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Again, I don't think so. However, sellers make unnecessary duress for themselves if they say that "taking it" in the thread trumps all as there is that race to run to the thread. Sellers can make it easier if they just go by the timestamp. If I post a book before bedtime and I log in the next day to see that someone took it in the thread and someone sent a PM saying that they would take it. Honor the time stamp. It comes across to me as simple greed. "I am sorry. I know we made a deal but someone else wanted to pay more. They used the loop hole I set up against the possibility that I could squeeze out a couple of extra dollars -- regardless of your good faith negotiations. Thank you for playing." Exactly... the in a thread is a way to wait out a PM deal to see if you can get more in the thread. New Commandment: Honor Thy Time Stamp

Again, I don't think so. However, sellers make unnecessary duress for themselves if they say that "taking it" in the thread trumps all as there is that race to run to the thread. Sellers can make it easier if they just go by the timestamp. If I post a book before bedtime and I log in the next day to see that someone took it in the thread and someone sent a PM saying that they would take it. Honor the time stamp.

I just think it is time you got a new computer... Generated in 0.027 seconds in which 0.016 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression enabled. You must have missed it when I posted this:

This thread should be stickied as an example of how not to handle yourself with the comic book auction houses.

My brain hurts.

Anyone who believes it looks shady should probably watch less Xfiles. I have had a lot of things going on the last couple of days. Where is this thread in question?

I prefer the command+shift+4 sequence as it allows me to take a screen show of a specific area of the screen. Then I drag it into iPhoto and hit edit and blur out any personals.

Here are my thoughts if they matter... I advertise that timestamp trumps all either in the thread or through PM. I have a practice in which I will continue to utilize to refer to the time stamp that a deal was completed. There have been a few things that I have sold directly through PM. Someone will PM me and simply say, I will take the item. I go by the timestamp. If I come home from work, and see a PM that says take it and that was sent before someone said that they would take it in the thread, I honor whoever was first. However, IF I am ever called out on it. I will screen cap the PM and edit out (by blurring) the name of the boardie and his avatar in order to protect their identity. If someone thinks I am capable of going through all the hoops to fake something like that though, that is someone I do not want to do business with anyway. Again though, there seems to be a lot of drama going on with selling books over here lately. And what's been going on with a certain someone lately? I saw that thread that was zapped as well.

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I bring it up as the last three problems all occurred with bidders outside the United States and I am a seller based in the United States. The first one eBay recognized by my pointing out was very likely a scam. The second one eBay realized it themselves and sent me a message instructing me not to send the item as they banned the user themselves. The third person, mayclark, wasn't a scam artist but was playing games that we have all agreed on is poor form. I don't think it is acceptable to anyone to commit to buying something then negotiate a price after the fact. Why are foreign bidders to the seller's account more likely to set up a scam? I believe it is in due part to the distance. The travel time is increased and the bidder is outside jurisdiction of the sellers country. I could easily see US scammers playing games with UK sellers just as easily as I've seen scam games with my stuff. I'm the case of the Australian bidder that is a simple case of poor bidder behavior. In the case of the foreign account that suddenly decided to purchase something after ten years to an address that could not be verified and the Chinese account that eBay NARU'd after he made the purchase, sorry but fact is a fact that they were both foreign bidders. As stated I had no problem selling a large Lego set to a buyer in Peru that had an unconfirmed non trackable address as he had a decent history in buying and selling. I will ship to people overseas but lately I am being given reason to start losing confidence.

Glad people took notice and liked. All of the Millennium Falcon's since 2004 have had the hinged pieces at the top. The last one I bought was the one that came out back then. I skipped the last couple of incarnations. However, the Force Awakens version appears to have a design that allows room for some modifications. The easiest and most important is that there is plenty of room in that cockpit to fit two minifigures side by side instead of offset. I plan on redoing it something along the lines of what this guy did. http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/379116 I will probably do a couple of reviews... one in which the item is built as advertised. And then a second one with some modifications.

mayclark2006 of Australia The buyers outside of the US continue to annoy me. Third problem in a couple of weeks all from buyers outside of the US. And boardies want to know why Murican buyers are shutting the eBay doors to worldwide shipping. I handle a relative's account as they decide to sell off some jewelry. They have their own paypal and eBay account. I handle the listing and the shipping and most importantly the negotiating. Customers have been very happy in some cases actually writing thank you notes... weird but true, relative is very happy, and I am very happy to help my relative out who has been VERY good to me over the years. Item: Silver Southwestern Jewelry Bracelet / Cuff. I wake up to an order placed and two messages. Buyer hits the BIN for $150 Message 1 - That was a mistake sorry can you cancel? Message 2 - Tell you what... If you relist it I will give you $145. My response: I cannot relist until you cancel the order. Order cancelled, buyer blocked, buyer reported. Some will say it was only $5. Others will see it for what it is and that this bad buyer behavior needs to stop.

