I'm going to preface this by saying, very clearly so nobody can claim I am trying to say anything else, that I believe Dave Lawson is a bad person. He's a criminal, a thief and a liar who nobody should ever do business with.
That a complaint has been lodged, once again, against him is not a surprise.
What was a surprise, and by it's unusual nature, a suspicious one, is that people who otherwise seemed credible and intelligent had thrown their lots in with Dave Lawson on business dealings.
I don't buy the idea that Rozann made an innocent mistake. There's such a massive pile of evidence of Dave's past wrongdoings- on this site, including in threads she has participated in- that it can't be defined as anything but a conscious choice to ignore what he had done because it was... something. Personally profitable? Romantically motivated as has been suggested by the rumor mill? A way to get a ridiculously cheap house? I have no idea exactly why... and no longer trust her statements or explanations, she has lost all credibility. I do know that she's not stupid enough to put all the blame for anything at Dave's feet. He's not that slick and she's not that dumb. She made a choice.
I also do not trust that Michael is being honest in what he has presented or the spin he has put on it. He's directly lied to me about this subject which I believe destroys all of his credibility as well. Sometime around the time of my last post he sent me a private message, which I read when the page refreshed to show me the thread-
Dave
This is all to get DAve out in the open. For some reason he really cares what the BOI says about him. His current alt is Rabbit Hobbit. Webslave is aware.
I normally wouldnt bother, but since Dave seems to care please please keep dragging his record up. Murder me if you have too. But we need drag his ass out in the open. His ego wont let him sit, he has checked as little as last night what rozann and I are doing on the boi.
Bobby is too stupid to understand this, his hate of me overwells any common sense he may have(not much in my opinion)
You are smart enough to know what is up!
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Michael Heald
He's claiming this thread is some kind of sting operation or entrapment scheme that had been cooked up to draw Dave out where he could be tracked down. He also claims that this was done with the permission of the site owner.
It was certainly enough to make me pause and consider the contents of the message. I stopped responding to the thread while I gave that angle some thought.
I also checked with Rich to find out if that was true. And then got permission to post Rich's reply to me publicly. Here's Rich's response-
Nope. Besides Rozann's PM a few minutes before this one, first time I heard this. And it's nothing verified anyway. Dave Lawson uses AOL, so he could register on here 100 times and there would be no conclusive proof that it was him. And to be perfectly honest, since my hopes to put some verification on posting on the BOI via a payment process was shut down a while back, I really don't worry too much about such things. My desire to put a large level of credibility into the BOI pretty nearly sunk it when people left in droves afterwards. But people can't have their cake and eat it too..... So they just have to live with the fact that absolutely anyone at all can register here under a false identity, and there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it under the current conditions.
Besides, as I have already indicated, there is a real good chance that the BOI will be gone by this time next year anyway.
As for me being involved in something to draw out Dave Lawson, HAH! Why should I waste my time getting in the middle of such things? Quite a few people assume that their molehill in life is a mountain to everyone else.
So Michael was quite willing to tell me a blatant lie to stop me from questioning him for details in this thread.
If he's willing to lie to me about that, then anything he has said on the subject immediately becomes suspect. It's no longer possible to trust that Dave ripped him off (rather than say... pissed him off) or that the nature of the deal was as he has presented it to be. He's utterly destroyed his own credibility on the subject because there's no way to sort whatever truth may be at the bottom of the matter from the lies or spins he's put on it to make himself look good and Dave look bad.
Dave's a bad guy. Dave should be held responsible for his bad actions. Dave should not be held responsible for things that a liar is claiming happened.
When thieves have a falling out with liars, apparently the result is a massive garbage slinging free for all where the real victim is the truth.
I'd say that three reputations had been ruined here... but Dave didn't have a good reputation to start. So only two of them have proven themselves to be new bad guys, aiding criminals and lying to the public.