I'm familiar with this Stone but I can't recall the name or any history....any guesses?http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...07c17002a8.jpg
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I'm familiar with this Stone but I can't recall the name or any history....any guesses?http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...07c17002a8.jpg
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The item number is 351906465816 if you won't more pictures
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An interesting looking rock. Since it is an active ebay auction, and the item # is posted, I'm moving to the ebay forum.
My first impression, looking at all of the photos, was that it is a coticule. But I wouldn't swear to it. :thinking:
By looking at the auction its a Coticule I wouldn't get all excited about it since you can see some BBW showing on the top of the stone.
Here is a striped coticule I had and sold years ago. Glued to slate, not a natural. Was a recently harvested piece from Ardennes.
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La dressante? Really cool stone
If you mean mine I have no idea. This was before Bart began posting the names that Ardennes called the different veins. Whatever it is, it was a cool stone, and like a lot of other things, I probably should have hung onto it. ............. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
I'm going to be honest for some reason I was down for blowing that $300 to get this Stone (I never was the smartest cookie in the jar) but on the bright side hopefully now I have a chance...[emoji3]
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The person who kept bidding up the original listing and then retracted was a real you know what.... This is a constant problem on usa ebay. I flat out told him to cancel my bid or scuttle the listing because he exposed my high and then anyone could have spite bid me a penny below mine at the last second.... He completely tainted the whole listing... Having second thoughts is all well and good but they bid like well over a dozen times... So not right....
He is a decent guy (the seller). Apparently, he has had a bunch of buyers try to do really shady stuff to him recently... It's why we can't have nice things, they attract every bad element on there...
That "your bid is a contract" is a lot of malarkey. They don't enforce it, and AFAIK, they never did. Even if a buyer ends up 'winning' the auction, they can back out with no punitive consequences from ebay. It is a shame that they let people get away with that sort of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
I could care less about sellers pulling stunts, I can just never bid on their lots again..... That guy was @$!#/^& with me for no good reason..... Who the hell trolls an ebay listing for an old piece of rock..... Go troll espn.com's message boards or something.....
It's not like he just dumped some silly max nobody was trumping.... It was very deliberate... At least the guy on uk ebay that skews every coti listing being excessively bullish is actually paying...
This is all new to me. It definitely makes me think.
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It proves how their screwing with the feedback system where leaving anything but a positive is damn near impossible screws our ability to screen buyers.... And this guy won't get a non paying bidder strike to boot so that filter you can turn on for 2 strikes in a stretch of time loses teeth...
I am so po about it.... It was such a time waste. Especially since I let other listings slide as I was keying on that end date. Obviously, someone could have dropped some savage snipe at the end but he screwed with any ability to strategize...Quote:
Originally Posted by aaron1234
Out of curiosity how did you find out all of this
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Like that seller is so flustered he is considering stopping with ebay sales. He has had a lot of problems with buyers... It's sad because it isn't just him and that is much needed supplemental income for some ppl in this world
I messaged him demanding an explanation like any sane adult would do. To his credit he was very straight up. I think he even says that in the new listing in q and a... There was no going forward as it was anymore, at least not for me... I was completely exposedQuote:
Originally Posted by aaron1234
At least now I could just put a solid bid and if I decide I want to put the Saturn 5 rocket on the launch pad for the moonshot I can without feeling like it's futile
Btw, if there has never been an advertisement for srp classifieds or just buying from srd or a no bs vendor here you go.... I miss the glory days when names were posted with the bids vs all of these nonsense bid charts which aren't even time accurate
I just read that I have been a member on the bay since 98.... That is crazy to me. I remember in the old days anyone could leave anyone feedback even if you never dealt so ppl were negging ppl for sniping them at the end of auctions. The wild west days
Well, I won which is nice after that entire fiasco. That went cheaply imo. It was a prime case of a seller shooting himself in the foot by posting a message from a bidder who offered up some really terribly incorrect information about coticules along with his own oil post at the end making it sound as if the stone were sweating oil which it most definitely was not... If you asked him for the photos of the clean stone he took but couldn't ul it clarified a lot.
I was going to bid on it but after reading what he did I guess you can say I got cold feet...[emoji53] and congratulations on the score, I hope the stone serves you well[emoji106] [emoji3]Quote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
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The seller didn't do anything wrong, this is an ebay issue. Ebay does not do nearly enough to punish those who play games with sellers, meanwhile, they supposedly screen our private messages for keywords which may indicate they're losing out.... Just more lack of catering to your clients on all fronts...
That makes more sense. for some reason it sounded like you where saying that he told another bidder what you bids where.Quote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
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Nooo.. The guy bidding was bidding me all the way to my max and one ping past, then once he thought I was not bidding again retracted his lead bid so anyone watching saw my max. Anyone who wanted could have spite bid me a penny beneath my max if they wished... If it is a listing that is running clean and you win with your max by a penny, great, but to win by some pointed bid at the last second when you know everyone watching it saw that number that is well out of order.
Wow...Definitely something to pay attention to in the future!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
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He was pretty stand up to just scrap the listing...
It was nice to win.... My luck in open listings is absolutely horrid... I am the guy who could bid $800 on a rare straight worth probably 700 and still lose. It's warped but it's happened multiple times to me
That's good. The thing that bugs me is that the only person to benefit from that is the seller. Sounds like a new eBay scam to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
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Here it is stain free. I won't have it till friday. Tbh with you, I am more interested in the back of it.
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Out of curiosity why?
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Not really... A lot of us would rather have liquidity vs two or three weeks of cat and mouse
I think there is a decent chance it is a hybrid layer. I will know pretty quickly if it is that or just a different vein
For me it stunk because I let other things pass to crank my max to an amount I theorized left a flipper no profit potential whatsoever in an ebay listing after all fees were paid...
After I backed down in went on a fling. Multiple thuringians, slates, and a possible llyn idwal all under 25 a pice [emoji2] [emoji106]Quote:
Originally Posted by kcb5150
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