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1980 Bird/Magic RC and some snooty banter.

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  • goraidersgoraiders Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You could buy a lot of steak with that cash. >>




    I'm more of a burger guy...
    J.R.
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    1972 Football-9's high#'s
    1965 Football-8's
    1958 Topps FB-7-8


  • << <i>gecko, what's that coin on the left? It looks cool in the pic. >>




    Thats a 1968 (I believe, maybe 1969) JFK half dollar thats been hammered out onto a 3D die of Kennedy's head. They are often called "pop outs" and are usually put into bezel settings to be worn as necklaces.
  • Thanks, I though it was a bit more mysterious just going by the unfocused image.
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    There's a lost soul, comin' down the road,
    Somewhere between two worlds,
    With an oar in his hand, and a song on his lips,
    He'll row the boat too far to shore

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  • mccardguy1mccardguy1 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I underestimated just how many boyfriends Bill has on this forum.image >>



    not my picture but had to do this


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  • goraidersgoraiders Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I underestimated just how many boyfriends Bill has on this forum.image >>



    not my picture but had to do this


    image >>





    Sir,I would like to paypal you this much $ for the funniest post in years,minus the coins of course.
    image

    Just let me know where to paypal.


    J.R.
    J.R.
    Needs'
    1972 Football-9's high#'s
    1965 Football-8's
    1958 Topps FB-7-8


  • << <i>

    << <i>I underestimated just how many boyfriends Bill has on this forum.image >>



    not my picture but had to do this


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    Great stuff!!!image
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭
    I love when people complain that someone didn't take their offer. As if it is the seller's obligation to sell at the "going rate". If I took every offer for my cards at the going rate, I'd make a fraction of what I make on eBay. Patience is a virtue when you know what you are doing.


  • << <i>I love when people complain that someone didn't take their offer. As if it is the seller's obligation to sell at the "going rate". If I took every offer for my cards at the going rate, I'd make a fraction of what I make on eBay. Patience is a virtue when you know what you are doing. >>





    Where is my complaint? I simply shared my buying experience. Thought it was funny that I got the card I wanted at the price I wanted, and that seller still has his stagnant inventory.image Please point out the part where I complained. I see reading comprehension isnt your strong suit.
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092
    I see no "snooty banter" other than you being a tool for asking him to reconsider your offer. Has anybody ever sold anything to anybody after the buyer told him he "should reconsider"? Is this what you are like in person?

    You asked directly whether you should just move on and he answered your question directly by saying yes, you should in fact move on. Now you're whining about it like he did something wrong. I'd tell you to go take a flying leap for telling me what I should do with my cards and then block you from all my auctions. He was a lot nicer than I would've been.
  • goraidersgoraiders Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I see no "snooty banter" other than you being a tool for asking him to reconsider your offer. Has anybody ever sold anything to anybody after the buyer told him he "should reconsider"? Is this what you are like in person?

    You asked directly whether you should just move on and he answered your question directly by saying yes, you should in fact move on. Now you're whining about it like he did something wrong. I'd tell you to go take a flying leap for telling me what I should do with my cards and then block you from all my auctions. He was a lot nicer than I would've been. >>




    Good going Lee,now your going to get as we like to call it=THE PM,its coming,
    you will now know how much $ his family makes,where he works,what his wife does,
    plus HE"S going to kick your A$$! You asked for it,he it comes...


    J.R.

    Edit=Plus whats for dinner!Steak,trust me..
    J.R.
    Needs'
    1972 Football-9's high#'s
    1965 Football-8's
    1958 Topps FB-7-8
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    snooty and the blowfish.


  • << <i>I see no "snooty banter" other than you being a tool for asking him to reconsider your offer. Has anybody ever sold anything to anybody after the buyer told him he "should reconsider"? Is this what you are like in person?

    You asked directly whether you should just move on and he answered your question directly by saying yes, you should in fact move on. Now you're whining about it like he did something wrong. I'd tell you to go take a flying leap for telling me what I should do with my cards and then block you from all my auctions. He was a lot nicer than I would've been. >>




    Obviously it was lost on you that my end of the bantering was snooty, hence my title. Since things need to be spelled out for you, I never "whined" about anything. I just told a story here. If you can kindly show me where I have "whined" , i'd be most thankful. The problem is your reading comprehension is a little subpar. Start from the left and work your way to the right. Form letters into words and then into sentences. Try reading aloud if you are having difficulty digesting the material. If all else fails, order hooked on phonics.
  • burke23burke23 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭
    zzzzzzzzzzzzz....
    Looking for rare Randy Moss rookies and autos, as well as '97 PMG Red Football cards for my set.
  • swartz1swartz1 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭
    why do buyers feel they need to give sellers updates on recent prices?

    the sellers "know" the prices...

    if you are in the market for the "one" they have, make an offer...

    if you get refused...move along...




