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[*] posted on 15-2-2013 at 15:03



You can start loving them again.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&am...

And some more kisses.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brannan-Mercury-in-glass-Thermomet...

Here's an interesting item from da big apple (as Franklin would say!)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EC-RARE-VINTAGE-AMERICAN-INSTRUMEN...


[Edited on 15-2-2013 by jock88]
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[*] posted on 15-2-2013 at 16:56


Strange, they forbid it in their guidelines!
As for memorabilia, I guess it's better because otherwise I'd be poor :D (I love all those things)





all above information is intellectual property of Pyro. :D
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[*] posted on 8-5-2018 at 10:19


seems more like a shady sale than a ban. this was probably a standard letter or a one time operation.




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[*] posted on 8-5-2018 at 12:44


It warms my cold, cold, heart to see other practitioners of the dark arts of necromancy on the forum. ;)
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[*] posted on 15-5-2018 at 20:14


Apparently none of eBay's employees have ever heard of phenyl-2-nitropropene, because that shit pops up in auctions from Eastern Europe all the time.

Mercury makes a certain amount of sense because you can't ship it on planes, but it's easily available via ground from other places. You can find plenty of mercury thermometers, just type in "lab glass thermometer", and check if the bulb looks metallic. Those Chinese sellers learn fast.

Hafnium was probably a mistake by some eBay bot that flagged a purchase based on origin and destination. Just keep trying until one works, eventually one will.

I think eBay just gives everyone the benefit of the doubt until something gets brought to their attention, then they try to automate some solution to that specific problem that does a lot of collateral damage.




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[*] posted on 20-5-2018 at 12:38


13 year old thread, I'm impressed, going for 20 next?
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[*] posted on 20-5-2018 at 13:53


LOL.

Well, it saves all that silly mixing chemicals up to see what happens kinda hobby.




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[*] posted on 20-5-2018 at 14:07


i miss the days when you could get russian plutonium baring trinkets off ebay

[Edited on 20-5-2018 by diddi]




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