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Sold some items through a local auction house on Saturday. Their online descriptions are linited to one sentence. Thus “A British Army jack knife, 1947, a bronze handled paper knife and one other paper knife with advertising handle” which fetched £25 nett. One photo. Commission is 15% with a £3.50 minimum, plus £1.75 online lotting fee, so to have them photograph the items, describe them and sell them cost me about 6 dollars. Lots are “sold as seen” (hmm… not “as described”) so no INADs, no returns, no bad feedback, and no chance to let my marvellous personality shine through. There’s always a drawback!
03/06/2020 at 10:19 am in reply to: Lost a bunch of CDs I was in process of listing. Crrrraaaaapp! #74809A young Buddhist monk broke his abbot’s favourite tea bowl. “Master, is it true that everything in the world has a time to die?” “Yes, that is true.” “It was time for your bowl to die.”
My worst foul up was washing dirt off a Victorian glass photo of a young lady; the inage floated off in bits. Somehow I felt I’d erased the memory of her from the world.
Thinks “They sell live insects on eBay?”. Checks for maggots. Hmmm… one pint of live maggots for £8.85. Funky!!!
…but it’s not good when the stuff’s over-produced. Most of the biographies didn’t show signs of having ever been read (well, maybe up to the Noam Chomsky point- page 16!)
Dinosaurs got bigger, and then they became extinct. Cookbooks are following the same evolutionary pattern. Elizabeth David’s classics of the 1950s are small paperbacks. Jamie Oliver’s or Gordon Ramsay’s are hernia inducing.
Catmom, they’re not old books! I save the books older than the 1970s when I can. These are usually about 5 to 10 years old. The publishing industry is really wasteful. Each hardback book costs a dollar or less to produce, and retails at around 15 to 20 dollars. So they encourage anybody famous for more than ten minutes to write about themselves.
There is also some satisfaction in throwing things away, so long as they’re recycled. I was tasked with culling the (auto) biographies at the thrift shop I volunteer at last week. Most are difficult to sell, and other shops don’t want them. So, into the pulping bag went various footballers, minor celebrities, old politicians, and Boris Johnson’s biography of Churchill, all to be reborn as toilet rolls.
03/01/2020 at 12:59 am in reply to: What to watch today: Dow to drop into correction as global coronavirus concerns #74606Or India. We (UK) seem to get a lot of meds from there. Just bought a 25 lb sack of Basmati rice for 13 dollars, and 36 cans of baked beans for 7 dollars from Tesco. Should keep me going for a couple of weeks, and I can use the excess gas for heating.
Doesn’t seem to be any panic here, and the Chinese (we’ve got a large number of students) aren’t wearing masks.
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I was given a couple of shirts bought in Indonesia when I was on holiday in Singapore in 1995- they were similar in style, but not in design. As far as I remember, Batam’s a short ride on a ferry and was a major shopping destination. Johor Bahru in Malaysia was the destination for buying dodgy VHS tapes!
02/29/2020 at 8:46 am in reply to: What to watch today: Dow to drop into correction as global coronavirus concerns #74575…in a Leicester accent.
The Adyen website. “Adyen reportedly paid eBay $70 million in cash and $83 million in stock warrants for the privilege.” (Wikipedia- source Bloomberg Business News)
Don’t know about the micro scale (i.e. us sellers), but on the macro scale I have a feeling something’s going to go horribly wrong. Can’t explain- maybe it’s because Adyen paid for the business.
I’m sorry to hear that.
I suspect the “broken English” is faked.
Search “Confessions of a Nespresso money mule” (it’s a talk at Def Con) for an explanation as to why sometimes you get a great deal on eBay.
This is not going to look good in a listing then! Guess I’ll have to put it back on the wall.
I looked at carding combs, and they all have plenty of… spikes? I would’ve suggested it was for pricking holes in a piece of card or paper, but maybe the holes in the base are for protecting the spikes in transit.
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