jumpinjacko
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:02:52 PM new
BECKY...
Am I under "B" or "C" ?
YOU'RE UNDER e FOR EBABE
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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Microbes
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:08:10 PM new
ashadowdancer
Frank Herbert fan? Or did the nickname come from something else?
Who Need's a stink'n Sig. File?
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ashadowdancer
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:15:52 PM new
Microbes,
No, I heard it one day on T.V. It was the name of a race horse. It was just shadowdancer, but most places that I try to use it, it has already been taken. So I put an "a" in front of it.
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raglady1
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:19:19 PM new
I don't understand why revealing our ebay user ID's would lend any credibility to our postings on AW. Is there some hidden message in what we buy or sell that would enhance our opinions on any given subject? I don't think the two are related at all.
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jumpinjacko
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:33:00 PM new
raglady1 said “
“I don't understand why revealing our ebay user ID's would lend any credibility to our postings on AW”
I say....If someone give me eBay advice on selling it means more to me if they are an eBay seller...
Over at the round table when a joke is posted..
it dont really mater...
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:34:29 PM new
Jumpin ...
I have four questions for ya:
1. Is that you in front of that cool car?
2. What the heck is in all those banana boxes?
3. Is there beer in that keg?
4. If it is, can I have some?
Awesome place!
BECKY
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eventer
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:38:22 PM new
I say....If someone give me eBay advice on selling it means more to me if they are an eBay seller
Then advice from a gold powerseller would mean more than advice from a bronze powerseller?
IMHO, good advice is good advice whether it comes from a shooting star powerseller, someone who's just starting out or someone who's never sold a thing in their life but has good common sense or business sense.
But, since I don't choose to disclose my ID, I guess you can just ignore this as worthless.
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reddeer
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:42:09 PM new
MHO, good advice is good advice whether it comes from a shooting star powerseller, someone who's just starting out or someone who's never sold a thing in their life but has good common sense or business sense.
Well said Eventer, and I agree 100%.
I've known a few Power Sellers that were dumb as a sack of rocks, but had lady luck on their side. Until they got NARU'd. 
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Microbes
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:48:30 PM new
I think I've been on ebay long enough that I can spot "experenced" sellers here, reguardless of if the posting ID matches an eBay ID. And I can normally tell if someone is trying to blow smoke up my ^%&.
And like Eventer said, good advice is good advice.
Who Need's a stink'n Sig. File?
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jumpinjacko
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:54:02 PM new
Becky...
That is a photo of Jack...my business partner..and his cream puff car..
He is in the South Pacific right now...we have a cultured pearl
business..and some other investments there..so one of us is there most on the time..
As for my name is Randy and I go by Hopeless Sinner..here is my meager attempt
and a web page...http://www.reggaestreet.com/2/hopeless/
as for the banana boxes they are filled with various inventories..and are sold all round Oregon
and washington...we sell to deep discount store and dollars stores..ect..
Thanks for asking
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
to much beer
[ edited by jumpinjacko on Jul 5, 2001 10:16 PM ]
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on July 5, 2001 09:55:49 PM new
And the beer?
Edited to add:
Nice bar
The music quote is oh, so true!
[ edited by MrsSantaClaus on Jul 5, 2001 09:59 PM ]
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jumpinjacko
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:00:26 PM new
But, since I don't choose to disclose my ID, I guess you can just ignore this as
worthless.
Come on...eventer..
all I ask was why...some people don’t identify them selves..now you pull this...
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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jumpinjacko
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:05:21 PM new
This whole post was to drive out AW member whynot...
He seem to have all the answers...but where is his work to back up his claims
anybody can grab a bible hop up on a stump and preach..
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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eventer
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:05:28 PM new
all I ask was why...some people don’t identify them selves..now you pull this
Excuse Me? Pull what?
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:05:29 PM new
Helpful advice is good - no matter what the source. I don't care how long you have been on eBay or what you sell. If your answers help me, you have a friend for life!
I am not a powerseller and don't plan on becoming one. I do, however, have an incredible amount of brick and mortar business experience.
I try to help others when I can. If I am helpful, that's great. If my advice doesn't work, I'm sorry, at least I tried.
Above all, I come here to learn and have fun. Happy day, all 
BECKY
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SaraAW
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:07:43 PM new
Everyone,
Please refrain from making personal comments to or about each other.
Thank you,
Sara
[email protected]
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reddeer
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:09:39 PM new
Slow night huh Sara?
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snakebait
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:33:41 PM new
Anonymity is necessary for free speech. Period. It is the ONLY way one can speak freely without fear of repercussions, and I would seriously question the intelligence of anyone who freely let his views and his personal information be known.
I have spoken out against and will continue to criticize eBay, Microsoft, PayPal, and even our current police state. I do not for one second believe that 'freedom of speech' exists to the extant that we are free from the petty spite from lackeys of these organizations. A nym shielded with enough anonymity as to require a detective squad and a few court orders is the only thing that enables comfort.
I have been online since the days of Arpanet, and BBS's were accessed with 2400 baud modems. And even then anonymity was necessary for unhindered communications.
Especially since there *ARE* kooks out there as well as all kinds of undesirables. The average person would not let their kids give out their phone number to strangers on the net - yet at the same time give their names, from whence all personal info can be derived - to the whole freaking world!
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Microbes
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:43:47 PM new
been online since the days of Arpanet, and BBS's were accessed with 2400 baud modems. And even then anonymity was necessary for unhindered communications.
