Date : Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:47:51 +0100
From : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: To sell or not to sell ?
I totally agree with what you say about bidding using dial-up internet. The
number of auctions I have lost in the last minute through E-Bay taking about
2 mins to refresh the page is incalculable! It wasn't so bad until they changed
the whole My E-Bay thing a year or so ago probably, putting all little icons all
over the shop which take forever to load in every time you refresh.
Best wishes,
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: David Hunt
To: <bbcmicro@...>
Sent: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 11:25:37 +0100
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] To sell or not to sell ?
Trouble with Parcels2Go is that they use "local agents" - read - one man and
his van to do the collection and delivery. It is not the professional
service that one may associate with a major courier such as DHL. All the
major couriers are going down this route, notably Securicor Omega Express,
this turned out to be the same woman who delivered a Tesco books order!
On the selling Beeb stuff front, I'm cheered by the retracted sales on eBay,
a victory for the heart over the mind ?
Regarding the ATPL ROM board, I have seen some amazing prices fetched for
all kinds of stuff on eBay, notably, some of the items I have sold have gone
for over ten times what I expected.
It is precisely these bidders who keep eBay and other auctions profitable.
The psychological effect of losing a bid, knowing, you can afford to outbid
that person, invariably translates to "snipe bidding" - aka bidding in the
last few seconds for #500 or some silly high number.
The losers are those on dialup or ADSL whose ping is so atrocious that they
can't bid in the last two seconds of an auction. The ping is the only good
thing about ntl's cable modem service, ping to eBay is around 17ms, v.s.
134ms for my next door neighbour on BT/AOL ADSL. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping> for info. on ping.
I sold my college scarf on eBay around this time last year, I got #186 for
it! Needless to say, I cycled down town and bought another for #12 from
Ryder & Amies, that incidentally also sells to the general public. I sold it
because someone in a Cambridge bar took umbrage to it and punched me in the
face telling me "I was scumbag college-boy c**t, that needed a kicking" -
but hey-ho I didn't want that to get on top of me!
BTW: Anyone here play games on their Beeb ? I play at least one game,
Arcadians etc. most mornings! Prepares me for the boring side of computing!
Dave ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf Of
Joel Rowbottom
Sent: 08 October 2005 10:37
To: bbcmicro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] To sell or not to sell ?
At 10:07 08/10/2005, A. J. Davis wrote:
>Persuade the sellers to use PARCELS2GO. They only charge around #8 for a
>20Kg parcel, which will easily accomodate a Master and Monitor.
>I've sold two on Ebay in the past and sent them this way. The company
>uses DHL so it's usually a next day collection from the seller's address
>and next day delivery.
On the flip side of the coin I've tried to use PARCELS2GO a few times, and
they've never turned up (despite debiting the card, and then having a scrap
to get a refund).
--
Joel Rowbottom, was-kid, geek, coder, bad penny, 'Net addict since 1991
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