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just to give you all a followup. ebay ruled very quick.... eBay opened a case because of an issue with an item purchased from you. We reviewed the case and have decided to issue the buyer a refund of US $36.99 without any impact to you. This case is now closed. You are not required to reimburse the buyer or eBay, and this case will not be counted in your seller performance evaluation. Here's the case outcome eBay Customer Support has refunded the buyer. We're issuing the buyer a refund for this case. You don't need to do anything else. This case won't be included when we evaluate seller performance. Note: It may take up to 24 hours for this information to be updated in your Seller Dashboard. Case summary Outcome You were not found at fault. More info You provided tracking information that shows that the item was delivered to the buyer's address. However, the buyer didn't receive it. As a courtesy, we're issuing the buyer a refund for this case.

This is my last post regarding this topic. Its been a fun, interesting conversation. Thanks for the views from all sides. Everyone here is a class act. Now to make a post on topic. Played a nice round of golf this morning with my new set of BidenBux clubs. Shot a 91.

Lets take the confirmed cases in the USA (30,900,000) divided by deaths (560,000). We arrive at a 1.81% Fatal rate for Covid 19 in the United States However, this leaves out a major detail. This basic calculation ignores true number of infected. A lot of good science believes 50-60% of the USA population has contracted Covid 19 over the past year and never tested positive. If we add an additional 100 Million infected who've not been counted we are looking at a 99.9% survival rate. Yes, what I wrote above is just a meme...I'm just a lunatic conspiracy theorist, so please ignore everything I've written. My fudged calculations are intended to deceive everyone. With that said. Brickvoyeur's charts are accurate. However, If we add in those who've been infected and not counted this number reaches the 99.0-99.9% survival rate. Please understand I'm not trying to brush Covid 19 aside. I'm very sad for all those who've family have been changed. My grandfather passed away from it. I just want to point out a alternate view as the phycological effects of this virus may be more dangerous than the virus itself.

Yesterday the lady and I bought a new car for her. She got a 2018 Subaru CrossTrek with 18k miles. I was pushing to get her a Rav4 but she really likes the Subarus.

It's as likely as local, state, and federal levels adjusting the numbers downward, or upward, in order to spread their specific agenda. I think if every country had the mass testing, and healthcare capabilities, as the USA... that you'd find that there have been both many more cases and many more deaths. The 2% overall death rate seems reasonable. But I believe the exact numbers about as much as I believe that China, the epicenter, has only their reported 90,341 total cases and 4,636 total deaths. All we can go by is the collected data, and the "excess deaths" total for the pandemic was wildly over the upper limit:

This is the only answer

Way ahead of you buddy. Sweatpants only since lockdown began. No belt = no beltline

based on the number of unread posts, I thought someone did someone else's wife and got caught in the act.. #disappointed

I think he read the what did I do today thread, went and got vaccinated and it didn't agree with him.

Ah so this IS you then!

Not to derail the chip conversation with more COVID ramblings, but just wanted to give a quick update on the J&J single shot I got yesterday. Walgreens had their act together, and I was in and out in under 30 min. Felt fine all day yesterday, but had a pretty rough night…chills, headache, and some very weird dreams. I feel a combination of jet lag and a hangover this morning. Still better than my COVID experience a few months ago…that was kinda scary. And I completely agree with keymomachine…we don't have any idea what the long term effects of COVID are (and by the way, I still have zero sense of taste or smell). I'm grateful we have a vaccine this quickly, and would encourage everyone to get it when available, even if it seems like a leap of faith to you. Humanity doesn't have the luxury of a "wait and see" approach with this virus. Let's get it under control, minimize potential variants, and get on with life.

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I was going to post that I went to Costco and bought several 32oz bags of potato chips @ $4 a bag but I decided not to change the mood of this thread

This Youtuber deserves more subs:

Sold 4 things online today and I already spent the $20 profit on snacks.... There might be a big flaw in my reselling methodology 🤔🤔

Went for a walk in the woods.

