Tim

It’s just that. An agreement between a buyer and a seller. If the buyer gets what they want and the seller gets what they want, then everyone should be happy. Of course there will be problems. I have had 3 problems with electrical goods bought from High Street stores on the last 6 months. 2 were resolved to our mutual satisfaction but one is still the subject of dispute. It was ever thus.

Let’s get back to MM. If both parties agree, then it’s not a rip-off. If the seller doesn’t like the price offerred, they are free to check out other outlets. My colleague just wants to free herself of clutter in her home as quickly as possible. Probably a quicker way to do it would be to hand it over to Oxfam or other charity.

As for all the ‘I went to Uni’ drivel in this thread, I’m so pleased that I didn’t if this is the poor standard of grammar, punctuation, spelling is exemplary of today’s output from such places. I went out into the real world with my 6 GCE ‘O’ levels, got a job, defended my country, raised a family, have grand-children and looking forward to retirement.

The time spent by each of the major antogonists in monitoring this thread, thinking up supposedly witty/sarcastic/sardonic respostes, and probably typing it up through a beer haze could have been much better spent either on their current studies (probably media studies), or doing something productive to make the world (and not just the world according to Aaron or Blueboy) a much better place to live

Get a life!!

Tim

To be honest, I think this is a function of our ages. Blue Boy has said that he is in a senior position, and has 3 childen. I would guess that he is in his late-thirties, early forties (as am I). We were bought up to use “standard” English.

I realise that there is a whole sub-argument about the evolution of language – Shakespeare to Chaucer to Emmerson to Gibson to Txt Speak, etc. I really am guessing here, but I think that we’ve just been bought up in a similar mold. I’m not saying that one posting style is better than the other, just that I come from an age where spelling, punctuation and grammar were deemed important (and yes, I’m well aware that someone may pick me up on mistakes I’ve made in this post

I realised when I wrote my last comment that it could be seen as me trying to discredit others, but I just told it as I saw it – the posting styles were *so* similar (at least to my eyes) that it warranted mention. It’s quite possible that I’ve got it wrong, and that it’s just a function of how different age-groups use language, but it looked too similar to me.

But I think you missed my point – I wasn’t *accusing* him of posting “a load of shit”, and certainly wasn’t trying to discredit his story. I was saying that just as there was no way of me proving that I wasn’t a stooge, there was no way of him proving the quality of the goods he sent. It’s completely unknown and unprovable.

I’m honestly trying to present an impartial view…..but it’s obvious that nothing I say is going to convince anyone of that….so I give up.

FWIW, my friend’s transaction was going smoothly, even if nowhere as quick as mine.

My honest opinion is that I’m sure that my public transaction was being monitored and pushed through more quickly than most because Blue Boy was making sure that happened. Fair enough – if it was my business, I’d do the same. If I’m wrong on this, and I was affored no special treatment, I apologise to Blue Boy.

I’m not affiliated with the company, I haven’t received any money yet, and neither has my mate.

I had hoped to report to you the differences between a public and private transaction. But I frankly can’t be arsed anymore.

Like Biue Boy (and I’m sure people will be all over this) I can see that this is a pointless exercise. So (assuming my cheque actually arrives) my honest view is:

Am I happy with the service I have received so far? Yes, couldn’t fault it.

Am I happy with the money I have been offered? Well, yes and no. I’m an early-adopter, and jumped on the CD bandwagon early, paying between £10 and £15 per CD. At a guess, I would say that over the years I paid an average of £8 per CD.

For the 275 CD’s I have traded, this amounts to £2,200 spent. And I am getting just £152.

Viewed in this light, it’s a shitty deal. But, that’s what I paid for them, not what they are worth now.

Those same CD’s have been stuck in storage for the last 2 years, so to me, are effectively worth nothing. If someone had said to me “hey, I’ll swap you those CD’s for an e-reader (what I am going to spend the money on) I would have been very pleased.

The music gave me a lot of pleasure over the last 20 years. The e-reader will give me a lot more.

Whilst I may have been able to get more money by listing them on Amazon (who’d have thought that a Mel & Kim CD was worth £3?!?) I would have had to spend more on postage, and also had 275 trips to the Post Office!

Instead I just had to box them up and ship them out in one job-lot. My time is worth a lot more to me than what those 275 Post Office trips would have taken up.

I’m not going to post anymore. I tried to present an honest view of my experience with the company, and was going to include details of a a non-public transaction too. But I can’t see the point anymore.

Sorry Blue Boy, I assume my cheque is still in the post?… (for the CD’s you tin-foil hat wearing numptys ;-P)

Oh, and when you criticise someone for having a “limted grasp” do try to make sure you at least spell the word correctly.

And to all of the pseudonomynous other posters – do please tell me in what way I have affiliated myself to Musicmagpie? Just got tired of pointless flaming on a music blog.

Perhaps it was in one of these mythical team meetings.

But, being the wishy-washy Liberal that I am (yes, the election result totally sucked for me) perhaps that’s just the nature of language these days, and that it’s me who’s out of touch….