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Like I say Moonraker, to each his own, although I must say "Your Chosen Subject" does sound like a Mastermind item, pretty profound I would say. Good hunting!Moonraker wrote:"Military Wiltshire 1897-1920". (OK I know it sounds like the specialist subject in Mastermind.)RAFPOL wrote:Incidently Moonraker, what is your particular subject?
"John Boy"
Moonraker
Kevin: if someone claims that (s)he has not received an item, is the sender expected to refund the payment? Claimed non-receipt is obviously an issue for some eBay sellers, who point out that they get a Certificate of Posting. Some insist on using Recorded Delivery for items over £10. And I won one postcard for just under £8 from an Australian vendor, who insisted on sending it by Down Under's equivalent of Special Delivery, which cost me another £5 or so. (And he wasn't allowed to use commemorative stamps that would have sugared the pill - just a boring printed label.) I had spotted the postal charge before bidding and allowed for it in my estimate of what the item was worth, which meant I only offered the starting price; I was the only bidder.kevinramsdale wrote:Which brings to mind the most irritating phrase on Ebay "I cannot be held responsible for items lost in the post" (or similar statements)
I understand that this is downright illegal for a business seller (sale of goods act) and extremely questionable for anyone else.
In any other area of commerce this would not be acceptable.
Know what you mean. I remember that other old statement "Proof of posting is not proof of delivery" Don't see it about much anymore. These all sound rather like opt out clauses!!!!! If, as you suggest, it is illegal, how on earth are sellers permitted to include it?kevinramsdale wrote:Which brings to mind the most irritating phrase on Ebay "I cannot be held responsible for items lost in the post" (or similar statements)
I understand that this is downright illegal for a business seller (sale of goods act) and extremely questionable for anyone else.
In any other area of commerce this would not be acceptable.
It's only illegal for business sellers, and is actually covered by the Distance Selling Regulations (not the sale of goods act as I previously thought)RAFPOL wrote:
Know what you mean. I remember that other old statement "Proof of posting is not proof of delivery" Don't see it about much anymore. These all sound rather like opt out clauses!!!!! If, as you suggest, it is illegal, how on earth are sellers permitted to include it?
"John Boy"
Well! The three evenings of bidding for the cards are over, and Wednesday was fun - half-a-dozen lots at minute intervals. (Haven't bothered with one of those last-minute sniping programs - perhaps I should.) And there were several people as crazy as I, and I didn't get everything I wanted. However, a dealer is asking £100 on eBay Buy It Now for a duplicate of one of the cards that was on offer; wish I'd not noted what it went for at auction - I already had it, cost me £19 at a fair three years ago!RAFPOL wrote:
"John Boy"
Last year I put in a bid of up to four times the dealer's rate for a postcard of soldiers lined up in a small Wiltshire hamlet, but I still got beaten. I emailed the winner, to find out that he collected cards of the hamlet and didn't even know there had been an army camp there in the Great War. So I sent him all my notes on it - and never got a thank you!RAFPOL wrote:... I recently got pipped at the post for a comic card and emailed the winner to congratulate him. A couple of messages later resulted in him sending me a few unwanted comics that I was looking for!!!!
"John Boy"
I don,t know, what has happened to good manners and common politeness? However, there you go. You made a very high bid and still got pipped at the post! I don't know if this is a healthy sign or not, it does tend to inflate prices somewhat and I really don,t know what the solution is. Do we need any sort of regulation or common sense control? Or do we leave it to market forces and the survival of the richest collector? Hope you have better luck next time should that much sort after card appears again.Monetary values exist for almost all postcards, but sometimes it is difficult to put a value on what that card will mean as a part of one's collection. If one of the raison d'etres of collecting is to bring together in one place a series of items previously dispersed -- and, in doing such, provide new meaning to the series as a whole -- a sum greater than its parts -- then buy it, value it, love it.Moonraker wrote:Well! The three evenings of bidding for the cards are over, and Wednesday was fun - half-a-dozen lots at minute intervals. (Haven't bothered with one of those last-minute sniping programs - perhaps I should.) And there were several people as crazy as I, and I didn't get everything I wanted. However, a dealer is asking £100 on eBay Buy It Now for a duplicate of one of the cards that was on offer; wish I'd not noted what it went for at auction - I already had it, cost me £19 at a fair three years ago!RAFPOL wrote:
"John Boy"
One can philosophise about how people spend/waste their money: over-powered car that loses half its value in three years? expensive meal out (that usually leaves me bloated and with nothing to show for it 24 hours later? gambling (never my vice)? getting drunk on Friday and Saturday nights? travelling to the Continent to see 90 minutes of football?
If I spend £50 on a card worth £25 I've still got something to show for it!
Moonraker
I say, well done.