turkdlit said:
Don't flatter yourself too much Joe, I'm not losing any sleep over this
I'm simply expressing my TRUE feelings in an environment where nobody (currently or historically) else is willing to tell you how they really feel....because they want to be in line for all those wonderful toys of yours! All those things I said above are just little snippets from conversations had by people who both love and loathe you.
So please pretend you're sitting back, laughing...but your rants recently and in the past are just cries for attention, and they're front and center for everyone to see This whole PK saga is just your excuse to go back into collecting again. And we all know how things will go from here - you'll dissapear again, then you'll reapper, then you'll say you're going to sell your collection after someone else "wrongs" you, then when you've had your fill of having your ass kissed, you'll announce once again, that the holiest of holies bootleg master is back! Oh, and by the way, he deserves everything and all others can have the scraps once he decides what to keep.
Its a charade that I'm more than happy to be done with. You can keep your bootlegs and your delusions.
I'm actually glad that you're FINALLY showing your true self, rather than the facade of trying to be friendly with me. The ERG situation IMO was a set up on your part from day one. IF you had been trying to help me as you've claimed, you could have just told the seller "look this guy can't post on the forum, but needs this piece and has no problem paying your asking price" Pretty easy. It was one piece and certainly not the rarest of the pieces offered. But you played your game and tried to make me look like the bad guy when all was said and done. I walked away from the hobby for a while because at the time I was fairly pissed at your actions, because I realized the game you were playing, so you could **** me over and still come out looking like the good guy. In my time away,I relaxed my view on giving a ****, especially about any actions involving you. I tried to be friendly with you and that's just led to more of you trying to defame me in the hobby. Many people that you think are your friends, who also are unlikely to tell you how they really feel, in fear of getting blacklisted from buying whatever Uzays you may turn up, have told me that they have no idea why you went out of your way so much to prove that PK was me, and that it seemed excessive and obsessive on your part (their words not mine)
As for why I'm back, while going thru my collection and doing inventory/ pricing/packing everything up, getting ready to box it up for the truck the dealer that was brokering my collection was sending to pick it all up, I just couldn't bring myself to part with something that's been such a huge part of my life for the past 20 years. Also the fact that the collection is NOT finished, has the completest in me out hunting for and getting back in touch with some of my older contacts. not to mention that the thought of some of the pieces landing in the collections of the people that have turned the hobby sour for me, made me sick. Will I take time off from posting here and there, most likely. Right now I'm submerged in getting info and pics from friends for www.theouterrealmsw.com
As for people wronging me, it's pretty much just you and Adam that have really ****ed me over. Short story on Adam: He offered me a piece, I agreed to his price, then he pulled it from me for someone else that was buying other pieces from him (pieces that I didn't need). That's something that ANYONE would be fairly pissed about.
your claims of people that "love and loathe me" talking **** don't really matter. The people that are my friends have chimed in on the 3rd world list and via phone calls & emails. I know who they are, and have and will help any of them, any way I can when pieces come up. IF any of them are talking **** behind my back, or secretly hate me but don't have the balls to say how they feel, that's on their conscious not mine. To some of the people that disliked me based on misconceptions, I've turned some of them into friends,and others will believe what they want to believe.
I may have told a white lie or 2 when you got all uppity trying to out my sock puppet acct, but otherwise, I've always been straight forward about where I stand with everyone, you included. If I don't like someone, they know it.
I think it's funny that you harp on how you feel that I think I "deserve" every piece that comes up. I remember a little conversation we had a couple of years ago about a carded Blue Stars, that I helped a friend get, and you got furious with both of us because you felt that you "deserved" it more than him. Lets see.... He'd helped me get stuff for my collection and has always been nice to me. We'd just become friendlier after you'd come in with this adversarial attitude and tone with me and acted like I "owed" you, because of the admittedly shitty way you were treated when you first showed up on RS(which I'd apologized for repeatedly).
Did I get pissed when Pete V got first crack at a knock off bike from 77 that I've been hunting for forever....nope.... Because he's also been hunting for one just as long and it was a completely fair game. Have I missed on other pieces I care about owning because I simply forgot to bid, or got outbid....yep. Doesn't bother me. I'm not entitled to anything, OTHER than a fair shake and not getting stabbed in the back.
I've passed on countless bootleg ceramic pieces that I needed, so Ron could finish his collection of them first. I've traded John A. prototype pieces for bootlegs with him getting the better end of the deal financially more times than I can count. I passed on a carded Polish 1st gen for Mike that I could have used as an upgrade for myself, and likely still profited selling off the lesser piece, but I just stepped back and gave him the source. I've sold Daren countless licensed pieces for a fraction of their market value to thank him for bootleg items he'd passed on for me, as well as freebies as thank yous to both of them. I've sold Jason Edge, items for much less than my asking prices when I've gotten huge lots, because he gave me fair deals, and turned down the opportunity to sell items for more by someone trying to back door me, when I bought a huge quantity from him... I go out of my way for my friends, just as all of the folks mentioned above have done for me.
Sorry for those expecting a flame war. My new lease on the hobby has me far less likely to take the obvious baiting tactics than in the past. And I'm certainly not claiming to be the nicest guy in the world, but I'm definitely not the villain of comic book like proportions that Mete wants to paint me as.
Cheers and enjoy your popcorn
Joe
