Center_Stage_Hobbies wrote:I think this meerkat guy is the first graduate of the David Whitfield School of Customer Service.

He may simply be having a bad week.  That said, he should snap out of it before he digs his hole any deeper.

Kingofpain89 wrote:
Nah...guys like that are pricks for life.  

He He!    

FormCritic wrote:His Reply:

Perfectly simple, my dear fellow over the pond. It was aimed at people who stick an item on watch with no intention of ever bidding for it. Hence, they don't even put in a bid if the auction ends and there were no other bids on the item. All seems rather pointless to me.
I've no objection in the slightest to people watching the items if they're interested in bidding and are keeping tabs on how the price goes up.
Hope that assuages your curiosity.

to recap: in this sense, watcher = prat with no intention of ever bidding.

A remarkably civil response seeing as I was trolling him.

Actually, I kind of like Meerkat now.

In looking at his auction the page counter only shows 84 hits.  So the number of watchers isn't really that high.  I would love to see what he message would have been if he had say 100,000 watchers.  

I wonder if the archer was there when Gary signed it?  

jasonw1239 wrote:I wonder if the archer was there when Gary signed it?  

i would say so: just think that the guy drew it when he was at high school and gygax signed it in 1990...

Seller must have gotten Snoop Dog or Dr. Dre to write up the description for this one:



http://cgi.ebay.com/UNEARTHED-ARCANA-AD ... dZViewItem

g026r wrote:Nobody could go listen to a Guns n' Roses record in 1985; they hadn't released anything at that point.

According to Wikipedia's entry on the band, they could have been seen live that year. Hypothetically one could have banged one's head against the newly released hardback Unearthed Arcana during an early Guns n' Roses show, although I've always found the sturdier & heavier [pre-orange spine] DMG more effective in this regard.

Kingofpain89 wrote:Seller must have gotten Snoop Dog or Dr. Dre to write up the description for this one:

Ahh yes, the 80's gangster speak.  I learned what gangsters were and wore based on the extras from Breakin'

FormCritic wrote:His Reply:

Perfectly simple, my dear fellow over the pond. It was aimed at people who stick an item on watch with no intention of ever bidding for it. Hence, they don't even put in a bid if the auction ends and there were no other bids on the item. All seems rather pointless to me.
I've no objection in the slightest to people watching the items if they're interested in bidding and are keeping tabs on how the price goes up.
Hope that assuages your curiosity.

to recap: in this sense, watcher = prat with no intention of ever bidding.

A remarkably civil response seeing as I was trolling him.

Actually, I kind of like Meerkat now.

Have you noticed though, that if you delete a watched item from "My eBay", it takes more than 24 hours for the sellers # watching tally to go down?  It's basically not much more useful than any other unintelligent web-counter.  Maybe I decide to put one of Meerkat's auctions on my watch, but then, later, once I've had a chance to run his ID through the Toolhaus gauntlet, I decide he's not worthy of doing business with, so I 'X' him from my watchlist.  Suddenly, *I'M* a bad guy?  Bah!

bonk!