I recently purchased an article from a dealer in Sydney which was faulty. I returned the item by registered post and it disappeared. My PayPal protection came to nothing but the worst thing was that they rejected my claim without giving reason-just no! Another thing, I was prepared to purchase an item from the US but when I came to PayPal's checkout the conversion rate from $AU to $US was heavily in PayPal's pocket-3 cents per dollar less than the going conversion rate. I think that is... (More)

While entering McDonalds on the weekend, I noticed a middle aged women ( maybe 37-40 age ) sitting at a bench table. This woman was SO obese, she could not fit in behind the table, so she just kind of sat on the corner of the seat, and the rest of her sat in the isle. In front of her was a tray with a couple of burgers, a thickshake and she was eating a hash brown. Her ?? hubby ?? sat opposit. Here is my question- Does McDonald has a legal right to refuse her service under the *DUTY OF... (More)

Hi All , Just curious , Can buyers access your bank details without completing checkout? After 8 days with no response from the buyer to 4 emails, i opened a uid . within 1 hour he responds with "PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE BY NETBANK.CLOSE THE UNPAID CASE NOW." His caps not mine. As he has not gone through checkout and no contact , i am sceptical.. Thanks all.. John (More)

Lately I am finding more & more listings where there is one postage amount displayed at the top of the listing, then another amount hidden in the fine print further down the page. I was doing a search for a BIN item & I chose the 'price & postage lowest' option. I found the item I was seeking & was happy with both price & postage. I almost hit the buy button as it was exactly what I had been looking for & I figured I had no need to read the description, as I had purchased from this seller... (More)

Good morning everyone I lodged a claim with the small claims tribunal earlier this year about a treadmill I purchased from Ebay two years ago. I received a faulty item and the seller refused to refund the or replace the item. Unfortunately it was in the days before I knew about PayPal and I paid with bank transfer. When I contacted the seller they asked that I send photos which I did and each time told me the Manager would call me be back, which they never did. On the odd time that I did... (More)

Would someone please tell me in simple language the benefits or otherwise LCD,Led and Plasma etc Television sets. Thanks (More)

And so Lord of the String said unto the peoples, "Go forth anew. Seek a land you can call your own." The people saw it was good. So, on the last day the people said their solemn goodbyes and began the long journey to the promised new land. And so began the new land and its people were joyous! Welcome, to the Return of the Round Table known as... "Round Table Revisited" (RTR) (More)

Hello everyone and WELCOME to the Devils DownUnder Signature Tag request thread. Feel free to pop in and request as many tags as you would like from the devils. To help us make your tag, please tell us the name you would like on it, any themes/pictures you like, hobbies, colours etc. The more information we have, the more tags we can make. (More)

In short, I am up a few hundred dollars per month but working twice as hard to do it. I am logging up maybe an extra 10-20 hours per week! The difference is not just extra packing (no complaint there) - but the increased listing costs require a lot closer monitoring and tinkering of the store to keep it lean, mean and profitable. I now find I have to look all listings about to end soon and make a decision as to whether to end them or not. I am also starting to look ahead a few days and... (More)

Not quite what you think,but i luv it, Please feel free to add any Australian pieces you would like to share (More)

To play.. make a phrase or a sentence of the letters in the last word of the previous person's entry. (Such as)... ENTRY Every Neurological Test Rejected Yobbos. YOBBOS You Only Buy Books On Sale. SALE.. (More)

Have you seen this article very quietly slipped in under the 'Hot Topic' heading on the previous page? Says it was posted on 20/11 but I'm not so sure about that? I haven't read it all but will do so when I come home from work but it looks like PP wants more 'personal' info from us under the guise of complying with Aus Banking. Link Mon (More)

It was on CW ages ago. You start off with two words that go together eg Petrol Station and then you take the second word from that pair and have a new pair eg Station Platform and then the next person does the same, so next post could be Platform Shoe (More)

I woke up with the urge to spend some Paypal funds, but for the last few hours it has been impossible to browse the auction listings. The only thing that is coming up is buy it now items in shops. AND I have 2 auctions about to end, but a search of my current listings comes up as ' your search returned 0 items'. So I suppose I won't be buying OR selling anything this morning, and neither will thousands of other members until they FIX IT. (More)

