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They’re good for eating slices of sponge cake etc. Small enough to be put on the tea plate next to the slice of cake.
Probably the last relic of the Victorian mania for inventing different eating implements.
03/08/2021 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Ebay seller convicted of defrauding USPS of $250K in unpaid postage. #86560Presumably the local post office could have clamped down on the guy by attaching postage due labels to his parcels. Royal Mail does that; charge to the recipient on a small parcel under 2 kilos is about 5 dollars whether there’s no, or insufficient, postage paid.
Having the post office fine your customers is the shining path to a negative feedback score.
03/08/2021 at 4:54 am in reply to: Ebay seller convicted of defrauding USPS of $250K in unpaid postage. #86516(scrolls through court filing to find evidence number 19) – he sold gun pellets and cleaning brushes, used a pen to alter a ‘3 ounces’ to an ‘8 ounces’ and marked them as ‘gifts’ when posting internationally.
Also did a bit of rather inept social engineering on USPS employees. If you’re scamming someone, don’t annoy them 🙂
it’s possible your buyer may not even read the description or look at the pictures!
That’s the kind of buyer I like if I’m selling face-to-face. That moment at a car boot sale when you’ve got a ‘feeding frenzy” round your stall. My partner hates it!
The Wikipedia article on Cottaging.
I’ve got a half-full bottle of 1986 vintage Madeira that I’ve been drinking since 1997- a thimbleful at a time! That stuff never dies.
I bought some boxes of dust-covered miniatures at auction (it was a thing in the 1960s to buy them on holiday and build up collections). I’m sure some of those drinks were only bottled in miniature, because no-one would want to work their way through a full-sized bottle of banana-flavoured egg nog. They got thrown in the bottle-recycling bin.
I just sold a few bottles of vintage alcohol this way just yesterday as I couldn’t find another way to get rid of them.
Yeah, some of that stuff, you need a licence from the EPA just to open the bottle.
Even before lockdown I avoided using the toilets at my favourite auction house- a room 12 foot by 16 foot with a stainless steel trough and two cubicles serving several hundred men. It had a permanently wet floor. I think it was built in the 1970s, when they stopped selling cattle and moved on to antiques and furniture, so maybe the ‘ambience’ wasn’t too noticeable then.
Thinking here in the UK seems to be that the vaccine is very effective at mitigating the effects of infection. I’ve had one dose of Pfizer; a couple of friends had one dose of Astra-Zeneca and had reactions lasting a day or so (fatigue and feeling cold etc.) The Germans give figures of about 40% reacting to AZ in that way. I had a slight ache in the shoulder. Although mix-and-match is apparently okay, I assume everyone will have their second does with the same vaccine as the first.
One of the advantages of selling at live auction is that you’ll never get an INAD. Or an INR or chargeback. And the auctioneer can get away with describing something as ‘AF’ (all faults) without having to list where all the fleabites are.
Also (despite the tedium) they’re addictive!
I used to attend one down in fox-hunting territory. They had an arrangement with the producers of ‘Bargain Hunt’. Every so often Tim Wonnacott and other celebrity antique dealers would turn up with a camera crew and the ‘red’ and ‘blue’ teams of contestants. Then the room would fill up with the county set, come to get their visages on the telly, and we regulars would end up standing near the toilets.
Unless you’re the first bidder wait until the bidding stalls and the auctioneer is scanning the room looking for further bids, as they only take bids off two people at a time. Like Sharyn says, much is waiting, and the waiting is more tedious than waiting for a bus. If there’s something you want in a box of stuff, make sure it’s still in the box and undamaged before you accept the box to take home.
I can move money back and forward between PayPal and my bank a/c instantly anyway, and between banks. So given the choice between Adyen NV charging me for doing what others do for free, or me waiting a few days while they invest the funds in tulip bulbs and stroopwaffels I choose the free option.
Yes, I completed the survey, clicking all the free options. Then it finished with some ‘verification’ questions, such as ‘What were your sales from all sources in 2020?’ ‘How long you been doing this scavenging thing, bud?’.
Thanks for that! The ‘before and after” shots of the Korean wedding chest are inspiring. Inspring me to do something about my collection of broken mahogany chairs 🙂
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