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pierrebai posted a message on Phantom Theros Draft and Sealed EventsJust to make things clear: when people say that packs cost X, they mean when you buy them off the secondary market. You buy tix at the store, but packs from dealer with tix. Tix are the online currency, worth about a dollar each.Posted in: Other Formats -
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NoHeavenNoHell posted a message on When do you take a deck into dailies?usually 10-15 matches, and a solid SB plan for every major meta archetype.Posted in: Other Formats -
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Rygar posted a message on Has anyone used ebay's Global Shipping Program?I just used it for a few auctions, I'll post this here for others in case they need it.Posted in: Market Street Café
I had three auctions finish with international buyers, two were fine. The third was an unmitigated disaster. My buyer lived in a VATS exempt UK territory.
the Global Shipping Service (GSS), apparently couldn't handle it. The problem was, since his territory was a UK owned territory, GSS thought it could ship there, but in reality it can't.
So what was happening was the buyer would go to do the paypal, and paypal would throw an error "Shipping fees not specified, contact Seller".
When you do GSS, you can't invoice a buyer, so there was *nothing* I could do.
So I called Ebay...5 times...
Call 1 - "It's a GSS problem, you'll have to contact them directly" (GSS: It's an Ebay problem, contact them)
Call 2 - "All you have to do is manually invoice the buyer, message him and ask him for his paypal address, it'll link up to the auction" (Against Ebay ToS to setup the transaction that way, and it will literally block you from asking for the person's paypal address, or giving it to someone else)
Call 3 - "It's a Paypal problem, you have to call them", when I asked "Aren't you Paypal? Ebay owns it", "Oh, um, it's a separate number". When I called into Paypal, the automated voice system routed me right back to Ebay customer service because it was an Ebay problem, never even talked to a Paypal rep.
Call 4 - "All you have to do is invoice the customer", after 5 minutes of explaining that Ebay doesn't allow that, "Ship the package to Kentucky, once it gets there they'll collect the fees and you'll receive your money". When I asked if he was instructing me to ship without getting paid, "Yes, they'll collect the fees". When I told him that Ebay doesn't let you print the shipping invoice without payment "Oh, um...hold on one minute". I asked for a supervisor at this point and was told "I'll connect you with a supervisor after I'm finished helping you" (It was pretty apparent he could not help me)
Call 5 - "It's a GSS problem, let me connect you to an Ebay GSS specialist". 5 minutes later the nice lady confirmed the problem was GSS doesn't service his address, and reset my auction so I could manually invoice. She was knowledgable and efficient.
So if you use GSS, and you run into a problem like mine, ask for the Ebay GSS specialist, the first line of customer service doesn't seem to understand the GSS at all. -
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Tormod posted a message on This is a really harsh forum. Almost certainly unnecessarily so.nice graftsPosted in: Community Discussion
what was going on February 2012 last year? Was probably the start of modern season -
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Hamlet Captain posted a message on This is a really harsh forum. Almost certainly unnecessarily so.You think this place is bad, you should see Smogon.Posted in: Community Discussion
It's the complete opposite: laissez-faire moderation causing an almost complete lack of discourse. "That idea is bad. You are bad." is considered acceptable. It's a **** hole.
I much prefer it here where, yanno, maturity is stressed. -
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MajoraX posted a message on 2013 "Happy Holidays" Card SpeculationMenorah of Tawnos.Posted in: Speculation - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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If the raise in the minimum wage is artificial this just squeezes the middle class by devaluing their labor. The minimum wage gives big corporations who can afford to pay it leverage to edge out mom and pop shops who could thrive on value before. It's just like other regulations. Why do you think the insurance industry is the most regulated industry and yet you still hear people getting ripped off by them all the time? Why do you think big insurance companies wanted Obamacare? Regulation squeezes competition who can't afford lawyers.
The wealthy will always outearn inflation. Inflation increases the wealth disparity. That's what has really happened in the last 100 years. In 1900 over 90% worked for themselves (most in agriculture but still) now more than 90% work for someone else.
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The DDM (Domestic Mail Manual) section 200 Regarding Commercial Letters or Cards:
3.12.1 Machinability
To ensure transport through automated mail processing machines, a mailpiece and its contents must bend easily when subjected to a transport belt tension of 40 pounds around an 11-inch-diameter drum.
It specifically identifies credit cards as flexible enough to be machineable. Simply holding a toploader (with a land in it perhaps) and folding it greater than 160% should be enough to convince them that the object will indeed bend around an 11 inch drum.
Personally I try to avoid clerks because I don't want to have this argument. I use the APC or simply buy stamps and then stamp them and dump them in the outgoing.
http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/201.htm#1042622
I promise you the clerk has never read this.
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I watched that on the stream this morning at work with no access to MTGO. Let me tell you it hurt, but that kind of stuff happens when you work on the weekends. It's one of the reasons I tend to follow longer trends that don't depend on being online exactly when something breaks.
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Silver is actually an industrial metal, so it does have a use and people would buy it for that.
Pretty sure they are NZ dollars.
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Unless you're on a mobile device, is it that much work to click on a card name? I like hover over too, and actually if you use either firefox or chrome someone has developed a plugin to do just that.
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Why would you bother copying a MM2 Goyf when you could copy a MM1 Goyf and still pocket $145 give or take.
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That amounts to $4 an hour on thanksgiving night. NO THANKS!
The big hoopla this year was that more and more stores were just opening up earlier on Thanksgiving day. People were claiming they were boycotting, but my cousin was driving home from dinner and said the line at the Target near his house was out to the dang street, nearly half a mile long.
I HATE the materialism of this season, esp since it's a bunch of religious holidays that have been over-consumerized.
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Protection prevents 4 things.
D amage
E quip/enchant
B locking
T argeting
This is life loss and not damage. If Delaying Shield said, for each counter on it, it deals 1 damage to you unless you pay.. then the combo would work.
Also, Moved to Legacy