kandc_au

Students at a local school were assigned to read two books,

'Titanic' & 'My Life' by Bill Clinton.

One student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they

were nearly identical stories!

His cool professor gave him an A+ for this report.

Titanic: cost - $29.99

Clinton : cost - $29.99

Titanic: Over 3 hours to read

Clinton : Over 3 hours to read

Titanic: The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.

Clinton : The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.

Titanic: Jack is a starving artist.

Clinton : Bill is a ###### artist.

Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar.

Clinton : Ditto for Monica

Titanic: During the ordeal, Rose's dress gets ruined.

Clinton : Ditto for Monica.

Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit.

Clinton : Let's not go there.

Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewellery

Clinton : Monica is forced to return her gifts.

Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.

Clinton : Clinton remembers Monica for the rest of his life.

Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen.

Clinton : Monica...ooh, let's not go there, either..

Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death.

Clinton : Bill goes home to Hilary - basically the same thing.

The way I read it is,

3.99 local (UK) and 1,000,000.00 for overseas postage.......

Khris

Probably because people do not always check these things before bidding!

Khris

edited to sign it I forgot.

Probably aimed at today's yoof who are too busy to read things like Dickens. You can thumb through this faster than tweeting

Anyone inquired as to what the book is APART from collectable??

Khris

I have now asked the silliest of questions.

And the response:

Sorry but this is an error incomplete listing that will not cancell off. Thanks anyway.

- dbillings2007

With all of the Ebay examples portrayed in this thread, at the closure of an auction there are at least two people in the world that are happy - the seller and the buyer. Thereafter, when reality sets in, the total may be reduced by one... dilbert

And this really does say it all.....Excellent.

Khris

I bought one like that while in the UK last year.

It was by Excel (US) Paid GBP3.20.

Pretty sure I picked it up at one of the numerous shows I attended...How I wish we were still there!

Khris

Not exactly Khris - he buys at auction (probably in several places although I only know definitely of one) where he seems happy to pay relatively high prices to secure whatever he really wants and occasionally he pays downright stupid prices. He then sells most of his wares through his Ebay 'shop' although he might have other outlets for all we know. I have occasionally been able to track his level of mark-up on his BIN prices (on some very recognisable items) and if he is getting what he's asking all I can say is that he's found an excellent 'business opportunity'.

Mike,

All I said was he was an antique dealer....I stand by that as being quite representative of what I do expect from an antique dealer, all cost and no quality.

You only have to look at the prices he has on the celestory coaches.

I do agree, that if he get the prices ...good luck to him.

Khris

Edited bad spelling

Apologies if someone has already posted this, but another cracker from Warwick.

 

http://tinyurl.com/7b99hh6

 

Uncommon, yes, but he can't be serious, can he?

 

 

Graham

He is an antique dealer.

I rest my case milord...........

Khris

Because e***n kept bidding until he was the highest bidder. If e***b had not put on his £185 bid in on the 13th, then e***n would have been highest bidder at £44.18 and stopped bidding. Then if e***b used a sniper to place his £185 bid at three seconds or thereabouts before the auction finished, he would have got it at £46.18, as e***n would not have had time to place another bid, let alone the 31 that pushed it up to £190...

Thanks Titan,

Makes sense now.

Khris

And if e****b had used sniping sofware he would have won it for £46.18. Bidiots - great for sellers, bad for those who do not snipe...

Titan, How could he have won it for 46 quid if it sold for 190quid???

Khris

I don't think ticking those boxes actually stops people in those countries from bidding (and potentially winning). If you as the seller then enter into a polite conversation with the bidder about not sending, you can find yourself getting a red mark from said foreigner which ebay won't remove.

 

 

Well something stops overseas bidders from bidding as I quite often have to ask sellers if they will allow me to bid an d if so to change the settings so that I can bid.

Khris

Well as a born and bred Aussie I grew up with Yds, ft and inches, then someone with wisdom/intellect or whatever, decided we would go metric.

When I was working I had the issue of measuring a job in both.....don't ask me why but I tended to use the metric for larger measurements and imperial for the smaller measurements.

Either way, it depends on what we were bought up with.....Imperial rules!!!!

Best bit is in the Hardware stores and the young ones talk metric ....I ask them to speak english.

Khris

what do you guys mean by chopper?

Rob,

It's a board with a cutter attached.

Good for doing square and angled cuts accurately.

The original is from NWSL in the US and the other is from Micromart, again in the US.

HTH

Khris

If that is what he is doing, he is running a real risk that he will sell a book and go and find that the cheap one on amazon is gone and could get his fingers burnt.

Khris

Ian,

Who is the manufacturer of the tanker please?

khris