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So . . . that went well.

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Pipswich wrote: Call me a liar, as you will, but that's a red herring.

No, it's quite simply not. A red herring would be me throwing something in here to try and cloud the truth, kind of like you just did about 20 times in your previous two posts and now this one as well. You lied and again got busted.  The End.

Pipswich wrote: Second, If you decide to "massage" the numbers and choose to look at only the last 300 feedbacks as representative of my totals and then compare it to your absolute total instead of my absolute total, you can skew the numbers any way you want.  Why not just wait until I leave a single negative and claim I am an asshole and leave 100% negatives.  

Massage the numbers?    I took the numbers over that time frame because that is when you have picked up a majority of feedback on your account from buying.  I am not going to count 8 years of no buying and thus no feedback as that kind of defeats the purpose. You don't get credit for 8+ years were you weren't actually buying anything. Sorry.

Pipswich wrote: And as for you leaving that much feedback over ten years and being so insistent that it must be close to your total, it is clear that we are on polar opposite ends of how to handle life and business.

No dispute there.  I am up front and honest and try to work with people as I understand that mistakes happen and only resort to leaving negatives and poor DSR's when I have no ther choice.  You on the other hand are secretive and vindictive and look for reasons to screw people over who don;t bend to your every whim when you are buying. You seem to take the utmost pleasure in leaving people poor feedback and bad DSRs, almost to the point that you want people to "wrong" you.

Pipswich wrote:The general theme is...
"You all can kiss my ass! "

Wow, that hurts.

And speaking of "red herrings":

Pipswich wrote: "I reported this guy 2 or 3 times myself last week and Ebay has done nothing at all. I have basically just given up. Maybe somebody needs to come along and vigilante his a$$ with some negs."

Ahh, yes.  Exactly, what I would do defend a fraudster to try and make yourself seem better. You are doing pretty good here.    

Pipswich wrote:or more recently..

"I'd contact my local police department first, they should be able to direct you in what to do. I'd also Neg him right now and if you haven;t yet, file your Payapl claim. "

Do you mean as opposed to calling a "Federal Marshall" as you suggested?  I bit my toungue then, but since you want to bring it up again, let's.  What exactly is a "Federal Marshall" going to do?  They hunt down people on the run from the law.  They don't deal with petty Ebay criminals who haven't even been convicted of a crime yet.  

Beyond that, I am failing really hard to see how the advice I gave in that situation was in way shape or form wrong. I will eagerly await your response.

Pipswich wrote: Many of your first hundred emails note that you work at a bank and you spend hours posting about the illegality of people selling pdf's.  (The truth is you are just a self serving guy with situational ethics as when your business was compromised by the pdf's... you took the high road... but when ebay raises your fees you respond..

Ho w am I "self-serving" when I decry people doing illegal things?  Or is this just our way of saying think breaking the law is okay?  And how exactly does my bad feelings about Ebay now and speaking out about it have anything to do with it?  Truthfully and perhaps a lot more searching through old posts you will see, I have never been very fond of Ebay as it was.  I like the venue and I liked being able to sell stuff, but there utter disregard for people stealing and there inability or complete refusal to enforce copyright laws has always been a point of contention of pretty much EVERYONE here. Nothing has changed in that regard.  Not really seeing as to how any of that is "self-serving".  I guess when all else fails, just make some stuff up.

Pipswich wrote: "I am not sure that I could really care any less about "defrauding" Ebay.  Ebay sucks and they do everything they can to milk as much money out their sellers as possible and it has gotten nothing but WORSE since I started  on there going on 10 years ago now. I do not think that people should be able to get away with trying to rip buyers off with outrageous S&H costs, because from a moral standpoint as also a buyer I loathe it, but it has absolutely NOTHING to do with Ebay."

This again? Your failure to understand that whatever people charge for S&H is not fraud.  You can say it a million more times if you want, its won't be anymore true now that it was the first time.

Pipswich wrote: This one is hard for me to believe you wrote...

"Unfortunately, its true we all can't get along, but while we here in this forum we might as well try right."

