Tales was my favourite of all of the MLP cartoons, and Lancer was my favourite character (obviously), closely followed by Sweetheart.  I watched it so many times that I can still recite the scripts to most of the episodes, despite having not seen them for years!

I'm still gutted that they didn't make more of the ponies as toys, especially the three main boys and Miss Hackney.  There was so much potential there - all the parents and siblings, the Ice Cream Shop and Rainbow Beauty Salon, and so on...  I suppose it just happened too near to the end of the MLP line.  I'm surprised they didn't at least release the three boys alongside the seven girls though.  For years, I swore I'd had a MLP leaflet which showed prototypes of the boys (I can still see the picture clearly in my head, in fact!) but I'm sure it would have surfaced by now if it really existed.  I suppose my childhood self was so desperate for those ponies that I just imagined it.  I found a Sports Time at a car boot sale once whose hair had been cut to look like Teddy...pretty sure I wasn't the only kid who would have loved to have those ponies in my herd!

I finally got around to making a video of my pony collection! Alas, quite a lot of my ponies are in storage at the moment while I try to rearrange things and the ones that are out on the shelves are desperately in need of a dusting. But people on Youtube have been asking for this for a while, so I thought I may as well make a video. I can always make an updated version later when the shelves are tidied up a bit.

In the meantime, enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVFt8GuGEvk

I did not even think to ask for the display pieces. I think it wouldn't hurt for all of us to go to our local TrUs and see if we can get some too!

I think most people didn't think to ask.  Pretty much everything is still at Brent Cross TRU even though it closes today.  What a sad waste.  I'm glad I managed to save the couple of signs I did get, but wish someone would go and get the hot air balloon etc.!  And all the Geoffrey Giraffe/TRU stuff like the lovely statue of Geoffrey sitting on a bench which they have there for photo opportunities.  All this stuff is less than six months old because they had a massive makeover at the end of October last year...it's a tragedy to think of it all going to the landfill.

Congratulations!  Do you mind me being nosy and asking which car boot you went to?  I'm pretty sure I saw those same Equestria Girls on Saturday.  Was it the toy dealer who had a few Equestria Girls mixed in with tons of Barbies in a suitcase on the floor?  I so nearly bought Pinkie Pie but chickened out of asking the price because I know that dealer can be expensive and I get embarrassed not buying things once I've spoken to the sellers!   If it is the same one, I'm glad she's found a home in the pony community.

I can say this.  I read things in every auction. I comb over what the seller says, but recently I didn't realize that ebay collapsed their auction's description tab.  I didn't realize I would have to click on it in order to see it.  I actually did not notice this change and bought something from a nice seller. I figured there was no description so I just studied the photos.  I thought they looked fine.  When I got it there were some problems with it. I contacted the seller and she stated she mentioned the flaws.  I went back through the auction with my stronger glasses on and realized there was a tab I never saw before and that was where her Description was.  I apologized to her and explained that I didn't not know this was going on and it would take me some time to get use to the change, but I was not concerned at all about the flaws and not to worry.

This was not laziness on my part, I have problems seeing and ebay has so many ads and junk on pages not it is very overwhelming and distracting for me.   I am not saying that is what this buyer did at all...it was just something I thought about.

I think some of us as buyers make mistakes like this that normally we would not make.  I am an older person, not a senior citizen, but just older.  My eye sight is really bad now and I can see how I accidentally missed this. 

I wanted to mention is because its so easy to get upset with buyers when they do seemingly ridiculous things like leaving feedback before contacting sellers and missing descriptions tabs.  Sometimes it is just an accident and sometimes it isn't.  Not all buyers mean to cause so much upset, and I do think many on ebay don't know ebay feedback etiquette either which doesn't help.

Glad it worked out for you.  I am not taking any sides just talking about something recently I did that was kind of embarrassing for me actually.  I have also been the seller with the odd buyer too.

I've not experienced this problem so I admit it's not something I had considered.  The difference is you did the right thing by contacting the seller instead of chucking a negative feedback at them without speaking to them first.  Even after I politely contacted this buyer to point out her error, she never replied to me.   I also think something as obvious as a missing tail can be seen in a photograph (well, definitely in this particular case).  I'd give her the benefit of the doubt but I'm disappointed that she never even replied to my message.

Maybe I'm wrong to make assumptions about people.  I suppose I'm always haunted by the first ever negative feedback I received (although now it's so many years in the past, it makes for a funny story to tell at parties!) where I sold two dinosaur toys.  With the 80 character title limit, I managed to get the manufacturer of one in the title but not the other so it said something like "2x Vintage 1980s Toy Dinosaurs - Stegosaurus, Natural History Museum Iguanadon".  Looking at that title now, I suppose it could be misleading.  Basically the Stegosaurus (or whatever it was) was made by Carnegie, and the the Iguanadon was made by Natural History Museum.  I thought the comma made that clear - I was quite new to eBay and wasn't prepared for all the aggro.  In the description, I wrote very clearly what each dinosaur was and who it was made by.  There was also a clear photo of the pair of them so any collector should have known what they were buying.

Guy in the USA buys them (meaning shipping was too much for him to return the items for a refund), receives them and slaps a negative on me because they're not BOTH Natural History Museum.  I messaged him and pointed out that the description clearly stated what they were, and there was a photo.  He says it doesn't matter, my title made it "quite clear what he was getting" and he "didn't feel the need to read the description"!  I've never forgotten that guy, and maybe I jump to conclusions about other buyers because of him.  I wish I'd contacted eBay and tried to get that negative removed now, but I wasn't as experienced in those days so I just accepted it.  Oh well, as I say, it's a fun story when I tell people about my adventures selling on eBay!

I finally managed to phone them last night about half an hour before they shut and a very helpful sounding woman SAID she would be able to remove the feedback.  "It should show up in a few minutes".  But the feedback is still there today!   I suppose I'll have to ring them again.

I also wrote to the buyer and very politely pointed out that the flaws were mentioned in the description and how sad I was that she would slap a negative on me without even contacting me beforehand...but she's just ignored me, of course.

I've seen the new format with big photos too.  But I just would have thought that before giving someone a negative feedback, you would take a minute to go back and check the auction to see if you missed something the first time.  If she never even saw a description, where did she expect me to have "mentioned" the flaws?  I can't have "failed to mention" something if she's never even seen anything I've written!

Post Merge: March 30, 2018, 02:47:30 AM

The feedback has been removed!   No thanks to the woman on the phone though!  I just got an email from someone else at customer services in response to the email I sent yesterday saying that they had removed it.  Oh well, it's gone and that's all that matters.

Ebay advice please!  Just got a totally unfair negative feedback and not sure how to proceed.

Item description: "You are bidding on a G1 My Little Pony named Snuzzle, who was sold as part of the Collector Ponies range in 1983.  She is missing her tail, her glue neck seal has been broken meaning that her head now turns, and she has pink highlighter "lipstick" on her lips."

Negative feedback: "Failed to mention there was no tail, and the lips are stained with marker pen."

Surely there should be a way to get that feedback removed?  How the heck did I "fail to mention" something that is written in the second line of the description?!  There are also two photos which definitely show the tail is missing (although I admit the angle of the photos makes the marker hard to see which I didn't notice when I was listing).

Should I contact the buyer or phone eBay directly?  I don't want to be stuck with a negative for a year just because an ignorant buyer was too stupid to look at the auction description and photos before they bid.