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Any retail workers here with tales of idiot/time wasting customers?Having seen the tread about people smiling on supermarket adverts I could tell you that The customer is NOT always right. Where I work theres some r…
... time I was hacking and selling programmed cards to people etc ... something rather than to BS my way around it (like some ... phones and mp3 players and car chargers and cameras but no ... last time someone was at my store and wanted to buy ... -
Programs & hardware you lostThought i would start a thread on a discussion of stuff you lost, sold, gave away....& pehaps stuff you now find you are in the process of getting ba…
... most of the controllers for my Atari 2600 woddy had gone ... . My mum is infamous for giving them to charity shops, selling them ... at car boot sales, or chucking ... -
Programs & hardware you lostThought i would start a thread on a discussion of stuff you lost, sold, gave away....& pehaps stuff you now find you are in the process of getting ba…
... ;491108]My mum is infamous for giving them to charity shops, selling ... them at car boot sales, or chucking ... why I moved out of my mum's place at the ... MDFS format[/QUOTE]Argh!!! All my software on the school's ... -
Sega Master System GamesWould anyone here be interested in game cartridges for the Sega Master System? Just wondering if it's worth advertising them on here or going strai…
[QUOTE=zeropolis79;498404]Someone I know over the local car boot sale is selling one tomorrow (as with the last two weeks) for ?20 boxed..[/QUOTE]
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All ten ROMs on eBayDon't know if this has already been mentioned elsewhere, but all ten Interface II ROMs (and an Interface II) are for sale for a lot of money. [url]h…
... my sealed Cookie and Atic Atac, not that I'm selling ... :)[/QUOTE]
My company once ... iPhone etc. However, from my experience I had I can ... the same at a car boot sale for pence. ... have three cartridges in my private collection and for ... -
The future in computing is here.Commercially available quantum computer with superconducting 128 qubit chipset. [url]http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dw_homepage.html[/url] I'd imagine …
... car boot sale the other week and their was this bloke selling ... morning.
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The thread of Ebay Rip offs, interesting or weird items!Well this is intended as another one stop shop and long running thread dedecated,to all things ebay rip off, ebay weird or ebay interesting, whether …
although love it when people start competing on my stuff. remember selling a boxed snes Mario kart for 50GBP after two lunatics went bid crazy. I had bought it for 4 quid at gloucester car boot the week before... -
things your friends say..I've just helped out a friend with something and he needs to pick up something from me, but hasn't picked it up.. and came out with the line "players…
... negative that happened like your car got keyed or your tv ... 8ths of skunk to which my mate said it was ok ... lived in heard he was selling weed which he was ... we'll smash up every car in you driveway" (there ... moved to greece and was selling E to clubbers until the ... -
Steve Jobs deadVery sad... [URL="http://www.apple.com"]www.apple.com[/URL] RIP Steve.
... mini soon, to go alongside my windows PC at work. I ... window and into the car park due to my frustration with the ... them to cancer charities or selling them and donating the proceeds ... -
ebay picture thiefsdunno if any of you have this issue.. you list an item, take a pic.. so therefore it's your (C) .only to find out another seller has gone on your lis…
... a shop, or banging someones car, or murdering someone (you are ... personally, but if i am selling one item and it is ... t be bothered to find my digital camera and mess ... should give him 10% of my pay.. i know i ... but after the shop and car bumper comments I thought I ... -
I'm not saying that software houses are greedy, but......in the fighting game Street Fighter x Tekken it looks like Capcom might start selling combo moves! Quote: "[COLOR="Blue"]As you?ve probably fo…
... the game/story or up my character or what have you ... downloadable but then in my opinion they are selling me a "beta ... 608767]...If you buy a car and find out that to ... But if you buy the car then it turns out you ... you can buy a "standard" car and/or pay extra for ... -
Seen any ebay madness?? post it here !!!What with some high prices fetched on speccy games over the past few days , thought it might be an idea to keep a WOS record of some of the higher fi…
... about a dozen of my spare ZX81 games on ... with a screenshot of my auction, and saying I ... searched completed listings or my feedback, and seen why ... I see they have removed my username from the picture ... they are selling you a second-hand car or selling you ... -
Adding external tape inputs to a +2Hello all, Having read the instructions in Crash and having had great success with a 48+ and Speccy Tape in the iPad, thought might add tape inputs …
... not begin with I-whatevers, my friend :) Tape adapters have been ... decades to connect tape-only car stereos to CD players.
selling mono tape recorders. Online shops ... -
Quote for these gamesI have just bought these below and because I am a trader and want to make profit, as well as providing people with good priced spectrum games, I am w…
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... (some people don't get my blunt tone :) ) . but the ... time it's not great selling wise of things , compared to ... say 2-3 years ago. My attitude was I didn't ... then, as I could get my money back on em quickly ... -
christmas disastertried to cook some baked potatos yesterday, and the cooker started to play up, making a horrible noise. i think its the cooling fan that has given u…
... at the end he tried selling me some hotpoint products in ... bulb in the oven at my sis's place.. 1 minute ... have much luck with your car or is it another one ... -
Personalised licence plates. Naff or nice?I'm guessing that most you will say that personalised licence plates are a naff. It was always been my opinion that if one has 100k to spend on a bad…
... It was always been my opinion that if one ... market for buying and selling reg plates. eg plates ... /> I recenty brought a car in North Carolina and have ... and not obsene. I chose my own name and was suprised ... nice little touch to the car. Say, ********... you got ... -
Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
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1. House/Car. These are in the category ... . Software (including music). Selling software is fine in my opinion as long ... -
Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
... here.
1. House/Car. These are in the category ... . Software (including music). Selling software is fine in my opinion as long ... copy a dvd / game before selling it on they just want ... -
Do you equate used game sales with piracyI was just reading a piracy thread on Gamefaqs.com (a great site, except for the trolls and teenage fanboys) and someone made the usual remark that u…
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No, but my reason for making this poll ... sales are different from used car/house/books/etc sales (I ... />
Yes, I agree that selling a game (or book, DVD ... -
The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
My Spectrum era started late ... they wouldn't load on my +2A so gave them a ... Amstrad in 1993.
My best source of Speccy games ... going with my father early Sunday mornings to the local car boot ... sales. I use to find people selling their ... -
Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…
... my collection 3(!) times. Sold my original Speccy collection to fund my Atari ... /> I then managed to convince my mum I needed another Spectrum ... ended up selling along with my ST to help fund my first car.
my original +2 and all the ... -
At the Carboot sale today.Today at the carboot sale I picked up An Acorn Electron -I see these all the time, An Official Branded BBC Micro Datacassete Recorder - I'v…
There was someone over my local car boot sale selling a Wii modded with an HDD sellotaped to the side.. ?50 was the asking price. -
Retro GamerDoes anybody know when the next issue of Retro Gamer will be out? They told me to include an article about the Spectrum30 show in the News section an…
Just adding my own voice of dissent here ... month do you think "What Car?" magazine sells in the ... a link to the top selling UK magazines of 2013:< ... -one-top-100-list-best-selling-uk-magazines[/url]
< ... the average sales of "What Car?" magazine each month last ... -
Retro GamerDoes anybody know when the next issue of Retro Gamer will be out? They told me to include an article about the Spectrum30 show in the News section an…
... need in order to continue selling, they have to start ... stating the obvious and my apparant ignorance of it. ... high hundred-thousands. If my experience is anything to go ... muscled out of vintage car magazines in favour of ... I'm off to read my latest copy of "Retro ... -
What do you do for a living?In another thread ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49352[/url]) Karingal said: [QUOTE=karingal;801168]Funnily enough wh…
... guy in town knew about my office work background. He ran ... insurance agency that sells mainly car and home insurance. He needed ... eventually ended up getting my license and started selling policies there also ... -
UK Copyright change.Source http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a659052/its-illegal-to-rip-your-cds-again-just-nine-months-after-law-allowing-it-was-introduced.html#~p…
... a copy for convenience then selling on the original is in ... 're distorting the argument. By selling an original CD, you forfeit ... to listen to in the car, and then went on to ... agreement rather than not, and my point was aimed more at ... -
slightly different question - how long ago did you pack away the speccy ?if at all ;) personally I think I was about 19 when it, and all the games, went into storage - SNES and PCs etc took over. I'm 32 now, and only in …
... a car boot, shed load of games, and my 2 ... stay till 2007 after my last surviving parent(mum) ... as I was thinking of selling it all before tipping, ... I have from my old computers is my Atari 2600 ... tatty but still work. My current retro collection consists of ... -
Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…
... /> Neither were very good in my opinion. I never rated Sonic ... in Sonic (it's main selling point) because of the level ... Neither were very good in my opinion. I never rated Sonic ... explorable 3D environments, driving a car, atmospheric music... the influence for ... -
Spectrum stuff online "buying skills". Are real skills needed for low cost Speccy items? Firstly , there are some pretty fundamental requirements that are probably too basic to mention , like buying the right software at the right pri…
... example , the cost of my Recreated Spectrum would go up ... cancellation period (Under the Distance Selling Regs) is very short : ...
The rules should (in my opinion) only allow this if ... for less essential stuff like " car vehicle Roadside and Recovery " .. ... -
Selling stuffAgain since im now currently redundent for the second time this year my head turns to selling stuff as a business online? Is it still feasible sel…
I tried selling stuff on Ebay for a ... I just sell stuff from my own collection every now and ... try a stall at a car boot sale or market if ...
