In the past I sold TV adapter cables for all the old retro consoles like Atari, SNES, Mega Drive and Sega Master. We were the only seller on eBay germany with that special cable and therefore sold many of them. The cable was quite cheap, but nevertheless sometimes bidders never paid for it. Business as usual. The story of the following transaction differed a bit … (more…)

What was the most ugly packing material used in parcels you received?   I have two favourites and the first one is: Yellow long johns. No joke, I don’t have a clue why someone used his warmers instead of paper. I just hoped they were clean and washed before, but I didn’t checked for obvious reasons …

PayPal is on eBay Germany not very common although the numbers of auctions providing PayPal as a payment method are increasing it is still not comparable with the US or UK. Luckily I paid this auction with Paypal and of course I filed a dispute. Altough we paid only a few $ for this trash, I thought it was time to teach that seller a lesson … (more…)