So I still havent seen any sight of the loaner nor the interest, im wondering if his on vacation or something

bye bye ISK, at least he give you collateral.

Looking at some of those numbers 5b ISK seems a little low for him to aim for if he planned to cash out I would have thought?

5B is better than nothing.

Well certainly can't argue with that

Still, I reckon there would have been some folks who would have fronted up with a combined sum greater than 5b - but maybe I'm being overly optimistic/pessimistic.

I stole your stuff, and my soul has been consumed by greed like jello in a retirement home.

I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for RAW23's advanced eyebrow analysis techniques.

I wasn't interested in getting in to a situation where I was having to defend another blatantly obvious alt from RAW23's advanced eyebrow analysis techniques just so I could liberate an extra 25B.

I think it's important to know when to walk away from a failed scam, because time spent trying to salvage this would have been better spent on something else.

As you know, RAW23 was not the only one getting suspicious with "eyebrows analysis", in fact if I recall correctly I mentioned there's also (at least) another alt of yours "brewing up" on MD.

However I was a bit disappointed at getting out with just 5B, seeing the past bonds I'd have imagined a run off with say 20B or more, the rep grinding done would have allowed for that.

The "sub about to expire" thing does not convince me really much. Knowing you could at a minimum gather 10B and walk off, those additional 5B would have afforded the alt way more than a 1 month PLEX sub renewal. Basically you'd have put 700M or so on the platter to get off with 10B (if not 20, 1 month could afford you to accept a slow ISK trickle).

At times you take the bullet ... at times you dodge them , looks like i dodged a bullet a while back .

But I do feel that RAW23's clinical assassination of Blueprint Seller was pretty telling. With the underlying shill character totally discredited, he then had total traction on any accusations he cared to make about Speculation Dave.

Looks like the guy decided to cash out on his rep. The days of uncollateralized loans are really coming to a close.

We have you in our database now, punk. You will never set foot 100 AU near MD with those eyebrow again.

Yeah, I had 25B of public isk in my hands on that one.

But I wouldn't have been able to live with scamming you or VV. So I had to roll the dice some more.

That's a seriously scary image and will haunt my dreams but the eye-brow match is better than I imagined. I thought that was intellectually the weakest part of the analysis on Blueprint Seller whilst at the same time being the most satisfying from an intuitive perspective.

I'm still wondering if there was some role-playing going on with that one, with Bobby deliberately designing a character that looks like BB in disguise or after surgery, or whether there was just a subconscious leaning towards that look.

I hope there was deliberation involved, or else BB has some serious issues with his definition of beauty.

That's a seriously scary image and will haunt my dreams but the eye-brow match is better than I imagined. I thought that was intellectually the weakest part of the analysis on Blueprint Seller whilst at the same time being the most satisfying from an intuitive perspective. I'm still wondering if there was some role-playing going on with that one, with Bobby deliberately designing a character that looks like BB in disguise or after surgery, or whether there was just a subconscious leaning towards that look.

Somethingsomething is in the eyebrow of the beholder ?

Somethingsomething is in the eye of the beholder ?

Maybe it's less about the money itself (I get the impression that BB isn't going to care much about 20bil one way or the other) and more about amusing himself by seeing how hard he can scam while leaving not-so-subtle tells on his characters.