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Okay... So This is going to be a longer entry since I did pick up two of the Force Awakens sets this morning from the Lego Store. I picked up the 75105 Millennium Falcon set but also picked up the 75099 Rey's Speeder. I may do a review of the Falcon at some point but let's take a look at something entirely new and see if it holds up. I stayed in tonight though so I thought I would post a review. Stats: Lego 75099: Rey's Speeder MSRP: $19.99 Pieces: 193 Pieces with several extras* Release Date: 2015-09-04 Found at Lego Shop at Home: Lego Shop at Home Background I am not going to speculate on plot details of the movie as some spoilers can be determined by closely examining how the vehicle and characters are tied together. I will examine the contents and try to justify $20 for 193 parts. Upon opening the set you are met with two bags to separate the segments of the build along with two minifigures. The Minifigures Included in the set is our desert scavenging hero Rey, whose last name is supposedly a spoiler, as well as an "Unkar's Thug". I have ideas about what role "Unkar's Thug" is supposed to fulfill but I promised no spoilers and no spoilers it will be. Rey features a dual printed head for two expressions as seen in the photos, and a newly sculpted hairstyle as well as a newly dual printed torso. This means that this is a debut for the hairstyle piece and the torso has never been printed before. Rey also features a helmet or mask that slips on top of her head so she has that masked rider look when on top of the speeder along with a little Lego messenger bag. Unkar's Thug also features newly printed minifigure parts and while it does not feature a second expression on the opposite side of its head, it does feature printing all the way around. The Speeder The contents of Bag 1 and 2 offer a nice assortment of parts that are not found in many other Lego sets especially in this maroon color. The basic structure of the set is revealed in the initial stage and while it is not a difficult build it was intricate and imaginative considering that there is a basic mechanism put into place to automatically open the doors of the speeder and the there are many areas that are utilize a S.N.O.T. (Studs Not On Top) build. The second polybag contains the shell and the doors of the speeder. I apologize but for some reason the image of the parts from the second bag were not captured. Again as with the first part of the build, the speeder has a lot of maroon parts seldom seen in other sets. The inclusion of the brown and the oranges allow it to have that "used universe" feel that all of the vehicles in Episodes IV-VI had. I also liked the way that the designer engineered the doors of the speeder's cargo bay and the use of the race car spoilers as steering vanes for the speeder. Let's open it up and see what it's got. Before we do that though, here are a few different angles of the set. By twisting one of the engines, a rotating lever pushes the cargo bay doors open. Inside it reveals a cargo chamber that you can put some of the extra parts in making it look like space junk. (Lego always includes a few extra pieces of its smallest parts. For example in the Lord of the Rings sets you didn't just receive 'one' ring to rule them all but three.) As standard with this set there are two launchers on the side capable of firing two lego studs at anyone trying to steal the scavenged lego parts that Rey is trying take. Let's set this up with some of the figures. I genuinely liked the scale of the set in relation to the figures. The set is probably a bit more in scale than others being that it is supposed to be a one person speeder. However, with that said, I feel it could have been beefed up a bit. This could be easily addressed by playing down the top and bottom a bit with a single level underlying plate beneath the shell. The only thing I did not put on were the stickers. I usually do not put the stickers on if I think the set can get away without it or if I have picked up a set simply to use the parts to design and build something else. For one of those reasons, the stickers remain unused. I usually just slide them into the instruction booklet for use down the line if I choose. Overall thoughts: The general question is, "Is this worth a $20 price tag?" That is kind of hard to say. It is the cheapest Episode VII set on the market and it does contain one of the two main characters. I thought that the features were interesting and if you are unfamiliar with building a Lego model using SNOT technique then this will give you a nice introduction and teach you to do a few new things with all of your other stuff. The set itself is what we call 'swooshable' so if you have kids aged 6 60 and below you might find them lifting it in front of them and gliding it through the air. In all honesty it is a beefed up desert pounded Star Wars motorcycle with a storage bay. It looks mean, it looks ready to move down the desert planet looking to scavenge parts. I genuinely like the set and it is at the base of the TV for now. I bought it at the Lego store itself for $19.99 which was cheaper than buying it at Toys R Us where the price is $21.99. I also receive better rewards points through Lego if you sign up for the free membership along with other goodies throughout the year. This month if you spend $50 or more you get a mini tractor. Eventually Amazon will discount it and if tradition holds true then expect to see it at around $16.99 somewhere down the line which is a very good deal in comparison to the other sets. I recommend picking it up. Price: 3.5 / 5 (I remember when sets like this were $12.99) Playability: 5/5 Inclusion of various parts 4/5 (There are some unusual parts in here) Design 4/5 (I like what they did but it could have been beefier) Minifigures 5/5 (Two dual printed SW minifigures) Verdict: 4.3. If you are patient and can grab it on sale then I definitely recommend it. If not then pick one up now. If y'all liked this review, then perhaps next weekend I will build and post a review of the new Millennium Falcon.

That's when you utilize a scorched earth policy.

And supposedly the X-Men comic decisions as well. He's sounds like a d-bag I also heard that he's cheap as hell Supposedly he was involved in the situation where Terrance Howard was passed on for Iron Man II because of the salary. :shrug: I like Cheadle better in most anything anyway. He can play the dramatic as seen in Hotel Rwanda and I thought he was great in the 'Ocean' movies.

