Anvh, thank you for your Tale, you are most wise.

You have there one of the rarest Pentax cameras, so TLC is the thing. Use it and love it, or sell it and possibly get a good price.

Yellow? The focus confirmation indicator is green...

My reply was incomplete rather than incorrect, just to make a simple example without getting bogged down by the detail.

But you are quite correct that Antiquarian & Collectable books have a higher, still unrealistic I think, limit. That assumes you want your book to be in that section which may miss some valuable keyword searches for yoyr item. If it's suitable though, that's fine.

For photographic books you can use Photography>Books, Manuals & Magazines instead and there is no limit to postage in that section. Which is a good thing considering some of the monster-sized tomes I have sold recently!

No-one should be put off from asking questions.

The clearer the questions and the more information there is the easier it is for good answers to follow.

Sometimes the breadth of photographic information can dazzle the newcomer to photography. It can't all be absorbed at once!

Do a slideshow in Windows xp to have a first look at the contents of a folder?

Don't forget the seller as well when it comes to postage!

As an example, there is now a £2.75 limit on postage in the UK for a fiction book. If that happens to be a whacking great hardback on heavy paper that costs over £5 to post then it's just hard luck for the seller.

So the asking price has to go up.

It's a mixture of things I suppose. PayPal is owned by eBay, so naturally they want you to use it, but I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't something that stops them from being able to insist on it. They only insist you include the option, and to be fair it is safer than cash or cheque.

I would pay by PayPal for an expensive item, but I would be more wary of sending a cheque, waiting for it to clear and maybe waiting for the item forever. Shim has already been a victim of the pitfalls on another thread.

The buyer does not pay PayPal fees. The whole point is that payment is secure and free for the buyer. The advantage to the seller is quick payment and the very fact that PayPal is offered makes buyers more likely to bid.

Just make sure your items attract a price that makes selling them worthwhile. You can have a higher starting price, for example, the logic being that if only that one buyer is interested then they might as well pay £10 as 99p!

Try again, it can be worthwhile once you get to learn the ropes.

If you want a competition of pre- and post- processed images then set one in the gallery competitions section. As you can only post one picture in such a competition you would need entrants to put both images into one canvas.

There can be more than one competition in there at a time. If you set one, then there will be a short delay whilst it is approved.