rhpepsi
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posted on July 20, 2007 01:25:05 PM new
WOW!!....I knew I was due for a negative...it has been about a month. You figure a couple of full moons and a friday the 13th added in there. Just a matter of time. My mistake...I left feedback FIRST! This buyer bought a sealed store brand package of MATTE photo paper.....gives negative saying that it is basically resume paper and NO GLOSS....WTF---(look up MATTE in the dictionary). NO communication at all about their concern for the quality and if I would refund it. Would of happily given refund.
[ edited by rhpepsi on Jul 20, 2007 02:44 PM ]
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tomwiii
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posted on July 20, 2007 02:46:17 PM new
"gives negative saying that it is basically cardboard...."
"Ai! Carrumba!"
"Holy Guacamole liddle buddy!"
"Kiss my grits!"
Ralphie says that negative gives him a YEN for steamed Beijing buns...
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glassgrl
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posted on July 20, 2007 02:50:23 PM new
I can't find the old tiny wrists story for the newbies. Can't google it up 
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on July 20, 2007 04:01:48 PM new
Google is useless for stuff like this. (Actually, so much stuff is filtered out of Google results these days I have stopped using it almost completely.)
What you need is Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine.
If you have an idea what year the posting was (and even better, what month), start your search there:
Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman
I've got about sixty-'leven things to do right now or I'd do it myself.
fLufF
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neglus
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posted on July 20, 2007 06:00:55 PM new
it had to have been before Fall 2002 (when I started reading Vendio) - I sure don't remember anything about tiny wrists!
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photosensitive
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posted on July 20, 2007 07:12:26 PM new
Tiny wrists! Indeed that rings a bell. Was that about the time of someone called "Shagalisous" or some such Austin Powers name? If so that would date it from the release of one (the second?) of his movies. Don't know why I associate it with that period but I do.
Seems to me that was around the time that a woman (maybe the same one) who was kicked off eBay for shilling got into such knock down, drag outs with everyone. Claimed she had to buy a new urn for her mother's ashes and her relatives were bidding on her mother's stuff so that they could raise the money. They did not have computers so that had to use her AOL account. I can't believe how much abuse she took and kept coming back to argue her side.
It was an ongoing soap opera. Of course there has never been a tread like the "Van Gogh" painting thread where Hart Cottage Quilts shredded the "expert" with the dodgy painting. I would rush home from work every day to read the next installment.
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Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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KarenMx
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posted on July 20, 2007 07:13:45 PM new
The tiny wrists episode was before AuctionWatch decided one needed a credit card on file to post--a long time ago. A few of the details are fuzzy, but a former poster here, a clothing seller (executive girl?), sold a blouse or jacket to a particularly fussy buyer. Buyer wasn't happy with the garment for a number of reasons, but the whiniest of her whiny complaints was that the cuffs were too big for her tiny wrists. I
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photosensitive
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posted on July 20, 2007 07:36:13 PM new
Your right it was before the credit cards. I was a lurker then and only started to post after the credit card were required.
(oops: corrected typo)
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Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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twig125silver
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posted on July 21, 2007 02:57:44 AM new
I came right after it, but everyone was still mentioning "tiny wrists".
(For some reason, I thought "tiny wrists" when I read that.)
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vintageads4u
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posted on July 21, 2007 05:11:02 AM new
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/
We had some characters back then!
Beth
VintageAds4U
http://stores.ebay.com/vintageads4uonline?refid=store
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tomwiii
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posted on July 21, 2007 05:31:16 AM new
"Madam, I beg to differ with you! The frogs are NOT humping, but merely...mating!" ~Jerry12
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photosensitive
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posted on July 21, 2007 06:09:28 AM new
I found the Van Gogh thread!!!
I don't expect any of you will want to read all 25 pages but it did bring back some memories fom me. Found it with Google. What does it say about "internet time" when 2000 is the "good old days"?
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Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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rhpepsi
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posted on July 22, 2007 10:10:33 AM new
email the customer and here is the lovely response from the buyer:
"I'm unprofessional, for telling the truth?!?!?! You're the one unfamiliar with the product you sell, then you attack your customer for telling the truth!!!. You deserve the neg feedback for not knowing the product you are selling. It was piontless to comunicate, there was nothing you could of done, I needed the paper for a project as soon as I recieved it. It wasn't what I needed, but it got the job done. I don't want a refund, I had no choice but to use it."
I hope they do not attempt a career in photograghy...if they do, hopefully a 1st lesson in MATTE finish and GLOSSY finish will be taught to them.
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twig125silver
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posted on July 22, 2007 02:10:56 PM new
I just read the "Van Gogh" thread in its entirety.
That was a very enjoyable and very informative read.
Are any of the posters in that thread still around?
