Date : Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:19:04 +0100
From : Neil Ward <neilw01@...>
Subject: Re: To sell or not to sell ?
I am encouraged by your replies, but disheartened by the responses I
have received from potential ebay buyers.
This should be fun and not open to the perverseness of people wanting
things they do not really appreciate the true value of.
:-(
Regards
Neil.
Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
>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.
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>Best wishes,
>
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>Ian
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>----- 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:
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>>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.
>>
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>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
>Personal: http://www.joel.co.uk | Pics: http://photos.jml.net
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