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Subject: Update on merchant issues continued....

Micheleh opened this issue on Feb 04, 2003 ยท 32 posts


Mehndi posted Tue, 04 February 2003 at 5:43 PM

Hi Tammy, I have purposely stayed silent in all these threads on here on Rosity both with the recent issues with Ironbear, and with the past issues of the banning of myself and other people several weeks ago. On my own site, I have continued in my personal posts to give the benefit of the doubt as much as my personal ire and anger over it will allow, continuously reminding people that I KNOW you and Tim personally, as well as Clint and Jeff, and that you are not in fact evil people, and that all of this is somehow a failure to communicate. I still maintain that, even when I have been very angry. One of the things that has made me most angry has been the continual slander that has been levelled against myself and the rest through calling into question our conduct, and citing that as some reason for this happening. I would challenge you personally to find evidence of bad conduct on my part in the Merchants forum. For many many months the extent of my "conduct" has been to ask the occasional question to clarify something if I were not clear, otherwise to keep silent out of respect for the fact that I did not wish to cause any ruckus. It has also angered me to find that next we were accused of somehow being spies whose sole goal was to take ideas that originated on Rosity and rush off and implement them on our own sites. Again, I challenge you to find one single original idea that originated and was posted about in the Merchants forum on Rosity that has been used on my own small site, PoserPros. Ok.... but moving on. You say you made a mistake and want to move on, want peace, want people to give you another chance. I can well understand that, having felt that way my own self many times when I make mistakes. Moving on usually means you need to look at things from the other persons point of view, if the lesson is to be learned and the mistake not be repeated. One of the "perspectives" that could help this problem from ever occuring again is to realize that just because a small site exists does not mean it is a competitor against Renderosity in a bad way. RuntimeDNA is an example of you all realizing that. All our little sites are alot like RuntimeDNA really. Small sites with huge bills to pay who found that to stay open HAD to begin selling a few things. PoserPros, my own little site is totally non-profit even... we are not all out to make our fortunes and put others out of business... just keep our sites open by being able to pay the bills for them. I had wanted to place UltraSalon II Elvencourt here you know. I purposely did not put it exclusive into my own store because I had planned to place it here once the introductory sale on it was over. Then the same week my sale on it ended, before I could even upload it, you folks locked me out of the merchants forum without even a note, instant message, phone call... anything. I was an active merchant. Faeriegurl and I had a brand new product we had just placed here. I had three exclusive products that each in their time had been best sellers, and still were best sellers. I was a merchant that predated most merchants here, and even when I opened my own little store had NEVER pulled my products from this store out of respect for a promise I had made to Vette and ClintH ages ago, and kept planning to submit more things as I could... as I said I had planned to place UltraSalon II here on a non-exclusive basis.... So naturally... none of this makes sense to me, for all of the above reasons. I have been meaning to get in touch with you about lunch or something so we could try to talk on all this, since as I have said, I believe all of this is a failure to communicate on some level or another that has led to fears of people you had no need to fear.... How can all this be resolved Tammy?