in those 10 years.  

Now the junk coming from these countries is a lot different.  Rhodium, Platinum, Gold, and Silver can all be plated on each other easily.  If you are starting out with a prouct that isn't actually a noble metal (say nickel) you have to go through multiple steps of plating to actually be able to plate a noble metal onto the item.  So what they do is use another shiny metal.  We have always called it chrome plating, (not sure if it's actually chrome though).  This makes it really shiny, but eventually it will peel and crack. 

Hope that helps a little!  It essentially boils down to retailers paying more attention to silver over the past several years.  It used to be the "cheap" jewelry, and just a step above costume jewelry, but retailers have finally found a market for it, and they are doing their best to make it look like white gold.

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Thanks a lot!

Of course one answer leads to another question...so is this "poured on" look sterling ever quality? Or is it all junk?