I think you'll find that the gripe was entirely with people over there and how they behaved with you. Let me ask you - did you take anything out of the fundraiser for your time? And how much time did you spend collecting and scanning these documents, not to mention learning how to do all the technical stuff? Your time is worth money, my friend! They have no right to be arsey with you, especially if you're doing it for free. Your efforts are greatly appreciated over here. To be honest, you had a poor starter and that was inevitable with photocopies. However, you did a marvellous job and they're perfectly readable - which is the main thing. Don't say that you brought it on yourself - they should appreciate your efforts and, if they are more experienced at scanning and uploading, offer you advice in a friendly and patient manner. If you're giving your time for free so that they can receive these documents for a low price, they should at least offer you assistance in return. And, as I've said before, a snide remark was made about me, too. You'd better believe I'm going to say something about that!!
Oh, don't start me on them! Lol. If you haven't seen, some muppet on the SS forum just decided to insult me with a ridiculously low offer for my original manuals without even asking how many I had, then further insulted me by telling me that they aren't my property they're a wealth of information that should be shared and calling me greedy. It is pricks like that who make me never want to share anything .
I happen to agree with retro - I appreciate your efforts and as I said earlier, they are extremely readable. Thanks for you time and effort
Because you handled it in a rude manner. It's not having a limited vocabulary - that's not a problem - it's having manners and being polite. THANK someone for their efforts then POLITELY suggest - not demand - that you might have a better method for them to try. YOU brought up (rudely) over there that I have the items and won't share them. You already knew the facts. You knew these, most likely, because you have read my posts here about them. I don't mention them often and, when I do, I state that I am not selling them at any price. Please, get your facts straight. LOOK AT TIME STAMPS. I posted a reply to you here first. Then I felt I needed to say something to the rest on SS. Then he replied to me. Then I replied to him. And then omp talked to me over here, so I replied here. Sure, maybe I was a little harsh, and for that I apologize - because I can admit I maybe shouldn't have said that and apologize, which is more than you do. THAT, my friend, is why you are rude. You do something that is rude, it's pointed out, and you flat out deny it, rather than apologize. The reason I brought it up here in the first place is because you denied that anyone was rude to him - so I quoted you from SS. I hate to see people thinking they have a right to demand everything the way they want it out of someone in a rude manner, who has offered his time to do this, most likely at no charge. Right, let me make this clear. Firstly, an offer was made to me for $100 Canadian for ALL my manuals... without even asking how many I have. Sorry, but if you raised $300 for one photocopied manual, $100 for all my ORIGINAL manuals is an insult. Secondly, and let me make this clear, I WILL NOT SELL MY MANUALS FOR ANY PRICE. Please, offer me $10,000. I will say no. Dead serious. Bring me the cash, I'll politely tell you it's a very generous offer, but they are not for sale. As I've said before, these have a value over and above money to me. Now, if I ever were to consider releasing these manuals, it would be on MY terms. If anyone did decide to be a rude prick and make demands or suggest they have a right to anything or to tell me what to do, I would pull the plug immediately. With that said, I am NOT planning to release them in the near future. And, if I did ever decide to release them, yes I'd be thinking about covering a good deal of costs, which includes weighing up the large sum I paid for the manuals in the first place, the amount they might be worth today, the amount that value would drop if they were released, how much of my time it would take up and what my time is worth. Make no mistake, though - there's no way you'll be seeing scans of my manuals in 2013. Now, you are the one who has to get back down to the real World and accept that sometimes, people have things that you want, but won't get. That's life - deal with it.
I was actually surprised how much they take, i can't remember the figures, but i had a whinge about it on the sega-16 forums. Also as it was getting near the end paypal put a partial block on my account due to the amount of funds in there. It was a mad rush to scan and send the papers they wanted.
Yeah, you need to have an account that accepts gifting. In the good old days when you could sign up for PayPal with a Credit Card (before, and I think after eBay bought them) they were charging 4.4% commission. I think nowadays you pay eBay/PayPal something like 10% in total when you sell something!
eBay take 10% but make sure they give you the full amount, ready for paypal to take another 5% of it. Once paypal have taken their share (who are the same fucking company), you still owe ebay theirs. So paypal take 5% of the 10% you are already paying ebay doing it this way.
