Bemanistyle

The title says it all. On Tuesday, I bought this item on eBay, which promised to include a Pump It Up USB soft pad, two Pump It Up PC games, and a “Complimentary Music CD.” I was skeptical - the seller had very little feedback, and all the PIU PC games are incredibly rare. But I figured at less than $100 shipped it was entirely worth the risk.

I thought it was even more likely to be fraudulent after I saw the seller put up another instance of the same thing, the same day my auction closed. But I held out hope.

Today I got my Pump It Up USB soft pad, two Pump It UP PC games (Evolutionary-US and PREX3, FYI) and my “Complimentary Music CD” (which turned out to be the Banya Original Collection game CD), all perfect and untouched (though Banya wasn’t in the original game case).

I’m in shock. I’m in awe. I’m in ecstasy. But even in my current off-the-wall state, I have come here to report to you, my loyal readers (all two of you) that there is currently a(nother) bundle of PIU Evolutionary, PREX3, Banya, and USB softpad, with a starting bid of $97.01.

For those of you involved in the beatmaniaiidx.com themes project, here are some useful links:

Here’s this guy who’s done the layout component of a generic theme and uploaded it, allowing us to just fill in the graphics we want.

Here’s the official guide to writing themes.

Here’s the set of themes kept on file at WordPress. By the way, the one I’m adapting for Happy Sky is called JustBlue - it should be near the top in that display.

Post to be updated as more links reveal themselves to me.

A couple of weeks ago, someone on BMS offered to sell me DDR:SNJP at a reasonable price. I was interested, but told him that if I made the purchase I would need to have him hold the game for upwards of two weeks while I relocated. I offered to go ahead and pay him when we closed the deal in case he didn’t want to wait for his money.

He said this was no problem and cashed my check. 2.5 weeks later, he posted in my thread saying, “Dude, I guess you dont want your game… If you dont reply back, I will ship it to the old address.”

Why do people agree to terms they have no intention of following through on? I blame the EULA, myself - people have learned that they can sign a huge contract and then get out of it later by claiming they didn’t read the whole thing and it wasn’t fair to expect them to. Naturally this leads via slippery slope to people refusing to read a two-line disclaimer repeated three times in prominent positions.

Naturally.