"Wow, no reply behind my post today, I must have scared everybody away from this topic."
You mean you don't really have to be tough to threaten people by email?
...wading into the fray.....
I am not on anybody's "side" in this, but this argument is getting quite tired. I wish we could all just move on to something more interesting,."

Ahhh, from the Maxwell incident, I remember it fondly.  You are really, really reaching.  I am not surprised.  It would really help your case if you actually KNEW what took place then, but hey I get that you are trying to cloud the fact you got busted for lying. What exactly does this have to do with the fact you lied again?  Weren't you just saying something about "red herrings".    

Pipswich wrote:I know that I should probably butt out, but IMO this has gotten way out of control. There seems to be a lot of hard feelings on all sides over what was supposed to have been a given away module."

More from the Maxwell incident. Again, a history lesson and actually knowing what was going on would serve you better, instead its just making you look even worse. Continue though.  

Pipswich wrote:"Why does it seem like half of these idiots are from Pennsylvania. It is starting to make me feel defensive."[/quote
Hmmmm, picking out more quotes from the pdf'er thread. Because again it is wrong of me to not like people who breach copyright and exploit other peoples hard work for profit themselves. Is this supposed to be making your case better somehow?

Pipswich wrote:You were probably lucky on that one, as I have seen lots of sellers respond with a big fat NEG, even though your feedback was clearly warranted.

Yes, because me telling someone that they were lucky to not have got a neg from a seller who they left a neutral for is like really, really wrong.     I should have never ever have done such a horrible thing.

Pipswich wrote:"Are you a newb, an impostor or is this a new ID for the original IO?"

Oh, yes another one of the things that I did "wrong".     We already had a guy who posts under the ID of invincibleoverlord and we had a new person join using InvincibleOverlord. My asking them if they were the same person or not was bad, bad, bad.

Pipswich wrote:You clearly have had some major issues with other members here...

No doubt about that.  They all pretty much share the same thing in common with you.  They lied. And in some circumstances, cheated other members here either through dishonesty and in couple circumstances shilling their own auctions.  Of course I am guessing that you think those things are okay to, since you are now looking to join hand in hand with those very same people. Good Luck!

Pipswich wrote:"Brian this is a confirmation that you have some problems not with me only: this is the first and last time i will reply on this topic so it is not relevant your reply and i invite you not to reply anymore on this matter (or you will confirm to everybody that the problem is not me).

The first time you blocked me is due to an out-of-ebay deal where you sold me a Little Soldier booklet different from the picture you sent me before the agreement. Useless to say, the real item was far worse than the one in the picture.

This second time are you pissed by what? Pls dont tell me for the neutral FB for they didnt wasted your rating or credibility..."

And the Aia incident.  Yes, yes. The buyer who left me neutral feedback because I didn't lie on his customs forms and he had to pay a customs tax to get it. I guess lying on customs forms which happens to be against federal law is somehow good in your eyes, right?

I guess it's okay to defraud the government, just not Ebay!!!1111one!!11eleven!!11

Pipswich wrote:Oh... and you claim that I shouldn't have more hassle than you with sellers but you clearly CAREFULLY and based solely on your feelings block bidders..
"My list is slightly longer. Then again, I have slightly less tolerance for idiocy then most, I also have been know to preemptively block people that I see as bad and I have been at this for a while."

Yep, I do. Back when Ebay's feedback system wasn't a complete joke allowed for bad buyers to be pointed out through negative feedback, if I saw a buyer such as yourself who always seemed to have problems with sellers, I blocked them pro actively.  Why would I want to deal with a buyer who was going to unfairly cause me headaches?

Besides that, again, what exactly does this have to do with anything? I mean other than to try and again cloud the issue that you got busted for lying?

Pipswich wrote:This is a beauty.... A thread dedicated to you being a jerk.  Wow!  I am not alone in my opinion of you Brian!

bclarkie wrote:


That's "many" enemies?  Laughing  4 on-line people who are pathetic beyond description in their lies, deceptions and trooling activity to follow it all up?  Aside from the fact that 4 people don't eqate "a lot" in very many people's interpretations, but you clearly value your own on-line "presence" a hell of a lot more than most people do. Normal people typically don't feel threatened by "enemies" errrr...forum trolls.

