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So I saw this over at Hoop's blog the other day and it pretty much is the end of eBay for most collectibles.

The loss of eBay as a auction house has been happening for the past few years as they made it plainly clear by their changes they want online stores with fixed priced shit. And now, regardless of the convenience, being forced to use Paypal and keep dumping even more fees to eBay is just not going to be happening here at Plasticcrack.com.

Ok kids. It will happen quite soon.

Over the next few weeks I'll be pulling out stuff from storage and preparing the sale of the The Toy Collection Formerly Known As The Attic of Love But Now Has To Be Reduced To The Crack Den Of Love.

I've got a general idea of what has to go but until I start sorting I won't know for sure.

I definitely know what won't be going.

Stay tuned.

It'll take me a while to do this since I start the garage repairs in a few days but I'll try to do a few per week.

eBay Australia to only permit payment via PayPal (Wikinews)

I'm not much for the Ebays of the world anymore but I do understand their necessity for toy addicts.

But for Ebay, even just Ebay Australia, to basically force payment via their fully owned subsidiary Paypal seems a bit of bad form.

Of course, corporations typically can't be trusted to do anything really trustworthy when it comes to profit generation anymore.

So.

Aussies will have to 1) pay a fee to post an auction, 2) take a % hit when it sells, 3) take a hit when the Paypal transaction occurs, and then quite possibly 4) a % for volume traders.

Now I only bring Australian Ebay up because you know damn well 'Merican Ebay would gladly force all their users to use Paypal just like this if they could.

And quite frankly, I imagine something like this will happen in the future regardless of US anti-trust laws and such.

I'm wondering how many years Ebay has left in it.

The need for greed/profit will always trump everything else in business, especially those businesses that managed to start out relatively benign on the internets and succeed.

I like when customizers take some some liberties to repaint a toy.

I noticed this "Movie" Ultra Magnus custom today

The red works as-is, and I like just the small areas of blue in the cab for the flames to contrast against.

This custom Classic Megs is great too.

C'mon now.

Which one of you is gonna drop that extra $18,000 you have on stupid toys?

Your child can go without food for a few months.

They're young and resilient. They'll bounce back.

And you can have that Fortress Maximus and Monstructor you've always wanted.

I'm not one for really going to Ebay anymore. I find myself looking at links that some of you email me but on the whole, I can't remember the last thing I bid on or actually spent time looking for there.

I can't stand the keyword and category abuse that sellers do to place their shit in your face even when it has absolutely nothing related to your search term.

But I found myself there this afternoon and was both shocked and awed at some of the things I found.

Shocked - If anybody pays $800 for the 2005 Botcon "Descent Into Evil" box set then they need to seek mental help. The seller, thinking he can get $800 for that also needs to as well. This one, going for $99 is far more realistic. The set is worth at least that. $900 for that Seeker set is also frigg'n insane and totally not worth it.

Sorta Awed - This one guy who is selling his sketches to help he and his kid get to Botcon. If it is true, then I give him credit for trying something different. Hell... if his kid did the drawings, I'd commission a Shockwave done in the animated style from him. I'd probably frame it too.

Very Awed and Actually Sort of Shocked - That auction for that Jefire decoed Starscream with the huge NOT FOR SALE mark hasn't sold. Kudos to the TF fan boys out there for not buying that.

Shocked - Botcon 2005 Ratchet is still going for only the low hundreds? He's a damn fine figure and last time I saw them they were way higher. I still owe Evebird thanks for mine. He won one at the casino night thing and traded me it for one of the biker chicks (I think.) This Ratchet is one of those figures that I'll never give up.

Awe - Here's a damn fine G1 Scorponok for sale. No idea what the reserve is but I'd like to have that box and styrofoam!

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There are barely any PVCs on now. I wonder if they've dried up.

Bruticus posted a comment about this auction, supposedly for the panties Megan Fox wore in the Transformers film.

I had to save the image for posterity.

Stretchy yet clingy. Comes with a certificate of authenticity from the point of purchase guarantee that it was worn by the actor.

Should I bid?

This would be the strangest addition to The Attic of Love ever. That much IS certain!

So this morning I received a comment on an older entry from Zobovor, who was apparently the person who sniped an auction way back in April that I, Evebird, and obviously others were bidding on.

I don't have the links anymore and quite frankly I don't remember much more of the event other than what I posted.

Primarily he took offense at my animosity to the use of eBay sniping software and people who use it.

Now I'm opening this up to all of you out there because from previous comments and emails many of you have also implied how much you disdain sniping software as well.

For those geeks into this insane collectible crap, do you think auction sniping software is ok to use? Do you use it? If so, why? If you don't use it, why not?

I'm curious about what you all have to think on the matter.

So remember that woman trying to sell off those Transformers for $1,000,000?

Well I got this email, supposedly from her today, telling me auction is back up.

Apparently, it was yanked by eBay because of Megatron and the stupid "needs the orange tip" stuff.

Anyway, it is now starting a mere lowly $99,100.

I don't think she's ever going to sell this thing as a whole collection. I don't care if half of it goes to charity or whatever.

They are just toys.

And although some of you may get all hot and bothered by them and your panties will get all moist and bunched up... at the end of the day they are just toys.

Kelmeister sent me this link to a news report about that iPhone craziness.

The beauty of the report?

The chick who falls under my "Ebay Vermin/Whore" category getting totally pwned on camera!

