Marco Thorek wrote:
>
> To prevent future incidents like this I now stamped most of my images
> with my URL and because of the growing number of people remote linking
> my images I started to block hits on them via .htaccess, when the
> referring URL does not come from my domain.
We do this too,
> -- it's a compilation CDROM, not the original package, yet he displays the
> original packaging)
Wow, and he's even leeching bandwidth from The Underdogs in order to show
the incorrect box shot and screenshot (does the same for the Loom auction).
He's not only being dishonest but inconsiderate
As this is my first post to this list, allow me to say hello. I have been
lurking for a few weeks, and while that probably isn't long enough, I had
something to add here. If I'm missing some important etiquette, please let me
know.
Loom CD is a fairly rare game. Admittedly, the boxed version is m
Marco Thorek spake thusly into the ether:
>
>I once had this case where a young lady from England tried to sell a
>couple of Infocom games via ebay.com. I stumbled across them and lo and
>behold, the pictures she used were taken from my Infocom site.
>Trying to play nice I got in contact with the
I once had this case where a young lady from England tried to sell a
couple of Infocom games via ebay.com. I stumbled across them and lo and
behold, the pictures she used were taken from my Infocom site.
Now, I don't really have a problem with people using my scans, provided
they a) ask me before
Hello,
Jim, your dream is very nice, I thought of similar ones several times but it's probably more unpractical than imagining a perfect country follwowing Plato's or Thomas More's ideology...
I try to bring more and more collectors to our mailing list, so we can at least share our education wit
That brings up a good question. How do you prevent someone from listing
auctions whose sellers have stolen your write-up? That drives me nuts --
I invest so much time and effort to compile a detailed, and descriptive
ad, often with my personal experiences of the game in question. For
someone to co
I know this guy. He's one whose auctions I've canned for swiping YOIS text
word-for-word. It's amazing how someone can be a power seller yet also be
so thoroughly ignorant. (Notice too, that everything is Ultra-RARE,
including Zork I, one of the bestselling games of all time.)
- Original M
..is to help educate people like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1370275065
He admits there is no box and the contents are incomplete, yet he asks a Buy
It Now price of $70.
I look forward to the day -- probably about 2 years from now -- when
collectors all over
