Runs on eBay?

2005-12-30 12:22:43 am

I'm addicted to games

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I provided all of that. I then received a call from G4's legal department, and they said they would remove all speed runs along with my Zelda run (because I did say more would follow suit after I did).

That's all it took.

What was the date of this phone call and how come you didn't mention it in the speedruns on tv thread?

Lam6ch0p

2005-12-30 12:47:57 am

$inner

This guy must've skipped school altogether

TSA

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TSA: 2005-12-30 12:55:23 am

2005-12-30 12:55:13 am

Retired

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What was the date of this phone call and how come you didn't mention it in the speedruns on tv thread?

Because I forgot about that thread? I'll check my phone bill to give you the exact date/time of the call when it arrives, but please remind me of it.

Radix

2005-12-30 01:04:43 am

I'm addicted to games

The phone company lists calls that were made to you on your bill? :-/

marshmallow

2005-12-30 01:16:46 am

Jack of all Trades

No one is going to sell my runs unless I get a cut. But then, who would buy runs when you can get them for free? It's almost like a scam.

TSA

2005-12-30 01:23:36 am

Retired

You must use a bad phone service Radix...

Most companies include with your usage report/bill:

All calls made
Time call made
# called
Length of call
Location the call was made to

And also, who called you with all the above info.

Radix

2005-12-30 01:35:08 am

I'm addicted to games

I guess if you have a cell phone maybe, but I don't. I only see the calls I made. China could call me and it doesn't show up on the bill.

SkippyJr

StrangenessDSS

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StrangenessDSS: 2005-12-31 01:34:20 pm

2005-12-30 03:35:53 am

Signboard of Hyrule

Revenge of the Hylia indeed. Smiley

I dug up some info on our new friend.

He runs www.pcgeekonline.com where he sells DVDs on how to use your computer and the internet. Hmm, sounds familiar. The phone number used to register the site matches Smiley

There is an address too but I'm not going to post it. His website was created on April 11, 2005, so he is probably a newcommer to internet commerce (he only started Ebay-ing on August 22, 2005).

The email on that page matches classified ads where he is selling "fridge ,freezer,tumble dryer" and a "quite new drum kit". So it looks like he really is in a "3 Person rock & easy listening energetic and upbeat band." So he may have some experience with music and the internet (or not, by reading his correspondence with TSA).

His internet business, seemingly unique name/city pair, and the term "PC geek" matches these messages by a single user on meetup.com (all in May 2005):
- "My name is Colin, I specialize in Internet commerce & web design & promotion stratigies."
- "Young,fun, & open minded guy, I run a couple of internet business's. And I enjoy testing business ideas. I enjoy reading development books & material for business and life, made plenty mistakes, but still keeping on! "
- "Hi, my names Colin, I enjoy FPS Shooters, and work as a PC geek, I have a great house close to town that has a broadband connection, & router & wireless so setups should be easy. Games i like are alien v predator 2, unreal, halo,"

An interesting gem comes from a guy searching through the British National Corpus (a collection of written and spoken language). This is probably NOT OUR GUY (not everybody with a given name has internet presence), but possibly worth checking up on by Scotlanders. (P.S. the streets don't match.) No date is given. http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/WORDSKETCHES/steal_v.html
-"AN unemployed gardener, Colin Edmiston, 51, of Inchcolm Court, Edinburgh, was jailed for three years at Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday when he admitted breaking into four houses in Dalgety Bay, Fife, and stealing goods to the value of more than GBP34,000."

What you are accomplishing now TSA will make great precedence for future battles (just as with G4).

Revenge of the Hylia indeed. :)

I dug up some info on our new friend.

He runs www.pcgeekonline.com where he sells DVDs on how to use your computer and the internet.  Hmm, sounds familiar.  The phone number used to register the site matches :)  There is an address too but I'm not going to post it.  His website was created on April 11, 2005, so he is probably a newcommer to internet commerce (he only started Ebay-ing on August 22, 2005).

