Hi David   Many thanks for the reply and your kind advice.   On paper that is how I see it also. However the reality is that the hyper links only take you to e-bay front door not to the item. The eBay item numbers they show are in scientific notation (which eBay doesn't recognise VIZ. 2.20686E+11). I actually do understand what that means. Translating the item number to sensible (normal) notation it still doesn't work, you get a Jean Harlow 1989 Calendar. However with dilegent searching I have found a couple of RSGB items.   I despair of the RSGB ........  thanks for responding David, I think I had better leave it there for fear of an RSGB "Black Ball".    73 es GL pete m0fmt I support www.NotSpotTelecom.Com your community Telco / ISP. --- On Sun, 24/10/10, David Towers <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Towers <[email protected]> Subject: Re: LF: RSGB Museum surplus sale To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 24 October, 2010, 21:10 Hi petefmt RSGB will announce when items are put onto EBAY so that interested parties can bid. In the meantime you have the opportunity to research and save for the items you want to bid for. That is how I read the information 73 dave G8SZX On 24/10/2010 20:16, M0FMT wrote: > Does anyone know how this is thing is supposed to work? All the supposed > E-Bay item numbers written on the RSGB web site don't exist on e-bay. Is > this another RSGB survey to find who's the brightest Radio Amateur in UK > or the world even by figuring it out. In which case I have failed big time! > > 73 es GL petefmt > > I support www.NotSpotTelecom.Com your community Telco / ISP. > >