Chinese seller - scammer

[gardegarde60]

Be careful to this seller. She is dishonest. Don’t pay her in cash otherwise you cant get your return/refund with professional organizations eg Paypal, Card Ctr.
She refused to pay back my over payment (deposit) and she was trying to ask my account details.
I was advised by ACCC and card ctr that not to give her my account details.
Paypal helped to get back the refund of one order, but the cash payment (deposit) I paid to her was lost.
Don’t trust this seller, she is very greedy and selling second quality products that pretend they are first quality! She would pretend to be calm and nice at first, but totally face off when you are asking more info, exchanges or refund due to the products are not as description. She lies and make up stories.
She is now in paypal watchlist, therefore she doesn’t want buyers to pay via paypal.

[lyndal1838]

There is quite a lot of Celebration on ebay at the moment.....have you completed your collection?

I went to visit my old boss to purchase a RA teaset for a wedding gift when Celebration was new in Australia.   I had my 3 month old with me and he gave her a trio as a gift.  I thought it was a lovely gesture and a very appropriate pattern.

[brerrabbit585]

I want to sell some of mine, not buy more. I'd try selling on facebook before here. I'd like to sell some Avon hummingbird glasses too but the best place to sell them is the US (they never released half the set there) and I'm not motivated to figure out how to pack them, or to sell overseas. I've sold plenty of crystal to the US but it was over 10 years ago.

I thought Celebration was never released in Australia, or if it was, it must have been in limited stores because I would have noticed it.

[lyndal1838]

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@brerrabbit585 wrote:

I thought Celebration was never released in Australia, or if it was, it must have been in limited stores because I would have noticed it.

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You may be right about that.  I got it from the RA agent in Sydney.....it could well have been a sample he had in order to get orders from retailers.

If it was not popular it would not have been imported.

I worked for several agents for English pottery companies and it was quite usual for samples to be sold off dirt cheap if the pattern was not going to be a stock line.  When the samples were put onto the shelves for sale the girls in the office (including me) swooped....we often cleared the sample lines before any other customers even saw them.   I have a number of exclusive trios and sugar bowls and milk jugs that were never on sale here.

All my china and silver was bought through the agents at wholesale prices and some pieces of my silver pattern were specially imported from Germany as they were never for sale in Australia.  It was much the same with my Royal Tuscan china.....I had all the accessories including cake plates and sandwich trays which were very hard to get.