Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:00 am
Haha, as soon as I saw your name here, I knew you'd say that. You're so predictable. And mean! Why are you picking on poor little me?
Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:07 am
Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:31 am
Not bragging, just saying, nice things happen, in my book, to nice people.
Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:44 am
Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:05 am
Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:38 am
Cranberry wrote:I'm just stuck on this "mispricing" thing. I don't understand how someone could type 10,000 instead of 1,750,000 (or whatever it was before the increments); I just don't. Maybe he priced it that low on purpose and told a few different people to bid on it in a lame attempt to start a bidding war and get more than 1,750,000 for it?
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Or maybe he's just really, really stupid.
Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:56 am
Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:20 am
Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:13 pm
Cranberry wrote:You can't tell if someone is a good or bad person based on their advice here. You just can't. And spouting platitudes about how good people have good things happen to them just annoys everybody. Or at least it annoys me.
Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:32 pm
Daze wrote:... JCMidore is a regular person who asked an opinion - he is not nasty for keeping the item nor would...
Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:23 pm
Azzie wrote:I've been in shops where things were horribly mispriced and had given them back and i've given things out and have received no thanks, the most expensive being a Jeran and Lisha plushie set worth $ 1 milion which i gave away to a stranger on a whim, and yes, i'm still sore about it till today.
Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:48 pm
JCMidore wrote: Also, their minimum increment was 1np. I have never done or participated in a private auction where the increments were that little. Atleast 50,000np or above.
But today, I receive another demanding neomail from the user.
It went a little something like this.. Pretty much copied and paste.
" Setup a trade and Ill offer the 245k.
Then we can do the auction the right way, now that I deleted all those neofriends.
TNT doesn't have to get into this. "
Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:57 pm
Siniri wrote:Azzie wrote:I've been in shops where things were horribly mispriced and had given them back and i've given things out and have received no thanks, the most expensive being a Jeran and Lisha plushie set worth $ 1 milion which i gave away to a stranger on a whim, and yes, i'm still sore about it till today.
This reminded me of a (Chinese?) proverb: A man who gives a gift expecting to be thanked should expect to be disappointed... Or something along those lines. The newbie to whom I sent an item and neomail after buying an underpriced item in her shop never thanked me. Does this change how I feel about what I did? Of course not. Same thing when I give someone their quest item instead of SWing it for them. I don't give hoping to be noticed or appreciated...
Especially in Neopets, sometimes people click on the event, don't notice the sender, and then the event gets deleted before they can go back and see the name, so even if they wanted to, they couldn't thank you. But when I give, I don't expect the recipient to ooh and aah or even say thank-you. That way I can truly enjoy the act of giving without expecting anything in return. Yes, of course gratitude is nice. But if I was going to get so upset months later that someone didn't thank me, I'd just keep the item instead of giving it away in the first place. But that's just my philosophy -- to each his own.
Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:01 pm
Cranberry wrote:And sorry if "it's just a game" annoys you, but at least that's a fact and not only a trite statement.
Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:07 pm
JCMidore wrote:
But today, I receive another demanding neomail from the user.
It went a little something like this.. Pretty much copied and paste.
" Setup a trade and Ill offer the 245k.
Then we can do the auction the right way, now that I deleted all those neofriends.
TNT doesn't have to get into this. "
Do I see a thank you, or a please?. A friendly gesture, a polite responce or question?. The last statement regarding TNT was made because I requested them to sort out the deal with TNT to see if they could do anything about the issue.
This was also not a reply to a previous neomail. I stopped replying long ago, and this was a brand new one with a different subject and all.