# Anybody up for a holiday round of Haggle?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 5, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904 "2007-12-05T13:57:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/1 "2007-12-05T13:57:55Z")
I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been pretty busy for the past five and a half months. 😃
For anybody who needs refreshing, the original haggle game thread that we had this spring/summer is [thread=421911]here,[/thread] and the original questions thread about it is [thread=417405]over here.[/thread] I’d be happy to moderate again, either here on the dope or off on some other forum, if people are interested.
We could do something with christmas-themed, and other winter holiday-based tokens and rules, assuming that noone would get offended about it. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/2 "2007-12-05T15:30:53Z")
I’m about it.
BYAHH!
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/3 "2007-12-05T15:36:27Z")
I’m in!
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/4 "2007-12-05T16:31:29Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger]
I’m about it.
BYAHH!
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Just to clarify, is this a signup, or were you meaning to say ‘I’m offended about it’ and left out the word ‘offended’? (Or ‘I’m thinking about it?’) It doesn’t seem like a complete sentence, even with the BYAHH! 😉
Edited to add: Okay, now that I’ve got a few replies… any suggestions about the timing this go-round? One week of trading? Also, if a mod happens to drop by, what’s the status of a game waiting list for here in MPSIMS? I didn’t happen to see a party or mafia/werewolf thread active.
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/5 "2007-12-05T18:10:25Z")
This one looked fun the last time. I’m in.
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/6 "2007-12-05T18:15:39Z")
Me too. Shit, you guys are going to tear me up though, very busy at work and I would like to have more time to Haggle. The good thing is that I now get up earlier and will probably be the first to post/haggle every morning.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/7 "2007-12-05T22:27:23Z")
Ahhh, what the hell…I can’t access the off-board Mafia site anymore, so I’ll go another round of this.
IN!
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/8 "2007-12-05T22:27:24Z")
Would there be any adjustments to game play? If I recall the last one slowed down considerably and came down to 3-4 players sporadically making half-hearted trades during the last week of game play.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/9 "2007-12-06T00:14:24Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver]
Would there be any adjustments to game play? If I recall the last one slowed down considerably and came down to 3-4 players sporadically making half-hearted trades during the last week of game play.
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I’ll be open to suggestions, and have already mentioned reducing the play time. Any other ideas?
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/10 "2007-12-06T00:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk]
I’ll be open to suggestions, and have already mentioned reducing the play time. Any other ideas?
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I am totally in! And this time I will do better (now that I know the mod is going to put a stop to all shady deals that would end up seperating fools from their money.)
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/11 "2007-12-06T00:41:13Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
Ahhh, what the hell…I can’t access the off-board Mafia site anymore, so I’ll go another round of this.
IN!
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Is that what happened to you? Why not?
Also, I appear to be next in line to mod mafia, look for a new SDMB game starting in about a week.
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### Author:  [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/12 "2007-12-06T03:33:42Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138]
Is that what happened to you? Why not?
Also, I appear to be next in line to mod mafia, look for a new SDMB game starting in about a week.
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NAF look at my second post in day three of Blade-runner. Hope you don’t mind I copied your post there Hal.
I’m in even though I’m clueless as usual.
Oh wait, when does this start? I’m going on vacation 12/19.
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### Author:  [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/13 "2007-12-06T03:45:50Z")
Or go here [Hal loses his connection to blade-runner](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9229770&postcount=7). Sorry for the lazy last post, it’s been one of those days. End of the semester. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/14 "2007-12-06T23:48:10Z")
[QUOTE=sinjin]
Or go here [Hal loses his connection to blade-runner](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9229770&postcount=7). Sorry for the lazy last post, it’s been one of those days. End of the semester. :dubious:
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AHH! Wow, that sucks for him.
Hal, does Vtunnel work for you, or is it too well known at this point?
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### Author:  [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/15 "2007-12-07T16:32:01Z")
so…
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### Author:  [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/16 "2007-12-07T19:40:19Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk]
Just to clarify, is this a signup, or were you meaning to say ‘I’m offended about it’ and left out the word ‘offended’? (Or ‘I’m thinking about it?’) It doesn’t seem like a complete sentence, even with the BYAHH! ;)\
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About it… you know? I’m all about watching the game tonight, or, I’m all about
going to the strip club at any time of day. Just kidding, I don’t really dig strip clubs. But, yes, I’m interested.
BYAHH! comes from the Dave Chapelle skit making fun of Howard Dean, and can be found here:
[http://www.buzzhumor.com/videos/2005/Dave\_Chappelle\_Howard\_Dean](http://www.buzzhumor.com/videos/2005/Dave_Chappelle_Howard_Dean)
By buddies and I use it to express sincere enthusiasm and/or agreement.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/17 "2007-12-09T16:58:30Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138]
so…
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Sorry, I was waiting to see if anybody else found this on their own.
So far we have:
Santo Rugger
jsgoddess
Drain bead
Uncommon Sense
Hal Briston
NAF1138
sinjin if the game will end before 12/19. USCDiver has commented on the thread but not otherwise expressed interest, as I read it.
I’m getting the impression that we’d have to do this off-board if we’re going to do it now, and I’m not sure if a google group or something else would be the best way to go about that. And do we want to just go ahead with 7-ish people or hold out for more?
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/18 "2007-12-09T17:35:36Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk]
I’m getting the impression that we’d have to do this off-board if we’re going to do it now, and I’m not sure if a google group or something else would be the best way to go about that. And do we want to just go ahead with 7-ish people or hold out for more?
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I would tend to prefer we wait until we can do it here.
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### Author:  [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/19 "2007-12-09T23:09:35Z")
i will give it a go
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/20 "2007-12-10T08:35:12Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk]
USCDiver has commented on the thread but not otherwise expressed interest, as I read it.
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I’m still trying to make up my mind. I enjoyed the last go-round for the first few days when there was a lot of action and it seemed like things were similar to how it might be played IRL. But with the preponderance of no-shows and **sachertorte** ’s auction it seemed to lose it’s appeal toward the end. Plus the bitter loss at the hands of **Hal Briston** (althought that was ALL **Doctor Who** dumb fault for a lazy, poorly thought out last minute trade).
For those who didn’t follow closely, in the last game I was winning going into the last day of trading mainly due to a combination of two rules (one was spelling your own username, the other involved mulitplying your bonuses for not duplicating a letter). Several of the players in the game (specifically me and Hal Briston) were at a significant advantage because we were able to satisfy both rules gaining a huge advantage. For me, 80 points for my username was tripled to 240, for Hal 100 points tripled to 300. I had been doing everything within my power to keep Hal from spelling his name because that would have tipped the scales in his favor considerably.
By my calculations (which were a bit off, but not by much), I was winning and **Doctor Who** was going to be second with **Hal** in third or forth. But in his shortsightedness, **Doctor Who** made a trade to **Hal Briston** which, while increasing the absolute point value of **Doctor Who** ’s portfolio, thrust him into a distant third place. Yes, I’m bitter.
Anyways, **chrisk** , I’d like to see your plans for the format of this round before I make my decision to play. I don’t see why we couldn’t have it on SDMB though, unless there is some Mod hesitancy to have too many game threads simultaneously.
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