BECKHAM’S
TUXEDO
An Ebayer
bought David Beckhams Saville Row tuxedo for £125 from a charity shop and sold
it on Ebay to an idiot for £2,600. The seller Jordan Silverstone is facing
criticism because he’s made £2475 profit from an item donated to charity. Sky
weather presenter Nanzaneen Ghaffer said on Twitter “If an item doesn’t fit,
people should just sell them for what he/she paid”. And this from someone who
accepts a fortune from Sky for telling us what we could know just as easily
from looking out of a window. If Ms Ghaffer was all Mrs Charity she’d tell Sky “Look,
you are paying me far too much to do the same thing a window does, so give 90%
of my wages to charity”. It has to be asked: who would pay £2600 for a suit
just because David Beckham wore it. We’ll never know unless we can identify the
buyer then quiz the person who looks after him.
The Beckhams
donated 20 boxes of clothes and shoes etc to charity, which is where Ms Ghaffers
argument sort of falls down. People bought Davids stuff because there was a
fair chance that they fit because he’s a regular size, but Victoria’s stuff wouldn’t
anyone, apart from her and undernourished stick insects, and undernourished stick
insects tend not to shop in charity shops, or any shops for that matter.
Mr
Silverstone wasn’t alone in making Ebay money from the Beckhams hand me downs.
A pair of white platforms Posh wore at a Dodgers Mets game sold for £1000 on
Ebay, a profit of £950 on the cost in the charity shop. And a whole set of
completely unused Victoria Beckman monogrammed Tupperware food containers went
for £500. I say unused but one did contain a lettuce leaf, once.
That’s the
free market for you.
RBS
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| SUSAN ALLEN |
The Royal
Bank of Scotland has promised to compensate people left out of pocket after
customers were unable to use RBS cards of any sort to pay for purchases between
18.30 and 21.30 on Cyber Monday. As banks go they really are a crappy bank who
does absolutely nothing to help with their own reputation. They are like the
Gazza of the banking world.
In petrol
stations they have signs on the pumps that read:Please ensure you have the
means to pay before filling your tank. A new sign has been added, it reads: Please
ensure you have the means to pay before filling your tank, ESPECIALLY IF YOU
HAVE RBS CARDS BECAUSE THAT BANK IS PRETTY MUCH USELESS.
The bank has
two slogans, Make it Happen, and Where People Matter.
They should
change them to We Can’t Make Anything Happen Because Our Systems Are Down, and
Were People Matter. And by that they mean they are pretty good at dealing with Were
people who turn into Werewolves because don’t want to get on the wrong side of
a Werewolf who has just spent hours trawling the internet for a big list of
Xmas present who has found that he can’t use any of his RBS cards at the
checkout.
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| MISS ALLEN'S ASST MOUSSA |
“We are very
sorry for the inconvenience” said Susan Allen, RBS director of customer relations.
A position akin to the job Moussa Ibrahim had a spokesman for the Gaddafi
regime. But at least Moussa was sincere in what his statements.
I wonder
what happened to him. Rumour has it that he’s now Susan Allen’s assistant.
Miss Allen
went on to say “It is completely unacceptable that customers couldn’t access
their own money” adding, “it didn’t affect me because I bank with Santander”.
Surprised
actually that RBS customers have money not with all the imaginative and dodgy
methods RBS have come up with to part them from it.
RBS
customers have now missed out on all the Cyber Monday One Day Only Cyber Deals
on offer on line, and all the in store One Day Only Super Deals the shops
offered to counteract online shopping.
How can they
compensate for that? Are RBS going to sit down and worked out what the sale
cost would have been and what the cost was a day later. Somehow don’t think so.
