Outraged too!!!

Auction Sniper shafted me too! They did not place my bids at all. Beware of these people!!!

I placed a few support calls last week for the same reason, and was advised to bid manually for now. They are working on it. I just hope they will let us know when we can use it again. For now I have been using another sniper, but Auction sniper is far better when it works, so I will certainly return.

I think it would help everybody if you three explained what happened.

I don't use BidGroups (which AS have admitted they were having problems with) and every single snipe of mine for the past three months has been placed correctly.

Don't be offended by the first question - its just to establish if you have reasonable sniping experience. (all of you have low scores on the forum, but that doesn't mean your not an experienced sniper)


1. How long have you been using AS?
2. How many Snipes have you placed in the past two months.
3. How many failed?
4. If they failed
a) Time? Day?
b) Country good was located in?
c) Country you are located in.

Do you use:
5 a) Toolbar link to place snipes?
b) Through your Sniper Account here?

If we can have information from people who are having Snipes missed, then perhaps we can spot a pattern. I know you are all annoyed & disapointed, but it would help all of us to try and see if there was a pattern to it.

All we can advise at the moment is don't use BidGroups, but if you can supply some facts to go on, other things to avoid may emerge.

Paul

I have been using AS for about 5 months.
I have placed approx. 500+ snipes.
4 have failed as of now, as for tomorrow probably more.
latest was midnight, prior to that was one daytime and 2 about 7 pm.
located in US
I am in US
No toolbar used
Placed snipes through my account, used a bid group.
I was never told not to use a bidgroup! In fact support has not told me anything except thet are sorry. I know the problem is that they upgraded something somewhere, and it all fell apart. Now they can't go back to what they had that did work. So we all suffer.

Trainguy

Thank you for that comprehensive reply.

We had the only published official advice from "on high" last week and that there was a problem with bid groups.

Try and avoid Bid Groups if you can and see if all goes well.

Thanks for your appraisal - if you look a lot of "complaints" have been very angry (raving even) people with no background.

My little suspicious mind would not put it past competitors having a go to discredit AS.

Success always breeds envy (& probably bad behaviour!)

Now lets hear from some of the other posters here. If you are genuine, step forward please.

Paul

Hmm - bid groups not working but AS still lets users use 'em. As they say on the Simpsons: DOH!

R2

quote:

Originally posted by Camera:
1. How long have you been using AS?
2. How many Snipes have you placed in the past two months.
3. How many failed?
4. If they failed
a) Time? Day?
b) Country good was located in?
c) Country you are located in.

Do you use:
5 a) Toolbar link to place snipes?
b) Through your Sniper Account here?

Good questions, and idea, Camera. Hopefully they will get a better response.

quote:

Originally posted by Camera:
Thanks for your appraisal - if you look a lot of "complaints" have been very angry (raving even) people with no background.

My little suspicious mind would not put it past competitors having a go to discredit AS.

It's somewhat tempting to be of a similar mind.

quote:

Originally posted by trainguy:
I know the problem is that they upgraded something somewhere, and it all fell apart.

I’m not suggesting you’re wrong, but perhaps you wouldn’t mind sharing how you “know” that? Just 10 hours earlier you posted in another thread, “I would bet money that they upgraded software or hardware and they can't go back to version that works.” In that 10-hour earlier post, you appeared to be speculating as to the cause of the problem. Did support provide you with some additional details during those 10 hours?

quote:

Originally posted by trainguy (from another thread):
AS shafted me and I's sure they will get the rest of you soon. DO NOT TRUST IT.

Originally posted by trainguy (from another thread):
All of us are getting the royal shafting from AS support and they don't know what is wrong or they could/would fix it.

Originally posted by trainguy (from another thread):
Leave this disaster now and all of us go somewhere else.

I guess the uniqueness of AS having a forum, allows a certain amount of subjective venting. Perhaps, and this is just off the top of my head, if AS were as bad as it is suggested by the above quotes, they need only close down the forum.

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It's somewhat tempting to be of a similar mind.

