Honda CA 125 Rebel

If you like cruiser style bikes, then this is for you. Nice low seat, if you are a bitvertically challenged! Engine that goes on forever. Great learner legal bike, bit of a head turner. Honda reliability and cheap spares.

The New Royal Mail Pricing August 21st 2006

As many of you are probably aware the way that postage is calculated will be changing on 21st August 2006. At the moment this will only apply to postage within the UK. The price of postage will no longer just be calculated based on the weight of the letter or parcel but will now be based on the weight, dimensions and thickness of the item. This sounds complicated but is not really.

There will be 3 types of postage item - a letter, a large letter and a packet. A letter has to weigh below 100g be less than 5mm thick and smaller than 240 x 165mm. A large letter needs to weigh below 750g, be less than 25mm thick and measure less than 353 x 250mm. A Parcel is anything either heavier than 750g or larger than the large letter dimensions. Within the letter size there is just one postage price. Within the other sizes there are different postage rates determined by weight. All prices are also split into first class and second class as usual. Most of our items will fit into the category of packet and that is likely to be the case for most eBay items I would guess. From looking at the prices it seems that our prices will be changing slightly and mostly increasing by a small amount especially for the lighter / smaller items. However, this will depend on how many items are purchased and their sizes and weights.

The prices are as follows:

Everyone should get a template through their letterbox so that they can measure their post to find out which category it fits into. There will also be plastic templates at post offices (my local one already has them). You may notice from the table that second class is now increasing up to 1kg rather than being limited to 750g.

Airmail, Surface mail, International Signed For, Airsure, Special Delivery and Parcel post are not affected by the changes and their prices will remain the same.

Burnout is one of the best games for the PSP

Despite some of the tracks being impossibly difficult, along with GTA this is a must have for the PSP. The graphics are fantastic, and the tracks are novel. It can get repetitive and tedious when trying for a gold medal on the same track but this has everything a good racing game should, including some great cars. There is also a crash event to add a different dimention to the game. Multiplayer is very enjoyable and easy to use. Highly recommended.

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If you are buying off ebay consider the following:

1. Is it real?

2. Does the seller have any proof? IE Genuine photo and not a copied one!!!

3. Search other similar listings and make sure you are not getting ripped off.

4. Do not buy if you are not too sure.

5. Check it out with the seller before you buy.

6. How long has the seller been a ebay member.

Hope you found my guide helpful.

Johnnyclayton

Recovering Your Lost Secure Digital Memory Card Images

I think all of us at some time or other can remember when we used roll film instead of Secure Digital Memory Cards, and the feeling of horror when we inadvertantly opened and saw that the roll film had not been rewound, or fully rewound back into the canister, and those images having been exposed to the light were lost forever. Even with using digital memory cards images can be lost but perhaps not forever as with roll film cameras.

Possibly, you may have accidently deleted a wanted photo from your memory card whilst it was still in your camera. Image loss can also happen if you eject your memory card from your camera before the camera has finished writing to the card. If your camera batteries are low on power and run out of charge during the cards capturing process can also result in image loss. Which ever way that your photo's or images manage to get lost, the anoyance is always the same.

But now Lexar might be able to help and ease your anger and regain or recover your photo's and images that you thought were gone forever with Image Rescue.

When a file is deleted from your memory card, the "File Allocation Table" which is the cards FAT file is only updated to indicate that cards memory where the deleted image file address was is now ready to receive a new image. A good annalogy I read once explained this very well.

Think of the FAT file as a Table Of Contents of a book. If you delete a chapter from the Table Of Contents, it is not the same as actually completely removing the pages from the book itself. Like a Table Of Contents, the FAT file is where your memory card keeps a record of all the files on the card and where they are located.

Most corruption to memory card data happens to the FAT file and not to your photo's or images, isn't that good news.

If a card becomes unreadable because the FAT file has become corrupted you may think that you have lost your photo and image data, but your images are likely to be still there in their location on the memory card's chip. You are only resetting the cards FAT file even when you reformat your card. So it is extreemly likely that your photo's and images are still on the card even if you accidently reformat the card.

Do you want to recover and rescue those photo's and images? Well here is the key. The key is to remove your memory card from your camera before you shoot any more images on that card. If you were to shoot more images then your camera might overwrite the new image on top of an image that you wanted to recover, should that happen it would make the image unrecoverable.

Lexar's Image Rescue software was designed to help to recover lost images, it works with with any memory card. The software analyzes your cards memory locations and determines the location of your photo and image data. As soon as Image Rescue has identified the photo and image data it then start work to reassemble your images which it will then insert them into a reserved folder on your computer.

You will see a simple an intuitive screen after you have inserted your memory card into your card reader and launched the Image Rescue software. To recover your images just click on the "Image Recovery" button, from the drop down menu choose your card and click the "Recover Images". Isn't that simle! Image and photo recovery is not guaranteed but it does give you a very reasonable chance to find those lost images.

Image Rescue has a number of useful actions and other features. One of which allows you to securely reformat your memory card which not only resets the FAT table but erases all the data in the cards memory.

Do ebay actually care about sellers? We'll see....

Well here is the situation,

I have been on ebay for over 5 years now and selling strong for the past 2 years, as a business for the past year. Never before have I been scammed by someone but bam!! one day a bidder buys 47 copies of the same product and doesnt respond to emails or the invoice.

My next step is to email ebay about the problem.

