Steph

My first thought at first glimpse was Akro.

But then again I wasn't even remembering any Vitros with a yellow base until I thought of the ones from Anacortes.

But on the third hand, that's why I started this thread - because I seem to have a hole in my understanding about Vitros with colored bases. So ??

Every time I've seen the first one of yours, Nancy, I've been a bit mystified by it. That springy green is something else. The 2nd to last doesn't give me a very Vitro feel but I dunno.

Paul, is that yellow one from Anacortes?

The cosmos has been rippling with reverberations of some out-of-this-world MK aventurines which showed up in Sistersville. Does anyone have any pictures/news about those?

First, be very limber:

0? [edit: oh you said "aren't". My answer should have been "100%?"]

I didn't recognize the marbles but it looks like others do. Grandpamarbles' marbles?

I can hardly believe the guy is keeping this up.

It has been suggested that he is in federal crime territory here. It seems that way to me too.

What kinds of Vitro examples do you have with transparent colored bases - amber, blue, green, whatever. Would love to see. Thanks!

Awesome!!!!

p.s. LOL @ Bill McCaleb's pic.

paypal will back your money. no worries. I had a sale that went south once, and I asked paypal what would happen if the person closed their acct. they told me no worries. I would get my money back, and then they would deal with the seller thru their banks if nothing else. and they made good the money! no idea what happened to the seller at that point.

but I still wish this guy would remove my picture!

That's a relief to hear. Well, Okie .... let us know, please!

I have sent an email, use a SnipIt tool to save of pictures of the posted marbles, and have fall back on PayPal complaint resolution as always should sale not prove to be on the up and up.

I wouldn't pay for it, Okie. Not yet anyway. Good chance Joe actually still has them, and if he doesn't have them, then good chance he can tell you who does.

Your Paypal payment won't be protected if the seller closes his account right after he receives the money. By the time you have evidence that the marble isn't arriving, it could be too late.

I'd talk to Joe before I sent payment. If you've already sent payment, you could file a protest right now. Paypal suggests you wait, but last I heard they don't actually require it.

Ok, so has anyone actually talked to, or messaged back and forth with this seller? Just asking, I hate to burn someone at the stake on speculation. Not that I could ever afford to spend so much on marbles, I don't want to see anyone get burned either. Probably best if these auctions were avoided and ebay alerted, and looks like you are all on top of it. lol Curious to see what comes of this, if you purchased marbles be sure to update us. You too Steph

Gary, he didn't respond to my queries. I sent him two. In one I included a link to this thread. I shall be looking for his contact information but not to ask him to defend himself.

At least 15 of the 23 marbles he posted for sale using pix from Joe's site are firmly and comfortably in private collections. Including the Golden Rebel. (I think the count might be 16 confirmed, but will say 15 to be safe.)

Sorry, Gary. This isn't speculation. He offered marbles for sale which he didn't own and didn't have on consignment. He will take in over a thousand dollars for marbles he doesn't own if all the bidders pay.

I was taking a tour through Joe's Akro pages and this one knocked me out of my chair. Gotta share it somewhere! (so here!)

source and more views

Hi Bob. It's Bob's birthday too. Too many Bob's with killer camera skills. Oh wait, it's not possible to have too many. lol

Happy Birthday Bob.

What he said.

Heard from a reliable source that those are not the seller's marbles. So someone is bidding $420 on a golden rebel the seller does not possess.

LOL. That's way too cute.

Whose birthday is it?

his site?

which would that be? his ebay store, or does he have another site?

Tempted to bid high on the golden rebel just to stop the sale. Not going to because I don't have that much nerve. But that sale looks like something someone would do if they had no ethics and were closing up shop.

If you sort their current listings by time ending, you see a whole line up of Joe's marble photos as the seller's last active auctions. Followed by a string of bulk lots with $20 buy-it-nows.

If they don't care about their ebay ID they might be going for one big sale before they pack up their wagon and get out of ebay sales. They can take the money, cash out their paypal account, and go - before anyone has a chance to ask for refunds.

Or maybe it's totally innocent. Maybe the seller loaned those to Joe originally. Or maybe Joe has consigned his own marbles to them with permission to use his photos. Consigned the marbles to someone who uses Alan's text verbatim and uses Dani's pic for their profile. ai yi yi ......

I still haven't heard back from the seller or from Joe. So I still don't know what their story might be.

His ebay profile pic:

Alley board posted by Dani:

It's always best to go to the horse's mouth, so to speak. Why not message this seller and ask them before posting.

I've sent a note to ask why they used Joe's pix, and ask if they are selling the actual marbles from the photos.

Swiping Marblealan's verbiage, and looks like maybe his pictures too...many, or all of his listings are that way.

Not meaning to overlook the point about the wording which was copied from Alan. The words and styles and font colors. Very creepy awkward.

They're Joe's pix alright. I suppose they could possibly be that seller's marbles. Joe did borrow some marbles for some of his photos.

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Hopefully Joe will see and either make it clear that the marbles do belong to this seller or find a way to cut through eBay's formal reporting maze to stop the fraud.

The green backgrounds made me go to Joemarbles.com. That's his trademark, so to speak.

Joe's Golden Rebel photos

Joe's Spiderman photos

Yeah, photobucket is easy. I mostly use that. For what it's worth though, using the gallery is different from using attachments. No click needed.

If you put images in your gallery album, you get a separate html address for them. You can use that address to post the image without it being in the little thumbnail box. Here's Matthew's Dave Becker pic from the gallery.

using the web address and the tags like so

[img=http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/uploads/1285239778/gallery_1920_199_389575.jpg]

At the top of the page under the Marble Connection banner do you see links for "Forums", "Members", "Gallery" and "Calendar"?

Follow that gallery link and if you upload things there, they should show on the banner until the next person uploads enough to slide your photos over.