Shady business?

I am currently having problems with an item I bought on Ebay, where the listing was suspended by eBay within a few minutes of my purchase. This means that although I bought it on eBay, all visible records of the transaction disappeared from my account - it's still in my PayPal account, of course, and I'm down a tenner, but in order to claim the money back from eBay I've had to enter all the details from Paypal receipts etc., not from any record I can access on eBay. I suspect that a lot of people simply don't follow up in these circumstances, some because they forget about the transaction, others because they can't figure out the procedure without a transaction record actually showing in eBay.

Is doing this actually legal, or are eBay breaking the law?

Travelling Light

I'm trying to get my act together for Dragonmeet tomorrow, for once I'm going to try to travel light, just take the stuff I really need (e.g. about half what I usually carry) and see if it makes things easier. I will have the usual CDs etc. for sale, and my laptop for a rolling powerpoint "Marcus' games are wonderful" presentation, but I won't bring as many printouts as usual - the books weigh a ton and they don't seem to get a lot of attention. We'll see how it goes.

Just designed the adventurers for the Forgotten Futures adventure; a motley group but somehow strangely familiar...

General Sir Malcolm Reynolds GC - Retired soldier & Pilot
Sgt. Fred T. Jayne - The General’s Batman
Chaplain Book - Representing the Church of England
Dr. Simon Tom - Doctor & Scientist (accompanied by his sister Fluvia)
Lady Indira Serra - Gentlewoman & Explorer
Miss Zoe Drystone - Lady Serra's Companion

The adventure is written in enough detail for me to wing the rest, and is (as expected) not the one originally advertised - working title is Marooned on Jupiter.

Props etc. for the Fanfic game are also ready, but players will be generating characters from scratch this time so I can't give any details yet.

Should be fun, hope I'll see some of you there.