I go through ebays extremly confusing and totally useless 'Contact Us' system and tell them my problem.

'I have had a bidder buy 47 Copies of the same Digtial Product from me in an obvious ploy to get me out of business, I managed to stop the sales at 47 by ending the item (this could have gone on to 1000 copies). I want the sales removed from my account because they are not legitimate (I mean come on? Do you really think thats right?)'.

So what do ebay respond with?

Email the bidder and see what they say.... DID YOU ACTUALLY READ MY EMAIL?

What is it with huge corporations and standard email templates?

So I sent ebay a second email explaining why I want them removed and the fact that these purchases have sent my fees up by 76.00 which I am just not willing to pay.

Now I know that I wont have to with the report a non payment feature but that means I have to do 47 seperate disputes all one by one.

So here I am waiting for a response from ebay about my problem and I am asking myself.....

DO EBAY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT SELLERS?

Maybe it was ebay that did this just to get the Interest on my fees before they reimburse me?

Is ebay really a safe place to trade anymore?

I urge sellers to watch this space because it seems all to often that we get into these situations and ebay dont do anything.

Ebay- WITHOUT SELLERS YOU WOULDNT HAVE A JOB! GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

Keep this report in mind as I will be updating it regularly with this problem....

UPDATE

Well ebay care enough to 'Look Into' the problem but still have not cancelled the ebay account of the scammer or reimbursed me a penny. Instead they ask me to complete the Dispute console and to change my settings to only allow certain bidders through.

Whilst this is a viable option to stop bidders with no feedback it will stop some people from buying from our store which shouldnt be the case. Its Ebays Problem and they just dont seem to do anything about these scams.

FINAL UPDATE

Well I give ebay some credit, the guys account was cancelled in under 2 days!! and he had no feedback at all. I Thought I was going to have a harder time than that!

Well the only thing that still annoyed me was that I still have to complete all those diputes to claim back my fees which Ebay can surely sort out for me on there end.

Well on reflection ebay have done the right thing but it took some determined words from me before doing anything at all.

So here is my note to anyone in that position. Email ebay and be forcefull with what you say, dont be abusive or detramantal but just say what you think they should be doing and hopefully they will look into the problem a bit deeper. You may have to do a little but of work to claim some fees back but its better than not getting the response you were looking for in the first place.

Thankyou ebay for listening and I hope you will listen to others with their problems. Oh and thanks to all who voted!!

How to be safe on eBay!

There are loads of guides out there like this one, "how to be safe on ebay", but most of them tell you the same stuff...

...use paypal, only use 100% feedback sellers and dont post anything abroad....

...well bits of this are true, but ebay has evolved to become THE biggest auction site on the net, and these simple basic ruloes/tips arent really valid now (at the strat, yeh, but now, no!)

1.Many sellers have 99% feedback and even some who have 96% feedback can still be bloody brilliant...you must look at the actual amount of feedback as well as the percentage score, because if someone has sold 10 things and they all went well he has 100% positive...where-as if soeone sold 10,000 things and some went wrong (which is highly likely with royal mail and new ebayers making mistakes etc) then he will not have 100% positive, but will be sound..

2. Payment methods...there are loads available and most people say "use paypal only its the best" -well thats because ebay own paypal and ensure that it has the advantages on their auction site (funny that) but there are many other payment options that are just as good, and just as safe. The 2nd best one being NoChex! -This is exactly like paypal and works easily and quickly. They also have protection schemes like paypal but because tehy are a smaller company they are more people/user orintated...here-as paypal do not care when you get problems (trust me, when you get problems with them you will see that they couldnt care less!)

Another great payment method is postal orders! They are fully traceable because of their unique id's on them all and they can be sent via recorded post (even more traceable) and the seller can cash them the saem day (like gtting cash really) and the item canbe on its way to you instantly. This is a personal favourite, obviously the e-payments are better, but nothing beats good old post.

Then finally there is cheque, this is safe but takes ages to clear...and make sure it clears, do not take the buyers word for it that the cheque will clear, you must wait. If you send the game and it doesnt clear you are screwed.

3. Who are good sellers/buyers? -get to know them!!

Simply enail them a question and see if they reply with a decent answer for you about an item, this is the first soign that they care about the item(s) and the sale. If you want to find out more about a buyer then request their information. If someone has bought from you then you can go to the help section and request their information and you will be sent the information they entered when they registered...if it comes back invalid or is actuall ynot a real entry and is numbers etc then dont send the item....inform ebay that the "buyers information is wrong/invalid" and they will excuse you of posting the item.

FINALLY A NOTE ABOUT PAYPAL.....

regardless of how safe everyon says it is it actually isnt. There is no protection on your account, so anyone can hack into it and paypal dont care -they hold you responsible for it. Nochex have a clever system where if you enter your password wrong when trying to log in (or anyone does) then you are emailed to say that there was an attempt to log into your account. PayPal is safe in general, but even if you are dealing with people that are verified they can actually not b the account holder....so please ensure you check the following:

Name of the person on ebay acount and the paypal account and see if they are using a different name in correspondance...also look for email addresses and other details that may not be matching.

If they are in a country such as nigeria, or anywhere in africa do not send it. even if they are verified, as many many people operate scams where you send the item and then they claim you never sent it, so paypal refund the, Just like that....thats why paypal is stupid, they dont listen.

I hope my ramblings and my tips/points have made some sense to you and you find this guide helpful.