Words of Wisdom

[dcware]

Hi,

First of all, I'd like to announce that after nearly two years I have returned to the fabulous community of the roundtable :) I did return for a single post around 6 months ago to let you all know I was selling all my stuff on eBay, but for the most part I've not logged in since 10-07-2006, 02:00 AM.

Secondly, in case anybody was considering selling all of their games & consoles... DON'T... I can tell you now that you will regret it, without question.

So yes, I sold all of my games save for my all-time favourites, most of my consoles, and a load of DVDs too. I was having serious financial troubles and it was the only solution I could even consider. However, now that I am financially secure once again, I am really longing for my collection back (especially the harder to get pieces, and my personal signed items etc)

But enough of my sad story! :) Hello everyone, how's it going? What's changed around here & in the world of classic gaming since July 06? Apart from my "Seller Feedback" which is in my signature, which has mysteriously dissapeared :P

Peace,
Dan

[Fuyukaze]

I only have one question.

Once you sold off all that you did, how much of an impact did the profits gained actualy have on your personal debt? I ask because I suspect while it had some, it somehow didnt have nearly as much as you'd have perfered when you first started selling it.

[dcware]

Oh believe me, it didn't have anywhere near enough impact to make me happy about doing it, but I raised around £1500 which helped enough to make it worthwhile at the time. I wasn't actually in dept, per se, I was out of work with bills coming in & needing something to pay them with, as I don't believe in loans / credit cards, but that's just something my parents always drilled into me.

[Fuyukaze]

I'm not a big fan of loans of credit cards myself either as the interest rates alone often aproach or exceed the legal level here in the states.

[Oobgarm]

Welcome back, and here's your feedback thread:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62240

We had a software switch and old links don't work anymore. :P

[dcware]

Thanks Oobgarm, couldn't find that for the life of me :P

EDIT: Are there now special requirements for having features such as BBCode? Because it worked fine until I edited it, I also notice that I have "64 out of 50 allowed" in my PM Inbox :P

[Oobgarm]

You should remove the quotes from your BBCode and everything should be back to normal.

And you'd better clear out that PM box, or you won't get any more. :P

[Cornelius]

I also notice that I have "64 out of 50 allowed" in my PM Inbox :P
There seems to be some sort of flex on the inbox limits such that when you exceed the limit, the limit actually goes down. I have a 200 msg limit, but at some point when it was full I was at 200 out of 50 allowed (or somesuch). Maybe it has something to do with recent activity.

[dcware]

I removed the quotes from my BBCode and It's still not showing up properly... In the signature editor, it says "BBCode: No"

[punkoffgirl]

I hope you don't mind, I fixed it for you. I went in to see what was wrong with it, and figured I'd do it while I was there. You now need quotation marks around your urls, which is the only thing you were missing. The BBCode thing I'm not sure about.

[dcware]

I don't mind at all punkoffgirl, I appreciate it thanks :)

[emceelokey]

Oh man you totally missed out. I swear 10/08/2006 was so awesome.

[Mianrtcv]

Sold off the collection... Ugh. I am sort of at that point. Unrelated to finance or job situation. Just no time or prospect of such for a while (everything just sits there, it's sad). Space issues have also popped up. I am holding off. Especially after reading your post and many like it. Welcome back.

Are you planning on reacquiring any of your personal favorites?

[Poofta!]

welcome back. as far as whats changed, lots of users left (that were regulars and welcomed back in 06).


Sold off the collection... Ugh. I am sort of at that point. Unrelated to finance or job situation. Just no time or prospect of such for a while (everything just sits there, it's sad). Space issues have also popped up. I am holding off. Especially after reading your post and many like it. Welcome back.

Are you planning on reacquiring any of your personal favorites?

i too am thinking of getting rid of a huge chunk of my collection for these very reasons and none other...

also, im wondering as well as him, are you planning on reacquiring ?

[dcware]

Thanks for the walm welcome back guys :) Mianrtv & Poofta: I certainly do plan to try and reacquire as many of my favourites as I can afford realistically (which is where I failed last time, I would just buy buy buy without being careful) I would especially like to try and get my Dreamcast collection back in shape, as I was actually only 9 games from a complete European set, it's the machine that saw me through highschool so it holds a special place in my heart. Currently, I don't even HAVE a Dreamcast anymore :'( Funny because I still have a good 20-30 games for it :P