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Inquiry BallBids.com?

So correct me if I am wrong, but from your writings it appears to me that in your opinion anyone who doesn't follow your lead as a BallBids promoter and advocate, and blindly embrace the company lines, is a "hater", "antagonist", "playing games", "non-adult", "combative", "elite minded nasty" person, "jealous", "nosy", "condescending", "strange cookies", "liars", "too weird of person", "threatening", "true scum", and "must hate so bad you just cant see straight" sort of person. Sorry, I know this isn't a comprehensive list of all the disparaging remarks you have thrown at people disagreeing with you and/or asking for FACTS relating to the statements you are making here. But I think it will suffice for you to catch my drift.

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I agree.
 
Wow...I had been thinking that everything just had to do only with you and your few friends blind and blatant hatred against ballbids. You have now made it very clear that you are lacking in intelligence. Your questions have been answered. Your lies today are seen. Your intentions are evident. You are a very sad case of the internet forum junkie condition. I have no time for that stupidness.

What lies did he claim today? I'm just curious as you always state these people are liars, yet, I don't see the lies you are talking about. You guys have banned me from your page for asking when you are going to abandon the business model for your "valued" customers because they(your valued customers) are constantly plagued by these "freezing" auctions. My question was not answered. Maybe you can answer it. As far as I'm concerned, unanswered legitimate questions are the same as lies. Especially when you are dealing with peoples hard earned money. For the record, I am not friends with most of the people posting on this thread. So, please leave that lame comeback out of your response to me. Also, if you are going to call me a lair, please show your proof in the response instead of making illegitimate claims against me otherwise you would be just as "slanderous" as you claim these people to be.

Regards,
Mike Dickinson
 
I'm thinking that Mr. Byers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and is suffering from pseudologia fantastica which is basically a form of pathological lying. If you read his comments in this thread you can visualize an angry, crazy person pounding on his keyboard calling everyone and anyone a "LIAR!!!". He knows that the end is near for the scam his son is running and is going to try to defend it until the bitter end (which will hopefully be sooner than later for his mental health.) The way he goes around on every site he can find and posts the same stupid link to a load of garbage is classic schizophrenia. I truly feel sorry for him that his son has put him through this over something that won't last much longer. It's truly sad.
 
And what are you talking about to me "Fake ID's". You are a bold faced liar! Everyone knows who I am. I play no games Robillard...but it is documented that you do and you know you have been caught at it. Since this forum always says they want the proof..show me you LIAR!

Oh no - of course you don't.......unless you count all your posts in this thread alone, and all your huffing and puffing all over the web when anyone dares to question you about anything. You play games quite well, grasshopper! :NoNo:
 
What lies did he claim today? I'm just curious as you always state these people are liars, yet, I don't see the lies you are talking about. You guys have banned me from your page for asking when you are going to abandon the business model for your "valued" customers because they(your valued customers) are constantly plagued by these "freezing" auctions. My question was not answered. Maybe you can answer it. As far as I'm concerned, unanswered legitimate questions are the same as lies. Especially when you are dealing with peoples hard earned money. For the record, I am not friends with most of the people posting on this thread. So, please leave that lame comeback out of your response to me. Also, if you are going to call me a lair, please show your proof in the response instead of making illegitimate claims against me otherwise you would be just as "slanderous" as you claim these people to be.

