Seller News: August 2025
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Oh dear, PayPal - what a blunder...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44783779 For those who don't like links - a spot of copy and paste: Lindsay Durdle died on 31 May aged 37....PayPal was informed of Mrs Durdle's death three weeks ago by her husband Howard Durdle.He provided the ...
Resolved! Anyone know why all views and watchers have been set to zero please?
Anyone know why all views and watchers have been set to zero on my auctions please? Are there technical issues we should be aware of?
click&collect
Spoiler (Highlight to read)i notice more and more items are now available on click & collect option..i notice more and more items are now available on click & collect option..
Car Insurance
Got an email the other day reminding me my car insurance expires on the 20th July and giving me a renewal quote of £782 That is a bit steep, thought I, so went to a comparison site to see what else was on offer.The cheapest with the same cover was £3...
Winter Hill's on fire now.
Saddleworth Moor has been burning for days and now Winter Hill is on fire. I can see the plume of smoke from here and as I look it appears to be West of the transmitter mast. Who else can see it (at distance)?
Economic crisis
directly linked to me! You make me happy and economy will rise again. Opposite is true also. Advice is to think positive.
Where's the birdwatchers?
The feathered variety I mean! I'm trying to identify some birds which have recently descended on the lake where I walk round every day. They are around Mallard size, one, (obviously?) the male is bigger. It has a Black head and it seems mostly White ...
Tonight's the night?
It is isn't it? Tonight's the shortest night?
Resolved! ebay has mixed my account up with someone else's and is unresponsive
Hello, I recently received an email notification that my account is restricted and incorrectly citing a linkage to another account. This was my reply to ebay: Restrictions have been placed on my account with ebay citing a link to account "***". This ...
Cannabis oil???
We've all (??) seen the recent controversy about Cannabis Oil but isn't a form of it already legal in the UK? I thought the CBD compound was legal while the THC stuff is illegal? It's supposed to be the latter that gives users a high but extracts fro...
Shpock site
Does anyone use Shpock? I've listed some items but the photos are blurred - this doesn't happen with other sites.
Grenfell and the media.
I'm sticking my head above the parapet here..I'd like to ask if anyone else on here thinks that the media have gone totally overboard with their coverage of the Grenfell fire? There is yet another March in London again today, which will be extensivel...
Too much choice
Aaarghhh, there's too much consumer choice out there for me, particularly for electronic stuff like laptops, cameras etc.. It took me months to buy my last camera and by the time I decided there were yet more models out from the same manufacturer. I ...
The Salisbury affair.
It seems that what was said by Gary Aitkenhead of the Porton Down establishment wasn't properly understood or quoted? Boris should remember this quotation for the future?:- “ I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure yo...
Adding a Sig file to posts
Hi - I've been away from eBay briefly (about ten years) and a few things have changed... Buyers no longer need to complain about sellers leaving them revenge feedback... Someone stole Turbolister... And the section to add a sig file is missing from t...
Longest serving Poppy seller
Rosemary Powell...what a grand old lady...retiring after 97 years service to the Royal British Legion ! ! !
Intrusive technology
Yesterday -I was talking to a friend, after setting up some settings on His new works phone - it was needing charged every day He got an alert - from Google It had gotten the results of a search 'getting Graze Tablets' ??????????? Then I remembered I...
I have to share this.
My daughter showed me this video and I thought it was so funny that I like to share it with you all. https://youtu.be/qAmVQ8smSRY
Happy, funny or beautiful words.
How many wonderful words can we all come up with. Words that feel good when we say them, type them, hear them.Some words just sound really good to the (my) ear, like Tranquillity or Delicacy.Other words just sound funny to me, like Smithereens or Hod...
ebay and pay pal separate companies
so I am moving and went to pay for something tonight and changed address in my pay pal then I went to change it in my ebay account and it was already changed.How is this possible if they are seperate companies.
Are we being gagged?
Few cannot have noticed the criticism of our media, they are accused of blatant bias particularly by those on the left who seem to be the only ones who read the tabloids! This is far from the whole story though, the BBC is openly targeted along with ...
Remembering Lee Rigby
It is five years since Lee Rigby was brutally murdered on a public highway, and in broad daylight. An uffocial memorial for him has been removed by Greenwich council, for being 'unsightly'. A reporter for LBC went to Woolwich and asked local people i...
Fixing things that didn't need it?
Don't you find that these days people are constantly meddling and changing things that didn't need "fixing" or changing? Down all the years I've used ebay, they have been prime examples of that and many times they've made changes that've messed up ot...
The £32 Million Wedding.
The £32 Million Wedding
Why i love these Shoes
Mules ...they go with anything ..and so easy to wear..
Wearing well
No, not a pic of tacky old clothes, but Mick Jagger warming up for the concert at Croke Park, Dublin, tonight https://www.independent.ie/videos/entertainment/watch-mick-jagger-warming-up-on-stage-at-croke-park-36912140.html Pretty impressive at 74 , ...
Great Charity shop find !! what are yours
I Finally asked the little old ladies at my local charity shop if they have any Lycra skirts that they have in the RagBin for the Ragman ..whoa !! look at this as good as new !! because its out of the ragbag they sold it to me for just £1.00 !! its a...
What Clothes Charity Shops reject and Bag up for Rags
This is a Bag of Clothes from a Charity shop that had been bagged up for Rags/Recycle as unsuitable to sell on the shop floor .. a lot are worse for wear..of course there are items of clothing here that are unsuitable for resale ,also there are one o...
buying from abroad tracking parcel dilemma
ok i have brought 2 items from the same shop in the USA ..bote sent on the same day but in different packages ..one has arrived on the 15/05/2018 , yet the other i am still waiting for , i trace it by tracking number to get this ....; DepartedMay-12-...
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