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I get it; some dude keeps harassing you, you set your PMs to friends only and flip him the bird via your monitor. Fine. But don't freaking send me a private message, then. Whatever you want to know, how the heck am I supposed to tell you? Can you have my Spirited Socks for free so that you can give them to your really nice friend? Well, no. I don't know your really nice friend. If I want to give away my stuff, I have really nice friends of my own to appreciate. I would love to at least give you a polite "Sorry, but I don't give away my items." Typed it out and tried to send it... your PMs are set to friends only. I truly hope you honestly forgot and are just thinking I was too rude to answer you. You would be wrong, but at least you would not be the type of person who wants me to give you a 20k+ item for free so you can be 'nice to your friend', aka take credit for someone else's generosity, all while not deeming me worth actually conversing with. Even if I were going to just give it to you, I assure you I would not just send the trade or gift to someone who literally just wants my stuff without becoming at all involved with me.
Tameka · Sun Nov 25, 2007 @ 09:57am · 1 Comments |
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I do not understand the fascination with not responding to people. Every sale warns you ahead of time that the seller will not respond to offers they don't like. And considering that it often takes a long time to be sure your post has been seen and you have been ignored, the seller basically decides your time is alright to waste but not theirs. Are there people out there who, on a regular basis, talk to people they know will not answer them? I, for one, am a hell of a lot less likely to offer my gold to someone who may decide that a simple "No, thank you" is too much effort.
Tameka · Thu Sep 06, 2007 @ 09:46am · 0 Comments |
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Using a screenshot doesn't make you a scammer |
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Once again people on this site prove that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Yes, I agree that a 'screenshot' where the items are obviously edited may be an indication that the person does not actually have the items. But I keep seeing people automatically yell scammer and demand to see the items equipped or in a display box. Not every use of a screenshot means that the person is a scammer. Still, accusers take the occassions where they were actually right as evidence that their method of detection is foolproof. Which just spreads false imformation that makes it harder for legitamate sellers.
Let's talk some turkey here and cut to the meat of my issue. Display boxes hold 18 items and you can only have one per post. A screenshot can hold as many items as I can see on my screen at a time. If I ever wanted to sell the majority of my inventory, using display boxes would be the death of me. I have over 18 pairs of socks and stockings alone. I have more shoes alone than some of these threads passing themselves off as 'inventory blowouts'. But by virtue of posting a screenshot, I'd be a scammer? I should pause to put on every single item anyone questions me owning?
But overall, I am glad people are starting to see the signs before they get scammed. That is a very good thing. I just wish it didn't mean good information would eventually degrade into sweeping generalizations that hurt legitimate sellers.
Tameka · Mon Jun 04, 2007 @ 08:40am · 0 Comments |
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Someone explain how this makes -me- the noob? |
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SDMagic Tameka SDMagic Tameka SDMagic yeah the previous sets i have boughten was for 3.5k for the set. i can also barter with my friends avatars. these are awesome. they are avatars that go on your signature and they are animated check out My Friend's StoreI'll have to pass on that for now. Good luck. well you could have made a counter offer but maybe you just wanted to waste my time I wanted to NOT waste your time seeing as how adding up minimum MP offers put the set at over 10.5k which would be three times your offer. Most people who are serious about a sale don't offer a third of what they are willing to pay and if you are getting sets for 3.5k obviously you don't want to pay that much higher. I'm sorry it never occured to you that I have good reasoning behind my decisions, but I do. I see no reason to accept under 10k which is likely a lot higher than you want to pay. dont pretend to know me and actually adding up all the prices up is not the same as selling them individually, i get them for 3.5k because the inteligent merchants on gaia know that if you sell the items individually its more of a hassle so you sell them higher. where if someone buys all the items in one shot you sell them for a "set" price. so i am sorry i had the unfortunate luck to make an offer to a ******** noob
Tameka · Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 06:35am · 7 Comments |
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I've made some deals that were kind of bad for me lately and came to an odd realisation. Part of me is really glad I did. The things I goofed up on were things I did not even expect to have and basically got lucky in receiving them. Because I wasn't always paying attention, some people who really will love and use those items have them now. When I think of it that way, the fact that I'm losing money just doesn't seem nearly as important. Besides, if somene convinced me to sell to them, no matter what the offer was, they deserve the items waaaay more than someone that PMs me pretending to be interested in friendship but really wanting a donation. I got one of those recently and when you compare it to that... yeah. I'd much rather sell to a slightly low offer because the person is working their butt off than to just give something to someone who thought I looked rich enough that I wouldn't mind just throwing away gold.
Tameka · Wed Nov 22, 2006 @ 10:24pm · 1 Comments |
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I am really sick of people using fat as an insult. Here on the internet where you have no clue most of the time what someone looks like, fat is still one of the first insults to be thrown out. And people laugh and defend themselves with twig pics or they go on about how much weight they're losing. Which is fine and their perogative, but it would be nice if anybody would realize that being fat does not mean you a) eat nothing but donuts and cookies b) must be miserable or c) are incapable of having a life and significant other. And you people wonder why I keep to myself on Gaia and don't try too hard to make friends. I do not need the kind of friend that judges me by what size jeans I slip into.
