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Ebay for dummies, a seller guide.

Posted: Wed 11th February 2009 in Blog

Jesus...... I've been selling stuff on ebay, mostly worthless old junk. Old Hard Drives. Boken Laptop bits, a Z88. Yeah that old.

Here's a summary of some of the questions, messages and emails that have resutled from the bits I've been selling.

One chap "Will you ship (the completly derrelict and battered remains of a laptop sans harddisk that didn't work at all) with this courier to Spain for 20 quid" errr i supose so, why you'd want ot pay £20 to ship skip padding to Spain is behond me.

"Will you put XP on it" refering to a harddisk. errr "No" it doesn't work that way, several emails related to whther the drive was compatible with his laptop (in which he sent me the wrong model for anyway), an explanation of windows xp install process and a discussion on windows vista partitioning. Then he didn't bid.

"Can you put a buy it now price and how much" errr, no, its an auction, I don't know what its worth, just bid like it says.

The aforementioned laptop, was advatised with a complete list of failings, missing parts and symptoms, a good description of the physical failings of it down to missing screws. Despite this carefull description the question added was:

"HOW IS IT BROKEN"

No need to shout, and read the advert it says clearly concicely and acurately what I did and did not know about it. Jesus.....

To balance this out somewhat I sold a wifi card to a bloke, being a helpfull told him if he needed help to gimmy a shout. Turns out he inteneds to use it to make his Amiga 1200 do WiFi. I had to admit at that point I wasn't going to be much help. Its tempting to make references to the amount of time he must have on his hands to go around retrofitting internet and wifi to a 15year 6502 based computer. But in all honesty his hobby sounds much better than answering questions on ebay to the chancers, nutters and optimists on ebay.

I always thought the long ranty disclaimers you got on ebay auctions were silly. Now I'm beginning to realise what the big sellers are getting at. Man are there some insane requests. Some use the system sencibly and reasonalby, one fellow asked whether it would go through his letterbox (the Amiga man) which is fair enough.

I'm now living in fear of what will come next. "Can you paint it Pink for me", "can you isntall Windows vista on the Z88" - I would no longer find this kind of request bizzare at this point.

Its been said there are no stupid questions, err, yes there are.

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Ebay for dummies, a seller guide.

Posted: Wed 11th February 2009 in Blog

Ebay for dummies, a seller guide.

Jesus...... I've been selling stuff on ebay, mostly worthless old junk. Old Hard Drives. Boken Laptop bits, a Z88. Yeah that old.

Here's a summary of some of the questions, messages and emails that have resutled from the bits I've been selling.

One chap "Will you ship (the completly derrelict and battered remains of a laptop sans harddisk that didn't work at all) with this courier to Spain for 20 quid" errr i supose so, why you'd want ot pay £20 to ship skip padding to Spain is behond me.

"Will you put XP on it" refering to a harddisk. errr "No" it doesn't work that way, several emails related to whther the drive was compatible with his laptop (in which he sent me the wrong model for anyway), an explanation of windows xp install process and a discussion on windows vista partitioning. Then he didn't bid.

"Can you put a buy it now price and how much" errr, no, its an auction, I don't know what its worth, just bid like it says.

The aforementioned laptop, was advatised with a complete list of failings, missing parts and symptoms, a good description of the physical failings of it down to missing screws. Despite this carefull description the question added was:

"HOW IS IT BROKEN"

No need to shout, and read the advert it says clearly concicely and acurately what I did and did not know about it. Jesus.....

To balance this out somewhat I sold a wifi card to a bloke, being a helpfull told him if he needed help to gimmy a shout. Turns out he inteneds to use it to make his Amiga 1200 do WiFi. I had to admit at that point I wasn't going to be much help. Its tempting to make references to the amount of time he must have on his hands to go around retrofitting internet and wifi to a 15year 6502 based computer. But in all honesty his hobby sounds much better than answering questions on ebay to the chancers, nutters and optimists on ebay.

I always thought the long ranty disclaimers you got on ebay auctions were silly. Now I'm beginning to realise what the big sellers are getting at. Man are there some insane requests. Some use the system sencibly and reasonalby, one fellow asked whether it would go through his letterbox (the Amiga man) which is fair enough.

I'm now living in fear of what will come next. "Can you paint it Pink for me", "can you isntall Windows vista on the Z88" - I would no longer find this kind of request bizzare at this point.

Its been said there are no stupid questions, err, yes there are.

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