posted 07-30-2007 07:38 AM            

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Charming & karen0713 are one in the same.
This post relates to the post/thread Steve
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Good morning!

posted 07-30-2007 01:58 PM            

Click on the paper and pencil editing icon at the top of this and it will reveal the exact format and coding you need to use. Compare this to what you typed.

Using this, try posting a closeup of the markings.

posted 07-30-2007 04:51 PM            

The URL for the image contains a space and for some browsers and many windows servers that is OK but much of the Internet is Unix based doesn't like it. To get around the problem where ever you want a space to be in the URL type %20.

So your image's file name

Resize Wizard-bmc1.jpg
Shoul look like: Resize%20Wizard-bmc1.jpg

posted 07-31-2007 09:52 AM            

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Hi Steve,
I see that you caught me. I really do have a TBI (tramatic brain injury)and I did used to be an accountant, however since the accident I'm unable to return to my job and now I'm trying to make some money and entertain myself by reselling. Actually reselling is the only way I can buy and enjoy any nice pieces for the time that I have them. Just because I sell doesn't mean that I'm not interested in learning about silver or in my case, silver plate and pewter because I never find any silver I can afford, but it's very hard to find any good information or anyone willing to educate me in the subject. Such is not the case with glass. Glassies are very willing to help others and I have learned a lot by asking questions. Silver people on the other hand are generally snooty as is the case with your organization. I did a lot of independent research on this piece before resorting to smpub, and I did get the same answer from the ebay forum, the reason I used your board was because of the bee question, which I read on your forums somewhere. Now I will never know. And I don't really trust the silver forum on ebay, I always double check if I find conflicting information. But I'm sorry I lied when I said I wasn't doing pre sale research. If I get stumped again, I'll be back, under a different screen name and with a different email and photo upload site of course. Thanks for the hint, I know how you caught me and I will be more clever next time dispite the TBI. If it wern't for that I would have been more clever this time. Why are silver people so stuck up? It's like a private club and it sure doesn't help to foster a passion for silver collecting. Glassies are so much nicer and willing to help others. I guess it's the same reason rich people leave crappy tips and poor people leave good ones, you don't know what it's like to struggle.
Karen

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Karen,

In what way was I not bending over backwards to be welcoming, friendly and helpful to you?

I have a brother who went through the windshield when his car was hit head on by a drunk driver who swerved into his lane. He was in a coma for a month and when he awoke his brain injury was severe and permanent. He lost his job as a stock broker and his wife left him. His brain injuries are so severe that he can not even type on a computer much less do the kind of buying and selling you are doing. This was many years ago but he rebuilt his life and found productive and honest ways to spend his time.

Life is full of challenges but it is also filled with choices as to how we deal with them. If you choose to meet challenges in productive ways and be open and giving with those whom you encounter you will be happy most of the time. If you choose to be cynical and harsh you will only create more challenges.

posted 07-31-2007 06:19 PM            

Also, glass books are much more accesible than silver books. And a lot easier to read. I have shared my copy of Tardy with glass and china collectors. All of them found it incomprehensible.

posted 07-31-2007 06:39 PM            

I am sorry for what you have gone through, but stand back a moment and read your own posts. You admit that you lied and got caught and then assert that next time you will be more clever, posting under a new name. Do you blame anyone for being a bit skeptical about the rest of your story?

Since you don't know any of us personally, I am wondering how you have concluded we don't know what it is like to struggle. Kimo shared one story. I am sure there are others. Had you candidly admitted your situation and need to raise money by selling, I am willing to bet one of the "stuck up" people might have offered to help you anyway, off of the forum.

Instead of trying be more clever, just be honest in the first place. The members are a good bunch and e-mail can create a mistaken impression that people are cooler than they really are.

posted 07-31-2007 07:28 PM            

You may be able to sneak back in "under a different screen name and with a different email and photo upload site of course" to disguise your real motives of using the SSF for business research. I hope you wouldn't bother. I also hope your threat to continue your abuse of the SSF is not genuine and that when you say "But I'm sorry I lied when I said I wasn't doing pre-sale research." you were sincere and that you will not continue the deceit.

The Guidelines and the New Members' Post Here Forum evolved because of the type of insensitivity, deceit & abuse which people like you have propagated at SSF. What you and others like you have done has had a very deleterious effect on all of us, New, Established, and future members alike. After such insensitivity, deceit & abuse, it is an unfortunate fact that there are established and very knowledgeable SSF members who don't look at the New Members' Forum at all now, having had their fill of such chicanery over the years. Many others continue to look, but wait to reply until the new member has done several posts over some period of time. Why? Because they don't want their good will and generosity to be perverted by deceptions which may not be apparent in a new member's first few posts. We are a civil, caring, and passionate group of Silver enthusiasts, expecting nothing more than to be treated in a like manner by all who would join us. We always listen to reasonable explanations, often give second chances, and try never to judge rashly or in haste.

In this case, however, all the online/offline/private dialog is 100% in agreement: we are terminating your posting privileges.

If you feel the need to express yourself additionally about this please send e-mail to info@SMPub.com.

posted 07-31-2007 07:55 PM            

Whether we be princes or paupers, I'm sure many of us have had our struggles. I was taught by my Dad to keep it to yourself, not make people feel sorry for you, rise above it & go on, show them what you can do, do not make people feel sorry for you & your disabilities. Many doors closed for me but I opened news ones, as are you. Don't take advantage, it always comes back at you. Tom said it all.

I have had my attitude about the forum as well in the beginning, but I plodded on, & found out they are Great folks to be in the company of. Any group tolerating me has to be neat! Knowledge of silver is the thing here, and they have made me wanting more!!!!!!!

It's your decision. Do not try to go in the forums back door, It's libel to hit you where it hurts.

Stay well. Stay Safe!
Enjoy the day!
Jersey