gyg wrote:Hands up all those who could be bothered buying feedback for a penny a time?

I've got better things to do with my time...............but then again we are talking about DM Dave

I belive that most pople that buy feedback are doing it for 1 thing.. to lull the purchaser into a false sence of security so that they can be ripped off either through fake products or no products (Gee my 105 inch plasma TV I bought for $1000 didn't arrive and the person has vanished with my money and a couple of other peoples $$ what a surprise). You have to remember that this is some peoples business, ripping people off.. I don't know how many emails I have gotten telling me that $100mil us is just waiting for me to claim because blah blah blah...

Brette:)

Hey, Ogreden!  Found out any information about his "house(s)?"   You had a friend who had been there, right?

leggi wrote:Hi all,

As you can see I'm a newbie here. I've visited the site quite a few times in the past but never looked at the forums until yesterday when the first thread I spotted had a familiar name in the title - yes, your friend and mine Mr Whitfield.

About 4 years ago I used to buy and sell a fair amount of D&D stuff on ebay. A friend of mine had dealt with Cougar, even visited his house but eventually got burned and warned me off him. Naturally I ignored him as I couldn't resist a few 99p bargains. Now nothing really terrible happened to me but I still got fed up with him. His postage was obscene and several items didn't come complete with maps as I'd expected. Now to be fair, I'm pretty sure he refunded me for those items - maybe being someone not that far away from him, he was afraid of repraisals, I don't know but still, I learned my lesson. My friend and I used to joke about this guy quite a bit so I remembered his name.

Anyway, about a month ago I started the collection up again and then this week ended up watching an item that cougar was selling. I started recalling what a terrible seller he was...and then just a day or so later came across this thread. At first I thought it was an amazing coincidence then I read all 75 pages of this hilarious thread and realise that no, it won't be long before anyone who likes D&D and uses ebay will know of this tool.

So hello! And I must say I am tempted to use my decent feedback and 100%+ score to inflict some blows on this idiot.

Hi - I'm Leggi's mate...I first got into eBay because of a sudden resurgence in my interest in D&D back in 2001, and as you might expect, quickly found that the Coug seemed to have a copy of everything, and at great starting prices.



So I bought a few things, all of which turned up OK, and mutual positive was left in every case. But then a Ravenloft box set arrived with £15 postage, which I queried with him but was assured was correct, I wasn't too happy, but again mutual positives were exchanged. By this time I had started to become irritated with the badly worded Terms and Conditions that accompanied each win, the pressing for feedback and the lack of Paypal.



At that time I had a job that allowed me free reign to travel through the UK with my company picking up the bill, so the next time I won some items I arranged to pick them up from his house. This wasn't the address that he seems to be at currently, though it was still in Portsmouth. It was a typical "two-up two-down" (for our non UK cousins this is a very small and pokey style of house built for labourers in the 19th Century - two rooms upstairs, two rooms downstairs). The entire front room was floor to ceiliing D&D stuff, there is no way that anyone could have used it as any kind of living space.



The deal was done, and I went away, and bought a couple more things once he started using Paypal. My feedback to him was always on the lines of "Great you're using Paypal now", in case he ever went back on it so people could see.



All in all, I never got a bad product, never had too bad an experience, and never had anything other than a mutual positive, but dealing with him left enough of a nasty taste in my mouth that I no longer bid on his auctions, and in moments of idle spite, would occasionally bid on things he was going for just to drive the price up.



As Leggi says, we've occasionally joked about it since, and when Toolhaus first came to the fore, his was certainly the first name that I checked.



Have thoroughly enjoyed this thread, well done to everyone for making life difficult for unscrupulous eBayers.

Ogreden wrote:No that woul dhave been leggi who had a frined who had been there and I do believe that frined was warhead.  

I just am a poor individule who enjoys ragging on a dispicable individule.
Hey some of us enjoy the aspect of being able to say it like it really is. LOL

My bad!  Sorry about that.

At that time I had a job that allowed me free reign to travel through the UK with my company picking up the bill, so the next time I won some items I arranged to pick them up from his house. This wasn't the address that he seems to be at currently, though it was still in Portsmouth. It was a typical "two-up two-down" (for our non UK cousins this is a very small and pokey style of house built for labourers in the 19th Century - two rooms upstairs, two rooms downstairs). The entire front room was floor to ceiliing D&D stuff, there is no way that anyone could have used it as any kind of living space.

Well now, Dave lives in a "pokey" house.  It adds lots of credence to our initial suspicions that he really doesn't own three houses.  I mean, if the one he lives in is pokey, why own other properties?  And there's so much D&D stuff downstairs, it wasn't suitable for living.  Definitely a bachelor pad.  His identity is so wrapped up in D&D, he's got no other life.  Sad.

Come on Dave!  Wake up!  It's not too late to get a life and enjoy so much more.  Sure, other people lie and cheat and steal and are mean, but not everyone is that way.  I love D&D and I love collecting, but it's not what I live for.  Stuff is ultimately hollow.  Once you get what you want, you want more.  Collection creep is for real and it can make decisions for you. Possessions possess.  Having a few things in life to enjoy is fine, but when the things define who you are instead of relationships and values, you've gone too far.  Decide who you want to be and change.  You have become that which you didn't like to begin with.  Wake the hell up!   I am not being mean here, I'm trying to help you.

leggi wrote:Hey warhead, glad you could join in.

Can you tell us as I'm not sure I ever asked you but what was he like in person? What did he look like? How did he act?

It was a long time ago, and my memory isn't too clear, but think of Comic Book Guy (but not particularly fat) or Bill Bailey (with more hair) and you won't be far wrong. Exactly as you'd imagine really.

The main thing is that in person, he's not the incoherent mumbler that you'd imagine he would be, given his appalling spelling/grammar/punctuation.

leggi wrote:Hey warhead, glad you could join in.

Thanks for inviting me!

Badmike wrote:
So it turns out Cougie lives in a shithole and looks....about like everyone here thought he would.  Shocking.....

I've always theorized Coug has dyslexia.  Many dyslexics can communicate perfectly well, and can be articulate....the problems are with their reading/writing skills, where they see letters in wrong places, or don't see mispelled words as being "wrong".

And welcome to the forum!  Always interested in a real life "cougar sighting".

Mike B.

oi i live in a terraced house too so no slagging off the property please

Could you imagine Coug as a landlord renting out the other houses?

yOu Dind't aSK if ROOf leaked! Why presume that it wouldn't. EvIcT

Ekim Toor wrote:Could you imagine Coug as a landlord renting out the other houses?

yOu Dind't aSK if ROOf leaked! Why presume that it wouldn't. EvIcT

LOL

Cougar-slumlandlord!