I know that feeling. I used to be a SYSOP of a BBS, and part of my message bases allowed annonimous postings. I know some of the users on my BBS used false names, but I had lively message bases.
And I would let things get farther out of hand than they do here before I would step in and "moderate".
Who Need's a stink'n Sig. File?
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reamond
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posted on July 5, 2001 10:57:57 PM new
Hey Jumpin' - I have a kick a** cassette tape of Marley live- it cranks- Lively up yourself.. Don't be no Drag... No Woman no cry..... No woman no cry.....
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jumpinjacko
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posted on July 5, 2001 11:17:24 PM new
I ney my Rasta Brother reamond ...
SWEET SWEET
MUSIC
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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Libra63
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posted on July 5, 2001 11:29:02 PM new
Why I don't use my ebay ID: Because I don't want people in here to know who I am. If I have a problem with a buyer and I post in here then you or anyone can look it up and find out who the buyer is. I think that would be against AW guidelines. but I don't know for sure or else you would have to invite the buyer in to hear the other side of the story. It's easier this way...
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ashadowdancer
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posted on July 6, 2001 03:09:03 AM new
I have gotten alot of good ideas from AW...and I haven't gone and checked to see if they are using a their EBAY ID. If it is good advice, then I use it.
Not all people that read the boards are our AW brother and sisters either. When I meet someone, I don't tell them what I sell, how much I sell, where I live ect. They either like me or not by the way I handle myself. It shouldn't be any different here.
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haoleboy
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posted on July 6, 2001 04:07:55 AM new
One of my main reasons for choosing to be anonymous: I sell niche items that do VERY well that I discuss in very vague terms on this BB. I don't want a bunch of copycats to search out my auctions and all of a sudden become my direct competitors. I prefer to keep a low profile about the exact items that I sell.
Let me use this analogy: A few years ago I read a newspaper article about a guy in Wisconsin that told the newspaper reporter that he was making well over $100K annually by going around to dairy farms and trimming the hooves of cows! The man was quoted in the article as saying something like, "A cow with properly trimmed hooves is a happy cow, and a happy cow produces more milk." Upon reading this, all that I could think of is why would this man talk to a newspaper instead of keeping a low profile about his good fortune? Surely his business was relatively easy to get into and there must be many struggling farmers out there looking for a good-paying job related to farming with normal hours and that doesn't require buying more very expensive tractors, combines, silos etc. In my opinion this cow trimmer guy should have kept his good fortune under his hat rather than bragging to a newspaper reporter about it and run the risk of a reader jumping on his bandwagon and becoming his direct competition. The same goes for my auctions...
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soldat2
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posted on July 6, 2001 04:50:25 AM new
>you say
“I don't have all the answers.”
And I say the answers you give have more meaning when people know who your are...<
That's fine, I can see your point.
But.....(always a but somewhere)....in the same regards you have to remember that many folk will be a bit more on the cautious side when speaking their thoughts when they are publicly known and subject to repercussion.
I try very hard to keep our ebay customers happy, sometimes going far beyond the call of duty. I don't want to have to do that here every time I make a typo or forget to put a period in the right spot.
Yes, I know, the sky isn't falling.
(but it doesn't hurt to look up once in a while......
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keziak
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posted on July 6, 2001 06:19:24 AM new
As someone who does use the same name for AW and ebay, I can imagine why folks prefer not to do so. I've had people scrutinize my auctions and say all sorts of things here, such as characterizing the FB I leave [incorrectly], call my listings "garbage" and stuff along those lines. Doesn't bother me very much, but I've noticed at least one other AW member be subjected to this recently and it's not pretty.
keziak
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amy
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posted on July 6, 2001 06:51:11 AM new
Why? Because it is best, in my opinion, not to expose one's business to strangers who could mess it up.
I don't need to know another poster's id to judge whether the advice they are giving is sound or not. For those times when knowing what type of items a seller sells and what volume they do is revelant to the advice they are giving, I just ask.
And it is best not to give your competition to much information about your business...or they can turn around and drive your business under.
A while back there was a poster who was giving a lot of very specific advice onhow she was able to buy books on ebay and turn around and sell for very good profits. Her id became known to a few and suddenly she found herself in direct competition with someone who was using her strategies to buy the books she was buying.
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yumacoot
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posted on July 6, 2001 06:55:47 AM new
Keziak!
I know you and you know me (although you don't know it)
I am one who chooses to use another ID, because I don't want anyone tracking me down either! I have enough crap going on in my life without that.
I have, in the past, been a way too trusting person. Learning late in life to be a little more cautious.
PS I looked at your auctions before, I didn't think they were bad!
We miss you at the "group"
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keziak
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posted on July 6, 2001 07:04:18 AM new
that is so nice of you to say, thank you! Funny you should mention that, because I just said it didn't bother me that much to have my auctions criticized and critiqued, but having my personal life decisions commented on did cross the line for me.
keziak
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jwpc
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posted on July 6, 2001 07:48:29 AM new
jumpinjacko
I personally don't understand you intense desire for everyone to use their eBay ID here. I think you should just take comments and insight on the board for what it is worth, and not feel the need to try to "research" (via eBay) who is saying what.
Some of us have had very bad experiences with cyber stalkers and we realize that the use of a pseudonym is the only way to post in public safely.
An experienced eBayer recognizes good advice when they read it, regardless of who it comes from, one doesn't have to look up their ID to verify their identity – good advice is good advice, whether from a newbee or a Power Seller.
[ edited by jwpc on Jul 6, 2001 07:54 AM ]
[ edited by jwpc on Jul 6, 2001 07:57 AM ]
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