PatW

Do you mean articulated trucks with long trailers? Yes we do, as our eldest sons haulage firm in Canada.

No good here in the UK. We would be able to drive it round are rondabouts, far too big, long!

Well I've spoken to four people now for no obvious reason it seems, still blocked out! They and their stupid website keeps asking the same stupid questions. They keep telling me to picture all my identification, by smartphone when we don't use them! Why does no one listen? Why are they so stiff, showing no interest in their customers/account holders? Do we all have to have stupid teck that we know nothing about? Simple Discrimination against pensioners. They could revive my account themselves but are just not interested! WHY WHY WHY do they hound people who have been with them for nearly 20 years and blame us for not sending more and more Identification when they had it all 19 years ago? Can nobody there read? I keep getting phone calls and emails asking the same stupid questions! I know disconnect the phone! I shall write emails to all of the newspaper editors I know and tell them what a shambles ebay is and that no one in the UK should trust them! Sorry folks I think I shall pack up model making as the prices are far too high for pensioners anyway. GOODBYE! Update 11.12.2025. Received an email, 'Thanks for updating your personal information' Tried to get in, waited for a security code, phone rang pick it up (remember it's a landline) line was dead so still no code to re-open account! Useless crowd! Why does no one at Ebay listen to our problems accessing our accounts, NOT MAKING THINGS WORSE!

In the UK the Government wants everyone to buy an EV! They are £30,000 for a vehicle for our needs. We bought our present car 12 years ago, our first new car! It was £16,000 now £27,000 or Hybrid (electric around town, small Petrol engine out on the open road) £37,000! Finding an EV charging station out of the major cities virtually nil! Those on our Motorways (Freeways) are at Service Stations, and are either broken by drivers who want free electricity or otherwise large queues waiting to re- charge which can take up to 3 hours for a full charge and is expensive. After charging the EV's might do 300 miles depending on the speed and use of lights/radio/indicators etc. Our Eco-Diesel takes 5 minutes to fill up and can do 600 miles on a run with no exhaust emissions! The car has done 80,000 trouble free miles is serviced every twelve months and has to have an MOT safety check-up. I think we will keep it. An MOT station nearby has an electronics wizard, who fixes Tesla screens for £750 when Tesla want £15,000 in the UK!

I just look for daft stuff Les!

Just ordered: Weird YES!

NO the wheels are wrong, on the highest class car in the world!

Just ordered from local online (as ebay logged me out after 19 years!)

I'm trying to keep the prices as low as possible not as high as might be!

Superb! I was at the launch of these two race cars at Silverstone in the day!

Cheers Les!

I'm just trying to get back into my account to buy discounted kits as a pensioner I can't afford new kits. When going back in to try and re-connect with ebay and my account, why are the Americans like the Russians and Chinese wanting every possible piece of our supposedly secret information? 'Use a Smartphone' No we don't use one, show all your photo's and ID information, NO as scammers use this info all of the time! They are such a waste of time, having spoken to one of their staff over the weekend that have done nothing for me although I've been with them since they started in the UK! Is there anybody out there like ebay that I can use for cheaper model kits?

Does complaining to ebay really make any difference?

Update: After talking, yes actually talking to a human person for 30 minutes about how to re-sign in, then asked to leave a few days for them to reset passwords Etc, it still doesn't work! So 40+ years of reasonably priced models down the tube. As a pensioner I can't afford high shop prices! 03.12.25 Update: Talking to a human is just as bad. Gave them all of my info, sorted a new password, that isn't good enough, so my model making is over after just 70 years! As we live in the UK, ID's are not issued, so I'm now non compos mentis, I do not exist!

Thanks Carl!

What I've done in the past has been to get a road car and converted to a phantom racing car like this:

Yes I had one of these years ago, super kit!

Well none here yet in central England. We hear Scotland has a light flurry but that luckily 300 miles away!

NICE! I remember as a race marshall in the day, the factory racing team on tracks!

We had the BX version , well three of and the last one was a GTi . we borrowed an XM from the dealership whilst ours was in for a service. The hand lever handbrake was under the dash and wouldn't function very well so as were on a hill I turned the steering into the kerb. A few hours later our neighbour asked us to take it off his front garden!

Well this looks like the last time buying through ebay! We've changed to Windows 11 and getting connected to anywhere is an absolute nightmare! We use a land line phone and only email to communicate with family and friends, and now get anywhere to log into ebay, like a discrimination!

Well we've just updated our PC to Windows 11. I wish we hadn't! We have had to update/change nearly every password imaginable! EBAY has turned out to be the worst! After 40+ years of using it we are having to jump through hoops to try and get onto the website! In the UK we don't have ID cards, and we use a landline phone system. So asking for mobile phone numbers and photo's from ID Cards is impossible! It's like a weird form of discrimination! We've only used ebay for forty+ years, as we have very few model shops,. and if we have to the prices are prohibitive! There is no one to SPEAK to, you know a human, so trying to get through to discuss anything is impossible! Well it looks like my hobby with reasonable prices is over after nearly 70 years of model making/building!

Cheers Bruce!

Thanks guys, it reminds me of our first 1965 version!

Not pretty!