ashmire13 wrote:viewtopic.php?t=10916

Seriously?? I know I'm selling up, but is it me or is that crap? $40 for ALL 4??

The guy is living in the past. Maybe a few years ago you get some sucker on ebay to pay that, but not likely. You sure in the hell are not gonna get that here!
I figure he is at least 35% high on everything, but more likely closer to 50% high.

bbarsh wrote:I figure he is at least 35% high on everything, but more likely closer to 50% high.

I'm with you on those valuations.   A lot of stuff seems to be about double the price you would expect.  But maybe these prices are on par with bigger resellers?

I wasn't gonna be the one to post the first flame, but itlooks like a really ignorant newbie who thinks he'ss sell his sh!t with tiny photos and no description of his items and no guarantee of quality or completeness. He's either really ignorant of online communities ans being rude by mistake, or he's a troll or an a$$hole. At the moment I'll go for the former. Lwt's see if he opens his mouth and tries to interact with us, or leaves it and just tries to sell us sh!t.

No introduction, and doesn't seem to be advertising on DF, so we seem to be the lucky recipients of his ignorance for the time being. Maybe this thread will stop him daydreaming.

mbassoc2003 wrote:<snip> Lwt's see if he opens his mouth and tries to interact with us, or leaves it and just tries to sell us sh!t.
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True 'dat... Although I found it funny, I'd hate to see the Classi section flooded with ebay/craigslist trolls...Oh what can it mean to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen?

Instead of flaming him, why don't you just tell him?

FormCritic wrote:Instead of flaming him, why don't you just tell him?

Or just ignore it.  That would work too.

This isn't necessarily someone misrepresenting an item or something else nefarious that needs special attention.  It's an... optimistic... seller.  I place it in the same category as LOTS of ebay auctions - I scan right past them.

sorry, no intention to 'flame' but it was a poor Classified... Had it been on ebay, you know it would have landed in the 'Laughable items' thread on here...

OK - I'll bite.

What're you talking about?

mbassoc2003 wrote:He's talking about the Cthulhu mythos, and the fact that people sell the offending hadback online.

No, I believe that he is referring to people who buy and sell games that illegally use trademarked words such as "Hobbit" and "Ent".  None of us would traffic in such items, right?

Why? Only he knows. Seems to have the wrong thread. Maybe thought this was the Copyright Infringement thread which is also active at the moment, and is trying to defend piracy. Or maybe this is in defence of Imprint's right to sell illegal PDFs online.

He is being sarcastic and is pointing out hypocrisy, "wrong" versus "illegal", value judgments, the game-collecting hobby, and possibly a few other observations.