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$30 Best Buy Gift Card!

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2013, 10:59:41 AM »
What did you expect Movieman? Of course there is an obvious connection between the forums drop off and the new head honcho.

Drop off? Umm, okay. Since I took over in November 2012, new posts have increased 200-300%, new topics are up 300-400% and we have set new forum records for traffic & number of users online. Overall, there seems to be a better "vibe" and a lot more activity. Sure, there are a few members that are MIA, but I don't see how that could be attributed to me purchasing the forum.

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2013, 01:18:35 PM »
Hey Travis, To qualify for this $30 gift card, is there going to be a special topic/thread just for posting "treasures" for this contest or is it going to be for posting & commenting anywhere in the treasure chest section?

Do we only get credit for posts about items WE find or does replying to a thread with "Hey , thats cool, I got one of those out of a unit last year, great find!"; count?

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2013, 01:27:11 PM »
Alias300....

Not sure I really follow your post #14 above, but I personally take no offence.

I know the eBay IDS (and some Craigslist indicators) on more than a few posters here and I use them just to see what those folks are up to and selling. Never hurts (IMO) to see what is selling (and where).

I specifically don't mention things I am selling on eBay because I don't want anymore competition for a given item than already exists there.

If I have an item on eBay for $100 and some poster here lists theirs for $50 buy it now it probably is going to woo away some buyer that MIGHT have chosen mine; of course we'll never know for sure. ;D


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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2013, 02:52:24 PM »
It was meant as sarcasm and not towards you MM......


Meaning was if you knew my eBay listings.....heck yeah I'd want you to post elsewhere.  More views, more possible bids....


Tho, I don't post CL ad's here since those are to easy to F with people.   I could just see all the spam thrown at it from someone I may have said the wrong thing to by acident........

Man....does any of this make sense?   Doc put me on a new medication.   Whew!   Fun stuff.....

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2013, 03:15:02 PM »
It was meant as sarcasm and not towards you MM......


Yeah, I knew sarcasm was in there, but I have to admit I understood it better once you explained it!  ;D

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2013, 08:29:25 PM »
Hey Travis, To qualify for this $30 gift card, is there going to be a special topic/thread just for posting "treasures" for this contest or is it going to be for posting & commenting anywhere in the treasure chest section?

Do we only get credit for posts about items WE find or does replying to a thread with "Hey , thats cool, I got one of those out of a unit last year, great find!"; count?

As long as it's relevant to this category and natural, it qualifies.

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2013, 01:34:57 PM »
2 Weeks left and the gift card is still up for grabs... so far the leader has only made a few posts!

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #22 on: February 17, 2013, 10:58:15 AM »
2 Weeks left and the gift card is still up for grabs... so far the leader has only made a few posts!


No one has treasures. Times are tough.....


Does it count as treasure if say you buy a unit and the only thing in it is a 9mm Glock.  But you paid $1000 for the unit.

WhoHoooo!   Found a gun!.....that I paid $600 over retail for........


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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2013, 11:43:14 AM »
No one has treasures. Times are tough.....

or...people don't like to brag about their spoils.

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2013, 12:07:47 PM »
 :'(
or...people don't like to brag about their spoils.

I doubt that's the case.  Humility doesn't seem to be strong in forums.  But then again, we here are all just a better breed than most of society. 


Haha.  See what I did there?......humility....then I said......   :D




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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2013, 01:39:40 PM »
See what I did there?......humility....

Yup I see, you made up a word I never heard before.

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #26 on: February 18, 2013, 08:30:41 AM »
I've found a few cool things this year. Some of it i'm keeping & not sure I want the "public" to know about, and some things i'm waiting to sell before I do the full disclosure.

Travis,

If you put up a seperate Treasure Chest in the VIP room, I would be happy to post there. I just don't see the need to give the general public any incentive to get into storage auctions by posting my "best ofs".  :-*

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #27 on: February 18, 2013, 10:53:22 AM »
Travis,

If you put up a seperate Treasure Chest in the VIP room, I would be happy to post there. I just don't see the need to give the general public any incentive to get into storage auctions by posting my "best ofs".  :-*

The VIP room is sort of a general category, you can talk about anything in there. No need to put in sub-categories.  ;)

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #28 on: February 18, 2013, 11:13:24 AM »
VIP room?     I missed that door.     


Everybody hates me.
Nobody loves me.
Go'n to the garden to eat worms.......

 :'(

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Re: $30 Best Buy Gift Card!
« Reply #29 on: February 18, 2013, 12:27:44 PM »
The VIP room is sort of a general category, you can talk about anything in there. No need to put in sub-categories.  ;)

You forgot to mention that only posters with 500 or more posts can access it when they are online (signed in).

I have looked at it. So far two of the possibly 10 people who can access it have done so. I'm not one of them.  ;D


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