A fresh start

Seaxwyn

Evening all. No changes here. Benefits still not incoming (he lost the letter for a week, finally found it and got round to taking it to the Employment Rehabilitation people and they were busy so he's left the paperwork there to go back on Monday). 4 things now on ebay and none selling. I will do some more when it's a free listing day.

Today I noticed I have 200 feedbacks on Amazon. 100% positive!

buddiebabe

Good luck with your ebay items hopefully you'll get some bids soon. Have you set up your own account yet? Just let me know if you need any help with it and i'll do what i can.

That's a great amount of amazon feedback.... its one website i've never really used apart from to buy a few things.... not sure how it works to be honest and i don't really have the time to find out

Here's hoping that we can get through February painlessly

Buddiebabe x

chevalier

Hi Seax
gosh what are the employment people like if they are that busy! Well done on OH still maintaining a little forward momentum though. That is an improvement for sure. It will be about now that the medication he is on will really be starting to make a difference. I know I found it about 6 months, before I suddenly found myself laughing spontaneously, and then going oo I just laughed! It was kinda weird, as i hadn't realised that I hadn't laughed properly for like 18months...

Hope as buddiebabe says your ebay items all sell and you have a bidding war etc etc.

chev

chevalier

Hey Seax hope things are still going well with you. Are you ok?
chev

Seaxwyn

HI chev, I'm OK thanks. I haven't updated as there is no change here. I suspect the problem is him not filling in forms and doing what he has to do, rather than the Employment Service people. I've tried to help OH with his paperwork, made him send some stuff off (eg forms to claim winter fuel allowance and free bus pass, which he has never got round to filling in).

The immediate challenge is to sell our car. I want it gone before the insurance runs out on March 1st, which gives us just over 2 weeks. It is old and has a lot wrong with it, I don't know whether it's better to fix it up and get it through an MOT, or just sell it as it is. It goes OK, just makes an alarming lot of rattling and crunching sounds. Any thoughts anyone?

Wordsmith

Sorry there's no change there, Seaxwyn.

I don't know too much about selling cars, so this is just an opinion. Is it worth taking it to an MoT to see what is wrong and how much it would cost to put right? A car with a year's MoT will be worth so much more than one without. But if it would cost too much to put right, sell it as is. This does mean, of course, that you'd have to pay for an MoT, which is a bit risky. Or can you get a garage to do a pre-MoT check for you?

Seaxwyn

Good idea, I will find out how much a pre-MOT check costs. I've looked the car up on ebay and even non-runners seem to go for a couple of hundred quid, so I'm hoping ours will fetch a bit more than that.

Free listing day on ebay today so I am gearing up to list loads of old tat. I hate doing it but it has to be worth the bother.

taxi73

good luck with selling the car

chevalier

Sorry to hear about the lack of progress. I hadn't realised your OH could claim winter fuel allowance, had he not done this cos he would then be admitting to himself that he is old? Good luck with sorting out the rest of the paperwork. Not sure about the car. If they will look at it for you for free then that might be a plan. But i think you will find that they will charge you...

glad that nothing has got worse! at least. i guess selling the car also means savings on tax and mot as well so that will help too
chev

Karmacat

Hi Seaxwyn - did you manage to use the free listing weekend, in the end? I've put some weird stuff up - railway sleepers, a curtain, a vintage sewing machine, very odd its amazing what people want to buy!