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  • << <i>why do buyers feel they need to give sellers updates on recent prices?

    the sellers "know" the prices...

    if you are in the market for the "one" they have, make an offer...

    if you get refused...move along... >>




    And I did, and I got the exact same card for the price I wanted to pay. Yay me! image


    EDITED TO ADD: And now im done with this thread.
  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    Snooty Tomjonavich
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I love when people complain that someone didn't take their offer. As if it is the seller's obligation to sell at the "going rate". If I took every offer for my cards at the going rate, I'd make a fraction of what I make on eBay. Patience is a virtue when you know what you are doing. >>





    Where is my complaint? I simply shared my buying experience. Thought it was funny that I got the card I wanted at the price I wanted, and that seller still has his stagnant inventory.image Please point out the part where I complained. I see reading comprehension isnt your strong suit. >>



    If you really don't care that they turned down your offer, then why are you even sharing this "buying experience". Why even bring up the declined offer if it means so very little to you. Do you normally make threads expecting no one to respond?
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092
    You're like the kid at my grade school lunch table that thought he was funny and kept making jokes but nobody ever laughed and just wanted him to go away forever. Just go away. Seriously. Nobody likes you.


  • << <i>I guess if quoting actual sales figures and offering to negotiate a price is being a d*ck, then every single actuary, every single real estate appraiser, and every single person who does not feel like overpaying is also a d*ck. Like I said, some sellers actually want sales....some dont. >>



    I'm sorry... I'm an actuary and this sentence makes no sense... We price our products first based on current mortality, then use market trends + built in company profit + other assumptions to set our rates.

    Companies DO NOT PRICE to be the lowest rates on the market, which is what you are basically saying all actuaries do.
  • Respect my veracitaw Sir's,

    do not question my veracitaw.

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  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I guess if quoting actual sales figures and offering to negotiate a price is being a d*ck, then every single actuary, every single real estate appraiser, and every single person who does not feel like overpaying is also a d*ck. Like I said, some sellers actually want sales....some dont. >>



    I'm sorry... I'm an actuary and this sentence makes no sense... We price our products first based on current mortality, then use market trends + built in company profit + other assumptions to set our rates.

    Companies DO NOT PRICE to be the lowest rates on the market, which is what you are basically saying all actuaries do. >>



    Yeah, I'm not following that either. Actuaries don't 'negotiate prices' (at least so far as I know), they determine what the fair premium would be for a specific service. And real estate appraisers don't negotiate prices either. They, uh, appraise.

    In any case, I vote for a moratorium on threads where the OP stamps their feet and screams because they don't get what they want from the Ebay marketplace. And I'm not singling out the OP here- there are way too many threads like this started every week. Newsflash- nobody, and I mean nobody, gives a flying fondue if you were overcharged $3 in shipping, or if a seller called you nasty names in an email, or if your offer was auto-declined.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,484 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>In any case, I vote for a moratorium on threads where the OP stamps their feet and screams because they don't get what they want from the Ebay marketplace. And I'm not singling out the OP here- there are way too many threads like this started every week. Newsflash- nobody, and I mean nobody, gives a flying fondue if you were overcharged $3 in shipping, or if a seller called you nasty names in an email, or if your offer was auto-declined. >>

    Wow Boo

    Do I ever concur!

    Unless I posted that I bought a T206 Wagner - I couldn't get this many posts on a thread - even if I guaranteed everyone gets a date with "Popcorn girl!"

    mike
    Mike
  • hey gecko since I'm fairly certain your combined household income is higher then mine, how about you pay for my next sub?

    thanks man. pm comng
  • AhmanfanAhmanfan Posts: 4,416 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>hey gecko since I'm fairly certain your combined household income is higher then mine, how about you pay for my next sub?

    thanks man. pm comng >>



    I've got a tuition bill coming up thats slightly higher than my net worth (which isn't very much).... help me out, Gecko?
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    HOF SIGNED FOOTBALL RCS
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭


    << <i>Snooty Tomjonavich >>




    lmao.
  • ZixxZixx Posts: 228 ✭✭
    The question I have for Gecko is if there were others listed, why bother asking about the one that was overly priced? Was it an old flip you were hoping you could get bumped? Better appearance overall than the others? Higher feedback than other sellers? If all things were equal, just buy one at the price you want and that's that.

    On the sellers side, why should anyone care what he wants to price his items at? If costs him a whopping .05 per month for it to sit in his Ebay store. Personally, I saw nothing out of line with either your email to him nor his reply. Prices may have dropped, the seller could be unaware and willing to lower his price. It's happened to me before when I had one left of an item that I had multiples listed. People asked if I'd take lower and I politely declined. Eventually the item sold at a price I was happier with.

    I'll never understand why so many post that they'd block or neg someone over the slightest little thing. That's some customer service . . . Many are warranted, but some sure seem petty.

