I did think to myself, in Dudley Moore fashion,: "Funny… Funny… Funny thing to find in the Sound And Vision cat."

The funny thing was a pirate-type storage chest. Quite fancy one too! And it's a good £18 - £28 cheaper than elsewhere.

She be a beauty, she be… Ooh-Ahh…

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131470451916?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D131470451916%26_rdc%3D1

So how (or where) would this be used ?

Ah yes, my Adire speakers used a modified Eminence 10" driver with a screw in compression tweeter. I'd forgotten about them.

I also complained that Ebay make it near impossible to report such breaches. Other than reporting individual listings, there is no way to highlight these abuses. The first EBay representative I spoke to told me that there was actually no way for her to escalate this other than manually reporting each item herself!

I will be back on the phone until they do something and I encourage others to do the same. I hate where rules only apply to "little fish" and I go out of my way to challenge it. Incidentally they also make it hard to get a number to call. You have to effectively lie and choose an option such as. My account has been taken over/compromised in order to get a number and code. I was encouraged by EBay staff to keep taking this course of action in order to report spammers. Wouldn't it be simpler to have a report member option that allowed the reporting of more than one item?

AFAIC Ebay is run by a bunch of greedy, self-serving simpletons. It's only a matter of time before a rival platform surfaces and I will be sure to do everything I can to see its success in order to bring EBay back into line. It used to be a decent company a few years ago but now it's a virtual monopoly that needs a competitor to bring it back from where it has sank.

Well said. Likewise, I'm eagerly awaiting a rival but just cant see it happening... Gumtree for example is now owned by eBay IIRC, any budding rival is bought out to protect the monopoly.

I really hope Amazon or Google fancy having a go. I didn't  know about Gumtree being owned by EBay but I can't use it anyway. I was banned for life with no further appeal. Here are the details.......

I started by registering and placing a handful of listings which were almost immediately removed. I rang Gumtree and was told it was because of listing breaches. I was advised to consult the emails I had been sent for the specific breaches, except that I hadn't been sent any. 

Escalation of my call led led to a manager reviewing my listings and agreeing there were no breaches. He told me it had to be a system error and he would reinstate the ads. Half an hour later the ads were removed again and I enterd "groundhog day".

After once again agreeing that my listings did not breach their policie, Gumtree staff once again reinstated my ads themselves and once again they were automatically removed. This time I received an email confirming that I was banned for life and staff would not enter into any dialogue over the breaches or the ban. My only right of appeal was via a single email to an adress given.

I appealed and gave all the facts only to receive a stock reply saying my listings had repeatedly violated listing rules and my lifetime ban was therefore upheld. It advised that any further emails from me would be ignored. To this day, no verbal or written reference has been made as to what the breaches I allegedly made were and the 2nd and third sets of listings were actually placed by Gumtree staff, not me. 

Gumtree and Ebay deserve each other IMO.

Nice description!

No mention of "bile" or "swine"?

Bile and swine always appear in translations of audio listings.