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[jkaris]

Posting amounts of bids real or implied isnt a good idea.

Bidding on auctions is kinda like poker you keep your cards close to you so others cant see. Dont go telling people how much your bidding or how much you will pay for something.

There are some people that may visit the board for just that thing like Doc was talking about.

Keep your bids private. If you want to let others know about a lot that your looking at thats cool. Just refraine from getting to excited while typing. We got a good group here and no one wants to watch a member get taken to the cleaners.

We keep a preety good eye on the auctions on ebay so we can figure out users that seem to get to much money for a regular auction or someone who seems to just bump the price of things up but hardly ever wins.

Words of Wisdom.....

[jkaris]

Everybody keep on your guard. If you see an auction with the purple Hand by either yapiel or the seller, let everyone know on this board immediately so we can report him/her/it to ebay.

-Nathan

Not necessarily, if Yapiel is selling it, it would be legit, as he is the high bidder. If the original seller sells it, he's fake.

[arforbes]

Not necessarily, if Yapiel is selling it, it would be legit, as he is the high bidder. If the original seller sells it, he's fake.

I agree with Johnny on this one.

Yapiel has the right to sell it since he is the high bidder and does own the figures now. However, if the seller sells it again, then we have something to worry about.

This is what puzzles me. The seller ick@aol.com is a very high feedback seller, which makes it unlikely that he is a fake or even an ebay abuser. The only reason he would need to sell again is if Yapiel ends up not paying for the auction that he won. Then the seller would have the right to relist it again.

Or if ick@aol.com is yapiel and he used this identity to bid up the price at the end. But how can we confirm this?

[jkaris]

Or if ick@aol.com is yapiel and he used this identity to bid up the price at the end. But how can we confirm this?

We can't but eBay can by checking ip addresses.

[Adamantiumwulf]

Ip address can be gotten around though. If he logeed on from a different computer. Like a friends computer, public library, or school comp.

[jkaris]

Orif he has dial up, but chances are with a feedback rating that high, he has broadband, and braodband usually has a static ip.

[Warsman]

just a view on ips
i was ducussing ip the other day with a few people on another message board

Cable and dsl have dynamic ips like dial up to a extent.

dialup it's like 127.0.**.***
with cable each users has a 127.0.999.***
so it's easier to ban, and the 999 would be your account and the 0 would be the area in your account

well thats how my cable company works it
the last 3 digit are randomized monthly for protection reasons
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now on to the crazy talk, i mean i suggested my scalper a while back
and i thought it was alittle off the wall , but to see everyone taking notice
now, is quite shocking.

A buyer beware forum is a awsome idea and webpage i'd love to have the blessing to add both to my message board/ website

like don't snipe these names
don't buy from these names
and always trust these names.
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if anyone wants something done let me know i'm free drop me a line
and maybe I can help arrange something with you all.
For the better and to make better of the Muscle soceity

[jkaris]

Sounds good.

[Beligerant1]

If the guy was just trying to up the bid amount because he is one in the same with the seller, or a friend or something like that, it would be awfully stupid to do it at the last possible seconds of the auction. I thouroughly believe that yapiel is not the same as ick, if anybody, it would have been beneblanco since he slowly raised the price of the auction. But beneblanco has pretty much been ruled out as a shill bidder or ebay bandit of any sort. So I really have no clue as to the motives of yapiel.

[doc_moore_j]

Hey guys, i just figured it out. I am so stupid for not realising this earlier. It wasn't the purple hand in the auction,it wasn't even the same four pack. If you look at the other four pack it holds a super rare, only two in existance #1 Kinnikuman (muscle man) figure. Damn, no wonder it went for so much. I would have bid 500 if I had seen that, but no I was too focused on that boring hand figure. Dammit.

[Warsman]

Click here for Trusty LIst and watch list

As i said before i've made a trusty list ,ban list, and don't snipe.
If you don't see your name on here let me know

I hope you guys like it, it will work until i can get a more feedback on what you'd like to see

[Krangala]

For the record, my ebay ID is speedysan so if you see me bidding, please be kind, as I am a full-time student, and have VERY LITTLE disposable income!

[EASports]

Maybe you want to add the Blue Zord seller under don't buy from. His name is hardnote_dragon. Or not, whatever.

[doc_moore_j]

Do you guys think that Yapiel is one of the people possibly watching the board? You are right about that though, Doc. I didn't think about that until now, why such the sudden huge money spend for just 8 M.U.S.C.L.E. Men? We may have found our eavesdropper!

[Soupie]

Yeah, Doc, I have found tons of posts like that doing all my AKIA research for this post.

Speaking of which, could you read over it and make sure I have the story straight?

[doc_moore_j]

could you read over it and make sure I have the story straight?

Looks pretty squared away to me.