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xraygord
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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:46 pm

Not sure if anyone posted this here yet, but if not...

http://www.gygax-games.com/

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Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:23 pm

Not sure if anyone posted this here yet, but if not...

http://www.gygax-games.com/

That is a spanky new site. Nothing seems to have the same draw as the old stuff for me. Ita just not the same.

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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:55 pm

simonmwh wrote:
That is a spanky new site. Nothing seems to have the same draw as the old stuff for me. Ita just not the same.

So Lorraine was Gary's first wife, and Gail was his second?

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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:38 pm

Invincible Overlord wrote:
So Lorraine was Gary's first wife, and Gail was his second?

No, Mary was his first wife. Lorraine was the person who stole TSR from him.

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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:50 pm

Have you seen L?!
Can you honestly imagine anyone wanting to jump into the sack with her?

L's daddy bought his daugher a little company to play with, but like most spoilt kids, they got the wrong present. She hated geeky gamers because they wouldn't date her in high school, and being obese, she considered it an affront that her last bastion of dignity for getting a date wouldn't consider her worthy of their time. So she carried an almighty chip on her shoulder from years of being spurned by guys and made no secret of the fact that she hated the customer base of the company daddy bought her.

So she ran it into the ground, but not before drawing a decent amount of money from it. Enough to keep her in icecream for decades to come.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:32 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:So she ran it into the ground, but not before drawing a decent amount of money from it. Enough to keep her in icecream for decades to come.

So upseting the rubbish that TSR published towards the end. Tatt and shameless remakes of classics....Rogues Gallery and Dungeon Masters Design Kit spring to mind. TSR were a booming company. It shows what bad leadership can achieve.

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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:08 pm

Yo BadMike:

Off topic, but why not:

Looks who's #1: http://highschool.rivals.com/viewrankhs.asp?ra_key=457

Paul

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe...we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:51 pm

PaulKM wrote:Yo BadMike:

Off topic, but why not:

Looks who's #1: http://highschool.rivals.com/viewrankhs.asp?ra_key=457

Paul

I've seen a couple of the games this year, and IMO, Trinity could beat a lower division college team......seriously. 300 lb Tongan offensive lineman tend to open up a few holes and pancake a few of the opposition, especially at the high school level, but I bet they could pound a few Ivy League schools if they had to. I Half the team already has scholarships and last year's state champion team sent quite a few athletes to Division One schools like A&M. Should be a fun playoff season for my alma mater, looking for another State Championship here and possibly #1 in the US....

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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:46 pm

When I saw the school, all I could think of was the,"Tongan Pipeline" you mentioned. I was amazed there weren't more teams from Texas in the top ten! I guess Trinity knocked them all out.

I'd pay to see Trinity against Princeton, especially after they scare the hell out of them with the Haka!

Paul

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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:00 am

More bad news for Canadian PowerSellers:

The Canada Revenue Agency launched the probe about two years ago and initially focused on all eBay Canada "PowerSellers" in 2004 and 2005, which totalled about 10,000 people. The agency recently told eBay Canada it plans to expand the investigation to include all PowerSellers in 2006 and 2007 as well, putting several thousand more people under review.

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet ... iness/home

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Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:05 pm

Same thing is happeneing in Australia:

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/Free-Art ... aders.html

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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:01 am

g026r wrote:More bad news for Canadian PowerSellers:

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet ... iness/home

I don't know of any Canadian RPG Powersellers, but Revenue Canada can get quite nasty. They're almost as bad as Canada Customs.

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe...we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:16 am

PaulKM wrote:
I don't know of any Canadian RPG Powersellers, but Revenue Canada can get quite nasty. They're almost as bad as Canada Customs.

Well, it comes down to the fact you should pay taxes on your items, or be damn sure you are set up as a hobby (losing more money every month than you are making). If you do one of those two things it should be no problem, otherwise you were living on borrowed time anyway.

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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:13 pm

Hi,

yes, no sympathy at all.

The Missus routinely reports sellers she regards as "competition" (once they've been around long enough) to the IR. Or sellers who just annoy her.

Cheers,
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:16 pm

PaulKM wrote:
I don't know of any Canadian RPG Powersellers, but Revenue Canada can get quite nasty. They're almost as bad as Canada Customs.

This is the reason that I always strived to be just under the wire never a powerseller! It worked

Of course I do not sell through Ebay at all now

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:04 pm

Blackmoor wrote:
This is the reason that I always strived to be just under the wire never a powerseller! It worked

Of course I do not sell through Ebay at all now

I don't think I could ever sell more than a few odds. The whole idea scares the hell out of me

We should start a Canadian Corner: a Bloc perhaps

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I'm inclined to believe...we are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:40 pm

Heads up for anybody shipping to Canada. There is a Canada Post strike of their administrative and technical staff over sick days that could spread as slowdowns to the other Canada Post employees.

Canadian Press Article

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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:10 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:Heads up for anybody shipping to Canada. There is a Canada Post strike of their administrative and technical staff over sick days that could spread as slowdowns to the other Canada Post employees.

Canadian Press Article

Crud. I just shipped something to Canada today.

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