I was bidding on this SNES game a few weeks ago but forgot about the time it ended as so missed out on it...

SNES Robotrek RARE Sealed (Sold £66.11)

Odd... this is the very same guy whom sold this item already now has this auction in place...

SNES Robotrek RARE Sealed (Buy It Now £249)

Amazing and really, really very, very RARE as his auction says... cos both of these "RARE" sealed items he's sold and is selling are so RARE they have the exact same rips on the packaging and exact same creases to the box... I'd call that more than RARE I'd call that a bloody miracle of the highest order...

EDIT: Could One Of The Mods Put This Thread In the "Free For All" section, cos that's where I meant to post it in the first place... ta...

EDIT (AGAIN): Notice it didn't say "relisted" when I first started this ruddy thread, so anyone reading the word "relisted" just ignore that bit and use yer imaginations or a time machine to picture how the the post first appeared without the word "relisted"... ruddy damn new fangled technology changes thinks when you aint looking...

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@Franko

1. Why do we care?

2. How is this relevant to anything related to this site?

3. WHo are you to tell anyone what to do with goods they buy?

Stop creating useless threads.

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realize wrote: @Franko 1. Why do we care?

WE !!! are you schizophrenic ???

Gawd one of you is bad enough but two of you... now that's scary....


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2. How is this relevant to anything related to this site?

Just like you it has no relevance to this site, so I fire that question back at you...


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3. WHo are you to tell anyone what to do with goods they buy?

Hmmm... let me see (me re-reads what I wroted), nope nothing in what I said that "tells anyone what to do with goods they buy"...

You must be reading something else from somewhere else then getting confused and then posting in the wrong thread about it, can't you help you with that problem... try adult learning classes...

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Stop creating useless threads.

I find them useful so I suppose that's all that matters really...

Now If only there was a way to prevent silly people replying to threads they think aren't useful with comments that make no sense or are even relevant to what has been said in that thread then that would be something really useful...

PS: It's your lucky day... I know I said I wouldn't reply to you but with me being a kind sympathetic kinda person I thought I really should reply to your desperate attempts to get my attention...

PPS: Just curious, with all this stalking you do of me, do you fancy me or something !!! cos if you do then I have to say sorry but I don't swing that way, try Moobunny instead, Im sure you'll find someone there who does...

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What quality entertainment. I am literally eating popcorn right now while reading this thread.

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In_Correct wrote: @Thread I am literally eating popcorn right now while reading this thread.

Throw some over my way cos I've run out and am only left with a bag of soggy potato chips that the squirrels have peed in...

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@Franko

You need to learn how to read. The ebay listing for the first one doesn't say it was sold, it says the bidding has ended and the item was relisted. Then it links to the second auction.

Don't attribute to malice what is caused by your own inability to comprehend.

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

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olegil wrote: @Franko You need to learn how to read. The ebay listing for the first one doesn't say it was sold, it says the bidding has ended and the item was relisted. Then it links to the second auction. Don't attribute to malice what is caused by your own inability to comprehend.

Rest assured there was no "relisted" banner there a few hours ago (nor is there the usual "relisted" notice in my ebay account where the original advert was still stored...

I did contact the seller a few hours ago querying this sale and asking him if this was another one he had for sale and if he was just simply using the same pictures but never got a reply back...

So I can only assume after my message to him that he's marked it as "relisted" in order to clarify things...

So I can understand your inability to comprehend things as there is now a "relisted" banner on the item that make the original post slightly confusing...

PS: Dunno where you get the "malice" from must be a trait of yours that you try to push onto others...

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@olegil

Just to prove the point that there is/ was no "relisted" notice, here is a screen shot taken from the listing as it appears at this very minute in my eBay account... notice there is NO "relisted" in the banner at the top...

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@Franko

It does here, and I have a screenshot to prove it:



The question is, would you believe my screenshot over your own?

Can you try pressing "remove" on your list there to see if the "this is in your list" thing conflicts with the relisted thing? Since they seem to occupy the same line.

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@olegil

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olegil wrote: @Franko It does here, and I have a screenshot to prove it:

Doesn't matter that is says "relisted" now, the point is when I made the initial post IT DIDN"T SAY RELISTED...

I can read you know and anyone whom saw the post and link earlier would have seen that there was no "ReListed" notice on it or I'm pretty sure they would have pointed it out...

Then there/ the fact in the photo I have just shown you that there STILL IS NO RELISTED WORD IN IT...

I has obviously changed since this thread started and as the screengrab from my account at this very minute show it still doesn't say "RELISTED"...

