[roadrevenge]

Like always I search eBay for Reboot figures since my collection is not complete. I search both eBay.ca and eBay.com. Why both you ask? Well some people post things on eBay.com that are listed as only ships to the US and not to Canada. Unlike eBay.ca will only show the things that will ship to Canada.

Well just over a week ago I came across a auction for 2 figures, Color Changing Bob and Color Changing Hack. No one had bid on it yet. So like usual I put it on my Watch list so I can snipe it at the end. (Sorry if you are the seller, yes I snipe) A few days passed and still couldn't find anything else.. nothing new there... Then all of a sudden I came across a MOC Special Edition BOB in his White uniform! LIKE OMG!!! I was freaking out. But then I knew He was going to go for a pretty penny. So I watched it. The day it was ending I was planned to go over to one of my gf's family friends for dinner for the birthday of their little girl. I was ticked off because I couldn't be infront of the computer at the time of the auction ending so I could put my bid in at the last minute. I had to go regardless lol.

Well leading up to the end 2 people had already started a small bidding war on it. I thought to myself, I am screwed.

So the day came, and I was about to bid. Never sniped using my iPhone before.. well, never again.. I missed it cause of loading time.. damn it.

Surprising enough, I wasn't upset. On the way home I started thinking, "I hope it is going to a good home, I hope they are not opening it!". So when I got home I started to snoop. Well I went into the Sellers Feedback and saw he had just left feedback for the "person" who had won the Bob. So out of shear consern of such a rare MOC figure, I sent him a message.

Note: I will only Quote what I said on my side of the convo. I will mention things they said, but not quote them.
"I see your the winner of the White outfit Bob, good job. I wanted it so bad. Oh well another time. Hope you are keeping it Mint On Card for being such a collector piece. Do you have a big collection? or are you just starting out?"

Nothing rude. I Believed I was really polite. They wrote back to me telling me that it was never going to be opened (THANK GOD! lol) and some of what he was collecting (I say "he" but I never really 100% found out the sex of the person, but to make it easier to write I will say He). Well, one of the things he mentioned was that he had 1 color changer but hopefully 3 soon.. Flags went off in my head.. "Oh no, does this mean he is going to go after the other auction I was looking at?!?!?" and sure enough the same coded eBay user ID showed up there. Damn it. But that did not stop me. I continued to talk with him sharing my collection with him. He didn't notice then that I didn't have any color changers yet, so not thinking I was after the same auction.

A few days past, and guess what???? The seller that had posted the first White suited Bob had posted another... HE HAD 2!!! lol... So I put it on my watch list.

The color changers were listed to end before the newly posted Bob. The auction for the color changers ended with me having just enough time to sneak in there and fire away at the last second winning the auction. I had to pay quite a high price for 2 figures since the other guy had his maximum quite high. Oh well I needed those figures, since I had never saw them on eBay before.

Well the Bob was coming to an end, and guess who started to bid on the bob.. HIM!.. I'm like "Oh great, Im in deep trouble now!". The auction ended today, I was able to win it.. Cost me a fortune!.. As soon as the auction ended I got a message from Him.. Basicly telling me he jack up the price cause he didn't want the second one, he just wanted me to pay more than he did..

:O

ouch.

I wrote him back apologizing for snatching out from under him the other auction.

Quote: "Sounds like you are upset with me. I am really sorry for snatching out from you the Color Changing Bob and Hack, I know you needed it. I also showed you that I needed it too by letting you see my collection. I knew you were not going to be happy after words, but like I said I needed it too . I did find it a bit unfair to jack up the price of the White Suit Bob when you didn't want it. I didn't jack up the auction that was for 60$ that had the black hex, grey megabyte, and the car in it. I don't bid unless I need it to complete or add to my set. I don't buy doubles enless the "lot" has something that I am missing. But I know I would be pissed if I paid over 100$ and then found out someone else got it for 20$. But whats done is done. I am not upset. I still would like to be friends, Reboot figure Collectors are like none existent. I still really want to see your collection. I also would like to see your ghostbuster collection, more the retro ones thou. I used to play hours with them when I was little. Anyways, if you don't want to comunicate I understand. I won't bother you anymore. But if you do, that would be awesome!Take care, and good luck."

He replied me basicly warning me that I'd better have deep pockets. But he wasn't against being my friend.

wow.

I consider myself to be a nice person. Who likes to come on here, talk about figures and see other's collections. I guess this is the ONLY place to go.


It is not fair to blast the other person behind his back. So this is not meant to be that. My little rant is geared towards me. The most expensive lesson I learned, don't talk with fellow collectors that collect the same things as you through eBay. They will make you pay dearly..