"I hope the members/merchants will judge us based upon their personal experience. " - tim Oh, but I am judging you based on my personal experiences and observations, Tim. Therein lies the rub... a lot of the people in this thread, and in the previous one(s) in merchants forum, and elsewhere, are judging you based on their personal experiences also. "IB - we've discussed it on any number of occasions and you know I make no apologies for running the RR community as a business." - tim And I'll make none for suggesting that when you aggravate as many vendors as I've seen in new policy "discussions" over the past year alone, you don't look to be wanting to run it very well as a business. "It seems you've made up your mind and that's fine. Perhaps you will come to a different point of view over time." - tim On what I said about you and CL's former management having similar business ethics? Not very likely. One practiced consumer fraud on it's customers, aided and abetted by your company. You're practicing deception, obfuscation, and thinly veiled protectionism under the guise of "simply business", against people who've been amongst your oldest members and supporters. I don't see a difference. Paint a shark in polkadots, and it's still a shark. My only lingerng regret at this point is that at one time I told Paul Pappathan, Harrison2, Lestat and a few others that they were wrong about you - I should have voted with my feet at that time along with them, and not lent my name to your brand of "bidness as usual". Well... that at least is a mistake I can rectify. With the removal of my store, my gallery, and my freebies, my association with you as an artist, a merchant, and a contributor is done here. I'll have my columns out of your database as soon as you and ClintH get around to it at your earliest convenience. Sadly, I think my association with you as a friend ended a long time before I realised it did.

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

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