The email on that page matches [url=http://www.firstfoot.com/classads/useritems.php?user_siteid=64]classified ads[/url] where he is selling "fridge ,freezer,tumble dryer" and a "quite new drum kit".  So it looks like he really is in a  [url=http://www.download-mp3s.co.uk/artistdetails.asp?artistid=298]"3 Person rock & easy listening energetic and upbeat band."[/url]  So he may have some experience with music and the internet (or not, by reading his correspondence with TSA).

His internet business, seemingly unique name/city pair, and the term "PC geek" matches these messages by a single user on meetup.com (all in May 2005):
- "My name is Colin, I specialize in Internet commerce & web design & promotion stratigies."
- "Young,fun, & open minded guy, I run a couple of internet business's. And I enjoy testing business ideas. I enjoy reading development books & material for business and life, made plenty mistakes, but still keeping on! "
- "Hi, my names Colin, I enjoy FPS Shooters, and work as a PC geek, I have a great house close to town that has a broadband connection, & router & wireless so setups should be easy. Games i like are alien v predator 2, unreal, halo,"

An interesting gem comes from a guy searching through the British National Corpus (a collection of written and spoken language).  This is probably NOT OUR GUY (not everybody with a given name has internet presence), but possibly worth checking up on by Scotlanders.  (P.S. the streets don't match.) No date is given. http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/WORDSKETCHES/steal_v.html 
-"AN unemployed gardener, Colin Edmiston, 51, of Inchcolm Court, Edinburgh, was jailed for three years at Dunfermline Sheriff Court yesterday when he admitted breaking into four houses in Dalgety Bay, Fife, and stealing goods to the value of more than GBP34,000."

What you are accomplishing now TSA will make great precedence for future battles (just as with G4).

Optime

2005-12-30 03:49:09 am

March 16, 2010

Stool included in price.~ his ad

Yeah, big deal, he's selling enough of his BS already.

(ahem) Yes, TSA, keep up the good work. Your humility is fast becoming epic.

jimsfriend

2005-12-30 03:56:09 am

Like A Fox

If I properly understand an ad I just read, he even has rooms for rent in his house.

Psychochild

2005-12-30 04:13:33 am

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No one is going to sell my runs unless I get a cut. But then, who would buy runs when you can get them for free? It's almost like a scam.

Oh god, I hope he doesn't find the Chameleon Twist runs I'm selling on eBay.

>.>

TSA

2005-12-30 05:10:36 am

Retired

Hmm...I'm not so sure I am humble all of the time. Perhaps "passionate" is a better word.

Umbra

2005-12-30 05:16:01 am

Well, he was probably not expecting to get caught. Imagine how much money you could get doing so? Taking free videos, burning them onto DVD, and selling them.

StrangenessDSS

2005-12-30 06:12:08 am

Sleeping Terror

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Imagine how much money you could get doing so? Taking free videos, burning them onto DVD, and selling them.

Yeah! After Ebay fees, price of the materials, and money lost due to auctions that don't sell, you could probably get a whole nickel! Maybe two!

Cygnus

2005-12-30 06:19:20 am

Ben Goldberg

And to think he didn't sell any anyways.

Umbra

2005-12-30 06:21:20 am

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Yeah! After Ebay fees, price of the materials, and money lost due to auctions that don't sell, you could probably get a whole nickel! Maybe two!

Actually, he got $15 dollars out of that. He probably has a DVD burner for a common item. The cover of it looks poorly done, so it couldn't have cost him much. And CD-R's are really cheap nowdays. I believe the fee for posting an item on eBay is $5. So, he would actually be making about $7 dollars each one. Then again, I could be wrong.

slYnki

2005-12-30 06:22:47 am

XXY

There's also the ridiculous notion of getting a fucking job <_<;

StrangenessDSS

2005-12-30 06:48:04 am

Sleeping Terror

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Actually, he got $15 dollars out of that. He probably has a DVD burner for a common item. The cover of it looks poorly done, so it couldn't have cost him much. And CD-R's are really cheap nowdays. I believe the fee for posting an item on eBay is $5. So, he would actually be making about $7 dollars each one. Then again, I could be wrong.

