Is this anything of importance?

Post by **PJS** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:23 pm

I learned a lot about this forum through many alts. My first was in January of 2003. Trust me, I know who most of you are. You just don't know me. It would be pointless to say who I was, because none of my past accounts were the real me.

I've never had a serious account, until now.

Post by **Dave** » Sat May 27, 2006 10:25 pm

fine, banned. fuck off unless you want to be honest, which could have included sending me a PM.

Post by **S@M** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:00 pm

dave the photographer gets angry - people get bant
its a rough world

Post by **spookmineer** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:02 pm

Or you could have sent him a PM...?

You're a party pooper

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:12 pm

S@M wrote:dave the photographer gets angry - people get bant
its a rough world

fickle artists, fact of life

Post by **PJS#2** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:20 pm

Dave wrote:fine, banned. fuck off unless you want to be honest, which could have included sending me a PM.

I was completely honest, you dumb cunt. I kinda figured the almighty admin would know this. Though, I'm sure the real reason you banned me was to earn the laughter of your fellow peers. Shame, I don't see too many loling this time. Either that or you're jealous that I have in my posession, an ancient, Egyptian artifact.

Now, in all seriousness, if I PMed you my original user name, would that make you so happy as to unbanning PJS?
You could delete this temp user for all I care...
*Predicting that dave will say no, blurt a few words relating to the female genitalia, IP ban me, followed by user after user saying "lol", not necessarily in that order... but we shall see what's to come of it*

Post by **SplishSplash** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:23 pm

LOL @ Dave banning the newbie (again in a few seconds)

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:25 pm

this is why no one loves us

Post by **plained** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:37 pm

aaw C'mere' chunk pally :huggarmsopen:

*grabs ass

Post by **losCHUNK** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:44 pm

**slips tounge

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:48 pm

I didn't go trough the whole thread but just something you might want to know about artifact...
I once bought from eBay an egyptian artifact for 120$
Once UPS delivered it they asked me for another 100$ for duties.
Electronics, PCs, cameras=no duties but artefacts and jewelries is something else, same for paintings and sculptures.

Post by **PJS#2** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:59 pm

pete wrote:I didn't go trough the whole thread but just something you might want to know about artifact...
I once bought from eBay an egyptian artifact for 120$
Once UPS delivered it they asked me for another 100$ for duties.
Electronics, PCs, cameras=no duties but artefacts and jewelries is something else, same for paintings and sculptures.

That's interesting. I don't understand though. How do they know if it's an artifact, jewelry or whatever? They are just delivering a package. I think I can agree with you somewhat. Perhaps it's only "authentic" things with a special sticker or whatever that require a fee for duties.

And by duties, do they mean doing the same job they do for every other package, or are these duties a sort of insurance...maybe if it's something of signifigant value it's not only delivered, but they secure heavily it and make sure it arrives safely.

Can anyone else add some input?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:21 am

PJS#2 wrote:
pete wrote:I didn't go trough the whole thread but just something you might want to know about artifact...
I once bought from eBay an egyptian artifact for 120$
Once UPS delivered it they asked me for another 100$ for duties.
Electronics, PCs, cameras=no duties but artefacts and jewelries is something else, same for paintings and sculptures.
That's interesting. I don't understand though. How do they know if it's an artifact, jewelry or whatever? They are just delivering a package. I think I can agree with you somewhat. Perhaps it's only "authentic" things with a special sticker or whatever that require a fee for duties.

And by duties, do they mean doing the same job they do for every other package, or are these duties a sort of insurance...maybe if it's something of signifigant value it's not only delivered, but they secure heavily it and make sure it arrives safely.

Can anyone else add some input?

To my best knowledge, they value the item and then get you to pay a certain % of it for taxes purposes. Someone tell me if I'm wrong but this is what I understood from a duty clerk.

Post by **Dek** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:27 am

Looks to me like a Ushabti... covered those in a half hour presentation this past semester..

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educat ... abti.shtml

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:36 am

You say you found this item in your posession yet it is photographed in 2 seperate cases that appear to be red and green velvet or something. If you found it as you say, why would you bother to take pics of it in seperate cases just to post the pics here. I call bullshit.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:40 am

Dek wrote:Looks to me like a Ushabti... covered those in a half hour presentation this past semester..

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educat ... abti.shtml

Exactly what I bought at the time. That's a non frequent word that you can remember. It says that every family had a few of them at the time to protect them from malicious... To protect them.

Post by **Dave** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:03 am

Jesus F. Christ, was that so hard? Now that I know who you are, I don't know why you were banned so I will let you come back. Next time don't be so full of yourself.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:05 am

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:06 am

Lol, guess he thought he was more infamous than reality?

Post by **Dave** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:06 am

Massive Quasars wrote:

It's my prerogative.

scourge34 wrote:Lol, guess he thought he was more infamous than reality?

Just a little bit...

Post by **PJS** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:38 am

Dek wrote:Looks to me like a Ushabti... covered those in a half hour presentation this past semester..

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educat ... abti.shtml

Great find. That's exactly what I have.

Post by **PJS** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:52 am

scourge34 wrote:You say you found this item in your posession yet it is photographed in 2 seperate cases that appear to be red and green velvet or something. If you found it as you say, why would you bother to take pics of it in seperate cases just to post the pics here. I call bullshit.

lol now I see what you were getting at when you said...

Did it also come with the red and green cases?

Let me explain...those aren't cases, and I didn't photograph anything.... It's scanned. I am guessing those red and green lines you see are some sort of discoloration from the scan because I couldn't shut the lid over a 3D object like that. The lid comes off so I just set it on top. The gray in the background is actually a solid, white colored, thin sheet of plastic over a somewhat thicker piece of foam, meant to keep paper firmly in place for scanning, as most people who own scanners probably know.

And if you're gonna ask how I got the statue and its many broken pieces to lay facing frontwards on the scanner; I layed a piece of cardboard under it, flipped it, put it on the scanner, then pulled the cardboard out from underneath.

Hope that clears it up. Why would I make up a lie like that?

Post by **PJS** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:55 am

pete wrote:
Dek wrote:Looks to me like a Ushabti... covered those in a half hour presentation this past semester..

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educat ... abti.shtml
Exactly what I bought at the time. That's a non frequent word that you can remember. It says that every family had a few of them at the time to protect them from malicious... To protect them.

You bought yours for 120$. How good of condition was yours in?

Post by **Scourge** » Sun May 28, 2006 2:55 am

PJS wrote:
scourge34 wrote:You say you found this item in your posession yet it is photographed in 2 seperate cases that appear to be red and green velvet or something. If you found it as you say, why would you bother to take pics of it in seperate cases just to post the pics here. I call bullshit.
lol now I see what you were getting at when you said...

Did it also come with the red and green cases?
Let me explain...those aren't cases, and I didn't photograph anything.... It's scanned. I am guessing those red and green lines you see are some sort of discoloration from the scan because I couldn't shut the lid over a 3D object like that. The lid comes off so I just set it on top. The gray in the background is actually a solid, white colored, thin sheet of plastic over a somewhat thicker piece of foam, meant to keep paper firmly in place for scanning, as most people who own scanners probably know.

And if you're gonna ask how I got the statue and its many broken pieces to lay facing frontwards on the scanner; I layed a piece of cardboard under it, flipped it, put it on the scanner, then pulled the cardboard out from underneath.

Hope that clears it up. Why would I make up a lie like that?

That does make it a bit clearer so to speak. Anytime I've ever tried to scan anything but paper it comes out very washed out with way too much outside light which is why I never would have guessed that they were scanned.

Post by **Grudge** » Sun May 28, 2006 9:51 am