i am not really surprised

[jeansama]

So the mall tour was shit. I'm really not surprised at all, and had prepared myself mentally for the worst. It was actually even worse than I was expecting it to be: absolutely NO merch, the only freebie I got was a foam Love Ball, and the demo (I'm pretty sure this is all the demos though) was awful and short. But seriously. All we had was the

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[dukeburger]

Aww, I am really sorry you got so stressed out doing this. :( At least we won though, right? Honestly, I think this issue should be brought up to a mod, because this is getting fucking ridiculous. I could see if it was happening on non-friend-locked entries, but it's obviously SOMEONE (or many) in the community doing this. I hope that for you and everyone in your lot that it's deemed okay for us to combine all lots to make up for that.

I *really* need to go get ready for work now, but I'll talk to you about this more when I get home later! <3

[jeansama]

I will definitely be letting the mods know that that seemed pretty suspicious. Now, if they had gone over our max, not so suspicious, but they did not and went up quite high, so, yeah... XD it has sure been happening in a lot of GAs recently. I am pretty sure that the other GA I helped run with the Sneasel V-Trainer got hit with this too, though it's possible it may have been someone REALLY wanting either a Sneasel, Houndoom or Espeon V-trainer and was willing to pay $165. The price still seemed stupidly high to me for that lot XD

From my calculations the price difference is pretty minuscule, I wouldn't even bother asking a mod. XD it also makes the divy-ing out of stuff easier and since I'm still shaking from bidding on this and everyone gets nice discounts, I think that should be alright, LOL

Have a fun day at work! Knowing that you have a little grail on the way :D

[dukeburger]

So much for keeping this to one conversation through PMs. xD But, I meant to tell you... if I ever take a ride out to Nintendo World, I'll let you know and I can pick stuff up for you if there's anything you want. I wouldn't charge you a commission fee, just ask that you can pay me ahead of time since I don't have a credit card yet. x__x I suspect they will have Black/White merch for launch, though who knows with them. If I do go, it'll probably that week after launch - I get paid that week and one of my best friends (who actually likes Pokemon) moved to Brooklyn so I've been dying to go out there anyway.

[jeansama]

Awwww, really? ; v ; that's so nice of you! I'm sure someone doing pickups will post the stock ahead of time, hopefully.

[housyasei_san]

Uggh, I hope all of the Canadian BW Tours aren't like that. It really stupid that the US has a neat tour, and then Canada gets a really shitty version of it. D:
At least you had fun with your family.

Good luck on that GA!

[jeansama]

There's only one more, and my guess is that it'll be the same, though Ontario/Toronto tends to get more shit than we do in terms of concerts and events, soooo who knows :\ but it was still fun at least!

Haha thanks, I won them all even if it was stressful, and one of the lots was raised to a very suspicious price I'll have to bring up to a mod ; v ;

[captain_katze]

Now I actually feel a little better about that tour not coming anywhere near the Chicago metro area. ^^;; I'm sorry to hear that it wasn't all that great, though. D:

[jeansama]

Haha, icon. It's okay, I just was hoping for more. You know... desperately. XD I forgot to mention that I was wearing my Zuruggu zipper plush on my bag, and people were jealous of it.

[iza_7]

Sorry to hear, but it sounds like things have gotten better as it went! :]

[zenity]

Does your group auction end tonight? :( I'm sure you'll be okay! If you have you you can post an emergency "EVERYONE UP YOUR BIDS IF YOU CAN" post in order to win, but if you put in your max bid and it's just not high enough, well.. :( Though I know how much pressure that must be... a saw a few people really looking forward to getting their favorite rare shiny kid! ;3; If things get bad, you might have to shell out more for roselia so everyone can win and get the kids they're looking for ;3; and so you don't loose it!

askfjasljg I wish I could help, but there's not much I can do. D:

[jeansama]

We won all of them! Though the first lot was suspicious and I'm going to bring it up to a mod, as an SMJ user bid it up really high (according to my co-host, and I didn't even realize this, it was up to our highest bid before I updated with the next total raised EXACTLY, so that's even more suspicious).

And uh, yeah, the first lot made me almost throw up, especially because it was the lot that MY kid was in. But I also had everyone else's hopes on my shoulders, y'know? I was this close to making a post, but it worked out, even though it was suspicious. The other two lots ended at less than half the price, so I am definitely bringing that up to a mod :P

[zenity]

Oh god, that DOES sound fishy... :\ and SMJ user did it? wth. And they bid the exact total raised in the GA? That does sound very fishy.... :| Why would anyone do that? Why don't they just help out and bid on the kids they want..? :(

I hope the mods can get to the bottom of it!

[jeansama]

Yep, the username started with "cha", which I know is SMJ's username, chaosanime (or chaos_anime? I forget). Just like "cre" is a Noppin account.

I don't know. :\ I think it's people either a) bedruging someone who won something they bid on that bid on the lot, or someone just being an asshole because they CAN and making people pay more money than they have to. So yeah, I'm gonna contact a mod and ask if it would then be fair to combine all three lots instead of deal with them seperately like I initially was going to, because the OTHER lots were won at 8,800 and 8,500 compared to 21,500.