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Two eBay Listings from "KittyTwitty"
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Post# 14633   6/5/2007 at 03:29 (6,141 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Hello, I hope you all will forgive this bit of shameless promotion ... something I don't normally do, as I am not really in favor of publishing links to eBay auctions in the forums.

However, since these are my auctions, I'm making an exception, particularly since both these listings are for rather extraordinary things. I'm hoping you'll all have a look. Thanks!

First, here's a "Hoover Merchandising" binder from cir. 1967. (See link.)


CLICK HERE TO GO TO charles~richard's LINK on eBay


Post# 14634 , Reply# 1   6/5/2007 at 03:30 (6,141 days old) by charles~richard ()        


Then, here's something I have never seen before: A "gold-tone" Electrolux Golden Jubilee bank and some "Clean Sweep" packets. (see link.)


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Post# 14635 , Reply# 2   6/5/2007 at 03:45 (6,141 days old) by charles~richard ()        
I swear, eBay gets lamer by the minute!

I had no sooner listed these two items, spending several hours creating them, than eBay rejected them. Why? Because I listed cash, sent securely, as a payment alternative.

Well, the eBay Nazis have determined that cash is no longer an acceptable form of payment, so they cancelled my listing. Nice of them to mention this little detail on the "list item" form so as to save me a lot of time and hassle, eh.

Stay tuned for a relisting, assuming I jump through all the right hoops this time.

@#$@#$@#%#@$@ @#$%@#$ $%^@#$@#$@#%$@#%@# !!!



Post# 14636 , Reply# 3   6/5/2007 at 04:10 (6,141 days old) by vintagehoover ()        
No more cash payments?!

This is the first time I've heard this - I wonder if it applies in the UK as well...

But how ridiculous of them to cancel the whole auction over it; couldn't they just have a standard email to send to people, informing them of the new rules and asking them to change their listings?


Post# 14637 , Reply# 4   6/5/2007 at 04:25 (6,141 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Tell me about it!

I was SO PISSED when I got the email stating BOTH these listings had been cancelled!

Anyway, trying this again. Sorry for the confusion but, again, it's due to excessive eBay lameness and not my fault!

1 - the Hoover Merchandising book. (see link)


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Post# 14638 , Reply# 5   6/5/2007 at 04:25 (6,141 days old) by charles~richard ()        


2 - Electrolux Golden Jubilee Bank



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Post# 14639 , Reply# 6   6/5/2007 at 04:34 (6,141 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Here's what the emails from eBay stated, in pertinent pa

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eBay Listing Removed: Accepted Payments (=LS &12362 JM112551673)
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Dear kittytwitty,

You recently listed the following auction-style listing:

180127521354 - VINTAGE "HOOVER MERCHANDISER" BINDER CONTENTS
180127532561 - ELECTROLUX GOLDEN JUBILEE BANK & CLEAN SWEEP PACKETS

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The listing was removed because it violated the eBay Accepted Payments policy. The violation occurred when you included the following information in your listing:

" You can send cash, but at your own risk. "

All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has been canceled.

Safety and convenience are the most important aspects of eBay?s policy on payments. Our goal is to ensure safe online shopping and to encourage members to use online payment methods that are secure, easy to use, and reliable. They should also offer high levels of protection for both buyers and sellers.

Because cash payments do not offer the same level of protection and convenience as online payment methods, members are generally not permitted to accept cash as a payment method on eBay. Sellers are permitted to accept cash on delivery (COD) but only for in-person transactions. Personal checks, money orders, cashier's checks, certified checks, and bank-to-bank transfers are also permitted.

For more information on the eBay Accepted Payments policy, please visit:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/acce...

Please note: violation of this or other eBay policies may result in forfeit of eBay fees on cancelled listings, limits on account privileges and account suspension.

For more information on why eBay may remove auction-style listings, please visit:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/tp/listing-en...

For more information on how you may ensure a successful listing in the future, visit:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/policies...

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
eBay Trust & Safety




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Post# 14641 , Reply# 7   6/5/2007 at 07:31 (6,141 days old) by sleepdoc (St. Louis, MO)        
Makes me go hmmmm...

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Why put your own auction on the forum if you object to the announcement of others on the forum? If I remember, the complaint is that announcing auctions drives the prices up. So, this exception strikes me as irreconcilable hypocrisy.

(I don't mind anyone's auctions being mentioned on any forum, including these. It's not unethical, and I'm grateful for the help.)


