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txlazer

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Spark,

Although you don't know me very well, I've been around since the day this board started and even before that good ole recdot.Knives.
I will say that I'm not pleased with the way this forum heading, (I can almost see you sitting there saying to yourself "WHO THE F@#K IS THIS GUY TELLING ME THIS CRAP,IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE A$$ AS YOU LEAVE) your heavy handed management style leaves a lot to be desired. I fully understand that this is YOUR website and you can chose to run it anyway you feel fit to. And I agree that dealers & everyone should adhere to the rule set forth, the next time I have something to sell I'll be HAPPY to upgrade my membership here, as a matter of fact if you'd like I'll upgrade now!
That being said, IF this was a brick and mortar business, you'd be having a going OUT OF BUSINESS SALE very soon. Please ease up a bit, maybe just try and CANDY COAT your posts a tad (that sounds funny coming from me). If you walked into ANY business ,be it a service field or consumer product and were treated the way your treating your members I'm sure you would walk out! your losing a lot of GOOD PEOPLE, and it is and always has been the members NOT the ownership that made this the best place to hang out to learn about knives. I hope you take this note the way it's supposed to be, I'm not attacking you, although it might seem that way.

Have a great holiday weekend
Gregg Lane:)
 
Gregg, I see where you are coming from.

Unfortunately, there's only so much that I can do.

We've tried being peaches and cream, sunshine and flowers. That didn't work. So, unfortunately, sometimes you can't be Mr. Popular.

Mike owned the site for 3 years, during which unfortunately, everything we did to try to accomadate dealers failed to work. We went out of our way to bend over backwards to make them "comfortable" - and were greated with derision, hate mail, scorn, and slander.

Since being nice didn't work, I guess we don't have another option than to be direct and blunt.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - this site isn't here for the benefit of dealers; it's here for everyone. I can either roll over and take it, or I can do what I can to make sure it works for everyone.

When people complain, I can either allow them to repeat the same things over and over again until they think it's the truth, or I can stop it. You call it heavy handed - well, I'm not attacking anyone, nor responding in kind to how I'm being treated. Hell, I've shown a lot of restraint :D

I guess you'd prefer that I just let people make up whatever they like, and use the forums to beat the crap out of me?

Kevin
 
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