Re: bl**dy ebay......

On or around Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:45:23 +0000, Mr.Nice.
<mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>ok,
>I've been on ebay after an injector pump, there were 2, one ended
>yesterday, one ended today.
>the one ending yesterday sold for £52 so I was fairly happy with my
>max bid on one today at £92.
>then in the last 2 minutes some bugger outbid me.
>
>I hope it falls apart yabugger.
>
>mutter mutter mutter.

nemmind, sometimes they end up being silly: Bidding on a copy of pagemaker
6.5 (now out-of-date, but nowhere near as out of date as my version 4) went
to 82 quid this morning. Which looks silly as you can buy, from the states,
including 48 bucks for "expedited" shipping, a brand new copy, sealed and
unused, for about $98. which is about 53 quid. daft bastards were in a
bidding frenzy.

for about 70 bucks (plus shipping) I could've had version 7, but I was a tad
leery of the company supplying same. Bearing in mind it's current release
software, which Adobe sell for about $500, where do they get it that they
can sell it for $49.99 ($20 surcharge for a CD) to download it.

the other lot are selling last years, prolly surplus stock, for $49.99,
which is a bit more credible, and also appears to be new sealed boxes, so
prolly legit.

>
> nemmind, sometimes they end up being silly: Bidding on a copy of
pagemaker
> 6.5 (now out-of-date, but nowhere near as out of date as my version 4)


Ive got that on CD here.

If you want, i can send you a backup of it...... just incase i loose mine.

Its the least i can do after the money you've saved me!

Let me know.

Mark.

On or around Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:42:58 GMT, "Mark Solesbury"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>>
>> nemmind, sometimes they end up being silly: Bidding on a copy of
>pagemaker
>> 6.5 (now out-of-date, but nowhere near as out of date as my version 4)
>
>
>Ive got that on CD here.
>
>If you want, i can send you a backup of it...... just incase i loose mine.
>
>Its the least i can do after the money you've saved me!
>
>Let me know.

I've ordered it from the states, now. nemmind, twas a nice thought. How
did I save you money, just BTW?

> I've ordered it from the states, now. nemmind, twas a nice thought. How
> did I save you money, just BTW?

Your advice over the past few years.......!

On Thursday, in article
<[email protected]>
[email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:

> On or around Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:45:23 +0000, Mr.Nice.
> <mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >ok,
> >I've been on ebay after an injector pump, there were 2, one ended
> >yesterday, one ended today.
> >the one ending yesterday sold for £52 so I was fairly happy with my
> >max bid on one today at £92.
> >then in the last 2 minutes some bugger outbid me.
> >
> >I hope it falls apart yabugger.
> >
> >mutter mutter mutter.
>
> nemmind, sometimes they end up being silly: Bidding on a copy of pagemaker
> 6.5 (now out-of-date, but nowhere near as out of date as my version 4) went
> to 82 quid this morning. Which looks silly as you can buy, from the states,
> including 48 bucks for "expedited" shipping, a brand new copy, sealed and
> unused, for about $98. which is about 53 quid. daft bastards were in a
> bidding frenzy.

Auctions are like that, maybe a little less so face-to-face. Though my
father can tell a few stories about the cattle markets in the Midlands.
Maybe eBay is a little too quick sometimes.

> for about 70 bucks (plus shipping) I could've had version 7, but I was a tad
> leery of the company supplying same. Bearing in mind it's current release
> software, which Adobe sell for about $500, where do they get it that they
> can sell it for $49.99 ($20 surcharge for a CD) to download it.
>
> the other lot are selling last years, prolly surplus stock, for $49.99,
> which is a bit more credible, and also appears to be new sealed boxes, so
> prolly legit.

I think your suspicions are reasonable.

You may well end up paying a few percent import duty, and VAT on the
whole (including postage charges), though you can get lucky if it's not
much above the duty-free limit.

I've bought quite a few items as "download only", but the sources have
been the creator: models for 3D CGI. Some of the "free" models floating
around seem to have lost their maker's name, though where I've found the
original it does seem to be genuinely a free item.

Trouble it, there's a lot of geeks out there who want to produce pin-ups
and porn, and they don't want the hassle of sweet-talking a real woman
into adopting _that_ pose. So some of the 3D-model sites get lumped in
with the porn industry.

Which may lead to having to buy a Land Rover from a porn site. Which
seems weird.


--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."

On or around Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:27:24 +0000 (UTC), "Mark Solesbury"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>> I've ordered it from the states, now. nemmind, twas a nice thought. How
>> did I save you money, just BTW?
>
>Your advice over the past few years.......!
>

<blushes>

awww, shucks.

""David G. Bell"" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
<snip>
>
> Trouble it, there's a lot of geeks out there who want to produce pin-ups
> and porn, and they don't want the hassle of sweet-talking a real woman
> into adopting _that_ pose. So some of the 3D-model sites get lumped in
> with the porn industry.
>
> Which may lead to having to buy a Land Rover from a porn site. Which
> seems weird.
>
>

But a Land Rover with a big rack up top is soooooooo sexy!

Steve

Steve wrote:

> ""David G. Bell"" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> Trouble it, there's a lot of geeks out there who want to produce pin-ups
>> and porn, and they don't want the hassle of sweet-talking a real woman
>> into adopting _that_ pose. So some of the 3D-model sites get lumped in
>> with the porn industry.
>>
>> Which may lead to having to buy a Land Rover from a porn site. Which
>> seems weird.
>>
>>
>
> But a Land Rover with a big rack up top is soooooooo sexy!


http://www.geekstuff.tv/Gallery/DiscoPix/640/DSCF0554.JPG

There you go.

LandiePorn.

P.
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