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TheMilford
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:20 pm

misterspock wrote:
** expired eBay auction **

Why would you need to carefully pack this for shipping?

I just thought of a fun game... and we can start with the joke on this seller.

somebody here should bid on this and when you win it DEMAND that he doesn't pack it carefully but just slaps a mailing label directly to the book itself... then we can send it around to each-other and see how much worse we could possibly make it...

Hmmmm, maybe that's how it got in that condition in the first place...

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Deadlord
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:28 pm

That is some funny shit. Carefully pack a book that looks like it's been raped by a heavy-grit sanding pad.

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bbarsh
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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:35 pm

misterspock wrote:
** expired eBay auction **

Why would you need to carefully pack this for shipping?

To lessen the risk that it will disintigrate before it gets to your house.

And I could've bought these damn modules off the 1$ rack!!!

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:58 pm

bbarsh wrote:
To lessen the risk that it will disintigrate before it gets to your house.

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 9:08 pm

I'm thinking one single band of duct tape all the way around the belt... let's have it shipped someplace fun... NTRPG... T&T...Coug's?

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 12:09 am

davidc wrote:T&T.

T&T would then resell it as Fine condition - may or may not contain cover but a photocopy has been substituted.

ashmire13
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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:03 am

with a stock photo, in NM and RARE, if the Coug sold it on!

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Mars
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Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:05 pm

Greyhawk Supplement "In like new condition ..."

** expired eBay auction **

"In like new condition.....cover has pulled away from bottom staple. Book has a few handwritten notes written very neatly inside."

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Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:34 pm

** expired eBay auction **

Seller Says it is a First Print.

Actually it is a FIFTH Print.

Lists all kinds of data to (He thinks) back him up, yet his own LONG story lists the First prints being published in 1985 and HIS second picture shows a date of MAY 1987.....

ISBN on rear cover and the Yellow TSR LOGO in middle of front indicate Fifth print.

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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:48 am

** expired eBay auction **

hmmm!?

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

copycat
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:07 am

That rocks. Original value less than $50! I'm only asking you pay 60x that amount!

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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:35 am

serleran wrote:That rocks. Original value less than $50! I'm only asking you pay 60x that amount!

i just checked this, looks like the price has already been changed.

Al

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Grug Greyskin
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:17 pm

killjoy32 wrote:
i just checked this, looks like the price has already been changed.

Al

The guy missed a decimal point, the original price was $2995.00

Mars
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:58 pm

I think this is the first time someone has actually copied the description of one of my auctions (probably because I don't auction much stuff):

My auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0399102083

Their auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0336904861

killjoy32
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 7:51 pm

Mars wrote:I think this is the first time someone has actually copied the description of one of my auctions (probably because I don't auction much stuff):

My auction:

** expired eBay auction **

Their auction:

** expired eBay auction **

the auction has already been removed it says...

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

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Grug Greyskin
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:23 pm

killjoy32 wrote:
the auction has already been removed it says...

Afraid of Mars suing for copyright infringement...

Mars
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:58 pm

killjoy32 wrote:the auction has already been removed it says...

That's pretty unbelievable speed for Ebay. I did report it after I posted it here and within the hour it was gone.

My big problem was that he just copied the condition of my set into his auction as well although his looks considerably worse.

Kingofpain89
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:23 am

Another former WotC employee selling stuff on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dungons-Dragons-4th ... 7C294%3A50

What cracks me up about this auction is not only did he misspell "Dungeons & Dragons" in his auction title (hopefully he wasnt an editor), but in the last paragraph he tells people not to bitch about his shipping charges. What shipping charges? :roll:

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killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:51 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:What cracks me up about this auction is not only did he misspell "Dungeons & Dragons" in his auction title (hopefully he wasnt an editor), but in the last paragraph he tells people not to bitch about his shipping charges. What shipping charges?

thats probably enough to put most people off...i see lots of bad vibes coming his way over that one!

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

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misterspock
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:52 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:Another former WotC employee selling stuff on Ebay.

** expired eBay auction **

What cracks me up about this auction is not only did he misspell "Dungeons & Dragons" in his auction title (hopefully he wasnt an editor), but in the last paragraph he tells people not to bitch about his shipping charges. What shipping charges?

"don't grief me because of my prices"

I think he's been casting too many 'grief' spells in his Charlie Brown RPG'ing which is confusing him with his nouns and verbs

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