RosieH

Ebay is a bit hit and miss on clothes. I've sold brand new designer stuff for which I've got over 90% of the retail price, and then some designer stuff that's only been worn once or twice and been disappointed at the sale (a pair of Patrick Cox shoes that cost over ?200 and worn only once went for ?14). If you have box / labels and the like, the price will go up as I guess it infers genuine status. For non-designer, if it's something quality, my advice is take a decent photo and you should do ok - trousers and dresses upwards of ?10, which I've never made at a boot sale. But if it's random tops and the like, boot sales are good. And then there are dress agencies, if you have something vintage, you might be better off there - they take a ludicrous cut (50%) but they sell stuff at proper prices, so you'd still probably make much more than on ebay. Or check out etsy too to sell the vintage pieces.

Sean! How atypically ungallant of you...

Gimme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just doing the usual EDF thing of defending myself > over several posts against people who make > pointless accusations or chippy comments for no > good reason at all. Surely you don't mean me? Accusations???? Accusations of not remembering? Goddamn I'm harsh, and not a little chippy.

bigbadwolf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Feck you Mick.........you reckon a professional > could sort him out?" > > Hardly. I have a mysopic, rambling psyche. > Unfathomable to the professional community. To > venture through the corridors of my mentality > would be even more baffling and uncomfortable than > to be in the presence of two mick drunks on a park > bench. The sinister, harrowing violin mood music > in the background would cause you to turn white > fear. > > This is the closest anyone has ever come to > accurately comparing my nighmarish source of > thoughts: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHT7dTmw8U Whoa, that's seriously f@cking dark man. That's like the darkest shit I ever saw. Come now BBW, you didn't grow out of this kind of masturbatory delusion when you were 16?

bigbadwolf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have to say though, that I was rather impressed > with the iphone app that enables the user to > process debit/credit card payments. Yes, so that the very modern mugger now has a variety of ways to take payment (hmm, is there a PayPal app too?)

I like my blackberry curve 8900 - it's shiny shiny and smaller than those bold feckers. The newer curve may have a trackpad, but it's not the phone for me - more thoughts from someone more knowledgable here Also, unlike fat-fingered iphone users, I don't litter my emails with typos.

Growlybear, I feel I should clarify my post last night when I didn't really get my point across due to a slightly drunken fuzziness. The thing about this kind of behaviour is that you have no idea where it could lead. When you're being jeered at by a stranger, you don't know if that stranger's going to be annoyed, encouraged or completely unbothered either way if you choose to respond or ignore. In most cases it will be the latter, but how to judge? And why should you have to? Of course the incidents I mentioned were extreme to try to convey a point. There've been yet others where I've been physically manhandled (and I don't think my experience is uncommon) but in the vast majority of cases, (god knows how many over a lifetime) absolutely nothing further has happened at all. Except that I've been annoyed, sometimes embarrassed, occasionally humiliated. So does that make it ok given that I haven't felt remotely threatened? I don't think it does. I can say with utter certainty that the reason I've never got my tits out for a site full of builders is not for want of being invited to do so.

Growlybear Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- but personally, I would > rather think that I'm not too much of a munter to > warrant the odd teensy leer from the drunken > intellectually subnormal oiks who are forced to > stand outside the Castle if they want a smoke :)) Ah, ok, I get it now. See, I know I'm hot stuff and don't need a man several rungs below me on the attractiveness ladder to let me know. OF COURSE they're going to think so - statistically, probably about 70% of the population is going to be hot compared to them. I aspire to greater glories than being part of that 70%. Edited to say that I am of course being sarcastic and I mean no offence. I'm a bit tipsy and this is a subject that really gets my dander up.

Yes yes Moos. You, quite clearly, are not intellectually subnormal. Growlybear, since when has jeering been a compliment? The point about this kind of behaviour is that it's bullying, pure and simple. And as a woman on your own, you never know what reaction you're going to elicit, whether you choose to respond or ignore such crass and insulting behaviour. I have on two occasions been threatened with rape when I chose to ignore the group of beered up lechers. Do I believe in hindsight that I was in real danger - on one occasion yes, on the other possibly not. Was I scared witless at the time - absolutely. I have had a bloke in a van shout suggestions about my genitals just as I met up with a client, because I had chosen to ignore his offers of taking succour in the back of his van. Not scary, but embarrassing as hell. There are countless other incidents of dealing with boorish morons like this. I haven't taken a single incident as a compliment. prettyflowers, don't let the fuckers get to you - talk to the pub. And if that doesn't work, let's go down there and kick their asses.

josiebee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- also they are driven career minded > women - very different from myself and i believe > the majority of women - but cause they are women > they think they can represent our interests better > than men. I don't think they can. josie, I'd like to ask you how you gals all keep your lawns so neat and green - seems to me all of Stepford has the kind of luscious green grass I can only dream of...

Does anyone else wince at the (possibly deliberate) mixing of metaphors in Anne Diamond's advertising cash4gold?

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rosie - god bless you sister, for I share your > affliction and have found an unlikely champion in > Cafe Noodle by Franklins. It beats Mr Liu's and > Gold Lee hands down BUT ONLY FOR CHILLI SQUID. I > actually buy my S&C squid there before going to > the mighty Liu's for everything else. Pick n mix > chinese. Very important. Let me know what you > think. Well now, they've only gone and hijacked it, but let me tell you MrBen, I am very excited at your news. I haven't yet had the good fortune to try it out, but let me assure you that I shall be doing so at the very first opportunity (it turned out, when I got off my lazy arse and walked round there, that Gold Lee were in fact open - maybe they just forgot to pay the phone bill). I love the squid.

And I'll start to worry the day I seek validation in being objectified by the drunken intellectually subnormal.

I was sad about ChasnDave, but I am immensely cheered to know that Barry Manilow will be on Desert Island Discs this Sunday.

Can't get through to them on the phone - just getting an unobtainable tone. Anyone know what gives? I need my salt and chilli squid.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Opus How could you? You take that back. *sings* lalalalala LIFE, la la la lala Oh and Fleetwood bloody Mac

Heaven's sake HonaloochieA, cock right off with your tedious attempt at being objectionable. And Tony, are you trying to say that the gentleman in question was attempting to ravish you, or you were just uncomfortable being in the same room as a gay man. I can't imagine you're THAT irresistible, and as far as the latest science can prove, Gay isn't catching. And Daizie, really, you are calling gay men whores? Really? When they can't even take one up the front and one up the back? Pffft. Admin...!

I can tell you that after a good healthy Chinese meal, Ken would expect to lose about 25g (if memory serves). I didn't bag it - he shared this information over lunch.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think I dislike Ken Hom more than Gordon Ramsey > or Fanny Craddock. Ken Hom weighs his poo.

Gentlemen, have you considered going to play here ?

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I LOVE Jason Rouse BBW.... Big Mac loses his "nicest man on the forum" moniker

Sorry, my mistake, must have been thinking of some other film. Is Schindler's List the one where the boat hits the iceberg?

Am I? Because on the scale of human atrocities I don't think it quite ranks up there with genocide? You've got me banged to rights and no mistake. What the fuck are you talking about? Edited because I can't spell

Or a nice bit of Archer...

I love it, I think it's very funny. And people have ranted on here rather about its dilapidated appearance and occasional grumpy staff.