Unfortunately the shoot with The Cult fell through due to management issues so managed to shoot Roxy Music last night in Manchester

Really difficult shoot as the concert was being filmed in HD for later Blu Ray release, so lots of video men around, tracks & cables etc..







& Bryan Ferry himself







Busy week this week, hopefully, subject to pass approval.

Jamie Woon
Alexandra Burke
Crystal Castles
Madness

Mike, but as I pointed out above, if you sell an item & get paid by paypal gift you run the risk of losing your money & your item.

Because gift is used purely for gifting money you do not get any of Paypal's protection as a seller. Paypal are clearly coming down hard on this payment racket as they are clearly missing out on a lot of fees.

As a buyer when this happened to me I was very alarmed, as was my seller as you can imagine. Once this happens to a few people it will become a common scam.

When you go to send money to someone you have numerous options

First you choose purchase or personal

Purchase has the following options goods, services or ebay items

Personal has gift, personal payment owed, household expense & other

When gifting money from paypal balance to another fellow UK paypal user the following comes up, assuming an example of sending a £1.00

Your fee 0.00
Your total charge £1.00
Other person will receive £1.00

So there are no fees what so ever, which is why Paypal are now catching on to people using gift as a payment method for transactions.

Whether you like it or not anyone who decides to sell & accept payment method paypal gift is running the risk of losing their money & their item.

The only safe method is to accept a normal paypal payment & get your buyer to pay the fees on top of the purchase price, this way you don't break paypal's payment rules & you gain seller protection so you can input a tracking number into paypal for your buyer, this potentially stops your buyer from saying the item has not arrived, if you are really up to scratch you will pay for your tracked postage method through paypal too.

Yes Paypal is a great boom to buying & selling but try & get out of paying their fees & they will bend you over!!! Be warned!!

if you are selling items on forums or ebay for your own piece of mind use a pay pal method that has a fee.

gift payments are exactly what they say they are 'gift' payments not transactional payments.

paypal are a comercial organisation & are protecting their business against these transactions, which to be honest are clearly fraudulent use of paypal facilities.

gift transactions are free of fees both ways which is why paypal investigate large gift sums.

i paid for a camera i bought on this forum. i colected the camera & paid using paypal on my phone in the sellers house. he checked his paypal account & all was good.

when i got home there was an email from paypal waiting for me telling me my account has been frozen pending investigation into the gift payment. i couldnt withdraw any funds or buy anything this took 10 days to sort out & paypal refunded the payment to me. meaning i ha d the cash & camera. so i then had to pay the seller by bank. transfer. but an unscrupulous person could Use this to their advantage.

so sellers be warned accepting gift paym en ts. there are options to send cash with the buyer paying fees & would advice using that method.

the same goes for buying goods on forums, under no circumstances pay for goods using gift payment.

this method should be used for gifting money only and paying for high value goods with this method will get your account suspended instantly pending paypal invedtigation.

the sellers funds will also get frozen.

most likely outcome? the buyer will get his money back, causing you untold grievances from an irate seller.

sellers also be aware....

Images as requested

Sold subject to payment to mdc

How sharp are these Mike, been looking at one of these for when I get an arena soundboard shoot...

Will keep on here for a few days before ebaying.

Thanks sorted78, maybe some use to the buyer

I have had this body as a back up but never needed it.

The camera functions however, however the top LCD screen is broken & the AV button is stuck in, whilst it is stuck in it is not stuck on. If you squeeze it really hard it will work. In manual mode to set aperture you need to drop back to AV mode to set aperture then go back to manual. The clear plastic over the LCD is cracked.

No box
No instructions
Just the body & USB cable

So for this reason price is just a £100 including special delivery & paypal fees.

I will also throw in a set of rechargeable AAs & a charger.

Ideal camera for if you are going somewhere you wouldn't take your normal body I guess.

Photos to follow;