Yeah, I did mention to him that I'm sure he didn't know and basically caught me at an off moment, for which I apologized. Still, it was a low offer, regardless. I clearly stated manualS in the plural. 25% more than the price paid for a COPY is a low offer for one original manual, let alone two or more. I'm sure you agree. Had he thought manuals meant two manuals, perhaps doubling the original price would have at least been a reasonable start. Glad you've settled with omp - it wasn't just you being a bit less than polite to him and other members over there though, hence mentioning it there. Do get your facts straight, though - any apology you made to omp here was a) made in the same breath as trying to state that the "ungrateful sods" raised loads of money and b) was made BEFORE replying to Kev's reply to the above (that money doesn't mean you can insult people) by saying nobody insulted him. I begged to differ with THAT POST, not with your apology. I thank you for your apology, but after making it, you continued to deny insulting him. My original thread point stands - to prove that statement was not correct and that he AND MYSELF were insulted by you (my own insult being before he'd even bought any manuals). You may have apologized to him, but you never apologized for the tone of your statement about me. However, as I said in BOTH my first post here AND on SS, I will take it as being a light-hearted comment (although I feel it was intended as a snide remark) and I made a joke about it. THAT fact has been completely overlooked by both you and the others who commented there, although I thank those who see my point. My post was basically saying - look, you guys have treated this kind person in a rather bad way considering all he's done for you - and come to think of it, you were a bit scathing of me. HOWEVER, I'll take that in jest, let's have a laugh about it. Instead of doing that, you chose to take something I said HERE and make it known over there OUT OF CONTEXT. I've apologized for what I said in haste on this forum over there to the person involved, yet you continue to be rude and relentless. For omp's sake, I'm willing to just drop it, although I'm sad to say that where I was trying to help you see fault in your mannerism, I now see you as a rude person. C'est la vie. 15%?! Sod that! I don't like selling on eBay for a lot of reasons, but that's really ridiculous! If I'm ever selling anything of value outside this sort of community, sod it - it's going to a real auction house!
I copied and pasted this from the Sega-16 (1st) thread. "I was very surprised at how much Paypal, as much as it is handy, they take the piss at their fee's! I have never been involved with something like this so it was a shock. I checked out a donation done at $100US, by the time Paypal takes their fee's and "converts" it to AU it is now $89.40!"
Druid, to be fair, your responses are getting a lot more reasonable, both here and there, so thanks.. I guess! As stated, I always took your comment about me in a light-hearted manner, anyway. I think I've made my position clear on scanning over there. It's not something I'm going to be doing at the moment. As I mentioned, though, there's a possibility of professional publication sometime in the future. omp - sheesh, is the US dollar practically the same as the Aussie dollaroonie nowadays?! Damn! Well, $97 to you is $100 to them... so you're talking about a $8 hit. About 8%, then? You've got to admire the eBay business model in a way. Charge people to list items (sometimes). Charge them for extras, if they want them. Charge a commission on the final value fee. Insist they accept your payment system... then charge them for accepting it! When are they going to buy the likes of Parcel2go (sorry omp - Parcel2go are a courier forwarder, they basically deal with the likes of UPS and DHL on a huge scale account and pass the discounts on to the actual shippers, i.e. us) and integrate shipping into their system, too?!?
If I was younger I would be doing cart wheels, I finished the Mega CD2 Service manuals this morning. So that is all the manuals I have, done. They should be uploaded tonight (my tonight lol!). Unfortunately no details on the JVC cd drive version, it only covers the Sony (main manual) and the Samsung (Supplement) cd drives. I am not sure if the JVC drive type made it to PAL (what these manuals are) land as it seems like a late revision, I guess it was the same as REV 2 and onwards Genesis 2's (as PAL people didn't get past REV1.8 I believe). *Edit Yes Paypal have their own "exchange rate" say if in the real world $1AU=$1.05US, Paypal will say $1AU=$0.98US, something along those lines.
omp - I had a look at translating the Mega CD manual. That small kanji has done my eyes in, I think! Yikes! The larger stuff and the katakana is no problem, though.
