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12/16/2019 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71742
I’ve seen the packaging, but I can’t remember how it was labelled. Probably in Cyrillic, and valued in rubles. The only buyer I’ve ever had complain about customs duty was someone in Taiwan, and that was after I’d refunded them fully for a defective camera lens. Felt like sending them a copy of the Little Red Book in a clear plastic envelope!
12/16/2019 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71737Yes you’re right. The US package was new components. He’s being regularly purchasing used parts from Russia and Ukraine recently without paying any charges, e.g a 1980s core memory (or something 🙂 ) for £60.
12/16/2019 at 12:33 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71734As far as I remember my friend ordered £20 of electronic components from the US. Duty was about £4, and the charge for collecting the duty £8. I know, that doesn’t actually make sense as the value was well under the £135 limit, but that’s what I remember from taking him to the sorting office ten years ago.
Didn’t know that the Royal Mail paid the customs and import VAT upfront to the Border Force. Presumably when the parcel’s refused, the Border Force refund the Royal Mail.
12/16/2019 at 6:08 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71702The UK has this scam whereby if the customs fees are not paid upfront the recipient has to pay an extra £8 to the post office when they collect the parcel (I’m basing this on someone else’s experience as I don’t directly import anything). Obviously GSP obviates this, but then probably overcharges on certain categories.
Always worth checking what’s in the books besides words, e.g. tram tickets. money, bookplates and other ephemera.
A US bookdealer who writes a regular blog about trading at book fairs thinks that the market is shifting to ephemera away from ye olde leather-bound volumes.
Saw a modern Christmas pudding mould a couple of days ago; hemispehrical and used upside=down in a suacepan of boiling water. A spotted-dick or treacle sponge mould would be log-shaped. Blancmange moulds are in pottery or glass.
Found it. It’s French, I’ve no idea what it’s used for.
My grandmother learnt her cooking “skills” from someone who lived in the 19th century. It took her two hours to boil a cabbage to the point where it was sorry. That era’s where all these steamed puddings came from. Last time I steamed a pudding it took three hours and I got roundly abused by the women for wasting electricity.
Oh, it’s just… on a shorter timescale. No attempt to build up a credit history.
It’s probably not relevant in this case, but long firm fraud was a thing back in the Britain of the 1950s and 1960s. Start a business, buy stock in, build up your credit rating with the suppliers, put a massive order in, abscond with the stock. Repeat in another town.
I’ve no idea why it’s called that, also there’s short firm fraud which I’m just about to google.
He mentioned paying $8,500 in back rent which I presume is Canadian dollars. Don’t know what period that covered.
I’ll qualify that. He paid the rent owing to the property management company. He got a locksmith to change the lock. Whether the company gave him permission to remove the stock, or whether he has started paying rent on the warehouse I don’t know.
Members of his family lent a local business money. Business went bust, foreclosure, he offers property management company the back rent owed in return for access to the warehouse and permission to clear out anything there.
Yeah, in the original video there were no advert breaks. Now there’s seven.
Over here in the UK the majority of dvds are sold by thrift shops at 5 for a £1 (about 1.25 USD). The shop I volunteer in threw out about 200 last week as they were unsaleable, and unrecycleable. There are dvds which are still worth selling though, also I don’t know what the state of the US market is.
The same with cds, plus by now the plastic in the 1990s cases is starting to degrade so many have cracks.
With books, the best stuff is proper how-to-do-it/reference books. For instance I picked up a book on how to replicate Gibson guitar finishes for £1- when I checked sellers were asking £50 for used copies. I bin hardback fiction, even if it’s intelligent.
I have to sort through about 3,000 books, dvds and cds a week at the thrift, so I have a somewhat cynical approach! There’s nothing like sorting through a pile of dvds of Hollywood crap to give you a ‘kill ’em all’ feeling 🙂
Curiosity Incorporated has 275,000 YouTube subscribers. LockPickingLawyer has 1,120,000 subscribers (I’m not one). He did start a year earlier, in 2015.
Participation. Everyone can pick up a lock to fiddle with, few have access to a hoarder’s house!
Says “I just got the keys from the locksmith”. Holds the key up so that you can clearly see the bitting, inserts that key into the lock and opens the door. Hmmm… looks like the locksmith removed the original lock and replaced it with a cheap Chinese one (no scratches on the lock, no branding).
I’ve been watching too much LockPickingLawyer 🙂
The rest of it is a horror movie involving hundreds of small rubber dolls and a claustrophobic warehouse where the heating’s still on but the lighting’s off.
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