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Bruce Stephenson -- Good Guy!

Great!

You all behaved well since my last post!
You showed the boi in all its glory! :shootfoot
If you do not see the waste and loss of integrity by posting garbage.
name calling boughts further reduce the inteligence factor.

In this case there was no information other than third party transmissions from a website stalker no links, to the alleged bad deal not even here on the boi? :shrug01:
but wess has been thanked by others here over and over.

and to more suspensions of people not even involved

wess and chuck maybe its time for you to be a mod now dave is gone?

SEE THE PROBLEM! :rofl:
 
forgot to add!

It also looks like the jedi won this one! :yesnod:
or does it go on further? :ack2:
more mindless babble from the bottomless pit of ignorance. :thumbsup:
wow wess is awfull close to a vacation?
oh bruce is still a good guy! :iagree:
 
bud mierkey said:
You all behaved well since my last post!
You showed the boi in all its glory! :shootfoot
If you do not see the waste and loss of integrity by posting garbage.
name calling boughts further reduce the inteligence factor.

In this case there was no information other than third party transmissions from a website stalker no links, to the alleged bad deal not even here on the boi? :shrug01:
but wess has been thanked by others here over and over.

and to more suspensions of people not even involved

wess and chuck maybe its time for you to be a mod now dave is gone?

SEE THE PROBLEM! :rofl:

Regardless of all that, you are defending Bruce, He has been shown to be a lazy, lying, conning man far from the honesty mark who has some nerve spinning his "Oh so wonderful morals" around. You are obviously coming to Bruce's aid because you are another "Jedi", a grown man with a fetish of star wars is one thing, but come on, even in your most serious posts you still carry on like a looney toon. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, yes some of those posts were not 100% to the liking of a serious reader, but at the same time, the man you are prosecuting, Wes, has brought something to the table that outweighs anything you can say negative towards him in this thread. I was unaware of it and actually thought Bruce was a great guy, I thought he was a tooty fruity, but I thought he has morals from his fake posts. But that thread showed me differently, and if you are still playing Devil's advocate, than you are just as guilty as the gecko scamming waste Bruce "Jedi" tart.

In my opinion, Wes did show the side of the BOI, He definitely did, he brought up a link and benefited all the readers from being sucked into the overall opinion of Bruce actually being a good guy, when in terms, him starting all the chaos actually is what the BOI is for, his opinion, supported by a bunch of facts. Maybe you didn't want Bruce to be exposed and his happy good guy thread marked to mud, but hey, some people are just looking out for others like Wes did, In my honest opinion.

Anthony Allis
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bud mierkey said:
It also looks like the jedi won this one! :yesnod:
or does it go on further? :ack2:
more mindless babble from the bottomless pit of ignorance. :thumbsup:
wow wess is awfull close to a vacation?
oh bruce is still a good guy! :iagree:

Is his lightsaber in your bottom???? :eek: How can you be able to read the thread provided by Wes and and still come to the aid of Bruce. GET OVER YOURSELF and your Jedi Fantasies, :rolleyes: you must of really been a loser growing up, it's one thing to like something, but how can anyone take you serious when your like a breathing action figure. You just attack others and their high warning point levels and not so helpful posts rather than actually look at both sides and seeing the truth.

This thread started saying Bruce is good, which now shows Bruce is bad, and you still agree with Bruce being good because you do not like the people who argue otherwise?? Your opinions are all bought from friendship, just like Bruces friend's are all bought from purchases. :rolleyes:

Anthony Allis
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Originally Posted by bud mierkey
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some have too many to list but they are still treated like a god here.

It really was a simple question.


Name one person here that has to many bad deals to list but are still treated like a GOD.

Wes hasn't had a single bad transaction.

bud mierkey said:
You all behaved well since my last post!
You showed the boi in all its glory! :shootfoot
If you do not see the waste and loss of integrity by posting garbage.
name calling boughts further reduce the inteligence factor.

In this case there was no information other than third party transmissions from a website stalker no links, to the alleged bad deal not even here on the boi? :shrug01:

but wess has been thanked by others here over and over.

and to more suspensions of people not even involved

wess and chuck maybe its time for you to be a mod now dave is gone?

SEE THE PROBLEM! :rofl:

How's Bruce's own words? You stated it was only one bad deal. That maybe true but we learn a lot with that one bad deal. This is the reaction we observed from this one bad deal.


brucestephenson said:
I am not in the wrong KELLI. These little :censored: never offered me halfway on the deal, and when I called them on it here, they never sent a check. I am SHOCKED that you took their word over mine without any proof. After all I have done to help you - but this is the reptile business, go figure. Sammy you are a real :censored: and I am going :censored: when I catch up to you along with the others here. GKO are :censored: and so are their friends here. See you at the next show. It will be my pleasure.
Edited for profanity, threats and name calling.

