Of Recent Collectors Who Flip

[Chicago206]

Ok, here it is, one final time. My intentions were sincere. I wanted to be a collector. A "flipper" is a person who buys a card with the intentions of selling that card at a PROFIT. Please go back and read my "Mission Accomplished" thread. I very candidly display the prices I paid for these cards. Now go to my "BST" ad. Notice anything? Really? You mean my asking prices are about IDENTICAL to my purchase prices? No way!!! So im not trying to make a quick buck? The thread starter owes me an apology. While I do see his point, it does not apply in this situation at all. I have simply become disenchanted with both the CU forum as well as this one. Because my wife doesnt want to talk about cards, I soon will have no outlet....hence my leaving the hobby. If this makes me "Bipolar", or a "Drama Queen", then oh well. When you cut through all the BS, im simply a guy who gave it a real go, and now has decided to make some VERY pretty cards available to other collectors at the exact same prices that I have paid for those cards.

Phil

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by Chicago206

Ok, here it is, one final time. My intentions were sincere. I wanted to be a collector. A "flipper" is a person who buys a card with the intentions of selling that card at a PROFIT. Please go back and read my "Mission Accomplished" thread. I very candidly display the prices I paid for these cards. Now go to my "BST" ad. Notice anything? Really? You mean my asking prices are about IDENTICAL to my purchase prices? No way!!! So im not trying to make a quick buck? The thread starter owes me an apology. While I do see his point, it does not apply in this situation at all. I have simply become disenchanted with both the CU forum as well as this one. Because my wife doesnt want to talk about cards, I soon will have no outlet....hence my leaving the hobby. If this makes me "Bipolar", or a "Drama Queen", then oh well. When you cut through all the BS, im simply a guy who gave it a real go, and now has decided to make some VERY pretty cards available to other collectors at the exact same prices that I have paid for those cards.

Phil

If you're so disenchanted and really are "leaving" the hobby, then why the constant drama and posts? If you've made the choice, sell the cards and go already. Then you'll be at peace on your boat, right? Doesn't seem that tough to figure out.

Goodbye and good luck.

[Chicago206]

See why im leaving? Im "attacked" by the TS as being a flipper. I clearly show why that is an inaccurate description by using facts and logic. Yet another member piles on immediately following my reply. This is why its no longer fun.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by Chicago206

See why im leaving? Im "attacked" by the TS as being a flipper. I clearly show why that is an inaccurate description by using facts and logic. Yet another member piles on immediately following my reply. This is why its no longer fun.

Goodbye and good luck.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Chicago206

This is why its no longer fun.

And yet... you are still logged on to the site, just waiting to respond yet again.


The original poster WASN'T talking about just you. He clearly stated: "We seem to have a small spate of people..."

In a follow up post, he referred to the T206 Plank card. That also wasn't you.

It really doesn't matter whether you stay or go. It doesn't matter whether you continue to collect or not.

In any case, you do seem to like to talk about it.

[T206Collector]

I'm sorry, but I will not be apologizing for starting this thread (irony intended). Your conduct is extremely suspect, even if your intentions are pure and even if you do not profit from your contemporaneous "mission accomplished" and "for sale" threads.

Congratulations! You bought 15 T206 cards over a 3 month period and somehow managed to turn that modest accomplishment into controversy and cynicism on multiple threads on 2 internet chatboards. That is, of course, no one's fault but your own.

I am sure we can all agree that you should leave at least the internet community side of our hobby for now. But feel free to come back when you have something worthwhile to share or contribute. If you really have such thin skin, keep your posts simple, never share personal data, and keep your shared purchases to the monthly pick-up threads.

[Kawika]

Chicago: For starters, I don't even know your name. There was a debate here last year when we switched to the new forum about anonymnity and Anonymous prevailed. That disappointed me. As it is every Tom, Dick or Chicago can cruise onto the site, do their thing and not really be accountable.

A lot of the guys go way back. They are not shimmering entities in cyberspace to each other but flesh-and-blood people they've shaken hands with, shared time with, talked cards with, and ultimately become the best of friends with. For a lot of us Net54 is like a clubhouse where, one way or another, we have managed to fit in. When I first came aboard six or seven years ago I was timid as a mouse amongst the regulars; gradually I found a comfortable niche. I am sure that many others' stories would echo that. What we have here is a mobocracy of rich guys, poor guys, in-between guys, registry types and beater collectors, right wing whack jobs and liberal pussies, those who can spell and those who can't, you get the drift. Somehow it all works, most of the time anyway. Only a few characters over the years have gotten the heave-ho but I am afraid it is not looking good for you. You haven't respected us. If you want to stay, you really need to chill. If you want to go, go already; your exit thus far has been graceless. (No problem for "chicago" I suppose if no one knows who you are). Please don't construe this as an "attack". I am trying to keep things on an even keel here although I gotta say your program is starting to piss me off.

David McDonald

It's 3:30 in the morning where I am. Just got finished reviewing the Heritage catalog and I am going to sleep. I hope this thread is DOA when I get up. You east coast guys, what are you doing on 54? It's a weekday. Don't you have jobs?

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Kawika

You east coast guys, what are you doing on 54? It's a weekday. Don't you have jobs?

No. We're all "liberal pussies."


Crap! Edited to add:

[barrysloate]

I'm a liberal pussy who can spell. Is that good?

[kcohen]

Originally Posted by Kawika

It's 3:30 in the morning where I am. Just got finished reviewing the Heritage catalog and I am going to sleep. I hope this thread is DOA when I get up. You east coast guys, what are you doing on 54? It's a weekday. Don't you have jobs?

Geez David. How do you think many of us pass the time at our jobs?

Ken

[jmk59]

Originally Posted by Kawika

A lot of the guys go way back. They are not shimmering entities in cyberspace to each other but flesh-and-blood people they've shaken hands with, shared time with, talked cards with, and ultimately become the best of friends with. For a lot of us Net54 is like a clubhouse where, one way or another, we have managed to fit in. When I first came aboard six or seven years ago I was timid as a mouse amongst the regulars; gradually I found a comfortable niche. I am sure that many others' stories would echo that. What we have here is a mobocracy of rich guys, poor guys, in-between guys, registry types and beater collectors, right wing whack jobs and liberal pussies, those who can spell and those who can't, you get the drift. Somehow it all works, most of the time anyway. Only a few characters over the years have gotten the heave-ho but I am afraid it is not looking good for you. You haven't respected us. If you want to stay, you really need to chill. If you want to go, go already; your exit thus far has been graceless. (No problem for "chicago" I suppose if no one knows who you are). Please don't construe this as an "attack". I am trying to keep things on an even keel here although I gotta say your program is starting to piss me off.

Thank goodness there are still voices of sanity here. Besides the ones in my head, I mean.

J

[Anthony S.]

Originally Posted by jmk59

Thank goodness there are still voices of sanity here. Besides the ones in my head, I mean. J

Joann,

A possible remedy. I've found that while drinking does not silence the voices in my head it does make slur to point that I can't understand what they're saying.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by jmk59

Thank goodness there are still voices of sanity here. Besides the ones in my head, I mean.
J

Joann: Used to be that males were guys and females were gals. Nowadays when my wife and I go out for dinner the waiter invariably refers to us as "you guys"; her girlfriends refer to each other as "you guys". So it appears we're all guys now. I'm old fashioned enough to have never entirely gotten my mind around the concept but the world keeps changing so what's a guy to do? What I am getting around to saying is that by the foregoing logic you are one of the guys around here, very much so. Had I have written "you guys and Joann" in my little McDonald being pompous again screed it would have sounded stilted. Hope you're OK with being a guy.