Thats weird. it doesn't appear to be in VGC

Cheers,
malcolm

bclarkie wrote:I mean Coug does this kind of crap all the time and he is so predicatable and stupid, it almost gives me the impression that he isn't really a human being at all.

bclarkie wrote:Seriously, what human being do you know that does this kind of stuff?  He is so freaking predicatable that its really machine like.

We respond to Coug's actions with a similarly machinelike quality --- we initially poke fun and then rage at him.  Is what Coug does predictable and what we do consistent?

I'm not defending da Coug, but I do feel sorry for him and his immediate family.

bclarkie wrote:I have got to say that I disagree, but whatever.

WIPE!  

bclarkie wrote:Question for you though. Do you also feel sorry for all those people out there who Cougar stole both their money and/or their product?

I definitely feel sorry for their financial losses and negative feedback.  They got screwed.  And Cougar will continue to screw people whenever he can.

But how would you like to be Cougar? Or live with him?  Or be his probably non-existent child Freya?  How screwed up is he and his family?

I've been an assh*le for years, and I'm slowly getting my life fixed.  Cougar . . . he's got to be a real piece of work.  I just recognize certain traits in da Coug (ego, anger, and selfishness for starters) that have f*cked my life up.

JohnGaunt wrote:WIPE!  

 

Oh I see, so you are right no matter what then.  If I responded negatively, I was proving you right because I was just regurgitating the same nonsense that Coug always does.  However, if I did agree with what you said than you were right also.  That's pretty sweet, the catch-22 to ensure you are right.  Like I said above, whatever.

JohnGaunt wrote:I definitely feel sorry for their financial losses and negative feedback.  They got screwed.  And Cougar will continue to screw people whenever he can.

But how would you like to be Cougar? Or live with him?  Or be his probably non-existent child Freya?  How screwed up is he and his family?

Personally, I really don't care about Cougar and his family. He will get whatever is coming to him in this life or the next.  What I do care about is the fact that he continually screws people over and gets away with it.  For you to compare his daily thieving antics and the the people of this site's  response to these antics is flat out crap.  

That's just like saying a store owner should not get upset and try to do something about someone who keeps breaking into his/her store, because if they do then they are just lowering themselves to the level of the thieves by getting angry, reporting it to the police and continually trying to get the person arrested.  Yeah that works.  

JohnGaunt wrote:I've been an assh*le for years, and I'm slowly getting my life fixed.  Cougar . . . he's got to be a real piece of work.  I just recognize certain traits in da Coug (ego, anger, and selfishness for starters) that have f*cked my life up.

 

Even if that is the case, I am not sure what that has to do with the fact that we get upset at the BS Cougar pulls with other people on a daily basis.  Are you seriously trying to say that because you recognize traits in Cougar that you used to see in yourself is a reason to just let it pass?  

Once again does this mean that we should just forgive and forget all of the rapists, murders and crooks in the world because we all share some of the same traits as them?  I don't get it if that is the case, and for some reason I don't think I ever will.  I guess that makes me Cougar like then, because I get upset at thieves and their antics,  huh?

I can't even believe that I am having this discussion.

The Missus did some research.

Cougar facts (allegedly):

1 he used to live in a shared house with a woman who is possibly his girlfriend, and 2 other couples, for a number of years
. He didnt appear to kill them, or drive them mad.

2 he regularly gamed with ppl allegedly "good" - they won prizes at UK Gencon

3  he moved not that long ago to a reasonably expensive house (sold in 2005 for £221k) with said possible girlfriend

4 he was at one time a C programmer

5 I know quite a lot of ppl in the rpg world in the UK, and have never heard of him at a Convention

6 he knows he overcharges for postage on ebay. His postage rates were considerably different for his distribution list items (does he still run this?) and when questioned, he said the extra was to cover Ebay fees etc.

7 the Missus wouldnt pay any money for any info - its free stuff that can be found on the Net.

Anyone else care to dig up any Cougar-facts?

Cheers,
malcolm

Help me with this--someone who is on ebay as a seller--how long does it take to put one listing together for an item up on ebay?  And is there any difference when it is multiple items going on sale on the same day?

I wonder because, when someone suggested Cougie might just be a cover for a machine writing out the feedback, it would explain how Cougie can sell 30-40+ items every day on average for 12 months (Lord only knows how many items are posted for sale every day!!)  

Xaxaxe wrote:Well, as you've probably guessed, most active eBay sellers use a template (or perhaps many templates). This is an obvious way to cut down on typing repetitive information.

But Cougie, though ... well, he's taken the template concept to its limit. He uses a craptastic plain-text template, never updates it (weren't those Royal Mail changes like in 2002 or 2003?), calls every single thing "VGC," and just types in a one-line description at the top. He puts no effort whatsoever into actually making good listings. So, basically, it's just wash-rinse-repeat ... over and over again ... into eternity.

I think Cougie does have some machine-like qualities to him, and this is one of them. He just types those one-line descriptions until his fingers get sore, then throws them up on eBay as quickly as his pistons and gears allow him to.

It requires little effort to do what Coug does...basically list the exact same item over and over and change a couple of words.  Unfortunately myself and good sellers like me take our time to write accurate descriptions and change out our photos/scans from time to time.
BTW, I love how Cougies template items are even in different fonts...it would take like, what, 1 second to make all the fonts in the description the same? Sheesh.

Mike B.

jasonw1239 wrote:Maybe where he is from "sealed" is the equivalent of "rogered by a dog"  

Maybe "sealed" means "rogered by a seal."  

I've been watching this seller try and sell these planes:


** expired/removed eBay auction **


This is his 3rd attempt.  The first auction ended at $150 with reserve not met.  Shortly after the 2nd auction started he added the I have a collector willing to buy these for $500+ BS, that auction ended at $150 also and surprise surprise, they have been listed for a 3rd time.  What happened to the collector willing to buy them for $500+?

I inquired and asked why he didn't sell them and his response was that he bought them for over $650.  The third listing again started at $0.99 with a reserve but I see he has at least changed the starting price to $600.