BTW, these are the only rugs I have, so after I sell these, it won't be a problem. :) >>>>

But you might find a problem (or not) when you wake up addicted to rugs and find yourself buying more and more and a lot more and selling, and buying rug books and joining more rug forums ..... I am a jewlery designer who creates a line of funky tribal fusion jewelry. I have always loved these carpets but only had 4 smaller ones of my own. I discovered the inexpensive Balouchi carpets on ebay and started buying them up to fill my booth at fairs and add a bit more "funky tribal feel" to the booth. But then, I took the plunge and the rugs have taken off as my damn life. And oh yeah, I think there's still some jewlery around here somewhere. I am a writer too, and I am currently working on a novel that certainly didn't start out to be about rugs, but they have somehow insidiously "woven" themselves into the plot. Be careful, they have a way of taking over. No complaints here!

As far as the starting price, I have bought a lot of rugs with starting bids of .99. And I watch a lot of these actions just to learn. Some of the carpets for starting bid of .99, I was the only biddeer and I got it for .99 plus the shipping. Which is always higher than what it really costs but Ia ssume they are recouping loss which is fine with me. Other times it starts at .99 and there may be four or five of us bidding and it will got for a bit more. I have seen .99 starting auctions got tobidding wars with 35 bids and finish off over a thousand bucks. So there is no real way to tell where a bid is going to go. I see some rugs though that are fabulous and start at .99 and have 6 days to go and I KNOW there's going to be a fight and it will finish high. It's just real interesting to watch. Sometimes I see a rug I wouldn't buy for .50 and there are 30 bids. But I look at the bids and it's just one peson, bidding over and over, or two people upping each other for days. Clueless! When the Krow really wants something, I will swoop down at the last few seconds and overbid up to my highest price I'm willing to pay and 99.99% of the time I get it for less. But these people who are upping each other 20 times a day, all they are doing is driving up the price they will eventually pay. I get mine for .99 because I pick good rugs and wait and if nobody is bidding, I get it at the end. And I have a lot of very nice rugs here. But there are SO many rugs on eBay that you can find good stuff. And I am not buying the super high end rugs. Well, super high end rugs are not ON eBay, but you know what I mean.

I just started the auctions Sunday... it's early still. I do have a lot of watchers and a starting bid on the small Wilton and the blue rug (99 cents). There have been a lot more looks than I expected so far. My user name here is the same on ebay if you want to watch them. I am sure the Rugrag.com report card icon is helpful since I have had no questions on them yet. (It's a good thing since I probalby wouldn't know the answer!) :)

I kinda agree with you krow, I wouldn't necessarily say the cedar is a defect, but I see atropines been really forthcoming with information which is really good. Cedar is without a doubt less offensive than moth flakes. The main thing is you don't want to have any surprises when receiving a rug, so letting people know ahead of time it has an odor of some kind in advance is the best thing you can do. I like the smell of cedar myself, but then again, I'm not a moth :d/

I cant believe the mohajeran sarouk doesn't have any bids! This could be a really good thing: it may be one of those rugs a lot of people dive on last minute. 82 views is really good, so the rug is certainly getting a fair amount of exposure.

how many people are watching each?

atropine, if you receive questions you don't know the answer, let us know. I think in general you have awesome shipping conditions, terms and obviously everything is straight forward. hope these get some heavy activity, but again, you have to be okay with letting them go for whatever they sell for!

I unerstand your need to mention the cedar smell of course. I just wondered about the "defect" as it makes it sound negative. No biggie. And I wouldn't worry about the watchers. I watch all the auctions I participate in and never bid until the last few seconds.

Thanks. That's a rug bazaar in Central Asia. It looks really cool in the larger photo. You gotta love Google Image Search.