Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

K Kono Member Orlando Joined: Oct 08, 2003 Posts: 1266	K Kono Posted posted on Fri, Feb 25, 2005 6:27 PM On 2005-02-25 16:49, freakytiki wrote:* I guess I'm naive then.My apologies.....if that is what some "collectors" have resorted to then that's a pretty sad commentary......sigh......maitai anyone? Ah, don't be too quick to judge, things get emotional. I've never done that out of spite but I can see how it would happen. I've never had a problem with kohalacharms and in a few threads I've asked him to please come out and play (he's been a member for over a year with just two posts) and talk to us. I've not crossed swords with him often because I've got a sword and he's got a blunderbuss. Seriously, you can smell when an auction is going to go ballistic and I don't bother even watching those. I always thought that he bid on only a few rare items and went straight for the kill. A couple days ago (as I wrote above) I wanted to see how many Buy It Nows he won in the past month (only five). I was surprised to see that he's won about eighty auctions. Now if you're winning eighty auctions a month then that's quite a few people that you are pissing off or at least perturbing monthly, month after month after month. If someone repeatedly gets beat by the same person again and again I can see them getting pissed and jacking up the bid. Who's got the bad karma? They guy who buys everything in sight or the guy who lashes out in frustration? I don't know the answer to that. All I know is I'm spending too much time even thinking about this crap and then typing it up when I could be doing something else. :lol: I doubt this jacking up the bid thing happens with him all that much simply because, in my experience, he doesn't always bid through the roof. I've beaten kohalacharms before and you saw that he was beaten on the auction you just posted on the previous page. I just checked and in the past month he's won about 77%, so if you try and jack up his bid then you stand a pretty good chance of paying for that auction. Here's a cool/funny thread about a TC member who actually met the mysterious kohalacharms and told him that he had on occasion jacked up his bids out of spite: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=12500&forum=5 EDIT: I just looked at that thread again and that was the last time Kreaky Tiki posted on TC. Kohalacharms probably had one of his minions kill him after letting him see The Holy of Holies. :lol: [ Edited by: Kono on 2005-02-25 18:40 ]

On 2005-02-25 16:49, freakytiki wrote:*
I guess I'm naive then.My apologies.....if that is what some "collectors" have resorted to then that's a pretty sad commentary......sigh......maitai anyone?

Ah, don't be too quick to judge, things get emotional. I've never done that out of spite but I can see how it would happen. I've never had a problem with kohalacharms and in a few threads I've asked him to please come out and play (he's been a member for over a year with just two posts) and talk to us. I've not crossed swords with him often because I've got a sword and he's got a blunderbuss. Seriously, you can smell when an auction is going to go ballistic and I don't bother even watching those. I always thought that he bid on only a few rare items and went straight for the kill. A couple days ago (as I wrote above) I wanted to see how many Buy It Nows he won in the past month (only five). I was surprised to see that he's won about eighty auctions. Now if you're winning eighty auctions a month then that's quite a few people that you are pissing off or at least perturbing monthly, month after month after month. If someone repeatedly gets beat by the same person again and again I can see them getting pissed and jacking up the bid. Who's got the bad karma? They guy who buys everything in sight or the guy who lashes out in frustration? I don't know the answer to that. All I know is I'm spending too much time even thinking about this crap and then typing it up when I could be doing something else. :lol:

I doubt this jacking up the bid thing happens with him all that much simply because, in my experience, he doesn't always bid through the roof. I've beaten kohalacharms before and you saw that he was beaten on the auction you just posted on the previous page. I just checked and in the past month he's won about 77%, so if you try and jack up his bid then you stand a pretty good chance of paying for that auction.

Here's a cool/funny thread about a TC member who actually met the mysterious kohalacharms and told him that he had on occasion jacked up his bids out of spite: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=12500&forum=5

EDIT: I just looked at that thread again and that was the last time Kreaky Tiki posted on TC. Kohalacharms probably had one of his minions kill him after letting him see The Holy of Holies. :lol:

[ Edited by: Kono on 2005-02-25 18:40 ]

Post #143366 by Kono on Fri, Feb 25, 2005 6:27 PM