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Friday, January 30th, 2009Well, Anorak is sick of all the doom and gloom around lately and being the most sickeningly (?) optimistically person for mile around my desk, I have to share this with you …
You Know You’re Addicted to eBay When… this is funny :D
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009I was surfing for the usual eBay related todge and found this article from a US eBayers’ blog entitled You Know You’re Addicted to eBay When …
Pinky and Perky get Online Auction Fever … 2008 eBay Addiction?
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Anorak was watching The (new) Pinky & Perky Show on TV (with the kids honest) to see how much my favourite childhood TV show had changed at the hands of the modern day TV makers. Pinky and Perky were one of those one-a-day black & white kids TV shows, no Sky then, 3 channels if you were lucky enough to […]
A Soul for Sale on eBay with too much P&P! :D
Thursday, December 18th, 2008My usual eBay email this morning for my favourite search for eBayana came up with this listing for a Lancashire lad’s Soul for Sale on eBay. Why it was in the eBayana category I don’t know
Are you addicted to eBay?
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008While surfing cyberland, about eBay of course, I found this hilarious article entitled Are you addicted to eBay or online auction houses? I made me LOL. Why? I hear you holla!
Romanian eBay Scammer gets 27 years in US Federal Prison
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Anorak’s been listening to eBay radio again and heard the story about the key figure in a $5 million eBay scam who has been sentenced to 27 years in a US federal prison. The Romanian was jailed for his part in the scam where
The Wonderful Small World of eBay and the 50’s American Diner
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008I was wondering what to write about today and had an email from a YouTube subscription update from the 50’s American Diner in Church Gresley, not too far away from the Anorak’s humble abode.
The authentic 50’s American Diner was once in Cambridge, Mass US and was purchased on eBay and to cut a long story short, found it’s long amazing journey to the South Derbyshire Village of Church Gresley
Albert Hall Tickets and AC/DC Tickets on eBay, which would you buy?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008(Originally posted on 17 October 2008) The BBC website has an interesting article regarding tickets being sold on ebay. What’s new with that I hear you ask? Well, this article from Radio 4’s You and Yours program is about free concert tickets allocated to exclusive club memberships somehow finding their way onto the ebay site, one of which highlited […]
September 25 ebay changes … Don’t panic Mr Mannering!
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008(Originally posted 3 October 2008) As far as the ebay changes happening this year and especially those changes to Best Match Search on September 25, there is much unrest among many UK sellers plagued by the Seller Non Performance policy (SNP) suspension for their first few negatives and sales dropping to extreme low levels and a general panic […]
So why an Anorak?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008The term ‘Anorak‘ as well as a waterproof coat, is used in the UK as ‘slang’ to describe a person whose apparent interest and gathering of data surrounding their hobby is classed as obsessive and could be boring to another person. People who wear anoraks in their social life are often stereotyped as ‘trainspotters’ with […]
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