Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Shld be more joeks about pickled ginger, amirite?

oh what a pickle we're in

http://youtu.be/C7W2bUqOMYw?t=1m4s

getting sniped on the component taht would make my walkman work again. The stupidly fiddly docking cradle thing that disappeared on my trip back here last week.

Is there a setting or programme that will automatically add £1 to every top or end bid just before the bidding ends? The bidding jumped from about £4.15 to £21 i.e. my top bid plus £1.
I don't normally go into the bidding side of ebay, normally just use it for Buy Now. THought i'd set a high bid since I was going to be out most of the day. Just got back a few minutes before the end of the bidding so watched it and it stayed on the £4.15 or whatever right up to the last moment.
Would just like to know what is standard for sniping these days since I'm totally not used to it. Just left wondering if there is anything I could have done short of using one of the sniping programmes or if it would just automatically be final bid +£1 in which case you couldn't really beat it.

Also griping at the fact that Sony made their product so utterly fiddly. I think a lot of people lost those docking cradles because they are so small. Not sure exactly what they were thinking. Might have been less easily lost if the power cable was actually built into the docking cradle.
I'd still really like to know where that thing disappeared to. Only found out it was missing after getting home, thought I'd checked on it a number of times en route.

Also the fact that some wanker has put 2 of these docking cradles up on Ebay for some insane price around £600 which as far as I can see is simply totally eccentric, not related to anything. But might mean that prices inflate.

I was attached to that player so still have my fingers crossed that that part appears or doesn't get sniped on me again. Hoping that price that I inflated to £21 to be on the safe side doesn't effect future sales. Not sure how that ebay set up works still, like who sets prices? Is it what things have successfully sold for recently or what?

just put in the highest you're willing to pay. The seller sets the price. The other person would've been bidding until he outbid you by £1 - that's how it works (or she'd put in a higher bid at last minute- it'd only go up to the next-highest bid plus £1 increment, or whatever the increment is for the level it's at).
I usually do like £20.55 as my max bid so if someone's lazily just put in a multiple of £10 as their highest bid, it'll be just over.

point was it was the very last minute which is why I used the term sniping. I'd actually sat down and watched the last minute through despite having checked several times over the last few minutes to find no change. So this bid of £21 came in at the very last minute.
I thought I had heard a few years back about sniping programmes that would automatically top the highest bid. As I said I don't know what the set up at ebay is. If I did I might know if there was a way of seeing what the highest maximum bid was and therefore seeing if it was toppable. I assume that if there were 2 or more maximum bids entered ebay would just keep topping up the price until the lowest one of them was reached and inclementally exceeded. Subsequently I must have had the only maximum bid in since it didn't go up.

JUst wondering if there is a way around getting sniped. & i guess the only thing is that you set a higher maximum hoping that it would remain above what the other bidder was happy with, but you might be stuck with it. I know that's happened before when I've been bidding, an item suddenly goes from a low price to my maximum bid at the last minute. But that was a few years ago and programmes develop more efficiently.

You can check the list of bids to see whether someone happened to come in with one bet that beat yours by a quid or whether they made multiple bids to get past yours.

But yes, plenty of people still use sniping programs. I use them if I know I'm gonna be out, and I buy maybe four things a year from ebay.

The problem with the whole set-your-maximum-bid-in-advance system is that it's contrary to human nature: I might hope to pay no more than £50, but then why wouldn't I pay £50.99, or £55. But I can't put £55 as the max, because obviously I would then also be prepared to go up to a few quid more than that too. So I could put in £75, or £100, just to make sure, but then I run the risk of coming up against someone else who really wants the thing and bids it up. Even if I'm prepared to pay £100 for a £50 item, I don't want to do it needlessly. The best way of making sure this doesn't happen is to snipe - then they don't get a chance. There's no other way.

http://www.justsnipe.com/

Free, secure eBay sniping. Can't recommend it enough.

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facebook updates announcing the "premiere" of a tv show *trailer*

ha, that's sort of like my irritation at bands releasing "track listings." Like I give a fuck what the song titles are on the new Deerhunter

Yeah, but where would the LULU and NIN ILX tribute albums been without those.

kind of nice to glance at them and think, "hmm, that song they've been playing for the last five years finally made it to an album"

tracklistings are ok, but making a big hoop-de-do about a trailer for the fourth season of a tv show is like, jfc let's get some perspective

veg you sure this is an argument a doctor who fan should be making?

me, yes. becuase I don't really give a shit abt trailers in general

but i see yr point :)

What do you do if you drop a heavy weight on your foot in a public place when you're on your own.

