Hi I'm new to the o-review and wanted to make my first contribution to the site, hopefully you guys get a kick out of this.

It is about the guy selling the complete frogskins collection on eBay.



http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/articles/Freakin-Frogskins-Collector/?source=nl

Ah yes, O-gear trying to unload his collection again. It didn't sell back then, and it won't sell now. Not for $30k+ anyway. I wonder if he ever got proof the EB 3D glasses were legit? He wasn't sure when he first offered it.

2 words come to mind

fail
douche

Heavy on the DOUCHE.

Hey guys, I have personally met O-Gear. His name is James, and he's a really nice guy. The reason he put his collection up on ebay was to garner attention to it, much like how we put our collections on show here on O-Review. He knows full well that his collection is not worth 38K. He intentionally priced it too high for anyone to seriously consider. He has a much better collecting acumen than anyone I've seen on this site, save Dann and Terrorism. His devotion to the perfect collection is enviable. His contacts within Oakley are unrivaled anywhere. He collects for the sake of collecting alone. Make him an offer on any single pair of Frogskins, and he'll turn you down, just because he's a completionist. We all share his malady, he just happens to have more resources than most of us. He also has every Razor Blade ever, every Gascan, and a few others. He does have a few random pairs on eBay, and yeah they're expensive, but they're cheaper than other pairs. For example, he sold a Moda3 Splatter for $350. There are assholes right now hocking a "common" Neon Yellow/Fire for $449. If he gets his hands on something rare, he keeps it, if he gets more than one, he passes it on. He posted the Valentines Frogskin for $4000 just so people could see it existed, back when there were only rumors. He had no intention on selling it, and he priced it as such. He was aware of O-Review, but when he got on the site, he couldn't find a sign-up feature, so he thought we were a good-ol-boy kind of network. I was cruising this site for more than a month before I got desperate and sent Dann an email begging to be let on. When I told him that's all he had to do, he was on this site for all of a day before he was booted. I'm sure someone reported him as a scalper. One of the reasons he wanted to get on was to share a few of his rare pieces with true collectors. He had an extra DQM and a Knight Rider that he was going to post at $350 apiece. I'd call both of those a bargain. When he gets his hands on another DQM or Livestrong, he's promised them both to me. That's not the sign of a scalper, that's the sign of a collector who wants to help out his fellows. When an employee of our local Vault injured his arm and was away from work for a while, James went out of his way to get a Woodgrain Montefrio, Scott's holy grail, which were going for between $150 and $250 that week, for him and took it to his house, over 100 miles away from James' home, just to help him feel better. If anyone is impugning his values, then they are impugning mine as well. I'm actually quite ashamed of how we've treated him, and I apologize for our actions whenever I see him.

hmmmm

I've also communicated with James via e-mail, and he really seems to be a decent guy. At first I scoffed at his auction, but after communicating with him about it had a better understanding of why he was doing what he was doing. Not a bad guy IMO.

glad to see there are two sides to the story represented on here. This was not meant to bash o-gear, but analyze the interview and check out the pictures of his collection that are also on the link.

2 sides to every story ... I can appreciate that. Has he ever heard of flickr or facebook?!?? Those are nice ways to share some pics and a collection as well.

Hmmmmm. Interesting. I can respect that, but yeah, there are lots of other ways share a collection with the public. He could also have listed his collection for an obviously ridiculous price of like "$999,999" or something. $38K could sound almost reasonable in the minds of some of the true scalpers out there for that much stuff.

Glad to hear he's not scum like the rest of them.

Just read a little part of that article, then glazed over the rest, because how can you call yourself a collector if your trying to sell the whole lot off??

He might be a swell guy, but that is just one massive publicity stunt, end of story.

That settles it. My collection's headed straight for eBay with a BIN of $600,000.00 USD. Shipping will be a bit extra, though.

I'll offer $599,999.00, shipping included!

Terrorism, you know your collection is probably close to that...

Also, regarding the entire "publicity stunt," he was contacted by the magazine after one of their guys saw the listing on eBay.

If it were me, I would have done a different layout than he did, just putting them all on a table. I would've put the DQM in a Cube 3.0 with a bacon-scented air freshener, just so whenever opened, you'd get to experience so much more meaty goodness.

The Blends would lend itself to a rainbow theme...

Good summary, Lee. Your last sentence pretty much summed up what some of us are thinking. All this reminds me of when Predulicious put up his collection up for $1 million on eBay.