Factor in failed auctions and the time it takes to create them, and it doesn't look so good. He might be able to make a pittance out of it, but nothing more.

I really don't see why so many people care. I don't. Even if they were my runs, I wouldn't. I mean... some guy in another country is asking a few meager dollars for a few copies of stuff that's distributed for free, minus proper credits. Some uninteresting guy with a little mind and not a shred of honor, who does not rise above his current state not because he is held down, but because he cannot comprehend anything higher. So?

Sir VG

2005-12-30 06:59:18 am

Fucking Weeaboo

It's like the G4 thing. I'd be pissed if somebody was attempting to use my runs and not giving me credit. What's even more insulting is to see him say that HE did it. Double insult to the face man.

Then I love how he continually says "EVERY [Insert Series Title] GAME!" yet there's tons missing.

Every Super Mario game completed on DVD

Mario 1, 2 3,

Super mario world 1 , 2 (yoshi's island)

Super Mario Sunshine,

Notice the lack of Super Mario 64? Super Mario Land 1-3?

So let's see, we have an idiot downloading our runs, claiming them as his own, making other false claims, and then trying to make a profit on it.

Anything I missed?

StrangenessDSS

2005-12-30 07:05:35 am

Sleeping Terror

If I got mad at every idiot I ran into online, I'd never have time for anything else.

Pweisger

2005-12-30 07:39:40 am

PwNzRd!

Mine eyes are blistering after pouring over all this. I wrote a reply to this post 24 hours ago and about 60 posts have succeeded it since. This guy will eventually be shut down, and labeled a fraud. He is wasting his time selling a product that will make him no profit (even though it seems like that was his goal), and that no one will buy. Actually, I take that back, someone has tried to buy it, but he wouldn't get 20 bucks for it even if he did. And TSA, you are my hero; way to fight G4 and money-grabbing morons like this shit stacker. I bid good day to him!

Radix

2005-12-30 07:52:40 am

I'm addicted to games

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If I got mad at every idiot I ran into online, I'd never have time for anything else.

So where's those speed runs? Roll Eyes

TSA

2005-12-30 05:23:28 pm

Retired

Strangeness - He said he did the runs. You wouldn't be pissed if somebody went around saying they did your runs?

In other news - some moron at Archive.org congratulated the Super Mario RPG TAS maker for being the best Super Mario RPG player ever.

StrangenessDSS

2005-12-30 06:07:11 pm

Sleeping Terror

Hmm... I'd probably be pissed, and then I'd forget him in an hour, unless he came around places I frequent. Though it depends on my mood. Now that I think of it, I used to get really angry over such things, but eventually that feeling wore out.

Please don't take my posts to mean that I disapprove of what anyone here has done. He just seems so insignificant.

Who knows, maybe one day I'll start getting angry over things like this again!

Radix - I'm making one! I'm making one! Made some good progress today, too.

Madzombie

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Madzombie: 2005-12-30 06:48:50 pm

2005-12-30 06:41:06 pm

pidgeons

I really don't know why he bothers anyway. It'll take him several hours to properly design menus and encode all the Zelda runs for DVD. He also has the job of designing the "truly unique collectors edition package". Jobs in Edinburgh aren't particularly hard to get and our minimum wage is £4/hour. Considering he's unlikely to make more than that in profit he might as well just get a job. The only way I can see it making him decent money is if he sells them in bulk, which involves finding dozens of willing buyers, and will just attract even more attention from SDA users. I checked his address btw and it's under a mile from my house, but I'm not gonna go and beat him up or anything because I'm horribly weak.

Edit: Ok, this is a reply from one of his feedback reviews:

"Reply by kaizan360: i updated you via email cd would be late, tosser, its christmas & i work 2 jobs"

This guy has 2 jobs yet he's still willing to waste hours on this? Hmm...maybe eBay and that site count as 2 jobs?