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Several people emailed me via the instant messaging feature of the forum and said that they were on my side. From what I could gather, these people were on my side, but were afraid to talk about that on the public part of the forum.
A TIMELINE to the ISSUE and WHAT I DID:
First I posted a SPECIAL OFFER to the forum members, where I offered a FREE membership. The entire Maxsimo.NET membership was offered for FREE and I even upgraded the signups to a GOLD ACCOUNT so that they could setup a mailing list.
However, things went bad when I used a sales link that went to my new branding site, THE RICH SAGE, where I put an image of the Sage and linked to Paypal for the payment. Apparently, one of the Members' had been using the same image and he got a lot of other members emailing him and asking IF the offer was his.
Well, when that happened, he promptly went to the special offer and posted his response and asked that I not use the image. There was a slight problem in that request. Although he made a nice request in public, he also sent a private message that was not so cordial. The result was that I told him in public to "get lost" and that's when things started to get out of hand.
Then another member of the forum purchased the e-book and posted a message saying that it was a scam, a rip-off, and that I was a scammer and a fraud.
I immediately looked at why this was said... the buyer of the ebook never went beyond page 1 of the ebook. They *never* signed up to the online suite of services and made the claim.
The member then made many claims of fraud against me. That I just brushed off. However, after that he went on to claim fraud on the part of the company, including the claims of a pyramid scheme. Well, that went way beyond what I'd accept.
The problem is that these individuals screamed FIRE in a theater. When there was none. In fact, to show the stupidity of one of the members, they visited this site, p31, my blog and said it's a ponzi scheme (pyramid scheme). How they made that conclusion --I have NO IDEA??? None what so ever. The only comment I can make is that they saw the progress of the numbers and must have concluded that I was doing something illegal.
Guess what --Why would I do that and write 600+ pages about the effort? Why would I leave the WHOIS records and such in my name?
I have no idea again what these people were thinking, other than the MORONS that they are. Sorry, but I call it like I see it.
Anyway, in the path to the 31st STEP, I'll have to encounter and handle a lot of types like this. I don't find that a problem at all as the foundation for all that I am doing is based on strong business principles and good logic. The hell will losers that have no idea what all this is about.
Ok, back to work. Carpe Diem, Sam out.
UPDATE:
2008-11-22 08:00:17:UTC+00:00
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