The 'Dibs' Rule

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Any member can post a link to an ebay item and call dibs i.e. they are stating that they are intending to bid/buy that item, this member is the dibser.

We have a gentlemans agreement here that who calls it, gets it and no-one will bid against them.

Sometimes of course a certain item may be sought after by a number of members and the 'bastard' rule comes in to play. A competing member must reply to the dibs post with 'You bastard!' in the message body thereby signifying his/her intent to bid against the dibser. When the bastard rule has been called it is recommended that all parties communicate by PM to discuss maximum bids etc. This helps stop one member causing the auction price to go unnecessarily high.

Obviously we can't/don't enforce this but because we pride ourselves on our friendly atmosphere we hope you respect it Wink

Edit: 2nd dibs may be called in order to develop a bidder 'hierarchy'

2nd Edit: With regards to the bastard rule - The bastard rule can not be called on anyone of a higher rank than yourself with the exception on Chris H who can call it on anyone other than the board founder (Chet T16)

3rd Edit: On rare occassions an item may be bagged a.k.a bags or bagsied. This is dibsing in its highest form. Anyone found bagsing without due cause (e.g. your car is off the road, you need it for work and this item will get it fixed and stop you loosing your job) will be banned from all forms of dibsing for the period of 1(one) week. Repeat offenders will be brought to the attention of the admin team and a punishment decided.

4th Edit: If an item which you feel you need to bagsie has already had dibs called by someone you may enter a bagsie request in the dibs thread. It is the original dibsers choice whether to withdraw the dibs to allow the bagsie. Bagsie request should be cleary marked as such and include details of why you need to bags it

5th Edit: Any dibs called in which the incorrect ebay link is provided shall be considered null and void until such time that the correct link is placed in the original dibs

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

obey or be destroyed (or maybe just a banning) is the simple message here.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

I don't think it should be enforced in any way

Can't tell people what to bid for on ebay, just a gentleman's agreement.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I know neal its a joke.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

OK. it's all good Razz

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

I thought the bastard rule might have given it away Smile

Site Subscriber Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 2929

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I thought the bastard rule might have given it away

Na, that would be too obvious Rolling Eyes

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

see the 16S badge thread for an example

addie called DIBS, i called him a bastard, i won the auction . .

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Â£21

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

aye, but cheaper than buying and shipping a new one from france

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Erm ANY ren part can be ordered from ANY ren garage

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

u try getting them to get in a 16S badge then lol

none round here would even attempt it when i enquired a few months back and it took a lot of searching to get one of them to order in the model 16S from france that Neal and I have.

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Gimme part numbers

Hey look at me 3 weeks late!

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

77 00 800 629

is the part number for the 16S badge

look at me also 3 weeks late!

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Ok, i'll see what i can do, in a few weeks

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

so any luck Chettles ?

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Jesus christ stop hassling me, have some patience Laughing

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

i gave u 3 weeks, seeing as we seem to have been posting about it on a 3 week basis lol

Retroholic Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 3315

all seems fair and above board lol

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

As an all powerful mod the you bastard rule cannot be used on me, especially by Neal

Site Subscriber Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 2929

PMSL!!