The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: Cobblestone on December 02, 2021, 10:00:58 AM
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Sometimes I forget when I’ve been away for a while but this community really is something else. I adore like 99% of the aspects of it, which is quite rare.
Special shout out to sellers/traders for being so professional. I don’t think I’ve ever had a late shipment or any funny business without legit reason and great communication from the seller. That is definitely not the case when I collect in other communities.
Hearts all around.
What is something you love about this community?
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What's.
Your.
Problem.
Every topic on that thread is met with love & support. Same with the Trivial Complaints thread. People care here, & it's adorable
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The feedback system here is absolutely amazing.
Overall this forum is so easy to navigate. :o)
So many awesome peeps hang about here. xoxo
Many kudos to you all as well!!
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Is it my musk?
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The fact that it still exists so strongly in a world where other communities have been literally destroyed by social media?
The fact that people here post intelligently and listen to one another's concerns and try to help?
The fact that fans of all ponies are welcome here?
...Yeah, there are times when people disagree, but that's only human. This is literally the last bastion of the real old pony community for me. The fact it is still here when most other communities I used to know (pony and other) have been eroded away by this fixation with like buttons and replacing words with silly memes is awesome.
Social media has its place, of course. I just feel like this is better.
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I love this place too. I'm a member of another collecting community that isn't about ponies and although I've met some great people through that site I find myself here much more often than the other one.
I feel that people here really care about each other. Because I joined the Arena, I found someone that I consider a good friend that I can have in depth discussions with over our favorite manga and anime. :D
Ponyfan
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Is it my musk?
:hearts: You smell like cotton candy, I love it! :hearts: (It's cuz you're so sweet!!)
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I've met some really great people here through the years :)
I feel very comfortable here too.
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Is it my musk?
:hearts: You smell like cotton candy, I love it! :hearts: (It's cuz you're so sweet!!)
We do worry about the frequency of pantsless interludes that occur however. You might want to look into that ;)
In seriousness, this has been a real point of respite I think for a lot of people through this pandemic. Not only sharing our experiences but sometimes shouting into the void when everything else seems to be falling apart.
And manga and anime discussions with friends are awesome =D =D =D
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Everything is great here except the search function. I only post here.
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Special shout out to sellers/traders for being so professional. I don’t think I’ve ever had a late shipment or any funny business without legit reason and great communication from the seller.
*flashbacks to the 90s, full of people lying to scam plastic ponies* I guess we rooted some of the bad ones out early, lol! Things were pretty crazy before Paypal existed!
I love all the devotion / resources for restoring ponies, so much love and care for our little plastic friends. <3
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LM, if you remember, we did used to have pretty fierce policing strategies, and we did track and trace scammers, keep tabs on them and so on. They did exist but the community was smaller and we were able to keep track more easily because there were fewer platforms to do it on. But yeah, there were some issues back then too.
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Hugs all around :lovey:
This has been my pony home since '06, it warms my little heart to see all the love spread here. I agree the community here is great. :grouphug:
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We tracked them, but Lexi and . . . Roy? wasn't one of them named Roy? . . . got away with a loooot. As a community we were far too forgiving. Lexi definitely came back several times after crying crocodile tears about how sorry she was (but not sorry enough to refund anyone's money, lol). Sometimes even longtime community members would end their stay with a huge, dramatic scam. It was crazy.
eBay was so risky in those days too because they had no way of forcing a seller to return money; so periodically you'd have a seller just take all the money orders and disappear into the mists. I remember sending $20 for a "MOC Love Letter Pony" and praying that the auction--which had no picture--was legit.
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This the place I always come back to. Because this a special place with great members. I think its my second home. I made some friends and lost some I guess. Yes I like it here. :) I think its THE place I can unwind and talk about my love of ponies.
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What a wonderful thread to start, Cobblestone!
I'm relatively new here--maybe a year or so. The first summer of the pandemic, I dug out my childhood collection (G1'S) and I was just completely elated to rediscover all my ponies--doing their hair, organizing them into little families, or by pose, or color, or symbol... However, after 30+ years in storage I realized some of them needed some concentrated TLC. In researching restoration I discovered this community. It has been a true treasure trove! People are incredibly knowledgeable and genuinely helpful.
While other sites do provide some great content on restoration, what I value here is the ability to ask a specific question and receive helpful responses pretty quickly. It's also been fun geeking out on quirky pony stuff with actual other people.
And, more generally, it just makes me happy to know that there are other people out there who appreciate the ponies as much as I do. :good: :lovey:
Oh and the old skool pony emojis are solid gold.
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We tracked them, but Lexi and . . . Roy? wasn't one of them named Roy? . . . got away with a loooot. As a community we were far too forgiving. Lexi definitely came back several times after crying crocodile tears about how sorry she was (but not sorry enough to refund anyone's money, lol). Sometimes even longtime community members would end their stay with a huge, dramatic scam. It was crazy.
eBay was so risky in those days too because they had no way of forcing a seller to return money; so periodically you'd have a seller just take all the money orders and disappear into the mists. I remember sending $20 for a "MOC Love Letter Pony" and praying that the auction--which had no picture--was legit.
Lexi has the second most amount of banned ID's here.
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I don't post here too often but I'm always happy to see the forums and active people.