Regards,
Mike Dickinson

If you were banned and your comment removed from ballbids business page as you have posted above than you you should not have to ask why. But I will entertain your question by saying the it is a business page and "Ballbids has no intentions of abandoning anyone or anything". So your sarcastic style negative remark from a non customer should not stand on anyone's business page and Ballbids has made that perfectly clear. It is however unfortunate that Ballbids customers have to deal with the issue of people attacking the server. Now I did not call you a liar..you should not insinuate this. I called Kimberly Dupre Robillard a liar which she is. And she said that I used fake ID or had someone else use fake ID. Which is a total Lie. Therefore she is a liar.
As for her continuous statement that I have avoided a question. Again a total lie. Read back..the info is there. She knows that she already had one of supporters on say no publicly confess to his crime about hacking ballbids server. She knows that her say no page is a melting pot of lies and hate and open discussions of how to hack ballbids servers. This thread even is an open forum to conspire to contact Ballbids.com customers in an attempt to interfere with Ballbids business. Read back a few pages. It is there. Go to Say Yes to Ballbids on facebook and the information is posted. There is a link on that page that takes you to even more detailed page of true facts of their intent to interfere with ballbids business. It is written in their own words with internet links to where they wrote it. It is a documantary. It is not one sided at all. This forum is a hostile environment for anyone supporting Ballbids. I know this. It would be nice if the lies and threats and conspiring were not going on here so I would not have to come and refute the BS spewed from this location. I do have to admit that it is not bad for ballbids.com business though. It seem like every time this BS gets started here and in other areas interest is expanded and Ballbids.com registrations increase.
And to Lucille; How's that FREC complaint working out for you? You know they are not Breeders that run the DPBR in florida don't you? Those initials don't stand for Dragons Python's Ball's or Reptiles. Good luck with that threat though. Remember to sign.
 
Actually Mark, that is not entirely true. If you look this screenshot
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3190356012659&set=o.149886288452749&type=3&theater
You can CLEARLY see the date (bottom right) that Will joined...the EXACT time he made that post....a little coincidental since you've sent fake ID's onto our page before, dontcha think?

If you were banned and your comment removed from ballbids business page as you have posted above than you you should not have to ask why. But I will entertain your question by saying the it is a business page and "Ballbids has no intentions of abandoning anyone or anything". So your sarcastic style negative remark from a non customer should not stand on anyone's business page and Ballbids has made that perfectly clear. It is however unfortunate that Ballbids customers have to deal with the issue of people attacking the server. Now I did not call you a liar..you should not insinuate this. I called Kimberly Dupre Robillard a liar which she is. And she said that I used fake ID or had someone else use fake ID. Which is a total Lie. Therefore she is a liar.
As for her continuous statement that I have avoided a question. Again a total lie. Read back..the info is there. She knows that she already had one of supporters on say no publicly confess to his crime about hacking ballbids server. She knows that her say no page is a melting pot of lies and hate and open discussions of how to hack ballbids servers. This thread even is an open forum to conspire to contact Ballbids.com customers in an attempt to interfere with Ballbids business. Read back a few pages. It is there. Go to Say Yes to Ballbids on facebook and the information is posted. There is a link on that page that takes you to even more detailed page of true facts of their intent to interfere with ballbids business. It is written in their own words with internet links to where they wrote it. It is a documantary. It is not one sided at all. This forum is a hostile environment for anyone supporting Ballbids. I know this. It would be nice if the lies and threats and conspiring were not going on here so I would not have to come and refute the BS spewed from this location. I do have to admit that it is not bad for ballbids.com business though. It seem like every time this BS gets started here and in other areas interest is expanded and Ballbids.com registrations increase.
And to Lucille; How's that FREC complaint working out for you? You know they are not Breeders that run the DPBR in florida don't you? Those initials don't stand for Dragons Python's Ball's or Reptiles. Good luck with that threat though. Remember to sign.

You sir - are the liar. LIAR!!!! (how does that feel, BallFibs?)
 
I'm thinking that Mr. Byers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and is suffering from pseudologia fantastica which is basically a form of pathological lying. If you read his comments in this thread you can visualize an angry, crazy person pounding on his keyboard calling everyone and anyone a "LIAR!!!". He knows that the end is near for the scam his son is running and is going to try to defend it until the bitter end (which will hopefully be sooner than later for his mental health.) The way he goes around on every site he can find and posts the same stupid link to a load of garbage is classic schizophrenia. I truly feel sorry for him that his son has put him through this over something that won't last much longer. It's truly sad.

