Comments for The El Passo Blog https://elpassoblog.com Ripping up the rule book whilst drinking a smooth pint of reality. Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:36:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 Comment on VAT MOSS – Here’s My Practical Accounting Solution To The New EU Digital Services VAT Rules by Dan (el_passo) https://elpassoblog.com/vat-moss-heres-my-practical-accounting-solution-to-the-new-eu-digital-services-vat-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-236624 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:36:26 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=579#comment-236624 In reply to Trevor.

Hi Trevor,
When running a business there is always going to be work involved when it comes to the accounting side of things, but it’s something you really don’t want to be cutting corners on. Bad accounting practices could leave you up the creek with no paddle in more ways than one!

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Comment on VAT MOSS – Here’s My Practical Accounting Solution To The New EU Digital Services VAT Rules by Trevor https://elpassoblog.com/vat-moss-heres-my-practical-accounting-solution-to-the-new-eu-digital-services-vat-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-236558 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:53:49 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=579#comment-236558 john sounds a bit involved but once it’s set up looks good

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Comment on Why do some eBay members have private feedback? by sally wallis https://elpassoblog.com/why-do-some-ebay-members-have-private-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-219939 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:44:01 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=6#comment-219939 In reply to boggle.

I was under the impression that anyone with private feedback couldn’t sell items on ebay. This comes from ebay help pages:
“If you make your Feedback profile private, you won’t be able to sell items on eBay. Your Feedback comments will be hidden, but members will still be able to see the number of positive, neutral and negative Feedback ratings you’ve received.”

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Comment on Why do some eBay members have private feedback? by sally wallis https://elpassoblog.com/why-do-some-ebay-members-have-private-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-127284 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:10:08 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=6#comment-127284 I think that you should be able to amend feedback after the 45 day limit in certain circumstances, such as when an obvious misselling or false description has occurred, I also think that there should be some way for ebay members to post negative feedback like you used to be able to do.

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Comment on Why do some eBay members have private feedback? by sally wallis https://elpassoblog.com/why-do-some-ebay-members-have-private-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-127283 Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:07:10 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=6#comment-127283 I bought a “sterling silver” stamped bracelet from an ebay member with really good feedback, and after wearing it for 4 months noticed it was, as I thought, tarnished. Cleaning it up I could see that the silver was wearing off revealing base metal underneath. As the purchase was longer than 45 days ebay wouldn’t help, dispite it being obvious that she was misselling cheap plated jewellery as sterling silver, and attempts to sort it out with the seller failed. I reported her to Trading Standards, and although it is unlikely that I will get my money back (£23) I hope she is stopped. A little bit of research on my part showed that she was buying up cheap lots of plated jewellery, stampeed as 925 silver (although sold with the description of plated) and selling as sterling silver. I have now found that her feedback has suddenly been made private, and she has no items for sale. I am wondering if ebay is finally investigating her. I also wonder how many other people got stung by the same seller.

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Comment on To Facebook or not to Facebook? by Ian Armstrong https://elpassoblog.com/to-facebook-or-not-to-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-126941 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:13:03 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=565#comment-126941 Hi Dan,

I once read a book on advertising and branding and one of the chapters went on about neurotransmitters in your brain making connections when you associate an image with a product/smell/feeling etc etc you know what I mean.
So my guess is that if they can have the image(facebook F) associated with there product then somehow this will do some kind of voodoo in your brain whilst you think about crunchy nut cornflakes.??? maybe?

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Comment on How To Create A Custom PayPal Checkout Page by Neil https://elpassoblog.com/how-to-create-a-custom-paypal-checkout-page/comment-page-1/#comment-126924 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:21:53 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=114#comment-126924 I have created a custom page and that worked beautifully, when test all seems fine until I looke at the right hand side it has everything you need to submit a payment but, hold the phones it wants you to create a paypal account before you submit payment, I truly can not have that is there a way not to force customers to to create a paypa account?

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Comment on Why do some eBay members have private feedback? by cccooperagency https://elpassoblog.com/why-do-some-ebay-members-have-private-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-126892 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:21:38 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=6#comment-126892 I just had my first experience with a private profiler and it did have to do with hiding their questionable practices and more. This was a European who bid and won several of my auctions and then went on to tell me how to ship these items to avoid paying customs and falsify documents! There was no way I wanted any part of that. When told that I would be happy to ship the items separately so that no duty was imposed OR combine items with shipping discount and the customs duty is his responsibility, he about went ballistic.
Not only did he want the combined shipping discount but also to avoid customs duty and he did not even want them shipped with tracking! He wanted them simply in an envelope and I suspect the buyer would have later claimed “no receipt” so he could do a chargeback on Paypal. All of these listings won were for unique non activated geocoins and I strongly suspect he had plans to sell them and make a tidy little profit (no cost involved!) When citing the Ebay, Paypal and USPS requirements he got nasty and told me to go ahead and call in the FBI. I did a cancel transaction on all 3 but sadly, you can’t file negative feedback on these disreputable buyers nowadays.

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Comment on How To Create A Custom PayPal Checkout Page by Kat Gray https://elpassoblog.com/how-to-create-a-custom-paypal-checkout-page/comment-page-1/#comment-126885 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:59:52 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=114#comment-126885 Great idea adding your contact info to the custom header image. Im going to use this on my custom checkout pages. Thanks 🙂

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Comment on How To Make A Full PC Backup And Restore After Hard Drive Failure by Dan (el_passo) https://elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-126883 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:49:05 +0000 https://elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-126883 In reply to kasper.

Good question!

It stores the backups as .tib files, which I’m guessing is a custom filetype the use, so it’s not .tar, .rar or .zip.

As for compression, I honestly have no idea as I’m using incremental backups and keeping a few different restore points so it’s hard to tell exactly how much compression is taking place, if any. So that may be a question you would be best off asking their support team.

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