Ebay Bitching! Need to vent? Vent away! - Collecting Tiki

J johntiki Member MD Joined: Mar 31, 2002 Posts: 1528	J johntiki Posted posted on Tue, Jan 25, 2005 6:03 PM CAUTION - PISSED OFF AUCTION LOSER VENTING BELOW!!!!! Let me preface this post by giving it an R rating - no one under 17 allowed unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.... Now, with the disclaimer out of the way...here's the story, as some in this community know, I've been trying to uncover photographic and printed evidence as well as collecting relics from Baltimore's Hawaiian Room at the Emerson Hotel for years now. One mug has eluded me and finally low and behold I happened to find it on Ebay. I still had days to go before the auction was over so I held off...I initially placed my bid with Esnipe and was content just to wait for the auction to end and put in a maximum bid of $155.00; assuming the bidding would get no where near that amount and easy as that I'd be able to complete my Hawaiian Room mug collection. I even contemplated doing a sleazy thing by offering the seller $100.00 to end the auction early. Days went by and I found myself in a dilemma, I kept checking the auction and with only a day left there were still no bids and the initial starting bid of $4.00 still remained. I got nervous because I didn't want Esnipe to screw up the auction for the one tiki mug I'd found myself lying in bed at night fretting about when and if I'd ever find one. So I figured the coast must be clear, I canceled the Esnipe bid and manually placed a bid for $155.99 for the mug I assumed I'd be clearing a spot on the shelf for in the next week or so! Now here's where the language is going to get coarse... I go to check up on my bid and I've been fucking outbid!!!!!! Son of a bitch! I am absolutely livid - I feel like sending this bastard high bidder a piece of my fucking mind! What the fuck!!!!? I hope the god damn mug arrives at his house in 5,000 pieces - this mug was supposed to be mine and I'd rather see it destroyed then in the dirty ass hands of some ass who probably has no connection to what was Baltimore's only tiki bar! He (or she) probably didn't first hear about the place from his father when he recounted a youthful experience of leaving a high school dance, going to the Emerson Hotel to get served tiki drinks and watching a mesmerizing exotic floor show! He probably hasn't done research on this place - uncovering little more that a couple small articles about its demise and a matchbook. He probably hasn't checked Ebay every day for the last 3 years for keywords Emerson Hotel and Hawaiian Room. He probably hasn't grilled people on TC with giant postcard collections in the hope that someone has a postcard revealing what the interior of this illusive place looked like. He probably hasn't called the phone number for the former manager of the demolished hotel only to be informed by his widow that the man had been dead for 2 years. He probably hasn't made calls to the Baltimore Sun, the Maryland Historical Society, the Baltimore Historical Society, the Enoch Pratt Library, etc. anxious for leads on where to uncover more about this urban archaeological mystery. He probably didn't get that nervous giddy feeling in his stomach when the Pratt e-mailed an actual list of the items that were auctioned off from the Hawaiian Room in 1971. The only thing this bastard probably knows or cares about the Hawaiian Room at the Emerson Hotel is this fucking mug and the fact that he unknowingly outbid someone who has daydreamed of this stupid ass ceramic vessel for many an afternoon over the last few years! The only thing I know for sure is that the bidding is now too rich for my blood and I'll have to go on wishing and hoping that one will magically appear. I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach...I've spent a week obsessing over a fuckin' mug that I won't even be in the running for! I know this post sounds nothing more than sour grapes but in all seriousness, I've never been this hurt losing an Ebay auction. Anyone else feel my pain? JohnTiki Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland! [ Edited by: johntiki on 2005-01-27 13:00 ] [ Edited by: johntiki on 2005-02-24 16:40 ]

CAUTION - PISSED OFF AUCTION LOSER VENTING BELOW!!!!!

Let me preface this post by giving it an R rating - no one under 17 allowed unless accompanied by a parent or guardian....

Now, with the disclaimer out of the way...here's the story, as some in this community know, I've been trying to uncover photographic and printed evidence as well as collecting relics from Baltimore's Hawaiian Room at the Emerson Hotel for years now. One mug has eluded me and finally low and behold I happened to find it on Ebay. I still had days to go before the auction was over so I held off...I initially placed my bid with Esnipe and was content just to wait for the auction to end and put in a maximum bid of $155.00; assuming the bidding would get no where near that amount and easy as that I'd be able to complete my Hawaiian Room mug collection. I even contemplated doing a sleazy thing by offering the seller $100.00 to end the auction early. Days went by and I found myself in a dilemma, I kept checking the auction and with only a day left there were still no bids and the initial starting bid of $4.00 still remained. I got nervous because I didn't want Esnipe to screw up the auction for the one tiki mug I'd found myself lying in bed at night fretting about when and if I'd ever find one. So I figured the coast must be clear, I canceled the Esnipe bid and manually placed a bid for $155.99 for the mug I assumed I'd be clearing a spot on the shelf for in the next week or so!

Now here's where the language is going to get coarse... I go to check up on my bid and I've been fucking outbid!!!!!! Son of a bitch! I am absolutely livid - I feel like sending this bastard high bidder a piece of my fucking mind! What the fuck!!!!? I hope the god damn mug arrives at his house in 5,000 pieces - this mug was supposed to be mine and I'd rather see it destroyed then in the dirty ass hands of some ass who probably has no connection to what was Baltimore's only tiki bar! He (or she) probably didn't first hear about the place from his father when he recounted a youthful experience of leaving a high school dance, going to the Emerson Hotel to get served tiki drinks and watching a mesmerizing exotic floor show! He probably hasn't done research on this place - uncovering little more that a couple small articles about its demise and a matchbook. He probably hasn't checked Ebay every day for the last 3 years for keywords Emerson Hotel and Hawaiian Room. He probably hasn't grilled people on TC with giant postcard collections in the hope that someone has a postcard revealing what the interior of this illusive place looked like. He probably hasn't called the phone number for the former manager of the demolished hotel only to be informed by his widow that the man had been dead for 2 years. He probably hasn't made calls to the Baltimore Sun, the Maryland Historical Society, the Baltimore Historical Society, the Enoch Pratt Library, etc. anxious for leads on where to uncover more about this urban archaeological mystery. He probably didn't get that nervous giddy feeling in his stomach when the Pratt e-mailed an actual list of the items that were auctioned off from the Hawaiian Room in 1971. The only thing this bastard probably knows or cares about the Hawaiian Room at the Emerson Hotel is this fucking mug and the fact that he unknowingly outbid someone who has daydreamed of this stupid ass ceramic vessel for many an afternoon over the last few years! The only thing I know for sure is that the bidding is now too rich for my blood and I'll have to go on wishing and hoping that one will magically appear. I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach...I've spent a week obsessing over a fuckin' mug that I won't even be in the running for! I know this post sounds nothing more than sour grapes but in all seriousness, I've never been this hurt losing an Ebay auction.

Anyone else feel my pain?

JohnTiki

Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland!

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2005-01-27 13:00 ]

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2005-02-24 16:40 ]

Post #137338 by johntiki on Tue, Jan 25, 2005 6:03 PM