lighthouse

Aman, I make no excuses. I read an old comic, saw the Hostess ad, and thus were the next group of names on the list doomed. On the bright side, I'm sure the Hostess Hoard will get along well with Flying Donut.

 

Where's my custom title?

 

-- Joanna

 

So...when is Mylite going to save the day and transform into the brand new omnipotent 4 mil Mylar?

Dream on, short-bus...

Aman, I make no excuses. I read an old comic, saw the Hostess ad, and thus were the next group of names on the list doomed. On the bright side, I'm sure the Hostess Hoard will get along well with Flying Donut.

 

Where's my custom title?

 

-- Joanna

I coined Forum Den Mother for you months ago... seconded by Donut, and approved by many...

but we don't get a vote...

Quit trashing Joanna's thread!

You wanna run up your post count, do it in the test forums like everybody else!

See ya there...

BEING Ding Dong! BEING Ding Dong!!!!

You know I meant I like BEING DIng Dong, you rats!

 

Once again... sounds like a request for a custom title to me...

 

You could wake up tomorrow with "Ding Dong" under your name, instead of "Talkative?"

 

When are you going get one foolio?

Good question... with my luck someone will say something ridiculous during my roast this week and my new title will be born... As long as it doesn't come from ablue, Bubbles, or jibbajabba, I'll be fine...

BEING Ding Dong! BEING Ding Dong!!!!

You know I meant I like BEING DIng Dong, you rats!

Once again... sounds like a request for a custom title to me...

You could wake up tomorrow with "Ding Dong" under your name, instead of "Talkative?"

yup--I think I kinda LIKE Ding Dong after all!

Sounds like a request for a custom title to me...

Can I just say that people being shocked that this book has bids bothers me?

Doesn't bother me... hopefully that means they will sell me their remaindered and coverless books for peanuts.

I sell probably 100 coverless Silver Age books a year in my shop, and get around 1/3 to 1/2 of good for them if they are nice and tight. Sold a coverless ASM 50 for $22 just last week.

There are more people out there just trying to fill runs than there are trying to find 9.6's of everything. And there's no guilt with sitting down and reading a copy like this X-Men 1. I'd be surprised if that book stays in the slab for long...

Nope!! There's lower! If I'm not mistaken, I saw a PURPLE label 0.5 (pages missing) on Ebay!!!! Anyone see it about 1 year ago and remember what it was exactly?

They've done lower than that...

They also give out a grade I got a few times in elementary school when I didn't turn in my homework... the venerable "INCOMPLETE"...

CGC has slabbed individual wraps of books like Action 1...

"Lookie here! It's an Action 1... only missing ALL the pages except these four..."

C'mon Joanna,

I just finished reading this thread from beginning to end.......where's the next chapter? I'm literally GLUED to my computer...

Yeah, Joanna!

You're not taking time off from this to work on a PAYING writing gig are you?

Shame on you! Don't you know our needs come first?

The nerve of some people.... sheesh...

*tongue planted firmly in cheek, while I wait on the edge of my seat like all the other fanboys here*

Yo LH, go back & edit your clapping graemlins post. It's causing everyone to scroll to the right to read each post.

 

No - just do what they told me ::sniff sniff:: make your text size smaller (yeah right) and buy a 37 inch monitor instead of ::gasp choke:: more comic books!

I'm on a 15" monitor... and my graemlins show up as nice neat rows...

But I have edited my post, for those of you who don't know how to adjust your browser preferences...

Priceless...

Yeah, he's still looking for someone to do a Monroe Transfer...

But quit trashing the thread... I am dying to see what happens next!

Not for me I didn't...

Shows up as five nice neat rows in my browser... your computer must suck...

Because the most retconned person on the boards is meth/hammer/blackshotzy/comic-keys, I think he needs a complete reworking.

 

Known now as "The Trimmer" because his new origin is as an aerobics instructor in Fresno, with superpowers that allow him to magically trim the fat off of the middle-aged, alcoholic, ex-wives of Fresno's mid-level executives. Once, he dreamed of being in the ballet, but his hopes were dashed by chronic hamstring problems. Now, an embittered, balding, Richard Simmons wannabe, he spends his nights drinking Mogen David wine while yelling catty remarks at the women on reality shows.

ROTFLSHIPMP....

