I hope this does not get deleted.
But, if it does stay I just want to put a warning to all.
It is not my intention to insult and slander GP32x like I have been on this site; it is simply to raise awareness of the unfair practices, heavy handedness of a certain mod and uncontrolled lies and abuse of a few members.
Now, I am a perfectly legitimate Ebayer, I have 100% positive feedback.
A thread was started entitled 'Rip-Odd Merchant on Ebay' - all because I CHOSE to start my auction at a high price. This is my right and should not indicate that I am a ‘Rip Off Merchant’ or as later put 'A robbin bastard'.
What did GP32x do about this? Nothing, I use the case of Drumaster vs GBAx as precedent. This was allowed to go on far too long, slandering (I use that because technically an Internet forum is considered speech) a man and a business. Not good practice for GP32s primary site.
Now, despite no warning, my auction was reported my 'EvilDragon' - a mod here at GP32x. He introduced the word WareZ into the fray, further blemishing my good name.
He believed that my auction was illegal because I had bundled some extra games with the GP32 BLU. Firstly, my auction did not mention any roms and due to an earlier incident and constant requests through ebay to sell just the roms, a notice was put up on the auction:
‘Email for details regarding above games’
Now, while I admit this may be a little vague, this is perfectly within the law. It may be along the line of the law, but it is within the law. Due to past experiences on ebay, I have found that this is essential.
Upon ebayers emailing me I would tell them situation about the shady area of ‘rom’ legality and make sure that they confirm to me that they own all original cartridges, thus passing the responsibility onto them. They tell me No? They only the freeware and homebrew Snes, Nes etc games would be included on the DVD…
ROMs are illegal unless you either a.) own the game/program you are 'backing up', or b.) the ROM has been made public domain.
Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle are legitimate and the movies are not copyrighted.
EvilDragon disliked the way I responded to being called a ‘robbin bastard’ and a ‘rip-off merchant’ and so decided to open his own brand of Vigilante justice and close my auction down. He claims the moral high ground, yet takes delight in ruining auctions. He made a ‘rash decision’ without looking at all the information and facts and has in turn tarnished this community. The original poster ‘Timeslip’ has constantly proven what type of person he is.
From the bitterness of user ‘Timeslip’ to the Power Crazed Rampage of ‘EvilDragon’, I feel sorry for most GP32 sellers out there, because only a quick search on ebay will see sellers offering the same type of deals without my legal checks. Why have these not been closed down by EvilDragon? Which brings it all back to the original point -- high price – the source of it all? I can charge what I want and don’t expect my auction to be taken down because of this.
You have tarnished my name and wasted my time, GP32x needs to stop threads like this happening in the future, reserve the ‘rip-off merchant’ tag for actually dishonest ebayers and control their mods accordingly before they carry the good name of the site down further.
I thank you for your time.
But, if it does stay I just want to put a warning to all.
It is not my intention to insult and slander GP32x like I have been on this site; it is simply to raise awareness of the unfair practices, heavy handedness of a certain mod and uncontrolled lies and abuse of a few members.
Now, I am a perfectly legitimate Ebayer, I have 100% positive feedback.
A thread was started entitled 'Rip-Odd Merchant on Ebay' - all because I CHOSE to start my auction at a high price. This is my right and should not indicate that I am a ‘Rip Off Merchant’ or as later put 'A robbin bastard'.
What did GP32x do about this? Nothing, I use the case of Drumaster vs GBAx as precedent. This was allowed to go on far too long, slandering (I use that because technically an Internet forum is considered speech) a man and a business. Not good practice for GP32s primary site.
Now, despite no warning, my auction was reported my 'EvilDragon' - a mod here at GP32x. He introduced the word WareZ into the fray, further blemishing my good name.
He believed that my auction was illegal because I had bundled some extra games with the GP32 BLU. Firstly, my auction did not mention any roms and due to an earlier incident and constant requests through ebay to sell just the roms, a notice was put up on the auction:
‘Email for details regarding above games’
Now, while I admit this may be a little vague, this is perfectly within the law. It may be along the line of the law, but it is within the law. Due to past experiences on ebay, I have found that this is essential.
Upon ebayers emailing me I would tell them situation about the shady area of ‘rom’ legality and make sure that they confirm to me that they own all original cartridges, thus passing the responsibility onto them. They tell me No? They only the freeware and homebrew Snes, Nes etc games would be included on the DVD…
ROMs are illegal unless you either a.) own the game/program you are 'backing up', or b.) the ROM has been made public domain.
Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle are legitimate and the movies are not copyrighted.
EvilDragon disliked the way I responded to being called a ‘robbin bastard’ and a ‘rip-off merchant’ and so decided to open his own brand of Vigilante justice and close my auction down. He claims the moral high ground, yet takes delight in ruining auctions. He made a ‘rash decision’ without looking at all the information and facts and has in turn tarnished this community. The original poster ‘Timeslip’ has constantly proven what type of person he is.
From the bitterness of user ‘Timeslip’ to the Power Crazed Rampage of ‘EvilDragon’, I feel sorry for most GP32 sellers out there, because only a quick search on ebay will see sellers offering the same type of deals without my legal checks. Why have these not been closed down by EvilDragon? Which brings it all back to the original point -- high price – the source of it all? I can charge what I want and don’t expect my auction to be taken down because of this.
You have tarnished my name and wasted my time, GP32x needs to stop threads like this happening in the future, reserve the ‘rip-off merchant’ tag for actually dishonest ebayers and control their mods accordingly before they carry the good name of the site down further.
I thank you for your time.
