When Promotion Exceeds the Cost of Your Product...

...maybe it's time to sell that product to highest bidder?

I've just come here from one of my favorite browsing haunts (Etsy)...and I'm begging you...someone...anyone...please go buy that $15 pair of vintage rhinestone earrings already. It's been showing up in my favorite 'search' bookmark every day (sometimes twice daily) for at least the past 6 months. Yesterday I actually changed my bookmark search to "< $14.99" just to avoid seeing them anymore. Same picture, same view, day in, day out. It's embedded in my fragile little cortex, never to leave, and I think I'm even beginning to have an aversion to pink...which is almost catastrophic for a Diva.

I'm no math wizard, though I did teach math to quite a few 5th-graders some years back. That all calculates (for those who want to know) to 1 to 2 x .20 (renewing fees) x 182 days, which comes to $36.40 to $72.80 for a pair of earrings that is likely not worth even $12. I think even a few 5th-graders would scratch their heads at that.

Please, just put them in a lot on eBay and be done with them. Or, at least change the picture?

Trifari Fruit Salad Bird Brooch ~ 1941

This is why I love vintage Trifari. Only one bid, but already the top Trifari auction online at $199.00 (with 22 e-Bay watchers waiting to snipe that bid even higher). Too rich for my budget, but I'll be watching, anyway!

Buy this Sam Moon bracelet for just $6,500 on Artfire

I love shopping online. A Diva's gotta have her (costume) jools...and this Diva's only looking for bargains in this present economy. So, when I clicked 'vintage bracelets' over at Artfire, I didn't see this offering by sassy9406 of Colorado until last, as it was last in the price list from 'low to high:'




http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=298888

Well.

Apparently I didn't know just what a bargain I got over at Sam Moon a couple years ago when I bought this same bracelet for less than $15:

"Materials Used: Jade, Diamonds, Gold, Multi-colored Freshwater Pearls."

"Product Description: This Bracelet is Beautiful. 6-rows of Multicolored Fresh water Peals with 16K yellow gold 1mm chains and leading to the filigree sides adorned with Jade and Diamonds."

Wow!! I ran to my dresser, yanked open a drawer, and brought my unappreciated bracelet out into the light. To think that I'd assumed all those chain sparklers must be rhinestones, simply because of the low price tag! And jade, and GOLD! Silly me...how could I have thought those darkened, antiqued ridges on the back of the ornamentation were anything but solid gold with the venerable patina of time?



But....how very strange that such a treasure didn't have a true clasp, and that humble stretch cording was used to string those pearls; who'd have thought? I'd never seen nylon cord mixed with diamonds and gemstones before...maybe this was a new trend? Come to think of it, I'd never seen a gold and diamond bracelet encased in a plastic sleeve, with 'lead-safe' written on it, either. (And piled in a bin with about 60 others of varying color schemes.)

Well, no WONDER they sold so fast.

http://s883.photobucket.com/albums/ac31/delectablydiva/