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"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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"Serge Auckland" wrote:

I had an old Rogers valve amp which I was going to 'dispose' of,
however
my daughter put it on ebay where it fetched £130, purchased by a
very
nice
gentleman in Japan, however it cost over £90.00 just to send it
to him!



Interesting - I need to dispose of some pretty specialised bits of
kit -
monoblok valve amps, electrostatic speakers etc - and thought I
would have
to look around for specialist sites or magazines. Is eBay in fact
the
best
way to go? I must be the only bloke who's never used it....

Geoff MacK


Yes, good way to sell that gear. Couple of tips -

Sell smaller items first to get some feedback. People will be more
inclined to bid on the more expensive stuff once you have
feedback.

Search 'completed items' for the things you are selling before you
put
them up. It will help you establish what your item is worth, what
starting price to use.

Provide shipping costs up front. Don't forget insurance!

Decribe accurately, including faults and cosmetic damage.

It's not a good idea to cut and paste text from other auctions.

Use clear, detailed photographs. More is better.

If you allow people to collect, "cash on collection" is best. Do
NOT
let them pay up front for anything of signficiant value with
Paypal.

Why not?

Becuase they can claim not to have received the goods and get a
chargeback .. it happens


Ah! I hadn't thought of that one. Too trusting.

I thought most of the reputable parcel companies offer on-line
tracking, right up to the recipient's signature - wouldn't that be
proof of delivery?



There are stories floating around where people have signed for empty
packets and bricks in parcels to get 'POD' and facilitate a Paypal
Refund scam - don't how it works (I was told - went in one ear and out
the other) or how true it is....

In article ,
Serge Auckland wrote:
If you allow people to collect, "cash on collection" is best. Do NOT
let them pay up front for anything of signficiant value with Paypal.

Why not?

I was going to ask that too. Although if someone was collecting something
I'd expect cash. Unless for a large sum - I'd not know how to check for
forgeries.

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*If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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Here ya go - ignore all the pinky/purple (that doesn't happen -
it's just the camera and the crap pix) and for some reason
everything is shifted to the left a bit which wasn't happening
yesterday but it's only a 14" portable and I haven't a clue,
so I wouldn't shoot the PVR. Anyway, I'm sure this will all
mean more to you than it does to me!

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/L1010029.JPG

snip


There's probably a load more, but I'm sure there's enough to
give you an idea...


Thank you for that info / screen shots Keith, as a result I have
given it a go and placed an order tonight. You should be on
commission :-)


OK Gio, I hope you like it; if you post any observations on the
groups, please ensure to include ukra - I would be very interested
to hear your opinion. From viewing earlier this evening, I can
confirm that DVDs played through it ('AV in') suffer no loss of
quality at all, from what I can see! (Tested with Kill Bill Vol. 1
- the Okinawa sequence!)

One thing - hook it up and scan the stations in before you put an
HDD in it, or the machine will play dead!

Thanks for the tip Keith. With luck it will be delivered on Wed so
no report for a bit. It seems a little strange that the machine plays
dead when a drive is fitted. I would have thought the machine would
have set about formatting the new drive on boot-up then would have
been ready for tuning. By the way what is ukra ? The only thing I
know with those letters are The United Kingdom Rocket Association
(UKRA) as in www.ukra.org.uk/ If it means something else then you
will have to let me know because my isp does not list ukra on the
newsgroup list.

Gio

Just got one of these. The tuners are not very sensitive - I get
breakup on it but not on a BT Netgem on the same aerial and lead.

Biggest drawback found so far is NO subtitles!

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"Ashley Booth" wrote in message
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Gio wrote:


Thanks for the tip Keith. With luck it will be delivered on Wed so
no report for a bit. It seems a little strange that the machine plays
dead when a drive is fitted. I would have thought the machine would
have set about formatting the new drive on boot-up then would have
been ready for tuning. By the way what is ukra ? The only thing I
know with those letters are The United Kingdom Rocket Association
(UKRA) as in www.ukra.org.uk/ If it means something else then you
will have to let me know because my isp does not list ukra on the
newsgroup list.

