capri-boy

He's conning you or doesn'r want the villa let out.

J

Con I think.  We purposely make contact fist rather than book through the agents - as often homes are advertised in so many places no one site is up to date.  He responded to the enquiry,  prebooked it and sent an invoice.  I shall be raising a complaint with the agent tomorrow, with a view to getting him struck off and hopefully a refund of the ferry booking deposit we've just paid.  

Yh that does sound grim lol. No panky either no holiday. 

Take the best offer and search for the next item to sell at top $ 

Stuck with 1st buyer i'd agreed could have it.  All paid up and on way.  Not worth messing someone around for the sake of £15.

I do it for fun and am quite happy that someone deemed it good enough to use to advertise their business.

To expand on OHO's point (I read this just today), when uploading to an image hosting site (photobucket, imgur, Flickr, what have you), is that once that photo ids on their servers, it stops being your intellectual property and starts being theirs! Hence why it was perfectly legal (but immoral, as hell!) when Photobucket held everyone's photos "hostage". It stinks, but there you are.

Also, yes. Great shots!

Flickr lets you keep the rights to your stuff, or give up those rights as you decide.

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/05/13/at-flickr-your-photos-are-always-yours/

Might have changed when it was sold, but I've not heard anything to suggest it has.

I'd change the rights to creative commons or such like on mine but I'd like to retain the right to challenge usage if I find it unacceptable.  I can just chose not do anything about all the people who ignore what I've set...

Be quick about it, winter is back next week with a bang lol

Half done, can get to the workbench.  1st job, solder up 'new' esc bought 2nd hand.  Found someone already has been at it - connectors removed, dirty solder and rx wire extended.  Low and behold it doesn't calibrate and the status leds are doing 80's disco.  Buyer claims ignorance then remembers he had the rx wires extended.  Offered an immediate refund... will give it till tomorrow to show before PP claim.  Wasted daylight and my last set of 5.5mm bullets.  I detest reusing them.

I've had quite a few, all went for a song compared to today's prices but we're right at the time.  The last one was the best, bought to keep.  Finances being what they we're as a younger man we had to run it a few months to tide us over to a new (to us) car.  With 16k on the clock it wasn't an issue and she'd been driven monthly for a few miles since new anyway (25 odd years previously).  Mrs mis-read a road closed sign, drove through a junction and was t boned by a twokker doing 60 odd plus mph in a 30 zone.  Pushed mine over the road and through a fence.  Impact almost squarely on the A pillar - opposite side only took out the fence panels - chassis was twisted beyond reasonable repair and new panels only added to the cost.  

Ha! it must be something about Capri`s that makes people want to hit them in the side, I had a Mercedes try and push me of the road in the 3 litre but it took it alright and straitened out and turned out all good but I must admit I cried when it happened.

I started out with a 1.6 straight out of the showroom with Cadiz seats. Then went to Audi's for a while to come back to Capri`s with a 2.0 litre that was traded for the 3.0 litre.  

My old man often says this, he used to have a few Capris, MK1 and MK2 Escorts, old Minis etc... Back when they were 100-200quid a pop lol.

He'd have no problem buying a decent house if he still had them all now and sold them.

Where do you find those things?!

Yh AJ it did.  I hope i'm not being set up.  There from an ex team driver (allegedly).  Sold me his untouched X2 Cr Pro brushless edition.  Very rare as a factory kit, paid good money and it arrived exactly as promised - it's still sat here untouched.  He put me in touch with a friend of his for a new X2 Cr Pro nitro kit, for a very tempting price.  That one arrived minus diffs, alloy parts shafts and shocks.  Paypal claim, all sorted - amicably - end thoughts we're the kit was robbed of parts for warranty claims at the distributor.  This X2 CRT is from the original seller (of the BL X2 ) - he's offered it me a year ago, I couldn't justify both.  Fast forward to last week, I felt flush culling some RC's, needed a pick me up and he dropped the price of the X2 CRT Pro sufficiently for me not to feel like i'd had my pants completely pulled down.... it arrived today.  Only difference is this one has the shocks.

Had the same issues with modelsport. Last 2 orders have been incorrect. Must stop using them 

https://m.iwantoneofthose.com/toys-radio-control/despicable-me-3-radio-control-inflatable-jumbo-fluffy/11601696.html?affil=thggpsad&switchcurrency=GBP&shippingcountry=GB&thg_ppc_campaign=71700000028012210&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3O-Uvbmi2QIVVMYbCh0IuQYMEAQYASABEgKkm_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CIWE-r-5otkCFcgC0wodAOYMHA

One of these perhaps.  

Times two truggy. Bnib, pro version. 

Wraith and FTX mauler by any chance??

Looked like the newer ftx, didn't see another rig - we were driving about 11, looked like they were reloading into the car but not sure. Was it you?

 few of us was near beeley yesterday, bloke and his lad joined us. Wasn't me, bust my trx4 and left at 10

He must be getting into largescale as he also had a 5ive T and tuned engine off me lol 

Ouch.  He'd have had two from me and business partner but I believe she bunged him a prada handbag instead.

Ces't la vie.  We do have two months however to bung some capital expenditure through the books to mitigate next years, as forecast suggest it may be a n extra 7.5t next jan from me.

Hope all okay buddy! 

