High Price parts!

Always the cynic, seeing what the seller has previously sold, and the prices that those items have made as well, I can't help thinking that the seller is using those listings as a way to launder excess cash....

"Excuse me sir, may I ask where you got all this cash from, it's not the proceeds of any nefarious activities is it?"

"No Officer, it's the money I got selling a jam jar on Ebay....."
 
v8guy said:
That looks like an Italian astronuats jar to me........
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For those who thought I was going mad
An Italian astronaut = spe-ci-man

They say the old ones are best not sure now :oops:
 
People pay what the market will bear, and if the buyer is willing and happy with the purchase and will make good use of them, then that is a good outcome.

Ron.
 
SydneyRoverP6B said:
People pay what the market will bear, and if the buyer is willing and happy with the purchase and will make good use of them, then that is a good outcome.

Ron.
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Exactlly! Someone clearly thought that was worth £343. How many people on here have
paid lots of £ notes for something and not told senior management the whole truth for
an easy life?

Colin
 
:cry: Unfortunately my bargain lenses havn't materialised I've been speaking to the vendor and I believe he is totaly genuine and has offered me a full refund today. Much rather have the lens's was looking forward to fitting them :evil:

He has recently bought a series 1 tc in brigader red, the lens's where fitted to it and he's chosen to go back to standard, I've invited him to join the forum. He has been on here as a guest and is also a rp6oc member he was telling me.

I've agreed to let him know if they turn up as he has if they are returned to him.. Has anyone else experianced parcels going missing with Royal Mail :?:
 
v8guy said:
Has anyone else experianced parcels going missing with Royal Mail :?:
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Royal Mail?

We have had so much trouble with them that we are now trying to talk our customers into having their invoices and statements emailed.

As a company we will NOT send any goods out with Royal mail. We will only use carriers now.

We used to do mailshots with offers to our customers but many of them did not arrive.
 
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We also avoid Royal Mail wherever possible and email all invoices/statements.

And another thing...anyone remember when mail used to arrive before 9 a.m.? And I won't even mention the 2nd post delivery...oh...I have. :roll:
 
I've never had a parcel go missing, either as a buyer or seller (touch wood), so I'm a little sceptical when people claim it's been lost, but I'm sure it can happen. I always use recorded delivery for stuff I've sold.

There is a lot of fraud on ebay, people claiming stuff hasn't arrived and wanting their money back or they'll "neg" you.
 
webmaster said:
I've never had a parcel go missing, either as a buyer or seller (touch wood), so I'm a little sceptical when people claim it's been lost, but I'm sure it can happen. I always use recorded delivery for stuff I've sold.
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Same here.

I have a certain amount of sympathy for Royal Mail, as since things were opened up to competition it's not been a level playing field. OK so if you want competition that's fine, but if you use another provider they should deliver it all the way to the door, and that's not what happens, your good old RM postie is the one who ends up shoving it through your letterbox. RM have to undertake to deliver mail to every address in the UK, the other providers don't, they get RM to do the lossmaking bits for them.
 
It could very well be an area thing.

Our Dorset depot doesn't get anywhere near the problems that we in Sheffield do.

Our post turns up any when from 9.30am to not at all. We often have to deliver post to people around the corner that our postman had wrongly delivered to us by mistake, we also get other people dropping our post in when they get it by mistake, we get cheques delivered to us which have been up to 6 weeks late (from the postmark), I have had a parcel from ebay delivered 3 weeks after it was sent (again from the postmark), and we have seen the postman delivering a card stating that the parcel was too big to be delivered through our letter box (but he hadn't brought it with him - we had to drive 8 miles to the sorting depot to get it), cards saying that there was insufficient postage (£1.00 handling fee but again they don't bring it with them), and the mailshot situation!

We get new literature from time to time and post them out to our customers. So many of them stated that they didn't get them that I contacted the Royal Mail and complained. They told me that this was a common occurrence and that the customers would see that it was a mailshot and throw it away before opening them. Fair point I thought, so we sent out 50 a week for 8 weeks then phoned the Royal Mail again (That takes a while as well :shock: ) to report that many of them were missing. I was again told that the customers threw them away until I explained that I had sent myself one each week and had only received 3 back!

I sent someone a letter saying that we would take them to court if they didn't pay the account. It never arrived (I sent it recorded).

I could go on - but I won't :?
 
I know exactly what you mean, despite what you may think from my previous post. When I had my workshop the post delivery was appalling, at one time I had thousands of pounds of cheques that I'd been told had been sent that had never arrived. (I know, they all say the cheque's in the post) Eventually I started having all post sent to my home address, and taking payment by BACS. Years later there was a fire alarm in the empty building in the next yard down the road, and when the Fire Crew broke in they found years of post dumped in the stairwell there, loads for me, including all those missing cheques. The worst thing was that all our estate had clearly marked post boxes by the gate so they didn't even have to come in and find us....
 
Hi, I think Quattro and Harvey's problems are local staff issues rather than a system
problem. But there again that is who you deal with.

Colin
 
Can't say I have ever had any problems with RM where I live (parcels or letters). I certainly agree with Harvey's views about couriers being able to cherry-pick the lucritive end of the market while the RM has to do all the loss making stuff. In comparison to many other countries I reckon we are quite spoiled. I can remember years ago being in Canada and folk had to go to mail boxes at the end of their street to get their mail - none of this posting it through your door nonsense!

What kills me with couriers is when they bung a note through your door saying SORRY WE MISSED YOU (when you were most definitely in at the time) - more like they never had your parcel in their van but didn't want to admit it? Then you've got to drive for miles and waste you time trying to find their depot in some out of the way industrial estate. Only to find when you get to the counter they say, "sorry your parcels out for delivery with one of our vans". Then you get back home to find another, SORRY WE MISSED YOU card - aaaarrghh! Now I think I know what Hell might be like?

Maybe the local variations in local service could be described as "post code lottery" ?:oops: :oops:

If I ever live to be a really old man, I can imagine me wittering on to my grandchildren that, "I remember when there was no t'internet and people used to send bits of paper to each other called letters, you could get any part from the motor factor for less than a tenner" - £10 that is, not 10 shillings (I'm not that old).
 
Hi, I thought he had mistyped the price, but looking at his other items the prices
are all over the place.

Colin
 
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