I just left a neg for Lighthouse saying that the book he sent me was a photocopied cover and wasn't even in the CGC holder. And the CGC holder held a 9.4 copy of Smurfs #3 that he stole from a certain Darthdiesel.

Geez... you mention Bugaboo in a guy's feedback profile and he goes all postal on you...

Fourteen years of Catholic School, baby! ... You should see the five-page paper I wrote in 9th grade that traced every current problem in the world back to Hagar... I thought Sister Marie was going to have a seizure over that one...

 

 

Pin it always on the other woman...although from another vantage point she was doing Sarah a favor?

I'm just glad the first response to my statement wasn't referencing a daily comic strip...

I have fond memories of Catholic school... especially all the late-night drinking and gambling with the Brothers who ran the place... If you're ever at a bar and a "Brother Brendan" asks if you want a friendly game of darts, run away.... far, far away....

When I deal with trusted repeat customers or forum members I know, I leave positive feedback ASAP.

I do this as well... and have left positive feedback well before the transaction is complete. I just left murph a positive and I haven't even received his payment yet...

Yes it's true of the seller - leave it in the followup if you have already left a glowing positive feedback about their payment.

I'm sure you're aware, you can't leave a followup to a positive unless the bidder responds to it... You can reply in your own profile to his negative... But no seller will ever see he's a tool once you leave a positive for him.

The reason I get heated over this so much is, your logical, and mild mannered thoughtful response makes sense and would sway me from my stance.

Fourteen years of Catholic School, baby! ... You should see the five-page paper I wrote in 9th grade that traced every current problem in the world back to Hagar... I thought Sister Marie was going to have a seizure over that one...

I do this guy a solid now

I'm not going to respond to this one... I'm sure greggy, BOC, or Bugaboo will though...

So why do the price variant collectors congregate in the same threads??

Hmmm....

You're not right, LH isn't right

Whoa... you scared me there for a second, JC.... I thought you were going to agree with me, and I would have needed to rethink my entire position on the subject...

Whew... dodged a bullet there...

The buyer is obligated to the rest of the ebay community to express his honest opinon about the seller and share that publicly with the rest of the eBay community.

Isn't this true of the seller as well?

If a buyer pays you on time, and you ship the package with Del Conf and Insurance, and the post office runs over the box with a truck... And your buyer starts emailing you expletives over the fact that the box has shown up ruined and it's all your fault. And you tell him that's insured and the Post Office will provide a refund. And he tells you he doesn't care about the refund, you're the biggest [!@#%^&^] in the world and he's gonna tell everyone he meets that you planned the whole thing just to screw him and sends you 10 emails a day for the next week complaining about it...

Are you honestly telling me that as a seller, you think you should leave this guy positive feedback because he paid on time?

Isn't the seller "obligated to the rest of the ebay community to express his honest opinion about the buyer and share that publicly with the rest of the eBay community?"

Feedback isn't "Yes he sent the money" "Yes she sent the product"... It's a rating of what that buyer or seller was like to deal with. And there are plenty of buyers out there who pay in a timely fashion that still deserve negative feedback, just as there are plenty of sellers who ship on time that still deserve negative feedback...

 

Not that I don't disagree with your logic LH, as it's definitely more logical than the original post by wolverinefreak but I tend to disagree, as 99% of the transactions I've had on e-bay are precisely "Yes they sent the money" and "Yes they sent the product". For the 1% that are difficult after the fact there is the opportunity for follow-up comments.

 

Kev

On many transactions, the only experience you have with the other party is that they paid or shipped... So clearly on those transactions, that's all you base your feedback on... On lots of items I sell, the only thing I know about the transaction is that someone paid and that they received the product, so they get a positive comment because I obviously didn't have a negative experience.

But there are also deals where three days into the process you wish they hadn't paid... "Could you use a brown cardboard box, because my neighbors will steal anything that looks valuable?" "Could you use popcorn to pack it, because I am a devout environmentalist and don't want petroleum products destroying our planet?" "Could you call me at this phone number when you ship the box so I can make sure my ex-wife doesn't hack into my email account and try to steal the package when it gets here?" "The box got here, but I am afraid to open it because it looks like there might be a dead spider in there and I am allergic to spiders." "Could you send the Vampirella statue via media mail because my mom thinks I bought some books and I don't want her to find out?"