    "Hello, I'm interested in card X. Seems the current market is $. Would you be willing to lower your price some?"

    "NO!!" *BLOCKED*

    Really? I like selling things at a profit so I can buy other things. I have lower a price before when I got that message and made a sale. Other times I just tell them I have too much into that item and with Ebay/PP fees, I need a higher amount. I counteroffer and make a sale. If a person is reasonable and polite, it goes a long way. Buyer and seller alike.
  • I should be delivering annual appraisals right now......
    -Stadium Giveaways
    -Ticket Stubs
    -Magazines
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭
    I have a large collection of Star Wars prop lightsabers. I paid $200.00 for one and after a few years I decided I did not need it in my collection so I listed it on ebay for $200.00. I seller asked if I would take $100.00 and I said no so he did not buy it. Then the unexpected happened....someone else came along and bought it. I really did not care if
    i sold it or not if I did for what I paid for it I was happy, if not I was going to back into my collection. I guess that makes me a jerk by some people's standards.
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>I have a large collection of Star Wars prop lightsabers. I paid $200.00 for one and after a few years I decided I did not need it in my collection so I listed it on ebay for $200.00. I seller asked if I would take $100.00 and I said no so he did not buy it. Then the unexpected happened....someone else came along and bought it. I really did not care if
    i sold it or not if I did for what I paid for it I was happy, if not I was going to back into my collection. I guess that makes me a jerk by some people's standards. >>



    Collecting fake light sabers in no way makes you a jerk. It might make you something else, but not a jerk.

    Edit to add: Well worth seven minutes if you've never seen it. Good Star Wars humor!
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭
    Just the fact that you started this thread and your complaint is actually WHINING, not a "buying experience".
  • JHS5120JHS5120 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭
    Maybe you shouldn't have worded your message to the seller the way you did. BTW, next time you offer a seller a price don't offer the average offer the recent high, that is what the seller is hoping to seller the card for.
    Jason
    My eBay Store =)

    "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss
  • The ONLY way to win at card selling is to "buy low sell HIGH" and selling at the VCP average will not keep them in busineess. If they are smart they will wait for the right buyer to come along and pay ABOVE avg
  • UphillUphill Posts: 361 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I see no "snooty banter" other than you being a tool for asking him to reconsider your offer. Has anybody ever sold anything to anybody after the buyer told him he "should reconsider"? Is this what you are like in person?

    You asked directly whether you should just move on and he answered your question directly by saying yes, you should in fact move on. Now you're whining about it like he did something wrong. I'd tell you to go take a flying leap for telling me what I should do with my cards and then block you from all my auctions. He was a lot nicer than I would've been. >>




    Obviously it was lost on you that my end of the bantering was snooty, hence my title. Since things need to be spelled out for you, I never "whined" about anything. I just told a story here. If you can kindly show me where I have "whined" , i'd be most thankful. The problem is your reading comprehension is a little subpar. Start from the left and work your way to the right. Form letters into words and then into sentences. Try reading aloud if you are having difficulty digesting the material. If all else fails, order hooked on phonics. >>



    I agree.
    Jamie

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  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    John David Snooty
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Doug Snutie.
  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    Snoot Doggy Dogg
  • initialDinitialD Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Snoot Gibson.
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,366 ✭✭✭✭
    Mike has a T206 Wagner and Boo actually has some interest in Star Wars? I have found in the past that guys who frequent bowling alleys in Ypsilanti AND who know more about economics than E F Hutton himself typically do NOT dabble in Star Wars.

    So although I lament the fact that the OP accomplished his original goal of posting nonsense and getting a rise out of the forum, at least I learned 2 things I did not know.

    P.S. Mike, I know you don't have a T206 Wagner (although you probably did have one but it got thrown out with the rest of your T206's when the 1914 Cracker Jacks came out).

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    In before the lock.


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • did someone say popcorn girl?
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I can't believe I read this entire thread. Boo and Lee put it perfectly but too bad their observations will be completely ignored by the DB.. I mean OP.

    Hi Carol!

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • jmoran19jmoran19 Posts: 1,626 ✭✭✭
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    Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972

  • jmoran19jmoran19 Posts: 1,626 ✭✭✭
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    Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972

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    Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972

  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,057 ✭✭
    EJECT!
  • MorgothMorgoth Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭
    Wow more high drama. I do approve any thread that shakes Lee out of hibernation.

    Hey Lee, if I come to your restaurant for the national can I please get the pee free tea?
    Currently completing the following registry sets: Cardinal HOF's, 1961 Pittsburgh Pirates Team, 1972 Pittsburgh Pirates Team, 1980 Pittsburgh Pirates Team, Bill Mazeroski Master & Basic Sets, Roberto Clemente Master & Basic Sets, Willie Stargell Master & Basic Sets and Terry Bradshaw Basic Set
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    100!
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
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