Hmmm, Doesn't sit well with your characterization.

bud mierkey said:
Master Stephenson is one of the few real good guys here! :iagree:
He has finished off many members of the dark side. :yesnod:
These have been well documented here on fauna. :thumbsup:
so disreguard any posts by the few remaining sith members as they are sent into oblivion they kick and cry as seen here on this thread.
bruce goodguy = yes
See you at the jedi council meeting.
later
bud
Jim O said:
Agreed. Let's not forget what Brucie tried to do to those two young people because of his own laziness, and how he treated Kelli H for her fair minded analysis of the situation.

Also, threatening Sammy and others with physical violence.

So Bud, this pillar of goodness did what when it came time to address his first problem transaction? Stack up all the good purchases he made against the reaction of the one that didn't go so well. It's the only reaction we have when things don't go as planned.


Then after words you have him attacking Kelli. Why? Because she was honest. She didn't state anything negative.

 
Then after words you have him attacking Kelli. Why? Because she was honest. She didn't state anything negative.

I'd like to know the answer to that question myself. I truly thought Bruce was a great guy at one time, and that was separate from him being a great customer (which he was). We had many good phone conversations about lots of things (not just herps) and I really considered him a friend. I swear I grow more and more jaded each year.
 
Most of the time my world is a pretty simple one. The guys who lie, the ones who steal, those incapable of standing on their own merits, are almost always bad guys.
The ones like brucie, the ones who try to buy everyone's support through the purchase of high dollar animals are always bad guys. They think that because they have spent large amounts of money that they are OWED, that you will support them, that you will look the other way when they misbehave, that you will think, as they must themselves, that money is more important than character.

brucie has been lieing for years. He used to be a supporter of mine until I flat out told him that I would NOT ever be his friend based on how I had seen him act. He truly is a scumbag. He's just rolled his fat sweaty self in sugar so many times, like some others here, that you can't see anything BUT the sugar unless you're one of two things; looking for the scum underneath or one untrusting sumbitch.

I'm both of those.

You want to know what's really funny about all this though? At least funny for today..... NONE of this would be here if rich had not disabled my ability to send pm's and emails through the site. All I intended to do was notify Jen that she had dealt with a real scumbag and I intended to do that privately as at the time I was rather tired of pointing out scumbags and having people say, "well yeah he is but....."

Interesting turn on this one, eh rich?
 
Bud and Bruce have failed to answer any of the questions here in the thread. Bud if I were you I wouldn't defend Bruce anymore as it is just showing you to be a bad guy based on your lack of support with your own opinion. Excluding obvious, uhh he's my friend reasoning for putting him a good guy.

Anthony Allis
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Wes, I appreciate the info as do many others I would think. I was sent the link to the Gecko Forums thread where all of the true info is, by a friend on another forum. So I am well aware of what happened now in its entirety. While our original transaction went well, I will not be dealing with Bruce again because I don't need drama and won't be opening myself up to being scammed like that (nor leaving my animals open to being injured or killed).

HOWEVER, as I mentioned already, I'm really disgusted with the immaturity and pointlessness in this thread -- it completely overtook the entire topic of discussion...which was supposed to be my dealing with Bruce, and then the info you brought to light. I sincerely wish people would grow up and start acting like professional adults.
 
JenHarrison said:
Wes, I appreciate the info as do many others I would think. I was sent the link to the Gecko Forums thread where all of the true info is, by a friend on another forum. So I am well aware of what happened now in its entirety. While our original transaction went well, I will not be dealing with Bruce again because I don't need drama and won't be opening myself up to being scammed like that (nor leaving my animals open to being injured or killed).

HOWEVER, as I mentioned already, I'm really disgusted with the immaturity and pointlessness in this thread -- it completely overtook the entire topic of discussion...which was supposed to be my dealing with Bruce, and then the info you brought to light. I sincerely wish people would grow up and start acting like professional adults.

What I believed started it all was Bruce's fans coming to the rescue and bashing those telling the truth about his ways.

Anthony Allis
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JenHarrison said:
HOWEVER, as I mentioned already, I'm really disgusted with the immaturity and pointlessness in this thread -- it completely overtook the entire topic of discussion...which was supposed to be my dealing with Bruce, and then the info you brought to light. I sincerely wish people would grow up and start acting like professional adults.