Post# 14644 , Reply# 8   6/5/2007 at 08:20 (6,141 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
50th Jubilee Electrolux

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First, Charles~Richard, I regret your enraging difficulties dealing with eBay, that horror story and others have stopped my activities with them, I'm registered, but I'll only use them if I find the ONE item I have been looking for for the last 10 years. I think I better run down to the Mustard Seed Thrift store and buy the 50th Jubilee Elux w/the power head and duct taped plastic wand. I think I could find parts somewhere. They only want $10.00. Since I love the design anyway, it would be a great first one for the collection. Anything I have tried to alert my famous hi-fi company group about on eBay has been totally ignored. As has virtually everything else I posted. Sorry for straying, but at least I can empathise about putting a lot of effort into something only to see it get flushed into the internut toilet. Keep on trucking!

Post# 14645 , Reply# 9   6/5/2007 at 08:29 (6,141 days old) by vinvac (Dubuque IA)        
Cash On EBay

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Coming from the banking world, E-Bay not excepting cash does not surprise me. There are Federal Laws in place the prohibit certain currency transactions. And since 9/11 even more so. We have to report cash amounts on various items through the bank or credit union depending on dollar amounts as well as the type of transaction. This is to help with drug trafficing and other issues that face our country.

I know it seems to be an inconvenience, but overall it does protect us as individuals. Looking forward to seeing the items you have listed. It is to bad that E-Bay does not tell you this until after you have posted.

Good Luck!

Morgan


Post# 14663 , Reply# 10   6/5/2007 at 14:04 (6,140 days old) by charles~richard ()        
That's me, an "Irreconcilable Hypocrite."

Sorry you feel that way Patrick, but what can I say. "Guilty as charged."

Actually, my thinking was really more along the lines that these two things I have listed are, I believe, fairly rare and I wanted as many people as possible to see them for curiosity's sake more than anything else. Since I am the seller, it's not quite the same thing as just running in and posting every eBay auction for a vintage vacuum cleaner that I come across.

Furthermore, the main reason I object to people posting currently-running eBay auctions that they have no connection with (e.g., are not the sellers) is because more times than not, the links that certain people tend to post are only for items that they are not personally interested in. Otherwise, believe me, they wouldn't be broadcasting the auctions, but would try to keep them quiet for the very reason you noted --- to keep the bidding down as much as possible.

Kinda sad, really, that some people immediately assume & infer the worst about other people ... and then unkindly hurl accusations in public.



Post# 14666 , Reply# 11   6/5/2007 at 15:33 (6,140 days old) by sleepdoc (St. Louis, MO)        
It's ON!

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You mean like this:

Please see your post, with its order reversed.

"Kinda sad, really, that some people immediately assume & infer the worst about other people ... and then unkindly hurl accusations in public."
"...the main reason I object to people posting currently-running eBay auctions that they have no connection with (e.g., are not the sellers) is because more times than not, the links that certain people tend to post are only for items that they are not personally interested in. Otherwise, believe me, they wouldn't be broadcasting the auctions, but would try to keep them quiet for the very reason you noted --- to keep the bidding down as much as possible."

You picked the wrong person to engage in a war of logic.


Post# 14667 , Reply# 12   6/5/2007 at 18:04 (6,140 days old) by charles~richard ()        
WHAT'S on?

I was simply addressing your criticism of my having posted my eBay listings by accusing me of being a hypocrite.

At the same time I was explaining why, in general, I don't really care for people posting eBay listings that are not theirs.

If you want to make a war out of this, that's your choice. But you'll be fighting it alone. I'm not here to "make war" with anyone - "wars of logic" or otherwise. Especially not with someone who has an agenda and a long-standing ax to grind.

And if you need in your mind to believe I am a hypocrite, so be it. I've certainly been accused of being a lot worse, even in this most esteemed forum.


Post# 14672 , Reply# 13   6/5/2007 at 23:15 (6,140 days old) by sleepdoc (St. Louis, MO)        
Not guilty

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"Especially not with someone who has an agenda and a long-standing ax to grind."

Granted, some do, but not I. You and I never have met. I have no agenda against you. I have observed you to be irritatingly melodramatic on this forum, but that is my opinion, and I kept it to myself throughout the distasteful thread regarding your past ailment. To say that I have an agenda and a long-standing ax to grind, particularly against you, is unsubstantiable and constitutes an unkindly hurled accusation of the type to which you've recently objected.

