[78-L] eBay cross-border/ ^Now a Fish Story

[simmonssomer]

Yeah, that's what I call luck. Once, flying back from Europe,  I bought two 
huge pre-packed smoked salmons in Iceland. We'd purchased round-trip seats 
on Icelandic Airlines which always stopped there. As there was no available 
room  in the plane's refrigerator the woman in charge of service in our 
steerage section told me to put the salmons on my lap or under my seat. 
Fortunately the seat on the opposite side of the aisle was vacant as the man 
who had been in it on the way to Europe had died there. (On Icelandic, 
identical seats are assigned for both ways) So we strapped the salmons into 
his seat all the way back to NYC. I hope his wife wasn't waiting for him at 
the airport or she'd be living with a lox.
Sometimes you luck out eh?

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] eBay cross-border


> If you're in Calgary, why not get the goods shipped to the nearest 
> available
> address in the States? I'm in the Toronto area and I've been using the 
> post
> office in Lewiston NY since 1994 (inherited it from a syndicator I was 
> working
> with..one morning he dropped dead and I waited a discreet thirty seconds 
> before
> asking if I could take over his mailbox). I still run into the odd seller 
> who
> blocks all non-US bids..sometimes he can be reached before cutoff time,
> sometimes he'll sell anyway if there were no bids.