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08/10/2019 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Do you ever tell another Ebay Seller that you found an error in their listing? #66186
Siglini, don’t worry- it’s an old friend. I’m seeing them Monday morning. I’ve only ever had one customer ‘phone up; a New Yorker with an Irish accent, in the middle of the night, desperate to get a shipment of books. I think he’d already sold them on!
08/10/2019 at 10:28 am in reply to: Do you ever tell another Ebay Seller that you found an error in their listing? #66167I get ‘phone calls where someone says “Frog’s put a silly price on something again”. Then there’s a “discussion”. I know who’s making these calls, and I will be paying them a “visit”…
…but you haven’t got Greggs, with its pervasive aroma of greasy pastry.
I bought a book on overlock sewing by Singer for 50p (1 dollar). Found these were priced online at about £1, so I took it with some other books into the thrift shop where I volunteer. It’s now in a glass case, priced at £25!
The rule is that if a shop worker wants to buy something, it has to be priced up by someone else. There’s some old maps that’ve been sitting on a shelf for the last six months, because I want to buy them and nobody else can work out a price- there’s no comparable maps online.
I can understand the aversion to laptops- I’ve got a Mac Pro and it’s on permanent loan since I find the touchpad and low-down screen unusable. I suppose if you connect a keyboard and a mouse to an iPad it’ld be halfway usable.
And on the other foot… a friend bought a bass guitar from a seller in London. The seller “packed” the guitar in a single piece of corrugated roll, it arrives damaged, after some argy-bargy eBay force a refund and the seller ends up whining that “you got a guitar for free”.
Years back I bought a high-end Rolleiflex from a psychiatrist. Picked it up from them at their office, gave ’em positive feedback, but on examining the camera I found a small scratch on the lens. Mentioned it in a message, not asking for a refund or anything, get a reply back threatening legal action if I try to contact them again. Contacted another eBayer who had dealt with them- “Yeah, they’re nuts! Threatened me as well”
I meant the people 🙂 They look very 1980s. Vettriano’s best known for the “Singing Butler”- he specialises in besuited men and women in evening dress in suggestive situations.
They look like they’ve just been thrown out of a Jack Vettriano painting.
My (pretty limited) understanding of GSP is that it’s based on a package weight of up to 15 kilos (~35 pounds), also customs charges seem to be imposed on stuff that shouldn’t be charged. A customer in Canada complained that he was going to be charged 20 GBP by GSP for a pamphlet, whereas a customer in Spain was charged 15 GBP (no customs duty) for a heavy lump of electronic equipment, by airmail.
Seems to me that if the above is true, exporting cheap heavy stuff is the way to go. Maybe lumps of Washita stone to Russians (seems to be a demand for woodworking gear there).
I was consigning some pottery at the auctioneer’s yesterday. As I went to sign the form the pen skittered across the table. The staff member said “The pen’s alive!” I replied “It’s the only thing around here that is!”
Five microseconds later, message from conscious part of brain to unconscious part “Shut up! You’re being rude!” Brain instructs mouth to apologise. Mouth says “Sorry”. Brain then realises that habitual mumbling on mouth’s part meant that staff member did not hear the smartass remark.
07/27/2019 at 5:31 am in reply to: What do I need for a beginner to take super high quality photos on a budget? #65477I used to use an Olympus Pen with a couple of studio flashes. The Pen started playing up, so I traded in some dvds for store credit at CEX, and bought a small Olympus something-or-other 14 megapixel camera for £28. I use a phone charger to charge the battery via usb. Quality is good enough that I can just use the built-in flash. A cheap tripod is useful- you could maybe use a tripod with a ‘phone as a steady.
Thing to watch out for is that (in my experience) the only way to get photos off an Android ‘phone onto a Mac is to email them.
07/25/2019 at 4:18 pm in reply to: The Most Comprehensive List of Helpful Items to Remove Sticky Residue #6543337. Carburettor cleaning spray
38. Benzaldehyde (gets rid of bees before they go sticking honey on your things)
39. Tetrachloroethylene (dry cleaning fluid- nasty!)
40. HG Tough Job Sticker Remover. This stinks, but according to the data sheet it only contains petrol and propanol.I had to look him up- if his last name is Romanovsky I don’t think he would’ve been in the trenches. More likely a cellar in Ekaterinburg.
If you can view the BBC version of “Antiques Roadshow” the resident glass expert Andy McConnell is worth watching. Skip the bits with the presenter Fiona Bruce unless you enjoy (quote) “self-satisfied, complacent smugness”!
Sorry- lampwork is when glass is melted using a heat source like a blowtorch and then manipulated with tongs to make figures. They look Mexican to me (sombreros). I’ve got some animals which were made and sold by someone working in the street in the Polish seaside resort of Sopot. A friend brought them back- you told him what you wanted and he made it on the spot
The “streets” in Venice (where Murano glass comes from) are canals. So you’d need to breathe through a snorkel if you wanted to stand in the street!
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