I never thought I'd say this but thanks Apple and AT&T for the policy of only 1 phone per customer.

Wow! There's a Botcon 2005 Ratchet figure currently at $250. I didn't realize it was going for that much these days.

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Um. There is no such thing as a Rare White Cybertron Vector Prime variant. Oh Sure. There's the Hasbro white Cybertron Vector Prime that was released individually mass market and also in a 2-pack with Starscream. Not exactly rare there.

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There's a Car Robots Spychanger 6-Pack Giftset up for auction. I've only ever seen 1 before. It is one of the few Car Robots items I still need.

I don't believe in the AFA graded shit since all it does it give somebody the balls the add a shitload of money for what they want for something.

But I just gotta say... this Transformers Victory Deszarus really is incredible.

I have never ever seen an MISB that is so fantastically beautiful.

Why oh why would somebody be willing to pay $70+ for a figure that will be out in retail in a few weeks?

Prime will be what? $40 like usual.

Fortress and Brave keep whispering to me that they are lonely.

Should I?

Remember I wrote the other day about knowingly mistransforming toys depending on if I like the way it looks?

Well I just found something mistransformed that is actually really kind of funny given the final attempt to make the alt mode look plausible without instructions.

So I'm put'zn around ebay this morning and I came across a ton of new and extremely rare plastic crack that I have never had the privilege to actually physically see or hold.

And I love it in a totally non-gay way!

Hey all! I found a very low starting ebay auction for a Galaxy Force exclusive police-type Gasket.

He truly is awesomeness!

Some of you had emailed me about the one I got last year so now's your chance! And it is only at 99 cents right now!

Wow! Two days in a row of bad crazy auction wins.

This never happens to me.

My quest for bizarre and relatively rare shit continues with the addition of 2 exclusive (and fairly rare) Takara Masterforce "engines" Powermasters that were sold separately.

I've now go Masterforce Aquastar and Masterforce Zetoca, both single-packed Masterforce "engines".

Hopefully I can find those single Headmaster animal heads again.

Holy shit!

I actually won an auction with the extremely rare Takara PVC chase figures I needed and one of the even rare PVC chase/bonus part figures.

Cost me a shitload more than I really wanted to pay and contains a ton of PVCs I already have but I have never physically seen the chase/bonus colored Scorponok!

Insanely overlypriced awesomeness!

And I remember somebody recently emailing me about wanting to buy some PVCs.

Well... I'll have a ton for sale as soon as the items arrive!

So. You think this guy got a shitload of $20 clearance Cybertron Primii and now is trying to get over full price for them?

Don't know how long the link will work since it is timed.

Bad craziness.

Some of you have been emailing me about items I may have for sale and within the next 2 weeks, I'll be packing up the Attic of Love and also getting ready for the Columbus Toy and Comic show.

I've prepped a For Sale page where I'll post items, my asking price, and so forth.

I'll post when I update it,

w00zyguy sent me this link thinking I might want to bid on this auction.

Now I usually try to limit all geek-related shit to the Attic of Love™ since I that's my personal thing and I don't need my house guests knowing about my depressing habits.

However, with that said, a red autobot symbol on a white seat would work in the Shitter of Love™.

If I can find a cheap one, I still plan on putting a Hello Kitty toilet seat on the Basement of Love™ toilet next week.

Personally, I'm no fan of the G1 Ultra Magnus/Diaclone Powered Convoy toy mold.

And no, putting Predaking's head on it doesn't improve it either.

May I present to you the only Takara Ghost Starscream that I have ever seen up for auction on Ebay.

I almost passed by it with a few minutes left.

I was only going to do $65 since I have everything else. I emailed Evebird and it wasn't even moments later I decided to up my bit and sure enough, he'd taken it up to $88.

What's both awesome and sad at the same time was one guy that obviously had quite a high top rate (regardless of if he was using ebay or sniping software) but he himself got sniped at the very last minute.

Ebay needs to kill the ability to use the sniping software.

It is just wrong.

Fuckers.

What sucks more though is the remaining Takara Chase PVCs are where Evebird and I are actively trying to complete and competing all the way on.

Funny. I remember when he didn't give a shit about the PVCs.

Ebay scams are running rampant these days.

I've been on the receiving end of 2 of them these past few days.

I was bidding on a really rather nice set of G1 Road Caesar combiners (with the boxes to boot) as well as something else and within a day of bidding I got fraudulent emails from people who supposedly were the sellers asking me to buy the figures outside of Ebay.

It really pisses me off too since they somehow have my email addresses. I didn't think you could find that info any more from ebay, let alone who was bidding on a given item.

Of course, these emails were practically identical template-based emails with even the same spelling errors.

You expressed interest on an item. I'm the owner of that item on which you've recently bided on through the eBay system... Item title: MIB Road Caesar -- Individually boxed -- TF Victory -- Item number: 120102454356 and I've contacted you because I need to know if you are still interested to buy it... Email me as soon as posible with your answer because I must to know if is necesarly to find another buyer or if you can buy the item for a negociable price....If you accept this offer the eBay policy automatically proclaims you winner. The transaction will go strictly according to eBay's RULES and POLICY and will be supervised by eBay Trust & Safety Department. If you are interested just contact me... I am waiting a fast response!

I wonder how many people fall for the ebay scams and phishing emails.