Penny auctions are relatively new to the world; however, they are declining almost as quickly as they have gained popularity. This has proven to be mind boggling to the traditional business guru; however, this article will clearly show the reasons why this new method of shopping has such “rollercoaster” chart movements and how one company (WinnersMountain.com) is looking to capitalize on the volatility of this market.

Starting less than five years ago, mega companies such as Swoopo, Haggle, and Beezid have created revolutionary empires in the “shopping world.” They have mixed excitement with the natural human urge to get great deals and pay the least amount possible for brand new items. This unique combo has created a new system yet to be seen in the twenty-first century.

These sites attract millions of “shoppers” every month. Their users log in, pay for bids, and try to win big items for insane deals. We aren’t talking about 25-50% off retail price, we are talking 75-95% off!

Although it seems to be a hit, studies show it’s a dying market. The reason is because the odds of winning are ridiculous. Each auction only allows for one winner. It doesn’t matter if ten people are bidding on an Apple Ipad, or one hundred. There will only be one winner. This puts the odds of winning at 1/10 or 1/100. With those odds, it’s almost easier to get hit by a car and win a million dollars in a lawsuit! With Penny Auction sites, “losers” literally lose all of the money that they spent on bids.

Because of the “gambling” like atmosphere, shoppers are naturally drawn to these auction sites. But with the horrible odds in place, they are quickly turned off to auctions sites once they lose their money.

A new site called WinnersMountain.com is looking to change that by offering the world’s first free penny auction site. No longer will shoppers have to feel the pain of losing their money. Why? Because they will no longer have to fork over their money to enjoy the excitement that “entertainment shopping” has to offer.

WinnersMountain.com has created a system in which users can still shop and bid on fantastic prizes for free. With a hurting economy, it is expected that this new system of free penny auctions will take off.

WinnersMountain.com has replaced the dreaded system of having to pay for bids with a new friendly system of getting free bids in the following four free ways.

First, users get 100 free bids just for registering. Secondly, every week WinnersMountain.com reloads their users with 25 more bids for free. Thirdly, for each person that a user refers, they get 10 more free bids. Lastly, WinnersMountain.com offers weekly contest that allows users to win more bids.

“Losers” will no longer be out money when playing at Winners Mountain. It’s a free service that Winners Mountain hopes to bless others with by giving away free prizes to its winners.

Training Your Fine Jewelry:

The first thing you should do is to give your fine cheap jewelry its own little space for when it is not being worn and train it to stay there. Jewelry items do not live or party well together. Much of the damage, other than wear, that is done to jewelry happens in jewelry boxes. Stones scratch each other and the metals around them. Chains get caught in tangles that almost always cause some sort of damage.

Cleaning Your Fine Jewelry:

The best way to clean your fine discount jewelry is with a soft (used) toothbrush and a mild dish detergent. If the pieces are very dirty, you can soak them in detergent and water. Do not use harsh cleaners such as chlorine bleach or ammonia. It is not advisable to use toothpaste either. Many contain a mild abrasive, which will remove some metal and cause a dull finish. Any competent jeweler can polish items on occasion, but this process also removes small amounts of metal and so should be used sparingly.

Checking Prongs & Stones:

If the stone moves in the setting, put it in some kind of small bag or container and take it to your nearest qualified cheap costume jewelry. The small bag prevents loss of the stone should it fall out. Loose stones are also more easily chipped or broken. Another good indicator of a loose prong is if the piece gets caught in clothing or hair by a prong.

Checking for Wear and Tear:

Over time, gold and silver will wear down. This can happen over months or years. This can be a problem for people who do certain kinds of work. The solution to this type of problem is the use of heavier metal in the prongs, the use of platinum for the setting or the use of a bezel setting to secure the stone. Prongs should be checked occasionally and if thin they should be replaced. The bands on rings can also become quite thin and eventually need replacing. The thinner the band to begin with the faster this will happen.

If you give your cheap fashion jewelry a little care and check it periodically for wear and overall condition, it will give you many years to a lifetime of joy. A competent jeweler can recondition most pieces so long as the damage hasn’t been allowed to go too far.

The bulk of the jewelry market skews towards women. There remain men in the world – geeks and stubborn classicists alike — whose idea of major league bling is a Timex watch. Most women, however, will at least wear a discrete necklace or broach. And, in a lot of ways, diamonds have never stopped being, to paraphrase the old song, a female’s best friend. Zircons and now moissanite may not be as close pals, but are still well liked acquaintances of women of all ages.

Such matter as deals, closeouts,China wholesale jewelry suppliers, and the like, may change from year to year and month to month, but jewelry is never going away.

Nowdays fine jewelry has become the fashion and become the focus of the elegant women.Modern fine jewellery usually includes gold jewelry, white gold, platinum,diamond jewelry, palladium, titanium or silver jewelry. Fine jewelry is what it is all about when it comes to jewelry.  However, what does the phrase ‘fine jewellery’ actually mean?  Well, fine jewelry is jewelry that is great, fantastic,elegant, nice to look at, fitting with the person that is wearing it.  To be honest fine jewelry can be just about any type of fashion jewelry as long as a person is happy with it.The fine jewelry is just for yourself.

After all, the function of wearing fine jewelry is make a person feel happy.  That is because jewelry is the type of item that can really cheer people up.It does this because every individual item of fine jewelry is small, cute and lovely and nearly all the items when polished can really sparkle too.  Obviously when a person puts on this sparkly jewelry they will feel really happy about it and can go out and about and feel like they are worth a million dollars!So actually the value of the fine jewelry is not the sole factor that why so many people love them.

