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    PROBATION DISCUSSIONS

    in Marketplace Probations

    Posted

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    Not another Team A vs. Team B.

     

    Keep the topic on point - A-DONIS Probation Nomination by several members.

     

    lol

     

    My on point post regarding Adonis is that this is a continuous pattern of interest free loans he is getting from the sales forum.

     

    While he technically may "make it right" within the rules laid out, he has repeatedly done this with multiple people. At this point, he is Lighthouse light. ...(snip)...

     

    Lighthouse Light, Diet Lighthouse, and Lighthouse Zero have already been assigned.

     

    You are welcome, however, to assign the moniker of "Lighthouse TEN" to this member if you feel the comparison fits. Please note that, despite common misperception, this moniker is not to be presented as "Lighthouse 10" or "Lighthouse Ten", but only as "Lighthouse TEN".

     

    We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion, already in progress.

    PROBATION DISCUSSIONS

    in Marketplace Probations

    Posted

    So almost a year to the day that Lighthouse was added to the list, he finally sends me payment for the trades. As far as I'm concerned this episode is over and done with. If you would be so kind as to remove his name from the list, Divad.

    I would respectfully request that he not be taken off. This episode with Angelo is just one of many over many seperate instances.

    Old members will know what has happened with him and can buy accordingly.

    New members, who have no knowledge of Lighthouse and his various issues will not be aware.

    If this thread is to help make aware or warn the membership here of possible issues with sellers, then I think that his name must remain on the list. If not remaining on the list, then there needs to be a notation somewhere about his previous transgressions.

    Arex

    Ditto. The way he has jerked around forum members, time and time again, is pretty appalling. And there's enough of a pattern, stretching over years and with the repeated "second chances" he's been granted here, to know that it's not going to suddenly improve.

     

    No worries about that. I have no intentions of doing any mail-order selling any time soon. I may do some buying here and there, and I might complete some private transactions with friends, but you won't be seeing any general offerings from me.

     

    Feel free to leave my name on the probation list if you wish. I won't argue that point at all.

    KUDOS THREAD - positive feedback on buyers/sellers

    in Kudos Forum

    Posted

    Recent Kudos to:

     

    gman

    Sal

    Boomtown

    MikeS

    Flaming Telepath

    DKB

    Pirate

    Wormboy

     

    Kudos to Richard Finn of the Portland Comic Book Show... Unlike some promoters, when he had to cancel a previously advertised show (which was to be held October 8th), he sent mailings two months in advance then continued sending new mailings to everyone on his list three separate times to be sure everyone got the word. First time in 28 years that Richard has had to cancel a show (this one due to facility scheduling issues) and he went about it the right way. Richard is a class act, and if my schedule permits I certainly plan to be there for his next show in February. thumbsup2.gif

    KUDOS THREAD - positive feedback on buyers/sellers

    in Kudos Forum

    Posted

    Recent kudos to Sal and ronm3 for quick payment... Enjoy the TPBs.

     

    Also, long overdue kudos to bubbagump, who has never once complained about me being taller than him, who never complained about the unending stream of mediocre employees I forced him to manage, who continued working for me even after experiencing the "every Lighthouse employee gets in a car accident within 30 days of hire" curse, who helped point and laugh when his co-workers tasted that curse's sting, who volunteered to assist me in playtesting my Gush-Spontaneous Generation deck, who offered to help move the buried body of my former business partner (should his body become buried at some point in the future), who believed in my good intentions despite seemingly overwhelming evidence to the contrary, who loaned me money so that I could buy an order of chili cheese fries from Weinerschnitzel and then didn't complain when I didn't share, who shared in several collections with me where I did no legwork at all, who let me keep every copy of Tales of Suspense 49 that came across his table even though he had his own customers for it, and perhaps most of all, who let me gloat a little when my Ducks beat his own Texas Longhorns in the Holiday Bowl in 2000 and when the Ducks beat the Longhorns in the NCAA tournament in 2002 and then didn't gloat a bit when his Longhorns won the National Championship last year... Guy didn't even complain when he was lying in a hospital bed awaiting triple bypass and I told his wife point blank that he was going to die... stooges.gif

     

    Kudos to you Rick... I can't imagine anyone else putting up with me this long... thumbsup2.gif

    Whats the best tape for Mylites?

    in Comics General

    Posted

    I use OfficeMax tape. Their store brand is stupidly cheap, and it tears cleanly. My tape is about 3/4" in from the edge of the Mylite2, so when I want to get into a book I just pull the corner of the Mylite back and it severs the tape cleanly in half. Absolutely no chance of a tape pull.

