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bobby12

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  1. yeah there is some doginess on ebay.

     

    I am a seller on ebay, i turn 40,000yen into maybe 100,000 every 2 or 3 weeks (depending on how much free time i have). I get a lot of free time at work so I can do it. Plus its fun. Anyway...

     

    My advice is only buy from sellers with a high feedback rating. Like over 75 or so. Read their feedback, and see if there have been any problems. I have a feedback of 205, and thats 100% positive, cos I dont mess people around or con them. If you are spending over $500, you should definetly use paypal and only buy from a power seller.

     

    As for ebay and paypal - I hate them. After 6 months, I still havent managed to withdraw any money from my paypal account to my bank account. (It looks like it might go soon though) It failed about 4 times, costing me lots of money, maybe $300 total, in exchange rates and "cancellation fees" even though it was them at fault and not me. I provided them with the information they asked for, but they messed it up at their end and charge ME for it.

     

    Also, ebay and paypal customer support is terrible. Its a nightmare even finding the phone number, let alone getting any sense of their operators. All emails are responded with generic nonsense that doesnt address your problem.

     

    Ebay charge sellers 2 or 3 fees for listing items, and then Paypal charge another 1 or 2 fees for dealing with the money. They are owned buy the same people. Its a con. I reckon I lose about 15% of my money to them. I dont mind them taking a cut, of course not, but 15% in total is too much. But what can I do?

     

    Also, their listing software sucks and has been buggy at times creating a lot of work for me. However they are planning to withdraw this software, in favour of their new software which requires about 20x more work to get your items listed. Crazy. Its almost like they are trying to wind their users up.

     

    They have a monopoly and its either like it or lump it. All lot of sellers think like me, but there seems to be nothing we can do.

  2. so how about liverpool vs chelsea then?

     

    big game - a champions league place and therefore about 10 - 20 million british pounds on the line.

     

    come on you reds! clap.gif

     

    hopefully i will get to watch it in a bar, but the missus has to work in the morning, and it kicks off at 11pm, so i might get pussy-whipped out of it. " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />

  3. Heskey was amazing before he came to us, i saw him play for the england under21s a few times on TV and he was unstoppable. I think he has lost his hunger. I was watching RockyIII last night, and he reminds me of Rocky in that movie. He has got it all, and has lost the eye of the tiger. He has got to get it back. He needs an Apollo Creed character to come along and kick him up the ass, give him some proper training. Maybe that was the idea behind bringing in Ian Rush. Frank Bruno never had the eye of the tiger either, which is another reason why its apt to call heskey 'bruno'.

     

    But it often happens to good players that come to us - they just lose it somehow (stan collymore, david james, john barnes, nigel clough etc etc)

  4. how do you think they will bring in?

     

    i'd like to see heskey go and bring in someone like him, but with a bit of fight and spirit. i dont rate baros either. we need someone to be great with owen, like a Shearer-character. Why do our strikers always sulk around? Fowler had to go when he started doing that all the time, bitching under his breath cos he didnt get the perfect ball. Heskey doesnt even seem to care, he just hangs around and does the odd jog now and then. I was really unimpressed with him during the world cup for england.

  5. i dont really get the cut of your gib powwers. but anyway whatever...

     

    Arsehole Wangar is a bit of a spaz methinks. Apparently he doesnt have a beer with the other managers after the games and stuff. I was rooting for Man Utd this year, despite my old allegiences with arsenal (living opposite the ground for 8 years, growing up in that general area etc). I dont really like their players either. Bergkamp is great, but hes a dirty sod. Henry is too arrogant. Viera is an animal, and Keown is too ugly.

     

    Any speculation on Liverpools promised new signings? I am not keen on Duff, and never heard of the other guys. I still cant believe we turned down Rivaldo \:\(

  6. It was spam's (email spam's) birthday yesterday.

     

    Email spam is named after the monty python sketch 'spam' (where a salesman tries to sell people spam all the time even though they dont want it).

     

    I used to like spam fritters (spam tenpura) in school. Mmm....fattening...

  7. thats fairly explicit.

     

    first, make a new folder in outlook called 'archived messages'. put all your old messages in it.

     

    next, click on 'options'. click the 'maintenance' tab. click 'store folder'. it will tell you where you store folder is. remember it.

     

    next, open the file manager (i think its called windows explorer in win2000). find your store folder. you will see all your folders in outlook (inbox, drafts, sent items etc). remove the one called 'archived messages' and put it elsewhere on your HDD or on a disk.

     

    done.

  8. i never smelt it so i dont know.

     

    but i love the taste of it.

     

    However, I heard it is allmade from powder and doesnt have any calcium in it. confused.gif I hope thats not true - anyone know the facts?

     

    I know there was the snowbrand scandal last year - what was that again? or was it just meat?

  9. man i missed this thread - my specialty! isnt it spelled 'gravure' not 'grabia' - i thought you punks were talking about some kind of trick!

     

    1 - Megumi

    2 - Eiko Koike

    3 - Nemoto Harumi (yes, THAT harumi - shes a bit of a fatty)

     

    I think I am in love with Megumi. Shes actually pretty sharp and witty if you listen to what she says, and she often does talk shows fully clothed where the tits arent an issue. But anyway she beautiful and has a perfect body. #swoon# Its almost enough to get me back into watching japanese tv.

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