Tameka · Mon Oct 02, 2006 @ 09:52am · 1 Comments |
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Ok, as a general rule I do agree the first person to offer buying from/selling to me has earned precedence over other people hoping to jump in and somehow wow me with what they think is a better offer. If my price is set then I will deal with the first person to meet it, not the person who tries to yank it out from under their feet for a paltry 100g more. But that does NOT extend to people who haggle when I've already said my offer is set in stone. When my thread says I'm buying chyaku norisu scarves for 20k each, no haggling, that is what I mean! I do NOT expect to then receive PM conversations like this!
bobby_watson Wrote: would you go 21k for scarf??
Tameka Wrote: No, sorry.
bobby_watson Wrote: what about 20.5k
Tameka Wrote: I am only offering 20k
bobby_watson Wrote: ok ill take 20k send trade for it
Tameka Wrote: Someone just sent four while you were haggling my non negotiable price. Sorry.
bobby_watson Wrote: i need this gold and i was your fisrt custermer
Tameka Wrote: My post said I would not haggle. You tried to anyway. He closed the deal first while you were still trying to push for more. I am done buying.
Funny thing is I really did close a deal right before he finally caved. With someone who admittedly only sold me the scarves because it's me and we've known each other for a while. Otherwise I still would have bought the kid's scarf because I'm not one to shoot myself in the foot. Hell, even if he'd never PMed me and his trade was just a little slower than the other one I'd have bought it just so he could have the gold. But I do not like that he haggled a price that I'd already declared set in stone then tried to act as though by virtue of being the first to show interest, I owe him something! So I was glad for an actual good reason to turn him down.
Tameka · Thu Aug 17, 2006 @ 11:01am · 0 Comments |
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Throwing my two cents around |
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I'm going to make yet another unasked for opinion, but first I will link to the petition in question. Read it and form your own thoughts without my influence then read my opinion. Or skip to my opinion if you really want, but you can't say I misinformed ya.
Now, I can understand where they're coming from. This is my second account and it's only two days older than the thread starter's. My first one was made in April 2003. I worked hard for my items. Dae Dae never got peasant clothes at all; just a bit of starting gold. Which I actually honestly prefered to getting peasant clothes anyway, but that is to give you a clear view of the fact that I do understand the arguement that we scrimped, saved and worked our bums off for clothes. There was no bank when Dae Dae started; he couldn't beg and say he worked for it. I am a Jurassically old member of Gaia.
That said, oldbies like me have other advantages that make newbies cry in their beer. Whereas an impossible dream for me is stuff I could have actually owned like the bear hats, halo or the DJs, they quest onward neverending for items like the nitemare scarf. C'mon, oldbies, admit it... you have or have had like two or three of those damned things that you can never work into an outfit but wear anyway because dayum, but we are some rich a** Gaians. We worked hard and we have a lot to show for it.
Newbies just got here and they are looking at things they can never have even if they work as long as we did and as hard as we did. The only concessions they get is stuff like the starter set. A few cute things, a few really ugly things, none of it worth the effort of trying to sell because it isn't worth anything and the oldbies already had everything they wanted of it within a day of the items being released. The only thing they are getting out of this is being able to look decent and everyone will still know those are starter clothes. There's no hiding how cheap your clothes are. Cheaper than the freaking peasant clothes. But at least they look decent. If that's enough to make them happier, I say give them that.
It's a sign of progress and what would gaia be without progress? I didn't start with peasant clothes and I didn't start with a bank system to get donations from. These are things even today's oldbies had. If Gaia had never given any of those newer accounts a leg up over what I had, where would Gaia be now? Gaia is growing and showing that it can learn. We weren't happy not being able to afford a full oufit, so Gaia said "Let there be starter sets!" And lo, the newbies were clothed! It was a long time ago, but I was new once. I would have appreciated this. I'm not going to begrudge new users this small concession just because I didn't get mine until after I was already rich.
Tameka · Wed Jul 12, 2006 @ 01:36pm · 0 Comments |
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There was a time on Gaia when I tried to make more friends, but do you know what I got instead? People who only have me on their list so they can ask many people at once for donations or send off chainletters at the click of a button. That is not being a friend and I don't need that sort of person around me. If that is all you have said to me for months or I can't even remember how we met, you've been purged from my list. Anyone sending me a chainletter will be privately warned not to again or you will be reported. And I am not bluffing; I have reported two so called friends who decided to ignore that suggestion already. Also, those people will be added to my ignore list from now on. I hate putting people on ignore because that means no more chances for that person to even say hi until I finally decided to clear the list. But I'm really left with a lose-lose situation... put people on ignore or suffer every chainletter to ever appear on Gaia when I have respectfully asked not to be sent any.
In other news... poor Mazu; she discovered the suckiness of Magi-volve on her own because I forgot to post that I was wrong and the site has zero redeeming qualities. Just none. It just... sucks... donkey doo. That is all.
Tameka · Sat Jul 01, 2006 @ 10:12pm · 1 Comments |
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