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Post by Nooj on Jun 14, 2011 22:06:58 GMT 1
Congratulations!
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 14, 2011 22:15:19 GMT 1
<taking a bow smiley> and someone else has just put in another bid. Hurray. ;D That takes me up to 8...just need two more and bingo, first star. ;D When it works, it's fun. When it doesn't, it's very boring. ;D So Nooj, are you going to try and sell this bible set you have or wot?
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Post by Nooj on Jun 14, 2011 22:17:49 GMT 1
I'm full of good intentions....
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Post by Amazing on Jun 14, 2011 23:19:12 GMT 1
I've got loads to sell, have done the photos so just the admin but to do.
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Post by Miss Piggin on Jun 15, 2011 9:54:26 GMT 1
It's an insertion fee free weekend this week. My monitor has packed in at home though (an ebay purchase 6 months ago) so I won't be taking part.
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 15, 2011 9:58:06 GMT 1
Another one? I haven't had to pay any insertion fees, because the free weekends are so frequent.
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Post by janerowena on Jun 15, 2011 10:18:32 GMT 1
yes, i justread that too. they never used to have so mny free weekends, perhaps people are running out of things to sell! ;D
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 15, 2011 17:07:37 GMT 1
WOOHOO, I have two people bidding against each other on one book, such fun. ;D Ends tonight and they have already gone quite high. I put the book on for lower than the going price and then got worried that I wouldn't get any bidding going but fortunately it's now up to the going rate for the book. Trubble is, sauntered sideways from the supermarket today and spent ages idling over secondhand books. Have bought a load more and have now established they are all pretty much value-less. So there goes my profit again... ;D
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 15, 2011 20:59:18 GMT 1
Kg, if you are reading, I must thank you for introducing me to Dornford Yates. :DDidn't get around to reading either book, but they sold very easily on ebay, so that's another name to carry round in my head and pounce on if I see any more of them. ;D
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Post by janerowena on Jun 16, 2011 14:43:22 GMT 1
;D you are so funny! it's lmost worth sending you all our saleables just to read about it.
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Post by Nooj on Jun 16, 2011 15:23:39 GMT 1
Anyone know that bookshop in the tiny streets on the cliff in Robin Hood's Bay? I used to spend hours in there.
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 16, 2011 19:05:37 GMT 1
Yes indeed Nooj, how lovely. ;D Oh, to be in Robin's Hood bay today. I am feeling very restless at the moment... Well my ebay-ing is reaping all sorts of side benefits. And clutter. ;D I went to Newhaven yesterday, a once-busy port town to Dieppe, now full of the long-term unemployed. It is a bleak place, they have just built a rubbish incinerator pretty much in the centre of town, which must have gone down well but I imagine the people there are so depressed they didn't even notice. It also has masses of just-out-of-town superstores, so the town centre itself really is the classic, shut-down street, hardly anyone there, those that are there all in trackie bottoms, feels like there might be tumbleweed but it can't be arsed to roll across the street. All that remains are a few charity shops and, strangely, a second-hand bookshop, where a drunken owner reels around in an atmosphere so musty I needed oxygen when I came out. All this to say, though, no books worth getting, but in one of the charity shops I found a microfleur press. Anyone ever have one of these? I yearned for one for ages, its a flower press that you put in the microwave so you can press flowers in seconds. I sometimes make my own cards with pressed flowers, haven't done it for ages. Lakeland used to stock them, I never bought one because they were so expensive, I think the big one was about £30. Well there was one sitting in this charity shop for £3. So I bought it. There go my profits again, but whatabargain. ;D
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Post by Amazing on Jun 16, 2011 19:10:32 GMT 1
What are you like Aspi. We will all be sending flowers to you to be pressed.
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Post by Nooj on Jun 16, 2011 20:18:52 GMT 1
You have no idea how pleased I am that you know where I mean. We stayed several times in The Old School House, which is basically a room, with a bed upstairs via a windy thing.. I loved that bookshop - at the time I was spending all day surrounded by new books - which was ok - but that bookshop was a pleasure. I think that's where I bought my Hans C Andersen Fairy Tales from... Dear h used to go down and interfere with little creatures in rock pools
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Post by janerowena on Jun 16, 2011 23:18:38 GMT 1
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i have a hand-drawn brochure that i use as a bookmrk - mil used to stay there because it is also thename of their house.