Not everyone is a Liar. Just you and a few others. And if Ballbids is a scam..prove it.. you know it is not so you can't. And for posting the same link being posted...are not wise enough to know that the link is the true information...I don't change it up as I go like you guys do. Nor does anyone from ballbids run around the internet making postings. Only replying t the lies that have been posted. And how did you know I pounded my keyboard when I type? I see no end in sight.
 
Interesting too, the timing of these attacks. Somehow, someone is consistently hacking them in the last few seconds, a very tiny window, of these auctions. No one ever just hacks the site, just those last few seconds...

HA!

I completely agree...VERY coincidental that every time there is a server freeze, it's in the VERY last few moments....i wonder why...hmmmmm :rofl:
 
Funny they delete comments of anyone from their page thats not a customer with legitimate concerns, and then get banned.

Since when do we have to be a customer to express our opinions. I go into a store looking to buy, but if i see something that i don't like, ill leave and contact corporate and so on. You think they will delete and ignore my comments and ban me from going in their store. How businesses get better, by LISTENING to the audience that you are projecting to!!!
 
Not everyone is a Liar. Just you and a few others. And if Ballbids is a scam..prove it.. you know it is not so you can't. And for posting the same link being posted...are not wise enough to know that the link is the true information...I don't change it up as I go like you guys do. Nor does anyone from ballbids run around the internet making postings. Only replying t the lies that have been posted. And how did you know I pounded my keyboard when I type? I see no end in sight.

I am surprised that your son has not asked you to stop posting on behalf of Ballbids yet. You are in no way improving their image, and are actively engaged in harming it. I have not yet seen ANY actual proof of the things you claim. Not one smidgen. I have seen what you claim to be proof, and it is specious at best, and largely manufactured from wishful thinking and outright falsehoods.
 
This whole situation is both sad and frustrating. Reading the absolute nonsense these "business men" and "professionals" spew about website/server attacks by these imaginary enemies that seem to have existed since the first day their site went live is beyond laughable.

First of all, something that has been repeated quite a few times now by those of us with even a small amount of computer knowledge(I'm an IT Specialist), this is not how attacks work! There is no method of "hacking" or "attacking" their site or server that would only cause this one specific problem of the timer part of the page to freeze just before the auction is won. It just doesn't work that way. If someone were to attack the site the whole thing would go down, plain and simple. You can't just freeze one small part of a website.

And beyond that, isn't it amazing that this only seems to happen when they wouldn't be able to pull off an insane profit on that particular auction. I may be mistaken but I believe there has been at least one auction that was completed and doing the math they made out like bandits(which of course is the whole business model). But when it comes to the auctions that have been "attacked" if the profit margin isn't some absolutely insane amount somehow it's blamed on a mysterious attacker and taken down to be re-auctioned.

For anyone that can't see beyond the bs at this point, I'm sorry, but you're just being flat out naive to believe these people and their so called "perfectly logical explanations". I know some have defended them saying "Well they still would have made a profit, even just from the bids they sold." Yes, that may be true, but obviously it wasn't enough of a profit to make it worth their while, so they "break" the auction, start it over and wait until they are going to pull in a far larger profit before they actually decide to go through with it.

I think this is the point you are attempting to bury rather than explain Mark. Not the other BS from the last 5 pages.
 
Funny they delete comments of anyone from their page thats not a customer with legitimate concerns, and then get banned.

Since when do we have to be a customer to express our opinions. I go into a store looking to buy, but if i see something that i don't like, ill leave and contact corporate and so on. You think they will delete and ignore my comments and ban me from going in their store. How businesses get better, by LISTENING to the audience that you are projecting to!!!

That was my whole veiw on it also Rich. The fact that "I shouldn't have to ask why" is again a mindless route out of having to explain why I was banned for legitimate questions. Though he treid to explain why I was banned, he failed in my eyes.
 
