Quote - So you're saying they deliberately did not transfer the order histories just to piss off their customers and run them off? And you're comfortable making that rationalization?

I notice that the CP excusers have moved on rather rapidly from the above topic.  This quote embodies a false premise set up as a straw man to knock down ... no one is assuming they did this for those reasons, but you have nicely stated the likely outcome.  BTW, this is a conclusion, not a rationalization.  But I digress ...

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I didn't really move on. I just happen to know how futile it is to engage my head against a brick wall. You've already made up your mind, and you've pretty much stated that nothing will change that.  At this point I firmly believe that if GOD came down from on high and testified that CP meant no harm, you'd call Him a bold faced liar.

I really am sorry that you feel CP has deliberately sought to harm you in some way, and you are totally justified in not wanting to shop there ever again if that is your wish. Admittedly, if I felt as you do, I might also be inclined never to shop there again. However, I don't feel as you do. At worst, CP is guilty of a few miscalculations about how it's customers would react to  the changes it has made to it's online store.

I'm not happy with all of the changes they made either. I admit that I don't think they should have closed the forum, and it fact, it does puzzle me that if they can leave it up for read only access, why not let people continue to post there. I don't know the answer, but I'm not willing to condemn them to hell for it. They warned everyone about the order histories, and anyone who can actually read knows what they said in their newsletter.

Furthermore, I don't consider myself to be a CP excuser. What have I excused? All I've done is present the facts as I've seen them when I feel that what CP has said or done has been misrepresented. I won't apologize for trying to be fair to CP.