grodog wrote:

Traveller wrote:Much, much worse than the kitty. The kitty is just a lamer with delusions of grandeur. jonb/ETC is just a thief. In fact, there is a whole thread related to him on this forum.

Are you (collectively) talking about jonb7839 ? If so, I've had very positive emails back and forth with him---he seems like a good dealer. If he's a thief, I'm definitely interested in hearing more details, before I place any bids!

He's just way beyond hinky. First he denies any connection with ETC/GE when his standard listings are exactly the same down form and language to the exact same descriptions and way of representing his products (i.e. referring to EVERYTHING as rare, , lots of caps, etc).  He seems to be selling a lot of stuff Game Emporium purchased right before they disappeared. Then when confronted, most suspiciously comes forth with a very lame story that his "brother" died and left two storage sheds full of gaming stuff that he knew "nothing" about, he just wanted to sell the stuff and get rid of it.  Yet he shows an uncanny ability to pick out the MOST valuable items and list them with surprisingly accurate descriptions, as well as begin bidding on other D&D items from other sellers (when his avowed intention was to only sell the items he came into possession of).  Now, for someone finding themselves in possession of such a largesse they have to dispose of, it seems rather odd they would ADD to it by purchasing more, especially since they supposedly don't know anything about D&D stuff!
 But based on my rational I posted a few weeks ago, if you dont' mind trying to beat a thief and liar at his own game, his pattern seems to be building up postiive feedback and then ripping off his customers a few months down the road.  That being said, anyone buying from him should be ok for the first few months...with percentages of getting your items going down slightly each month afterwards.  Warning signs will be excuses from Jon dealing with either illness in the family or with him, school taking up too much time, computer virus messing up his files, or a totally new line of bull.  
    The moral here is "Buyer Beware", and if you bought from ETC/GE before and got ripped off, bidding on items from Jon brings the familiar phrase "Dog going back to his vomit" to my mind.  

Mike B.

cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&a ... 5186939431
 Holy !@#$  8O

I wonder if the winner actually even thought it'd get close to that mark?

Bit of a jump at the end is an understatement

AdderMcOne wrote:I wonder if the winner actually even thought it'd get close to that mark?

Bit of a jump at the end is an understatement

I know, and here I was teetering back and forth wondering if I should place one final bid.  I wonder what Stephen(aka bombadil-tom/afoolandhis$) is going to say when he gets home tonight.

deimos3428 wrote:Can't really do that. The MM is essentially a write-off; the PHB while nice is not the main feature here. It'd be too difficult to figure out how much of the final auction price was the DMG, though...but I guess it gives everyone an idea what to bid next time

That's one way to get the prices spiral out of control, I s'pose.

Was expecting the final to be around $125-150, though; certainly not quite so high. (And that was allowing a lot more for the PHB than the valuation list).

So, whilst that was going on, no-one wanted the SW'd G1 I mentioned, then?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5186927135
(volatile prices/demand, again...?)

A Mark Poole Dragon magazine interior art piece:

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A tad pricey for interior art, though... does anyone know which issue it is from?

harami2000 wrote:

bclarkie wrote::D I definitely had both yourself and Frank in mind when I sent Ebay the email. I am pleaseantly but very surprised when they acted very quickly. Maybe someone should email him now a copy of the email he sent you a couple months ago and ask him how his EBay sales are doing now. He who laughs last, always laughs best.

Hrmm... I hadn't been thinking about that, but now ya come to mention it...
Yeah, was pretty obnoxious, both times.

Only hope he follows-through on the deals which hadn't been completed when he was booted...

Hey, I just received an email from our good friend Keepontheborderlands(as well as my response of course ). I figured I'd post it here because he is too much of a p*ssy to post here himself. What else would you expect from him though.

Yeah, I will be sure to do that. BTW, has was your suspension for shilling anyway? I'll be keeping an eye on your auctions for you just to make that doesn't happen again. ;o)
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Hey Keep, since I know that you are reading this. _|_

Am I mistaken, or haven't we seen this one before?

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afoolandhis$ wrote:Am I mistaken, or haven't we seen this one before?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW

Ahh.......Aneoth's first print Monster Manual AGAIN.  Lets see how well he does this time without shilling it.