What little I know about the two owners of BallBids...

Avi created the ad banners that are deliberately misleading. It's been pointed out multiple times that starting off your business with a blatant lie is a bad idea. Instead of accepting that and admitting any error on his part or changing the ads, he continues to say it was "just marketing". That's what I KNOW about Avi. What I THINK is that this makes him sound like someone who has no scruples about doing whatever it takes to promote his business and make his money. Regardless of the ethics of the situation, he'll find a way to justify it.

I know a little bit more about Zack. Zack showed up at BP.net last year and got himself into a bit of trouble due to a very short fuse and lack of social skills. Nothing inherently wrong with that. It happens. Not everyone is cut out for online communities. A bad temper doesn't make one a bad guy, even if it is a common symptom of bad-guy-ism.

BUT...after things didn't go his way, Zack broke the rules of the site to start a new account with a new name. We gave him the benefit of the doubt and dealt with it and he continued to be allowed to participate if he wished.

NOW...he comes back to BP.net with yet another account. An account he darned well knows was against our rules for him to create. That account was banned, and he was warned to use his original account and to not create another. But he ignored that warning and posted again from yet another account. Now he is permanently banned from BP.net.

If he can't follow the VERY simple rules of my site, what makes me think he will bother following whatever rules he sets up for his own site.

I wouldn't trust either of these guys as far as I could throw them. Even if they ARE trying to run a legitimate business, the character traits they demonstrate here give NO confidence that they'll actually be able to follow through with reliable customer service. And if customers start getting crappy service, you can BET (a gamble you're sure to win this time) that you'll get nothing but hot-tempered arguments from Zack, and calm collected justifications from Avi.

I agree.
 
Mark, you are going to blow a gasket. Take a deep breath ... let it out ... now answer a few questions please.

These are simple yes & no questions, requiring no more than a yes or no.

Do you have proof your site (ballbids) was hacked?
Is this proof supplied by marty?
Are you heavily invested in ballbids?
Are you the true owner of ballbids? (Which would explain a lot)


I will wager you will be unable to answer these questions with simple yes & nos.

It is suspicious that you are the only one posting on behalf of ballbids, here and elsewhere on the web. Just you.

Furthermore, name calling is childish and unbecoming for an adult.
 
Funny they delete comments of anyone from their page thats not a customer with legitimate concerns, and then get banned.

Since when do we have to be a customer to express our opinions. I go into a store looking to buy, but if i see something that i don't like, ill leave and contact corporate and so on. You think they will delete and ignore my comments and ban me from going in their store. How businesses get better, by LISTENING to the audience that you are projecting to!!!

That is not true. There are comments from many people on the business site. But you tried to say that your negative comments were to give advice and help out. You want to help so much send an email or a message. You know how to do that. You have already sent out emails to Ballbids customers trying to interfere with business. Besides, you absolutely hate Ballbild so why would you even try to post negative remarks on their business page and not expect them to be removed. Forensic degree Huh? You are not very smart. Ballbids allowed you haters to post in the beginning and then they had to start deleting and banning the same people more than once when they came back on with different accounts. That is you too Robillard. So Ballbids will not be allowing that anymore and they have made that abundantly clear. Why not everyone just not bother with Ballbids and stop making up lies and see how it goes. It has already been proven to have gained significant interest from inside and outside the community. You just think that your facebook auction customers will not buy from you. Chicken Little approach "the sky is falling" scenario. Ballbids has already had discussions with FB auctioneers who say that their customers are also ballbids customers. It does not hurt their business at all. It is not for everyone but a lot of people sure do enjoy it. So why not just go back and do what you do and leave Ballbids alone. Rich just because you said would never sell a snake to Ballbids doesn't mean other breeders don't want to. They wisely would prefer to sell to Ballbids at a fair market value than to not sell their product and have to hold it too long or sell it way too cheap at some point. Come on now Mr Forensic's. Do you not see any of this. Ballbids has been proven to be legal and that was done on Robillards say no page when they posted the business information. Ballbids has never scammed anyone and that has been proven. The snakes are top quality and that is proven. So go get a life dude. Stop the hate!
 
