@volder:
the topics on HT might still exist, but I don't think so, as I cannot find them anymore.
my old deeneendo HT user himself actually started a topic that you might recall:
it was after ceo had announced that no more Primes would be sold (and before people knew there was going to be a market, where they would be available.)
I asked for people to make a list of resellers that they knew had not raised their price for primes after the ceo statement that they would become "rare" (some of the users agreed that they'd rather NOT continue rewarding resellers that had shown to be guided by greed. I think I recall that the reseller from cybercause was the only one that had not upwardly adjusted his retail prices. You and I had a little altercation at that moment.
the other instance I mentioned about manipulating the market occurred when you made a topic in which you implied that you were selling off your hashlets, and panic ensued, actually dropping prices on the market. I will say that I cannot find any evidence of this topc anymore on HT, maybe some fellows from this forum remember this? (also, other similar topics like:
https://hashtalk.org/topic/11561/psssssst-primes-back-in-stock-at-hashpros-net/2 or
https://hashtalk.org/topic/2443/i-am-buying-all-hashlets/2), inciting people to grab some more before they're gone, or sell to you at 16$ a pop, when a short time later, they went up in price etc.
anyways, I do not want to turn this into "J'accuse", these are all valid and commonly accepted marketing and selling techniques, but I claim the right to my own opinion about these, they just don't appeal to me.
I see things from your point of view. I also understand how it would be easy to assume what you claim happened. I cannot go into much detail about the first item. So, let me tell you a quick story.
Little Johnny likes cars, a lot. He has a very nice personal toy car collection. Little Johnny would like to see everyone have a toy car collection of their own. For his birthday, little Johnny get's $20 from his parents. When he goes to the store, he finds some toy cars on sale for $1 each. Little Johnny knows this is a good price so he buys 20 cars so that he can sell them to his friends and help them build their own car collection. The next day little Johnny goes to school and sells each car to his friends for $1.15 a piece because it costs him $3 to get to the store. Seeing how happy everyone was to get their new cars at a good price, he wanted to help more people! That night little Johnny goes back to the same store to buy more cars. When he gets there, much to his surprise, the store had raised their price from $1.00 to $1.50. Little Johnny is quite sad about this, but he wants to help people so he buys as many cars as he can with the $23 he had in his pocket. The next day little Johnny goes to school to sell more cars and help more people out. Because little Johnny had to pay $1.50 for each car, he had to sell them now for $1.65. When people at the school saw this, they got mad at little Johnny and called him a price gouger. Little Johnny never told anyone the story about how the store had raised his price, instead he sold a couple cars for $1.65 and kept the rest for himself at the higher price. Little Johnny no longer sells cars and doesn't care if people grow their own car collections anymore.
The topic that I made about selling my account, was to sell my account. There was NO MARKET at the time and no way to sell Hashlets quietly. I was genuinely trying to sell my account for personal reasons. If you also remember, at the time I posted my account for sale GAW decided to NO LONGER support individual Hashlet transfers between accounts. After making that post, people decided on their own to panic.
I DID NOT RUN OUT AND BUY THEIR HASHLETS OR ACCOUNT! Nobody ever sold me their account, I never wanted to buy them anyways. Anyone who says otherwise is out and out lying through their teeth.
So, tell me again why you think I am a bad person? What exactly is your problem with me?
