Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Raider4]

Big energy price rise tomorrow, so tried to submit meter readings.

Gas gives "502 Proxy error", electrickery a "503 Backend fetch failed".

I suspect half the country is doing the same, and the energy companies have buckled under the strain.

Technology, ain't it sh*twonderful.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Big energy price rise tomorrow, so tried to submit meter readings.

Gas gives "502 Proxy error", electrickery a "503 Backend fetch failed".

I suspect half the country is doing the same, and the energy companies have buckled under the strain.

Technology, ain't it sh*twonderful.

That's what BBC news on Radio 4 just said. Get a smart meter

[DecemDave]

That's what BBC news on Radio 4 just said. Get a smart meter

Ah Yes.  Unfortunately Smart meters are installed by not so smart meter installers.  As a result, no-one in our block of flats can have a smart read of their gas meter (too far for the signal apparently) and only those on the south side can have a smart meter read of their electric as the building blocks the others signal!!

Aint life grand!

[toxicpixie]

Big energy price rise tomorrow, so tried to submit meter readings.

Gas gives "502 Proxy error", electrickery a "503 Backend fetch failed".

I suspect half the country is doing the same, and the energy companies have buckled under the strain.

Technology, ain't it sh*twonderful.

Did mine, went thru fine - Octopus seem to be better than most...

Take a photo, email them with it - should get sorted!

[Gwydion]

I usually email my readings, but SSE was bought  by OVO last autumn - guess what? OVO doesn't have an email your reading facility - has to be done through an online account. Haven't got an OVO account. Tried to register - 'mistake in your account details'

No there ****ing isn't!
Emailed the 'help' line - see what happens.

[Raider4]

Leccy now working, through a much simplified web page.

Gas still fubar'd.

[steve_holmes_11]

Those modern sabot rounds look terrifying.
Imagine a half concussed loader lugging one around the inside of a crowded turret.

You can see why the Swedes are so keen on auto-loaders.

[Raider4]

I have a 'plan'* to try and downsize all of the accumulated crap that clutters my home.

This includes most of my miniatures/wargaming stuff. None of it's really worth anything so isn't worth eBay-ing. Seems a shame to just dump it though.

Also, all of my model railway stuff. Some (quite a bit, actually) of this is worth selling, but I'm scared of being shafted on eBay by some cockwomble.

Ebay has changed. I've spent the last three months watching items I have, or very similar, to see what sort of price they'd fetch.

All I see are items listed at a very high initial price, and then they sit there unsold for a month, and are promptly re-listed. E.g. Warmaster Ancients rulebook. No actual "genuine" auctions.

Nothing I've watched - whether wargame or railway related - has actually sold.

Most odd. Don't sellers have to pay a fee to Ebay for a listing, or is that just if it sells?

[DecemDave]

I've sold 9 things on UK ebay recently for a total of just under £100 and it feels better than sending to landfill. Also crap surplus to requirements even including a freebie sprue that came with a well known magazine.  Start with a low price like 99p and just enjoy the few items that manage to attract competitive bidders.   Painted 10mm armies will usually fetch over 50p per figure (cav =2) from what I have seen and been outbid on. 

[Orcs]

The first hundred or so listings are free to private buyers.

Sold several hundred pounds worth last year on Ebay.

Found:-

• Mostly commercial listings.
• Most things on Auction do not get bid up significantly.
• The exception is cheap items that get bid up to the correct value.
• Due to 2 most items seem to be listed at a price vendor will be happy to accept rather than low starting price
• Also if you put stuff at fixed price listing it stays on ebay until sold - much less faffing about. hence 4
• I have done well due to 2 , Got very well painted 10m, SYW stuff for less than bare metal.
• Prices generally seem quite high now. Probably because of 1
• I think some items are being used as money laundering eg Single painted 28mm going for £100's

[Techno 3]

Interesting thought re the money laundering, Mark.

I know of some really top notch figure painters that get paid silly money...They've managed to get themselves big fan clubs, that want to own a 'figure painted by 'X'.

Cheers - Phil.

[Orcs]

Interesting thought re the money laundering, Mark.

I know of some really top notch figure painters that get paid silly money...They've managed to get themselves big fan clubs, that want to own a 'figure painted by 'X'.

Cheers - Phil.

This is one of the things that has been discussed on other forums. Often the figures on sale are not that well painted - not even by my standard, let alone the likes of Kevin Dallimore or some of the stuff you see in the Pendraken competition. Yet if you look at their feedback  they have sold multiple items for several hundred pounds each  with excellent feedback.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Theres nowt so stupid as folk.

[Techno 3]

This is one of the things that has been discussed on other forums. Often the figures on sale are not that well painted - not even by my standard, let alone the likes of Kevin Dallimore or some of the stuff you see in the Pendraken competition. Yet if you look at their feedback  they have sold multiple items for several hundred pounds each  with excellent feedback.

In which case, your theory may well be true, Mark.

[fsn]

Gentlemen.

Do you face this sort of dilemma?

I'm in the middle of painting Austrian Napoleonics. I picked Grenneville's Division of the III Corps at Leipzig. 2 x Grenzer bttns, 2 x Light Dragoons regiments and a horse battery. I wanted the Light Dragoons to be in green coats to contrast with the white coated Cuirassiers.

Shock horror!  The two regiments (Klenau and Rosenberg) wore white coats! Drat! However, the two regiments in the 1st Lt Div (Emperor's and Vincent) wore green.

What do I do?

• Paint 'em green
• Swap the white coated regiments for the green - so have Emperor's and Vincent
• Suck it up and have white coated light dragoons
• Something else

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Buy extra and use the greens in a new unit. 

[fsn]

OK ... figure on the right. What is going on in front of her?

It looks like a headless child. 

[fsn]

Buy extra and use the greens in a new unit. 

Hmmm ... but then I'd have to buy the Jaegers to go with them, and that means to keep balance I'd have to buy another couple of regiments of line infantry ... and the artillery to go with it. 


Good idea!  

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

OK ... figure on the right. What is going on in front of her?

It looks like a headless child. 

Pnematic Drill ?

[Techno 3]

That's what it looks like to me, too, Ian !