Rare Oop

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In this article I will cover the eBay language or eBay slang terms used when dealing with eBay auctions. These are easy to understand eBay how to tips to help you cope in the eBay world.

Selling eBay slang tips

• FVF - Final Value Fee
• OOAK - One of a Kind
• NPB - None Paying Buyer (fairly obvious)
• TOS - Terms of Service
• OOP - Out of Print
• BIN - Buy it now (an option to set a price to buy it without bidding, you need 10 feedback, buying or selling, before you can do this)
• Shill Bidding - Increasing price artificially Using friends or fake account. (unacceptable and can get you banned)

FVF - Final Value Fee

Your seller account is charged a final value fee (FVF) When your item sells or ends with a winning bid, this is based on the item's final sale price and category.

• Auction-style: The FVF is based on the final sale price.
• Fixed price or Buy It Now: The FVF is based on the final sale price and category.
• Reserve price auction-style listings: The FVF is based on the final sale price when the reserve price is met. There's no FVF if the reserve isn't met.
• Business & Industrial categories Auction-style or fixed price listings: The FVF is based on the final sale price and category.

OOAK - One Of A Kind

This is when you are describing a rare item. RARE is overused and eBay buyers tend to ignore it. This acronym is more attention seeking and for knowledgeable buyers they will know exactly what you are describing.

NPB - Non Paying Buyer

This normally happens when someone is disputing a purchase or invariably trying to rip you off. This can be done by saying an item was never received or of poor quality, they can also try and use money transfer services for payment instead of paypal. eBay has specifically strengthened their paypal protection for sellers to prevent fraud

TOS - Terms of Service

Terms that are specified for the biding and sale to complete, make sure that you clearly state your sales procedure and buyer actions to be followed. State any return procedure and policy as part of the TOS with a requirement that if they go ahead with the payment they agree with TOS.

Having a clearly defined TOS means the buyers understand what you expect and what they get in return, you will get less rogue buyers that can cause problems.

OOP - Out of Print

This is another gem for rare items, Out of Print is obviously and reading material or books which are rare or so old that they are not being printed. You might be able to get this printed on demand by a publisher if they state it but the price will be high and you will have to order a minimum amount of reprints.

BIN - Buy It Now

You can purchase the item right away at a set price without waiting for an auction to end

Below are auction types BIN is used for;

• Auction-style listings with BIN option: You can choose to compete and bid in the auction or purchase the item by using Buy It Now. For some listings the Buy It Now option is only available until the first bid is placed. The Buy It Now price is at least 10% higher than the starting auction price. For eBay Motors it wont apply to vehicle listings just to Parts & Accessories.
• Reserve price auctions with a Buy It Now option: The Buy It Now option is only shown until the reserve price is met. Act quickly as this means that when you see that an item has both a Buy It Now price and one or more bids.
• Buy It Now price only: Purchase the item right away at the Buy It Now price no bidding involved.
• Variation Listings: Some listings have variations to choose from, such as T-shirts that come in various sizes or colors. Specify the variations and quantity you want before you click the Buy It Now button.

Shill Bidding

Increasing an item/s price artificially Using a friends or fake account, this will apply to employees trying to buy items as they have additional product info that other eBayers will not have. Any violations will end in account suspension and loss of Powerseller status or any other benefits plus loss of fees.

eBay slang tips dealing with item quality

• VINT - Vintage
• DOA - Dead on arrival
• VHTF - Very hard to find
• NWT - New with tag
• MIB/NIB - Mint in box or New in box

VINT - Vintage

Any old or vintage item, this can be anything from an old sowing machine to a toy. Make sure you have an accurate description and pictures that show the actual condition of the item to ensure buyers are aware of the condition and any flaws

DOA - Dead On Arrival

This indicates any item which is not working on delivery, normally something which has broken in transit and refers to electronic or mechanical equipment. This can also cover any fragile items. To ensure that you as the seller are cover take a picture of the items during packing before sealing the packaging and mail it to the seller. If there is any problem you can take it up with the delivery company.

VHTF - Very Hard to Find

Any rare item of limited quantity, this is especially the case for items with limited manufacturing runs that are collectible. This works well if you are selling in a specific niche to a targeting group of buyers.

NWT - New with Tag

Any new item still with the manufacturers tag attached.

NIB/MIB - New/Mint in Box

Again this is any boxed item which has not been used or opened. This can be from new gifted items or purchased items which are collectible and which are being auctioned off.

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Alternatives to Flouride

I live in Manchester, England. It's a unique city. Apart from hosting one of the most famous football teams in the world, and having one of the dampest climates, (although Seattle is worse, apparently), it also has one of the strangest attributes in the country: it has clean water. No fluoride has been added. As most people know, fluoride is a rare metal that is hard to find in nature, but since the 1960s British families have been entertaining it every day - in the water that they drink from the tap.

