Thanks hairybum for your update.
Xaxaxe wrote:I notice Cougie's feedback total has skyrocketed ... I take it that means that one of those new policies kicked in? Repeat feedback from one buyer counting as a +1 every time?
Xaxaxe wrote:When does the big one — sellers unable to leave non-positive feedback for a buyer — begin?
hairybum wrote:I spotted the following one of Cougie's listings & had to bring it to you guys' attention - hilarious: ** expired eBay auction **Quote:"VGC APART FORM COVER RIPPED, RULE BOOK ONLY TO THE CD ROM GAME NO CD NO BOX JUST THE BOOKLET (YOU'D BE AMAZED ONCE YOU LIST SOMETHING HOW MANY PEOPLE THINK THEY GET EVERYTHING, FREE, WITH IT)"(I was going to write some witty riposte to go with this, but I can't improve on the original!)
hairybum wrote:I spotted the following one of Cougie's listings & had to bring it to you guys' attention - hilarious: ** expired eBay auction **(I was going to write some witty riposte to go with this, but I can't improve on the original!)- - - - - - - -NB. I'm a long-time occasional lurker, keeping my ID quiet as I haven't ruled out the possibility of wanting to buy more stuff from Mr Rinard in the future (as he has the UK eBay market kinda sewn-up, he's hard to avoid), but the above was too funny not to post here!
gyg wrote:doubling the £510 would mean Cougs monthly pretax earnings would be about £2000
gyg wrote:Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:56 amIf you are as bored as I am you will know that ------
benjoshua wrote:I appreciated your boredom. You lost me here:If you double £510, you get closer to £1020 and not £2000, right? Or did I miss something?
benjoshua wrote:Got it. Thanks.
Xaxaxe wrote:Cougie loses money every morning that he rolls out of bed and decides not to cancel his eBay account. This can be confirmed with a few simple searches:1. He buys a lot of stock;2. The same stock is mostly sold at a loss ... if it sells at all. I've never seen another seller with the percentage of no-sales that Diamond Dave has.As others have mentioned, his money comes from somewhere else, likely a trust fund or a pension or something similar that he can count on every month. It certainly doesn't come from eBay sales ... he'd literally be out on the street if that was the case.
VERY OLD 1975 VERY RARE VERY GOOD CONDITION IF NOT MINT NEVER USED WORLD OF TEKUMEL EMPIRE OF PETAL THRONE M.A.R. BARKER SEE SCANS BROWN CARD BOX, SHOW SIDE ON SCAN 1 TOP FORNT SCAN 2 AND BOTTOM FROTN SCAN 3 WITH OVERLAYING MAPS. THERE ARE THREE MAPS THAT ARE FULL COLOUR THAT NEVER LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN UNFOLDED EVER, A QUICK RERERANCE SHEET DOUBLE FOLD, (A4 X2) A BROWN PAPER MAO AGAIN DOUBEL A4 SEE SCAN 4 WITHIT IS THE REF SHEETS PICTUREED, AND OF COURSE THE RINF BINDED 114 PAGE BOOK SEE SCAN 1, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, ALWAYS ESPECIALLY ON THIS RARE ITEM.
Aneoth wrote: ** expired eBay auction **
FormCritic wrote:I don't get it. Is the price too high? Is the description wrong? Or is the post full of errors?
JohnGaunt wrote:I hope you are joking, Mark . . .The description has spelling errors, no meaningful punctuation, and lines like "VERY GOOD CONDITION IF NOT MINT NEVER USED".VERY GOOD CONDITION IF NOT MINT NEVER USED --- what in the hell does that mean? It's in very good, wait, mint, no, I mean unused, no, back to very good because it's not any of the other conditions.THAT NEVER LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN UNFOLDED EVER --- because Da Coug is such a pissant, this double-negative could mean that the maps are trashed.MAO, FORNT, and FROTN, among other spelling errors --- I couldn't type that badly if I were drunk out of my skull.When reading the description, I have a vision of Da Coug doing a line of coke or smoking some meth before nutting all over the keyboard while typing the description.The item might be in decent condition, but the buyer can't be sure if Da Coug has left out some important flaw that any honest seller would mention. Taking time to craft a decent, professional description for a valuable item is beyond his sadly limited abilities.