From the eBay website:

How do I decide what type of feedback to leave—positive or negative?

If you had a good experience with a buyer or seller on eBay, reward them with a positive comment. If you were treated poorly, try to resolve the problem first by contacting the other person. Most problems can be corrected by improving communication. If things are still not resolved, consider leaving a negative comment.

An eBay buyer's responsibility is not limited to sending payment. Just as a customer at Borders has more obligations than to pay for the product they buy. You act like a [!@#%^&^] in a Borders and it doesn't matter whether you were willing to pay for your stuff or not... And the relative anonymity of the internet doesn't eliminate the need for courtesy and respect. If you are actively discourteous and actively disrespectful in a brick and mortar store, you will be removed. And if you do it repeatedly, the neighboring stores will be notified to watch out for you.

I have had many positive experiences on eBay where the buyer was slow to pay... including one currently from a board member here... but the quality of communication more than makes up for the delay in payment, and I am happy to leave positive feedback. I had a good experience with the buyer even though the payment wasn't timely. It's just as possible to have a bad experience with a buyer whose payment was...

I stoped leaving feedback for sellers that don't leave it first. If the only factor that affects their feedback about me is what feedback I left them then screw 'em.

I don't think it makes sense for a seller to leave feedback until the transaction is complete. So as soon as I hear from you that you got the book and it's looks great, then it's time for me to leave feedback. Before that, I can't really comment on the transaction, because it's not over yet... We may still spend six weeks sending books and cash back and forth until the transaction is completed...

But then I don't believe in retaliatory negatives either... I have only had two transactions where we both left negatives for the other party. If I've been a crappy seller and the buyer has been great I have no problem with me getting a neg and them getting a positive... The idea of waiting to leave feedback so you can retaliate is asinine to me...

And between my various id's I have left 5700 feedback comments, and received just 3300 in return... so there are a lot of people out there who just don't leave feedback at all...

I'm in the minority on this... but I don't think the buyer's responsibility in the transaction is limited to sending payment, any more than the seller's responsibility is limited to sending product.

You leave feedback about the "transaction", which encompasses everything from:

pre-bid emails from both parties, emails during the ongoing auction, contact emails at the conclusion of the transaction, timely shipment of the payment using correct address information and referencing the item, acknowledgement of the receipt of payment, quality packaging of the product, timely shipping of the product, notification of the shipping of the product, notification of the receipt of the product, verification by the buyer that the product meets with expectations based on the description provided by the seller in both the auction listing and subsequent emails, requests made by the buyer for adjustments to the transaction if problems have arisen, timely response to those requests by the seller, good communication between buyer and seller to resolve any such problems, timely resolution by both parties of the agreed terms of adjustment, and final communication between both parties that the transaction has now been concluded.

Timely payment is not the only factor on which bidders are judged. And even though most transactions do not require all these steps, each of them is required from time to time.

On many transactions, the buyer pays with PayPal within minutes of the auction's end, the seller ships the product the next day, and they have NO communication of any kind prior to leaving feedback. That's all well and good.

But if a buyer turns into a major tool at the slightest problem (whether you caused it or not) and becomes a 2-hour headache that you have to deal with, it doesn't matter that the guy paid right away. He's still not a buyer you want to see bidding in your auction...

Feedback isn't "Yes he sent the money" "Yes she sent the product"... It's a rating of what that buyer or seller was like to deal with. And there are plenty of buyers out there who pay in a timely fashion that still deserve negative feedback, just as there are plenty of sellers who ship on time that still deserve negative feedback...

You've got blocked bidders lists right? There are people on that list you have had no personal dealings with right? They are there because someone told you what they were like to deal with and you decided they weren't worth your time. They may not even have negative feedback in their profile, but you heard enough to know not to accept their bids. Shouldn't the people who dealt with them and found out what jerks they were have left negative feedback? Even if the payment or product was sent on time?

Don't get me wrong here. I have done plenty of transactions where not a single email was exchanged, and have left positive feedback for each of them. But a buyer can pay on time and still make it a negative experience for me as a seller... and if I feel bad enough to warn my friends here about them, why shouldn't I leave negative feedback and warn the rest of the world too?...

Negative: Buyer paid, but was rude and very hard to deal with, would not recommend

Charles Schulz