Rick I don't know if you have the statistics, but how many of these "outraged" AS is not working outbursts over the past two months have come from "members" of the forum with under ten posts?

Is it possible that if all the regular people here have no problems, then it may just be a couple of "malcontents" "taking the p***"

Any regulars with problems?

Can AS staff identify if these people are genuine customers?

Paul

quote:

Originally posted by Camera:
Rick I don't know if you have the statistics, but how many of these "outraged" AS is not working outbursts over the past two months have come from "members" of the forum with under ten posts?

Camera,

It would be interesting to exam what has happened in the last two months, but that’s too much data even for someone as obsessive as myself. And, as a compounding problem, there’s the difficulty of what one would consider “outraged”. I’d rather not get into a situation where I point out those that I consider “have been naughty or nice”.

I will note that those 3, or 4, members that *I* would consider “outraged” members, that have posted since yesterday, have all only registered for the forum in last 30 hours or so. One additional user did have a registration date 3 months old, but only had one non-deleted post. Considering the posts prior to the last 30 hours, the level of frequency seems to have increased substantially, but perhaps that can be explained by “Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon”.

This line of reasoning is typical of the responses I've got from AS Support in the past. It's hard to tell whether you guys are paid AS stooges or unpaid sycophants.

The idea that our competence to evaluate defective software is somehow related to our number of posts on this forum is laughable. Most AS users have lives, which is why we use AS (when it works): you load up your maximum bids once a week and forget about it. It's both sad and funny to see a grown man with 14000 posts on this forum-- do you really have nothing better to do?

As for AS, it's still probably the best we've got. It's a little flakey, and it's been intermittently unreliable for me for a couple of years. I bet most other users would say the same. However, in the last couple of months, it's been downright bizarre, and I think it's lost me a couple of good deals.

Yesterday I got a win at a very good price, $290 for a camera that should have cost $400. I wonder if it's because all the other AS bids failed to fire!

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Originally posted by Mr. Natural:
The idea that our competence to evaluate defective software is somehow related to our number of posts on this forum is laughable.

And, I, and I assume what constitutes “you guys”, would be the first to laugh if anyone suggested that. But those who have only recently registered for this forum and leave a couple of posts saying that AS is shafting everyone (and other dramatic statements), might (I said, “might”) be an indication of paid stooges or unpaid sycophants for another sniping service, just like the supposition that there are paid *AS* stooges or unpaid sycophants on this forum.

quote:

Originally posted by Mr. Natural:
Most AS users have lives . . .

Anyone selling timeshares?

And this is exactly the reason that I normally do not sign up for forums and guess should not have done it this time either. The insults being thrown around by those who have been here "longer" are exactly the reason why these forums are really not worth the time and effort. Next time there is a "problem" I will gladly keep it to myself. Enjoy slamming each other around here, but I will not be a part of it.

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The insults being thrown around by those who have been here "longer"

inkyc

I have "thrown" no insults at you. Neither has Rick.

I simply asked for you to participate in an "off the cuff" survey into the problem. As I have some experience of academic research, I felt that was an essential pre-requisite.

I am deeply suspicious of those with few posts who come barging in here shouting "foul". It doesn't take an Einstein to realise that they might be just be a "wee bit" biased!

You did not. You simply stated you had a problem, which you expressed in a reasonable fashion without ranting.

Many who contribute here are, in other walks of life, reasonably proficient in IT as well as "sniping". We can only offer our help if we understand the problem. So what is yours?

quote:

are paid AS stooges or unpaid sycophants.

Mr Natural,

I normally don't reply to the ignorant, but in your case I'll make an exception.

I think it is time in your life that, for once, you learnt that storming in mouthing insults just indicates a lack of education, manners & breeding.

I insulted nobody, least of all you. My only aim was to attempt to help those having a degree of trouble. It may also amaze you to learn that I have never even gained a single "free snipe" in my years here!

