OT: Spend a Penny...

Yeah, I guess. Like to have a bit of scruffy clutter and a feel of 'lived in' myself, not some clinical environment where you're scared to scratch your arse in case the neighbours apply for an ASBO.

(You been to Poggle Wood - you know the sort of 'character' I'm on about) :-)

What p!sses me off is my 5 bed detached is worth _less_ (by 20 fecking grand) than a two bedroom 'luxury appartment' with no garden, service costs, the promise of a parking space (I have 5 parking spaces) and a

I'm not bothered what I may get for this place as I'll no doubt die here - more what they're being ripped off for theirs - still, the chattering classes do seem to like it, judging by the couple of ~12 year olds buying vintage champagne at Waitrose earlier (took three Credit Card 'DECLINED' though, makes me wonder what these folk are really living on - certainly not their own money).

You're more than welcome - thanks for your support.

Where's me bleeding positive feedback!!!???!!! ;-)

Thought I wander over to eBay and see how these things are going, couldn't remember the item number or have a book mark so bunged "1966 penny" into the search box, 41 hits... All much of muchness and people selling 10 or 20 for 50p sort of thing. Took me quite a while to find yours amongst that lot...

Little bit of constructive criticism? It might be a wise move to change the title or sub-title (if you can now) to show that your auction is a for Charity/Alzheimer's not your own pocket like all the others. It's a good hook to hang selling the things on and you've only 6 days left...

Isn't there a special ebay charity branch ?

Steve

There is but the minimum "donation" from each sale is =A35, plus fees I =

think.

SWMBO'd looked at the charity side in the last week or so as she is on the committe of a couple of local carities and thought that selling left= over jumble(*) on eBay could be a bit of a fund raiser for them. But the= conditions imposed by "offical eBay charity auctions" effectively stop you selling anything for less than about =A38 because of the minimum "donation" and fees.

This hasn't stopped her mind, she has just put stuff up with a note in the decsription and title that it's a charity auction. In the descriptio= n there is brief outline of the charity and it's reg. number etc. So peopl= e can check if they want.

(*) People will buy anything, she sold a 12 year old used plastic bag last week for =A31.99 + =A31.20 P&P.

I'd love to buy somewhere like that! If anybody would like to swap something interesting for a staffordshire semi then let me know ;)

On or around Wed, 24 May 2006 21:09:30 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

The bastard machine declined one of mine, which I KNOW has credit, at the garage the other day, I've yet to find out why.

It / they won't let it be changed, but tis a good point and I'll bear that in mind when I relist it.

Yeah - pretty useless for a 'novelty' fundraiser like this. Add to that the 25p taken by PayPal and it trims the funds somewhat :-(

What on earth would a 12 year old want with a plastic bag?

Mind, you're right - someone once bought a very broken mobile phone off me! ;-)

You don't want to know how little it went for, then :-(

Can I interest you in a rather interesting slightly used wife (and optional children)? :-)

Make sure it's in the title as well, not the sub title. You don't see subtitles in searches, neither are subtitles searched.

Your own, or someone elses?

I like playing spot the person selling at a loss, *excluding* any orgina= l cost price. Very easy to do for low selling price items.

Now if there was an "a" between old and used I could read it like that but not otherwise, admittedly a comma or two might be useful.

IIRC that was a phone broken in a very special way, not just a broken phone.

Unlike Easyjet who wouldn't even be able to find the brewery let alone run a piss-up!

NOW we know where those stolen 101's are ending up.....

Alex

I'd rather see my inheritance go to charity than let that grasping neo-communist get his hands on it.

Alex

Slightly used? That depens on how many kids you've had.....

Alex

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