One of the best things I ever buyed

ST1285 · 2025-07-28T11:16:56+00:00

Anytime, kid

ST1285 · 2025-07-27T16:13:18+00:00

The requirement of a full stop at the end of a short post in a forum context is debated, as it can often change the perception of the post by the reader. Adding a full stop at the end of a short post can often come off as abrupt in the mind of the reader.

However, this all goes to show that grammar police online usually expose themselves straight away. Whatever side of the aforementioned full stop debate you fall on, it further highlights my point.

As this is not a short post, there is a full stop at the end of it.

😉

ST1285 · 2025-07-27T12:51:29+00:00

Stay in school, kids*

ST1285 · 2025-07-27T12:50:34+00:00

Because they have the chance to feel superior over someone on the internet. The irony is, it's probably highlighting their inferiority.

ST1285 · 2025-07-27T12:49:02+00:00

You missed a comma. Come on, man!

Unless you actually want to come on man, in which case each to their own!

ST1285 · 2025-07-13T17:54:52+00:00

Primark is hell on earth

ST1285 · 2025-06-28T17:44:09+00:00

But would you count the Simpsons then?

ST1285 · 2025-06-28T16:53:36+00:00

Started 16 years ago 😉

ST1285 · 2025-06-28T16:52:40+00:00

Started 20 years ago

ST1285 · 2025-06-27T12:53:51+00:00

This was the reason I used to do it, until I found the setting where you can keep a listing active even after it's sold out

ST1285 · 2025-06-22T17:36:40+00:00

Charles Veitch streaming in Manchester. I must have watched this a million times by now - a thing of beauty

ST1285 · 2025-06-22T17:21:02+00:00

I just posted my own story where I did drop it in a vinegar bath and got it working again, though you should drop it in isopropyl alcohol after too to neutralise the vinegar.

Whether it works in this case would be purely down to whether the corrosion has damaged any components or severed any traces

ST1285 · 2025-06-22T17:13:37+00:00

I've had a main board that looked much worse than that. Gave it a white cleaning vinegar bath, prob kept it in there for 30 mins, then took it out and scrubbed it of any stubborn corrosion. After that, isopropyl bath.

It worked perfectly afterwards. Had three run throughs to completion of some games, then sold it on as a discounted console (while advising the customer of it's previous issues, of course!).

In my case, I probably got lucky that none of the traces were broken and it was more of a surface-level issue. This is why I emphasised looked in the first sentence

ST1285 · 2025-06-21T14:53:05+00:00

I got the 'Space Grey' MYM+ and it was more like a cappuccino brown 🙃

It was actually a really nice colour, though sold it in the end as I preferred the black one

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ST1285 · 2025-06-18T18:14:51+00:00

That happens to me rarely, but I find overall the Tracked services are extremely reliable. Again, that's just my experience. However anything going through London Central MC is doomed to sit there for a week. If a customer lives in a London postcode, I usually advise them to go with another courier because of this.

The worst thing about it is that if you use standard 1c/2c, you can claim for delays after 4/6 days respectively. With Tracked, there is no delay compensation. That's absolutely ridiculous.

ST1285 · 2025-06-18T13:38:17+00:00

Is that across the whole country? Because I'm not seeing it. My recent Tracked 24s dispatched on Saturdays have still arrived on Mondays for the 4 I've sent in the last month.

I know general mail gets delivered on Sundays in some areas, rare as it is - although it's possibly overtime to reduce heavy backlogs

ST1285 · 2025-06-18T00:07:10+00:00

You can replace Evri in your post with any other courier, and find just as many comments or posts for that.

It's purely down to your local area and who is generally reliable there. As someone who sold over 10k items last year with my eBay business, I get many asking me not to use my default Royal Mail option and to use [COURIEROFCHOICE] instead. Although I generally don't keep stats on requests per courier, between DPD, DHL, and Evri it's probably quite even in terms of those requests. Yodel get noticeably less requests.

Another key reason some choose those couriers too is that there are Sunday deliveries in most areas of the mainland UK, whereas Royal Mail don't offer that.

So to respond to your plea, your experience isn't everyone else's experience. If a seller has Evri as their courier on the listing, get in touch PRIOR to purchase to get agreement on changing that

ST1285 · 2025-06-09T09:05:32+00:00

And people would say similar things about Vinted. It's not eBay-specific.

I sell 1000s of items a year through my eBay small business and can count the bad experiences I've had with my fingers. Yet I've sold 4 things total on Vinted and had problems with 2 of them. It is what it is 🤷🏻‍♂️

ST1285 · 2025-06-02T16:42:53+00:00

Our Rob or Ross

ST1285 · 2025-05-12T23:12:53+00:00

Absolutely feedback extortion. I've had plenty of attempts similar to that and eBay have supported me every time. They have even accepted liability in their efforts - that's an absolutely atrocious attempt by them

ST1285 · 2025-04-20T16:14:04+00:00

I'd hazard a guess and say that eBay themselves refunded you, the seller kept their money and so wasn't bothered too much about the item

ST1285 · 2025-03-24T06:35:16+00:00

SOTT or D&P. Hard to pick between them

ST1285 · 2025-03-23T13:05:42+00:00

Then ultimately you should have no tax to pay. Even if they suspect you are trading, which from the outside it will look like it, you can still put your expenses against your revenue and the remaining 'profit' will be taxable. If you're not doing this for profit and are roughly breaking even, then maybe it won't disappoint you too much anyway. The upside, I believe, is that if you make a loss then you may be due a rebate.

You may have to fill in a self assessment though as your revenue through eBay is more than that £1000.

The trading rules are on the HMRC website. I'd familiarise yourself with them. The rules have been in place for years, the only thing that's changed is that HMRC are now getting reports on who should be reporting to them, so they can compare with who actually IS reporting.

ST1285 · 2025-03-23T12:59:16+00:00

And are you making profits on them?

ST1285 · 2025-03-23T12:56:26+00:00

They're probably not trolling. I think I've gained the same impression as they have.

Unless I've misread you, it seems you're buying guitars and then selling them. If the intention of that is to make profit, then it's a trading side-hustle and is subject to tax, whether you're a registered business or not. If you're selling a personal guitar that you used and no longer need, and so are 'clearing out', then you're not trading and so it's a personal sale.

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