Great buys, sorry to disillusion you about the free gifts with purchase!

After many years selling on Ebay  I can tell you that free gift does nothing at all to appease buyers.

I have even read here on the boards that one great seller got a neg for including the free gift, I think it was tea towels with sheets , comment was "I didn't order the tea towels" Almost unbelievable - but true.

We include quality (expensive ) items sometimes with purchases, not because we want to make them feel beter, how they feel generally is their problem, but because we want to and they are in most cases repeat customers.

For the best part we never even get a thank you - but a very different story on our non  Ebay site! People think and behave differently there - and we still don't know why is that. It's like we operate on another planet - where friendliness, good manners, social graces... are still very much in use - even without the free gifts!