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There’s only three (or maybe two) eBay-approved grading services- Paper Money Guaranty (PMG)
Professional Currency Grading Service (PCGS Currency) and Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS Banknote Grading). What I think happened is that the concatenation of the numbers 1932 and the words “Numistrust Graded” caused some algorithm to reject the listing.i.e. it didn’t recognise the numbers as a year date.(wild-haired guess) Numistrust maybe not a recognised grading company. The title might be seen to imply that Numistrust has given a numeric grade of 1932 to the coin (you’re not allowed to give numeric grades from a non-recognised grading firm in the title).
Anyway, Nu Mistrust?
I sometimes end up on the US site when I type in ebay in the browser bar. Just checked one of my listings and it gave the dollar amount first, followed by the pounds. Also got a message on the overview page that I haven’t got any active listings, which is true re the US site- this might be a quick way of checking whether you’ve accidentally listed on the UK site.
Actually xe.com says $124.99 equals £372.15, which is a bit odd… oh, hang on, I typed the wrong year in. That’s next year’s rate. 😉
“Honestly, this forum has a high barrier for participating, and the upside is that all of us who run the gauntlet to get in are very motivated to be here. So the conversations are constructive and professional”
Yes!
People are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Samuel Johnson (amended)
Gimp does what you need for eBay (levels, unsharp mask, cropping and straightening). I started out on Photoshop 3- as far as I remember layers came in with 5 or 5.5, issue 6 was sorted and after that it was just bloatware. A graphics programmer told me that the basic operations are part of the operating system- Gimp and Photoshop are front ends for that.
The old golf story- never bet against a player with one club and a deep suntan. The same with software- the operator who can work channels, layers and pen tool can do most everything. I can’t 🙂 but I can do ‘orrible things with the Plastic Wrap filter.
I use Gimp on a Mac, after losing a copy of Photoshop 8 on an old G5 Mac. I find it clunky.
Flock paper- took me back to memories of the 1970s- my parents decorated an alcove with flock wallpaper, where the patterns were printed in glue and then flocked. The plain stuff was sprayed green and used as “grass” on model railways.
Not sure, but I don’t think it’s possible to draw on flock paper without damaging the surface, so the picture may be a print.
Dried bird poo and flock fibres; mmm… histoplasmosis and flock worker’s lung. “It wasn’t the cough that carried him off, it was the coffin they carried him off in”.
You might want to lay off shipping anything to Hong Kong for a couple of weeks, till the situation re the protests gets resolved.
I watched a video of a carton reducer some time back- it appeared to be useful for reducing the height of cartons, but I’m often building cartons up from flat sheets (like TV boxes). Also when the demonstrator used it to cut pizza, things got messy.
Thanks- been using the back side of a box cutter, never thought of that!
I use titanium coated blades in a stanley knife (don’t know what the US equivalent is). They last a lot longer. The side of the box with the flap for the join has to be slightly shorter, otherwise the box is a bit askew. If you’re sourcing boxes from the street, check that tom cats haven’t marked them- I really don’t know what it is about cats and cardboard boxes.
If I add info I’ve gleaned from somewhere else I add the author’s name. One of my listings got critiqued by the editor of a specialist collectors’ periodical (who makes a habit of filling his copy with such stuff). He got a namecheck in my next listing, just to see if he’d mention the mention of him in his next issue. Didn’t work.
Years back, a well-known High Street retailer of somewhat conservative fashion employed a Leicester firm to replace “Made In China” labels with “Made In England” (I knew one of the seamstresses). That ended in litigation, but the tradition continued, and the city became the world centre of dodgy labelling.
Worst one I’ve seen (on TV) was a lady who lived in a 300-year-old house in the centre of Bridport, Dorset. The kind of house the Mayor of Casterbridge would have lived in. Mummified horse in a closet. A variety of cat and dog corpses scattered through the house. This in the centre of a busy market town in the 1990s.
Looks like it’s got the teeth of an omnivore, not a carnivore, so I guess it’s a pig. A bracket in Carrera marble. If it is a pig, probably from a high-class butcher’s shop, with maybe a matching bull’s head. Don’t clean it- apparently marble’s easily damaged.
It looks to me that this is a dodge by the buyer- the GSP part is a bit opaque as far as the seller’s concerned (I can find how much the buyer’s being charged, but it’s a bit of a palaver). The buyer gets you to invoice them for the sale price only, because you don’t think to add the P&P since you never had to specify it in the listing.
Alternatively the buyer thinks that the GSP charge is too high (sometimes it is).
Whatever, your gut feeling is right!
