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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:37 pm 
 

White Box



~8 hours @ $51.00




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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:34 pm 
 

Unscrupulous buyer?   :?


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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:05 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote:b***s is not currently in my Who's Who, so if anyone knows who's ID it is, I'd be interested.
Didn't that sort of behaviour use to be common place?


time to resurrect the old ebay names thread?  quick glance through and didn't see any matches, but it hasn't been active in awhile.

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:35 pm 
 

DnDGeek wrote:Okay, which one of you duped this guy into ending his original auction early...


** expired/removed eBay auction **


...and putting a BIN of $35 on it...???


** expired/removed eBay auction **


With free shipping even.




Even though it has b & s just like "benjoshuasdad," it isn't me.  My feedback is in the 2000's range. :?


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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:52 pm 
 

Gnat the Beggar wrote:http://cgi.ebay.com/1970s-Dungeons-Dragons-Reference-Sheets-TSR_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem3ca4bd0e79QQitemZ260461891193QQptZLHQ5fDefaultDomainQ5f0QQsalenotsupported






I won these at $23.02




I little high... but I needed them.


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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:02 pm 
 

TheMilford wrote:
I won these at $23.02

I little high... but I needed them.


I think that was not too high.
Especially if it helped you to complete an otherwise incomplete White Box Set.


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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:53 pm 
 

dsaunders wrote:
time to resurrect the old ebay names thread?  quick glance through and didn't see any matches, but it hasn't been active in awhile.

about5415-0-asc-0.html


As far as I can tell, the intials assigned by Ebay are random.


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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:58 pm 
 

faro wrote:Stealing from newbies is fair game here and actively condoned: I doubt anyone's in the slightest bit interested in a "code of conduct".


Is this linking to my post?  I certainly don't condone this action, I think it is an unethical scam.  Had they agreed to a BIN of say $200, then I can see the buyer wanting the sure $ in hand vs. the risk of a short priced auction, but $35 is a rip-off, plain and simple.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:59 pm 
 

FormCritic wrote:
As far as I can tell, the intials assigned by Ebay are random.


But I think they are consistent, user to user.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:09 pm 
 

Grug Greyskin wrote:
Is this linking to my post?  I certainly don't condone this action, I think it is an unethical scam.  Had they agreed to a BIN of say $200, then I can see the buyer wanting the sure $ in hand vs. the risk of a short priced auction, but $35 is a rip-off, plain and simple.


Again.....unscrupulous.......buyer?  :?:

The guy who snagged the tournament Tsojcanth two weeks ago for $2.50 when the comic shop didn't know it was valuable....

Unscrupulous?

When a seller posts a price and you make an offer...unscrupulous?

If I were at a flea market and I talked down a seller.....unscrupulous?

I'm not tracking on this.


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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:27 pm 
 

FormCritic wrote:
Again.....unscrupulous.......buyer?  :?:

The guy who snagged the tournament Tsojcanth two weeks ago for $2.50 when the comic shop didn't know it was valuable....

Unscrupulous?

When a seller posts a price and you make an offer...unscrupulous?

If I were at a flea market and I talked down a seller.....unscrupulous?

I'm not tracking on this.


Big difference between an item in a flea market or even sitting in a comic shop and an auction on E-Bay in terms of market reach and visibility.

That auction started at $8, but would likely have finished at $200-$300 had it run its course.

Does this completely excuse the seller from doing a little bit of research on what they are selling?  No, that is why I have a lot less sympathy for the dolt who puts a $2.50 price sticker on an expensive collectable in his comic shop or yard sale.

This reminds me of the guy in "There Will Be Blood" buying oil land from the unsuspecting yokels.  Unscrupulous buyer, absolutely.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:33 pm 
 

I don't see a problem with it.  Many of the items that I've bought over the years were at better prices than the going rate, sometimes way better.  By the same token, I've sold items for too little as well in retrospect.

Just because there is a potential for the seller to make more profit off of an item than another is offering doesn't mean that the person making the offer is unscrupulous.

As long as a person is freely willing to sell an item at the price you are willing to pay, that's the way a capitalist free market society works, last I checked.  I'm sure a lot of times the seller thought they were selling it for a great price as well.

Now to lie to someone about the value if asked, that would be unethical.

  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:45 pm 
 

TheMilford wrote:
I won these at $23.02

I little high... but I needed them.

:evil:  *taps foot incessantly with hands on hips*  :evil:

Good thing for you that I didn't think having them would enhance my OCE set by that amount and bowed out, eh?

  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:16 pm 
 


** expired/removed eBay auction **




Anyone looking for an A1-4 supermodule with photocopied map book?

  

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:33 pm 
 

FormCritic wrote:Again.....unscrupulous.......buyer?  I'm not tracking on this.


A transaction like this on Ebay is generally considered unscrupulous because they have absolutely cheated the seller out of money.  And done so while other bidders have been waiting to bid.

In most cases that you mention, the seller may or may not ever sell the item (because it may not be found) and the seller only ever has one potential buyer at a time.  On Ebay the situation is completely different because the unscupulous buyer has tricked the seller into something that has cheated the seller.

To make an analogy to the flea market, it is as if a group of interested buyers were all at the table asking to buy the item, then one person turns around and kicks all the other potential buyers in the balls.  While they are writhing in pain, he then makes an offer, grabs the item out of the sellers hand, throws some money at him and runs away.

If the BIN price had been at least $200+ or if the buyer didn't know the value of the item, then I probably wouldn't think it was unscrupulous but I am doubtful this was the case.

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Post Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:39 pm 
 

Mars wrote:
To make an analogy to the flea market, it is as if a group of interested buyers were all at the table asking to buy the item, then one person turns around and kicks all the other potential buyers in the balls.  While they are writhing in pain, he then makes an offer, grabs the item out of the sellers hand, throws some money at him and runs away.
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After doing something like that you don't run away, you strut. (Besides the other guys aren't in any condition to run after you).

NOTE: Not that I'm condoning such unethical actions.

  


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Post Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:26 am 
 

I am always surprised when I come across a TSR game I hadn't heard of, but I guess they made heaps of board games. Anyone know how many or have a list of just the board games?



Glixir!



I would buy this out of curiosity but shipping to Australia is too much.

  

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Post Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:54 am 
 

HermitFromPluto wrote:

Glixir!




It is Elixir :)

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Picture of the same print

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