souldog said:
You really have that story all wrong. Also, an email is not unsolicited if you're on their emailing list.
He's just trying to share a "Buyers Beware" post for the members here, and provided a reference as to why they should be scrutinized by the potential buyer. Your post is either a troll post to stir stuff up or it's a legitimate statement. I can never actually tell anymore with you. That being said, if you can show why LarryH's statement is unfounded and the story he has is all wrong, I'd be open to hearing it. Otherwise, I don't get your point besides pot-stirring.
Well... his "Buyer Beware" statement wasn't exactly the entire story. And vaguely referring to the "2010 fiasco" doesn't really provide any insight.
However, I want to first address the "I can never tell anymore with you." Full disclosure for the newer members here - I am friends with Robbie. That being said, what exactly can't you tell? Since you've been "back," Robbie has made 9 posts. One was to wish a poster a happy birthday. One was to relay a story of a time he met a board member who recently passed away. One was a post concerning open discussion of an illegal activity on the board. Five were addressing the laughable idea that another group of cigar smokers "stole" an idea for something they were doing months before the poster here started his version of the stolen idea. Included in those five was Robbie addressing the accusation that he was trolling by pointing out that the poster here accusing him of being a troll was incorrect. The ninth was his post in this thread.
To be perfectly honest, I'm tired of the horseshit posts calling Robbie a troll just because someone disagrees with what he posted. I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was 100% correct in his posts the last time. And, imo, he's also correct here.
I'm not saying the vendor mentioned should be trusted. What I am saying is that a blanket statement that presents roughly zero facts serves no one here any good.
The story, the best I know it is this: The vendor's former business name was a known vendor who had a shipping guarantee. The "2010 fiasco" was a time when there was a system-wide clamp down on packages coming from overseas, and packages that normally weren't subjected to search all of a sudden were searched. This led to a huge spike in the number of seizures, and thus, and huge spike in the number of claims for either refunds or replacements.
Shortly after this, the vendor using the old name seemingly closed their doors. Their website shut down. Personally, I was not involved in any of the transactions in question, so I do not know if, in fact, anyone lost money. The story goes that people whose orders were seized in this change of policy were not taken care of the way the company's original shipping guarantee said they would be.
I would imagine (again, this is just my opinion) that now that there is a new company name, they sent out an email blast to everyone who was on their email list under their old name to announce that they're back in business.
Let's try to keep this thread on point for what Larry intended, instead of lolblamerobbie.