Or rather when a heart shaped chopping/bread board rolls off a shelf when you've bent to pick up a board you were looking at that has just rolled off the shelf you put it back on. Heart shaped board landed whack on my toe, thankfully I was wearing engineer boots or I'd be worried it was broken. certainly ached to hell tonight.
I think I walked up and down the aisle of this shop cursing under my breath banging my hands together. Which must have looked pretty weird. I got a funny look from the cleaner who walked by with her trolley, looked down at the two boards lying on the ground.

Seems ironic that it was a heart shaped board that loved my toe nail purple. Toe has felt like it was going to fall off at a couple of times tonight and at the time I was getting images of my boot filling with blood. I stood for a moment trying to wriggle my toes once I got the boards back on the shelf.
I'm thinking I probably should have complained about the way the boards were being held on the shelf if they could fall off that easily. Does feel like my foot was protected mainly by my footwear. Hate to think what would have happened if I'd been wearing lighter footwear or if it happened to somebody else who was. Looked like one of the pegs on the stand tehse boards were held upright in was missing so I don't know how safe it was.
& I need to use my foot tomorrow too.

When people use PS. in emails. You don't need to, if you have a PS, you can just go back to the body of your email and put it up there.

Yeah, really, it's an email. Just put "BTW" instead of "PS"

i just write

ADDENDUM:

Is the origin of PS in handwriting, like you finished writing the whole damn letter then thought of something else and didn't want to start over? I actually never thought of that.

I think it's fine where it is - a postscript by definition remains outside the main subject under discussion in your message, whether written or electronic.

Just checking in

Yup you guys are still crazy

I have a rule to automatically delete any email that contains a PS.

Using PS in electronic communications pleases me, even if I can't defend it without wondering if I should just exile myself to the Innocent Smoothies thread forever.

(Well, I like it on ILX. Less good in an email, though, as I automatically stop scrolling/reading as soon as I see the signoff.)

PS = postscript so is something that was written after the main body of the letter. In times of writing in ink on a piece of paper you have something of a set out structure to the letter that is no longer as concrete in the age of electronic media such as emails.
So can see why it might be seen as strange since that is no longer true and one could insert whatever the postscript is into the body of the message.

I can also see why it is a useful tool for emphasis and subject change for example.

Things (mostly children's toys) which require an odd number of batteries. Pretty much nothing uses only 1 battery, so I end up having this lone battery lying around.

Having to get rechargeable batteries for my landline phone and never getting around to it so the phone occasionally runs out. Is that a standard thing for landline phones these days? rechargeable phones.
Batteries around here are easier got in the form of other brand Duracell type long-life things picked up from the €2 shop.

I agree about the post-scripts being an anachronistic way of ending an email.

P.S. Go Hogs!

I suppose it's irrational that I am disgusted when people make gross potty noises in the bathroom.

I'm IA at myself for thinking I could make a "free stuff" post on Craig's List without it turning into a huge pain in my tits.

Yeah, it's "curb alert" with no contact info or the trash for me.

We have a bunch of preemie baby stuff that the kid has outgrown (yay!) that would be really amazing for someone with a premature baby about to head home from the hospital. I'd put it outside but the weather is bullshit so I figured I'd post it. I think I've already narrowly dodged a scam. Sigh.

Ugh, my last free stuff giveaway was such a horrible experience. We had this actually really, really nice but enormous Ikea wardrobe that the prior owners had left behind and we had painters and flooring guys coming and it wasn't going to be possible to move it multiple times as needed, and dissassembling/reassembling seemed like a huge job, so we decided to give it away. I made it explicitly clear on the ad that YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TRUCK and YOU NEED SOMEONE TO HELP YOU DISASSEMBLE IT AND MOVE THE PARTS.

Well the lady that showed up sort of followed my instructions -- she had a MINIVAN, and a guy to help her who didn't come until she had already been there for 1.5 hours. Of course I eventually wound up helping to disassemble it, which was a project, because I'm not going to stand around watching some poor middle-aged lady do it and waste even more of my time.

