There is a known Ebay scam where you get a buddy to bid rediculously high on an item you are selling in hopes of enticing more bids. If your buddy "wins" the auction then you are only out the Ebay fees. But if any other sucker bids, you have some nice cash to split with your bud.
Oh, well...if you are vouching for them then it all must surely be on the up-n-up. :whist:
I wonder if the winners ended up paying more as a result of "buddy bids". Is there any way to research the runners-up of these auctions?
Last I saw, eBay disguises bidder's IDs so I don't thin so.
I frankly have little idea how you use it, because I don't use it any more than you do. It might be a very useful tool, but vBulletin makes it so 'non-obvious' that I usually forget it exists. If I scroll to the very top of the screen there's a tiny line about "Popular Seach Tags", and if I scroll to the very bottom there's some stuff about tags applied to the current thread. How one is supposed to search for non-popular tags is as mysterious to me as it is to you.
There's also at least one more "Wild Bill" in the ASL community, who I played a couple times on VASL years ago. I think he said his name really was Bill Hickok, though it's been a while.
I've never met WBW but from his various products (ASL and CM) I get the impression he's the type who is an idea man, with lots of passion behind his ideas, but not much of one for details. Sound about right?
That sounds about right to me. I have not met him in person but have corresponded with him via email, back when Tanks! and SP were band new. Back then he was very prolific in his scenario creations but not 100% always accurate. Same with the pre-ASL PTO stuff. You can view and reference his works or ideas in the old early OAF stuff.
Absolutely 100% impossible to do anything about that....
If you were serious and passionate about making ASL material, you wouldn't print a few copies for eBay sale, you'd figure a way to make more to sell and get them played. I think if you'd devoted the blood, sweat and tears that good design takes, you'd want the stuff played by people. WBW's entire approach does not seem to align with this desire. This is the part that makes the whole thing look wrong to me. I can't prove it, I don't mean to cast unfair aspersions, but it looks wrong.
Mebbe he's just doing it for laughs rather than hard business ??
<Shrug> Could be. I'm just saying why it looks bad to me (and others). I don't know anything. You seemed to say you couldn't see what the perceived issue was, so I was trying to explain why it looked bad to many of us, no more than that. I don't know him, I have bought none of his stuff, I don't have any interest in accusing him of wrongdoing, I was just trying to answer your query as to why it looks off. I still can't wrap my head around making something for laughs/passion/whatever and then intentionally limiting its distribution so drastically. But people do really weird stuff that I don't understand all the time. And I'm back to <Shrug>