I guess I should just say thank you....as it was your thread that did knock out a deadbeat and a racist.
 
Golden Gate Geckos said:
Bruce and Bud are not acting very Jedi-like. Perhaps they are really spies from the Dark Side?

Or perhaps they just left their brains in a galaxy far far away.

Its more like space balls then star wars when they post anyway.
 
sorry if I stuck up for a friend

I guess I am guilty of being a loyal friend.
Nowhere has anyone ever said a bad word about bruce as far as I know.
not anyone as long as I have known him. :shrug01:
And its a well known fact the possible stalker wess has been after him.
so you must ignore anything from him. :yesnod:
and you ask us to just accept the premise he is lazy and a con man?
Based on what? a story from a third party? or worse wess?
wess's link did not ever work so what evidence is that?
so its now a crime to be lazy? :NoNo: The bottom line is you just do not like the way he handled the gecko deal.
he let you know what he thought about the back stabbing as he called it.
was any money lost or taken by bruce if so how much?
would you care to have the actual people involved post here?
its just hard to take any of you heirsay guys seriously.
the alleged victims story would hold up way better.
repost the link .
So If now i am a bad guy for just not caving in and accepting this crap.
let it be.
but don,t worry I am not in the reptile biz And will steer clear of any
of you guys I feel like avoiding.
but the boi will have no part of it since its not working at all. :thumbsup:
 
bud mierkey said:
I guess I am guilty of being a loyal friend.
Nowhere has anyone ever said a bad word about bruce as far as I know.
not anyone as long as I have known him. :shrug01:
And its a well known fact the possible stalker wess has been after him.
so you must ignore anything from him. :yesnod:
and you ask us to just accept the premise he is lazy and a con man?
Based on what? a story from a third party? or worse wess?
wess's link did not ever work so what evidence is that?
so its now a crime to be lazy? :NoNo: The bottom line is you just do not like the way he handled the gecko deal.
he let you know what he thought about the back stabbing as he called it.
was any money lost or taken by bruce if so how much?
would you care to have the actual people involved post here?
its just hard to take any of you heirsay guys seriously.
the alleged victims story would hold up way better.
repost the link .
So If now i am a bad guy for just not caving in and accepting this crap.
let it be.
but don,t worry I am not in the reptile biz And will steer clear of any
of you guys I feel like avoiding.
but the boi will have no part of it since its not working at all. :thumbsup:

Why are you doing all the talking for your fellow "Jedi", if he is so right in these situations why can't he speak for himself? HE KNOWS HE IS WRONG and that is why he ceased posting, regarding this thread. You are just making it look worse for Bruce and you.

Anthony Allis
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bud mierkey said:
I guess I am guilty of being a loyal friend.

EXACTLY, YES YOU FINALLY GOT IT!!! :) YOU ARE GUILTY because being a "loyal friend" has blinded the true facts of what Bruce tried to pull, provided by Wes the "stalker". For a stalker I think he really helped me on my opinion of Bruce. YOU ARE LETTING your friendship decide everything, right and wrong, which is DEFINITELY WRONG and you look like a fool showing that characteristic! :rolleyes: How can you read that thread and still say Bruce is a great guy, :eek: YOU are overlooking everything, so the only poster that has had 100% useless posts so far is YOU.

YES BRUCE IS GUILTY FOR BE LAZY, because he was too lazy and as a result, animals suffered for it, than he tried to scam on those guys. Nothing is wrong with being lazy, just shows poor character I guess, but NOT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY for your own actions is definitely something to be guilty of, in any situation, including that one!

Anthony Allis
[email protected]
 
bud mierkey said:
Nowhere has anyone ever said a bad word about bruce as far as I know.
not anyone as long as I have known him.

And by sticking your fingers in your ears and screwing your eyes shut as tightly as you can, I suppose you can keep it that way.

You choosing not to read it or, I suspect, lying about having read it because it doesn't make your scummy buddy look good doesn't mean it doesn't exist or doesn't have value.

Everyone else who had not seen it before and who was participating on this thread managed to find it and read it... and all of them seem to have lost their positions of neutrality or gone back on their stance that Bruce was a good guy.

Ohyeah, something I was wondering a couple days ago but couldn't get an answer about... do you speak the way you type Bud? I'm really just curious more than anything else, so far every herper I have run into online and then subsequently met in person has communicated the same way. The pauses and the vocabulary and the language. With you I always get this image of a guy who can only form simple sentences and who pauses for extended periods of time between them while making faces. It may be the emoticon abuse and line breaks throwing me off though. Truly... just curious.
 
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