CONDITIONS OF SALE:

1. Our order fulfillment center will carefully pack and ship your article via the U.S. Postal Service. We insure all outgoing shipments. A lot of packages are lost in the mail. If your packet is lost, we will file a claim for you but the process does take about 45 days, as we are not able to file a claim until 30 days has elapsed since the shipment date.

2. Please note that if you use PayPal to remit your funds, PayPal requires all shipments be sent utilizing a method which is both insured and on-line trackable.� We try to approximate PayPal�s requirement with a less costly method than Fed-Ex or UPS; i.e., U.S. Postal Service with a Delivery Confirmation and Insurance; and so shipping costs are only about one-third of what they would be if we were fully compliant and used (for instance) U.S. Postal Service Express Mail, UPS, or Fed-Ex.� Inasmuch as PayPal Protection Policies do REQUIRE on-line trackable/insured shipment methods, we MUST use either insured mail with a delivery confirmation OR Fed-Ex, UPS, or Express Mail.

�3. Additional services such as Priority Mail, Express Mail, Federal Express, UPS, boxed shipments, etc., are available upon request. Please ask us. For only a few dollars extra, we can ship ANY order Fed-Ex or UPS Ground. Fed-Ex and UPS have proven to provide vastly superior service to the USPS.

4. If you are unhappy with your purchase for any reason whatever, we will gladly refund your entire purchase price. All we ask is that you ship the item (in its original condition) back to us. We will refund your entire purchase price, except for our cost of postage/insurance, so long as we are notified within six weeks of the date of payment of your intent to return the item, so that we may in turn ask Ebay and PayPal for a refund of the commissions and fees they charged us. If you notify us after six weeks, we will still honor your refund request, but we will deduct Ebay and PayPal commissions (10%-20%).

5. All shipments originate here in Washington State usually utilizing the U.S. Postal Service. On occasion they are slow, very slow. We cannot be responsible for slow deliveries. We are not the post office. Our order fulfillment center routinely ships every day, and will ship your item within one to three business days of receiving your remittance. But once the item has been placed into your mail system, it is beyond our control. We cannot be responsible for the slowness or inefficiency of the U.S. Postal Service, sorry. If speed of delivery is critical, we suggest you pay extra for USPS Priority/Express Mail or Fed-Ex or UPS (Ground or Air).

6. All of our postal system shipments include a USPS Delivery Confirmation.� Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. Postal Service does NOT automatically track insured mail or Priority Mail; only Express Mail. Even a Delivery Confirmation is only a �Delivery� confirmation � the USPS does not guarantee that it will be trackable on line.� It may or may not track � but it should show once it has been delivered (you can see USPS policy regarding D/C�s right here).� In any event, Delivery Confirmation is included with all our USPS shipments. Simply take the number you will be provided with upon shipment; and go to www.usps.com - the official site for the U.S. Postal System.

7. Certificates of Authenticity (COA's) are available on request and are mailed under separate cover (they are prepared by our order fulfillment center).� They are specific to the item purchased, and include the item�s origin and image.� There is a charge of $3.00 to cover the cost of the parchment paper, the preparation, and mailing them separately.�

8. International Shipments: We are happy to ship anywhere in the world. International shipments from the United States (using U.S. Mail) do offer insurance, and it is included in our rates. Our standard options is U.S. Postal Service Air Mail coupled with commercial insurance from Stamps.Com, Shipsaver (an eBay affiliate), UPS, Fed-Ex, or Wells Cargo.� This method is relatively inexpensive (around $20), but is not tracked from point-to-point. Most countries offer some limited tracking of airmail parcels (Australia, Canada, Germany and most European countries, the U.K., etc.). But we cannot guarantee and do not represent your package will be tracked unless it is shipped using USPS Global Priority or International Express Mail (which typically costs $30-$50 extra).� International shipments ARE more susceptible to loss than domestic shipments.�

9. There are a few countries in South America, Africa, Central Asia, and Russia (and many of countries formerly part of the USSR) which we surcharge about $20 due to the fact that we cannot obtain insurance in parcels, and so must send all parcels numbered (�registered�) mail.� This is due to the fact that shipments into those countries routinely disappear, and no one will insure them.� If you do not pay the surcharge when bill, we will cancel your purchase and refund your remittance.� You can write us if youlive in a country which you suspect might be un-insurable, and we will quote you in advance.