It may surprise you that Rick's posting score has been largely gained trying to help people having difficulties with AS. It is on record that Rick & I do not see eye to eye on many things, but I think to be condemned & derided for being public spirited is "below the belt".

I see, from your record of contributions on this forum, that you certainly don't believe in assisting those in trouble.

I duly note that you now are having problems.

Well they certainly couldn't have come to a nicer chap.

I hope the challenge of surmounting them will give you a reasonable intellectual challenge. While you're at it, perhaps a brief study of the ground rules of behaviour would not go amiss.

Certainly, I think you will probably find your quality of life will improve if you start making friends rather than enemies!

Paul

I must agree with Paul on this one - having looked at some of this diatribe with amusement, I have to say "methinks they doth protest too much."

I, too, suspect that some of the low-numbered persons that rant and rave are maybe doing it for a reason?

C'mon, would anyone really get in such a state by losing a bid?

It is very unlikely, as well, that any software of the least importance cannot be reverted to a previous version, all or part.

Hi Super Snipers,
Well, I used BidGroups because I didnt know about these problems.
Could you tell when these problems will be solved? Next days, weeks or months?
I dont like it to bid one by one item.

1. How long have you been using AS?
since I am a ebay memeber (ca. 1 year)
2. How many Snipes have you placed in the past two months.
This is my first action since november 2005.
6 items in my bidgroup. All auctions are over, but status is activ.
3. How many failed? 3. Nobody else have bidden. Auction Sniper haven not bidden for me, too.
4. If they failed
a) Time? Day?
No. 8784947804 End Time 26.Mrz.06 17:08:36 My Snipe EUR 7,00, Delay 5, Not sold
No. 8783750776 End Time 26.Mrz.06 17:23:01 My Snipe EUR 2,88 Delay 5 Not sold
No. 8783753938 End Time 26.Mrz.06 17:30:00 My Snipe EUR 7,17 Delay 5 Sold for EUR 6,61
No. 8785007422 End Time 26.Mrz.06 18:41:01 My Snipe EUR 3.16 Delay 5 Not sold
b) Country good was located in? Germany
c) Country you are located in. Germany
Do you use:
5 a) Toolbar link to place snipes? No
b) Through your Sniper Account here? Yes
Additionally I get a email for Item # 8269858292 with the false texture: Sammy Hagar The Essential Red Collection CD NEW SEALED, Your maximum bid is US $1.61. The current minimum bid is US $4.25 w...
But the link is correct to my item.

Oh, is there a special topic to solve the bidgroup problems? Then put me throw, please.
Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Tama

Tamagott,

Thankyou for your posting.

None of us here are official representatives. Despite the insults hurled by some at us for being "stooges" we can only observe & comment.

It does look like there is a major problem with Bidgroups. From what you say the problem is ongoing and unfixed.

In fact the situation remains as it was eight days ago:
" From : Sniper Sara B.
AuctionSniper Support
Posted March 20, 2006 10:51 PM
I wouldn't use bidgroups for now. Other than that bids are being placed properly."

There are no authenticated reports of ordinary snipes failing other than the usually complainants who try and cut the time down to below the acceptable minimum. (i.e about 8-10secs)

So use it within its limitations and current Bid Group problems and it is a good tool. If you wish to fish in "dangerous waters" i.e risk take, then its down to you.

I personally think that AS should block all further Bid Groups and say "until fixed" and say 10 seconds is the minimum allowed on normal bidding. Everybody would then know exactly where they were.

It think it is better to achieve a result 100% of the time with 80% of the functionality! At least the "ravers" could go and trouble some other unfortunate provider of software and we could all go back to our mundane lives!

Paul

I did some research. For those that aren’t interested, I would advise that you skip this post.



The three days before March 25 (72-hour period), there were a total of 25 posts (regulars and others) – none of these posts would be what I would consider irrational, or vindictive, or whatever wording one feels comfortable with, complaints.

Then, on March 25th, there were a total of 15 posts. In an 11.5-hour period on March 25th, 3 different member-ID's (all registered on March 25th) left 6 posts, which fall outside of what I would call rational venting.

