Swissrail

He's just the sort who would channel his self loathing through the barrel of a rifle! I used to work beside someone just like this guy. I always said he was only one temper tantrum away from a jail sentence.

And he said he was reporting ME to Ebay! A real Mr Angry but I suspect, as you said, you could frighten him with a Paddington Hard Stare. His anger is probably frustration with his own social inadequacy. He wishes he was able to face up to real people but hasn't got the minerals for it.

He also mentions my "gang of friends" although I never mentioned this forum at any point. It appears he's got a major persecution complex. Maybe his dad didn't love him. 🤪

I strongly suspect the latter! I'm glad it's not just me. Based on his feedback, it seems criticism of any kind is met with hysteria. It's actually quite funny really. He sounds like Basil Fawlty having a really bad day!

Are sausage coaches coupled together...or linked?

Haven't I just!?

I've had another one after I told him I was reporting his hysterical abuse to Ebay. (I've left in the spelling mistakes): 😲 Oh, his poor wife!

I messaged this seller to point out that the description talked of the loco and not the box. He replied in three messages with a diatribe of vitriol. This punter's a nasty piece of work: And all that from a point made about him describing the loco and not the box. I love that bit about me being banned from buying from him. Oh the agony! The pain! How can I go on!? 🤣

Here are some more of this guy's offerings: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185972755422?hash=item2b4cd70bde:g:AswAAOSwjGljReVS BR never painted that on the side of anything, ever. And then there's this travesty...a green jinty?? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185972755399?hash=item2b4cd70bc7:g:oY8AAOSwgcBjxtIB This bloke knows nothing of the history of British Railways. How are you supposed to make THIS work unless it's a tinplate coach: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185972755701?hash=item2b4cd70cf5:g:pO0AAOSw-NpkNbFO This one made me laugh out loud: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185972755407?hash=item2b4cd70bcf:g:I7AAAOSwB01kiPP1 And there's all the stickers he does for wagons and vans. How on earth do you get them to stick down onto all the relief detail...and why would you want to lose it all under a cr@p label anyway? You'll notice too that the coach he's crudely Photoshopped these things onto has no wheels! As Sjcm would put it: Quality chiselling!

The description is misrepresentation pure and simple since it describes not a box, but the loco itself.

Another jubilee bandwagon jumper: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285334079471?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D251363%26meid%3D8d208e3bce0d4771b5703adef6d9f29f%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D334583631138%26itm%3D285334079471%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv11WebTrimmedV3MskuWithLambda85KnnRecallV1V2V4ItemNrtInQueryAndCassiniVisualRankerAndBertRecallWithVMEV3&_trksid=p2047675.c101195.m1851&amdata=cksum%3A2853340794718d208e3bce0d4771b5703adef6d9f29f|enc%3AAQAIAAABoPqB0EgCndAssfMWNy0AT0GytGzF9%2By0G%2BlcW69DgBK3Qlz4BjwJQqPkN4K8I7qz9GoVciN1QNWqyS8EeqYS8rZRsDvyvw34m3N%2FyJKokwCTIIc3RNym2SNW8ARudP72DyiwgIY0dfUnIr5%2BMZDTaosK0UrFMrhfPhaddEEMe%2FZdLTv0Zr3PbukWctbgXI10jJtKQYZZEHb1sFjy1Dbg3CRBIoMjPvLJDi2QFLENhvFrp5inupf%2Fe6xuOggfbTxNHqJJHPM01O5ou3Prw2fttFPE%2FgK5ROxOu0lPr0FqTIKLyhB0JAiswbEtyN%2BYpTfyL6WKxnPVyYPR5AY7YJctv3zd6dTdy170B2RoUpYlmlwWHaZkwmf6%2B28acCR1DDxElZ8BAJUTtCVqJIWyrR2iIZvjpjgPpX9QRP5RLGWWYV0IP%2Bd87jALFGu1EJ6UAt1e0aXrxLHwuHLo%2BVsHLOK5yWyZDBY%2BmoAiX8xNqv3GuKTl5I8jAMYxsqeu%2FBArXbxUYu%2BdrRHvOukhhqfmXFhC2rpnV%2BxdNB7HQ1%2FfyTN%2BQCd4|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2047675

£250 plus for some plastic labels stuck to a bit of metal that may or may not be from a Class 313? How could you be sure? It's the very definition of optimism.

You've got to admire the gaul of someone who tries to sell something like that. Any normal human being would take one look at it and chuck it in the bin. Mind you it seems the old addage "fools and their money" still holds true since there are bidders. Amazingly.

I had a colleague, an electronics engineering genius, who always adamantly stated that "Artificial Intelligence" was at best a misnomer and at worst a cynical marketing ploy. He called it merely "pattern recognition" and it appears he was right. Intelligence, true, reasoning intelligence, is a function of consciousness; a non-physical phenomenon a machine can never possess. Nor is it something that can arise spontaneously once a certain threshhold of machine complexity is reached or surpassed. I attended a Royal Society of Edinburgh lecture on AI more than twenty years ago on the possibility of the "conscious machine". I asked the speaker, a leading light in the field at the time, if consciousness was a function of immense complexity or was it something more. Without hesitation he said "something far more". He said that we have so far been unable to find the seat of our own consciousness and do not even understand what it is so the possibility of replicating it in a machine is a pipe dream. We might be able to replicate its effects in some crude way but there is no possibility at all of a machine ever exceeding the sum of its own programming and becoming sentient. Artificial Intelligence as it is punted by the tech giants, both personal and corporate, is a myth.

