Shipping from US help? Anyone?

That Korg X911 device I didn't get before...

I found another in the US. 110v isn't a problem for me, I can use an adaptor. Seller won't ship internationally though... they're being kinda wierd with the shipping, since it's a relatively small device and it's no extra hassle to post it in the US or internationally.

Anyway... could anyone help me out with this one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7306480619

Guide price for them is $242. I think shipping to the UK will be about $50, I was thinking i would bid $175 on it. If they would ship to Canada, I'd just have it shipped there and get it next time we're over.

Having found another one so soon, I'm less worried that I'll 'never' get to try it with the electric cello when it shows up, but if it stays cheap I'd love to get a bargain.

Posting stuff

I sodding hate trying to deal with the post office and posting computers out to people. There's no parking and it's expensive.

So now, I am sending stuff via DHL. It means I have to drive to Tweedbank, but at least it gets sent. Finally. £12 per parcel, basically, maybe cheaper for cheaper items.

And I'm all frustrated and irritated. I want to write some goddam music and I can't think of ways of finishing ANYTHING. ARRRRGGH! Why the hell does everyone I know who would be worth trying to write music with is at the other end of the bloody country.

I can also sense my irritation being made worse by the fact that the studio gets infuriatingly warm in summer, with the side effect that I note equipment death increases at this time of year no matter what I do.

Hopefully I can manage a year without my mixer's PSU blowing up.

RIP, Enterprise 128

It's definitely dead beyond my abilities to repair it. I swapped out the regulators and checked the capacitors, everything seems okay. I can only assume the custom, large surface mount ASIC which handles video and memory has failed, which is bloody typical.

I swapped the LED for a blue one whilst fixing it. It would have looked nice if I'd done it when it worked and had it set up.

Now I have to decide what to do with the parts. I have two motherboards, one of which is an early "Flan" Issue 4 board (cannibalised previously though), the casing, a damaged (usual cracking issue, but it's been trimmed too much now) membrane, good PSU, good BASIC and extended DOS cartridges, EXDOS disk interface, manual, technical reference manual... The disk interface is bloody rare, but so are Enterprise 128s, so I doubt I'll find another to go with it - well, I might, but given what they fetch on eBay, I'm not paying that for something I won't use. I'm trying to clear out. The only reason the EP128 wasn't on eBay is the fact that I really quite like them and I didn't pay the going rate for it, so wasn't seriously out of pocket for having it.

I'm really sad. I'd got demos and stuff for it, I'd even bought the same sort of Sony tape deck I had for my first EP128 in the 80s.

.And...

This is a good song. A really good song.

I want to write songs this good. But I can't.

Fuck that shit

"Richard:

Here's what I found about selling outside of ebay's seller zone:

If I knew that the europe interest in both of my auctions (X911 and MS04) would be this high, I would have included europe.

I unfortunately set the auction for US (Americas) only.  Any other sell to areas is "unwelcome buying" category for this auction.  A sale outside of US would put the seller (me) and any buyer (possibly you) in violation of the auction terms and possibly at risk of fraud.

If you have a friend in the US you could try to convince him to buy for you.  I could ship to their US ebay address and they could ship to you. 

Here are the ebay links for ebay's policy of selling outsize of zone:

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/unwelcome-buying.html
http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/know-buyer-policies.html

I apologize again, Thanks for inquiring, Sam"

You know, much as I want the X911, fuck that. I don't want it badly enough to deal with someone so utterly incapable of thinking outside the box and realising that EUROPEAN BIDDERS CAN PLACE A BID, thereby increasing the amount of money he's likely to get for this device, and actually saying he would have listed it, yet doesn't want me to bid and have it shipped in the US.

There are people in this world I will happily deal with, and they do not respond by trying to make it difficult to buy their stuff.