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campdave

Ah, the part of the argument when people start correcting grammar to score points. Isn't the internet great?

Mandy44

campdave wrote: »

Ah, the part of the argument when people start correcting grammar to score points. Isn't the internet great?

Some people must have dreamt for years for something like mobile phones, with their small screens and autocorrect, to come along.

If you're argument's weak always revert to insults

RFW

Rotti wrote: »

If you had a shop and dressed the window would you change it the next day if everything in it didn't sell?

You're correct, no you wouldn't. If you had a shop window display and hadn't sold anything in your shop for ten days, then you would most definitely change it.

campdave

If you had a shop window, you'd be a business and this thread would be irrelevant

Rotti

campdave wrote: »

If you had a shop window, you'd be a business and this thread would be irrelevant

I did have a shop front that I kept well-dressed and interesting - two in fact - and I was a business then paying plenty of tax and VAT but am not now and that is very relevant to this thread. I am sick to death of people (usually business sellers) sniping and throwing accusations, unable to accept that private individuals can actually have a lot of clutter to dispose of, some of it worth money to others. Just because these poor misguided narrow-minded, tunnel-visioned souls can't see past their own opinions and prejudices they tar everyone with the same brush and make sweeping generalisations. ANYONE can accumulate a whole house full of items that are surplus to requirements, especially if like me they have lived in the same house all their lives and are the family dumping ground.

Rotti

RFW wrote: »

You're correct, no you wouldn't. If you had a shop window display and hadn't sold anything in your shop for ten days, then you would most definitely change it.

Anyone who hasn't sold anything for 10 days should not even be in business! Happily that was not something I had to deal with in either of my shops, both of which thrived and eventually sold as a going concern, so I must have done something right! Finding the time to change the windows was usually the problem!

RFW

Rotti wrote: »

Anyone who hasn't sold anything for 10 days should not even be in business! Happily that was not something I had to deal with in either of my shops, both of which thrived and eventually sold as a going concern, so I must have done something right! Finding the time to change the windows was usually the problem!

I'm glad you got the point I was making;)

Rotti

RFW wrote: »

I'm glad you got the point I was making;)

If you were trying to make the point I think you were trying to make I think you missed the point!;)

Even when the shop was busy the sales were not made up of everything in the window - the window hooked browsers in and maybe they would buy but in my local shop they would window shop then panic when the item disappeared and come in looking for it. The same happens on eBay and I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets messages after auctions from people who missed them. They then buy on the relist. Just because you relist something doesn't make it "junk" or "tat" or "worthless" and that is the attitude that prevails among the knockers.

Mandy44

OK calm down for christ sake, maybe it's not tat then, just stuff no one wants or is overpriced. You've run a business so should be aware they don't run for free and if you want to use Ebay's front window to continually relist you'll now have to pay for the privilege of listing over 20 items. Seems a perfectly fair arrangement to me and hopefully will clear the site of overpriced junk, which yours obviously isn't.

RFW

There's a vast difference between an item that sells on the first relist and one that sells on the 25th relist.
At least I now know why they have shop window displays;)