General discussion thread - keep the other threads clean 29 29

[JAM_NYC]

You tell 'em "Cancer avatar guy"....

 

 

You either find it funny, or you don't. I find it funny.

 

I'm with you, I find cancer and those suffering through it absolutely hysterical.

 

You tell 'em "serial killer avatar guy" ....

Christian Bale is a serial killer?!?!

 

[HarveySwick]

 

[CAHokie]

This is the type of thing that people like Athaxto will never understand about these boards. Last week I sent a member of the boards a box of stuff simply because I knew he wanted them and never expected anything in return.

 

Well, today I get a huge package and guess what? Another boardie (RenoMcCoy) had arranged for his raffle prize to go to me because he knew it contained something I wanted to read. This was a completely different boardie that I did not know and he did not know I had just did a similar act. THAT is what these boards are all about.

 

Athaxto, you may say you did not join to make friends, but let me tell you, friends are the best part of these boards. Comics are just the bond that brought us together. Thanks Reno McCoy and Slym2None!!!!!

 

[DavidTheDavid]

Something I've been wondering:

 

Why do people post via PM?

 

The seller knows it was negotiated out. I understand that an is needed in the thread to make things official, let other potential buyers know, and so on. Adding the "via PM" doesn't really add some binding clause. It seems that per forum norms, once there's a dispute, PM's, emails, and whatever other communications might become public.

 

Is there good reason to add the "via PM"? And is there reason not, too? As to the latter, I figure people can PM if they want, and it's not for me to advertise that I've been talking with a seller via PM. When I have bought by PM, I just post a regular in the sales thread.

[troydivision1]

I have asked that sellers post: SOLD via PM - because I do not want other board members to know I purchased the book or how much it was purchased for.

(They eventually appear on my MySlabbedComics page anyway...)

 

[Speedy-D]

I put up via PM to remind myself to check PMs if I forget what I paid. Which I've done more than once.

 

I also do it so that people don't assume I paid full price...I might not want them to know what I paid, and I also might not want them to use my sale as a basis for future pricing, if you know what I mean.

 

And I do it so people know that I got a PM, which makes me look important.

[Speedy-D]

But yeah, you certainly don't have to say "via PM" to make it official or anything.

 

For my own sales threads, I ask people who work something out with me via PM to post the in the thread so that we're all clear that the deal's done. Sometimes negotiations can get murky, but that right there in the thread is quite clear. Whether they want to add "via PM" is up to them.

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

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[Speedy-D]

[Semicentennial]

I do it only if I have a question about the item and the seller and I have an agreement on the terms. I figure it helps out the seller since I'm sure some of these sales thread generates a lot of PMs and it might make it easier for them to remember who they were in communications with in PM.

[Speedy-D]

Sometimes I like to throw up the and watch everyone get confused and then pissed.

[HarveySwick]

Last week I sent a member of the boards a box of stuff simply because I knew he wanted them and never expected anything in return.

[bababooey]

I put up via PM to remind myself to check PMs if I forget what I paid. Which I've done more than once.

 

I also do it so that people don't assume I paid full price...I might not want them to know what I paid, and I also might not want them to use my sale as a basis for future pricing, if you know what I mean.

 

And I do it so people know that I got a PM, which makes me look important.

Speedy negotiates prices up via PM...

he's a rebel..

 

 

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

Sometimes I like to throw up the and watch everyone get confused and then pissed.

 

I like this one...

 

[HarveySwick]

Sometimes I like to throw up the and watch everyone get confused and then pissed.

 

I like this one...

 

 

[Ditch Fahrenheit]

Sometimes I like to throw up the and watch everyone get confused and then pissed.

 

I like this one...

 

 

 

[slym2none]

I guess that's understandable as we all price our goods based off of some form of successful tools though.

 

He is some sort of tool, that's for sure.

 

 

 

-slym

[MetalPSI]

Sometimes I like to throw up the and watch everyone get confused and then pissed.

 

I like this one...

 

 

Like that one too

[skypinkblu]

Something I've been wondering:

 

Why do people post via PM?

 

The seller knows it was negotiated out. I understand that an is needed in the thread to make things official, let other potential buyers know, and so on. Adding the "via PM" doesn't really add some binding clause. It seems that per forum norms, once there's a dispute, PM's, emails, and whatever other communications might become public.

 

Is there good reason to add the "via PM"? And is there reason not, too? As to the latter, I figure people can PM if they want, and it's not for me to advertise that I've been talking with a seller via PM. When I have bought by PM, I just post a regular in the sales thread.

 

Sometimes when I have a sales thread I have a ton of PMs, they can't be sorted, it's a pita to do a "find" search.

 

I find having it all on the thread helps keep me organized. If someone wants to stay anonymous (and I always ask) ..then I just say it was purchased by "anonymous".

 

Sometimes people want to post the take it, they just pmed me to ask for time payments or if I can ship to Mars or something.

[HarveySwick]

-slym

 

THERE HE IS!!!