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We tracked them, but Lexi and . . . Roy? wasn't one of them named Roy? . . . got away with a loooot. As a community we were far too forgiving. Lexi definitely came back several times after crying crocodile tears about how sorry she was (but not sorry enough to refund anyone's money, lol). Sometimes even longtime community members would end their stay with a huge, dramatic scam. It was crazy.
eBay was so risky in those days too because they had no way of forcing a seller to return money; so periodically you'd have a seller just take all the money orders and disappear into the mists. I remember sending $20 for a "MOC Love Letter Pony" and praying that the auction--which had no picture--was legit.
Lexi has the second most amount of banned ID's here.
That doesn't surprise me.
Baby Bouncy is one that sticks in my mind too, as she'd do a legit trade with a few people to get a good reputation then scam on the second deal. That was a lot harder to police.
In fairness to not being swept away by nostalgia, my worst ever experience with ponypeople happened in 1999-2000ish. It's the one and only time I've received actual threats of violence from a pony collector. I was stalked by these people for about a year, and they spread a lot of lies about me and my family as well. I don't post at the TP any more because the mods at the time there did nothing to stop this happening on their site. The mods have changed now but the whole experience was so traumatic I just didn't want to go back.
But on balance, and in spite of that experience, the fact we can still remember specific names of the scammers back then demonstrates there weren't massive numbers of them. And even in a world which, as you say, LM, was high risk. We were dealing with an international pony trade situation in a time before there was paypal, after all.
There was a lot of taking a chance over things. I know I sent $US cash for a whole lot of MOC ponies in the early days. MOC Glory and Medley for something like $30 each? And trades were also high risk as you had so few photo options. You'd have to develop an image or stick the pony in the scanner like a torture device. Most auctions didn't have images, or had poor ones. But I got yellow Minty that way, and I also got alt Susie because nobody else realised her pose was wrong. Now, people would know instantly, because photos online are so co,mmon. But at the time they weren't, and UK ponies were still relativelty unknown, so people didn't spot her.
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I just find it so wierd that people would be really into ponies and also not care if they cause bad vibes with other collectors...
I got scammed once, by a neighbour who was my sister's age, but that was in person. She swapped some of my Perfume Puff Palace accessories for a Mummy Charm with pony cancer. I didn't know what it was back then and I've been looking for those mesh scarves ever since! Also I think she got our Waterfall bubbles bottle too and I have NEVER seen one for sale online :mad:
I don't know how I arrived here. I think I was maybe trying to find out which ponies were sold in the UK, because I only ever saw half of them when I was a kid.
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I think UK G1 distribution was...I'm going to say 'interesting'.
There were definitely sets I never saw as a kid, but I know they came out here because they were in the argos catalogue and I found them at carboot sales. Like big brother ponies. I NEVER saw them in stores, only mountain boys.
We had a local collector here who was a bit of a brat, but she had a rough family situation. Her folks split up and her ponies got sold off in the end. Her Dad said she didn't want them any more, but I don't know. She did used to wave ponies in our face if she got to them first, but she was just a kid.
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We tracked them, but Lexi and . . . Roy? wasn't one of them named Roy? . . . got away with a loooot. As a community we were far too forgiving. Lexi definitely came back several times after crying crocodile tears about how sorry she was (but not sorry enough to refund anyone's money, lol). Sometimes even longtime community members would end their stay with a huge, dramatic scam. It was crazy.
eBay was so risky in those days too because they had no way of forcing a seller to return money; so periodically you'd have a seller just take all the money orders and disappear into the mists. I remember sending $20 for a "MOC Love Letter Pony" and praying that the auction--which had no picture--was legit.
Lexi has the second most amount of banned ID's here.
That doesn't surprise me.
Ha! You didn't ask who is first!
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We tracked them, but Lexi and . . . Roy? wasn't one of them named Roy? . . . got away with a loooot. As a community we were far too forgiving. Lexi definitely came back several times after crying crocodile tears about how sorry she was (but not sorry enough to refund anyone's money, lol). Sometimes even longtime community members would end their stay with a huge, dramatic scam. It was crazy.
eBay was so risky in those days too because they had no way of forcing a seller to return money; so periodically you'd have a seller just take all the money orders and disappear into the mists. I remember sending $20 for a "MOC Love Letter Pony" and praying that the auction--which had no picture--was legit.
Lexi has the second most amount of banned ID's here.
That doesn't surprise me.
Ha! You didn't ask who is first!
...It's not Roy?
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Special shout out to sellers/traders for being so professional. I don’t think I’ve ever had a late shipment or any funny business without legit reason and great communication from the seller.
*flashbacks to the 90s, full of people lying to scam plastic ponies* I guess we rooted some of the bad ones out early, lol! Things were pretty crazy before Paypal existed!
I love all the devotion / resources for restoring ponies, so much love and care for our little plastic friends. <3
that’s fair. I know there are some bad eggs and we have a mighty list of them, but I still trust most people on here and I know if I’m having issues I can ask around and get genuine responses.
Plus I really do have better luck in the g1 community than anywhere else. Even if someone isn’t here, if they deal in ponies things tend to go well.
My dive into Breyer offshoots has been less than stellar in some respects.
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Bumping this thread because I am so grateful to be able to come here and talk to people from all over the world especially with some of the big stuff happening globally right now. But also those every day things like health and family that affect us all. And when I get some time to switch off for a while and think about collecting, here it all is! It's good to share.