Fluoride is a poison. You're not advised to take a bottle of it and swallow it, you'd die. However, in small doses, it's claimed that it has a rare property: it can save your teeth from decay. Research has shown, or so it is claimed, that small quantities of fluoride in the water that we drink can strengthen the enamel in our teeth and prevent the formation of cavities. Since English children have some of the worst teeth in the world, anything that can help to prevent further decay is seen as a good thing, no matter how outlandish. Because of course, it's a strange plan. Here's the proposition: we will add something to your water that is in itself a hazard, but it will avoid an even worse problem, tooth decay. Who could possibly vote against that? Manchester did. They've kept the water free of this metallic additive for almost two generations, while the rest of the ground has lapped it up, literally. There's been mixed results.

In the first place, levels of tooth decay in children are uncomfortably high. Why is that? Are children in Manchester bad at cleaning their teeth? Don't they realise the benefits of flossing? Well, that may be so, but not for want of trying. School nurses regularly lecture the kids on the best way of using a toothbrush, and if you go into any primary school in the city, you will see posters and pictures on the wall of healthy teeth - the aim, after all. Maybe there's another reason: good advice, in itself, doesn't work. That's certainly been the attitude in other parts of the country. We don't want people to have rotten teeth, they say, so we're going to add fluoride to the water and the amount of fillings will go down, whether people want that or that. Of course they want that, you say! It's obvious! But no, that's not obvious. If you, or any member of your family wanted to avoid losing your teeth, the answer is glaring, right in front of your nose: eat less sweets and chocolate, and brush and clean more regularly. Why don't people do that? They say they will, they promise they will, they even resolve to do that, every New Year, when they make Resolutions for the coming twelve months. But just like plans to go to the gym, and great ideas about giving up other self-destructive habits, the common behaviour is that all the good intentions fall by the wayside and the bad habits, and unhealthy ways of life, spring back to the fore in the Spring.

Fluoridation is a good example of doing something FOR people, even though, in a logical world, they wouldn't need it. Because, as every parent knows, there are alternatives. If you agree that fluoride is good for you, you can buy toothpaste with it built-in. You can then apply the potential benefits directly to where it is needed, in your mouth, without involving anyone else in your health binge. No, we can't seem to simply do that. Somehow we know that eating sweet things is bad for us, but we still do it. We know that brushing and flossing is good for our teeth, but we don't do it. So someone, in this case Local Government, steps in and says, Right, we can't trust you to do the right thing. We're going to have to do it for you, (and take the decision out of your hands). We'll add the stuff to water, so you can't avoid it. You will now get the health benefits, (whether you would choose to have them or not). Yep, that's a great way of treating people like children, and forcing 'good behaviour' onto the population, despite all the efforts we make every day to transform ourselves into overweight, unhealthy, ugly and toothless.

The biggest consequence is that this sort of overbearing authority removes consequences from people's lives. In a logical world it would be simple: you eat sweet things, your teeth fall out. Now it's up to you. You choose. You eat those candy bars, you'll get false teeth. Your choice. In our topsy-turvey world, it's all different. Oops, you're eating that bad stuff. Well, we don't want to step in and interfere with your decisions. You've decided to eat it, (despite our good advice), and we can't stop you. Aah, but we can add stuff to the water you drink. That'll cure you, whether you change your way of life, or not. You WILL be healthy.

It's a dangerous step. Once you've added some 'medicine' to the water supply, there's a precedent for finding reasons to add more, and more. In the 1960s some people thought it would be a good idea to add LSD to the reservoirs, because, hey man, we're all too buttoned up. Let's hang loose, baby. Uh, no, we disagreed with those wild hippies, at the time, and since. But in our modern world, there are terrorists trying to add poison to our water too, because they see it as a good way to persuade our governments to follow their manifesto. That seems outrageous, until you realise that the existing water isn't pure anyway, is it? It's already been tampered with, in the name of making us better citizens. The terrorists are perhaps merely following an example set by our very own leaders.

It's a fluid situation. People will always do the unexpected, and then, leave the experts confounded. In recent years, people with lots of money and no sense, have been paying over the odds for bottled water, convinced by advertising that tells them that what's in the plastic bottle will do them a whole world of good. Well, maybe the fluid has been 'filtered by volcanoes' or 'bottled at source', (which means it's full of minerals, apparently), but the important thing is that it isn't tap water. Despite what all the medicators have been trying to do, they have been fooled by the ultimate put-down: fashion. Suddenly, it's just not cool to be seen drinking water out of the tap - no matter how good it is for you - and sucking out of a plastic teat is now all the rage in our modern world. Bad luck, legislators. You're just going to have to find some new way to do people good. They simply aren't downing the medicated water supplies you've prescribed for them. Who could have predicted that?

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Did anyone else hate HP and The Gobloet of Fire on the PS2?

I HATED IT! I recently found the rare HP and the Sorcerer's Stone on PS2 and since I have the other games I was doing a marathon of playing the games then watching the movies. As before I had fun with the first three games and then I got to GOF, which I had never played, I was so disappointed! I hated it but I still had the urge to finish it. So now tonight I'm watching the fourth movie then I'll start OOP and watch that then I'm trying to come up with stuff to take to Hastings to get HBP. Ha....I'm sure you all wanted to here this....I am just so lonely with HP. The only friend that likes it a state away from me. We're gonna see HBP at the same time so we can txt! Phones on vibrate of course and we said we'll sit in the back so no one will notice.

i hated it so much and i liked all the others before it and all of the ones after

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