Post #475170 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Thu, Aug 6, 2009 2:48 PM

On 2009-08-06 07:53, jmack wrote:
check out... some other cool photos of paraphernalia that I've collected about the mauna loa.

He's collected. That's rich.

This gets my vote for most clueless post of the year. Unless he's trying to deliberately insult the people he's selling to. If that's the goal, then I couldn't have done it better.

1. Posts that he's found 10 Mauna Loa mugs in the garage. Asks members to email him if interested. An altruistic first-step, guaranteed to gain long-term good-will from the Tiki Central community.

2. Changes mind and puts them on eBay to "be fair to everyone". Well. That's the Biblical way to go, sure.

3. First mug sells for $225. Being Fair is Awesome!!!

4. Let's brag about the sale to the Tiki community. But let's do it in the form of a question so it doesn't seem like bragging. Like "Why did my mug sell for $225?". Make sure to use language that implies we believe the folks here are "obsessed","insane", and "cult"-like in their collecting.

5. Starting to sense animosity. Be strong. Push through it and don't take it personally. Just have to stick it out on this site a few more months until all the mugs are sold...

6. The benefits of this site still outweigh all the hurtful people here. For instance - all this free text and photos people have posted for me to use in my auctions!

7. Attribute text and photos to myself. They won't notice. "Locating Tiki" is a completely different forum from "Marketing Tiki", with different members. Right?

Normally, I would have PM'd this rant to jmack, but 1) His first 2 posts indicate he doesn't read his PMs. 2)He's not really a member. Not one of his posts makes a contribution to TC. Let's U-mod this thread out of here.

jmack's already got the words "Tiki" and "Mauna Loa" in his auction title. That's all a mug of this caliber needs to sell itself. Posting here isn't going to help in the slightest.

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2009-08-06 14:53 ]