Quote from: msr on Today at 02:53:24 PMThe £1 charge from PayPal on an eBay purchase or linked card is a temporary verification fee used to confirm the card is valid. You can check your PayPal account to confirm that the payment has been refunded. I get the same treatment from Rails too.

As a one-time verification the first time you use the payment method then yes that does happen, but not every time you make a purchase as @class8mikado is reporting?

The Tale of the Lost Railway (Part – Eleven)

The six men filed through to the dining room where they were joined by Archie's wife Flic and his personal secretary Melissa Bartram who was heavily involved with the various negotiations relating to the railway.


The dining table awaiting the guests

The menu for the evening meal was as follows :

Appetisers
Spanish olives
Cheese Balls
Cocktail sausages with baby onions

To Start
French Onion Dip with herbed potato wedges.
Marinated Fried chicken livers and  water chestnuts  wrapped in bacon.
Garlic mushrooms

Main Course
Duck a l'orange
Steak Diane
Dover Sole
Pork chops with apple sauce
All served with a choice of baby new potatoes, French fries, roasted wedges, fresh carrots, broccoli, green beans, peas and roasted courgette.

Dessert
Tunnel of fudge cake
Pineapple upside-down cake
Traditional apple tart
Vanilla ice cream
Custard

The Cheese Board
Featuring an array of cheeses  served with  biscuits, sliced apple, walnuts and grapes.

Coffee to finish

Wines to include :
Bollinger RD (as supplied by Bertie and Bonzo)
Bordeaux (1959 vintage)
Rioja Reserva 904
Chardonnay – 1958
Cabernet Sauvignon (1955)

Digestif

1954 Madeira
1951 Colheita Tawny Port
1950  Courvoisier  Cognac

By 6-00pm everyone was sitting around the table ready to tuck in to what would surely be a lavish feast.

Quote from: class8mikado on Today at 09:35:20 AMHave noticed that some of the pricing on ebay is optimistic, from one point the starting price and the selling price grow wider apart and some sellers still think putting £ 5 post on a £10 wagon isnt going to put people off...

But if it is a wagon you need you have the choice of paying the postage, which at £5 is realistic, or visit a model shop to buy it if they even have it in stock. If I were to do that it would cost over £10 in petrol and my time.

The £1 charge from PayPal on an eBay purchase or linked card is a temporary verification fee used to confirm the card is valid. You can check your PayPal account to confirm that the payment has been refunded. I get the same treatment from Rails too.

With eBay's Simple Postage now the seller often isn't specifying the actual cost. Buying one small item will often be inefficient, just how it is.

No spurious PayPal charges for me!

And I'll get me coat 

Quote from: class8mikado on Today at 09:35:20 AMHave noticed that some of the pricing on ebay is optimistic, from one point the starting price and the selling price grow wider apart and some sellers still think putting £ 5 post on a £10 wagon isnt going to put people off...

Cost of postage plus packing.  It does make buying one cheap wagon uneconomical perhaps, but you just factor the P&P into what you're willing to pay. Maybe make an offer, or just walk way and leave it to somebody else.

QuoteOn a technical note  i seam to be being debited an extra £ 1 every time i use paypal ? is that the case now  ?

Nope, not seen that ever.  You haven't set up some sort of charity donation have you?

Quote from: Bealman on Today at 12:19:34 PMYou need a passport to go to Scotland? I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!

You don't. Not yet anyway although the Scots are working on it  and hopefully Wales too one day 

The problem is that airlines should accept other documents for internal flights but that requires training their minimum wage staff so they often don't bother. There are other options but the photo ID has to be government issued.

I just get the train.

That's the problem with Hadrian's Wall. I was never fit enough to climb up onto it.