No, No, No, MF the world didn't need another British motorbike using oddball threads and antiquated designs. Sure people would collect them but just for the low production numbers making them rare these days, not for their performance, not that I am saying the HD Servi-car was a performance machine
I have no doubt the seller would be squealing like a stuck pig if the roles were reversed.
Dodgy selling has no doubt been around as long as selling itself, but I cannot understand it. Like I mentioned above, if it happened to them, the cognitive dissonance would be hilarious if not mind boggling.
I don't collect mowers. I just require Multiple Mowing Solutions™.
the cognitive dissonance would be hilarious if not mind boggling. Hi Mystyler and all caveat emptor lovers
"Cognitive Dissonance" would be a great name for a modern jazz band. It sort of reminds me of another great phrase ..."Gestalt Shift". This would be a great name too.
And it doesn't have to be jazz - that brings on think-misalignment. It could even happen in country music! I'm a big fan of the USA's The Cleverlys ...
These asides aside, you make an insightful point. Regrettably, I feel many folk ignore that old Christian adage about doing unto others.
All jokes and singing aside, there is a "report item" button on each eBay listing. Unfortunately, there is no option in the drop down menus to properly categorise it as "misleading." Caveat emptor indeed.
P. S. I had not come across the term Gestalt Shift before - its a good one!
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I don't collect mowers. I just require Multiple Mowing Solutions™.
I have not reported the seller just showing how, click on link then first page scroll down then click on Report a Seller then log in, after logging in the next page pops up click on the circle next to, The seller has violated one of eBay's policies then click continue ,the next page will open then fill in details then click on submit.
Hillbilly music reminds me of this.
I was thinking the last buyer was a dummy bidder with a 12 rating.
If eBay gets a complaint the ad will be taken down ,I do recall when someone complained about a Whirlwind seller saying Whirlwind was better that Victa , of course the Victa guys complained and the offending ad was removed.
I have heard the HD connection story from someone who contacted the seller,the story was the mower has HD parts.
The Rabbit or the Duck you can't see both at the same time.
the cognitive dissonance would be hilarious if not mind boggling. Hi Mystyler and all caveat emptor lovers
"Cognitive Dissonance" would be a great name for a modern jazz band. It sort of reminds me of another great phrase ..."Gestalt Shift". This would be a great name too.
And it doesn't have to be jazz - that brings on think-misalignment. It could even happen in country music! I'm a big fan of the USA's The Cleverlys ...
Ahh yes; one of my alltime favourite band names was coined by one SJ Perelman, who was a scriptwriter for the Marx Brothers' classic earlier films.
This was, 'Chalky Aftertaste and his Musical Poltroons'!
Another favourite band name was 'Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias', a 1970s Brit pisstake band.
Then there was Poly Styrene, lead singer of 1970s Britpunk band X-Ray Spex... Edit 14 Jun, to add this classic YT live performance vid clip; [video:youtube] [/video]
However, for sheer genius in pisstake song composition and performance, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band is unsurpassed, IMHO. Their 3-CD 'Cornology' collection is worth seeking out.
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Cheers, Gadge
"ODK Mods can explain it to you, but they can't understand it for you..."
"Crazy can be medicated, ignorance can be educated - but there is no cure for stupid..."
G'day Max, many thanks for that info. I'll just mosey-on outside and do some exercise. Here it will be my favourite "kick-a-few-things" I will do this with great gusto. I will be humming Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World ...
[Okay. did that, burnt some energy. and have calmed down...]
The only good thing about this episode was the humorous posts by members made here.
Many thank to Max for that link. Unfortunately, I never made a complaint.
That it was said/claimed that this mower had HD parts is total BS.
Thanks Gadge for the humourous take on band names. Brilliant.
I gave it a crack, Jack, but I don't think eBay really gave a damn. I got an auto email from them, and that's it.
There are better Qualcast mowers on Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree that struggle to sell for less than half that!
I only hope the winner doesn't come across ODK, and have their folly crystallised. Poor buggers, I do feel sorry for them. Perhaps they'll enjoy their new purchase, who knows.
I don't collect mowers. I just require Multiple Mowing Solutions™.
I have been following a Paypal problem that has now gone on since the first complaints started in 2017 that is 3 years and there is now 52 pages of complaints about a particular seller that for some unknown reason Paypal continue to allow to use their payment platform So if anybody is interested never buy anything from Strong Current Enterprise, at least Ebay and Gumtree seem to be blocking their ads for the last couple of years but obviously around the world people are getting stung on a regular basis
Then there was the 1980s band 'Blue Rondo A La Turk' [from the title of a Dave Brubeck jazz tune], who had this strangely compelling song;
Not surprisingly, this one was produced by Kev Godley and Lol Creme, of Brit band '10cc' - one of the greatest 'pisstake bands' of all time. Yes, I do know what the [raunchy] derivation of that name is; you'll have to find it out for yourselves!
Even the band name 'Steely Dan' [and superb they were] has a pretty raunchy provenance - hint: it's an 'object name' from William S. Burroughs' rather drug-addled novel 'The Naked Lunch'.
Cheers, Gadge
"ODK Mods can explain it to you, but they can't understand it for you..."
"Crazy can be medicated, ignorance can be educated - but there is no cure for stupid..."
G'day Gadge I feel you would make a brilliant eclectic music historian! I kept shaking my head with disbelief at the 'Blue Rondo' link Folks at home will know the brilliant Brubeck from Take 5 HERE.
As a teen, I had a pisstake album of the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles You have now educated me - a cover or tribute band is not quite a pisstake band.
Gadge, I now realise ... I'm an amateur!
I'm too scared - now - to investigate 10CC and Steely Dan. My parents might have said, "Jack, don't go there!".
As a teen, I had a pisstake album of the Beatles.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles
I remember some of their songs; one of my then mates back in the late 70s had their album 'The Rutland Weekend Songbook' in his collection. 'Song O' The Insurance Salesmen', 'Communist Cooking', 'Accountancy Shanty' - brilliant stuff!
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I'm too scared - now - to investigate 10CC and Steely Dan. My parents might have said, "Jack, don't go there!"
Nah, nothing really 'off' - mentioned in their Wikipedia entries, actually.
Yes, I'd concur that my musical tastes are best described as 'eclectic'. Bits of everything from Baroque and Early Music, through a little of the Classical genre, to Fats Waller [1940s jazz], and more modern bands up to the present day.
Here's a very 'politically incorrect' YT [ monochrome!] vid of one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's classics; Look Out, There's A Monster Coming.
Cheers, Gadge
"ODK Mods can explain it to you, but they can't understand it for you..."
"Crazy can be medicated, ignorance can be educated - but there is no cure for stupid..."
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