Ray Bradbury is probably the greatest writer I've ever read. His books read more like poetry than prose. If you haven't read The Illustrated Man you should. This collection of sci-fi short stories are very accessible—they are more about people and situations than technobabble. My two favorite stories are No Particular Night or Morning and Kaleidoscope. I also like his books Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

You will be greatly missed.

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Originally posted by revenger: Now, I recently did a transaction, both rec'd but I rec'd said card unprotected. Just a sleeve & envelope. Poor packaging. and he gives me a 3 rating cuz he thinks i was rude "guess I'm not supposed to tell him top loaders protect the cards- what was I thinking?"

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I was hopeful that I would get a response to this from a few people...

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Originally posted by BoltBait:
RIP Ray Bradbury.

You will be greatly missed.

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Yar.

So Iron Maiden is coming to town with Alice Cooper. And a week before that, it's the Scorpions. That might be an expensive week...

EDIT: Ruh roh. Def Leppard a week after Maiden. Too much awesome, not enough money!
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Originally posted by wayne:
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I really wish you lived here. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do anymore.

Thanks,
Jazaray

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I really wish you lived here. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do anymore.

Thanks,
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You can ping me, though there's not a whole lot I can do from here.

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Ping you?

Thanks,
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Many wished to have what she has,
A delicate face,
A soft warm embrace,
And a whole lot of bedroom pizzazz.

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I was hopeful that I would get a response to this from a few people...

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You should have waited for his ref-check before you rated him a 3. Of course, a trader is going to give you a retaliation 3. This is one of the downfalls of the MOTL ref-system.

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Originally posted by choco man:You should have waited for his ref-check before you rated him a 3. Of course, a trader is going to give you a retaliation 3. This is one of the downfalls of the MOTL ref-system. At least eBay stopped allowing bad sellers to leave negative feedback (I think you can only leave positive feedback once someone pays).

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You should have waited for his ref-check before you rated him a 3. Of course, a trader is going to give you a retaliation 3. This is one of the downfalls of the MOTL ref-system.

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maybe it could be arranged so that feedback can only be seen after each party has reffed each other?

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Ping you?

Thanks,
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maybe it could be arranged so that feedback can only be seen after each party has reffed each other?

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Wouldn't matter as you can go back and edit your ref. I have a 3 from way back in 2001 on my ref list. It was a 5 and then the user had some BTA cases pop up. Looks like he went back and edited his refs down to 3's and left bad info in retaliation.

If they hid refs until both were filled out and then locked the number given, that would do it, maybe. Make it where you could only update the value and leave edits to what you wrote.

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I really wish you lived here. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do anymore.

Thanks,
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Be honest. Tell them you're at your wit's end and if they don't stop being asshats, you don't want them in your life.

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Originally posted by harbingerofthevoid:
If they hid refs until both were filled out and then locked the number given, that would do it, maybe. Make it where you could only update the value and leave edits to what you wrote.

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That doesn't really work either, because then if you have a good first trade, but a future trade goes bad, you can't fix the ref to a proper number.

There really isn't a way to make a foolproof system. Any way you work it there are pros and cons. The number of idiots doing stupid things is low enough that one bad ref isn't really going to be a problem, so don't worry too much about it.

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Daniel Chang is at it again. Aaaargh.

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Someone get me an address again. I'm in Tallahassee.

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so far, I only have a phone number 850.273.0103 and email address dfgcheng@yahoo.com. I'm still trying but I'm not really expecting to get a physical address.

scratch that;

Jen Cheng
2535 Brighton Road
Tallahassee, Florida 32301

Found his facebook account though if you guys are interested. At least it had the same stuff on the account as it did in his email address, and he lives in Tallahassee.

When I was looking at it, I kind of got the feeling that the dude emailing me was impersonating the guy on the Facebook page. Like the dude on Facebook is asian, but he seems like a normal, not scumbag type dude.

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Originally posted by hilikuS:
Ugh, got like 3 emails from this dude today.

Found his facebook account though if you guys are interested. At least it had the same stuff on the account as it did in his email address, and he lives in Tallahassee.

When I was looking at it, I kind of got the feeling that the dude emailing me was impersonating the guy on the Facebook page. Like the dude on Facebook is asian, but he seems like a normal, not scumbag type dude.

EDIT: Not to imply that most asians are scumbags, but to imply that the guy emailing me was.

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This...

A fair amount of asians are perfectly normal people, but terribly slimey businessmen, like a Jekyll and Hyde kind of thing once you throw money on the table.

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Originally posted by Jazaray:
I really wish you lived here. I'm at my wits end and don't know what to do anymore.

Thanks,
Jazaray

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