Coca cola shim and JB Weld FTW.  😉

If you go to work, and  your shirt has your name on it, then you’re poor.

Placing a “sacrificial lamb” on your property,  with strategically loosened components, would be funny, especially if you are able to video the carnage when he tries to whizz around a corner with a loose stem etc.  Some pos/bso from Gumtree, would probably do the trick?

He might just knock out his teeth, assuming he has any left?

Just lock up the good stuff and wait for your trap to be sprung…

@ Ramsey Neil

When you put your maximum bid in early, anyone can put in an unusually high bid, then instantly retract it, to find out the strength of your bid.  This in an invitation for someone to shill the item or for a genuinely interested party to reconsider how much they are willing to pay, and go over your max at the last minute. The other bidder uses the “entered wrong amount ” excuse to explain their actions.

When/if you check the bidding activity data, look out for retractions at the bottom of the page.  You’d be surprised at how common this is.

^^^^ This was definitely the case in the days before mobile internet/smartphones.  I’ve tried to nick a few things, recently, with less than optimal end times and was surprised at the level of interest shown.

Also, eBay are really cracking down on people making cash offers to end early.

I had a BIN listing for a bike and had some stupid guy hassling me about ending early for cash.  I just ignored him (if he really wanted it, all he had to do was click the BIN) but ended up removing the listing as someone local bought it on Gumtree for less money.   (The ebay buy it now was slightly more to cover their fees/PayPal commission)

eBay just assumed I had sold it to said to$$er and gave me a warning for circumventing their fees.

Have to agree with Turnerguy’s approach.  Don’t show your hand until the dying seconds.  If you put your max bid out there early, a fool with auction fever or the seller’s bezzie will probably trump or match your bid.

The only time I bid early is when, nobody has bid on an item and the auction is approaching the final twelve hours, to stop the seller pulling the item early.  I only cover the starting bid and hold back with my actual offer until the end.  This is due to the amount of times I’ve watched items for almost a week and seen them disappear before the real action is about to take place.

You rarely see an item only go for the starting price, nowadays, as almost everyone snipes, so pulling the item seems daft to me.  If you’re worried an item will underperform, in an auction,  then list it as a BIN auction, as Kerley states.

Anyway, bidder 1 must have really wanted the item, as he won it, with a little help from bidder 2 and (what looked like) a genuine bid from someone else at the end.

Cadburys is god awful as well. Except the Irish stuff, they still make it on licence to the original recipe, Home Bargains and such sell it as grey import and the difference is night and day.

Hmm, didn’t know that. I will have to investigate, next time I’m passing that shop. Any evidence of palm oil as an ingredient and I’m out. :wink:

Cougar

I hate to break it to you, but it’s going to take a lot longer than that.

Maybe, maybe not. :D

Good for you, OP. :D

Misleading title. :cry:

The 10% off code was working earlier today but isn’t now for some reason. :?

Giving her a right hook might help? :?

Well, you will go out drinking with Marc Almond, won’t you?* :D

* Well aware it’s an urban myth.

The classifieds section is pretty quiet at the minute. Seems to have been for a while. :?

What’s Bob got on his head? Very Frankie Howerd.

Titter ye not.

Poopscoop – Member
coolhandluke – Member

I’ll get some ky whilst there.

For a friend.

So that’s how Dire Straits got in there. 8O

The bike I’ve had in my watch list, on a BIN, sold this morning. The 20% off would have converted me from a watcher to a bidder. :cry:

Couldn’t find anything else suitable.

I wonder if the winner knew about this offer?

This thread. They’re just cagoules, FFS. 8O Anoraks indeed. :lol:

Were they wearing The North Face gear and was it from the High Street line or the STW/proper survivalist range?

This stuff matters, you know…

Had a similar thing happen, recently with a couple of smaller items.

Seller claimed he’d misplaced the items, immediately, and wanted to cancel. I thought that wasn’t cricket so proceeded to pay for said items and he clicked the “item dispatched” button a day or so later.

Obviously, they never turned up (after a few weeks of waiting) and the guy was unable to provide a proof of postage so I got a refund in the end. I missed out on similar items while I was waiting for them arriving. :roll:

Not a good experience and I’m still trying to find the same things elsewhere…

I’d be very surprised if somebody doesn’t maim/disfigure the guy in his new place of residence. :?

Based solely on her appearance?

Typist ^^^ :roll:

Surprised you let your kids watch Mary Poppins TBH,OP.

Daddy is a high-flying banker who employs a FEMALE nanny to look after the kids. WTAF? 8O

Men deciding what women can and can’t do with their lives isn’t sexist at all. :roll:

Guinness, the drink of hip young cats, obviously. :lol:

A better world with less sexual exploitation.

How is that working out in cultures where women’s modesty is fiercely guarded?

I buyer can’t really tell whether you’re Chainreaction or Joe Blogs on eBay so they don’t know if they’re buying from a retailer with full warrantee support and returns services or a private seller clearing out his garage.

A business seller has to disclose the fact they are a business, on their ad, so you can usually tell if the seller is CRC or a private seller. Looking at their other items usually gives the game away too.

If something is brand new/unfitted and boxed, I would also list it as brand new.

New/other, I would use for items without packaging or things taken straight off of a new bike.

I also wouldn’t want to accept a return. Shirley, the buyer can sell it on for the same price he paid for it from the OP?

Got to find something to do with themselves when they’re not out aggravating BMW drivers, I suppose…

Sigala – easy love?

^^^ Really bad time of year for this to happen. No big deal spending anything up to a few hours fettling a door in the summer. Not so good when it’s freezing outside and the heating is on inside.

Just adds more pressure to rush it and, potentially, end up with an insecure door. :(

I’d never heard of RAYNET before this thread but found this whilst googling them. :lol:

bearnecessities – Member
Sure, here’s a picture but not sure it makes the thread any less useless.

Lol. That picture reminds me of a gif, someone used to post on RADBMX, years ago. Rick Astley was dancing around inside an old man’s bottom. Once seen and all that. 8O 8O 8O

Another two added to the list. ^^^

Mick, spotted earlier at Trinity Square. :-)

yourguitarhero – Member
I had motorbikes for years, and loads of pals with bikes.
Noone died. We had fun.

YMMV .

RIP, Noone. :cry:

An old (teenage) workmate used to live right near a truck stop and would raid the bins for their discarded mags. Eugh, I know.

Wonder what happened to that guy. :twisted:

^^^ +1 Really enjoyed seeing Dovi making a monkey out of the SFB. :lol: