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Model Forum / General / Railroads / July 2005COMM: Selling a few items on eBay
Hi all Just wanting to let you know I am moving a bit of train gear on ..... doing it on eBay http://tinyurl.com/d6q43 Thanks Steve URL doesnt work > URL doesnt work It did for me. John. >> URL doesnt work > > It did for me. > > John. True, but delivery from Aus is gonna probably cost more than the item would ! Postage from Australia is among the cheapest in the world. Cheaper than USA, UK and Canada. And with the exchange rate, it makes buying from Australia very attractive when compared to the prices things fetch in the UK. For example a 1 Kilogram parcel only costs 6.45GBP via sea or 9GBP Air. That's the weight of two packed locos, therefore if a loco is worth 35GBP each on average, the additional cost is only between 3 and 4.5GBP. I don't charge for packing labour or materials. Thanks Steve >>> URL doesnt work >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > True, but delivery from Aus is gonna probably cost more than the item > would ! > Postage from Australia is among the cheapest in the world. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I don't charge for packing labour or materials. Dear Steve, You may not be aware - living in Australia - that all shipments to the UK totalling 18GBP or above are charged VAT at 17.5% plus post office or courier collection fee of at least 4.5GBP. That is why most of my imports are broken down into as many small shipments as possible. (kim) Hi Kim - thanks for the post WOW what a rip off! We only get charged GST for personally imported items valued at over $200....and even then I am yet to get hit with it at all. In addition, how can a post office get away with charging a fee for getting your parcel? Isn't that the point of a postal system - that the fee paid on the stamp gets it to you or your post office? strange and wonderful - or have I missed something as is likely? Steve >> Postage from Australia is among the cheapest in the world. >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > (kim) > Hi Kim - thanks for the post > > WOW what a rip off! We only get charged GST for personally imported items > valued at over $200....and even then I am yet to get hit with it at all. That's becuase it costs the Australian govt more to collect tax on smaller shipments than the revenue it generates and I'm not convinced the British system is any more efficient. > In addition, how can a post office get away with charging a fee for > getting your parcel? Isn't that the point of a postal system - that the > fee paid on the stamp gets it to you or your post office? Royal Mail, Parcel Force and the private courier companies collect the tax on behalf of HM Customs & Excise. They say the fee - which is on a sliding scale and is much higher for more expensive items - is to purely cover their expenses. Royal Mail refuses to deliver charged items to the door so there is the additional expense of collecting them from the local sorting office. For someone living in a remote area that could be considerable. (kim) > Royal Mail, Parcel Force and the private courier companies collect the tax > on behalf of HM Customs & Excise. They say the fee - which is on a sliding > scale and is much higher for more expensive items - is to purely cover their > expenses. Royal Mail refuses to deliver charged items to the door so there > is the additional expense of collecting them from the local sorting office. > For someone living in a remote area that could be considerable. Total rip off in my opinion. The last parcel I got from the USA resulted in a GBP3.75 VAT payment plus a charge of GBP4.00 from Parcel Farce for collecting it! Also because of the congested state of our roads it generally takes around 90 minutes to get to their office (only about 3 miles away), plus a wait as the staff chat amongst themselves rather than concentrate on what they're supposed to be doing. John. > > Hi Kim - thanks for the post > > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > is the additional expense of collecting them from the local sorting office. > For someone living in a remote area that could be considerable. You can have it delivered to your local post office for 50p. Andrew > You can have it delivered to your local post office for 50p. That's true, but in my case I'd already paid to have it delivered to my home address I think the Post Office have a naffing cheek to even contemplate such a charge. In the good old days they would deliver such a packet to your door and collect the duty. Now it seems it's all too much trouble. John ><snip< > I think the Post Office have a naffing cheek to even contemplate >such a charge. What kind of cheek is a naffing cheek? I don't know that word "naffing", although it does have a very negative ring to it. I do hope it is not vulgar. SM: Ocean Springs http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/ >><snip< >> I think the Post Office have a naffing cheek to even contemplate [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >ring to it. >I do hope it is not vulgar. It comes from the expression "naff off" which originated in the BBC television comedy series "Porridge" about some people who were banged up at her majesty's pleasure. The story is that they wanted an expression that was, er, vulgar, but wasn't one of the usual swear words, so wouldn't precipitate thousands of complaints from Mr and Mrs Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells. So I'm afraid to say that in my opinion, yes, it is vulgar. >SM: Ocean Springs >http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/  SignatureJane OO in the garden http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html > So I'm afraid to say that in my opinion, yes, it is vulgar. But politely vulgar! ;-) John. >>><snip< >>> I think the Post Office have a naffing cheek to even contemplate [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>SM: Ocean Springs >>http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/ Well, it is rather a nice, nasty-sounding word to use without being "officially" crude and vulgar. Somewhat Monty Pythonish IMO. waiting on pins & needles for the CLPs in N. A., SM: Ocean Springs http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/ >>Ocean Springs <argirode@mindspring.com> writes >>>"John Turner" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Well, it is rather a nice, nasty-sounding word to use without being > "officially" crude and vulgar. Somewhat Monty Pythonish IMO. Intercourse the penguin! SignatureMartin S. "Ocean Springs" > Well, it is rather a nice, nasty-sounding word to use without being > "officially" > crude and vulgar. Somewhat Monty Pythonish IMO. Smeg! -- Cheers Roger T. Home of the Great Eastern Railway http://www.highspeedplus.com/~rogertra/ >> I think the Post Office have a naffing cheek to even contemplate >>such a charge. > >What kind of cheek is a naffing cheek? >I don't know that word "naffing", although it does have a very negative ring to it. I suspect that John has used it in place if f**king :-) The verb to 'naff' is normally used as a replacement for the verb to 'f**k' :-) Jim. > I suspect that John has used it in place if f**king :-) Lol - you suspect wrong, it used naffing without any consideration of the 'king alternative. John. > I suspect that John has used it in place if f**king :-) > > The verb to 'naff' is normally used as a replacement for the verb to > 'f**k' :-) I think Ill go and Naff the wife then. :-) >> I suspect that John has used it in place if f**king :-) >> >> The verb to 'naff' is normally used as a replacement for the verb to >> 'f**k' :-) >> > I think Ill go and Naff the wife then. :-) Handy modelling tip: you might find it easier if you dismantle her first. Cheers, Steve >> You can have it delivered to your local post office for 50p. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > In the good old days they would deliver such a packet to your door > and collect the duty. Now it seems it's all too much trouble. The *only* things Canada Post delivers to my door are items requiring a signature and/or a payment (e.g. tax and service fee on imports). I can even pay the postie by credit card. If I'm not home I pick it up from the nearest sub-post office - no additional charge. Everything else is delivered to a so-called "super mailbox" down the end of the street. SignatureMartin S. >>> You can have it delivered to your local post office for 50p. >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >the nearest sub-post office - no additional charge. Everything else is >delivered to a so-called "super mailbox" down the end of the street. Rather like living in a large apartment building with a centrally located mail center. Here, we still get mail delivered to the mailbox at the street end of the driveway. If it won't fit in the box, the mail carrier will drop it off on the front porch. Rather a nice convenience, I think. For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park your auto. The parkway is where you drive it about. Don't ask me, I don't make up the words, I just use them. SM: Ocean Springs http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/ > For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park your auto. The > parkway is where you drive it about. "auto" - automobile or autogyro? SignatureBruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> >> For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park your auto. The >> parkway is where you drive it about. > >"auto" - automobile or autogyro? Good question, and one that clearly needed to be asked. Ambiguity is the devil's work and should be stamped out with vigor. I was referring, of course, to an autoMOBILE, and not an autoGYRO, as I didn't consider that one would drive about on the parkway in one's autogyro, but rather that one would fly about in the airway with it. http://www.gyrocopters.co.uk/html/merlin_gts_autogyro.html http://www.americanautogyro.com/ I will concede, however, that both could be parked on the driveway. I do hope that clears up any ambiguity. SM: Ocean Springs http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/ >>>For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park your auto. The >>>parkway is where you drive it about. >>"auto" - automobile or autogyro? > Good question, and one that clearly needed to be asked. Ambiguity is the devil's > work and should be stamped out with vigor. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I will concede, however, that both could be parked on the driveway. > I do hope that clears up any ambiguity. It does indeed, thankyou <vbg> Britain and North America appear to be seperated by a common language. SignatureBruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> >>>>For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park >>>>your auto. The [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >It does indeed, thankyou <vbg> >Britain and North America appear to be seperated by a common language. This is another example of the American fetish for using a polysyllabic word when a monosyllable would do the job much better. In the good old UK, we would refer to the "car", and there would be no confusion. SignatureJane OO in the garden http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html More likely the american's just want to be different... take boot and trunk, pants and trousers etc etc. >>>>> For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park >>>>> your auto. The [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > word when a monosyllable would do the job much better. In the good old > UK, we would refer to the "car", and there would be no confusion. >>>>>For anyone who doesn't already know, the driveway is where you park >>>>>your auto. The [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > word when a monosyllable would do the job much better. In the good old UK, > we would refer to the "car", and there would be no confusion. Trouble is in US parlance a 'car' is the passenger coach towed behind a locomotive although more and more Americans these days are using it to describe a road vehicle. (kim) >> This is another example of the American fetish for using a >> polysyllabic word when a monosyllable would do the job much better. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Trouble is in US parlance a 'car' is the passenger coach towed behind > a locomotive Or a freight vehicle - boxcar, hopper car, flat car, tank car... "Jane Sullivan" <jane@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > This is another example of the American fetish for using a polysyllabic > word when a monosyllable would do the job much better. In the good old UK, > we would refer to the "car", and there would be no confusion. Not in South London, we don't! Down here we drive about in our "motors" (awight, John?). A "car" is something with flanged wheels that goes backwards and forwards between Croydon and Wimbledon on our fabled Tramlink, carrying "customers", whereas "passengers" are the people what sit in the left-hand seat of our motors. Hope this clears up any confusion. Cheers, Steve >"Jane Sullivan" <jane@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > This is >another example of the American fetish for using a polysyllabic [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Cheers, >Steve Indeed. On the Gulf, Mobiile & Ohio railroad a "Motor" is what a diesel locomotives was called. A "Motorcar" was the name for a track speeder, or section car. I don't have a clue what a track speeder is called in GB. Motorcars: http://www.railwaystation.com/trainsim/speeder.html http://users.chariot.net.au/~nldoncas/nicspages/fairmnt.htm SM: Ocean Springs http://www.oceanspringschamber.com/ >"Jane Sullivan" <jane@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > This is >another example of the American fetish for using a polysyllabic [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >Cheers, >Steve I fough' tha' in Sarf Lunnun vey was called "mo'ors". SignatureJane OO in the garden http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html > I fough' tha' in Sarf Lunnun vey was called "mo'ors". The glottal stop is very difficult to produce in written communication! SignatureBruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> > > I fough' tha' in Sarf Lunnun vey was called "mo'ors". > >The glottal stop is very difficult to produce in written communication! True, but I must have got it right because you recognised it as such. SignatureJane OO in the garden http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html >> > Hi Kim - thanks for the post >> > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > You can have it delivered to your local post office for 50p. I could if they hadn't closed them all! My nearest post office is now the same distance from me as the sorting office and the queue is a lot longer. (kim) >> You can have it delivered to your local post office for 50p. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >(kim) The last parcel that I recieved through Parcel Force I came home on Wednesday to find a card stating that they couldn't deliver since there was no-one home and would keep it for me at the depot for 4 days. (Not the Postal sorting office at the end of my street but the depot in Romford). So OK I had Friday off to go away for a long weekend and the following week would not be able to visit their office. So I accepted I would be late starting off for my weekend and went to Romford first thing Friday. Only to be told that I couldn't have my Parcel because they had put it back on the lorry to try a second delivery! When I came back to earth the arrangement was made to leave it at the local post office, which would be on Monday since it seems their drivers don't have mobile phones! (officially). Getting back home late Monday night I discovered that the Friday driver had left it in my meter cupboard so it had sat for 4 days for anyone to take. (If the Wednsesday man had done that it would have only been left about 3 hours and an awful lot of aggro saved. And this parcel was sent by DHL at a premium rate and their contribution was to hand it over to parcel force! The Post Office is much better in my experience. Keith Make friends in the hobby. Visit <http://www.grovenor.dsl.pipex.com/> Garratt photos for the big steam lovers. |
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