Bad Trader: Onslaught Six

[Onslaught Six]

Yeah, you all know why, too.

[onslaught86]

FIIIIVE YEEEAAAARS

[/EnerMegs]

[Dominic]

We can let this thread stand, as this has been a long-running joke here.

But, it is best to keep this area free of silliness as much as possible. Too many joke warnings may dilute the importance of real warnings.

Dom
-is actually here to post a real warning.

[Onslaught Six]

It's true though, I am a horrible trader in that respect. Though I am going to get a small MiniLot out to 86 this week sometime. Really!

For those who don't know the story, sometime back in 2003, 86 and Pcm979 wanted to buy a Beast Machines toy lot from eBay. 86, as we know, lives in New Zealand while Pcm lived in China at the time. The seller of the Lot was here in America, where I am. The Lot was already costing the both of them a chunk of change, so they figured it would be cheaper for them to have the seller ship to Me, and then I would send the individual toys to 86 and Pcm, taking on the cost of the shipping for myself. The key was that I would get a fraction of the toys for myself to make up for paying the shipping. An additional deal was in place between me and Pcm--basically he bought two Korean Big Convoys and I'd chuck one in with his bit of the Lot.

Everything was well and good. I got the Lot and took out my share, and also had a good fiddle with the other toys in it too, took some photos, and so on. And then...well, I never sent it. I guess I never had the money or I was just too lazy to do it, but I never sent the two portions.

86 kept badgering me almost daily for me to send it, and I actually blame that for the reason he and I talk nearly every day now. He ended up with a few of the toys from the Lot itself just from buying them for himself and being fed up with me not sending it, eheheh. Pcm disappeared at some point and that's really the last we know of him.

I *did* actually gather up some of the toys from the Lot and send a smaller MiniLot like two years ago, which was cool. I'm setting up to do another one soonish, with the Boxed Deep Space Starscream in there too. So maybe I can get rid of this status at some point. Woo!

[Gomess]

Heh. Authorised Hilarity.

...I wish I still wanted to found a punk fusion band.

[CrossRook]

Yes, don't trade with O6. But I thought that was in the site's rules and regulations that everyone reads when they join a website, install new software or otherwise accept outside code into their system?

What? You don't?

[BWprowl]

Oh God, JT, you should totally see if you can add some 'Don't trade with O6' language to the signup rules and regulations here!

[Onslaught Six]

I support this.

[shinobi77]

hmmm......while that trade comes first, I remember a certain Cobra Commander.....*ahem*

anyways, for the longest time, I still had you beat, I am truthfully winner and champion of world ping pong shipping.

Pcm had bought me a complete Metroplex from ebay, in return for a RiD prime and some menial beast bots.

Well, the seller had sent metro all the way over to him to Hong Kong, instead of myself, so Pcm had sent it back to me here in the states.
grand, great, beautiful.

I packaged up his things, filled out the forms, etc, sent it out, and it came back, stating "no known address" and well, it was kinda my fault, I didn't write the addy in the correct manner I think, so, I repacked it, and sent it out again, to have it come back again, no known address.......sent out...etc....

It was during this time, that his dad had died in a car accident, and had been offline for months. I had asked him if he ever got the box, being months later and the box never showed up back here, so I assumed it had been delivered, to which he replied no, and that he had moved, HALF WAY AROUND THE GLOBE BACK TO ENGLAND!!!!!!!

to which, I asked, isn't there some sort of forwarding service? to which he replied, yeah, what was the addy I had put on the box. So I gave him the addy, he asked the name I put on it, to which I replied P. Mitchell, to which I am quoted as saying the biggest oops in the world, as the last name was actually Marshall, (or vice versa, still can't remember if its Mitchell or Marshall). So, some dude in Hong Kong had a box of TF's most likely show up at his door, to which he probably kept for the kids or something.....
Well, after finding him, and getting his new addy, I ended up buying another Ridimus from a guy in Canada, to which, the bugger didn't show up for ages, I bought one from a dude in England, that shipped it straight to PCM for me, to which the last time I saw him, he said he did get it, but, because of everything I went through to get it to him, to forget the other bots, and thanks.

So, last known whereabouts of our good friend Pcm, is south England somewhere. Staffordshire I or something like that. We should get our buddy Gomess to poke him and see how he is.

as for the Canadian Rid, I did get it, many months later......so I now have two Ridimus, one for Omega Prime, the other for Ridimus supah moadoh.

[Onslaught Six]

hmmm......while that trade comes first, I remember a certain Cobra Commander.....*ahem*

Eventually! I haven't been avoiding you for years for nothing, after all! >.>

Haven't heard anything from PCM in aaaages. The weird thing is, every so often he'll pop on MSN for literally two seconds. I've googled his username once or twice, and turned up some profiles on other forums, but who knows what's up.