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The name ... came from my website, as did the name "Bobbie"...
Oh yeah, there was a creepy guy who went by "Baby Lickety-Split" who hung around I thiiiink Dream Valley chat. And by "creepy guy" I mean he tried to get young girls to send him inappropriate photos and cyber with him and so on. I think he was eventually driven out.
I guess the last thing my website did came in the form of a small email I have saved someplace. It was from a Hasbro designer that had seen a graphic I drew and wanted to know how I created a light effect in Glory's eye when I drew her. That little color stripe in the G3 eyes- that came after.
Oh yeah, the scammers . . . I think it was Lexi who posted an auction for "Mimic" on eBay, then sent the winner a PHOTO of Mimic. She was incorrigible. No matter how many times she was caught, you could be sure she would pop up again.There was another frequent scammer, I think his name was Roy?This was back when people mostly sent money orders and checks and even cash (especially on international sales), so it was much harder to get money back after being scammed!Speaking of checks: if you sent a check to an eBay seller, they would wait two weeks to make sure your check didn't bounce. eBay shipping in general was much slower than it is today; you just dealt with it.eBay sellers were not responsible for items lost in the mail, so you just hoped they wouldn't get lost (or that you had an extraordinarily nice seller).
Quote from: LadyMoondancer on June 06, 2016, 12:38:42 PMOh yeah, the scammers . . . I think it was Lexi who posted an auction for "Mimic" on eBay, then sent the winner a PHOTO of Mimic. She was incorrigible. No matter how many times she was caught, you could be sure she would pop up again.There was another frequent scammer, I think his name was Roy?This was back when people mostly sent money orders and checks and even cash (especially on international sales), so it was much harder to get money back after being scammed!Speaking of checks: if you sent a check to an eBay seller, they would wait two weeks to make sure your check didn't bounce. eBay shipping in general was much slower than it is today; you just dealt with it.eBay sellers were not responsible for items lost in the mail, so you just hoped they wouldn't get lost (or that you had an extraordinarily nice seller).LOL, remember when someone went to Roy's house?
That was JLM who went to Roy's house. She was talking about doing it at the Michigan pony meet I attended back in 2002 I think. I *think* she went directly there after the meet since Roy lived in Michigan at the time. She went to his house, and together the two of them took silly pictures of Roy wearing a boa and posing next to some of the ponies he stole from other members. JLM was there to take pictures and hang out with Roy(they were friends), not to recover any of the ponies. Not that you could tell whose ponies they were anymore anyway. Roy was into stealing stuff, not taking care of it. He destroyed most of the ponies he stole from what I could see when the pictures were posted. I don't remember if he thought it was art or something, but most of the ponies in the pictures had their hair hacked to bits, and a lot of them were colored with permanent markers and other things.