I think the quandary is a different one that many will assume. I have an old friend (in both senses of the word) who has masses of old and rare cameras and lenses. He has sat on them so long that many of the lenses are now full of fungus and the cameras are unexercised and in need of a service in most cases. They are all there just to be looked at, but what good do they do?

Now I'm sure your lenses are not anywhere near that state, but having them hanging about is doing them no good. IMHO they should be used, which is why these days anything I'm really not using gets moved on.

Nothing lasts for ever and older lenses in particular do not store well.

I would by all means offer them here, but if a reasonable price wasn't forthcoming then on to eBay and see them whisked off to Japan, Taiwan or some other exotic home.

I've been through this with Royal Mail. Yes, signed for proves someone has signed for it, but if it doesn't arrive it doesn't prove you sent it, not for PayPal anyway. They require a trackable service, which is Airsure or some other carrier such as DHL. You cannot track in transit a signed for package.

For low cost items this doesn't really matter, but for high cost items it becomes a serious issue for the seller.

The seller is probably making sure that his package is trackable so that he doesn't fall foul of eBay's and PayPal's rules on proving he has delivered.

He's entitled to his opinion, but it's going to be a tricky one!

Is it necessary to have such a big image? Perhaps something smaller would give you a fighting chance.

The message box is where you type your message - where I'm typing right now. The point of that is that you need to click in the box and get the cursor to know the box is active.

How much RAM do you have? Have you set the scratch discs in an optimum way?

I have two hard disks in this PC - one has Photoshop on it and the other is set as the primary scratch disk. This does improve performance.

It does seem much better now.

You need to follow the instructions on how to post images from the Your Photos section.

I'll move it there. but we don't have any images either!