It sounds like they want everything on the down low so that they are conveniently never in the position of explaining any hanky panky. And it looks like their past auctions had a bunch of hanky panky.

I think that one might have a better chance of getting a critter by flushing dollar bills down the toilet. If it clogs, maybe the plumber will be a herper with an extra snake.
I agree. I wish I could rep you for such a great post. Heh. :D
 
Mark, you are going to blow a gasket. Take a deep breath ... let it out ... now answer a few questions please.

These are simple yes & no questions, requiring no more than a yes or no.

Do you have proof your site (ballbids) was hacked?
Is this proof supplied by marty?
Are you heavily invested in ballbids?
Are you the true owner of ballbids? (Which would explain a lot)


I will wager you will be unable to answer these questions with simple yes & nos.

It is suspicious that you are the only one posting on behalf of ballbids, here and elsewhere on the web. Just you.

Furthermore, name calling is childish and unbecoming for an adult.

Yes Yes No No
 
That is not true. There are comments from many people on the business site. But you tried to say that your negative comments were to give advice and help out. You want to help so much send an email or a message. You know how to do that. You have already sent out emails to Ballbids customers trying to interfere with business. Besides, you absolutely hate Ballbild so why would you even try to post negative remarks on their business page and not expect them to be removed. Forensic degree Huh? You are not very smart. Ballbids allowed you haters to post in the beginning and then they had to start deleting and banning the same people more than once when they came back on with different accounts. That is you too Robillard. So Ballbids will not be allowing that anymore and they have made that abundantly clear. Why not everyone just not bother with Ballbids and stop making up lies and see how it goes. It has already been proven to have gained significant interest from inside and outside the community. You just think that your facebook auction customers will not buy from you. Chicken Little approach "the sky is falling" scenario. Ballbids has already had discussions with FB auctioneers who say that their customers are also ballbids customers. It does not hurt their business at all. It is not for everyone but a lot of people sure do enjoy it. So why not just go back and do what you do and leave Ballbids alone. Rich just because you said would never sell a snake to Ballbids doesn't mean other breeders don't want to. They wisely would prefer to sell to Ballbids at a fair market value than to not sell their product and have to hold it too long or sell it way too cheap at some point. Come on now Mr Forensic's. Do you not see any of this. Ballbids has been proven to be legal and that was done on Robillards say no page when they posted the business information. Ballbids has never scammed anyone and that has been proven. The snakes are top quality and that is proven. So go get a life dude. Stop the hate!

Can you point me to where I said your Business was Hurting me or my Selling of anything. Its ONLY YOU saying this all the time. I never once posted anything Negative, i had 3 comments on Ball bids page other night about stating the bumblebee auction was NOT an attack. Since you guys didn't want that known they were deleted and I was banned. Only time I ever comment and Banned!

And throwing My degree in my face doesn't hurt me one bit. Maybe you should look up what Forensics really is, be fore spouting off about it. But keep throwing it at me, I love it being acknowledged.
 
Can you point me to where I said your Business was Hurting me or my Selling of anything. Its ONLY YOU saying this all the time. I never once posted anything Negative, i had 3 comments on Ball bids page other night about stating the bumblebee auction was NOT an attack. Since you guys didn't want that known they were deleted and I was banned. Only time I ever comment and Banned!

And throwing My degree in my face doesn't hurt me one bit. Maybe you should look up what Forensics really is, be fore spouting off about it. But keep throwing it at me, I love it being acknowledged.

You have been a boisterous opponent of Ballbids calling it a scam from the start. I know what the degree is and it is admirable. But your postings and actions on the internet do not ad up to a person that has worked so hard to be held in the proper public esteem that you should be with that background.
 
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