chokeychicken profits off sick child

Me thinks that you are justifying your actions to much and the paying more taxes is pure bullshit and a silly smoke screen. Just put it this way your actions are being watched…

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Do you actually report all this scalping income to the IRS?

It's pretty natural for people to assume the worst about scalpers, because what you and your ilk do is so inherently obnoxious. Scalpers are leeches sucking at the lifeblood of the music scene. If you're really going to give all those proceeds to this cause, get a receipt and post it here. Unless you do that, I think people have fair grounds to assume your actions are entirely self-serving.

Originally posted by kosmo:
Me thinks that you are justifying your actions to much and the paying more taxes is pure bullshit and a silly smoke screen. Just put it this way your actions are being watched…

I believe if you "make" over a certain amount on ebay in a year, based on auctions of things you sold, that they issue a 1099-Misc.

I think everyone needs to knock it off, it's the guy's business and there's zero law against what he's doing. Even if he's going to pocket every penny from those tickets, it's not our business and all this "we don't take kindly to your kind" and "you'll be watched" bull is a bunch of ridiculous posturing. People scalp tickets. It happens. Grow up and get over it.

Being watched in the fact that he could get banned from the forum, even if what is being done is completely above board or not.

Originally posted by kosmo:
Being watched in the fact that he could get banned from the forum,

For what? Selling tickets to an event AT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CLUB… ON EBAY? Do you and the rest of the staph really have nothing better to do with your time then enforce your feelings on other's personal lives thru this messageboard?

If you want to enforce social mores, try banning GGW for starting a thread linking to someone's personal affairs and throwing up highly inflamatory and inaccurate ad hominym like "________ profits off sick children." CC has kept his business off this board, and it would've stayed off this board if the whole lot of you didn't denegrate into an indie-credo penis-length comparison.

would you like to join him?

Originally posted by kosmo:
would you like to join him?

Now there's a mature response!

kosmo, i find that completely unbelieveable and unncessary. I have contributed positive things to this board for years now; I've been visiting for a long time. I have never caused trouble and I have never done anything to warrant a ban. You banning me would do nobody any good except display your power as a message board administrator, which we all know good and well that you have.

Whether or not you believe that I pay taxes is up to you, man. I'm not going to defend myself unncessarily. I'll be happy to let you speak to my tax attourney and you two can battle to the death. I run a business full time, and I pay the appropriate taxes as a citizen of this country. I'm not saying anything more about it, because me paying taxes is not what this thread is about.

I'm not going to post a receipt of my donation on here, either. I'm not out to prove anything to anybody; I am a light-hearted individual that cares about this music scene and the people involved in it, and wanted to do something to contribute to the Robbins family because I believe in the case. I'm sorry that the way I'm going about doing it isn't satisfactory enough for some of you. But the bottom line is; unless your donation meets strict ebay guidelines, which me either doing a face-to-face donation at the show or sending a payment via paypal does not meet, you cannot, under any circumstances, advertise that something is for charity in the listing. Believe me, I've done it in the past; they'll shut you down in 12 hours or less.

As I've said time and time again, what I do for a living is my decision. It is legal in 90% of the country, and see as a service to most people, and an act of scum to others. I will never convince either party to jump over the line, so I'm not going to try; most of you are well-set in your mindframes, and there's no point trying to convince otherwise; especially when I don't really care that much. At the end of the day, whether or not you agree with what I do for a living does not affect my sleeping patterns. The clients that we have as a business love the service we provide, and come back time and time again. And that's really all that matters.

whatever… i slightly flex my opinion on something and get flamed for it… rarely do i feel the need to play the moderator here, so there must be some cause for my concern here.

i could care less if what is being done is legal or not, at this point there are several people on this forum who are annoyed by certain actions… so i'm representing the voice of that part of the community and obviously thats not going to make me popular with all. any actions that ended up being taken will be approved by the club staph. and if i've over stepped my bounds i will offer an apology.

and i could give a rats ass about where or not you pay taxes as its a complete non-starter

Originally posted by kosmo:
i could care less if what is being done is legal or not, at this point there are several people on this forum who are annoyed by certain actions…

I'm fairly certain equal outrage would be produced by the community over the irresponsibility of driving under the influence. So, if I know of a long-time board member who has been convicted of a DUI and post about it, complete with a link to the state's online judicial database, will a ban be forthcoming?