Gio

Just got one of these. The tuners are not very sensitive - I get
breakup on it but not on a BT Netgem on the same aerial and lead.


Yep, I've discovered it needs a decent aerial then no problems!


Biggest drawback found so far is
NO subtitles!



Must be the programme, Ashley - I've just checked BBC1 and subbies are
there (and off again) at the press of a button.

The one *quirk* I think I've found is if you hit the Record button
(effectively a One Touch Record button) to grab a programme it seems to
need 'confirming' (at the 2 hour default recording period) by the second
press of the button and then 'OK' - otherwise it can chunter on
recording to (presumably) the limit of the available disk space!

(It's no biggie - I can live with it, especially as I would probably
alter the recording period with a second press of the button as often as
not, in any case!)

"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Ashley Booth" wrote in message
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Gio wrote:


Thanks for the tip Keith. With luck it will be delivered on Wed so
no report for a bit. It seems a little strange that the machine plays
dead when a drive is fitted. I would have thought the machine would
have set about formatting the new drive on boot-up then would have
been ready for tuning. By the way what is ukra ? The only thing I
know with those letters are The United Kingdom Rocket Association
(UKRA) as in www.ukra.org.uk/ If it means something else then you
will have to let me know because my isp does not list ukra on the
newsgroup list.

Gio

Just got one of these. The tuners are not very sensitive - I get
breakup on it but not on a BT Netgem on the same aerial and lead.


Yep, I've discovered it needs a decent aerial then no problems!


Biggest drawback found so far is
NO subtitles!



Must be the programme, Ashley - I've just checked BBC1 and subbies are
there (and off again) at the press of a button.

The one *quirk* I think I've found is if you hit the Record button
(effectively a One Touch Record button) to grab a programme it seems to
need 'confirming' (at the 2 hour default recording period) by the second
press of the button and then 'OK' - otherwise it can chunter on recording
to (presumably) the limit of the available disk space!

(It's no biggie - I can live with it, especially as I would probably alter
the recording period with a second press of the button as often as not, in
any case!)


Hi Keith,
Well the unit arrived today and after following your advice re tuning then
shut down and add an old HD followed by a reboot / format and things are
looking well. I had to adjust the colour and brightness but other than that
it records programs and after a bit of confusion over changing channels
while recording on the other tuner it worked well. Whether it will be like
that 12 months on is another thing but till then it will sit next to my
Humax unit.
It is a shame it does not put a title onto a 'booked' recording (from the
epg) and the full screen epg changes channel as you scan through the listing
for another program is a bit of a pain . I would have liked the original
channel to have remained in the preview window while I -or should I say the
other half- looks for something else to watch but that aside it appears good
value with A1 reception .

Gio

"Gio" wrote


Hi Keith,
Well the unit arrived today and after following your advice re tuning
then shut down and add an old HD followed by a reboot / format and
things are looking well. I had to adjust the colour and brightness
but other than that it records programs and after a bit of confusion
over changing channels while recording on the other tuner it worked
well. Whether it will be like that 12 months on is another thing but
till then it will sit next to my Humax unit.
It is a shame it does not put a title onto a 'booked' recording (from
the epg) and the full screen epg changes channel as you scan through
the listing for another program is a bit of a pain . I would have
liked the original channel to have remained in the preview window
while I -or should I say the other half- looks for something else to
watch but that aside it appears good value with A1 reception .


Hi Gio,

Yes, the lack of a title from the EPG is a PITA - it leaves you no
choice but to title the recordings the hard way if you are going to
leave them on the machine for any length of time. (Imagine 3, 4 or even
500 Gig of recordings all named 'BBC One-1 to BBC One-328 &c. -
nightmare!)

I still say it's a doddle for 'watch & blow' and 'chase play' viewing,
though.

As it isn't going to be possible (?) to take movies off the HDD, I ran
the S-Video output round to my little cheap (but good) BenQ W100 digital
PJ and was quite impressed with the results which ranged from
'watchable' to really quite good, according to the broadcast and
original material. I haven't changed any settings at all and would say
the colours (and blacks in particular) were really very acceptable;
allowing for the digital camera, check these out:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image01.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image02.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image03.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image04.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image05.JPG


Not bad for the price of a curry (and beers) for two, I'd say - given
the HDD has laid about unused for a couple of years!!