Since Camera’s 3/26 post where he said, “My little suspicious mind would not put it past competitors having a go to discredit AS.”, there has been 26 posts, none have been what I would classify as beyond normal venting.

As an additional curiosity, sometime after Camera’s 3/26 post, one of these 3 member-ID's deleted one of their more emotional posts, and another one deleted the only post they left.

I not claiming anything in this post – just pointing out that if nothing else, there was at a minimum, some unusual coincidences taking place on the 25th. Perhaps it was just some critical mass, or herd instinct, or some other benign explanation.

I have a feeling most everyone would like to get back to discussions about sniping auctions instead of sniping each other.



P.S. For whatever it’s worth, I do not, nor did not, consider inkyc as one of the 3.

I used Pacific Time to determine days/dates.

quote:

I don't know if you have the statistics, but how many of these "outraged" AS is not working outbursts over the past two months have come from "members" of the forum with under ten posts?

Is it possible that if all the regular people here have no problems, then it may just be a couple of "malcontents" "taking the p***"

Any regulars with problems?

I noticed that, as well, and no, I have not had any problems.

quote:

Originally posted by trainguy:
I have been using AS for about 5 months.
I have placed approx. 500+ snipes.
4 have failed as of now, as for tomorrow probably more.
latest was midnight, prior to that was one daytime and 2 about 7 pm.
located in US
I am in US
No toolbar used
Placed snipes through my account, used a bid group.
I was never told not to use a bidgroup! In fact support has not told me anything except thet are sorry. I know the problem is that they upgraded something somewhere, and it all fell apart. Now they can't go back to what they had that did work. So we all suffer.

The reason that I know this is the computer techs that work programming the computers where I work are always reprogramming the system because they did something and it crashed a part of the program. The correction then crashes another part and so on. AS has in the past been the best program out there and extremely reliable. I will use AS a little longer in hopes that they get it fixed. It does need a lot of work because the free snipes aren't working and bid groups, as well as; email notifications. Now I would like to suggest that you "Rick" fess up and admit that you work for AS. If you really don't I would suggest that you go outside and get a life.

quote:

Originally posted by trainguy:
The reason that I know this is the computer techs that work programming the computers where I work are always reprogramming the system because they did something and it crashed a part of the program.

Still speculation on your part. It could be possible, and maybe even probable, but it’s still conjecture. Only argument I have is with “I know” instead of “My guess”. Such phrases, for me, are a measurement of how accurate, or inaccurate, one tries to be.

quote:

Originally posted by trainguy:
Now I would like to suggest that you "Rick" fess up and admit that you work for AS. If you really don't I would suggest that you go outside and get a life.

The former is incorrect, but the later, although a cliché (twice in just this one thread), is at least accurate. In fact, I lead such a dull life that I had to pay someone to steal my identity.

Initially, I more than like placed my comments in the incorrect forum heading. I have yet to hear anything from Auction Sniper in reference to my Delimma

In reference to the comments about the OUTRAGED Comments. I left the Initial Outraged Post on March 21, 2006 9:40 PM.

I've been an eBay user since 1999. I've been an Auction Sniper user since 2002. And have amassed over 170 snipes using Auction Sniper, with no Problem.

I've never had a need to use the online Forum for anything other than Hard to Find merchandise I was searching. Seeking Auction Sniper Community Assistance in helping to locate certain merchandise.

Many of the Comments about a MODI OPERANI
of So Called Outraged Posters with less than 10 Comments are not Credible!!!

To That I Say. Simply Disingenuous and Self Aggrandizing by Myopic Contributors of this Forum. I'll assure you my Post was Legitimate and Credible. I have no need to use this Forum. Unless a Problem Exist. I am a Corporate Identity Consultant/Designer. As well, author on said Subject Matter. I also write on well known Design Blogs in reference to said Subject Matter.

Any Frustration I vented was Levied at eBay!!!

If there was a problem with Auction Sniper and I commented on the problem with less than 10 post that wouldn't make my Comment any less Genuine.

