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Dear Rich T and anyone else who is ripped off online:

I just recently experienced my first online ripoff, a US bookseller.  It was a very expensive reference book.  I was gobsmacked when the item didn't arrive and then they didn't answer my emails.  One of my roommates, an ex IT girl, ran a check on them and it was BAD.  Then she pointed out that in the states you could get a call back by the credit card company.  I found out that in Australia, you can also do that.  I should imagine that it is worldwide with all major credit card companies.  You have to wait thirty days, then you report the non-arrival and all the details of what you paid for and Visa (in this case) just went straight back into their account, withdrew the payment and I got it back in full. 

My point being that if credit card companies have the lawful right to do this with defaulting online transactions then so would eBay.  I think you should try and take this further with eBay.  They have full access to our bank accounts, I would think they have the legal right to do the same as the credit card companies.    And to the best of my knowledge the Australian Federal Police take internet fraud very seriously. 

My bad experience with the bookseller has made me more cautious not xenophobic.

If other shackers would be prepared to do the same I think if we all wrote to    asking why they do not offer the same protection coverage as credit card companies it might have more impact.  What do you think?

Nice card rns!   

I have a question about the memos.  Does anyone know what the pale blue capital letters printed on the memos says?  I have one of the prop cards but I can't make out what it says and I have not seen a swatch with any blue printing on it.

Also is there a site where I could get a good look at a memo prop and the daily prophet that includes rns' swatch?

Thanks 

Wow what a lovely card!!  It is on a par with the Dark Arts one with the face in the middle of the swatch.
I am sure lots of us will watch this closely on  Kindli.

Good luck!!   

Well phooey!!

I am reading this right aren't I when I come to the conclusion that the price hikes could increase the price of single card sales!!!   :'(

As a collector who cannot afford to buy one case let alone more, I have to be lucky in my bidding to fill in what blanks I can and now it looks like my occasional *Wow what a great buy* experience could be a thing of the past.  I can count on two fingers the times I have paid over $100 for a card   

And cutting out negative comments.   SHEESH!!  I have never yet given a negative report but I sure as heck take notice of them when I am searching eBay for purchases   

I cannot believe there has been a strong public request for the current feedback system to be changed....  and if there has  I reckon it would have to be from those who consistantly get poor feedback because who else would care!!

NOT an idiot!!

in the middle of the night,

Thank you,  Thank you,  THANK YOU!!     For some of us it is a great time to be on 

It is a pleasure doing business with you 

[R5x2]

Just for the records..  winks at allender     I hereby present the contents of my 3 boxes (a move up from 2):

Box 2139
BT1, R2, R5x2, R7, R9
C11 (118/625) Lucius Malfoy's Robe
P3 (343/505) Daily Prophet
CFC3 (005/260) Neville in school uniform (film: distorted voldemort)

Box 4559
BT3, R3, R6x2, R7, R9
C13 (398/475)
Mad-eye Moody Redemption Auto

Box 5116
BT1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R8
C3 (016/475)
Arabella Figg Redemption Auto

Nothing spectacular, but not too shabby so I was pleased    Sad to say but this is the best result I have had since my first POA boxes.

I was a bit concerned about the doubling up of the chase cards and as I opened them in numerical order over a couple of days I was getting concerned that I wasn't going to get all nine,  but I did    yay!

Am not surprised to read either about the poor allocation of the cards, my last box short changed me two 132's and only gave me two 18's extra.

Hi,  Thought this an interesting card that sold last night:



It was 002/280  which in itself is enought to make it desirable to some,  but the seller claimed the 'Daily' was part of the paper's title.  Surely the printing is to small for it to be part of the masthead??

Nice card nonetheless.  Btw it sold for $59.00   

I am sooooo envious of you guys   

I see Gigi Edgley from Farscape is gonna be there..  she is so great.
How come when you go onto the site there is no mention of Harry Potter?   

(   finally got to use that smiley - okay I know it isnt ebay)

ps I hope I aint in smiley overkill here   

I sent off two a couple of months ago and assumed they would be sent back protected.   

Naive?  Yeppers..  but they sent them back by first class airmail,  the cards were in the lil soft plastic sleeves stuck to a sheet and wrapped in several sheets of paper, folded flat into a long envelope.  They arrived in perfect condition for 90c postage!!   

But in retrospect I like the idea of hard protective sleeves and a self-addressed envelope.

Good luck.

Ooooh  I just saw the scan of Tom Felton's auto..     Please cosmic muffin I have almost always been pretty good!

It will prolly be the middle of January afore I get my boxes      But my Mom has been really generous this xmas and as well as getting me some excellent SS cards which I won't get until January she has bought me an OOP box so in a couple of days we get to open that!!   

Actually she is really tinny (lucky) so I might let her open most of the packets.

I hope everyone has a beaut xmas and your boxes give you great joy as well as some brilliant cards.   

At last!  One with the title in the swatch.  Brilliant.

Thanks sfmuggle, its a good one for my picture collection.   Seen nice props go for way more.  I can understand it.  Didn't know you had a limit sfmuggle 

When I log in to eBay I hit international but there seem to be a lot of sales that never show.  And when I try and get into the US eBay it fights me like anything.  The system keeps reverting me to eBayAus   

Keep watching and logging em 

Great looking book.  Why do I see Kevin calculating what he would need for a replica?   

Thanks for the link Tialessa.  I want to read it now. 

Another thing to add to my want list..  it is soooo long 

Congrats   

I don't collect (can't afford to) anything but HP but if I was gonna it would be any card with Johnny Depp on em.

I saw a really nice one for sale somewhere:



Yummy   

I have finished the Dark is Rising.  I enjoyed it mostly.  It started to flag a little in the middle but then she introduced Bran and it picked up again.  I really liked him.  But something about the last book left me not quite satisfied.  I can't put my finger on it ..  I think perhaps because as an adult the ending seemed pretty transparent although I am not sure.  On the whole tho' I think it was beaut and thank you for bringing it to my attention.   

Thanks Kevin,

I think you must get HUGE satisfaction out of your props and you can see we certainly do   

The red bits huh?  It looks like you nearly have it nailed.

I just love your DP Kevin.  It is amazing that you could put it all together.  I was telling my husband about your prop replicas and he asked me if it was all okay with Warner Bros.  I told him there were quite a few people round the world doing replicas but do you know what the situation is?  I am just curious.

Also I was wondering if it is possible to get a copy of that front page so it is readable?  I would like to read it.   

Good Grief!!  Every time LikORish puts up cards I feel overwhelmed..  Yep that's it     I hope they are all insured.

And thanks Sharon and Cindy for the neat cards.   sf you have ANOTHER brilliant card?  Wow      

Good luck Kevin,  you are doing such great props I look forward very much to seeing it.

You and me both sfmuggle    I believe that every set had a separate retail foil lot of 9 but I have only recently seen the deatheater foils..  they are nice looking cards.

Would anyone in the YakShack be able to show us pics of what retail sets are out there? 

And I am wondering why they aren't illustrated in the price guide.  Is it because they aren't from hobby boxes?

What was it like Bogleg?   It looked like all of RedDwarf was there  (insert drooling smiley).

Was it good? huh? huh?  Did you get lots of goodies?

Thanks for the answers about the Deatheater foil cards.  I haven't seen any for ages and now just cause I posted I am seeing them everywhere..   so hopefully I will be able to add them to my set