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“Separating payment from buying is an interesting trend and I would like to see more of that in more places.” (CEO Pieter van de Does, Adyen)
I read the rest of the article , but for the life of me I don’t understand it. Something about a Dutch unicorn…
Damn! Just found a huge cache of John Deere “Barnyard For Men” aftershave 😉
I’ve had that “feature” for about a month. Assumed it was the result of an autosave.
Some brassware has the alloy mix such that copper migrates to the surface when it’s cleaned with (I think) an acid. I found that out trying to clean up a Hindu shrine; the cladding had become reddish from the copper. Apparently that was due to the particular mix of copper and tin the Indian artisans had used, and maybe cleaning with limes and salt.
Thanks! The problem with my tunic is that its wearer is identifiable (wounded by Iraqi artillery according to a Google books excerpt). Makes it both interesting and problematic to sell!
I’ve got a similar query- woodland pattern jacket with name tag, rank and unit badges, traceable online to an Operation Desert Shield veteran. No idea how it ended up in a UK re-use shop.
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!
I 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.
