McDuff wrote:If we are griping about over charging for shipping, has Sci-Fi-City been mentioned yet? A flat $10 per package??? Not sure if they combine, I just see the name and keep on browsing...

With Sci-fi City they do combine shipping  ($2.00 for each individual item) and the $10.00 they quote is for larger items as well as singles.  So... If you can work it out to get several larger sets or things from them the shipping rate is really not that bad, though I would never buy an individual book from them.

That's one of the ugliest f*cking tables I've ever seen.  My god.

bclarkie wrote:Check out this sh*t. I was just browsing around on EBay tonight and I decided to look at our long gone friend Maxwell. When I looked at Maxwell's feedback, I almost fell out of my chair. Look at maxwell's feedback and the most recent posting:
eBay Feedback Profile for brucem253

I guess Maxwell F*cked over Cougar as well, and he did it for at least $450.00.

Jeez, guys like Max and jonb make Cougar look like a frickin' paladin.  (Maybe we should be using that to our advantage when dealing with some of these shadier types.  He is a Titanium PowerSeller, after all.  :wink: )

Is somebody getting shilled here, or what?

Granted, there's some good stuff in there, but look at the (0) feedback bidder's bids...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

bclarkie wrote:Greedy Shill too. He had already maxed out Sotteraneo's high bid and decided to one up him hoping to draw him even higher.

No joke. Looks at least 95% likely that.

Sotteraneo had committed the sin of having two "highest bids" outstanding which is asking to be kicked in the teeth by anyone so inclined.
(Never, ever, do that despite eBay encouraging bidders to do so. )

And even then, the zero-rated "bidder" wasn't "happy" just to settle in behind the higher of his two bids.  *grr*

Good spot & pre-emptive action, Stephen, Brian.

Such a pity with a very nice collection, if that's the shill it appears to be.

Damned shame, but it did seem weird that the guy was piling more and more stuff on, and then the shill popped up.  Too bad, too bad...

Greetings all,

Should I assume that the "Cougar" continually referred to here is a certain eBay dealer based in the UK?

If so, I'd like to relate a bad experience I had with this person...

About two years ago, he bought a beat-up copy of C3 The Lost Island of Castanamir from me, paid up, no prob.  I mailed out the module to him, then he claims that it never arrived.  Because he is in the UK, I had to go through all sorts of paperwork to try to track down this module. (After almost six months, I got a reply from the UK post office that it couldn't be found, terribly sorry, etc.)

This eBay buyer, in the meanwhile, demanded a refund because the item never arrived.  I stood my ground, because as far as I was concerned, I had shipped out the item in good faith, and I'm always careful about warning my foreign customers about potential shipping problems. A lot of pouting and foot-stomping ensued, and when I supplied him with all relevant info and told him that it would be much easier for him to track down the item in HIS country, I was told flat-out that he would not do this because *I* had shipped it and *I* was responsible for the safe delivery of the item to him.  That's what I started smelling a rat.  I never refunded the money, and no feedback was left by either party.  I then proceeded to block this buyer from ever bidding on my auctions again.

Has anyone else ever had a similar "tale of woe" from this individual after he's been the high bidder in an auction of theirs?  If so, I'd be extremely interested to know.

Cheers,
John aka Wandering Monster

Xaxaxe wrote: Yep, that's the feline in question — no doubt about it.

*<digs up old picture>*

Xaxaxe wrote: For some entertaining reading, use the search function on these forums and type in "Cougar" for the keyword. You'll then be directed to numerous Cougie stories under thread titles that contain words like "annoying," "shady," "idiot," "chowderhead," and "should be shot."

My personal favorite is Draco's "God couger is a retard and should be kicked off ebay....."

Am I the only one here who got invited to his private photocopy auctions back in February ?? (just been checking a rarely used e-mail account - some sucker paid £48 for a photocopy of ST1).

Also am I the only one here who has a copy of his private buy list which includes:
<quote>
9044        B3;                1-3        Palace of  Silver Princess                        £25        orange COPY
</quote>

Also, am I the only person who has had negative feedback from cougar REMOVED by ebay for breaking their terms and being classed as abuse ... kinda makes his policy of 'buyer leaves feedback first' a bit suspect when as a titanium rated seller HE abuses the system!

Ah, well, at least I know I'm not the only person who is on his blocked bidders list ... a clucb I'm proud to be part of