Author: Derek Bingley
Date: 03:59:18 10/31/00
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On October 30, 2000 at 19:00:36, leonid wrote: >On October 30, 2000 at 15:00:43, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On October 30, 2000 at 12:31:03, Ritter Rost wrote: >>>Go away, Chris. Thorsten has contributed a lot of valuable content to this place >>>recently. >> >>if chris is the guy you believe - the question is: who is you ? >> >> >>> If you now start your polemics again, everything will as usually soon >>>explode in hate emotion, which is probably the intention. >> >>i don't think chris is the problem. >>the question that comes to my mind is: what is the sense of this forum ? >>i know we planned it to communicate without getting >>disturbed by crazy internet-people, but imo the sense >>has changed. it more and more feels like a marketing-place >>for lobbyism and fanzines. >> >>i am not interested in marketing nor money or lobbyism for any program >>at all. but it seems to me SOME people here have money reasons to post >>here, .... if they all use their REAL names, its ok to me, cause i see: >>aha - thats christophe, he works with ed and aha - thats frederic, he will >>advise anybody to buy chessbase. >> >>but what about ritter rost and other pseudonyms... >> >>where is their interest ? >> >>imo this place has changed. it looks more and more like a >>walmart or McDonalds shop. >> >>in the moment we don't have the mexican-weeks but the >>rebel-weeks, and i am sure in a few days we will get new >>food... > >I don't know who is making that much money here imo the money maker is the ICD site. it is normal for a markup on software goods of at least one hundred percent or more. if you all buy from them they take half at least of all freaks and impulse buyer money. czub is saying he wants communication without money corruption and he worries now his site is marketing corrupted. but the place is more that >useful. I received few times responses from the author of Rebel. I tried to find >those responses for a while. In other occasions it was Bob Hyatt that helped me, >and so like. czub says (imo) right. czub likes this communication type. czub complains of walmart and mcdonalds feeling from buy buy buy for christmas only 24.95 dollars. because the club is on commercial site it directs purchases to commercial site. whole feeling (imo) posts exist to manipulate this purchasing. Derek Bingley (2100 rating)
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