Okay, this is new. Do you mean 'too many bids' on one item? Or too many bids overall? You can forget getting eBay to do anything. They are great when they work, hopeless when they don't. I remember getting into a fankle over an item I agreed to buy and was trying to pay for. The eBay software wouldn't allow me to get onto the part of the site where I could pay. They then sent me notice that my bank had turned down my request for the money. Odd that the bank could do that, as I hadn't yet even asked the bank for any payment at all. I phoned my bank just to check, and no ...nothing had been requested or turned down. I tried to reason with eBay, explaining there had been some glitch ...but no. I eventually settled with the seller outwith the site (for a £5.99 item ...BIG time.) After several months, eBay finally quite hassling me about that payment. But somewhere in their records will be me, a person who didn't pay for an item.
Went to the YMCA, and forgot my newish Fibit in my locker -- black watch in a dark place, made sense, but made me feel stupid and careless. Fortunately found someone had turned it to the front desk, so that was good. The weird thing is they had a whole bag of Fitbits people had forgotten and never claimed. It's no Rolex, but I can't believe that many people can't be bothered to go back and look for something like that.
Just tried to see if that works in WordPerfect. Nope. Around here, the m-dash is hyphen hyphen hyphen spacebar.
Is he talking about he cost the US taxpayer million$ by for the first time, making the 4th of July celebration...all about him ?
I haven't had many difficulties with eBay, actually. I had placed bids on five different items and they refused to let me bid on a sixth. I should probably have bid on the soonest-ending items first, so that I could have bid on the other ones I wanted later. The info they provided gave me the impression that it's a bit like a credit score: it's based on trust. Now I've won some bids, and paid up, hopefully they'll let me bid on more items at once in future. (I doubt I shall, though. I read advice to bid on lots of items because bidding can get very competitive and you'll probably only win a couple of auctions. Since I've won four out of five auctions and have no rivals for the fifth, I'm starting to think the items that guy liked were much more popular than dolls and I can probably discount that advice.)
I have a totally different strategy with eBay. I don't put in any bid till the VERY last minute (literally, within the last minute) and I make sure it really is the 'highest' bid I am actually willing to pay. I nearly always win the auction at the bid price quoted before I put mine in. People don't have time to outbid me. I actually prefer the Buy It Now option, though. I'm not, by nature, a haggler.
My gosh. WordPerfect! That's a blast from the past. It's the first wordprocessing programme I ever encountered, on a back-to-work course I took back in 1994. I thought it was magic! However, we bought our first home computer later that year, and it was an Apple (Performa) that came with the extra wonderfully magic ClarisWorks. I've been Apple ever since. ClarisWorks is what got me writing. But without WordPerfect, I probably would have been leery of computers for a long time. I didn't know it still existed. I thought Word had more or less eaten it up.
Nope. Apparently law firms really, really like it, and keep it alive. Me, I find it more intuitive and user-friendly than MS Word. Hey, the first version of WP I encountered was 5.1, and it was in Dutch (used PC, bought while I was studying in the UK). I did fine.
Feeling very meh lately. So much so that I haven't made up the chocolate fudge brownie mix. Must be serious.
People walking their children on leads. I know we all used to have reins during the dark ages but things are now getting ridiculous... ...on a wide open beach for goodness sake and the kid has a spade in his fist and is wailing in his tears, and howling for some quality sand time alone. I really had to resist any 'Free the baby, you moron-monster,' type [primal] instinct toward this 'father & child,' possibly. Never quote me on the mobile telephones issue. Eyes down, and this other one so-called adult parent supervised three different babies on their leads, not even a baby on his chest, only a phone in his other hand/face, and a cigarette, and a wife, and her dog in the bag, and babies on their leads. Obviously they were all tattooed people, fat in most places, and with their babies who eat frozen pizza from boxes, a huge drain on our health service, a vital resource actually for the teachers, blame the teachers...every child in a high viz, on a rein in the coned off play zone, supervised by the volunteers aside the teachers. There are three teachers to every child for the fun sand experience, an away-day, and when the bus arrives at high tide there's only concrete on the promenade, the child with his plastic spade is completely defeated, dig the concrete, you prick. He cannot do that, can he? Modern issue.
At first glance 'shorted' looked like 'aborted', but that doesn't seem that too far off on your fry order. They should give you more fries now.
Second cheap mouse I've bought that has broken. This will make the third mouse I've had to buy this year! I resent the idea of paying 10 euro just so it lasts me more than a number of weeks. Cheap shit really has become cheap shit. Sigh. I really hate using the trackpad, as it takes hours just to move up the full page. Whinging complete. Back to your business.
Might I recommend the Logitech M310. I picked mine up on sale at Walmart like 6 years ago and it's survived literally everything I could throw at it. It's actually been used so much, I had to give it a paint job a couple of years ago just because it looked so janky. They usually go for around 15-20$ CAD on Amazon, but sometimes, like me, you can find them for around 5 elsewhere.
Does it mind running on a textured surface? Cos I use mine on a wide chair arm, but it's corduroy*. *Disclaimer: I do not own the ugly furniture. It came with the flat. ETA: It's all irrelevant now anyway, as they won't ship it to Ireland. FFS.
I always liked WP and for a long time my organization (a lawyers' state organization) used it, but we switched over to Word for reasons I never understood. I definitely liked WP better, more responsive and easier to use, but my voice and those of others like me were ignored. I think it was an IP department decision about supporting it. Anyway, I've gotten used to Word and I think it's gotten better.