There are no conspiracy theories going on here, I didn't shoot JFK, I didn't fake the moon landings and I didn't sneakily hack into eBay and add the word "ReLIsted" to the original links contents...

PS: Duck, there's black helicopters in the sky circling your head right now... where Mulder & Scully when you need em...

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You guys need couples counseling

But i have to say Realize you come out very hard. It's quite innocent stuff Franko writes about

Perhaps old clouds are polluding your thoughts ?

Now all we need is the Cookie Monster coming at you both!

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olegil wrote: @Franko Can you try pressing "remove" on your list there to see if the "this is in your list" thing conflicts with the relisted thing? Since they seem to occupy the same line.

I could I suppose but that would mean I lose for good the original listing and I use these to keep an eye of the prices things sell at for future reference...

So I don't really want to remove it as it will muck up my price check list...

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Hondo wrote: @Franko @Realize You guys need couples counseling

I used to get counselling but me counsellor ended up in the loony bin, now I only have wee fat Albert the talking quirrel to keep me on the right tracks...


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Now all we need is the Cookie Monster coming at you both!

Cookie Monster... COOKIE MONSTER... even I know he aint real (not like the easter bunny or my imaginary friends)... you must me madder than me...

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@ The Mods...

Thank you for moving this thread...

Now can you dig a big hole and bury it under a ton of concrete... please...

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I used to get counselling but me counsellor ended up in the loony bin, now I only have wee fat Albert the talking squirrel to keep me on the right tracks...

You should see the danish movie "flickering lights" and see what they do to squirrels who think they know better! Great movie by the way!

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@ Olegil...

Just checked my eBay account and the listing in there has now changed too, to include the "ReListed" message... (took them long enough)



On a similar note...

I was out today and when I got back there was a card that had been put through my door from Royal Mail saying that I have a package waiting to be delivered bit I need to pay and £18.47 charge on it...

Turns out to be a copy of Robotrek I purchase from the USA on eBay just after I missed the one above and I have to pay a £10.47 VAT charge on it and an £8 Royal Mail handling fee to get it...

The games original cost was £55.30 + £15.96 P&P Total= £71.26 but if I want to get the item I have bought and paid for I've now got to pay an additional £18.47 to get it bringing the price up to £89.73...

Don't understand this as I've bought lots of similar SNES games from the USA and never had to pay customs charges on them before, think I'm being mugged by HM Customs & Excise and Royal Mail...

Called Royal Mail about this and the nice woman there told me it was "just tough luck son , they must've checked yer parcel"...

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Didn't know you were a snes collector. But I might be able to shed some light on your Royal Mail woes.

Normally there is a limit on the value of a imported item before it is considered taxable. This changes so I won't look it up but once this value has been reached, and they catch it, they will apply the going VAT rate to the item. This applies to any items coming from outside the EU as EU countries have the same VAT rates, sometimes more, as the UK so it doesn't get applied in those circumstances.

There are ways to get round this. If the item has come from a private seller then it can be marked as a gift item and the value can be "adjusted" in order to get round this. However if they think you have done this it can be a fine on both parties if proven. The limit before tax for gift items is different than commercial items. Check the package for the cn22 to see how it's been declared. Especially the value. As for the Royal Mail charge then that is just a crappy charge Royal Mail stick on just for the pleasure of them paying the VAT for you and handeling it through customs.

Sucks and all but thats how it rolls. Also this is a basic overview of it all. If you go to the HM Revenues and Customs site there is more info on it all. Including upto date limits for personal gifts and commercial items.

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Yup, this one completes my SNES R.P.G. collection (when the Customs have finished mugging me)...

I've bought many of these SNES games from the states even more expensive than this one but this is the first time I've been lumped with this "Customs & Royal Mail" charge...

Guess like the wee woman on the phone said "they must've opened this one up". We'll I've paid the charge now, so I guess I'll just have to wait and see how it was sent once they deliver it during the week...

Hope it is my SNES game and not something else that I wasn't expecting...

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@Franko

I buy quite a few Game Boy games from the states. But thankfully they tend to stay around the £10 to £30 range. Which is well within the limits for personal and commercial items. I once bought a reproduction 1990 Nintendo world championship cart. And that did cost me a arm and a leg on import taxes. I think final costs, including purchasing the item, came to £100.

Also lots of good RPG's on the SNES. I like Chrono Trigger.

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@Franko

Rather silly to complain about the Customs adding import duty to your import, isn't it? That's sort of what they are there for. I suggest voting for someone who wants to abolish taxes and import duty if that is important to you...

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This weeks pet peeve:
Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.