To prevent regular outbreaks of Self Advertising,
in the future do the decent thing folks! (That includes you Puppy Raiser!)

1. Do not respond to these posts.

2. Do not read them

I'll blame it on my mood...
It had just turned foul after receiving my latest eBay 'win'.

To be published @ $44.9734 by Shortmans Press

Chapter headings to give you a taste of the contents:

Complete sets of things that you never liked in the first place
Pay much more than you would in the shops
Convince the neighbours that you are stark staring mad with the finest collection of widgets in your town
Buy things that don't remotely resemble the photographs
Own things you have never ever heard of, wanted or seen before
Own more defunct goods than working ones
Pack the house full of collectables and get rid of the wife!

All the above is based on true life experience (except the bit about the Wife - though on second thoughts, I could get 2000 more magazines in the Master Bedroom if she left!)

So make my day - send me a cheque addressed to:
Camera Collector, Ebayers Anonymous, c/o PayPal UK

You're taking a chance on getting ignored again.
... cept for me of course, and (maybe) Mrs.M

As you have just fallen for numbers 2 & 4 in my list above, how can you say that?

This will prove a tremendously popular topic - there's a fool born every day and most of them are using ebay! (and that includes me and by the sound of it - you!)

Come on be honest folks - tell us about your worst buys. If ten respond, I promise faithfully to publish a picture of my worst auction buy. (its in such bad taste, my wife won't even let it in the house) It will make you feel really positive about yourself!

PS For those with a sense of humour deficiency - there is no Book - it is my parody on the three adverts previously posted! For those of you who don't understand why I have to say this, look at the response to my Xmas posting about Ebay changes & Santa's Elves!

[This message was edited by Camera Collector on March 22, 2004 at 04:27 PM.]

Lol, Camera, I looked at the list and found suitable canidates for each..right here in the forum!!
Wish I could help you out with the worst buy, but I honestly do not buy very much and what I do buy, has been researched fairly carefully....ok. ok. so I bought a paperweight that had a flea in the middle of the glass. They wanted me to return it and pay shipping. Well that's not cheap for a glass paperweight. I ended up giving it to my granddaughter.

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Well maybe now that you've changed the topic!

OK... My worst eBay win. I just received it in the mail today.

With proof coin sets ordered from the US Mint you get a Certificate of Authenticity (COA). Well in the 2003 silver sets there was an error on the COA. Sets were mailed out of the mint for 2 days before they realized their error and put a hold on all orders till the new COA was printed. To each customer they sent a new and correct COA for each set and a 'Letter of Apology'. (I got one)

Well I saw an auction for a copy of this letter, so placed my nuke bid at $4.00 and won for 3.75 + 1.00 shipping. Well I should have taken him literally. I received a 6 cent photocopy of the letter... a bad copy at that!

We do have a happy ending though....

me: Off went my email (not happy)

reply: I clearly said copy of letter, return it for refund less shipping.

me: Thank You It will be mailed tomorrow. To me a copy of the form letter means the real thing on US Mint letterhead.

reply: Forget it keep the letter, save the stamp and I'll paypal you refund.

me: Thank You

received refund on auction AND shipping. again.

Nice to have a happy ending, Puppy! Way to go!!

I think it was all that biting my tongue and typing Thank You instead of what I really wanted to say.

Fumers that use red faces take note.

Ahhh, tis true...you know what they say about catching flys with honey!

My worst purchase was numerous 1906 newspapers from all over the U.S. bound in a book. The problem is 98-year old paper crumbles and tears very easily. It is impossible to read without doing significant damage. I bought it to read about the San francisco earthquake. Oh well, sounded good at the time.

...purchase was a used clock radio. The winning bid was not much more than the shipping cost. The sound quality of the radio was hideous! I ended up dumping it in the garbage after about a week!

Jabbergah                                                  

Not seen that done before - all the adverts have gone. Well done Sara B, if that was indeed you that wielded the axe!

If I am to expose myself before you all, there are some rules to this that I must point out now.

Valid Entries:
1. Jakedduck
2. Jabbergah

Disqualified for not being foolish enough:
1. Puppy Raiser (Full refund given - not so stupid after all!)
2. Mrs M (Manufacturing Fault does not count as stupidity!)

Come on all you snipers - expose yourself - at least you don't have to publish a photo, though if the total nears ten, I might change the rules again!

Well, thank you, Camera! Now I don't feel like such a dullard!

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You really DON'T want to show us what you bought, do you?
... but thanks. I'll not argue with your decision. That *would* be stupid.

My worst was probably a near-lifesize stuffed toy husky which looked great in the photo, but when it arrived the stuffing had worked its way out of the legs so I couldn't get it to sit up - it just sort of subsided in a heap.

It was also too big for me to find any space for it. Why that hadn't occurred to me before I let enthusiasm get the better of me, I don't know.

It got a very good home after I donated it to a raffle in aid of Husky Rescue.

SS

"Run, Squeaky, Run!"

My worst was an expensive pair of designer jeans which were supposable fashionably *distressed* - they werent distressed - they were bloody well indecent!! The strategically placed *distressed* bits were actually holes that were in the most indecent places.

So I paid a ridiculous amount of money for a rag that I couldnt even polish my car with.

Big Time Fashion Victim.

Lexie

...who all is for Lexie posting a pic of herself modeling her worst purchase?!?

Jabbergah                                                  

I have been sitting here giving that a lot of thought...no, think I'll pass, Jabber.

Ahh Mrs M - thats only coz I already showed you


Jabber - you peervie side is showing again

Lexie