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JoannI've had a hard time staying out of this one, but here goes.
First I'll say I'm a cardpricer.com fan so I am biased. Ted and his group made Wayne Delia's image file available to collectors far before the site was ready, and I think that deserves some loyalty. They certainly have mine.
Ted came on the board just before the site launched and said that, because he is now in a commercial position, he would not post here anymore and he hasn't (to the detriment of the board, in my opinion). That was a classy and probably difficult thing to do. We haven't heard a peep about cardpricer.com since.
But from Day One Bobby has used this forum to promote his site at every opportunity. In his launch stage he was on here very frequently talking about the new this or that functionality until someone finally called him on using the board for advertisement. (I think it may have been Jay Behrens - Lordy I miss that boy and wish he'd return to regluar contributing. C'mon Jay - you're still out there, right?)
Anyways, since then there have been uncountable instances of this board being used to promote vcp. Someone asks a question about card value? Bobby is there with a clip from his site and a reminder that there is much more similarly valuable info there. Need an image? There's one, with a reminder that vcp has many many images, check them out. Have a question about web site hosting for card collections? Surprise - you can access this for less cost through vcp.
I'm not saying this is bad. I don't like it myself, but can't really say it's out of line. But I'll tell you what. It strikes me as very very inconsistent that, after using this board to put vcp into every thread possible, Bobby would now suggest that it is not appropriate for someone else to use this forum to address a negative experience with his site.
The board either is or is not apporpriate to discuss vcp and its issues. Can't have it both ways.
And I also agree that having made the statement that Barak has logged in and used the service since he requested cancellation, Bobby should show that to be true. It's unfair to just throw it out there and not back it up.
Joann Kline