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Just after I posted this, my Letterbox rattled and my 1&1/8"AF 'King Dick' Ex Army Spanner dropped into my 'Catch Basket'. Blades n Spindles here we go!.

I stopped selling altogether , I used to make and sell cut vinyl signs and stickers but gave up .The feed back was always good it was just the competitors emailing for silly things .One claimed to be a taxi company that wanted 6 taxi sets of graphics .Not a problem .This went on for 2 weeks with the customer accepting the designs then emailing an hour latter with alterations based upon colour or additional wording .In the end i asked my nephew down in Margate to check the company out for me ( He designed and now fits a taxi tracking system) so knows most taxi companies personally ) .Yep , the company did not exist .Just another competitor mucking about and wasting my time . But i hold my hands upto emailing sellers with silly questions myself , as i sometimes need a thing for a thing that i cannot buy new . I have just rebuilt a 1974 Yamaha TY80 for one of my boys and needed a kickstart shaft , pay £100 for a TY or look around .An RD80 one came up for sale so after 3 emails asking for shaft diameter and length , then teeth number on the sprocket , then angle of the stop tab i was happy it would fit and bought it .And it fitted so i saved £80 and got what i was after . But after many years of buying i found that if i emailed all the info in a single message , usually the seller would not reply with all i had asked . And i always try to collect as when i arrive i have a natter and usually come away with other bits and bobs the seller didnt even think of selling . Just 2 days ago i bought a Wolseley 500 rough cut mower after i made a best offer , when i arrived at the sellers home we talked for an hour then it transpired he was the son of an old friend who i had not seen since he was 10 , 15 mins latter and i came away with the mower and a Wolseley WD11 for a tenner and a set of cast sack barrow wheels and axle with the forged lift plate for another tenner . Buy i always try my best to ascertain suitability before making an offer or buying anything . And recently i have been plaqued by non arrival little bits and bobs , seemed to have statrted after the privatisation of Royal Mail .WIth the odd ones turning up after an extra week or more ! .The latest were 4 battery packs for 18650 batteries , the seller was adament he had sent them so i waited an extra 2 weeks and they eventuallu turned up . Which i feel was a case of selling before the stock was available to sell more than a missing item , as it seems to be a more prevalant way of selling new items nowadays .Take your money then order the items from a warehouse then send them to you after 4 or 5 weeks .

Just received the club magazine, here's a picture

Our postal system uses tracking numbers, so we can tell exactly where the package or letter is. We can tell when a label was printed, when it arrived at the postal facility, and when it arrives and leaves each destination, and even when it out for delivery. We also get a notification from the post office the minute the package leave the originating station that a package or letter is on the way. You are right about communication with most sellers, for various reasons they are not very good at answering questions, but one reason I have found is that the sellers don't know much about what their selling.