Actually, I am quite impressed by how well this thread has gone, with one or two notable exceptions, based on the emotional content involved. There is much opportunity here for a great deal of abusive language to be bantered about, yet nearly everyone has refrained and kept this on a noteworthy professional level.
Personally, I find this entire situation depressing because of it's implications, and the possible long term effects. Basically, there is no defense against any bad guy (and this is not labelling Chris as such, just extrapolating the inferences of how a bad guy COULD operate in such a manner) who is smart enough to set up the pieces beforehand on the playing board. Point of the matter is, based on the circumstantial evidence presented, it should be obvious to everyone that someone COULD sell bogus high dollar het animals for a rather long time before anyone would actually catch on. Even if you only sold 1 actual het for every 10 regular normals, the deception could run for an extremely long time before the weight of evidence would begin to tilt the balance of opinion. If you couple that with the natural reluctance of many people to admit that they had been duped, especially against the supposedly sterling reputation of someone who may have purposely built such a facade as a public image, this sort of thing could have been running for even years longer then anyone would like to think about.
Again, I am not accusing Chris of anything and am not agreeing nor disagreeing with the bulk of evidence presented within this thread. For although Chris and I have bumped heads HARD in the past, I sincerely wish that this turns out to be some inadvertent and honest mistake in judgement on his part.
Personally, I find this entire situation depressing because of it's implications, and the possible long term effects. Basically, there is no defense against any bad guy (and this is not labelling Chris as such, just extrapolating the inferences of how a bad guy COULD operate in such a manner) who is smart enough to set up the pieces beforehand on the playing board. Point of the matter is, based on the circumstantial evidence presented, it should be obvious to everyone that someone COULD sell bogus high dollar het animals for a rather long time before anyone would actually catch on. Even if you only sold 1 actual het for every 10 regular normals, the deception could run for an extremely long time before the weight of evidence would begin to tilt the balance of opinion. If you couple that with the natural reluctance of many people to admit that they had been duped, especially against the supposedly sterling reputation of someone who may have purposely built such a facade as a public image, this sort of thing could have been running for even years longer then anyone would like to think about.
Again, I am not accusing Chris of anything and am not agreeing nor disagreeing with the bulk of evidence presented within this thread. For although Chris and I have bumped heads HARD in the past, I sincerely wish that this turns out to be some inadvertent and honest mistake in judgement on his part.