Everything's become political; impartiality has been pushed to the margins in academia, journalism (Slanted by Sharyl Attkisson), and, yes, even science. Bias is not only accepted in these areas, but becoming increasingly encouraged. Arguments like the one below can be made and, in a vacuum, are reasonable: But it's not simply that people don't trust the vaccine; they don't trust the literature and, especially, the intermediaries. I mean, Fauci instructing the public not to wear masks without the truthful why (effectiveness vs. supply for health care workers) was an error on the sheer grounds that it shows scientists are capable issue misleading people on the basis of the ends justifying the means. Further, There has been pushback. I had a difficult time finding it, too, despite using very specific criteria to search for a video that I watched a couple of weeks ago. I nearly assumed it'd been removed, but I found it when I circumvented the search and went directly to the channel. Search results are being manipulated. For the record, the hosts of that video agreed with the underlying sentiment that the long-term effects of new technology carries risk (is the sky blue?) - while also expressing flaws in the suppositions. (When legitimate questions like this one are shouted down or censored [e.g. search algorithm manipulation], that has the effect of making people more likely to believe the jank Facebook conspiracies.) Even if somebody has the desire and the aptitude to perform their own research, they simply don't have the time when everything has to be questioned and investigated: the news sources, the scientists, their motivations, the search results, the data & methodology, etcetera. Broad "but science" claims have been deluded to the point where the "Listen to doctors, get the &*/$&# shot." isn't seen as an appeal to credibility or logic - it's received as bullying. More than ever, we have to treat each other like individuals, listen to concerns, address them as best we can, and give people the space and respect to change their own minds. Thanks Ed for allowing Brickpicker to be a place where that kind of discussion is allowed & encouraged. Oh and, on topic, today I spent too much time writing this.

That's about my 9-hole average

You need to contact the post office personally to see what that means -- although I wouldn't put any more effort into this if I was you. It is theft if you keep a package that was addressed to someone else and refuse to give it up if asked. In which case, the buyer can file a police report. But that message is extremely vague, and I think if I contacted the postmaster at my PO and they told me "our attempt to recover your package was unsuccessful", I'd like some more details -- I don't think the buyer is putting much effort into this, and probably for a reason. Ironically, I have an open case on ebay right now where USPS shows delivered and the buyer claims he never got it and is expecting me to refund him. I told him to submit a case to ebay, but his chances of getting his money back was dependent on the generosity of ebay to take it out of their pocket since the tracking clearly showed it as delivered -- and since he sent me a message claiming he never got it, it'll be difficult for him to try a SNAD attempt later. I also told him to contact his USPS but he claimed he worked during USPS hours and that wasn't an option... Right... Well he filed a not received case with ebay, I sent the tracking info to ebay, and then I sent a request to USPS and got a message on their website that the package was part of an ongoing investigation. I followed up with the buyer that I contacted USPS and said either ebay automatically filed a case to track down the package or he was able to contact the post office -- what changed? Crickets since then. In any event, you owe the buyer nothing financially. It was delivered. Your obligations are done. Insurance is to protect you to the point of "delivery". If the buyer felt they needed insurance after delivery to protect them, they could have asked for it, but they didn't. It's the responsibility of the buyer to provide a safe location for the package (if theft is an issue).

How do you think I was able to crunch the numbers for the bottle deposit trifecta? 9999 bottle and cans in the trunk, 9999 bottles and cans. At 10 cents a bottle and 10 cents a can, we're pulling in $500 a man. 9998 bottle and cans in the trunk, 9998 bottles and cans. We fill up with gas, we count up our cash!

I think the amazon listings are very misleading tbh for most of us. The majority of people reselling only have access to ebay and other avenues. Ebay prices are hugely different from amazon and the majority of at st sets on Ebay have not performed that well compared to other sets. Great if you have amazon but people need to remember that a lot of just simply can't access it.

i sold through 22x 20th anniversary slave1s last month for $279-285 FBM under the FFP listing which was pricing higher than the standard listing. i did not ship them in a lego box. i shipped them inside a new plain 20x16x4 box wrapped in small bubble wrap with extra cardboard strips along the top and bottom to prevent denting. i sold through all of the "white label" euro imports. grandma doesn't care as long as it arrives in good shape. zero returns on this set which is pretty amazing actually. ymmv since easter shopping is over and only jerky nitpicky collectors are buying now until graduation season. i also sold a megaconstrux uss enterprise for $399 fbm which is also pretty amazing.

My Space Coin, along with five 40454s shipped today! I should have them Thursday. Looking forward to the sets.

The long-term side effects of Covid-19 *infection* are also mostly unknown at this point, but can be severe, and that's if it doesn't kill you, something the FDA-emergency approved vaccines almost certainly will not do - so this is not a good argument for delaying vaccination. You want the economy back? This is how we get the economy back.

LOL...Dr. Ed to you. I am a science guy. Yes, I fear the future side effects of this new technology. One major issue that I read about is cancer and how this vaccine will disrupt the body's immune system fighting it. I'm sure there are other issues as well. With any sort of medication, there is nothing without side effects. Even aspirin gives people ulcers. That being said, what I have witnessed over the past year with regards to people getting sick and the mental stress it is putting people under (including myself and my family), I believe it is worth the risk. Many people and their kids have lost a year of life in many ways. Not seeing friends, family or going to school or work is life changing. We are social animals. This is a wicked disease and the politicians and media outlets that have weaponized it to remain or gain power should go to Hell. Whether the vaccine is safe or not, whether it works or not, time will tell. But to me and my family, it has given us a little more positive outlook and hope that we can all get back to normal. I miss going to swim practice and eating at Red Lobster. Sounds silly, but I am willing to take a leap of faith and give it a shot. I mean how bad can it be? After my first shot, my private parts got bigger and I could read minds. That's pretty cool.

