That is SO unfair to me. I never address Rich or his auctions in any way. I only address auctions that have buyers premiums and enhanced images, and to the best of my knowledge he has neither of these.
How in the world can you say I shouldn't address the aspects of my auctions that make them superior to other auctions (no buyers premiums, we show who the bidders are, we don't enhance the images, etc,)?
If you stand by your statement that I am "constantly fighting" with Rich, then I need to leave this forum.
you know this is almost funny. I didn't start this thread, though I did comment.
I never attacked Bruce, I only commented on issues commented about here.
To be fair, this was how I was reading it.
I didn't see any fighting...
I didn't start this thread either:
http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,11730.0.htmland all I saw was someone burning down a house & losing any cool he may have had instead of just answering a client in a businesslike fashion.
I'm not responsible for any of this, but somehow it's being turned into "it's all Rich's fault" which is utterly ridiculous
There was no fight. There was only commentary. Nobody said that anything I stated was incorrect and nobody said anything I stated was unfair
So what is the issue? Don't like people talking about you? Total silliness. People talk about people all the time and if what people are saying bothers you, then maybe what's wrong is your response, not other people's actions.
Stay, Go.. that's none of
MY business and I don't care what anyone does here. That's
YOUR business.
Is it fair to comment on HA's buyers premium? Sure it is. Is it fair to make out HA as some evil empire, screwing & murdering customers left & right to achieve world domination?
NOIt's one thing to beat your chest, it's another to shit on people so you can beat your chest
Saying "we have great packaging, excellent customer service, regular auctions & nice people working in our office" is a fair business promo
Insinuating other companies do not do any of those things is
entirely unfair & largely untrue but factually Bruce, you've been doing that for 20 years and that's one of the reasons that after being friends for almost 40 years and a client who spent many tens of thousands of dollars with you, I stopped. I could no longer support someone whose business schpiel depended on denigrating others.
But here's the thing, you never had to denigrate others to support your own promo. It was never necessary, nor balanced.
You hijacked people threads on Mopo to promote your auctions. You hijacked people's threads here to promote your auctions. In other places, those threads were sometimes my own promo threads. Nobody ever liked it, but no matter how many times any of us said something, you persisted, including against me, your friend.
every time I posted a notice about my auctions, you over-posted so that you would be first seen. Even on the days when my auctions were ending.
for 2 years, you posted that false line about EMP being the first movie poster auction site. You've since changed it to an honest paragraph, for which I applaud you or the employee who had you change it.
I have never said you don't run good auctions, though I do believe you run far too many of them
I've never said your customer service sucked, though I'm not so sure Klownicle would agree at this point and most certainly. my own large consignment (which - hello - was also returned after your hissy fit) was not handled in the way I expected (nor what was agreed), but I never said anything about it until you started accusing HA of doing things that you did to me with that consignment.
Can't handle people talking about you, be they clients or competitors? That's something for you to talk to yourself about. It's obvious that people on the boards, be they friends or not, post about all kinds of dealers. It's an important factor for buyers and it's one thing for buyers to tell each other about good or bad experiences, it's another for dealers to spread insinuations leading people to believe some innocent is guilty of high crimes so that they will avoid that other venue & only spend on your own. In any other business, it would wind up in court. In this piddly little business, it's not economically smart to wage court battles
but I digress.. Blaming me for either of these two threads is like blaming a Syrian refugee for his city being bombed to rubble. It's false, untrue & flatly, ignoring reality.
People need to wear big boy pants in public.
