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A silk jacket and waistcoat for $6.50 (5 quid) from the local animal shelter shop. Greyish cream with weird trimmings- the buttonholes on the jacket are red rectangles, and the jacket’s collar is cut away with a red underlay. All the pockets are functional.
The only label is a tag for size, 42 inches/105 cm. Dry-cleaning labels, so it was worn
My wild guess is that it was made by Ellaneff tailors, whose shop was down the road from the thrift shop. They made suits for Teddy Boys- a “British youth subculture” of the 1950s who dressed up as Edwardian dandies.The “sponsored items’ that appear below listings now display “private” or “business” in gray directly under the title. I think that’s a new thing, but I might be wrong. Seems eBay UK want buyers to be able to easily distinguish between the two.
UK eBay private seller tells me that although there’s no fees to pay, sales receipts are now only paid out four times a year. You can use your balance to buy on eBay.
@jaepete You did well on the antenna book- I guess antennae haven’t changed much since 1955!
This “set of buyer enhancements that provide additional value” won’t in fact be enhancements of the buyers. Jamie’s an “innovative technology leader, Jamie has more than 20 years of experience in digital pure-play and omnichannel platforms for some of the world’s premier consumer-facing companies”. He last saw pedestrians fifteen years ago.
“In an internal message, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone shed light on these impending changes: “We are also planning to introduce a buyer-facing fee in the UK in early 2025 alongside a set of buyer enhancements that provide additional value.”
(quoted in “Devon Live”, 6 October)
@sharyn the sockets are sized in inches, so maybe that’s the reason. New sockets and spanners are all metric over here.
That applies to sellers not registered as businesses, i.e. private sellers. I gather once you’re registered as a business, it’s not so easy to de-register.
Just heard a UK eBay rep being interviewed on BBC Radio 4 “You And Yours”. Seems that buyers may be charged fees next year- the rep was waffling somewhat.
“Mr Pocket Billiards”? Travels to England, holds out hand to shake, says “Hi! I’m Mr Pocket Billiards”. Other person backs away slowly, holding hands behind back, trying to avoid looking at him. Bystanders snicker.
In amongst some trays of rusty screws and drill bits at the Saturday flea market I found something that looks like a steel railroad spike. It’s a die, cut with a CC41 mark, which is the mark for the Utility range of clothes and furniture, in use from 1941 to 1951. So this would have been used for stamping chairs and tables made to government-approved designs.
There’s a kind of following for utility furniture, but it’s not such a big thing as other MCM styles, ‘cos it’s well made but plain.
Well I got a quick reply- apparently there are thirty-odd but eBay “does make it hard to make multiple images.” Huh?
I bought a collection of 50 postal stationery items (they’re the type where the postage stamp is printed on the card or newspaper wrapper) from a thrift for £5. They’re from Gibraltar, mostly Queen Victoria. Prices on eBay are all over the place; one stamp dealer has a “GIBRALTAR Queen Victoria 1886 to 1898 A Unique Collection of Postal Stationery” on offer for £100, but the listing’s so confused that it seems to be either the six cards shown or the thirty or so cards and wrappers mentioned in the description. Given that other sellers’ listings for individual cards are in the region of £10 to £20, and some of the cards had a print run of less than 2,000 in the 1880s, seems odd.
Maybe I should ask them if the cards are FAAAKE?
AF looks up “Cabelas duck boots”, discovers they’re resistant to “multiple barnyard acids”, acquires new phrase for personal lexicon of insults.
Just been clicking on the reviewer’s names- you get to see what else they’ve reviewed. It’s like looking in other people’s shopping carts at the supermarket. Mr. Not Nearly likes fiction about card players, with philosophical undertones. Five stars for Victor Mollo. Mrs. Hilarious If You Like Shakespeare has small feet- the slippers were too big. One star for Pavers.
