when you're somebody, nobody second guesses you
when you're nobody, everybody second guesses you
but everybody should question anybody,
whether you're a nobody or a somebody
and they are a somebody or a nobody
you shouldn't be guessing...
imo...
That's the best summative reponse so far.
Plain and simple, It's quite necessary to always conduct your business honestly. I have always had the most dislikes for the INNER CIRCLE culture which is nothing more than you scratch my back, I will scratch yours among a select few. When
@Shane Bellone busted the shady practices going on over at Flippa, didn't the revelations confirm our very doubts? I believe the revelations subsequently forced Flippa to conduct its business with more transparency and more honesty.
Common people usually tend to IDOLIZE a SHOOTING STAR, put it on a HIGH PEDESTAL and and this IDOL becomes their obsession. It takes a whistleblower or someone of superior character and intelligence, to destroy such a myth.
I agree that
@Shane Bellone may have gone a little too far in calling
@Adam Dicker an outright "criminal" but hey, isn't this what Newspapers do everyday to draw attention to the headline of the day !!? It's probably only his intention to highlight this news.
I also agree that
@Adam Dicker earned a good name in domaining community but so have many others who far exceed what he achieved in domaining. Also, in his response, his not coming clean on the revelations/ allegations revealed by Shane and his acceptance of "few" of these allegations is what lends further mystery to these revelations. As some member shared the webarchives screenshot above, a $29 course being peddled for $899 and then subsequently revised to $29 is not a very good business ethic, is it?
So let's not put Adam on a high pedestal, he is only human and may have indugled in profiteering and unethical business practices, as inferred by his own admission in this thread. Also, if the ADAM-CYGER chat logs shared by Shane are true, then
@Michael Cyger may have had a BIG LEAD on something ADAM may have been indugling in.
As for
@Shane Bellone, I admire he has got guts to break news like this. But let's understand when stories come out, they almost unfailingly come out like this. I wouldn't fault him here except his use of the word "CRIMINAL" for Adam. To the member who called him JULIAN ASSANGE of the domaining world, I would like to ask what's wrong with it? If it was not for JULIAN, you wouldn't even know of your ass being spied on by your very govt.
I would call on Adam to come clean on the revelations / allegations in this thread if he wants to protect what's left of his reputation.
@Adam Dicker, a fair and honest pointwise rebuttal would help your cause and there is nothing the world likes more than a dead honest man, even with his mistakes.
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