Again though, please continue to troll away, as you quite clearly crave that attention that comes along with it that you so desperately seek. Hopefully though, you will at least get a little better at that, because as of right now you still aren't very good at it all. Then again, as noted above, that's kind of par for the course.  Laughing


no i think you're a douchebag too so you can also count me. that would make five just on this forum. i get the feeling your neighbors have it in for you too and probably the guys you used to trade DAT tapes with (strange you'd be so harsh on mp3 downloaders with that in your closet... oops, sorry if that wasn't public info). i'd guess the christmas card to boxed feces arrival ratio at the bclarkie household in december is something like 50/50.

as for trolling, give it a rest. you started this crap."

Yes, yes. Yet ANOTHER great example.  A guy who had been banned from the forum multiple times(something that the admin has done I think a total to a total of 6 or 7 people total tops since the forum creation over 6 years ago) getting upset at me for busting him as well.  I am starting to see a trend here....

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Pipswich wrote:You are managing to dig yourself a hole.

If you say so.  

Pipswich wrote:I clarified the account issue a couple of posts back and a reasonable person would accept that from my perspective... all the accounts are one person, some business, some personal, some active and some inactive.  Frankly, it makes accounting much easier to do it that way.  So sorry that I confused you, but it doesn't appear hard to do.

I was not confused at all. Trying to spin it anyway you want, its still not the truth.

Pipswich wrote:And your guesses appear way off base regarding who sent pm's.

Really, then who did I guess?  

Pipswich wrote:I am absolutely sure you sit there and follow who is logging in and out, because you are clearly perverse, paranoid and nosey enough to try to figure out who doesn't like you any way possible.

It really sucks getting busted, doesn't it?

Pipswich wrote:So I told you an actual lie.... my first on the site.  I may reserve a few more for you if they get this entertaining, but I jealously guard the few I tell and use them generally protect others.  The lie was simply that I said the pm's were in the last ten minutes.

You should go into fiction wiriting, you are freaking great at this.  

Pipswich wrote:Sorry, if I accidentally implicated someone innocent by leading this bozo astray, I was trying to protect the anonymity of those who were sending my pm's.

I knew before you said anything that you were getting a PM, I watched it happen. Like, if you know what to do, you can tell. Another thing you obviously didn't know about.

Pipswich wrote:And.. as predicted, Brian jumped right to accusations and conspiracy theories about who was doing him wrong behind the scenes.

Except, I didn't accuse anyone, did I?

Pipswich wrote:That's the beauty of being honest with honest people (and even the dishonest one's except only very rarely).  You can very carefully chose when someone is so far beneath contempt that they no longer deserve the guaranteed privilege of truth... and they will fall into a silly trap every time.

It's a nice sentiment. It might actually hold so weight if you had actually told the truth.  I will say, that in my time on the internet, I have seen some real blowhards before, but you may very well take the cake.  Again, simply admitting to the fact that you were infalting your Ebay experince and moving on would have been enough.  Instead we got your last 6 or 7 posts.  So much for that.  

Pipswich wrote:Come up with some new business to address.  You keep bringing up old news.

Old News? I made my post less than 18 hours ago.  I guess this is your attmept at sweeping it under the rug.

Pipswich wrote:In one post, written quickly, I defined the 10,000+ transactions as from one account...  and I believe I have sufficiently clarified that misstatement.  

Yes, by going off on 6 paragraph tangents about back in the mid 90's at trade shows, how you just bought a book store and had 40,000 books to sort through and trying to dig up past posts not knowing the context of them to try and make yourself out to be the victim all while alligning yourself with some of the scummiest people who have ever post here. Excellent job.

Pipswich wrote:So what's your problem with me now, other than the fact that I played you dead cold into assumptions about who was pming me and aired your five years of filthy dirty laundry?

You played me into cold dead assumptions and aired my filthy dirty laundry?  Again, you really shoud get into fiction writing or maybe comedy.  This is freaking hysterical.

That's said, this argument has grown pretty tiresome and has effective wrecked a really good thread, so unless you have something actually new or enlighting to add, I am pretty sure that I am done for now.

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