Another Wren button-down has popped up. Low starting bid. Also a Catalina jacket. Used to have one myself, in tobacco brown.
A pair of Grenson shoes on Ebay at £12.500. 14 watchers. Is this the same brand I see in the local factory shop at about eighty quid?
Shooman? Drop 'DressedWell' for a while and amble over here. Sammy says you're in the business of educating the uninitiated.
Something in the listing about gazelle.
I mean to say, they look to me to be a deeply horrible shoe. I began making rough calculations in my head as to just how many pairs of Alden loafers I might be able to buy for the same price - with a few bob over for some Rancourt.
Grenson were only on my mind because I'm selling a pair of their boots on Ebay (or, rather, my younger daughter is), having never really taken to them. I was thinking of a starting bid of 99p. So, invest in these now and you might have something for your old age.
A pair of secondhand boots worth 99p.
The oddly named BornAgainMarketPlace on Ebay have recently been listing a lot of Brooks shirts. I've just bought a couple of blue Makers for next to nothing. Most is, well, not terrific but it might be worth a look. Efficient sellers.
What I'm finding fucking annoying on Ebay right now are images for police recruitment. There's a place for everything. Ebay isn't it.
Some of the current crop of Ebay sellers are evidently hoping to retire and buy a villa in Marbella judging by some of the starting bids they're putting on old shirts.
Brooks are now 'Mod/Skinhead'. Oh dear.
Some prick is trying to flog an M&S jumper by sticking John Simons' name on it. Shameful.
On the Roll Call Facebook page this morning theres a guy selling a NOS Mcgregor 38L pin cord jacket for $100, not my size but looks like a bargain to me even with ( presumably) shipping from the USA
AFS - What I'm finding fucking annoying on Ebay right now are images for police recruitment
All the good people are leaving
Woof, they just look so ineffectual. More like paramilitary lollipop ladies than the robust bobbies of my youth. There was one guy who used to be on duty at the Baseball Ground who looked like the side of Ben Nevis. But with a beard.
Grenfell G4 type 'Crossfell' jacket here.
Size 44. Probably early–mid 70s.
I've got a Crossfell trench from that period, and they're well made.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353926164247?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l3160&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=fbdd24bc0bac443096c65037eaae2bb6&bu=43176335412&ut=RU&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20220222063512&segname=11021&sojTags=ch%3Dch%2Cbu%3Dbu%2Cut%3Dut%2Cosub%3Dosub%2Ccrd%3Dcrd%2Csegname%3Dsegname%2Cchnl%3Dmkcid
No lining but still a nice summer jacket.
Ebay tracking is, at the moment, in complete turmoil. Items are being marked as delivered, even on two different days, when they're not even in transit.
Royal Mail's tracking system remains as useless as ever.
I was expecting a UPS delivery yesterday morning. (Clarks desert boots). I stayed in and saw the van turn up but the driver decided not to stop and I got a message that it was a failed delivery because I wasn't at home.Then told that I could collect the parcel from a UPS collection point. A minor inconvenience but companies/people seem to find it easy to lie these days. Hermes have done similar although they took a photo of the entrance door and then left without ringing the bell.
A major inconvenience, Robbie, not to mention an imposition and a bloody cheek. This is pretty much what England has turned into. But it's been going on for years. Royal Mail lose at least one in twenty of everything I order. Covid has simply been used as an excuse by many to justify a poor service. 'Well, we are the middle of a pandemic, you know...' I'm not a patient chap at the best of times.
Robbie - I suspect those multi-drop drivers do 'failed delivery' on 10-20% of their deliveries each day, they have a high volume of deliveries to do and I think some of them are paid on the number of deliveries ( or non deliveries) they do each day, I doubt you were waiting for the dessies to arrive as you didn't have any others to go out in,haha
HaHa Stax. It's true I'm not short of footwear.
AFS- I'm lucky with Royal Mail services in my area. They are pretty good.
I do have a mate who is a postie and he had a year off work during the pandemic because he claims an asthma problem. He said he spent the summer in the garden sunbathing while his missus was working. Different work ethic to most of my old contacts.
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My Royal Mail deliveries, parcels & letters are usually delivered by women, and a couple of them are quite fit if you can see past the hi viz jackets and uniforms, Robbie - I think your mate isn't uncommon in the RM, a cousin of mine worked for RM for donkeys years, probably spent more time off sick than working, and like you certainly not the work ethic I had,
A good mate of mine works for Royal Mail. He told me that around the same time as parcel deliveries were really taking off, their most committed, hardest working driver got fed up of failed deliveries and standing on doorsteps talking to lonely old women. So he hit on the idea of stashing the parcels and putting a note through the doors - 'We attempted delivery today. Your parcel is..... in wheelie bin'
Chaos. Great work ethic, but not blessed with brains unfortunately.
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As soon as you get used to the local guy/girl - most recently, round here, Bobby from Hoxton - they're moved on. Bobby was the best we've had in years. Twenty years ago we had the adorable Toni, an attractive little blonde lesbian.
The Hermes driver today was a very nice-looking kid. Hoping to see her again.
Ebay is continuing to experience problems, this time over card payments.
Bobby don’t you think they know?
A huge number of colourful summer shirts on Ebay at the moment, including Sero.
Nice McGeorge Shetland sweater on Ebay. A good name, McGeorge.