Good Trader Snowdon Computers

Possibly but many sellers on Ebay sell broken s**te as 'untested' so I am as forthcoming as possible to assure my customers that in my case some stuff is genuinly untested. As I do not ask my customers to pay what they pay it is they who are making the offer to buy at the price they bid based on the description and terms of the sale set out in the item description. An offer they know up front that will be accepted whatever the value is upon auction close.

I think the DSR applies only to brand new goods. IANAL etc, but again we are talking auctions here, NOT direct sales.

Yes I have seen different businesses, there are thousands of people selling thousands of items ranging from second hand items to new, so I've seen similar postings or similar "conditions as yours".

Thanks for the nice things you have been saying about me! On Friday pissed, on Saturday busy, the posts on those days reflect the fact that I have not had time to think about this.

Niel: Nothing out of the ordinary that concerns me other than a complete stranger taking such in interest. More of a surprise than anything else as I potter though my daily business life. :)

Complete stranger I may be but you might recall the following conversation on the 14th July 2003.

Troy: I must say I find it extraordinary that [Graeme] has managed to achieve that level of turnover on E-bay, what an opportunity E-bay is offering to the entrepreneur! Hope he tells us what he is selling but I'd advise him not to.

Niel: I can beat that, my Ebay turnover last financial year was just shy of £187,000 with a NET profit margin of 17.8%

That is a red rag to a bull and if other people don't find it interesting I do. If only I knew what "NET" means I could work your gross margin and as Troy the bidder outbid you and nick your business.

Niel: The NET profit figure quoted was the NET profit from my P&L account for 2001/2 - profit declared to inland revenue, after all expenses, for calculation of income tax.

Your business is precious, while you were at UOW(B) it was netting you £2,750 a month! I see cards attached to lampposts saying "Earn £700 a week part time" and I know they are bxllshxt, but you were doing it and you are crazy to risk it by releasing commercially sensitive info like this.

Niel: No worries about the IR though, fortunately my old man instilled a high degree of honesty in my from an early age and he's always been self employed. One of his golden bits of advise is to never give the IR or C&E reason to 'investigate' you by doing anything slightly dodgy so my books are disgustingly straight. :)

Honesty isn't enough. Some things come free in our lives, have you accounted for VAT properly on them? Are you sure?

THERE IS A SOLUTION You have many friends. Set up Google's Automatic Deletion Tool with the password "123456", or I will do it for you, and lets start removing this millstone from around your neck.

TMNTM(V)

On a sunny Sunday I wish I was where you are Niel, in the shadow of Snowdon, but at least I can be grateful I am not where Peter is, in the shadow of SavaCentre!

If Niel were your client Peter how would you advise him?

So because I am Good Ol' Troy you aren't concerned, suppose I was Padraig or MW whose posting with your home address is still there or auction-house Troy, would you be concerned then?

"Yep I would be concerned" Then do something to stop it.

"No I would not be concerned" See above: "What was concerning me about this whole thing was..."

Typical Man U supporter!

Ebay isn't an auction and all UK to UK sales there are covered by the Sales of Goods Act and DSR's (if appropriate). The DSR's do apply to second hand goods sold by way of trade.

Why are you so interested in me and my business (and seemingly my personal affairs now)? Some of the stuff you are referring to is from over a year ago which indicates you have been doing a fair bit of reading up on me on Google.

Why do you feel that I need help and advise from you and others in this group? (You earlier asked someone called Peter to advise me although I did not request help in finding people to advise me)

Your 'fascination' is beginning to almost look like obsession. Please stop

And another thing, next time you are delivering computers to MrCheerful in Essex please tell him from me I am not up-tight, and it makes me very angry when people say I am, and would rather live in the shadow of the SavaCentre with Peter [Saxton ibid] than in bloody Peterborough where MrCheerful tries to put me!

I am not obsessed, have not 'trawled the net' only Google, don't care because it is none of my business, have a nice day Niel, the end.

I know I painted rather an idyllic picture but it didn't mean I wanted everyone to come and live with me!

Peter Saxton from London snipped-for-privacy@petersaxton.co.uk

From the information on this thread he doesn't have to file a profit and loss account so he won't be giving too much information away.

Peter Saxton from London snipped-for-privacy@petersaxton.co.uk

Well at least he isn't running your amazing special offer on the word "always"

What is a "sava center"?

Its just my sense of humour, he does'nt take it personally...as I'm sure nobody else does, nothing I say is meant to be taken in offense..I hope its taken in the spirit its meant. What is wrong with the word always? You must be talking about my atrocius spelling...."geniuses can't be good at everything" (tongue in cheek)

I don't have a problem with "always".

Allways[sic] is a different matter.

But they have to be good at something

But is there a solution to your unintelligible quoting practice?

Neil, you have a satisfied poster posting on your behalf! Thats not bad is it, when out of the blue you get clients singing your praises eh?

Troy, this and the finance forum are "dog eat dog"...if you don't fit in, you'll be minced up and devoured.

Never had dealings with Troy or even been in contact with him as far as I know before this. I wish I knew what exactly is going on but a few of us have been pondering and have concluded the following:

I actively buy from a trade only, web based auction. Recently another customer who bids under the ID 'troy' has been bidding on the same stuff I go for and we have competitively bid against each other on a number of occasions. Now we think that the Troy who is the OP of this thread has done some research and posted all this financial information to these groups with the intention/hope of it being picked up by the IR or C&E. I lean towards the latter as he has made quite a few references to whether I account for VAT correctly. We assume the intention is some sort of industrial espionage which would have the result of me ceasing to trade and therefore no longer bidding against him.

Unfortunately my accounts are straight down the line and correct so I fear nothing from any investigation aside from the inconvenience. I noticed as this became clear Troy's attitude from the original post seeming to praise my business to, more recently, a slightly malicious or nasty tone which we think is Troy showing his true colours as his attempt to 'drop me in it' has failed miserably.

Of course this is all supposition and I could be just paranoid but the pattern most definitely fits. Unfortunately I can not confirm the identity of the Troy who uses the trade auction due to data protection rules and although I am on extremely good terms with the management there I would not put them in the awkward position by asking them.

Having been intrigued by this thread as it's developed I think that you'd be well advised to KF Troy & ignore any more of his postings.