Potty Mouth

Well, got to the bottom of my eBay-listing-not-showing-up-in-the-search problem, as ebay finally sent me an email. Unfortunately the response was too late for me to make any changes, as the auction had already finished (D'oh!), but at least I now know what to do to make my re-listed item searchable. So, wanna know what the reason was? Allow Mr Ebay to talk you through it:

"Hello,

Thank you for writing to eBay's Customer Support. I understand your
concern as your items are not appearing in the search results after
searching for it in the current listings.

I have looked at your item description and can see that it contains one
or more questionable words. Our system will not index items for search
that have inappropriate language in them. These words in your auction
prevent this indexing. Unfortunately, this problem comes up occasionally
with albums and CDs.

As for e.g. you can take note in the item description of item number
4855565724 "Welcome To Mexico . . . Asshole (CDDVN3)".

To fix this, you will have to remove the words or accept that the item
won't be searchable. Using asterisks or other symbols and characters to
disguise the word will not work. The system will recognise the attempt,
and if the symbols are in the title, they will break the indexing
attempt anyway.""

So because the name of one of the Pigface albums was "Welcome To Mexico..Asshole" you could not search for it on eBay. D'oh! Fortunately I have now censored my listing so people can now search for it - and as a result to there are already possible bidders "watching" the auction.

It is interesting though that eBay had no such problems allowing people to search for my "Revolting Cocks" CDs.. So an asshole is worse than a cock, eh?

Anyway, have a new batch of auctions on there this week (as I spent the proceeds of last weeks auctions at the LFC shop before the derby on Saturday), so hopefully a few more pennies will be going in the "Baby K" fund this week!

Day Three

It doesn't look there's been much progress here does there..?



Well, actually, all of the areas that are going to be painted (as opposed to tiled - not being fully tiled this time) have been skimmed with plaster now.

Additionally the bath and sink are now fully fitted with taps and waste bits (or the plughole to you and me) and are ready to be fitted, along with the new loo tomorrow.. (which, unlike the bowl we have at the moment, will actually flush - hurrah!!). With any luck we should be able to use the bath (carefully) over the weekend and the whole tiling job should be complete Monday or Tuesday.

After that we can start getting the house back to normal - and my blood pressure will start to subside!!

On a separate note, wrote to eBay.. here's the response so far:

"Thank you for writing to eBay Customer Support,

Your question is very important to us and will be treated with our full
attention and respect for your needs. If you have received this
auto-response, your email has been received, and it is not necessary for
you to resend it. "

Blah, blah, blah.. your question is important to us my ARSE!

Meanwhile no-one is bidding on Pigface (boo!)

J.A.T.T.A

Or.. Just Another Tedious Thursday Afternoon.

I find myself short on inspiration today, I am neither enthusiastic or annoyed particularly by anything whatsoever.. I'm "running on empty", lacking vim and vigour..

I grow increasingly concerned about my eBay auctions.. When I do a search for "Carcass" on eBay, I can see my auction for Carcass CDs listed there.. However when I do a similar search for "Pigface" or "S.O.D" I cannot see my auctions.  Have had a look at them and I cannot see why this should be so (it's not because they've not had a bid either, as my "Garbage" and "Prodigy" auctions are shown), and I've tried modifying the options to get them redisplayed in the search, but this doesn't work either.  So lord knows what's going on?

At least it's Friday tomorrow..