Let me run this one past you in case it helps anyone else falling into the same trap.

I had just withdrawn virtually all of my PayPal balance and then someone decided they didn't like an item. Unfortunately, instead of just letting me know they decided to open a PayPal dispute. This means that PayPal hold aside the amount in "dispute" and this left a negative balance.

Now if you haven't set up bank funding, just try to make up that deficit with a credit card - there's no option given. Then I wanted to pay for an item and it redirects you to pay the defecit first. Try that and it won't let you! Round and round in circles....

In the end I got my son to send me a "gift" to restore a positive balance and now everything works again. In future I will leave a balance in PayPal just in case.

I hope my buyer, who has no feedback at all, doesn't decide to leave negative feedback, which would be the icing on the cake for a nightmare deal!

Anyway, hope the tale helps someone to avoid the same probalem.

Sue and I will be there either Monday or Tuesday, maybe both.

Simon, you could wait forever....what about the K40D?

My philosophy is jump in and enjoy it in all the time you could be thinking about it....

I have been using the K10D and K20D alongside each other for a while now, and I'm quite sure that the latter is a very significant step forwards.

On paper you might not think so, but in actual day to day photography there are lots of things that have been redressed or refined.

At the current price it's even better value, plus of course you could sell the K10D on eBay (we got £330 for one of ours) so the upgrade will not cost very much at all.

If this should happen the ones to cry for will be the good staff members (and there are plenty) who will be out of a job and won't be able to pay the mortgage.

If for no other reason, I would want jessops to survive for their sake.

You might be closer than you think, because HSBC have the option to exchange debt for up to 15% of the company.

This morning's paper gives more details. Jessops made a huge loss this last year, not quite as big as last time but still huge.

By tonight they will have breached their banking covenants and they are in discussions with HSBC as to how they will restructure their loans.

The shares fell in value again and this values the company now at £2.1m -they owe £57.4m and the most recent loss is £49.8m (£19.1m pretax losses with one off charges being the rest)

I think I'm better at maths that their Executive Chairman.....

Please refer to the smileys in Malo1961's post, which indicate he is being humorous. No need to get abusive about it.

I don't think anywhere near enough people would buy it.

There's no need to be unfriendly to anyone.