I wrote here about how I never received the Miles Davis boxed set, complained to PayPal and that the store did the right thing and issued a full refund to me.

And then this morning, the mail man delivered the box with the Miles Davis set to my door.  It is in perfect condition and a thing of beauty to a maniac collector such as myself.

I am insane, as you well know.  I am not the sort of person who could sit and gloat and enjoy this for free.   I have sent an email to the shop telling them that they can issue a new invoice to me and I will pay it.

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Unrelated … if you’re looking to buy or sell used camera equipment in Hong Kong and you only speak/read English, you are limited to web sites such as Asiaxpat, Geoxpat, Craigs List, etc – all of which contain very limited listings.   The top site for this in Hong Kong is a Chinese-only web site called DCFever.

To give you some idea of the scale of listings on this site, right now they list 50,000 DSLRs for sale, 137,000 lenses … 17,280 camera bags!  Jeez, they even have 10,000 laptop PCs and 3,000 netbooks listed.  Of course these numbers include completed sales as well as current ones, but you get the idea.

I hate installing 3rd party tool bars to Firefox but over the weekend I did install Google’s tool bar.   And I found by accident what probably at least some of you already know.  When I go to the DC Fever page and press the “translate” button on the toolbar, it does a less-than-perfect but more-than-adequate English translation of the page within seconds.   The used mobile phone section is translated as “Flashlight Communication.”

The Google toolbar translation doesn’t seem to work on English pages that have some Chinese content on them – for example, updates on Facebook that are written in Chinese that consist of a few lines on an otherwise-all-in-English screen.

But aside from that, this is a godsend and now I’m wondering why I didn’t add this sooner.

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