Why not stick it back on eBay at £20 more than you paid for it on a buy it now, send the link to the person with the grandfather who has a dying wish or something.
If you wait for a meaningful contribution to this thread the chances are the old boy will have kicked the bucket by then and the problem will go away! Jus’ sayin.
Edit and now I am off to look at old ammo boxes on ebay… You’ve a lot to answer for BC!
Unfortunately with Ebay, it’s so full of chancers hiding behind the anonymity of the internet, I wouldn’t react to things in the same way that I would do in real life.
Might (very probably not) be true, but if it is, they’ve got to do a lot better than that to persuade.
9 quid? They didn’t care that much about gramps before the auction.
I too am suffering from an overwhelming case of desk envy! I can think of other things I’d prefer to put in those holes than bits of metal; they look very ‘bottle’-shaped to me…