Hi all, Firstly thank you to those who take the time to read this, and hopefully reply. I have been a member of eBay for almost 4 years, and this year took a step forward and starting selling alot more products than in previous years. I am still learning the tricks of the trade, and still have alot of work to do, but it all comes in small steps. I recently purchased a number of eBay books, and in one of the books, it states that if I am a Powerseller (I made this status last month),... (More)

Seems to be a lack of threads for blokes. On other threads,some ladies have mentioned, their OHs would post, but had no interest in most of the threads on offer. I can bump this thead twice a day,so its easy to find. Give it a go---Richo. (More)

just for fun if I can't have a thread with a dot god help anyone else that does. (More)

We had one of these a while ago, so I thought it was time for another one, using 6 words carry on the previous persons sentence forming a somewhat reasononably good story that kinda ,sorta makes sense NOT ...LOL! I will start in the next post! (More)

Is it just me or are others having trouble with seedlings from Bunnings Everything I plant out seems to go backwards and even die. I always leave them out to sun harden before I plant them out I always plant them out when it is cool. I always carefully take then out of their cell so as not to damage the roots. I always water them in and keep them damp for the first week. I have even put them into a virgin soil bed and still they go backwards. I'm thinking they are sooooo forced at... (More)

Im just looking up some concert tickets and i found a few listing for them. The concert date is the 25th but the Austion ends on the 27th?? there are a few listing like this, im concerned as there are people bidding on these.... (More)

Does it save much, if any money, to set the washing machine / dishwasher etc to run overnight ??? if so, roughly what would it save and what is the best time to run for the cheapest electricity ?? thanks (More)

welcome to your posh new home girls. Take a look around & notice all the finery, only the best for a wal. As you will see I have installed a spa & swimming pool, clothes are an optional but please make yourself familiar with the location of several bathrooms for obvious reasons I plan on bringing in entertainment of the most desirable kind every now & then as well as parties on a regular basis. Due to having new neighbours close by , volume is to be kept to a minimum as we don't want to... (More)

I apologise if someone has already posted about this, but I haven't seen it. I just left feedback for a seller, & only noticed this today. Don't know when they changed it, but YAY, they sometimes do listen to their members. A picture speaks a thousand words. (More)

I thought I'd get this thread up again. I've had enough excitement here for one day and am off to find my zzz's. Good thing the weekend is coming up so we can play with all this new stuff. Mon (More)

Okay so yesterday I won an auction on a Nintendo DS game. It has free shipping and it started at 99cents and I won it for $36. I paid for it with Paypal this morning. But only this afternoon did I find out that this nintendo DS game is a pirated fake. As so are all the other Nintendo DS game that this scammer sells. I am so angry and hurt and I feel like crying right now. The game has been posted and is on it's way here. I messaged the seller before and said I know the game is a fake and that I... (More)

Hi all, i was wondering if anyone here has suffered from this and how did you get over it, any tips help advice, i am currently seeing a doc about it, but over the last too visits with him l have started having nightmares again and starting to feel more depress than ever before. It worries me that the more deeper i go back into it the more depress i will get and start to turn towards those feelings of self harm again. If you feel you can help out with some tips please feel free to add it here.... (More)

I seem to be losing track of how the email system on ebay works. I was 'answered a question' on 2 items today - and found them incidentally while changing a few items and I saw the 'answer question' when I went to edit these items. I did reply to the question by hitting the button, but found that the emails to me and my responses were not in the inbox of my messages list. Are they supposed to be saved there? I did receive notification of my reply to the buyer via my gmail a/c but no... (More)

Or is this a bit too revealing for a photo on Ebay, Goodness knows I would not want my son comming accross this in his searches. Item Number: 120482446665 (More)

Doesn't have to be your height. Feel free to justify your answer. (More)

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Every week we supply supper to between 30 and 100 men. I have run out of ideas so please help. It needs to be something hot but be able to be served in a serviette and stand up to be eaten. we always do things like Toasted sandwiches, pies, Jaffles, quiches.... any other ideas? It would be good if we could keep it under $2 a serve. also, equipment at the venue is limited to pie maker, toasted sandwich maker and pie warmer. so it would be great if it could be food that can be... (More)