"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Gio" wrote


Hi Keith,
Well the unit arrived today and after following your advice re tuning
then shut down and add an old HD followed by a reboot / format and things
are looking well. I had to adjust the colour and brightness but other
than that it records programs and after a bit of confusion over changing
channels while recording on the other tuner it worked well. Whether it
will be like that 12 months on is another thing but till then it will sit
next to my Humax unit.
It is a shame it does not put a title onto a 'booked' recording (from the
epg) and the full screen epg changes channel as you scan through the
listing for another program is a bit of a pain . I would have liked the
original channel to have remained in the preview window while I -or
should I say the other half- looks for something else to watch but that
aside it appears good value with A1 reception .


Hi Gio,

Yes, the lack of a title from the EPG is a PITA - it leaves you no choice
but to title the recordings the hard way if you are going to leave them on
the machine for any length of time. (Imagine 3, 4 or even 500 Gig of
recordings all named 'BBC One-1 to BBC One-328 &c. - nightmare!)

I still say it's a doddle for 'watch & blow' and 'chase play' viewing,
though.

As it isn't going to be possible (?) to take movies off the HDD, I ran the
S-Video output round to my little cheap (but good) BenQ W100 digital PJ
and was quite impressed with the results which ranged from 'watchable' to
really quite good, according to the broadcast and original material. I
haven't changed any settings at all and would say the colours (and blacks
in particular) were really very acceptable; allowing for the digital
camera, check these out:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image01.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image02.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image03.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image04.JPG

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Image05.JPG


Not bad for the price of a curry (and beers) for two, I'd say - given the
HDD has laid about unused for a couple of years!!



Not bad at all :-) and thanks for the posting. I just want to see if I can
use my all in one remote to control the basic functions then I will be happy
because the supplied handset does seem -in my case- to be very directional.

Gio

"Ivan" wrote in message
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"bugbear" wrote in message
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Ivan wrote:

I had an old Rogers valve amp which I was going to 'dispose' of, however
my daughter put it on ebay where it fetched £130, purchased by a very
nice gentleman in Japan, however it cost over £90.00 just to send it to
him!


The Far East has a number of hi-fi enthusiasts
who will pay big money for classic vintage valve
gear; a local guy used to have a business
buying in the UK, selling in the far East,
via a web site.


In the 1960s my mate used to be a engineer for Radford electronics and
owns a very nice Radford 30/30 valved stereo amplifier complete with
preamp from the period.
I've been trying to get him to put it on ebay, as he might just as well
make a few bob whilst he still has the chance, especially as he hasn't
used it in recent times and probably never will.

Radford is the most sought after of all the UK valve amps.
They command prices higher that Leak, and much higher
than Quad. With the exception of the above, plus
Kerr McCosh, Lowther, and Shirley Laboratories,
the others are really worth much.

I don't know the 30/30 model to which you refer. The STA25 was
a 25W push pull EL34 amp, and their best seller. The 15W version
(usually monobloc also sold well) The STA 100 stereo amp is
very rare indeed.


Iain

Just got one of these. The tuners are not very sensitive - I get
breakup on it but not on a BT Netgem on the same aerial and lead.

On another dual tuner Freeview PVR (Tvonics DVR-FP150) some users
noticed an improvement with changing the supplied inter-tuner lead for
something a bit better. Maybe that might apply for yours?

--
Adrian C

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"Keith G" wrote


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Not bad for the price of a curry (and beers) for two, I'd say - given
the
HDD has laid about unused for a couple of years!!



Not bad at all :-) and thanks for the posting. I just want to see if
I can
use my all in one remote to control the basic functions then I will be
happy
because the supplied handset does seem -in my case- to be very
directional.


??

You had me checking - just now, mine worked pointed up at the ceiling,
standing virtually behind the telly and pointing to a door opposite the
telly, from outside the room out of sight of the telly and directly off
to one side of the telly (180 deg.) at about 2m distance!

It couldn't be *less* directional!!