I smell a bidding war...PET set-up

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:48 pm

Centallica wrote:What also sticks out as a potential "Shill Bidder" here are the bidders who have bid on the item all have bought from this seller before and this seller doesn't seem to specialize in anything particular to bring repeat business.

How did you ascertain that? I'm only seeing anonymous bidders.

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:09 pm

gklinger wrote:
Centallica wrote:What also sticks out as a potential "Shill Bidder" here are the bidders who have bid on the item all have bought from this seller before and this seller doesn't seem to specialize in anything particular to bring repeat business.
How did you ascertain that? I'm only seeing anonymous bidders.

Just click on their user ID and it'll tell you what percentage they have bidded on the seller before ie: l***e the top bidder has only 1 bid in this auction but 12% of his bids come from this seller.

I could be mistaken but it sure smells fishy to me but then again I could be like a "blind lesbian in a fish factory" confused too

We'll see and if not we can invite them all to Commodore Pet Alive forum

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:01 am

Centallica wrote:Just click on their user ID and it'll tell you what percentage they have bidded on the seller before ie: l***e the top bidder has only 1 bid in this auction but 12% of his bids come from this seller.

I also see l***e (70) as the top bidder with a single bid of $499.00 but I'm seeing them as having generated 3% of the bids. That fits because it shows them having made 33 bids on 31 items in the last 30 days. Perhaps you got mixed up with the #2 bidder who shows 12%?

I don't think there's any information that you can draw out of the anonymous bidders list. The auction still feels hinky though.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:00 am

Centallica, your new avatar is highly....um....distracting

.

Where in the world did you find that

?

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:57 am

ral-clan wrote:Centallica, your new avatar is highly....um....distracting .

Where in the world did you find that ?

Just a fan "loving" her SNES system

I wonder if she does retro event appearances

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:14 am

I know I've complained of your avatars being too large in the past, but in this case I think a higer res version might actually be appreciated

!

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:36 pm

ral-clan wrote:I know I've complained of your avatars being too large in the past, but in this case I think a higer res version might actually be appreciated !

I had a smaller version for the avitar at first but it did no justification to seeing what the name of the cart that was in the machine, so I went with a larger version instead

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:41 pm

Oh, I still can't read it. Is it some type of in-joke? Is this image posted anywhere (or do I really want to know?).

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:10 pm

The cartridge looks like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I don't get the reference either but I sure would like to insert my cartridge.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:12 pm

I just want to know how the photographer got the woman in the picture to do that and then take a picture (this photo doesn't look like a paid model / photographer's studio situation). I'd just get a punch in the face if I ever suggested that scenario to the women I know!

I think we need a link to a blowup of this one, Centallica!

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:26 pm

ral-clan wrote:I just want to know how the photographer got the woman in the picture to do that and then take a picture
(this photo doesn't look like a paid model / photographer's studio situation). I'd just get a punch in the face if I ever suggested that scenario to the women I know! I think we need a link to a blowup of this one, Centallica!

Yes, Golan is right...it's Zelda (which makes her even more HOT for choosing that game)

What don't all wives look like that and are waiting for us at the door like that when we get home from work

Try here for a larger picture:

http://s107351202.onlinehome.us/blahdoc ... _3251.jpeg

It's stolen from a fellow pinballer's Avitar off of MAACA...credit goes to "Gorydeath" not me for this one...I'm just "spreading" the love

PaulQ · Post by **PaulQ** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:14 pm

ral-clan wrote:I just want to know how the photographer got the woman in the picture to do that and then take a picture (this photo doesn't look like a paid model / photographer's studio situation). I'd just get a punch in the face if I ever suggested that scenario to the women I know!

Some men have a certain charisma where they can convince a woman to do anything to make him happy. Fewer of them lack the moral compass that prevents them from exploiting this. Evidently, you are not one of these men...but aren't we glad they exist!

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:58 am

Actually, I believe quite a lot of young women would pose on a such picture if they got paid, professional or not. Some would do it for free too, if they had faith it will leap them into professional photo business. Just look at all those "Am I hot or not" and whatever these sites are called. Teenagers who doesn't think twice before they flash their breasts and other body parts in front of the camera and post it on the Internet, in hope for fame and publicity.. which they often get, but not in the form they had anticipated.

Perhaps you and me don't know any girls or women who would volunteer to take a nude picture only covered with VIC-20 cartridges, but surely there is someone out there who would. I've seen a few other retro gaming soft porn pics, some Asian girl laying topless playing NES, a girl only wearing high heels sitting on top of a TRS-80 CoCo (taking a crap?) and so on.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:48 am

Whoah, I'm not sure I like the mix of retro computing and soft core porn (especially the taking a crap on a TRS part). But I suppose in light doses it can be fun.

But you guys are right that there are some men out there that have the charm (schmarm?) to convince women to do things very easily.

I had a female friend who I found out posed nude for an "artist photographer" fellow she knew. She said she felt flattered that he asked, I guess she liked to be considered beautiful enough to want to be photographed. She had to think about it, and did it. The fact that he had a "portfolio" of dozens of other women he had photographed like this, I guess, helped her feel that it wasn't just her doing it - i.e. if all these women could do it, she could too.

I'm just thinking - wow! I'm not even sure how serious of an "artist photographer" this guy really was - he had a modicum of talent evidently. Obviously he was onto something he realised was a good thing and continued with it - whatever his motives

. This guy just plain ASKS dozens of women to post nude and a great proportion do it. Holy crap, sometimes all it takes is the audacity to do something (heheheh) other people would consider outrageous!

I think there was some wine at the photo shoot and things went a little further (willingly) afterward, according to her description. I highly suspect that sequence of events wasn't entirely unplanned on the photographer's part, and that bottles of wine are a 'regular' feature at these shoots (or should I say pre-meditated seductions).

Centallica · Post by **Centallica** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:05 am

carlsson wrote:I've seen a few other retro gaming soft porn pics, some Asian girl laying topless playing NES, a girl only wearing high heels sitting on top of a TRS-80 CoCo (taking a crap?) and so on.

Gee Carlsson, even I haven't seen these types of pictures myself

You learn something new about members everyday

You just earned even more respect from me besides your computer talents