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Kingofpain89
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:35 am

deimos3428 wrote:Pretty sure that's just good ol' fashioned "newbie fishing".
Intelligator has an account on here, I think. Maybe he'll comment.

I was thinking something similar myself. I have bought from Intelligator before and was happy with the prices for the most part. But there are a few things in his store that I think are a little on the high side. No different than most resellers though. Heck, every so ofter even some of Badmike's prices have raised an eyebrow. :roll:

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:15 pm

Anyone notice the $130 pricetag on Escape from NY?:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

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Kingofpain89
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:25 pm

grodog wrote:Anyone notice the $130 pricetag on Escape from NY?:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I was watching the same seller's FASA Battlestar Galactica a couple of days ago and got to thinking I might put a token bid in on the Escape from New York as there were no bidders at the time. That would have been pointless. :roll:

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:44 pm

Deadlord39 wrote:More for the crack pipe:

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Check out Intelligator's completed items though. Certainly no shortage of buyers and his feedback is pretty good. Maybe his prices are just about right? He's definitely making a tidy profit on his BINs.

http://search-completed.ebay.com/search ... arch&fgtp=

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:37 pm

This may or not be silly but it is out of line with the sealed Heroes set...

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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:13 am

dbartman wrote:Check out Intelligator's completed items though. Certainly no shortage of buyers and his feedback is pretty good. Maybe his prices are just about right? He's definitely making a tidy profit on his BINs.

I thought that name sounded familiar, and sure enough, I bought from him about 10 weeks ago ... a bunch of stuff, too. Here's one:

G 1-2-3

The price was right, the shipping was fine, and he seemed friendly enough to me. FWIW.

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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:02 am

ehi folks, what about this charming BIN?

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i wrote to the seller asking him if by chance he digited the wrong number placing the comma after 3 instead of 2 numbers... he never replied me...

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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:31 pm

Here is one for ya:

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

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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:28 pm

bclarkie wrote:Here is one for ya:

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Geez! Those weren't new bidders, either. Only one was a 0 feedback name.

What could they have been thinking? I thought maybe they were shrinkwrapped or something, but no. They aren't even first editions.

The sale specifically says that they are "old and have been used."

Mark

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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:14 pm

Bloodstone Pass anyone in the patented VGC?

http://cgi.ebay.com/TSR-AD-D-H1-BLOODST ... dZViewItem

:roll:

<edit> BTW, the Coug added a new line to his about me page recently that really made me laugh:

Coug wrote:I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR DRIVING PEOPLE TO MY SALES, SAY SORRY FOR NOT ADVERTISING THEIRS AND WILL STOP TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM WHEN THEY STOP TELLING LIES ABOUT ME. LOL

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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:26 pm

Whoah! VGC, you say? Count me in!

+++++

Reason #78 that Cougie is a clown:

That listing contains 649 words (beginning with "VGC" and ending above the PayPal logo).

The description of the item (which sucks, but bear with me) contains 22 words ... the rest is made up of The Coug's laugh-out-loud rules and regulations. And 22 words is actually a lot for a Cougie description.

Or, put another way, 96.6 percent of that listing is just an endless recitation of do's and do not's. If we have any budding eBay sellers out there, take this as free advice: that is a percentage guaranteed to drive away many potential bidders.

+++++

Edit: whoops, forgot to wave to Cougie ...

<<Hi, Cougar, you lurking feline, you!>>

aia
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:05 am

http://cgi.ebay.it/Queens-Harvest-Dunge ... dZViewItem

...oleeeee!!!

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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:06 pm

aia wrote:
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...oleeeee!!!

Formata: Copertina morbida

Is this saying, in Italian, that the format of the publication is dead cardboard?

Mark

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:41 am

MShipley88 wrote:
Formata: Copertina morbida

Is this saying, in Italian, that the format of the publication is dead cardboard?

Mark

well, actually, it'd be "Formato"... anyway, copertina morbida it's meaning softback... soft=morbida, cover or back=copertina

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:27 am

morbida = soft?

copertina = cover?

So, "dead cardboard" was not really too far off of a translation, was it?

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:55 am

MShipley88 wrote:morbida = soft?

copertina = cover?

So, "dead cardboard" was not really too far off of a translation, was it?

ya know mark i can just imagine you speaking that with the correct sorta mafia'ish hand-actions would go well with that avatar!

scary!

Are we nearly there yet?

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:55 am

bclarkie wrote:Bloodstone Pass anyone in the patented VGC?

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<edit> BTW, the Coug added a new line to his about me page recently that really made me laugh:

I try not to say anything Negative about the cat, but this made me laugh as well:

Its great to know I have sold more items on ebay than all their combined pitiful entire web site members jealous efforts.

Assuming we don't count Guido (who has only made a few posts) we have Badmike with a comparable amount of sales.

Plus, a combination of few others such as Myself, Deadlord, Killjoy, Clarkie, Reindeer, Vermillion, Xaxaxe and many others will easily exceed his sales.

Perhaps a better test would be to see how many members it would take to exceed the number of individuals who have left him negative feedback (47) ?

(Actually, negative feedback is quite a bit higher since he has had many mutually withdrawn).

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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:47 am

Beyondthebreach wrote:
Perhaps a better test would be to see how many members it would take to exceed the number of individuals who have left him negative feedback (47) ?

It would be a good test: 0 on 2855 for Beyonthebreach

(congratulations). Only 2 on 1130 for bclarkie, 1 on 1581 for killjoy, 1 on 1214 for vermillionfire, etc. It would be difficult to reach the 47 negatives on 6323

hum no negative for me (but on a total of only 455 transactions). However I have some proud to have a 100% positive

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