TRADING

 I've been doing a bit of Trade Me selling over the last week.

First I listed the snooker table (as my sister doesn't think that she has the space for it in her holiday house). There's been a phenomenal interest with over 500 views, 44 watchers and 10 bids. All OK but it aint over until the fat lady sings. (I'd put an image of a fat lady singing here but, you know me, at The Curmudgeons Inc.ⓒ we don't make fun of people and never resort to cruel jokes). Two guys were booked to come and view but bailed out because their wives kiboshed the idea. A third actually visited on Thursday and tested the table. We agreed on a price of $2000 and I told him how to make a fixed offer on the Trade Me site. I haven't heard from him since. I think that when he got home and told his wife she kiboshed it. The Old Girl said that the wives should have contacted her as she would have told them how much family fun we've had from playing snooker and pool over the years. It was her that bought the table in the first place.  I've put a fixed offer of $2300 for 3 days to the 44 watchers and, who knows, the '$2000' guy might still come through. He told me that he'd got a quote for professional dismantling, transport and reassembly and it was to be $1700 which is obviously the sticking point with people.

I put the Muck boots on Trade me as well. These are the ones I posted about some time ago.

I bought these in a Muck Boots clearance sale for $100 (delivered). The normal rice is about $220. I've never used them and the original tags are still on them. I listed at $120 with free delivery thinking that at most the delivery cost in NZ would be below $20. Sure enough they sold for $120 but, to some guy in bloody Fiordland. The cheapest postage/courier cost to there is $50. This leaves me with $70. Bugger!

I have two other listings - an adjustable golf club and a photograph printer but don't expect these to sell.

******************************

It's crappy weather up here today and maybe through the holiday weekend. I had planned to stain the decks but will have to put this off, and washing the house*, to next week.

Robert wrote quite a good post this morning with only minimal mention of churches which is promising. He seems to be living in a Mongrel Mob gang environment though so probably needs to say some prayers.

Richard devoted more than 70% of his new (at last) post to talking about violin and double bass practice. Maybe he needs a Mongrel Mob chapter in his neighbourhood.

It's a pain posting on my laptop at present. I downloaded a Google photo-editing app a couple of weeks ago and ever since have been getting error messages and pop-ups that are annoying and intrusive. I checked on-line and millions of other people have been complaining as well. Getting pissed off with it I uninstalled Google Chrome and then reinstated it. Unfortunately the easy access settings I had which made posting and generally using the web have gone and I can't remember how I set them up.

An example is that previously I could be posting on my blog and, if wanting to search the web for quotes or photographs I would just click on a new tab without losing the tab I'm currently on. Now I have to bloody close down the tab after saving and start again. Bloody internet. Bloody computers. Bloody Chris Luxon and his stupid National coalition government ..... but that's another story.

* It may seems strange to say that I won't wash the house in the rain but I'll be using the Stihl water blaster which is electric and don't want to risk ruining it.