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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 10:55 am Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

didnt Tahir want a playhouse for the kids a while back?

Booger, didn't see it in time

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 11:13 am Post subject:
they certainly got a bargain there, luck thing

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 3:51 pm Post subject:
Cor, you couldn't buy the wood for that price. What an absolute bargain. Lucky wotsits.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 6:21 pm Post subject:
I admit to keeping an eye on - if we'd had a field, I'd have had that!

@Calli

Joined: 03 Jul 2005
Posts: 1682
Location: Galway

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 7:42 pm Post subject:
I can't believe that was it??? It was worth far more surely????

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 7:46 pm Post subject:
It's only worth what someone will pay for it. And that's all Joe Public was prepared to pay.

@Calli

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Location: Galway

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 06 7:51 pm Post subject:
Having the cash available has an impact too - I know we would have paid more if we had had the time to hold up a bank

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 9:54 am Post subject:
Somehow, thought it was too cheap.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 10:03 am Post subject:
Reading the feedback from the previous buyer it looks like the seller backed out. Thats not very sporting, they had plenty of opportunity to end the auction before it finished if they felt it wasn't going to plan.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 11:12 am Post subject:
Do you know, that's exactly what I thought.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 11:15 am Post subject:

nickhowe wrote:

Do you know, that's exactly what I thought.

Isn't that against eBay rules or summat?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 11:23 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

nickhowe wrote:

Do you know, that's exactly what I thought.

Isn't that against eBay rules or summat?

I suspect so, however I have a vague feeling that that there is a loophole in the trading laws that says avendor is under no obligation to go through with a sale if the money hasn't changed hands. I could be wrong though, I certainly thought an ebay auction running to its natural conclusion was meant to represent a legal contract to exchange goods/cash

Sadly, before this I had that vendor earmarked as an 'if I'm ever rich I'm going to have one of those dinky halls', now its a 'wouldn't buy from them if they were the last timber framed construction company on teh planet'. Suspect I may not be the only one, the re-enactors talked about this a lot. So they only damage their reputations through reneging on the deal.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 12:32 pm Post subject:
it is against the rules, but what ya gonna do about it? eBay never do anything. They may suspend an account, but it takes minutes to set up another one. However, before we start slagging the vendor, we don't know what happened, so...

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 12:34 pm Post subject:

nickhowe wrote:

However, before we start slagging the vendor, we don't *know* what happened, so...

Perfectly true.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 06 1:05 pm Post subject:

nickhowe wrote:

Yesterday lunchtime, I acquired a new field. It's empty. For now...

What, you just plonk it in & pretend it's been there all the time

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