     

    The problem I have run into with Magic tape and the regular Scotch brand is that after a while they sometimes get more elastic, and it's a pain in the butt trying to take off tape once it goes "stretchy" on you. I want my tape as inelastic as possible so it severs with no overhang at all.

     

    At my peak, I was spending upwards of $120 a month on tape for regular bagging and boarding. I switched to the store brand to save money, and got a pleasant surprise when I saw how well it works on Mylars...

     

    If the question refers to the 1mil Mylites, I have no advice whatsoever. I hate them crinkly bastiches...

    KUDOS THREAD - positive feedback on buyers/sellers

    in Kudos Forum

    Posted

    much thanks to lighthouse aka TPBking aka GothChickDaddy for the great deal on some modern Trades. if you would just list everything at once it would really make my life a lot easier, you know

     

    Where would the fun be in that? poke2.gif

     

    But just for you... and you alone... when my 500-book Bronze prescreen comes back from CGC, I'll list everything at once. No "Don Rosa Collection, let's pick 15 random books to sell this week"... stooges.gif

    Crisis On Infinite Message Boards

    in Comics General

    Posted

    **sigh**

     

    I miss Crisis...

     

     

     

    I remember being 8 years old, sitting outside the grocery store in the summer time leaning against the warm cinder block wall, tearing fruit leather into tiny pieces and setting them next to me on a paper bag, reading the comic book that was laying across my lap, taking a bite of fruit leather as I finished each page, trying to have the fruit leather and the comic both last until my mom came back out with her groceries, trying to balance the need for delayed gratification with the desire to race to the end of the comic so I could start over and read it again.

     

    I remember those days well... and when I think of Crisis, that's how I feel... like a bright-eyed child, full of wonder, with my whole life ahead of me, if only I can sit still long enough to read the next page...

     

     

     

    I miss Crisis...

     

    **sigh**

    KUDOS THREAD - positive feedback on buyers/sellers

    in Kudos Forum

    Posted

    Well it's been far too long since I did my Kudos list, so here goes:

     

    Everyone listed here has been a pleasure to deal with, people in bold I have dealt with 3 or more times, people in red bold are those I have done too many deals to count (or maybe I just think they look good in a dress). tongue.gif

     

    I have no doubt that I have missed some folks, in part because some folks are anonymous and in part because my brain is like a sieve on Wednesdays. tongue.gif

     

    The first half of the alphabet:

     

    4Gemworks

    aardvark88

    aaron568

    AlexH

    Apotheosis

    ArAich

    archiefan

    Ariamus

    awe4one

    BassGMan

    BigMan

    blazingbob

    bobpfef

    Bonds25

    brian1227

    Bronty

    BronzeBruce13

    bubbagump

    buena_vista

    cd4ever

    chrisco37

    chromium

    cicamen

    comicmankev

    dam60

    DARTHDIESEL

    davidking623

    deathlok

    dolphinsrwj

    drbanner

    drdonaldblake

    fantasyfootballbono

    FlComicFan

    FlyingDonut

    gman

    gpcove

    greggy

    Hensley300

    HighVoltage

    hobbes

    Ian_Levine

    ideal808

    Jagull

    jbud73

    jimm94

    JiveTurkeyMoFo

    Joanna

    joemad

    joe_collector

    Lantern

    localshop

    MajorKhaos

    metropolisent

    MikeS

    Minutekev

    mlovest

    mrwoogieman

    mr_highgrade

    murph0

    Mushroom

    musicmeta

     

    I actually went through the entire forum userlist to put this together. It's amazing how many 0-posters we have. confused-smiley-013.gif

     

    I will get to the 2nd half of the alphabet soon. But a 2nd-Day-Air shipment just arrived, so I had best go make some packages. smile.gif