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In This Together (3 Viewers)

Windwalker said:
VERY old concept. “We reserve the right to refuse to do business with anyone.”

I’m befuddled as to why this would even be debated. If someone’s an Asshole (to you), you can choose not to interact with, sell to, buy from, or engage with them. Plain and simple. “Community” has nothing to do with this concept. Especially if you’ve never met that person in person before.

I have discovered that things are different when you meet a person in real life, though. When I went to MinnieMania and realized how much fun meetups were, I was excited to try and attend another one. I noticed several of my PCF friends were attending another one a couple of flying hours away from me. So I PM’ed the host letting him know of my interest to attend.

He was incredibly polite in declining, providing the simple explanation that it was his first meetup and already stressed about it, and having someone whose online personality rubbed him the wrong way just wasn’t worth the additional stress. He added that if we ever did meet, he couldn’t see why we couldn’t have a perfectly cordial conversation and relationship. And he predicted correctly, as we sat next to each other at dinner in Vegas, and in fact, had a perfectly lovely chat, unmarred by any online persona issues.
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How am I gonna get any chips with my attitude and doucheness then??!
 
Windwalker said:
VERY old concept. “We reserve the right to refuse to do business with anyone.”

I’m befuddled as to why this would even be debated. If someone’s an Asshole (to you), you can choose not to interact with, sell to, buy from, or engage with them. Plain and simple. “Community” has nothing to do with this concept. Especially if you’ve never met that person in person before.

I have discovered that things are different when you meet a person in real life, though. When I went to MinnieMania and realized how much fun meetups were, I was excited to try and attend another one. I noticed several of my PCF friends were attending another one a couple of flying hours away from me. So I PM’ed the host letting him know of my interest to attend.

He was incredibly polite in declining, providing the simple explanation that it was his first meetup and already stressed about it, and having someone whose online personality rubbed him the wrong way just wasn’t worth the additional stress. He added that if we ever did meet, he couldn’t see why we couldn’t have a perfectly cordial conversation and relationship. And he predicted correctly, as we sat next to each other at dinner in Vegas, and in fact, had a perfectly lovely chat, unmarred by any online persona issues.
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I totally get the meeting in person part. Many years ago I attended my first meetup and ran into a very nice person who gave me a bunch of chips to halo me out with a spot sample collection I was was working on. One of the chips was worth quite a bit and he asked that when I filled that part of the set to return it to him which i did. After a long conversation and pleasant conversation I asked him what his PCF name was and upon him telling me I told him that he was not really the assh0!3 he sounded like on the forum. He exclaimed,”I get that a lot”. We both had a great laugh. That chipper is one who has probably helped more people behind the scenes than you can guess and always there if you need him. His wife is a member and also a a very nIce lady who is a saint to put up with him.;)

that member if you have not guessed it yet is Dave better known as @BGinGA
 
David O said:
I totally get the meeting in person part. Many years ago I attended my first meetup and ran into a very nice person who gave me a bunch of chips to halo me out with a spot sample collection I was was working on. One of the chips was worth quite a bit and he asked that when I filled that part of the set to return it to him which i did. After a long conversation and pleasant conversation I asked him what his PCF name was and upon him telling me I told him that he was not really the assh0!3 he sounded like on the forum. He exclaimed,”I get that a lot”. We both had a great laugh. That chipper is one who has probably helped more people behind the scenes than you can guess and always there if you need him. His wife is a member and also a a very nIce lady who is a saint to put up with him.;)

that member if you have not guessed it yet is Dave better known as @BGinGA
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Wait? People think BGinGA is an asshole? I'm shocked!!!!!!
 
David O said:
I totally get the meeting in person part. Many years ago I attended my first meetup and ran into a very nice person who gave me a bunch of chips to halo me out with a spot sample collection I was was working on. One of the chips was worth quite a bit and he asked that when I filled that part of the set to return it to him which i did. After a long conversation and pleasant conversation I asked him what his PCF name was and upon him telling me I told him that he was not really the assh0!3 he sounded like on the forum. He exclaimed,”I get that a lot”. We both had a great laugh. That chipper is one who has probably helped more people behind the scenes than you can guess and always there if you need him. His wife is a member and also a a very nIce lady who is a saint to put up with him.;)

that member if you have not guessed it yet is Dave better known as @BGinGA
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The most surprising aspect of this is that I didn't know his significant other posted here too!
 
Saoliver said:
Degens are gonna degen. Hell...I know a couple of guys who bet on tee ball games. And they don't even have kids!
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Excuse me. We bet weekly on scripted events from 40 years ago. And it's amazing.
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Ultimate DEGEN

And yes, it's on a 1970s football shaker board.
 
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You guys want degen?

A few buddies and I would bet on the baby races that the basketball games would have sometimes. Livened up an otherwise boring experience.
 
WedgeRock said:
It's okay.

I don't see WW's posting anyway (and if I did, I couldn't afford most of his auctions). If you're planning on asshatting me @Sambukan, we'll go for it. I'm not really looking for any new chips anyway.
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You’re not blocked, or ignored, FYI. I think your online persona is curmudgeonly perhaps, but relatively balanced.
 
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Tommy said:
we block brand new members from casting votes on HOF polls because I've caught at least 4 members creating dup accounts and casting votes on their sets in the past.
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You should out those mopes.
 
Windwalker said:
VERY old concept. “We reserve the right to refuse to do business with anyone.”

I’m befuddled as to why this would even be debated. If someone’s an Asshole (to you), you can choose not to interact with, sell to, buy from, or engage with them. Plain and simple. “Community” has nothing to do with this concept. Especially if you’ve never met that person in person before.
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I mentioned it somewhere else before, but I’ll say it again here. I’m 100% okay with people limiting who they deal with in classifieds. But for auctions, I think it’s crap. If I were making the rules, id say if you want to benefit from having an auction here (no eBay fees, an audience of your most likely buyers, among other things) then you damn well have to give something in return, and I’m not asking for much - just let all members of the community participate.
 
upNdown said:
I mentioned it somewhere else before, but I’ll say it again here. I’m 100% okay with people limiting who they deal with in classifieds. But for auctions, I think it’s crap. If I were making the rules, id say if you want to benefit from having an auction here (no eBay fees, an audience of your most likely buyers, among other things) then you damn well have to give something in return, and I’m not asking for much - just let all members of the community participate.
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Completely agree. Which is why I’ve never used the AHC in my auctions. :-)
 
allforcharity said:
Can we get back on track? Is there a formal designee to hold onto funds raised for restitution yet?
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I think @BGinGA volunteered, but not confirmed yet. I'm going to collect for my auctions into my own PayPal and then forward the proceeds to the collector when it's confirmed so I can get the packages out to folks on Saturday.
 
Is there a public list of who got scammed and how much? Put this out in the open so people can then make direct contributions if they choose.

With all this asshat talk, there may be folks who were scammed that may be on someone's asshat list. We should give people the opportunity to avoid being charitable to someone who's on their asshat list.;):wtf:
 

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