Ducati Artwork

Congratulations, MasterBlaster! I'll get the eBay details squared away, then will package it up and sent out to you ASAP. For all those who walked away with empty hands, don't worry--more to come.

I hate you
Did you use a bidding robot?
at 610 ebay closed transaction for me...
I am very glad that Antihero get's some supplies for his great journey and it's great that you Jello got this masterpiece!!!

grats Jello and Anti-hero.


Put the SL headlight fairing one up so I can win it

Gecko said:

I hate you
Did you use a bidding robot?
at 610 ebay closed transaction for me...
I am very glad that Antihero get's some supplies for his great journey and it's great that you Jello got this masterpiece!!!

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I didn't use a robot, but I'm at work right now so I definitely have an advantage there (vastly superior network, and I'm physically sitting on the backbone of the internet, etc)

And what do you mean "closed transaction"? It wouldn't let you bid higher? I had 600 as my limit, then saw you outbid me, and then bumped it up to 640 in the final moments...

Congrats!!

Jello said:

I didn't use a robot, but I'm at work right now so I definitely have an advantage there (vastly superior network, and I'm physically sitting on the backbone of the internet, etc)

And what do you mean "closed transaction"? It wouldn't let you bid higher? I had 600 as my limit, then saw you outbid me, and then bumped it up to 640 in the final moments...

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It's just that I am not used to bid on ebay. Normally I bid on ricardo, a Swiss platform. They prolong the offer by 2 minutes to allow a race condition.
But I am really very happy that you got this painting: It's in the right hands!

Gecko said:

It's just that I am not used to bid on ebay. Normally I bid on ricardo, a Swiss platform. They prolong the offer by 2 minutes to allow a race condition.
But I am really very happy that you got this painting: It's in the right hands!

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I am tempted to say that if I knew it was you I was bidding against I would not have been so aggressive, but at the end of the day I'm glad AntiHero gets the benefit of our skirmish.

Thanks, gentlemen. There was another guy bidding against you, too, btw. And he's not happy.

I just spent the past hour or so trying to post the second SL. I won't go into granular details, but after 'confirming my identity' (over a 25 min. international call), then closed my account "based on user request." Another 25 min. later on a second call and we're good to go.

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AntiHero said:

Thanks, gentlemen. There was another guy bidding against you, too, btw. And he's not happy.

I just spent the past hour or so trying to post the second SL. I won't go into granular details, but after 'confirming my identity' (over a 25 min. international call), then closed my account "based on user request." Another 25 min. later on a second call and we're good to go.

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Well now I want the granular details. I'm not sure if I'm reading too far between the lines here, but are you suggesting that someone was so upset they lost that they flagged your account after you attempted to post your other piece? If so, wtf...

Woooo Gecko will have competition on this one.

Jello said:

Well now I want the granular details. I'm not sure if I'm reading too far between the lines here, but are you suggesting that someone was so upset they lost that they flagged your account after you attempted to post your other piece? If so, wtf...

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Nope--not suggesting that. Here's what happened:

I went to add a new listing for the second piece, but eBay requested sending a verification number to my phone. There's no Email option (wtf?). Only problem is, I temp. suspended my CA number. I'm in Ireland now with an Irish SIM. So I went in to change my number to my new number, but eBay wouldn't accept a number outside the US. So I changed my number to a friends in the US who sent me the code, which I successfully entered. Sweet.

Until I went and tried to add the item. A legal disclaimer popped up, to which I hit "ACCEPT". It then took me to a "The page you are looking for doesn't exist...please check the URL." JFC. I couldn't get past the disclaimer (for using PayPal to pay eBay). So I then changed my payment type to a CC. Entered the CC in and it took me to a completely blank page.

.... it--maybe it worked. Went back to the posting, uploaded the photos again, etc., and then got an error that said to call an 866 number and provide them with some 8 digit code.

Did that, but the woman was suspicious when I told her I was in Ireland, etc. etc. We then went through 20 questions, one of which I failed (because I didn't know the original email that I used to set up my eBay account in 1999). Anyhow, we got it all straightened out and she said I'm good to go.

Until I tried to post the new listing. Said I can't post unless I'm registered. They sent me an email saying "Account Closed per User Request."

Called back (these calls aren't free!), got a new lady. Explained situation. Then she went through and asked the same sorts of questions....some I didn't have answers to. Then she verified my identity with public records questions. Nailed all of those, until she asked me, "____ Matson owns property in what city in FL." I say, well, he DID own property in XYZ, but he moved a few weeks ago. "She says, so does he or doesn't he." I'm like, "well he DID, but I don't know how current your records are....do you see the problem?" She says, "So is that a no?" I'm like, well, no, he doesn't anymore....but your records don't reflect that, so if I answer correctly, it'll be incorrect, etc. etc....

I answered incorrectly and got it right.

I get that they need to verify ........but in all of my 150 or so purchases they never asked me to verify my identity beyond my password. It was only when I wanted to SELL something. And the process of having me enter a PIN code sent to my phone is ridiculous when I (or a hacker they're trying to protect me from) can simply go and change my phone number to any other one (in the US). Even worse, they wanted to call me back on the phone number that I'd just entered in order to verify I was who I said I was. Hello? If you suspect I'm hacking into someone's account, how is calling a phone number the hacker just changed to his own any form of protection at all?

In any case, the new listing is up.

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High bid is 99 cents.

Is the eBay high bidder, "Ducati-GQ" on the forum here? Auction ends in 3 hours.

Sold! $177.50. Thanks to all who were interested.

Painting and Plaque

The lighting is really crap at my office, but I wanted to dash this off before I sent the painting off to be framed.

It really does look much better in person and is really just great work all around:

What is that below the painting Jello?

b9009b said:

What is that below the painting Jello?

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Gift ftom Ducati

So happy you like. Really does look much better in person than in pics, but it looks great with that phenomenal radiator cap. Can't wait to see it framed.

Final Update

The framing company was uber quick about getting the custom frame together (reclaimed wood with museum glass).

Thought I'd post last set of pics of how it all came together. It's sitting behind my desk at my office (for now) to give me something to get me through this already ridiculous cold NYC winter.


It looks much better than anticipated in the frame


Of course the rear of the frame needed to be adorned with AntiHero's logo and card


This is where I get my true geek on.

Jello that super wicked. It looks amazing in the frame. And that gift is awesome. Lucky man.

No luck involved. Deep pockets is what's needed. Great paying job and the financial freedom to splurge on fun items.

Can we be jealous?