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I'm amazing. Just trying to Make CGC Forums Great Again. This place used to be so fun and everyone used to be on the same side. It's so strange lately.

The usual playbook: A good defense is a strong offense and when I lose instead of admitting it, I hurl insults and run for cover. Honestly can't believe there are now CGC board members defending poor business practices You should look up Mewing. I've been practising it since I was a teenager. No mouth breathing allowed.

He really is. We're good friends and I genuinely love the guy.

This is quite unbelievable. Or believable, I guess in the new Idiocracy we live in these days. Instead of admitting you two were WRONG for defending a bad business practice, you're going to blame the buyer for having to wait excessively for replies, a wrong tracking number AND to receive his item. And then, you try to disparage the buyer by insulting them...with misinformation about them. Wow. Everyone is watching and can finally see that some people just have broken ideological programming and non-functioning logic systems. Keep digging.

I read this on another forum (OR ELSEWHERE) but it certainly belongs in this discussion and brings back the discussion to comic books. This is Herb Trimpe's account, through his personal journal writings of how he was mercilessly fired from Marvel after working for them for nearly 30 years. What is nice about the account is that even though he hits times of extreme negativity and depression, he manages to spin it into a positive and reinvent himself. Even in his older age. What a great read if you have the time to narrate the struggles of a blue collar working at the mercy of Marvel. Old Superheroes Never Die, They Join the Real World

I have more hair on my head but I'm truly jealous of the beard he's able to grow. Mine always has Keanu Reeves holes in it.

The real question is what can be done about it? And the only real answer is the same solution to nearly every problem we face whether it's Climate Change, world peace or reducing corruption in all areas of business.... The solution has always been tightening the family unit, raising better families and educating them to empower them. It's really that simple. When you have a nation of children who have food, education and will choose to pay for their spotify songs rather than rip them from the internet then you're headed in the right direction. There really is no other lasting solution. Every other solution will be top down and leave itself open to capture and corruption. The best solutions always come from the inside out.

Ahem. It's VINTAGE. Victory is Jeff Weaver and while we're good friends (and he's a former / honorary Canadian) I refuse to be mistaken for him. He's shorter and hairer than I am.

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I'm simply trying to show the breadth of corruption. No matter which industry it is, the potential for corruption is the same.

I have been writing about this on this forum for decades. I've even posted links to studies showing / proving how the more money is involved the more corrupt an organization becomes. Power ALWAYS tilts towards corruption and authoritarianism and the more money and power that is involved the more tilting toward corruption and authoritarianism there will be. It's pretty much established law. It doesn't matter the field: eBay, the news, Big Pharma - anything. None of them really care about people. They only care about profit and continuing to increase profit at any cost. I have been OPPOSED by some prominent forum members for writing about this. I can name names if you want. Why? Likely because their money is invested the corporations I criticized. The big question is how do you change it? BTW, thanks for posting the links!

You're avoiding the part of the discussion that proves that the people at the top don't care about any other people. So by extension, if you're supporting them you're supporting their practices. Wasn't it you that grilled me for taking money from Doug Schmell because he had dishonest business practices in the past? How is supporting CEOs and their corporations by "putting your money to work" in their slimy hands any better, especially when it's evident that their business models are built on the destruction of anyone below them?

Hilarious. I missed that but should have known by the tail. I remember this one time this herd of cattle broke out in Florida in the area we were staying in and were roaming around suburban, semi country neighborhoods. Me and my friends tried to herd them and corralle them using our cars. There were DOZENS of them. That was a fun night.

1st, the tail is still wagging. The horse ain't dead. 2nd, there are still unresolved issues. So the discussion should stay open until they are resolved. You can only get to the truth of any matter by open, transparent discussion. Anybody who wants to obfuscate discussion would only doing so because they have something invested in the outcome of the discussion and often it's because they were wrong. 3rd, I think trying to distract the discussion with the 'beating a dead horse' GIF is pretty funny because a) the horse isn't dead so you chose the wrong GIF and b) if this was 5 years ago and someone was avoiding communication for over a week with multiple deals hanging in the air while logging into the forums, that person would have been ROASTED for it. How far have we lost our way when we are starting to make excuses and distractions for the people who are in the wrong while shifting blame onto people who are in the right? What kind of a clown world is this that some live in? I shake my head.

I'd like to thank you for your avatar and say that Elon Musk is probably earth's greatest hero at this time in our existence.

You're AGREEING with others I disagree with using emoticons. To me, that states that you are disagreeing with my points, since I wholeheartedly disagree with their points. It's funny, but no matter what the issue, the same people seem to line up on the same sides. And everyone who disagrees with me is usually on the wrong side.

Hover your cursor over my profile, hit the Ignore button.

Just to be clear, I wasn't really asking for a rule change. I just wanted to have the discussion (just like we did about a decade ago) so that the community, especially new members can get a sense of what the expectations here are. That's all. As always, I'm happy to abide by what the majority feels is correct. And this isn't directed at you, but if someone doesn't want to have the discussion they can leave the thread rather than tell people what they should be posting about.

No. No. No. Why are we constantly trying to help people excuse poor behavior? You will have less people selling here if the boards are full of shady selling practices than losing one or two sellers who can't comply with social norms. You are criticizing the wrong people. You have it backwards. Again. Being too nice is just as bad as not being nice enough. There is a middle road to every relationship where most reasonable people can agree things should be. And I fully agree that if you have a stipulation in your sales thread that your communication may be sparse THEN people can choose whether or not to deal with that seller. I myself have had that stipulation in my sales threads when I've been busy. That's common decency and common sense. Yes.

Ah, you and maybe 2 other people seem to be arguing against the rest of the forum and simple logic. You stated that the forums have a mechanism if someone doesn't respond within 30 days. I stated that that is FAR too long to wait for a reply. You stated and I will copy / past it here: It simply does not matter that someone doesn't respond to you in one, or two, or even three days (just going by your extremely strict standards here) whether or not they are in the middle of a blizzard or just didn't feel like it. What matters is whether the transactions are completed and no one gets screwed. Then you can make a personal decision as to whether or not to do business with someone who doesn't communicate well. It matters in the sense that we should have a REASONABLE EXPECTATION of timely communication. Yes, ultimately if the deal is consummated and nobody is out money but it certainly creates a lot of turmoil when your money is hanging in the air. ----------------------------- I took all of the above as your position being 29 days of communication is fine. I know others took it that way too because they wrote it to me. So, to be clear 29 DAYS TO WAIT FOR COMMUNICATION IS NOT OK AND NEVER WILL BE. <<<-------This is all I'm arguing with you at this point. Glad we got that straightened out.

Totally agree. If there is no commitment then there is no set timeframe on answering questions, although it is polite to respond. The only questions I won't respond to is when someone asks me something that is proprietary and even then, I'll often say "I can't answer that." So you're saying 48 hours is acceptable, and that's a fair opinion. For some people $100 is what $1000 is for others. I don't think the value of the deal should change what is considered a courteous and acceptable time frame for a reply.

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Moving this into a more appropriate discussion thread because that other thread is more about working out the deals between the specific seller and his buyers. So what you're saying is that if I tie up $1000 and commit to buying a book from a seller, if that seller doesn't reply for 29 days I have to keep my $1000 committed to that seller? That might be fine if you're Elon Musk and have the GDP of a small to medium sized country, but most people can't afford that. I want to know within a reasonable period of time whether my money is going to be committed to that deal. Knowing in 30 days is not how business works. That's socialism. Not capitalism.