Artificial Intelligence. The biggest joke since they told us that electricity generated in nuclear power stations would be free! https://bigthink.com/the-future/why-a-i-is-a-big-fat-lie/

Certainly is, Musky! The name, address and VAT number are the same as Gostude as is the "All items are shipped in proper boxes (which cost me 2.50 to 6.50 GBP, depending on size)" story

Interestingly, his listing mentions both the SNCF steamer and the Renfe EMU. He also mentions three different manufacturers; one of which, Arnold, is exclusively N gauge! Title: Jouef SNCF, Nord 040D, 3-dome symetrical boiler, period III, DCC Sound Decoder Condition: New Age Level: +14 Years Brand: Arnold Gauge: HO MPN: HN2475 Type: Hornby Description: RENFE, 4-unit base set EMU class S-114, period VI.

The mendacious Japanese chiseller is at it again... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155588029806?hash=item2439c4ed6e:g:M8oAAOSwM-Zkeovz&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4Id2u3Nfpe6Ejmh1buhqUdWtfk0nXDyjCsEXtZRCz2F4KSJbE5Oc%2Fh5FuU9xrdrSb%2BP7lRWluPto5tPDaB%2FISOh5HpQr2UJrCcOZrb9CjyLz0g%2BVDVyJd9SHFRMmk6VHkjAGosTCiLf7zVhIEec2iztS1zysIq79F403z4j%2BPv5a15jowSdTNV1zI97irvQdRcyn8qKfJdDtXl1L8dglBffi06DM1ztDjTPIcZqXBoEluiIhcmrdgkVnaeQxN56F4fRp%2F%2FR8IaCbtNJU2Apx2wq5Ajp%2FzksseAFU2B8UhuvR|tkp%3ABk9SR4iR-4GQYg Those sets should come in at a total of roughly £650.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295726034526?hash=item44daa52e5e:g:TQ0AAOSwspBkc4Ux&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4IgDOI47yglujegN6fr2W1Fy52nWgrFumB8HlO7ZnK1Tcr%2FcPf9xuaBhvpCr2Wx%2FdGxIXBYIlvbc9paMStCLG03%2B0LTXQzR8Ilr2UD1qDopMKC1pjar4jeHnBU0wvhSrxdcWzfaaieOBlnR4FsWVNqcR3R4UVRP2YH0I8jDk9Tz8UMgKcesDvXJ%2FrpsXoDuaGrUNTMhAD419TwjWzZejdor2xcGPXkFo%2BIOFK5SrBoGUa4cm76CDWs%2B07hQSIRRoZW05bh3G1U%2FNGYG0Ls6cuIWwUizi8s%2FhszZYLIwxL2lO|tkp%3ABk9SR6L3t-iMYg Seems a bit steep for a pair of HO plastic bogies. And I thought " full of aces" was a term used in poker?

Here now is the finished coach: And this is it married up to one of the matching panorama cars. I managed to get the red just right even though the colour reference Roco gave me was wrong. It turned out not to be RAL 3003, 3020 or 3028. I had the colour spectroscopically analysed at the local paint shop and the closest match was RAL 3000. Even then it was a bit dark so I experimented with varying amounts of white until it was correct. The final mixture was 13 drops of RAL 3000 and one drop of white. The mix was them thinned with 14 drops of acrylic thinner and it was airbrushed on at 20psi. The panorama cars will get the same light weathering so they all match up.

You know very well how. By relying on those who don't know any better accepting their price as fair because of their company's supposed reputation. There seems to be a feeling amongst some here that attempting to screw people over is a perfectly acceptable aspect of healthy business practice. The view seems to be " if they're dumb enough to go for it, let them"... morality and ethics be damned. I for one would like to see some decency in these matters so if I see someone trying to be a bit of a greedy $hit, I'll call them out on it and I don't much care if the laissez faire capitalists here find it "embarrassing".

I wouldn't know. They're both dead.

I wrote to Hattons and pointed out this fact to them. Their response was classic early 21st century euphemistic focus-group generated claptrap: "Thank you for contacting us today. Our pre-owned items are priced by our expert pre-owned team according to a variety of factors such as current market, availability and currency demand and use this data to accurately value the items in our pre-owned range." Annoyed by such blatantly rhetorical drivel, I responded: "Your "team" is not very expert if they can value a second hand item that is available new from the manufacturers at more than double their retail price. Your statement is complete twaddle designed to disguise the fact that you're a bunch of utter chisellers preying on the ignorant." So there! 😁

I had the EM2 CKD kit. I think I got it as a Christmas present around 1968. The two OLE masts and about 15 inches of wire that were included in the box gave me my lifelong interest in electrification!

I take it you mean he inadvertently gave them your email address?