It's not mob mentality to listen to epidemiologists about taking a vaccine. It's not political. It's about drowning out the virus before new variants emerge because people went with their gut, their preference, or their facebook research and we all end up locked down for another year. Listen to doctors, get the &*/$&# shot.

Athletes that don't care about winning, or losing for that matter, have no place in competitive sports. Period. He's a millionaire. He's rich no matter what. We know. That being said, deGrom most definitely cares about winning. Not only that but he cares about his legacy and the HOF, both of which are in jeopardy simply because he cannot get wins. And that contract? One of a few that a player actually earned. (Also the same contract he can opt out of in a few months. and probably will. he can easily demand more $$$) Fun Fact: deGrom was paid 7mil and 7.4mil respectively for both his (2018/2019) Cy Young seasons. A bargain.

The Coin has landed.

As others have mentioned, the long term effects of COVID are unknown. With what I've heard of people who had COVID and recovered and still not having a sense of smell or taste, that alone is awful enough for me. I LOVE to eat! FDA approved vaccine is the way to go for me and my family.

I've had a couple interviews this year where none of us were on camera and the interviewee turns their camera on. I had to mention you don't want to see me in a sweatshirt tucked away in my basement.

I have to help interview candidates tomorrow and the only question I asked the person I'm helping out was if I could still wear a t-shirt.

https://www.brickfanatics.com/every-lego-creator-expert-set-retiring-in-2021/ Too early surely to know exit dates. "According to our sources..."

It's a meme created, and spread, by people who want to believe that this thing hasn't killed millions of people around the world. Johns Hopkns Numbers: Global Cases: 132,567,503 |||| Global Deaths: 2,876,350 = 97.8% survival rate Worldometers: Global Cases: 133,197,043 |||| Global Deaths: 2,889,730 = = 97.8% survival rate Some conspiracy theorists believe hospitals have intentionally falsified numbers in order to make things look worse than they are. One thing is for sure, based on the USA numbers provided by the CDC, your risk spikes greatly after age 50

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First time having a Chicago Dog at a Cubs game a couple years ago, they sprinkled chips on top. It was excellent!

I’m glad to see that Jang agrees with my post (what lego set did you build today) both on the price for what you get and the “laziness” of the build. That big arch piece just attached to one headlight stud and dropped into place is very weak.

reminds me of trading 'gurus' that runs courses, if you are so good at day trading you would have made way more money than running classes.... but there are plenty that fall for it.

Frustration free is a specific box. It is sealed and has a product label. More and more sets are being offered FF, so more and more people are getting familiar with it. Especially collectors. If I pay an extra $20-30 for an FF box, it better be. If you want to gamble with it go for it.

Wrong I believe. The listing variant says you should. Like if you list under the 6 pack of something you can't send a single item. That said, will the average consumer know or care what frustration free means and will you get a complaint? Odds are slim to none. Personally I only send in true frustration free packaging if I am using that listing.

You call them sweats. I call them business casual.

Hmmm... Sweatpant overalls. Might be onto something revolutionary there. Everybody needs a thneed.

The "What did you do today?" thread

I totally agree with this. I would want a copy of that email and show it to ebay. Then I agree, you would be off the hook. Let's be honest, you should be off the hook as soon as it is delivered. I mean technically it is out of your control once you drop it off at USPS but I'm always amazed at the buyers who want door-to-door service.

I'm mid 30s and love to run and am getting jabbed tomorrow. I've always had the philosophy of "take all the shots offered."

I got the Pfizer first dose a couple weeks ago...I was the guy looking like an idiot doing dips on the waiting chair for the 15 min observation period...read an article that exercising the arm after the shot helps. Anyway, arm was mildly sore towards the end of the day and that was it...but that was just the 1st dose, which is typically mild anyway. Just glad to see folks here getting the vaccine...

Over the past few weeks, I have had numerous customers (both young and old) that it was their first day out in public in over a year. My business (car wash) seems to help people transition into going out into stores and public venues. It sounds silly, but in many ways people have been looking to return to their normal routines without exposing themselves to others, and a car wash is a great way to do it.

Built the Mars Exploration Rover 7471 that I bought NISB for under RRP. It was built over few weeks, few hours each time. Got to say the build is definitely not for kids as majority are Technic parts. End result is fairly impressive.

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