Cheers Harvey - nothing insurmountable!  

Plenty to see down that way, have fun 

Been before a few years back - we've pretty much done all the way round the coast now from Normandy down to Royan now so are re-visiting our favourites.  The beaches and Forest near La Palmyre just up from Royan are my favourite spot in France so far.

Those beaches are really something. I spent some time at Arcachon and never made it much further than Bordeaux and Dune Pilat!

It will probably be brought out right at the last minute. For the best price. Its oem with good reputation. Even rcs under the brand but do they provide another brand with combos aswel. Bl or nitro running gear. 

One would hope so, but they've been in receivership awhile.  It looks like they may fold as a company, then relaunch more streamlined.  LRP had grown into more of distributor a la hobbico from what I saw.

Apologies c.b......only just seen this post!

In response to rc butcher.....no they won't be bought out ....they spent the last 8 months trying to find a buyer/investor to no avail.....

They will now cease trading in march.

The founder did add that he would like to rebirth lrp electronics in another form.......they may well rise like a phoenix yet! But don't hold your breath....

Can’t fault you there mate 

What to splurge on though.  Guess I already spent it on the mini8t last week  or John's Outlaw the week before.  If I hadn't bought those Jan Sale Spekky Rx's i'd have traded the DX4s in for something a little more capable, but then again i've yet to find a suitable replacement that the Rx costs aren't stupid.  Hmm.

How do you get this ‘free’ money then?  I need some of that!  

i bought a parkside sander a while back. Quite good at first, then the internals wear out making it vibrate so much it was unbearable. Lasted about 3 months, and wasnt used that often. If you want good tools, pay good money, or pay twice.

sounds like my lidl dremel. i lived and learned

My £30 b&q has lasted years, with a lot of use at times.  It still runs but the flexi extension cable has finally snapped and the tool case itself is cracked where mini me dropped it.  Quite happy to chance £18 for one to cart round in the pit box.

I've not started it - it's bnib.  opened to photo that's it.  All that's fair enough but I know what paypal are like - why i sell nothing that's 'mechanical' etc in nature on ebay.  I may list it parts or not working, see if he's happy with that and go from there.

Yeah, or say that you have not had it working and do not know if it works. He should buy it with the expectation it will not work, or with the uinderstanding it is quite likley that it will not work. Just try to cover your back, although it is hard. Or yeah, say spares and repair.

Yeah, you're only way there... would be to sell it as spares/repairs or parts or not working

In the past I have sold items under the 'used' category, then put a disclaimer in bold letters in the description stating that;

'due to you not using the item yourself, your unsure that the item is 100% functional, however you have visually inspected and everything looks OK, rolls along well etc etc'

That way there's no comeback on you.

But ultimately, you will attract less bidders

I usually wait till about now too. But now live in a village cant just pop to the shops lol. So started ages ago end of October ish. Still not completely satisfied yet tho. But today its all about the foods and drink. 

Unless tesco has another sale on. They had yankee candles big ones on 3 for £20. Usually  £10 each. That sorts my family out anr we keep the free one lol. 

I've sent the boss out today - we couldn't get a Turkey last year as we left it till Xmas eve.... no great loss as I don't care for it but for some reason the kids love it. 

No work today, all shopping done and avoiding town now. Nice to do nowt!

Are you uploading the originals?

If so, run them through Lightroom or even Photoshop, the quality is still the same to the untrained eye, unless you're doing it professionally it doesn't matter anyway.

Files sizes are generally 8-12% of the originals from my experience, great way to save hard drive space too 

I only archive the original RAW files, local hard drive space is cheap as chips, and if I wasn't so lazy i'd just back up the home file server periodically and keep that copy elsewhere.  I need to be a little more selective on what shot's I keep I think.

Been there, 4 months on the trot, ended up phoning them up and redoing the contract so it would be impossible to go over, and capped all bolt ons, 

our 16 year old daughter kept going well over her limit  even with loads of warnings  so we stopped the contract.

Part of growing up - learning to live within means / boundaries.  Needless to say the contract will now live out with no use and a payg sim will be procured, which she'll have to fund herself.

A chunk has been paid back, and she's having her sat job docked at a manageable rate to pay back the rest.  Sadly not enough to get me a bl baja though!  

Sounds familiar. These people are as thick as **** , how they get managerial positions I don't know.

J

Did he want to put the high heels and the dress on instead..

J

****.....nayghty boy

I'm always confused when new, or new-ish, SSDs fail... because there are no moving parts! Yet, somehow, they do fail!

@RCbutcherDoesn't cost much to see if you can get data from any hard drive, just need a USB loom, or just stick it in a PC as a second hard drive and see what happens.

Seems its the sata host controller that's failed in the laptop. Unusual but at least I can retrieve things off the drive without resorting to a cloud backup (v slow).

Yh was wrighty's here, selling on evilbay. 

Some 8mm aluminium angle, a grinder & some decent drill bits will sort that.

Thought about this myself.

I was also biding on . lost out by £1 ..  

And that is???

J

Brushless Baja!  

Not looking like it was meant to be

Turn round go home and save all the pain ! 

Both as bad as each other  aint they

Jamie I can tolerate..... James Blunt id rather drop red hot solder or insert a masonry drill into my testicles