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  4. Posted

    sheesh dude, your nuts? :)

     

    OKAY! Okay, heh. I know when to stop. This whole thing is my fault. If I hadn't bid the $500 it wouldn't have gotten outta control. I am a serious spender on ebay, but it's all highly economical buys and mostly business related. Hell, I have $161 eBay bucks racked up for this quarter. And this has been a slow quarter for me. I never meant to stir things up this badly. This world is a fragile little place, and I must be a bull in a china shop to you guys. I hold all of you in high regard, and ultimately I hope to contribute back to the A8 community like most of you die hard guys already have. And as far as the MIOs go, I'll stop being disruptive so that actual work can be done.

     

    Go back to browsing the 8-bit forums... Nothin to see here... :)

  10. Posted

    Pixel, I suggest you stop digging the proverbial hole and stop explaining yourself. If you have to justify, then it's not worth explaining. MEtalGuy66's logic is irrefutable, just make the situation right. Actions speak louder than words.. man I am sick of my own analogies.

     

    I'd rather spend this time talking about something else. Just set things straight, and fix your ebay account.

  11. Posted

    Well, he SAID he would pay the listing fees. Let him pay, and let him fix his ebay account & atariage reputation. If the guy is a habitual liar, let's forgive him / give him enough rope to hang himself depending on the perspective. Fool me twice, shame on me. Give the guy a break, if he's apologized, let it go. If he's a douche afterwards, then we'll know. Either way, it's my money. Whether you're buddhist, christian, muslim, athiest - still got to treat one another like were dealing with the man in the mirror. It's the only way to move FORWARD --->>> Forward --> ...forward

     

    http://www.watchtower.org/e/bible/mt/chapter_007.htm

  12. Posted

    However, the fact fibrewire wasn't offered the item as the second highest bidder still requires explanation.

     

    Here ya go, straight from eBay Messaging

     

    Dear devekr,

    Why didn't I get a second chance offer the first time you listed the item? I had bid the same amount as the "other" bidder. Why not just sell the item to me?

    - fibrewire

     

    Dear fibrewire,

    No idea what a second chance offer is? I dont do this very often.

     

    WTF? Ask a stupid question...

  13. Posted

    Reputation matters and I have been on this forum long enough to know that it is the Court of FiberWire, MetalGuy, FlashJazzCat, and Candle. Judge as you will. I expect MetalGuy's offering to be...colorful.

     

    Seeing how the situation has been resolved, MG comment may be like "unbelieveable" if any comment is made at all. :)

     

    EDIT: I removed any personally identifiable information from all related posts. Thanks for playing!

  15. Posted

    People go through predisposed actions as part of their personality. One of them is making a fuss after someone does something 'wrong'. Think of the worst thing someone has done to you, and think about how it's completely irrevelant to carry a grudge forward into your current life. Instead of going through the motions for a year and giving you a hard time, why not just skip to the end where everyone is friends again. I wish more people were like this, and the best chance to find people like that is probably here on AA. It's all about problem solving, and it's the situations you CAN'T find the problem that cause the most trouble. As far as I'm concerned, problem solved, you are forgiven :)

     

    Who wants to have on their tombstone "Always held a grudge" - life's too short to get caught up.

  20. Posted

    Two types, shielding and shilling.

     

    Shielding is:

    The dishonest person is the bidder in this arrangement. There is an item for a low price. The bidder bids astronomically above that low price, but a proxy bid is placed only for the minimum starting price. By using a secondary fake account, the bidder bids over his own actual maximum bid only one time. In the last few moments of the auction, after everyone has been discouraged from watching that item, the fake account retracts it's bid (or cancels his account), dropping the price to whatever the proxy bid was for in the beginning, effectively shielding the bidder from a bidding war with other bidders, and making sure that the bidder pays the minimum price. This only works if nobody else bids.

     

    Shilling is:

    The dishonest person is the seller in this arrangement. There is an item for a low price. The bidder bids astronomically above that low price, but a proxy bid is placed only for the minimum starting price. By using a secondary fake account, the seller makes incremental bids until the top bidder is overtaken. The seller then retracts the top bid from the fake account (and accepts the retraction seeing he owns both accounts), which causes the bidder's last successful proxy bid to take the top position. The bidder then wins the item, and the seller collects the maximum monetary value from the top bidder.

     

    There are some exceptions to this though. Shilling can take place without besting the top bidder. The majority of people have a habit of placing bids on the order of whole numbers. Bids increment differently depending on the price. For example, in the MIO auction I detected a shilling arrangement, and figured the guy had bid on the order of a whole number. Since bids increment by $5 or $10 at a time after the bid reaches $400, I knew that when I bid $500, I was outbid by $500 meaning that the shill bidder's maximum bid had been reached, otherwise I would have been outbid by $505 or $510. The way to defeat this is by placing item pricing and bids fractionally below what you want to pay. If the auction had suddenly hit $316.43, I would have been much more cautious with my money :)

  22. Posted

    Dear fibrewire and compsuccess,

     

    This message is an automated reply to a contact information request made by fibrewire. This request is related to item #390301233452.

     

    Important Usage Guidelines:

    • 1. This contact information should only be used for resolving matters related to eBay. Any other use is strictly prohibited.

    • 2. Use of this information to complete a transaction outside of eBay is not permitted. Items purchased outside of eBay are not eligible for eBay services.

     

    Contact Information for compsuccess

    User ID: compsuccess

     

    *** Personal Information Removed ***

     

    Now i'm sure most of you recognize this name, as i've found him here on AtariAge. He is probably legit, but still - what the hell is going on here?

     

    *****, as seen here. I'm sorry dude, but we have to get this ebay thing ironed out.

  25. Posted

    Dear fibrewire and devekr,

     

    This message is an automated reply to a contact information request made by fibrewire. This request is related to item #260760425214.

     

    Important Usage Guidelines:

    1. This contact information should only be used for resolving matters related to eBay. Any other use is strictly prohibited.

    2. Use of this information to complete a transaction outside of eBay is not permitted. Items purchased outside of eBay are not eligible for eBay services.

     

    Contact Information for devekr

    User ID: devekr

     

    *** Personal Information Removed ***

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