We can drop this if you want. I don't have a problem with you, but I'm not accustomed to being argued with about my reasoning, and you better not accuse me of something unless you have evidence to support your position.

Good night. :)


Post# 14676 , Reply# 14   6/6/2007 at 00:07 (6,140 days old) by hoovercelebrity (Germany)        

I'm not at all trying to get in the middle of this... But, for the sake of keeping peace on the forum... if this is going to continue, would you guys mind taking it to private e-mail?

Thanks...



Post# 14677 , Reply# 15   6/6/2007 at 00:14 (6,140 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Fred,

"Already done."



Post# 14678 , Reply# 16   6/6/2007 at 00:17 (6,140 days old) by swingette ()        

!

Post# 14679 , Reply# 17   6/6/2007 at 01:10 (6,140 days old) by charles~richard ()        





Post# 14687 , Reply# 18   6/6/2007 at 08:55 (6,140 days old) by crevicetool (GA )        
That last picture

is amazing, I wish I had the talent to do what you did, the the Lux lady vacuuming the beach!!!

Post# 14688 , Reply# 19   6/6/2007 at 08:57 (6,140 days old) by crevicetool (GA )        
Wait a minute....

You are not that talented, the Lux lady really is at the beach!!! I can see the shadows.

Post# 14689 , Reply# 20   6/6/2007 at 08:58 (6,140 days old) by vinvac (Dubuque IA)        
Charlie

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I recognize that picture now.... isn't it the one off of the birthday card I sent you with a few changes...LOL

Morgan


Post# 14693 , Reply# 21   6/6/2007 at 10:19 (6,140 days old) by air-waycharlie (USA)        

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Just to keep things light, here is my twin! And look just how light she is.

Post# 14699 , Reply# 22   6/6/2007 at 11:45 (6,140 days old) by charles~richard ()        


Thats's your twin?! Where's her goatee? haha

---

And to "crevicetool," well, erm, I *am* that talented ... I placed the nice Electrolux lady, AND her shadow, onto the beach! Dontcha just LOVE Photoshop!! :)



Post# 14715 , Reply# 23   6/6/2007 at 13:28 (6,139 days old) by vacuumkid3 ()        

How long has it taken her to vacuum so far?? :-) Just had to ask...

I love P.S. myself. Great program, but it can get somewhat confusing. I did an art class at school where we did P.S. almost all of the time. The class was called "Multimedia Art." Evil teacher, however. Great job, Charles!!

~~K~~


Post# 14795 , Reply# 24   6/8/2007 at 09:38 (6,138 days old) by ian88 ()        

My mum vacuumed the garden once, oh no it's not some kind of premature senility...the damn builders next door had used some kinda filler and it had blown polystyrene balls all over the front garden.

Ian


Post# 14796 , Reply# 25   6/8/2007 at 13:07 (6,137 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Vacuuming the yard

One day one of the other tenants in the building where I live dumped a shitload of styrofoam peanuts into one of the trash bins. When the garbage collecting truck came and the automatic arm grabbed the container and whooshed it up into the air, guess where the peanuts went. Yep. All over our yard, and the neighbor's yard, and the yard after that. No one would admit to having done this; the front yard was a mess; no one was stepping forward to clean it up.

So I went out there and started trying to gather them up. I felt like Lucy Ricardo trying to pluck up a room full of chicken feathers, one feather at at time. Then I tried a long-tined garden rake. I'd swoop up one rake full of them and then half of them would flutter off of the rake as I raised it up to deposit them into the collecting box. Then a gust of wind would kick up and blow half the ones out of the box I had already collected. What a nightmare. That stuff truly is an ecological hazard and, in my opinion, ought to be banned.

Anyway, I got the bright idea of trying a vacuum cleaner. I used to have a very big shop vac on wheels, with a two-inch-diameter hose that, when you connected the two lengths of it together, was about 20 feet long. I rolled the shop vac outside, fired it up, and PRESTO! Worked like magic. I did the entire yard in short order, and then went rolling up the street with it to do the two neighboring yards. Imagine the looks on people's faces as they drove by and saw this nut outside vacuuming the yard! But it worked!!



Post# 14797 , Reply# 26   6/8/2007 at 13:16 (6,137 days old) by ian88 ()        

Perhaps the "Garden Vac" Is a purely british concept? ;]


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