If there is any Machination with Disseminating Information within this forum, it is those that are Self Aggrandizing and Pointing the Finger at others with Legitimate Concerns.

I emphatically stated when I posted the copy of my Dialog with an eBay Live Chat Support Person. eBay was the BLAME for me Losing my Auction because they changed my PASSWORD after sending them a Phising Scam to Spoof@eBay.com.

Changing the PASSWORD, meaning rendering my Accounts with eBay, Pay Pal and Auction Sniper unusable.

The Bid I placed with Auction Sniper for the item I'd been waiting to Purchase via eBay for six years was not recognized by Auction Sniper because my User Account was not Authenticated by the System. eBay rendered my account unusable.

As a Renowned Collector of Corporate Identity and Design Ephemera. There are those Rare once in a Lifetime Pristine Mint Condition items only found on eBay. Such was the case with my Auction that I lost.

The Hardest Thing To See Is What Is In Front Of Your Eyes.

Van Goethe

cat"n"thahat

eBay user name, uncle_baba

quote:

Originally posted by cat"n"thahat:
Initially, I more than like placed my comments

Eh? Me no understand sentence!

quote:

Many of the Comments about a MODI OPERANI

Mmmm.....I think our local Italian restaurant does a great one of these!

quote:

I emphatically stated when I posted the copy of my Dialog with an eBay Live Chat Support Person. eBay was the BLAME for me Losing my Auction because they changed my PASSWORD after sending them a Phising Scam to Spoof@eBay.com.

Was the password change not due to the "Phising" [sic] scam? I have never known, and cannot see why, thet eBay would change anyone's password unless they informed you.

The poster roller thingy - it would be very easy to make one, or is this a collectible item?
Would you display it? I am interested!

What's With All The Capitals? I am sure we can coin something for this - cf SHOUTING / whispering

deleted

I won't even bother replying to that, except that I find it fascinating how people can hurl insults at total strangers whilst insulated by cyberspace.
Comments, anyone?

Mike aka Perce P Cassidy

PS - You'd be surprised what my thumbs get up to - sorry no square jaw, and only IQ of 154.

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A Neanderthal with your Limited Perspicacity wouldn't.

Unfortunately, the English language is full of traps for the unwary and you have fallen straight into one! What you really meant was "astuteness" for this is the more modern and generally accepted word. Using "Perspicacity" in the same sense really shows that you have been reading too much Trollope! It may have been common parlance in the mid 1850s in Barsetshire, but it has since fallen from general use.

"MODI OPERANI"
I must add a note of caution about the use of Latin here. Rick, known to us for his respected position of "Praetor Peregrinus" of this board, was sent to a preparatory school at a very early age and forced to learn both Latin & Greek. He is very, very "picky" about the correct usage of of Latin on this forum and has taken me to task several times, in no uncertain terms, for its misuse. So beware, for he will probably descend from Mount Olympus and smite you with a thunderbolt! I think the expression you wanted was infact "MODUS OPERANDI"

Now turning to your definition of poor old Mike as a "Neanderthal" That is very cruel sir. There is so much social deprivation in Yorkshire that insults like that hit hard! Living there must, at times, be hell on earth. All the streets are cobbled, the houses back to back (thats how the Mill Owners built them in the 1840s) and the mill chimneys blast soot from morn till night. A privy in the garden, most of them still don't have running water (they use a street standpipe!) His wife uses a mangle to squeeze the clothes dry by the light of a parafin light at night as they don't have electricity as yet.

He works a 16 hour day at the local mill, as do his children and it is very difficult to make do on the basic wage of $9 a week. In fact much of the coinage is the mill owner's own and is only exchangeable for use in the company shop (look up truck system)

So next time you boast of your achievements as a "Identity Consultant/Designer"
spare a thought for those not at your exalted status in life!

your 'umble servant sire,

Paul Uriah Camera
East Cheam

Ps. Mike, will you or I, explain about the date?
I also gather they don't do irony, so the whole point will be missed! Shame!

quote:

Originally posted by Camera:

quote:

A Neanderthal with your Limited Perspicacity wouldn't.