And now a brief slice of Lego history Lego vs Hasbro over Star Wars Incidentally, I do not know if this has ever been addressed before here. There have been talks about the minifigures series and why Lego has not done 16 figure blind bag assortments of various Marvel characters. While it has never been officially addressed, the word of mouth information has to do with the idea that Hasbro had previously complained that Lego was infringing upon Hasbro's license to produce action figures based on Star Wars characters when Lego started producing 'figure sets' and later 'magnet sets.' Let's go back to the year 2000. Hasbro was still the leading producer of boy's toys and Lego was falling out of style. In 1999, Lego announced that they had acquired the Star Wars license to create building block sets of the popular Star Wars franchise. Back in 1999, no one was making poseable Star Wars action figures except for Hasbro. While Hasbro was probably not pleased by this, there was not much room for complaint as Lucasfilm has licensed many vendors to produce Star Wars products. Hasbro had the action figure license while Lego had the building block license. Lego made a bold move in 2000, producing sets of Lego Star Wars minifigures. There were three sets of three minifigures. Supposedly Hasbro took notice, and the minifigure sets, although popular, were discontinued within a year. Lego responded by creating magnet packs. Up until the end of 2010, Lego was producing a three pack minifigure magnet assortments of various Star Wars characters. The magnets were composed of detachable minifigures on top of grey lego magnets. There was no difference from the minifigures produced in the sets and those placed onto magnets. This went on for a couple of assortments until they were suddenly changed. It was announced toward the end of 2010 that subsequent Lego Star Wars magnet sets would be glued to their bases to prevent them being used in any way other than magnets. From Lego circa early 2011: When I had the opportunity to ask Hasbro about this at NYCC several years ago, the Star Wars team would only say, 'No Comment". When I asked Lego, also at NYCC, they remarked that they were not able to address it further (or something like that - I specifically remember the 'no comment' though.) Now, while Lego has offered polybagged Star Wars figures after 2010, it is important to note that these have been promotional items or store exclusives with later sales to clearance out remaining stock by a vendor. Lego Han Solo in Hoth Gear was a lego incentive and only available for free if $75 or more was purchased through the Lego Store. Rocket Raccoon was aTRU Exclusive that was originally a store promo if $50 or more was purchased in Legos in the store. Eventually, TRU sold the items individually. This brings us to Marvel. Keep in mind that Hasbro also has the license from Marvel / Disney to produce action figures so the same type of arrangement probably exists on Marvel figures as the Star Wars figures concerning what Lego does. So while Lego was able to secure the rights to produce and sell individual Simpsons minifigures, it is very unlikely, that unless Disney steps in, that we will see individual Marvel or Star Wars figures sold in the minifigure assortment. This is highly unlikely though, as Disney is starting to have a strained relationship with Lego... but more on that later. (Maybe today actually if I feel like writing more.)

I did not even know that they were released yet. Cool - I wanted a couple of these. On the flip side... I was denied purchasing some things yesterday at Target. They put them out by mistake and the register would not allow them to be purchased. The sticker for the First Order Snow Speeder was correct at $29.99 but the label for the X-Wing was nowhere to be found.

As a few already know... VERY disappointed in this: Emailing Heritage tomorrow with the scan now that it is in hand. I was going to have another guess the grade contest but will be excluding this from the other received items. I have more coming back and will use those... I put it up for sale at someone's suggestion but will most likely be looking to return it.

Anyone else watching the Heritage Auction? I am pretty sure the guy just called out a "Heeeeey now" like on the Stern show.

That's how I feel. Especially about the no pics part. It's like a blind man buying something. It's a no-brainer common sense thing. You guys would have loved it in the mail order days 25+ years ago However, I agree. The expectations have changed. There are a few high profile sellers I'd buy from sight unseen, but not many at all I was always disappointed in the mail order days or the pre image hosting capabilities of the internet in the early to mid 90's. In fact I notice that since the ability to post pics of books online has come into play, a few people I know that were dealing back then have tightened up on their grading. Some might say that CGC overhaul of what is NM in comparison to Mile High's / Overstreet standards may have changed the grading in the marketplace. I prefer to think it was the ability to present the actual product. BTW - You have to hand it to Chuck who still lifts a middle finger to today's grading standards. He a rebel man... a rebel.

Never going to happen. That's why I support the implementation of very simple requirements to post a sales thread. Some combination of join date/post count. Along the lines of 2 months and 50 posts. This idea always made sense to me. Heck, there is a post requirement to partake in the PIF thread. But then that means that someone like "He whose name shall not be spoken" who creates 50 posts every hour would have been eligible to start selling after one day of posts and as soon as his time period was up. A required join up date / post count just encourages the Long Con.

Hey hey... A lego order just arrived... I picked up a Hobbit: Lonely Mountain with Smaug as it is quickly disappearing. Lego Shop At Home threw this unadvertised bonus into my order which was kind of nice: SDCC 2015 Exclusive DC Comic Book. The corner got dinged but it is actually a nice issue. This pic is not mine, my laziness told me to simply steal an image off the web. It is magazine sized and has the heavy cardstock paper as a cover.