[quote author=Alskling link=topic=3775.msg41860#msg41860 date=1170281641]
Quote:Hey you guys, stop picking on PowerSeller.   It's KaRay we don't have any respect for. Lets pick on him
I'll pick on any LIAR. According to PS's logic, if she sells her mother's old diamond engagement ring for $1000 to a Popper she buys 999 trading cards from for $1 each, she's a seller and not a buyer. And the OTHER Popper is a BUYER not a seller.
Frankly, I couldn't care less if PS a seller or a buyer, but to call yourself a seller simply because the dollar figure on sales (we're taking her word for it, anyway) is higher than that of purchases, is BS. She ignored all the other questions I asked her, and concentrated on this issue alone.
Same goes for WP. I couldn't care less if it's a cultist, elistist, private club run by a egocentric, selfish, greedy despot who presses a few buttons on his boxed software in his home office. Just say so. Claiming WP is any kind of ALTERNATIVE to eBay, is a flat-out lie. It is one big scam created by smoke and mirrors, and much of the way Ray conducts business is dangerously close to being illegal (although it could be argued that the line has been crossed on many occasions).
What amazes me about PS and Poppers like her is that they have NO PROBLEM aligning themselves with what appears to be a liar, con artist, and thief (in fact VOCIFEROUSLY defend him) as long as they get something out of it. What kind of ethics are those?
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Alskling my friend. We all once upon a time held the hope that WP would become an alternative to eBay. Because we wanted to believe it
would be for our own desperate but hopeful reasons. And that is why we each signed up for a store there in the past. Today we're gone because we learned or unearthed information that caused us to lose this hope and one by one we either quietly left or went out with an angry bang. Your wakeup call came earlier than mine, mine came earlier than a few others. Others got theirs as recently as days ago. As individuals we each have our own time limit for processing, sifting, accepting or rejecting information. Sorting out what matters and what doesn't to our personal situations.
By no means am I advocating that I agree with PS. I don't see her as a liar though - just that her logic has a few holes in it from our point of view. But, its her logic, her opinion, and she's entitled to it even though hearing it is frustrating for us. We've all stated many times that we do not wish the sellers on WP any harm. We've claimed that we support them and wish them the best while keeping our fingers crossed that they have their eyes wide open where WP is concerned. I'm still an advocate of these claims and I know you are too.
And directly in response to this line,
Quote:What amazes me about PS and Poppers like her is that they have NO PROBLEM aligning themselves with what appears to be a liar, con artist, and thief (in fact VOCIFEROUSLY defend him) as long as they get something out of it. What kind of ethics are those?
It's not that they don't have a problem with aligning themselves. They just don't see it as we do, they have no personal proof of it to drive it home. The twin towers come down and every American was devastated. They took is personally because if affected them directly. It disrupted their life. A hotel in Turkey gets blown up claiming thousands of lives. It's horrid but just an article to read in the next day's paper or watch on the 11:00 news before turning in for a good night's sleep. Because life in their sphere wasn't interrupted with the latter. Two horrible events presented as fact but the reaction to each was totally different.
Ray has not been stripped of his shiny skin therefore they can't see the poison percolating inside. And they won't until his fangs sink into them and make them sick. As we've hear in testimonials from many ex-poppers, that infectious bite can come at any time and for any reason that Ray feels is justification for mental, emotional or physical desertion of his philosophy. Totally unpredictable. When that happens and the shock wears off they'll remember our words. Beliefs are not necessarily a snapshot of someones ethics. Now this is just MHO but I needed to express it so my friends here can better understand how I see the human interaction in the present situation.
I hope I haven't offended anyone here.
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