Unfortunately, the English language is full of traps for the unwary and you have fallen straight into one! What you really meant was "astuteness" for this is the more modern and generally accepted word. Using "Perspicacity" in the same sense really shows that you have been reading too much Trollope! It may have been common parlance in the mid 1850s in Barsetshire, but it has since fallen from general use.

I always thought it was one of the characters in "Ray's a Laugh" on the Light Programme in the 1950s!

quote:

Now turning to your definition of poor old Mike as a "Neanderthal" That is very cruel sir. There is so much social deprivation in Yorkshire that insults like that hit hard! Living there must, at times, be hell on earth. All the streets are cobbled, the houses back to back (thats how the Mill Owners built them in the 1840s) and the mill chimneys blast soot from morn till night. A privy in the garden, most of them still don't have running water (they use a street standpipe!) His wife uses a mangle to squeeze the clothes dry by the light of a parafin light at night as they don't have electricity as yet.

He works a 16 hour day at the local mill, as do his children and it is very difficult to make do on the basic wage of $9 a week.

It is a bit better now the kids sweep chimneys in the evening, tha knows!
Makes it easier to get food for the ferrets and whippets.

quote:

So next time you boast of your achievements as a "Identity Consultant/Designer"
spare a thought for those not at your exalted status in life!

Mmmmm - Anne Robinson would love that.......

quote:

Paul Uriah Camera
East Cheam

Ps. Mike, will you or I, explain about the date?

We'll let him look up "Poisson d'Avril" on Gooooogle.

quote:

I also gather they don't do irony, so the whole point will be missed! Shame!

Verily!

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ferrets

I most humbly beg your apology for not mentioning them. Indeed I do know most true Yorkshiremen keep a couple permanently in their coat pockets!

Not many cave dwellers left on the moors these days, but I expect you still have a favourite spot for wild boar hunting.

Didn't the thieves litany say
"From Hell, Hull, and Halifax may the Good Lord deliver us!"

I spent three pleasant years in Hull learning about "strange Yorkshire customs" (you can tell that by my learned discourse on life in present day Yorkshire!)


Paul

As a longtime occasional sniper, always with AS, who has just recently registered to use the message boards, something strikes me about the complaints issue which I haven't yet seen mentioned.

Unlike your stockbroker, who makes money on your trading whether you do or not, AS makes money only when you win your auction. I therefore fail to understand the ranting from people convinced that AS "screwed" them because their bid failed to fire. AS can't "screw" anybody in this way without first screwing themselves. It's not just a customer service issue: It's the very mechanics of how they make their money. So no one should be more motivated than AS to fix any of these problems, real or perceived.

Is this not so, or am I missing something here? Regardless of what else may be going on, it would seem that this needs to be kept in mind.

quote:

Unlike your stockbroker, who makes money on your trading whether you do or not, AS makes money only when you win your auction. I therefore fail to understand the ranting from people convinced that AS "screwed" them because their bid failed to fire. AS can't "screw" anybody in this way without first screwing themselves. It's not just a customer service issue: It's the very mechanics of how they make their money. So no one should be more motivated than AS to fix any of these problems, real or perceived.

Nothing like a newbie to the board to point out the unassailably obvious!

WELCOME!

quote:

Originally posted by Camera:

quote:

ferrets

I most humbly beg your apology for not mentioning them. Indeed I do know most true Yorkshiremen keep a couple permanently in their coat pockets!

Ah, but that may be that I am not a Yorkshireman, Paul!
I originate from the West Country (smock, scrumpy, straw in mouth) but have been called a "proxy Yorkshireman" - at least, that is what I think he said - I distinctly heard the "r".
Just down the road from here is the pub that them thur Luddites used to meet in.

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Not many cave dwellers left on the moors these days, but I expect you still have a favourite spot for wild boar hunting.

