When I see a fellow Watcher has been bidding for an item, I stay away. But not peter_percell. If he sees that a fellow watcher had been bidding on an item all day and in sixty seconds will win it at a reasonable price, he says, so what if I just went to Elohimfest with him, I can steal this one. And comes in with the thirty-second-left (and first) bid.
Then you come in here and call that watcher a rat. Not your finest display of integrity all around.
Wayfriend wrote:When I see a fellow Watcher has been bidding for an item, I stay away. But not peter_percell. If he sees that a fellow watcher had been bidding on an item all day and in sixty seconds will win it at a reasonable price, he says, so what if I just went to Elohimfest with him, I can steal this one. And comes in with the thirty-second-left (and first) bid.
Then you come in here and call that watcher a rat. Not your finest display of integrity all around.
I'll assume that was joking tone, because that was pretty damn funny.
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
Balon wrote:I'll assume that was joking tone, because that was pretty damn funny.
Nope. Dead serious.
The insult-added-to-the-injury is when he comes onto the board with the pre-emptive lie. "I think Wayfriend was bidding against me." Pah. My e-bay name is way-friend. And he never had a bid on the board until the very end.
I don't think I've been clear. So I'll post one last post.
Losing a bid on e-bay is meaningless. When someone you know goes cut-throat on you with no fair warning -- heck, I chalk that up to having a different view of integrity. But what's up with coming onto this board and telling everyone I did something that I didn't do (but which you did) and then calling me a rat for doing it?
So please don't walk away under the impression that I don't think you're some kind of jerk.
I don't think I've been clear. So I'll post one last post.
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So please don't walk away under the impression that I don't think you're some kind of jerk.
I was joking ... so GET OVER IT ... or not ... I don't care. And I don't care whether you think I am a jerk or not.
Last edited by Astavyastataa Kadna on Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
BTW, for anyone interested ... our complaining Wayfriend (who did NOT post and ask no one to challenge him) would have lost to altracey01 - by 10 GBP even if I had not gone over.
ooo! thelma! looks like the boys had themselves a little cat fight over the ARCs!!!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Talking about "integrity" when auctioning for contrabande, the existence of which is clearly detrimental to the authors revenue, strikes me as more than just a bit hypocritical, if you don't mind.
Or perhaps it's some kind of Pirates Code????
"I would have gone to the thesaurus for a more erudite word."
-Hashi Lebwohl
Prebe wrote:Talking about "integrity" when auctioning for contrabande, the existence of which is clearly detrimental to the authors revenue, strikes me as more than just a bit hypocritical, if you don't mind.
Ha! Good one.
Not to mention that there was nothing contrary to Ebay's policies in Peter's bidding.
Some people just like to feel put upon.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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