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mcjane
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posted on July 22, 2007 07:55:36 PM new
photo You pulled off a miracle, How in the world did you find the Van Gogh post.
Can you find any jerry12 posts. Anyone who hasn't read them would really be in for a treat. I would love to read some of them again.
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pixiamom
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posted on July 22, 2007 08:09:14 PM new
Thanks, Photo. Enjoyed reading the posts before my time. Where are the posters now? Moved on and beyond. I really ache for some of the posters who have moved on and beyond in my Vendio lifetime. Hope they are doing well.
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 22, 2007 08:46:48 PM new
Just a friendly bit of education - because it came up here 2x - and this is offered just as a way to help rather than any criticism...
We often see "Would of" when someone is trying to write out what they are "hearing" in their mind. Trying to write out what they "hear" when they have "would've" in their mind - ends up as "would of" in print.
In fact, it should either be "would've" or "would have."
I hate to use absolutes, but I can't conceive of a time when "would of" would be correct at any time.
Hope this helps.
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neglus
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posted on July 22, 2007 09:05:05 PM new
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=436539&id=436539
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=264397
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neglus
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posted on July 22, 2007 09:54:06 PM new
Whew - took some time but I found "tiny wrists" too:
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=344586&id=344586
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mcjane
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posted on July 22, 2007 10:25:10 PM new
Thanks neglus, It was great to read those posts again. There were so many & probably lost forever.
The frog post was his last & he was never to be seen again. That was the night so many others left auction watch. I can't believe it was almost seven years ago.
I keep hoping someday I'll sigh on VD & see a post by jerry12
Jane
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tomwiii
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posted on July 23, 2007 04:49:11 AM new
Remember the "great deal" he got at a garage sale on a "diamond ring?"
My all time favorie was when he had a collection of 19th century pics of African-American children, but was having trouble fitting everything into the title...So he wanted our opinion of condensing the phrase: "African-American children" into ONE WORD [it rhymed with "piglets"] -- I thought I was gonna get a hernia I was laughing so hard...
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pmelcher
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posted on July 23, 2007 05:33:53 AM new
I had forgotten about the African-American children! Not a politically correct term he wanted to use (not that I did not hear it when I was young). That was so funny that he thought it would be all right. LOL
Back to Matte vs Glossy - no way they could have mistaken that unless they were really intelligence challenged.
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photosensitive
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posted on July 23, 2007 06:19:47 AM new
The amazing thing was the number of people who would "bite" on Jerry12's off the wall statements. No matter how many times people them that he was a troll and jokester.
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zoomin
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posted on July 23, 2007 06:54:40 AM new
Are any of the posters in that thread still around?
Some are still around ~ different posting styles and user id's due to auction interference and the like.
{{{thanks so much, neglus!}}}
I enjoyed revisiting the eg thread ~ brings back some really fun times at auction watch / vendio!
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neglus
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posted on July 23, 2007 07:15:28 AM new
I saw that Reston_Ray used to post here. He was a poster on the Stores board too and I am sorry to report that he died last November (I'm sorry, I can't remember the circumstances - his family delivered all of his orders and then closed the store and there is nothing on the "me" page.
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tomwiii
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posted on July 23, 2007 09:20:39 AM new
Photo said:
"The amazing thing was the number of people who would "bite" on Jerry12's off the wall statements. No matter how many times people them that he was a troll and jokester."
Heehee! Do ya remember the wails of righteous indignation that accompanied his post about buying the diamond ring for $5(?) from the old couple's garage sale, and then taking it to a jewelery store, selling it to the jeweler for $50,000 (?) -- "How COULD you do something sooo evil to those poor people, Jerry?"
Ralphie & I were ROTFLOAOPIOP...
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neglus
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posted on July 23, 2007 09:25:51 AM new
I found that diamond ring thread too - it's a RIOT (except for the part that was deleted by the moderator because someone used an archaic and very un-PC word having to do with bargaining)!! He actually wrote that he bought it for $.75 and got the guy to throw in some Golden Books too.
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zoomin
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posted on July 23, 2007 10:08:13 AM new
Didn't know about reston_ray passing.
So sad to hear ~ I tend to tell myself that ex-posters are off having fun and enjoying life outside of eBaY/the boards.
thanks for letting us know!
I found so many fun old threads, including "the longest thread ever" or something like that ~ so many posters I had to giggle at the memories!
AuctionWatch was really a party back then ~ over a hundred active posters (image hosting was free & no credit card requirement) ~ fun and informative I would have to say that the eBaY Outlook was the best board in existence.
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CBlev65252
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posted on July 23, 2007 06:34:41 PM new
Ah, Jerry12. Boy do I miss him. What a cutup! Tom, I guess you and Ralphie are just going to have to take his place. We need to breath some life into the board.
Cheryl
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