After the dude showed up and started "helping" they got into a huge argument with each other and continued to argue the rest of the time, loudly, in an apartment building, and by this point it was after midnight. I think the whole thing of disassembling it, moving all the parts downstairs, and arguing a lot about it took over three hours. I felt like a real ass for not getting money for it at that point.

Donate those old clothes to a charity.

If there's anything I'm ever going to throw 100 percent of my money into, it's brand spankin' new baby clothes. Nobody buys used clothes for their newborns or infants, those babies are just way too precious to wear something that Some Other Baby wore. Future grandmothers will shop for days and buy the most expensive clothes for a person who will outgrow them in less than a month.

I cleaned out the garage after Christmas and we still had so many new clothes still in the package. Shoes that had never been worn because one grandmother buys them two sizes too small each time ("Oh, he's growing so fast!" "Yeah, kids will do that in a year.")

I know I'm saying all of this from a certain position of economic privilege, but I think this feeling descends even below the poverty level. There may be people struggling with grocery and utility bills, but by god, they're going to work an extra shift every other day if it means NEW CLOTHES for the precious new baby.

The main reason I wouldn't take used baby clothes is that babies shit and piss and vomit on their clothes all the time. I know they get washed, but there's something about knowing that.

Oh and yeah K's grandma (wife's mother) also buys us stuff that's too small because it's on sale etc. "Why isn't she wearing the jacket I got her?" "It doesn't fit." "But it's much warmer than that one." "IT DOESN'T FIT"

At least half of Ivy's clothes are hand me downs, so they have been crapped on but by babies that I know so it is okay with me.

The preemie stuff included about 80 preemie Pampers (those are expensive), some used clothes, some new clothes still in the package, and a bunch of sealed, sterile preemie low flow nipples the hospital sent us home with. These were premium goods!

It's cool, though - someone came for them. It's over. My nightmare of generosity is over.

Actually now that you mention it we had a lot of hand-me-down stuff for her first year. I guess if it's the crap of friends' or relatives babies it's not so bad

I think I owned a fair number of garage sale or secondhand clothes as a infant/small child?

I mean, even if someone else's kid did shit/piss/vomit in that onesie, it was washed in the hot/sanitary cycle and is gonna get the same stuff on it from the new kid within a day.

Mothers in the neighbourhood where I grew up were constantly shuffling baby clothes around to one another, in the era of cloth nappies and boiling infants' clothes. I was the oldest child/grandchild/great-grandchild so I had lots of new stuff, but also antique baby things for special occasions because both grannies were trained fashion designers who could make anything.

donate all that baby shit to a shelter.

Too late.

The main reason I wouldn't take used baby clothes is that babies shit and piss and vomit on their clothes all the time.

who among us

Finding it a bit weird that a firm that is supposed to be delivering something to my place rang me to set it up from a private number i.e. one that didn't display on my phone. Doesn't seem like the best way for the customer to feel safe does it?
Would think in something like that they would make a point of making sure you got a phone number for them. It strikes me as pretty dodgy at the best of times when somebody rings with a number you can't see even when it is someone I know.
Seems very iffy if it is a despatch company that you need to keep a trace on actually delivering things correctly and you'd want some fallback on.

To not display on this phone the phone number of a phone ringing it has to be intentionally set up not to register. I checked the log on my phone afterwards to get the details to find it said 'no number' surely a delivery firm would want you to be secure in the knowledge that you could contact them if anything came up preventing the plans they gave you for the first time. Especially when you have had no prior contact.
Previous experience of this withheld number thing has been mainly cold callers plus a couple of people I know who can't be talked out of it. It is far from helpful, difficult to ring back to. &in the case of goods delivery surely counterproductive. Makes it look like they don't want you to know who it is that has your number is first emotional response. Do a lot of people even answer the phone to 'private number' aps this phone displays it?

The delivery dud would probably get too many 'nuisance' calls of the 'where are you now? ' kind. While he is driving..

I don't know how small a firm it is but would be very surprised if there wasn't separation between despatch office & drivers. As with a taxi office. I currently don't even have a home office number.

Loads of offices have their outgoing phones set up to be withheld. Even if you ask, no delivery co. will ever give you a driver's number.

Phonecall came from despatch office not driver. I haven't asked for a driver's number. A store sold an appliance set up delivery with a 3rd party I would assume that 3rd party wouldn't withhold contact details. What do you do in an emergency if situation about delivery has to change? Nobody to contact this way would think that an obvious problem.