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Post by Nooj on Jun 17, 2011 14:09:31 GMT 1
What a small world So your MIL and I have actually slept in the same bed! Did she make the mistake of bringing home the pretty plant on the window sill that said Please take home? I used to water the hanging basket. I know the brochure you mean - I think I've stuck it in our memories file
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Post by janerowena on Jun 17, 2011 23:15:10 GMT 1
;D it's a small world!
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 17, 2011 23:20:24 GMT 1
Discovered the microfleur press is too small to turn around in my small microwave. Oh well, putting it in The Place for Things That Might Come in Handy, to gather dust. Until such time as I have a larger microwave. ;D I did try it, without it going round. It does sort of work, but I guess the flowers are cooking unevenly. ;D Beginning to think the days of pressing flowers on blotting paper weren't so bad after all...
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Post by Amazing on Jun 17, 2011 23:57:51 GMT 1
Aspi have you not got a plate that sits on the turny thing?
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Post by margaretstar on Jun 18, 2011 1:16:28 GMT 1
Aspi have you not got a plate that sits on the turny thing? and perhaps another plate to sit on top of this to put the flower press on so the whole thing is heavy enough to turn?
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Post by janerowena on Jun 18, 2011 12:19:29 GMT 1
i think she meant, too big to turn around. o gets stuck. a shame, it woold be good for herbs too.
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 18, 2011 14:34:55 GMT 1
ta for translating, yes that's right Jro. I think I said too small and I meant too big. ;D But I do have quite a small microwave, my large dinner plates don't fit in it, which doesn't bother me, but if I was buying a new one I'd go for a larger one I think, not sure. I can put the thingummy in the microwave and it sort of works, it's just not turning so not cooking evenly. Apparently when you get good at it you can dry whole roses and stuff using it, I remember someone who swore by a microfleur. I'm just swearing. ;D Got another couple of good purchases today, down at the village fair of all places. ;D I am developing a hawk-eye sense for a good book now, beginning to get a feel for what is worth buying and what's not. Came home and looked them up and they are both quite desirable. Mind you, the place is cluttered with books which I have bought which probably aren't... ;D My feedback is up to 9 now, only one more to go to get my star. The feedback thing is quite fun, isn't it, people saying nice things about you, I'm liking that...in fact I might just sell books at no profit at all, in order to bathe in the light of feedback glory. ;D
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Post by janerowena on Jun 18, 2011 15:35:12 GMT 1
;D ;D ;D if you want to speed your stars up, then buy a few things - you get them even faster then! If ever you want ny itm at all it's worth looking on ebay. robert lost his ccf fleece ndi hought i wold be chargd £40, i got one today for £12.99 no postage.
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 20, 2011 19:17:44 GMT 1
buy something through ebay? Wouldn't dream of it. ;D Wahoo, I've got my first star now! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by janerowena on Jun 20, 2011 20:03:09 GMT 1
Hurray! Congratulations! Is it blue?
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Post by koalagirl on Jun 20, 2011 20:53:30 GMT 1
Kg, if you are reading, I must thank you for introducing me to Dornford Yates. :DDidn't get around to reading either book, but they sold very easily on ebay, so that's another name to carry round in my head and pounce on if I see any more of them. ;D Well done! Those two books were his short stories I think you said. I didn't like them as much as the novels so they were no great loss!! Look out for Blind Corner as that is a great read. I only ever carried out one sale and one purchase on ebay. I tend to panic when I get too much choice.
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 20, 2011 23:12:40 GMT 1
I think I've only bought one thing on ebay too, KG. ;D Jro, it's a gold star. Beginner's star, I guess. ;D Now I really am going to stop doing it for a while, I will carry on book buying but am time wasting a bit on there, unlike on here... ;D
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Post by janerowena on Jun 20, 2011 23:18:35 GMT 1
;D ;D ;D Not to me, it's a godsend. This week's purchases include a money belt, an army fleece and 6 pairs of jersey boxers for DBH. A total spend of £25 that would have cost £70 in the shops.
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Post by Aspidistra on Jun 20, 2011 23:21:05 GMT 1
I guess also it depends how near you are to shops which have good bargains. I noticed with my book buyers that some of them live in really obscure places, you can see why they might want to buy on the internet.
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Post by janerowena on Jun 20, 2011 23:27:54 GMT 1
Yes - many of our internet first purchases of second-hand books were made up in Lincs, during the winter when the thought of a trip to Steep Hill in Lincoln was too unpleasant to contemplate. I collect old HE Bates books, but I haven't looked for any for a while. Maybe you need to look out for some for me. ;D
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