Nearest we get are the delicious ostrich burgers from the farmers' markets.

quote:

Didn't the thieves litany say
"From Hell, Hull, and Halifax may the Good Lord deliver us!"

I spent three pleasant years in Hull learning about "strange Yorkshire customs" (you can tell that by my learned discourse on life in present day Yorkshire!)

Paul

Not my favourite place, but useful if heading for Europoort or Zeebrugge. Quickly.

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ostrich burgers from the farmers' markets

Being very much a small farm area and all that means in terms of economics, they have always always been quite innovative. Ostriches, Llamas etc. However, all that seems to be on the wane now - narry a local Ostrich or Ostrich burger in sight! Obviously not the success they had hoped for.

On another, but distinctly related tack, whenever you go into a restaurant or pub these days I find I am offered a huge range of exotic fish I have never heard of!

Hull is much maligned. I have never been a lover of the town, but it is so easy to get into the countryside (I finally moved to Cottingham) and Hornsea was our favourite evening destination.

As a West Country man, you will then like to follow a story from the West Country that, so far, hasn't got an ending! (unless you know the policeman of course or can recognise the village) I posted it first in Amateur Photographers Forum, but the Devon and Cornwall Police are now investigating! (needless to say Im not the athletic student beside the Penny Farthing, though the 1932 Daimler was mine!)

Paul

P.S. Welcome Songster - it makes such a change to have a "non-complaint" come aboard! Also one who makes such a wise and obvious remark that the rest of us missed it (probably the result of us living in caves!)

quote:

Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
I won't even bother replying to that, except that I find it fascinating how people can hurl insults at total strangers whilst insulated by cyberspace.
Comments, anyone?

At least you got some originality - I had to look up “perspicacity”. And, the “opposable thumbs” thing was clever. All *I* ever get is a “Get a life”.

An observation – some were accused of working/shilling for another sniping service and some were accused of working/shilling for AS (all in the same thread). Not sure if that’s an insight into the meaning of life – at least I hope not.



P.S. Is an IQ of 154 a good thing or a bad thing or a normal thing? I know that single-digit IQ's are to be avoided, as are single-digit hand signals.

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good thing or a bad thing or a normal thing

I guess your average person would say its neither a bad thing nor a good thing - about 50:50 really.

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All *I* ever get is a “Get a life”.

Its just envy really Rick. Whilst they sit at their desks, slaving away designing new logos for corporate re-identities (have you noticed the new one always looks like the one they ditched twenty years earlier?) there's you lying on your sun lounger on deck drinking the bright blue stuff (can't remember the name) looking at the other yachts in the Marina (& the passing blondes in their bikinis) thinking I wonder if I'll bother to answer that question on the AS board now, or`after another drink!

Its a hard life Rick, on an inherited fortune in Monaco, but nobody can say you'r not public spirited with it!

Paul

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Nearest we get are the delicious ostrich burgers from the farmers' markets.

Do tell! What DOES an ostrich burger taste like??? I'd be inclined to try it given the opportunity, provided the cost was halfway reasonable (if it costs much more than steak, I'll just have the steak, please! )

Smoked ostrich is to die for – well, it’s to live for.

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Originally posted by Camera:

quote:

All *I* ever get is a “Get a life”.

Its just envy really Rick.

It’s not envy, Paul – it really is one of the few accurate personal comments made on this forum. It just pisses me off that they can’t put a little more effort into it. I don’t mind a put-down; it’s the repetition that’s unnerving. Now the Van Goethe quote was good. “Sycophant” was excellent – always like to see a word that’s not in common use.

As a side note – I typically prefer these kinds of posts from Brits. I can feel that a certain level of respect and caring was put into it – like I’m at least dueling with a gentleman.

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Shouldn't you be doing more with your opposable thumbs,....

Getting in a little late on the Neanderthal thumb aspect of this discussion, but was just wondering -- how many opposable thumbs does a chipanzee have???

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$10 says its the Big Chief again wearing a different war paint!

Any takers?


Paul