The eBay Thread.

Pip Madeley · 9th Apr 2007, 1:23 PM

Oh Jonno!

Captain Tancredi · 9th Apr 2007, 1:35 PM

Originally Posted by Alex

Bah, one of my ebay items has been removed for being too erotic. It's the french film Baise-Moi, which I picked up at a car boot sale for 25p. It is very graphic and contains real sex scenes, but it's a "proper" film rather than porn, and it just seems inconsistent with ebay's policies, because Michael Winterbottom's Nine Songs is on sale on the site, and that's far more graphic and explicit.

The thing is that it's a bit of a rubbish film, so I don't want it in my collection. And giving it to a charity shop seems somehow wrong...

The title won't help...

Wayne · 9th Apr 2007, 1:37 PM

Pip Madeley · 9th Apr 2007, 1:44 PM

We're dangerously close to Temple territory here

Wayne · 9th Apr 2007, 1:45 PM

I couldn't resist it! It just seemed so apt!

*Wayne has been watching too much 'Family Guy', lately.

**Alex** · 9th Apr 2007, 2:03 PM

That FG pic is just...wrong...funny...but wrong...!

Captain Tancredi · 9th Apr 2007, 2:07 PM

Don't see what the fuss is about- clearly Wayne meant to say "banal" but his finger slipped.

Wayne · 9th Apr 2007, 2:07 PM

I'm trying to remember which episode has got Peter making a deal with Lois, & part of the deal is that he 'gets anal'.

(I've watched too many eps in too short a time frame)

That's where the inspiration came from.

**Alex** · 9th Apr 2007, 2:44 PM

Ah, that rings a bell, but like you I've watched too many recently to remember which one it was from. Where's Matt when we need him?

Captain Tancredi · 9th Apr 2007, 4:28 PM

Probably doing what Peter was after in the first place...

Just been checking out some of the remaining New Adventures and was confronted by one of my pet bugbears...

"Having been read once, the book has a crease to the spine".

It is not essential to bend the spine of a book to show that you've read it! The majority of books can be read perfectly well without inflicting permanent mutilation on them! The NAs suffered badly enough with the white spine and back cover meaning that they pick up every bit of grease and dirt from your hands. It's such a lottery buying them on Ebay that I sometimes wonder why I bother (then look at the prices on Amazon and realise why).

**Dirk Gently** · 9th Apr 2007, 5:31 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Tancredi

Probably doing what Peter was after in the first place...

Just been checking out some of the remaining New Adventures and was confronted by one of my pet bugbears...

"Having been read once, the book has a crease to the spine".

It is not essential to bend the spine of a book to show that you've read it! The majority of books can be read perfectly well without inflicting permanent mutilation on them! The NAs suffered badly enough with the white spine and back cover meaning that they pick up every bit of grease and dirt from your hands. It's such a lottery buying them on Ebay that I sometimes wonder why I bother (then look at the prices on Amazon and realise why).

I know what you mean Ian. I can read a paperback a couple of times & not put more than two creases in the spine. It does annoy me when books have spines that look more like the other side.

**Anthony Williams** · 10th Apr 2007, 10:01 PM

well, I was about to post an "argh" in here about how there were a couple of creases in the spine of a book that I stated was in "excellent condition", and someone's getting arsey with me over it!

Ant x

Captain Tancredi · 10th Apr 2007, 10:16 PM

Erm, Ant, I hope you don't think that I was having a go about that copy of 'Christmas on a Rational Planet', because I wasn't!

There's somebody else who's listed a batch of NAs and seems to think that it's normal for every used book to have a creased spine, almost as a sign of having been read at all. That's what bugged me.

Condition-wise, the problem with buying books online is that to anybody who collects books, there's a generally agreed set of descriptions used by the like of Book and Magazine Collector and so on. And then there are the descriptions that people who don't necessarily know about such things use. "Good condition" can mean two very different things in those circumstances.

**Anthony Williams** · 10th Apr 2007, 10:24 PM

no, I know that it wasn't you! Besides, I think I said on the listing for that that it was slightly damaged

But this guy is just being arsey about it all, and it's annoyed me. I thought that "excellent" condition would be alright for a couple of creases up the spine - I didn't say "pristine" or "mint" condition. It's just annoyed me, and I'm really hoping that this bloke doesn't give me negative feedback!

Ant x

Captain Tancredi · 10th Apr 2007, 10:30 PM

I think spine creases are the one Neddy no-no that it's always better to mention in a listing than be sorry. Book collectors tend to be more sensitive about them, I suspect in part because a creased or based corner can be hidden when the book's on a shelf, but a creased spine is always visible.

**Dirk Gently** · 10th Apr 2007, 10:39 PM

Quite so Sherlock.

**Anthony Williams** · 10th Apr 2007, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Tancredi

I think spine creases are the one Neddy no-no that it's always better to mention in a listing than be sorry. Book collectors tend to be more sensitive about them, I suspect in part because a creased or based corner can be hidden when the book's on a shelf, but a creased spine is always visible.

mmm true. Well, I've asked this buyer what I can do to rectify the situation, and once he's replied, I'll take it from there

Ant x

Pip Madeley · 15th Apr 2007, 8:12 PM

Can't people read?!

My listing says:

Payment by Paypal or postal order only please. Will only post to the UK.

One choice for delivery:

Dispatches to
United Kingdom

So now I've got some daft cow from North Hollywood, California who's bid and won one of my items...

**Alex** · 15th Apr 2007, 8:17 PM

I just sold the Robert Carlyle tv drama Looking After Jo Jo on video for 40!! There truly are some mad people out there.

Pip Madeley · 15th Apr 2007, 8:18 PM

Four of my items went unsold, and the ones that did go went for crap prices (although I made a double profit on the Pink Panther set, so I guess I should be a bit pleased bout that). I'm annoyed.

Captain Tancredi · 15th Apr 2007, 8:28 PM

Originally Posted by Pip Madeley

Can't people read?!

So now I've got some daft cow from North Hollywood, California who's bid and won one of my items...

If people in Hollywood started reading there'd be such a seismic shift that the world as we know it would disappear.

**Si Hunt** · 15th Apr 2007, 8:32 PM

Pip,

See what she says. She may have a relative in the UK and be planning to get you to deliver it there - if so, she's perfectly entitled to bid. I once had a bidder who lived in Poland but who asked me to deliver to his Mum over here.

We had quite a successful auction this week. The awful "Bit of a Do" went for 17 and our Dapol Dalek for a nice tenner. Plus we sold the duplicate copy of Billie's book we have and some other bits.

My Grandad's vintage 45 classical records have, however, done NOTHING.

Si.

Pip Madeley · 15th Apr 2007, 8:36 PM

I've offered to post it to her anyway as a one-off (obviously at a higher postage cost), I'll wait to hear back...

**Martin Penny** · 15th Apr 2007, 9:17 PM

I've been tempted to sell my Dapol figures on eBay for a while now, but I'm not sure I want to part with them. They go for an awful lot though, I saw the Melkur go for about 40 the other day!

**Matthew T** · 15th Apr 2007, 9:32 PM

Dapol did a Melkur?

I've got a Dalek with no eye stalk and a Sylvester McCoy with no head (but with umbrella intact). I wonder if they're worth anything.

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