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I loled Thanks for the churro.

Hey Chris, I think I should step in and give you a couple of comments. Professional Courtesy here. First, I think it would be a big mistake to spin this situation and try to turn it into Albert's fault. That is going to backfire 1000x. I suggest Coleco takes an apologetic position towards everything and everyone, and honestly AA now too. This should at the very least cauterize the damage and stop it from spreading. A couple of things I've learned over the years is that you don't piss off the Internet and do not (for ANY reason) try to pick a fight with the Internet. There is no scenario where you as a person or Coleco Holdings as a company are going to win. Right now, the best you guys can do is Damage Control. If there are personal attacks to you here, it is best to ignore them; What damage can that do to you? If the G.I. Joe comments are false and Hasbro has indeed allowed people to sell re-cast parts/figures; then good, there is nothing to worry about; no need to come and attack an already angry community. Again Backlash. If that is not true (Hasbro allowing that) where this is a learning experience. I appreciate this site and Albert running and your post has triggered me signing in a replying (I was resting watching TV with my Wife) . I think you are playing with matches trying to spin this backlash towards Albert's Fault. Cut your loses, try to work to gain the community approval again. That is the best you can do now.

Gotcha on both. The pic yeah I agree, the box full per listing I think user can flag those listings or something like that to let support know that. I agree that pic must be of the item only.

Yeah one of the things fore sure is going away is that Ad block on the body as well as the 4 platform blocks on the bottom. I don't get the last part of the box fulls?

May be block seller would be more appropriate.

It would be very hard to block items, because we wouldn't be going with SKU item database. But definitely blocking buyer is a good idea.

Talked with the weaster today. Showed me around the admin backend I can see the userbase. I was thinking of changing platforms but doing that really would make everybody lose everything lol. So I asked the webmaster to give me a cost for implementing some of things I liked that were talked about here. Everything will stay as is, no changes on accounts but will do purge non active users that won't list withing the time frame we request.

Defender II have you read the whole thread? Or just the Original Post? Check out later replies

You know, We've wanted to do a magazine way before Mike launched Retro. Slowly planning etc, then he launched the KS and was successful. So we dropped plans because someone else already had taken over the idea. I could have launched a competition but what I was I going to call it? Vintage? Classic Games magazines? Retro is the name people associate with older games. That is why there is a semi-successful Retro Gamer in the UK. So if I wanted to use the Retro word in a magazine; I needed to acquire this, why? because of trademark. It has a trademark awarded and live for video game magazines for the word Retro. So It will be cheaper to buy this and have some back catalog and left over stock to sell than get a cease and deceit. But yeah, I am unreasonably insane with a toxic waste selling a trashcan on fire.

The only thing that I have is a plan. I'm not going to describe it because it could be easily copied. So yeah, I guess we'll just have to wait to see if it works. If it doesn't no harm no fault, I'm not going to scam people.

Paypal solution to embed "products" is horrible and primitive. It is done by buttons mostly. Not a full shopping cart. I really dislike going to a website to see that they just have paypal buttons instead a full working shopping cart.

I am certainly not, lol Pipercup with the low blows again. I'm not telling you to not post any negative. A lot of people have complained about X and Y within the conversation of Auction website features. The same 3-4 users keep saying the same thing over and over and over without providing anything of value of the conversation. This is not a roast thread.

One feature that I will really invest is embedding your items in your website or facebook page etc. This would be more for hardcore sellers or mom n pop shops that want to sell online on their website but don't want to pay big bucks for an ecommerce website. Basically it would give you an embedding code that you paste in an HTML page or HTML part of a CMS, and your items would pop up as a grid or list. It will have a "Powered by Gamegavel.com" branding but they could pay a professional business membership to remove that.

I appreciate your honesty and your comment. My only problem is the same people keep saying the same over and over. Alright, someone already said GG is a toxic waste; lets move on. I understand what I got into, I don't need people repeating it. I know whats up, and I know what Mike did, and how it affected everything. I did this thread and want to talk to the community to improve stuff not to be told "you messed up" every 3 posts. That is why I am brushing off and being dismissive. If people post just for the sake of trolling or being negative or trying to insight drama, they will lose my respect very quickly, specially if they are not my customers already. If YOU MUST say something negative about the situation at least balance it out with something positive or something that could improve or help the conversation. Be Virtuous ala Plato.

I've mentioned before, I don't care about making money off of this, I want traffic. Is all I want. @Shawn - Sure, call me Insane. How do you want me to react? Your pic is not going to make me sad or change my mind. Posting that is literally your time being wasted.

Just because someone else tried it and failed, it doesn't mean it shouldn't work.

I don't really care what Mike have or had not tried in the past. Moving forward, I only care about what I can do to improve it.

Oh I guess I haven't mentioned. But for sure, I'll add toys (preferably vintage), board games, and some other categories. Won't be games only.

I think the obscuring names is just ebay trying to control outside-of-ebay transactions. Same with the feature that prevents you from writing an email address or a domain on a private message. May be I'll add the see the bidders name to paid subscriptions or something like that. Harassing can be reported to staff, and users could get banned and reported to authorities as we would be able to see name, and address and credit card; heck, even a potty mouth fee to the potty mouth jar of the site would be cool. You curse at a member? automatically pay 1 buck etc. To the question about why not start from scratch. Surprisingly GG has pretty good rank on Google searches, one that would take me a couple of years of hard work or a lot of money to reach fast.

What about a choice to sellers to pick traditional auction or sniper style auction? That would make some sellers more popular than others.

I really hope it does/did.

Nah I paid, because supposedly he owed to the designer of the magazine and the writers and contributors.

Well the thing is Mike is not involved. I lost a lot of money and time on the Chameleon thing; the NY trip alone was like 4-5k. That snowballed in time wasted, prototype/devwork wasted + all the time trying not to be stained by the backlash and doing PR work. Money lost snowballed to not having money for expos for the year, those are lost sales and advertising. Getting gg/retro on a fire sale are the only things that I could/can recoup, or can help recoup all that loss. Remember I was reporting in to the community anything I could. That cost money and time. So I am taking this seriously. Will brush off any negativity.

double post.

What does it have to do ebay business model etc. With feature suggestions? He basically answered "what would make you sell on gamegavel" by saying "not gamegavel". I not consider that the answer of thr question. Anyways, last off topic comment I address. I havent been able to address helpul comments in the thread. Edit: and of course I am passive aggresively called unreasonable. Sigh.