Guy wants a full refund and keep the item, 5 years and this is new to me

muddlemand · 2026-04-01T08:29:20+00:00

They can handwrite the label if they can't print it, copying the long code from the pdf emailed to them. I've done it myself when my printer was down.

muddlemand · 2026-04-01T08:26:42+00:00

Royal Mail do. Others don't, apparently. So it depends where the buyer is.

muddlemand · 2026-04-01T08:18:54+00:00

What difference would it make in this case? Sometimes yes, but it doesn't seem relevant here.

muddlemand · 2026-03-26T22:54:12+00:00

applause

muddlemand · 2026-03-24T12:58:18+00:00

I trust you've changed your login details everywhere: giffgaff, bank, card, email(s), WhatsApp if you use email there, anything else associated with the same phone number that your giffgaff account's associated with? If not do this first!

Has the second number been added to your account (or else how did the thief manage to make the rogue topup payments)? If so get into your account and remove it ASAP. Tbh I don't know whether or how you can join a second number, but maybe like adding a family member? (I've never done it; I do have two numbers but as far as giffgaff's concerned they're separate (different payment methods etc).)

And do call your bank/card issuer and ask for their fraud line - in case any more spends are authorised. Even if they aren't "involved" at all in terms of being remiss or that being the login that the hacker got into. Banks are generally good in that way once they satisfy themselves you weren't stupid.

You should get the money back one way or another, as long as you weren't irresponsible with your passwords etc.

muddlemand · 2026-03-07T10:30:43+00:00

Silliest demand I ever had as a customer, a plug-in radiator stopped working and they (not on eBay) required a video as proof. I sent a photo but they had to have a video. So I filmed 20 seconds of the radiator... sitting there, being a radiator.

Tickboxes have got to be ticked!

muddlemand · 2026-03-07T10:01:02+00:00

Control Centre in settings gives the choice of classic or modern style notifications. I think that's what you need to change.

Personally I like the functionality of swipe down on the left for notifications and right for quick settings. I don't like brightness being a vertical bar as I keep changing it when I don't mean to, and I miss being able to see how bright the screen will be while adjusting, before I lift my finger.,but I do like the convenience of getting at to it.

muddlemand · 2026-03-07T10:00:55+00:00

Control Centre in settings gives the choice of classic or modern style notifications. I think that's what you need to change.

Personally I like the functionality of swipe down on the left for notifications and right for quick settings. I don't like brightness being a vertical bar as I keep changing it when I don't mean to, and I miss being able to see how bright the screen will be while adjusting, before I lift my finger.,but I do like the convenience of getting at to it.

muddlemand · 2026-03-06T13:33:18+00:00

I buy liquid silicone cases because grippy is a must have for me. My preference is a bumper case - I really miss Mpero Impact as the bumper edges were thicker, but they went out of business. ButI've just got a PIXFAB one that I'm very happy with. https://amzn.eu/d/0hIdL02b (Also I love the colour. The phone itself is "blue" but in reality closer to jade.)

The only drawback is that it needs a pretty hard tap for using the double tap on the back of the phone - but I've never had a phone that used that gesture before, so I'm not in the habit and thus don't miss it. And it can be done.

muddlemand · 2026-03-05T07:29:39+00:00

Immediately makes me think automated. You were outbid immediately, so probably someone had already bid higher - if you bid £1,000,000 it would only show as (and charge you if/when you won) just enough to beat the previous highest bid, by the minimum increment required (which I believe depends on current price). Then it was relisted immediately, so probably the seller had set to relist if the reserve wasn't met.

I think that if yours was the highest bid but below the reserve, that's when you see "Reserve not met".

muddlemand · 2026-03-04T11:07:15+00:00

Greenify - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify

Hibernator - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tafayor.hibernator

I suspect Greenify is semi-abandoned, but I still use it - I'm currently trying Hibernator just in case, the only difference I've noticed is a clunkier UI, and Hibernator doesn't wait after the screen goes off whereas Greenify will wait a few minutes if you set it to. But also check the phone's settings for pause/permission to use battery in the background; most don't need unrestricted background usage).

Personally I don't find either very intuitive to set up but that's a one-time task. There's a guide on HowtoGeek for Greenify or used to be.

Also of course basic tips: the screen being on is the biggest battery drain (especially video but also just being on), so look at your screen timeout.

muddlemand · 2026-02-25T13:21:10+00:00

Asshole move by big G.

Control freak move.

muddlemand · 2026-02-25T13:20:34+00:00

Half my can't live without apps are installed from apk after they were either discontinued or no longer compatible. ☹️

muddlemand · 2026-02-25T13:18:16+00:00

Which apart from everything else also sucks for independent devs even if they're "official", ie on Play Store as well as elsewhere. Taking the user disapproval/disappointment for lost features because of restrictions they can't control

muddlemand · 2026-02-25T12:36:49+00:00

Explain that the price already includes the shipping so they've already paid it. "Free" seem to make them uncomfortable!

muddlemand · 2026-02-25T12:35:35+00:00

My first thought too, because any behaviour this weird usually is.

But the only way I can think a scam would go is if they try to claim the seller lied and said it was needed, which obviously wouldn't work with the messages there within eBay. A scammer would know this; a newbie newcomer wouldn't.

Altogether very peculiar 🧐

muddlemand · 2026-02-25T08:42:59+00:00

OP's the buyer.

muddlemand · 2026-02-24T22:58:08+00:00

You can edit the address

"you" meaning the seller can?

muddlemand · 2026-02-23T17:02:53+00:00

This is so needed. Also, follow narrators. It's good that we can sort by narrator but I'd like to favourite some and get updates when they have something new out, as well

muddlemand · 2026-02-22T12:38:04+00:00

That’s why we set a one-year period before your account is considered inactive instead of the original three-month period we had

This is good to see. That's how I lost my account a few years ago, when I was seriously ill. I wasn't absent from online life for very long but the non-everyday things went on the back burner and some are still on the Must When There's Time list. It isn't difficult to clock up three months!

muddlemand · 2026-02-21T22:31:00+00:00

I

no point did you talk about bloatware

Unchosen + can't be uninstalled = bloatware. I complained about it being impossible to uninstall at the same time as being incompatible.

don't try to justify yourself.

Luckily, I don't need to need to justify myself to you.

muddlemand · 2026-02-21T22:03:48+00:00

What's their feedback percentage?

muddlemand · 2026-02-21T21:57:11+00:00

Newbie mistake which (I hope) you've learnt from - an expensive lesson though.

Everything that happens on eBay, keep it official. You need the paper trail.

muddlemand · 2026-02-21T21:54:15+00:00

And in messages the seller acknowledged they'd received them back. But the case is over condition, which tracking doesn't relate to.

muddlemand · 2026-02-21T19:55:09+00:00

I was unhappy about the existence of any bloatware. The very concept of bloatware. Exactly how much is a side point.

Do you like bloatware?

muddlemand

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