I am new to ebay but I recently won some items and the payment window says that the payment is unclaimed what does this mean please. (More)

Hi Guys, I am new to Ebay. I have a few auctions on the go and am able to see the number of watchers and bids. But I would like to be able to see the number of views. I was playing around yesterday and managed to see a button that I could click on to see this, but I can no longer find the button. Where do I need to go to do this ? Kind Regards Julie (More)

l bought a item on the 1st November (not this ID). Paid instantly by paypal. Seller emailed on the 3rd to say payment received, will be posting that same day. Hadn't recieved it by the 10th, emailed seller - same state as me, to ask if she had posted it on the 3rd as she said she did. l got a somewhat narky email back telling me that yes, she did post it and l needed to learn to wait for Australia Post to do their thing. No sign of the item by the 15th, l was a bit wary of telling the seller... (More)

Hi Guys, I log in to ebay Australia 5 or 6 times a day. Every time I log in I check the stay logged in box. But the next time I log it asks me to sign in again ! This is a pain, is this a bug ? or am I doing something wrong ? (More)

friendly suggestion to ebay , please change the bright green homepage , its hurting my eyes I would much prefer the ebay US's snowy theme , then a bright green coloured homepage. Thank you. (More)

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LOL Out of curiosity I googled Sabrina as she promoted herself for the Apprentice task as the celebrity. She was awarded Miss World Australia representative 2006 by default - there were no other competitors because the Australian pageants were cancelled that year Link (More)

" This year’s runaway winner was Mr Merv Grazinsky of Oklahoma City. Mr Grazinsky purchased a brand new Winnebago motor home. On his trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, he set the cruise control at 70 miles per hour and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back to make himself a cup of coffee. Laughter Not surprisingly, the vehicle left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr Grazinsky sued Winabgo for not advising him in the owner’s manual that he... (More)

Hi everyone, About a month ago i sold a number of makeup items to a lady. I packaged and sent the makeup items to the lady, and a few days later i recieved a message explaining to me that this lady had recieved an empty envelope with no items in it. She said she would contact me once she heard something from the post office, which never happened. So i logged into my Paypal today, to find i have a dispute launched against me.. with her asking for a full refund. So my question is,... (More)

I have a question, My sister got an email from her partners EX a very bitter one at that and the email was a photo of her partner. It was a web cam shot and had the date on the bottom of it. I know from previous experience using a web cam that if someone wanted to view you you had to accept their request is this how Skype works ? Is Skype all video conference or can you have normal chats like MSN ? Just trying to see if my sisters partner is once again telling porkies. He said he... (More)

Hi all, Its about this time each year I start placing orders for Proof sets I like to buy myself for Christmas. I usually buy an Australian set, plus either a NZ or UK set also. This year is going to be difficult. Which set to choose? Some of you may remember my complaints about the poor quality of the 2009 Australian proof set. The coins produced are extremely low relief, flat, dull and lacking in detail, especially when compared with the UK and NZ product - has the quality been improved... (More)

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I purhcased an item that was not as described, offered the seller a chance to fix it and they purchased my item, a car so not cheap to list and left negative straight away, how can I go about getting this fixed and getting fees back? I'm so upset about this right now.. (More)

HI AND MANY THANKS FOR DROPPING BY TO CHECK OUT THE NEW COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIP THREAD. AM HOPING THAT PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ALL BACKGROUNDS ALL RACES WILL ALWAYS FEEL FREE TO DROP BY HERE AND GET SOME CONNECTION WITH LIKE MINDED SOULS. LOVE TO SEE YOUR STORIES.......YOUR PHOTOS OF TRAVELS, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, PETS , YOUR FAVOURITE RECEIPE ETC ETC LOVE TO BASICALLY TAP INTO ALL THAT EXPERIENCE THAT IS OUT THERE......AND ABOVE ALL ELSE WOULD LOVE TO SEE PEOPLE POST THAT FEEL THAT THEY... (More)