Wedding Jewelry can be bought in many different shops right up and down the high street.  Customers tend to have their favourites but there are only really a couple of jewelry shops which sell ‘fine jewelry’.  There is of course the internet too, and customers can find their fine jewelry items on the internet too.  The internet is a very easy place to shop cheap jewelry for consumers as they can compare one item of jewelry against another, and then compare the two on different points including price points, brand reputability, likely customer service they are going to get from the retailer and how easy it is to navigate around the website as un uncomfortable journey through purchase can make a customer very unhappy.

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Balloons Childrenswear kicked off their new season ranges with Catimini. They “are launching the chromatic revolution! So they can live life in… Technicolor” according to Catimini’s own press release. Balloons, who provide one of the widest on line offers of the French children’s label, said “the response from customers over the first few days has been fantastic. It’s been our best ever launch with a very high uptake”.

When Balloons Childrenswear attended the buying session last year they were excited about the design and story lines, “we were excited when we bought it, but the real test is obviously whether our customer agree and only a few days in we’re seeing the orders come thick and fast”. Balloons said that Catimini has a very discerning customer following. At the start of each season we see customers come in who want to secure an entire range, but this years early response is significantly higher than any other season.

This seasons trends are 70′s Hippie inspired, the bohemian version. A tumble of tiers, patchwork florals, printed cashmere, fringes and long petticoats. Clean and vivid at the same time, trendy and sport chic, standard rules are turned on their head. Stripes, repeated text and pictograms are coming to give clothes form. Outdoor festival bringing the worlds of pop, rock and electro together. Outdoor festival is the urban nomad look with hybrid clothes, a re-coloured army jacket and amplified ‘cover’ volumes. African remix, a mixture of city and ethnic rules, a fusion of chic and nomad, an urban look crossbred to create the African remix trend. They are daring to put the boubou print onto structured shapes and decorative panels onto T-shirts. Art and fashion mix together. Prints take hold of master paintings to revisit them, outfits are woken up by the fluorescent and the flashy. Tachism and paint brush effects intermix to make each piece a work of art.

Catimini have supported the launch via their promotional catalogue images combining the models with clever graphics and use of vivid background colors.

Nottingham based Balloons, provide Catimini for both boys and girls from Newborn to 12 years. They tend to launch on line for pre-orders a few of weeks before the stock arrives and can be put into the shop.

Contact: Tina Mansfield
Phone: 281 852-6042
Cell Phone: 281 782-4041
Email: info@string-ring.com

A MOM CREATES A POSITIVE RESPONSE TO BULLYING

The new trend in cyber bullying, various campus rampages and threats, and teen suicides have rattled the nerves of parents across the country. Tina Mansfield, a mom and graphic designer living in Kingwood Texas, decided to use her skills to respond to an increasingly egocentric, mean and competitive environment among our youth. She has designed a ring called String-Ring — The Kindness Reminder.

The attractive sterling silver ring is designed to be threaded with interchangeable colored strings and is inspired by the old custom of tying a string around your finger to remember something, in this case … kindness. Each ring comes with a set of 10 strings, each color representing a particular act of kindness.

“Worn as inspirational jewelry, the ring is designed to help us remember kindness, consideration and respect towards others” says String-Ring creator, Tina Mansfield. “I believe by simply reminding people of their innate desire to be kind, we can ease social pressure, bullying and acts of retaliation. Kindness is something we should emphasize and teach to our children through our words and own actions.”

Tina has donated the first 100 String-Rings to The Rachel’s Challenge Project. Rachel was the first victim of the Columbine school shooting in 1999 and her father, Darrell Scott, travels the globe speaking to high-school students at assemblies in the hope of promoting kindness and tolerance.

According to String-Ring owner, “As the new trend begins in enlightened business, the corporate world recognizes that the time is right for a change in the way we view the world — our attitudes and directions, especially in our schools. The need to move towards unity instead of separateness is imperative. By wearing a String-Ring, people will join our growing kindness community and will share in a uniting message that each one of us is a member of a community and therefore have inherent responsibilities, such as acknowledging that our actions have consequences.”

“We are in the process of creating a kindness blog. Here, kids can share their own acts of kindness”

String-ring was designed by Tina Mansfield, a graphic designer and mother, who was concerned with a noticeable lack of respect and kindness between co-workers, children and adults, and between peers. In addition to being a very attractive piece of jewelry, a String-Ring reminds us to slow down and treat our neighbors with respect and kindness.

If you’d like more information about this topic, please email Tina Mansfield at info@string.ring.com or log on to String-Ring.com

Attention Online Shoppers:

Ecrater Merchants Want You!

If you’re looking for great deals on quality items — things that you spend precious time bidding on at online auctions sites — visit the Ecrater Shopping site. There are over 1,000,000 items for sale on Ecrater.

Ecrater sellers offer a wide range of merchandise — From antiques to automobiles and everything in between. Definitely something for everyone!

What makes Ecrater a great place to shop?

• Ecrater is a 100% free marketplace. This makes it a great place for buyers and sellers, since we are able to pass the savings on to our customers.

• Ecrater has an attractive storefront setup that is easy to navigate and allows you to search the entire site or your favorite store. After your purchase you can leave feedback to thank your seller for their service.

• The merchants at Ecrater are experienced sellers. Many have migrated from auction venues and offer the same products that you have to wait to bid on elsewhere.

• Shopping on Ecrater is safe. Google Checkout and Paypal are available options for sellers. Many also accept checks and money orders.

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• Moderators on Ecrater do a great job of keeping the site free of fakes, scams and objectionable items.

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