The pricing drama here is out of control. And I think Wmac's thread is all the proof needed to back up that statement. That f*ckin' thread's gonna wind up being the basis for somebody's doctoral thesis someday.
Eh, I don't think you should get to exploit my flame thrower approach to a parasitical, profiteering manchild like wmac in order to help swing the pendulum in favor/defense of resellers and whatever prices they come up with to sort of help martyr them up - he's a specific individual (as am I), a specific case, the result of which was due to grudges against personality. I grew to detest him at a personal level and that had less to do with his pricing (although it started it) and more so with his character. He didn't deserve to profit a single penny from PCEFX and I personally would've probably erased all traces of him if I was the owner of the site long time ago before it ever came to animal ballz-flashing (personally though, that wily cat gave me the most lulz).
OK, I just read the full thread. The WHOLE. f*ckING. THREAD.
I thought I knew what Internet Insanity looked like. I was wrong. I think I've lost more respect and hope for the Human Race from reading that thread than any other event in my life.
That thread goes WAY beyond just being a simple flame war. I felt like I was watching a David Lynch film about flame wars! Everyone who seriously participated in that thread should be put away for life in a mental hospital.
Ah, cry me a river! If that's the worst you've seen, you don't get around the Internet much. Never run into a 20 week comment fight on Youtube or a GameFAQs situation ? Was it juvenile posting the animal photos ? Sure, but why not ? What's lulz for me, may not be lulz for you, I get it. The main point/purpose was to make it as unpleasant for him as possible, deter him from doing business here (then to shut his ass up). He's a parasite and earned it. I think I was actually about done with it 3 weeks ago, but the bitch kept coming back with his next lame meme to smart off at me, so it invited further aggression on my part to get him to f--k off. That's what led to the flame thrower approach of photo-bombing, etc.
Come to think of it though, you do get around actually, don't you ? When X.X.XSEED Games' Thomas Lipschultz started his flame rallying on Ancient Land of Ys a few years back, you were there in that one-stop bashfest hate session of talking a lot of shit behind someone's back who wasn't there to defend himself! You have seen worse actually... There wasn't spamming of photo memes or whatever, but it certainly was a bashfest that you contributed to with erroneous grievances to boot. I know you apologized, and we patched things up, but you still took part in that ganging up mentality and used something that wasn't true to back it up, etc.
Anyhow, where exactly is the real "beef" or "meat" to this alleged "reseller roast" against willis ?? willis != wmac... If he starts doing a "ballz of steel" bump after bump after bump after bump after bump, gets caught on a homebrew gouge attempt only to respond with a "
Oops on that one. But hey, stay out of my thread, whiners! Don't buy it if you don't like the price!" that's gonna draw out the knives... If you act professional, you can typically dodge a shitstorm which is true most anywhere. Avoid acting like wmac when dealing with critics, and you'll get along better.
eBay activity of NEC products is what's out of control and has been for a long time! Petty flame wars can't compare to that... eBay ranges may have been mainstreamed now to many people here since they're used to it, but when I look at it, it's still outrageous to me and to others, so there's still gonna be passionate dissent rather than just acceptance...
Anyway, I don't see how willis' head was ripped off here, hardly a witch hunt, the main complaint I saw was with Cotton and only a few sentences. Most of the writing in this thread and crying is coming from those trying to leverage all his good prices against the past PCEFX history of fighting against shitty prices in cases where it was more generally clear. He's got other good prices, great - I see that, but that doesn't mean "no criticism allowed" on others as resellers prefer.
As a side note, you're seemingly terrible negotiators/hagglers to me actually...
If you just come out of the box by default after walking into say a resale shop and slobber all over the seller/owner to tell him how great the prices are, shower him with praise, if there was any room for haggling down some, you closed that window on it from the start... Heh.