Dave's post was certainly reasonable yet misses an important point (unless I missed him not missing it
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Suppose we take it as fact that Gamelover is, for example, rebanding gars. Unless you're a real expert, are you completely sure you'd actually know that you've been weaseled?
His MO is to build up good trades, trader comments, and vouchers and then pull some crap. But I have to wonder how many of those people might've gotten weaseled but never knew.
In my mind, the definition of a troll includes an intention to piss people off with no other purpose than to piss people off. As lucasbuck, who is a friend of mine from CW, said... our only intention was to watch other BOTLs' backs.
Really those of you who do participate on more than one BB know that true BOTLs outnumber the scammers by many orders of magnitude. If a bunch of people came to one of the boards I spend most of my time on, I would immediately ask, as Dave did, are they all the same person. As soon as I found they were not, I'd be at least concerned.
Now if Gamelover really had turned over a new leaf, IMHO he would've gone about it in a completely different way than hopping from BB to BB and mainly just getting in PIFs and box passes, especially after getting banned from three now.
Oh by the way I am a member of several BBs, primarily hanging at Herfer's Paradise and Cigar Weekly. This looks like a cool board and I'm going to do some reading before I jump in here with both feet
I do have personal trading experience with Gamelover and his lies.
GL asked me to send him some gars I'd posted about at Cigar Weekly. I offered them to him gratis. He insisted on sending something back yet never followed through... It wasn't a scam but was enough to tell me I didn't want to trade with him again.
Then when the poop hit the fan with his actions and we warned the guys at Cigar Divan, he called me a troll for posting that one of their members had a cool avatar. When I confronted him about it at Cigar Bid he claimed he'd never made such a post and couldn't find it at CD.
Well this was because he'd gone whining to the mods (this is another of his MOs) about all the "trolls" outing him there and they deleted the thread. Other members had seen him make the post and quickly pointed out he was a liar.
Now I didn't get scammed but did find what kind of person GL is. I don't know if he's making money or just enjoys the thrill of getting away with things. But he does appear to love playing games.
Anyway I'll be hanging here more often if you guys will have me and hope to get to know you guys. :thumbs: