JoeCanuck

Hi guys,

I recently won a couple of auctions from an Ebay seller. I was able to bid on the items at the last seconds from the end and managed to win them for a good deal.

After I sent a request total message to the seller, he replies back that there were bidders who were not able to bid towards the end which is why many of his items ended for not much.

I sent him a friendly message to let him know that out of the 3 auctions that I won, there were 2 that were important to me and if we could conclude the transaction, I would be grateful as I depended on these items to complete a collection that I was going to review on youtube (which is true by the way).

This morning I just received a strange message from him, not only apologizing, but that he will be re-listing the items because Ebay had system crashes resulting in a loss for him. Ebay actually told him to cancel any item ending after a certain time, in this case all my winnings. Is that feasible? It sounds rather fishy.

And do system crashes happen nowadays on Ebay? I'm under the impression that the seller is regretting the outcome of his auctions, but I don't want to be rash.

I really wanted those figures but now I feel like the deal was too good to last. It seems that I wasted my time and I should probably look elsewhere. I was looking at expressing my genuine disappointment to the seller and/or leaving negative feedback which I didn't have to do since a very very long time ago,  but I still don't know if that will change anything...

I'm quite disappointed but this will pass I tell myself.

I recently took advantage of the Cyber Monday specials at BHT and got two extra CJC Snake Armour sticker sheets.

For fun, I decided to emulate a CJC Snake armor by painting a ROC Serpent armor to see what it would look like. And I applied the stickers. The result is not an award winning paintjob, but I think it's pretty close to my original Snake armour exclusive.

I used Humbrol flat enamel paint and it dried pretty fast. I don't know what there is is about the canadian cobra emblem but the red stickers pop really nicely on the blue. Don't want to sound like i'm trying to sell them, but I do recommend them to anyone who wants to make a Canjoecon snake armor, they're really beautiful IMO.

Oh, and the figure on that last pic is just there to pose in the armor....

This is something that I never really paid attention to before and discovered only recently on Youtube: A promo of the Real Ghostbusters cartoon from Time Life.

Originally this was supposed to be a 2 hour Pilot from according to what I read on some forums. But it never got aired for some reason, perhaps due to several issues that Columbia Pictures encountered during approval or during the post-production stage. The pilot never got aired, but scenes from it did find their way into the opening of the show, and as flashback scenes in one of the later episodes. And you'll notice many differences with the character designs of the series that we got to know.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqcwocNLH00

I can remember it as if it was yesterday.

I was returning from South America on the 9th. I had to take 3 flights. On the first flight, there was a lot of turbulance, heavy rainstorm and thunder, the carry-ons starting to fall on us, it was really as bad an experience as in your typical disaster movies and I can honestly say that this was the scariest flight I have ever been on. On the second flight going to Miami, our captain had to wait to get permission to land. After 15 minutes of waiting, the captain finally announced to us that if in 15 min. we still didn't get the airport's permission, he was going to make an emergency landing because he didn't want to risk being too low on fuel. A lot of passengers started to wonder, and some to panick: is this plane going to crash? Well me and the guy sitting next to me were more concerned about who would survive the plane crash and face either the shark infested waters on one side, or the crocodile infested swamps on the other.   And in the third flight (leaving sept. 10th), there was a computer malfunction that prevented us from departing as scheduled. There was even an aviation engineer, who was a passenger onboard at the time, who detected perhaps the source of the problem. He informed to flight attendant if he could have a word with the captain. I was like "NO, not another problem hahaha!" Anyway the plane left almost an hour and half later, but the fact remains that it was still Sept. 10th and we left.

I got home really early on Sept. the 11th. Went straight to bed, until my sister pulled me out of my dream telling me that a plane had just crashed into one of two towers. All they kept showing was the same fire footage. I was still wanting to sleep and it all really seemed like a dream to me, so I went back to bed in complete disbelief. My sister screamed a second time, and that's when reality really woke me up. I ran downstairs like crazy to see what had just happened. My sister was insisting that I watch as there was apparently another plane closing in to the crash site, and that's when I saw the second plane crash live...

Apparently, this is coming soon in 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enQXITlK ... detailpage

How was your weekend?

Good I hope. Mine was so-so. You see, last weekend was the ultimate CanJoeCon experience. And now that it's over and I'll have to wait a whole other year until the next one, well I am suffering big time Con Withdrawal.

Alright, let's get down to the real topic of discussion. Would anyone be in to go have a few drinks, enjoy some delicious nachos (one of the best all-dressed in Montreal, approved by the LJ himself ) and perhaps dinner?

There's this cool café-pub "Café Ciné-Express" located in Downtown Montreal which I've been to a couple of times. Service is great, waitresses are friendly and the atmosphere quite lively. Food is good, and prices are affordable. They have a big soft seating lounge area that is really neat for a medium to large group like us. Not to forget that all this is at 5 minutes walk from the Guy-Concordia Metro station (St-Matthieu exit).

Here's a link for anyone who wants to know about the place.

http://http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=fr&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=939&bih=558&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=cin%C3%A9+caf%C3%A9+montr%C3%A9al+qc&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=cin%C3%A9+caf%C3%A9&hnear=0x4cc91a541c64b70d:0x654e3138211fefef,Montr%C3%A9al,+QC&ei=oAUITtqXHebs0gGgx5n_Cg&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=image&ved=0CAQQtgM&iwloc=cids:14622318670437261643

I propose two dates. Thursday July 7th at 6PM. Or Saturday July 9th at Noon. Personnally I prefer Saturday because some people would be less rushing to go home after work during the week especially if they live outside of Montreal.

To make sure that everyone gets an invitation, I'll send a PM to those who introduced themselves on the community thread started by Martin Montreal. Since I can't guess who are all the Canuckleheads that are in the area, I'll trust my better judgement that someone will tell them about this thread, or that they will find it on their own until then.

Hope we can meet!