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Post by Pete Morris on Jul 26, 2015 15:44:57 GMT
Finished again, no bids.
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Post by John Green on Jul 26, 2015 17:47:08 GMT
Out-trumped. But seriously,I have some sympathy.I don't particularly want to alienate private traders who's good offices (as they used to say) may be needed one day.
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Post by Rob Moss on Jul 27, 2015 9:42:07 GMT
Well if he has reduced it to 1000 Pounds Sterling he is obviously trying to "make some money" off his original purchase price. Still that is "a bit" high. Perhaps if he started the bidding at the actual price he paid for the film print he "might" get some interest in it Unlikely - the only reason it went so high in the first place was presumably because all the bidders thought it was a missing episode. Personally, I think the owner will be very lucky if he even gets half his £770 back, but as he clearly only bought it to try and turn a quick profit, I have little sympathy.
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Post by Pete Morris on Jul 27, 2015 12:39:02 GMT
OK. Now something has happened which does at least bring some happy closure to this sorry state of affairs. I've just taken a call from someone who used to work at the BBC. Fifteen years ago he transferred an episode of 'Softly, Softly' to digi-beta which was from a collector. He still has the tape and it is the episode 'Recovery'. The tape will be properly catalogued and in the BBC archive later this week and it's only an oversight that it hasn't already happened. Update, please? Has the BBC now received the copy? Has it been checked, and in good condition?
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Post by Steven Sigel on Jul 27, 2015 19:47:29 GMT
I think that he'll be lucky to get much more than £100 for it. It's not a super desirable show and it's not missing anymore - so there wont be people looking to buy it in order to get it back in the archives,
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Post by brianfretwell on Jul 31, 2015 19:02:39 GMT
OK. Now something has happened which does at least bring some happy closure to this sorry state of affairs. I've just taken a call from someone who used to work at the BBC. Fifteen years ago he transferred an episode of 'Softly, Softly' to digi-beta which was from a collector. He still has the tape and it is the episode 'Recovery'. The tape will be properly catalogued and in the BBC archive later this week and it's only an oversight that it hasn't already happened. Update, please? Has the BBC now received the copy? Has it been checked, and in good condition? From what Paul said the BBC has always had the copy in their archive, but it wasn't in the catalogue. It was not a matter of it being received by them it was there, but the system didn't know.
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Post by Pete Morris on Aug 1, 2015 2:48:44 GMT
Are you sure?
I'm reading it as being owned privately by an ex-employee of the BBC.
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Post by richardwoods on Aug 1, 2015 9:26:58 GMT
I've got to say I read it the same way as you Pete.
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Post by John Green on Aug 2, 2015 0:46:02 GMT
On an alternate earth,this thread is about an ebay listing of Web of Fear 3.
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Post by Chris Keating on Aug 21, 2015 2:56:18 GMT
Re-listed again, due to a buyer who appears to be a bear of little brain. Put in 14 bids, starting at £350 and going up in £20 increments. Beat out three other bidders. Immediately puts the item back up at £1100, and it doesn't sell. Does the research he / she / it should have done before purchasing, and finds that the print's been copied by the BBC, and isn't the nice little earner they'd expected. So, returns the item to the original seller (despite "no returns" being clearly listed in the item description), then posts negative feedback for the seller, consisting of: "The BBC hold a copy of this which was taken from this very print!". Classy stuff... It's the original seller who's listing it, not the person who paid £770 for it, and tried to flip it for £1100 - that f-wit developed a severe case of (self-inflicted) butt-hurt, and most likely used eBay's Buyer Protection Plan to bludgeon the seller into accepting the item back. Were I the original seller in question I'd have a) refused to accept the return, pointing very clearly to the "no returns" part of the original listing, and b) sent Second Chance offers to the under-bidders. Here's the listing: www.ebay.com.au/itm/BBC-tv-1969-Softly-Softly-16mm-film-episode-/262010989999
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Post by John Smith on Aug 21, 2015 8:59:45 GMT
No such thing as 'No Returns' these days eBay/PayPal will always side with the moronic buyer regardless of the situation.
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Post by Chris Keating on Aug 21, 2015 10:02:30 GMT
Oh, not always - had a nit-wit buy a 1963 TV Week (local TV guide) off me back in January. A week after posting, I get a message that she'll be returning it, as her favourite TV star was on the cover, but there was no article on him in the magazine itself.
I'd made no claim that there was an article, and had specified "no returns". In fact, she'd bought the exact same edition from another seller at the same time - and returned that one, too! I opened a case with eBay Customer Support, and they sided with me, removed her negative feedback, etc.
But yeah, eBay's definitely biased towards the buyer...
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Post by John Green on Aug 21, 2015 11:21:12 GMT
Amusing if the BBC decide it's actually another episode they've found at the back of a drawer,and the film goes for gadzillions!
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Post by Pete Morris on Aug 21, 2015 11:53:46 GMT
God, what an a-hole. I hope the seller sues.
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Post by John Green on Aug 22, 2015 2:20:02 GMT
Auction ends 8:00 p.m. Sunday.(If we're on BST?).
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