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Avurax
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:26 am

Extremely optimistic considering these items are still available at a lower COVER price.

http://toys.search.ebay.com/_Toys-Hobbi ... QQsbrsrtZd

Prufrock
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:21 am

Notes to myself: Next time check to see who the buyer is, and if he is an Acaeum member before posting. :oops:

I guess that it is worth that much.

bclarkie
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:28 am

Prufrock wrote:Notes to myself: Next time check to see who the buyer is, and if he is an Acaeum member before posting.

I guess that it is worth that much.

FWIW, I thought that was a bit high. Not exceptionally high, but defintely on the higher end of what it could have gone for.

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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:18 pm

bclarkie wrote:
FWIW, I thought that was a bit high. Not exceptionally high, but defintely on the higher end of what it could have gone for.

Agreed. I had to make sure Jeff didn't get it, though. :twisted:

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Blackmoor
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:35 pm

bombadil wrote:
Agreed. I had to make sure Jeff didn't get it, though.

GRRRR!!!!

It was a little high but had some good stuff in it. The condtions were very nice as well.

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

NetRodent
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:44 am

The starting bid is plausible at $200 but the BIN is totally outlandish at $2000...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0042904826

bclarkie
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:45 am

NetRodent wrote:The starting bid is plausible at $200 but the BIN is totally outlandish at $2000...

** expired/removed eBay auction **

I was just coming to post this one.

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killjoy32
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:41 pm

holy crappola!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... egory=2545

Are we nearly there yet?

Rakeesh sah Tarna
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:57 pm

brand new in original factory shrinkwrap = wrong scan not for the 1st time?

Mars
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:20 pm

I know Frank Mentzer stands up for T&T being a good guy but at this point I think he definitely belongs on the shady dealers thread.

How many times has he been told this image is stolen from another website and they continue to use it and claim a copyright on it nonetheless.

Mars
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:00 pm

I just sent TrollandToad an email letting them know that they are still stealing someone else's image and that they violate their own statement at the bottom of the auction:

"inhouse images and inhouse photos © and â„¢ Webbed Sphere Inc"

Their response:

"Hi: Please reread the auction text. It says inhouse images are copyright by us. It doesn't say that the image portrayed is either our inhouse image or copyrighted. Jon"

Great job guys! I guess they feel it is okay to steal other peoples images as long as they don't take credit for them.

killjoy32
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:42 pm

Mars wrote:I just sent TrollandToad an email letting them know that they are still stealing someone else's image and that they violate their own statement at the bottom of the auction:

"inhouse images and inhouse photos © and â„¢ Webbed Sphere Inc"

Their response:

"Hi: Please reread the auction text. It says inhouse images are copyright by us. It doesn't say that the image portrayed is either our inhouse image or copyrighted. Jon"

Great job guys! I guess they feel it is okay to steal other peoples images as long as they don't take credit for them.

that just downright sucks man.

how the feck can you sell something for that much, when you havent even got a pic of them actual god-damn item shown!!! anyone who buys that needs a lobotomy.

Al

Are we nearly there yet?

HermitFromPluto
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:36 pm

killjoy32 wrote:holy crappola!

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Seems like he sold it though. Auction has ended.

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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:22 pm

HermitFromPluto wrote:
Seems like he sold it though. Auction has ended.

Yeah, it was probably renhovek who bought it to. :roll:

BTW, did any one catch the shipping cost to the UK on that auction? How about $54.00 :evil:

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Mars
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:08 pm

He removed the listing because I showed him where the image was taken from. Hopefully it will get fixed this time.

BTW, the shipping to Canada was $54 as well.

bclarkie
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:14 pm

Mars wrote:He removed the listing because I showed him where the image was taken from. Hopefully it will get fixed this time.

BTW, the shipping to Canada was $54 as well.

Hmm, looks quite similar to this one:

http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/rp/rp-r2.htm

I am sure Adrian would be quite happy to know that they are ripping his pictures off and claiming them as thier own. :roll:

You would think that if they had the nuts to actually list that R2 for $840 then the least could do is take thier own f**king picture of it. The sad part is that I have dealt with them once myself(off Ebay for the Warriors of Mars) and everything went off without a hitch. That being said IMO they are a half step up from the Cougars and Creeps of the world...

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Neitzche

Mars
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:19 pm

After I laid into him a bit for relisting an auction that we previously pointed out to him had a stolen image, I also went through the rarer catagories in their store and pointed out 4 more pictures taken from the Acaeum.

He seems like he would like to get the problem fixed but ... we'll see if he changes the ones I pointed out.

killjoy32
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:32 am

its a pretty poor show though imo...

Are we nearly there yet?

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