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Zebu Fellenz
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jask
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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Location: kamloops BC
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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS!!
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emdawgz1
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We're a bunch of GUYS (mostly) here OK? I don't come here to read through some craptastic feel good gushy movie script from the Lifetime for Women network. If you can't play football, stay off the field. If you INSIST on playing, then protect your nuts.
The only thing I see wrong with this thread is it's in the wrong place...it should be over in Off Topic.  |
Dang it! I just finished my first craptastic feel good gushy script! I'm sending it to liketime and Oxygen. I was gonna post it here as well.... 
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jkruger
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
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Location: Carlsbad, CA
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I asked this:
Could you possibly take a picture of the tube faces so I can see how much wear or tube burn it has? This is a good projector, and I'd like to learn more about it before bidding. Thanks!
He replied:
NO-SORRY,BUT MY STARTING BID IS $10-AND AS I SAID,HOME UNIT,WORKS FINE-SOMEONE WILL GET A BARGAIN,START BIDDING-THANKS!!
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kal
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Joined: 06 Mar 2006
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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| papalek wrote: | | kal wrote: | We should all send him a note through ebay to ask him why he's yelling. Maybe he'll get it.  |
| kal wrote: | | I have to say I agree with your point 100%. Glad to have you on the forum. Please post more often! |
I think these 2 posts really contradict themselves. |
My 2 posts do contradict each other and I shouldn't have joked about it in the first place. I was wrong and shouldn't even have joked about doing it as people may take my recommendation seriously.
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justtaint
Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: Chicago
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Wow, if I knew I was gonna start this at the beginning I wouldn't have posted.
Personally I posted this (and teased the ebay poster) because I'm tired of people too lazy to list critical things in their ads.
- Craigslist ads that don't give a phone # or email address
- ebay ads that leave out shipping, or location, or pictures, or etc, etc, etc
I'm trying to purchase your product. Yes, I'm looking to get it cheaper than new, but at least help me out a bit. I'm risking my money, the product may be defective, it may be a scam, UPS may beat the item to sh*t before I get it. Anyone who's spent 15 minutes on the interweb knows that ALL CAPS=YELLING. Throw in that hideous green font and what appears to be nothing more than one giant run-on sentence due to the weird choice of formatting and you get my choice of words in emailing the ad lister. I thought someone might get a kick out of it, so I posted my conversation.
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Angus_rg
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Location: A planet far, far away..... Baltimore, MD
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| kal wrote: | | papalek wrote: | | kal wrote: | | We should all send him a note through ebay to ask him why he's yelling. Maybe he'll get it. |
| kal wrote: | | I have to say I agree with your point 100%. Glad to have you on the forum. Please post more often! |
I think these 2 posts really contradict themselves. |
My 2 posts do contradict each other and I shouldn't have joked about it in the first place. I was wrong and shouldn't even have joked about doing it as people may take my recommendation seriously.
kal |
That's the damn problem with this internet thing, its so easy to take things out of context. I'm sure I'm not the only one who laughed and took it as a joke.
I did however watched because I'm curious to see what it goes for. A $10 crt within a couple hours of me is always intriguing, regardless of whether I need it.
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BRIANJOHNSON
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The thing is if he just spent a few minutes to learn how to look over the unit he would probably get so much more for his item. The hours on machine and tube wear are important things to any bidder of a somewhat obscure item.
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jkruger
Joined: 24 Oct 2007
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His most recent response after asking him to send pictures of the tubes:
THATS OK-IT HAS 12 WATCHERS AND A LONG TIME TO GO-I AM A CONSIGNOR,HAVE NO TIME TO RUN BACK FOR MORE PICTURES...IT WILL BE A BARGAIN,HAS SEEN LITTLE USE(HOME UNIT)-STUDY LONG,STUDY WRONG IN THIS CASE,FRIEND...
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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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| whats6x7 wrote: | | That just implies 2. I think the guy is just a prick. |
Thanks, at least somebody gets it!!! 
| justtaint wrote: | | Personally I posted this (and teased the ebay poster) because I'm tired of people too lazy to list critical things in their ads. |
EXACTLY. He's lazy, doesn't care, and to top it all off is an *******. If he wanted to do that on his own, that's his prerogatie. But now, we know that he's selling OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF. He's not even a consigner... The person who owns the projector would be the consigner - dumbass is a consignee! Auction Drop and iSold It are consignees. Of course, he's not really either if he's not taking the stuff. If he just lists the items, then technically he's just a broker. But, since he doesn't know what the hell he's doing, he doesn't know that.
Anybody who's doing any volume at all on ebay and has half a brain would've looked at some ebay selling tip guides - that would have fixed the all caps/green issue in a hurry. Even a low volume seller would also be using any one of the free or cheap auction management apps with simple templates so your listings didn't look like ass... But, he's too ignorant to do either. Now that I know he's a broker (and possibly consignee), I feel really sorry for the people who's stuff he's selling. The guy is obviously a total bottom-feeder... Just making a buck and doesn't care about anybody but himself.
I loved Zebu's comic above, so I made a custom version you can all use anytime you like. Enjoy.
http://ecrabb.com/crtforum/wrong.gif
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Angus_rg
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
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Location: A planet far, far away..... Baltimore, MD
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| jkruger wrote: | His most recent response after asking him to send pictures of the tubes:
THATS OK-IT HAS 12 WATCHERS AND A LONG TIME TO GO-I AM A CONSIGNOR,HAVE NO TIME TO RUN BACK FOR MORE PICTURES...IT WILL BE A BARGAIN,HAS SEEN LITTLE USE(HOME UNIT)-STUDY LONG,STUDY WRONG IN THIS CASE,FRIEND... |
A consigner who can't put effort into selling his item? I'd be curious how successful he is.
I think that's the point of this thread. Some people have inherent customer service and marketing skills. Most do not. While some may have gone a little far, the thread has been entertaining, and probably enlightened a few of our forum members who do not have those skills.
I see no harm in this. I'm glad to know I'm one of the 12, and I'm not watching it to be a dick. I have a strange feeling most of the 12 have posted to this thread and are watching out of morbid curiosity. I have no problem with that either since that is part of my motive.
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Zebu Fellenz
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Perfect 
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kal
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ecrabb
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Heh heh. I love the ROI on 5-minute projects!
The little one (for special threads like these) is changed, and here's a bigger one for the newsletter or whatever.
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Brooklyn
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hahaha, classic!!
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AnalogRocks
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I'm more partial to this one:
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Zebu Fellenz
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Kwint Sommer
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You sir, win this thread.
I also emailed him asking for details about the tubes. It was a serious email before I read beyond the first few posts. Probably going to get a nasty response from him though. Thanks guys. 
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Kwint Sommer
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I got a response,
| Quote: | | I AM JUST A CONSIGNOR FOR THIS-IT IS A HOME UNIT WITH RELATIVELY LOW HOURS-I'LL DO MY BEST TO GET A PICTURE OF TUBES,BUT I DON'T HAVE IT AT HAND(IT IS AT OWNERS HOUSE,APPROX.20 MILES AWAY)-SHIPPING TO MA.SHOULD BE APPROX.$125-150 INCL.CRATING AND INS... |
I don't suppose you guys would be nice enough to let me have it for $10 if it has decent tubes.... 
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Kwint Sommer
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So, anyone else thinking about bidding on this?
What do you guys think it's worth? I figure it's worth $300 including roughly $170 for shipping.
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