RE: Humour with vague ON-topic justification..

["Jonathan Bradshaw" <jonathan@xxxxxxx>]

That is funny. FYI, I have one of those CueCats (keyboard connector not
usb) which I'm sure I could be convinced to part with...

Regarding ebay, I highly recommend www.auctionstealer.co.uk for a good
sniping service (and free for the first 5 auctions each week)

--
Jonathan
"If you not voiding the warrenty, then you aren't trying hard
enough."


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 February 2002 16:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Humour with vague ON-topic justification..


Okay..

I made my first foray into ebay, and it has not gone well..

I found a guy selling five cuecats (the little hackable barcode readers
which I inetend to use in a fridge stock application) for the rather
tempting price of $9.99 for the five. No-one else bit, I won, and he has
shipped them by US Surface Mail.

The Guy is claiming that this will take 1-2 months.

Rather than start bitching to VISA, paypal and ebay fraud people, I
decided to check with the USPS to see if this was right. (although 2
months USA-UK is stretching things a little... from my own experience,
Nepal-UK takes about 12 days, and a letter from Tanzania managed to make
the trip in three
weeks)

Then, however, I found this, and almost ended myself laughing.

There is such a thing as "too much info" on official forms, and I
don't
think this girl realised that her question was going to be posted on the
USPS website as part of their Auto-FAQ process...

http://usps.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/usps.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=
c1Ay
_v8g&p_lva=&p_faqid=256&p_created=1002964815&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3
dfY2
50PTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD0xNjQxNTIxNzIzJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9MyZwX2NhdF9sdm
wxPX
5hbnl_JnBfY2F0X2x2bDI9fmFueX4mcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=

This *will* wrap, but it's worth it ;)

Ian.



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