The fact that something is legal does not make it automatically acceptable… It must not be very fulfilling to make one's life's work such a vapid pursuit.

however, as for a ban… I would say a ban is reasonable if he is profiting off this board – in other words, if his access to this board somehow facilitates his scalping business. Otherwise it's probably not worth the bother.

Originally posted by chokeychicken:
kosmo, i find that completely unbelieveable and unncessary. I have contributed positive things to this board for years now; I've been visiting for a long time. I have never caused trouble and I have never done anything to warrant a ban. You banning me would do nobody any good except display your power as a message board administrator, which we all know good and well that you have.

Whether or not you believe that I pay taxes is up to you, man. I'm not going to defend myself unncessarily. I'll be happy to let you speak to my tax attourney and you two can battle to the death. I run a business full time, and I pay the appropriate taxes as a citizen of this country. I'm not saying anything more about it, because me paying taxes is not what this thread is about.

I'm not going to post a receipt of my donation on here, either. I'm not out to prove anything to anybody; I am a light-hearted individual that cares about this music scene and the people involved in it, and wanted to do something to contribute to the Robbins family because I believe in the case. I'm sorry that the way I'm going about doing it isn't satisfactory enough for some of you. But the bottom line is; unless your donation meets strict ebay guidelines, which me either doing a face-to-face donation at the show or sending a payment via paypal does not meet, you cannot, under any circumstances, advertise that something is for charity in the listing. Believe me, I've done it in the past; they'll shut you down in 12 hours or less.

As I've said time and time again, what I do for a living is my decision. It is legal in 90% of the country, and see as a service to most people, and an act of scum to others. I will never convince either party to jump over the line, so I'm not going to try; most of you are well-set in your mindframes, and there's no point trying to convince otherwise; especially when I don't really care that much. At the end of the day, whether or not you agree with what I do for a living does not affect my sleeping patterns. The clients that we have as a business love the service we provide, and come back time and time again. And that's really all that matters.

Okay. I'll buy a pair from your auction and when we meet at will call I will give you a check payable to James Robbins for the amount of the sale.

Deal?

ok how about this… for now i'm going to back down in order to hopefully defuse the situation, talk of banning anyone is a sensitive issue and needs to be done for the right reasons. however, i think that direct attacks on other members in any form is unacceptable.

Originally posted by kosmo:
ok how about this… for now i'm going to back down in order to hopefully defuse the situation, talk of banning anyone is a sensitive issue and needs to be done for the right reasons. however, i think that direct attacks on other members in any form is unacceptable.

Then I shall likewise withhold my nasty DUI information, in hopes of returning the board to some semblance of normalcy.

Three cheers for detente!

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Okay. I'll buy a pair from your auction and when we meet at will call I will give you a check payable to James Robbins for the amount of the sale.

Deal? [/QB]

heh… silence…

/Grabs popcorn/

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Originally posted by King of the Internet:

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
truly the scum of the earth. gordon gekko level.

…Even worse than Dupek?

Dupek? irrelevant

since you want to talk about ebay's policies i'll use this example:

Ebay link.

you had this auction up for 1-3 tickets with "buy as many as you need" with a buy it now @ $50. there was 1 left when the auction ended so you sold 2?

ebay's policy:
"Sellers listing event tickets for resale from an eBay site other than www.ebay.com for one of the regulated locations listed above, may not exceed the pricing limitations set forth above, regardless of the location of the seller or the buyer. Sellers must also clearly include the following in their listing:

The location where the event will occur, and
If it is a Regulated Location, the face value of the ticket, the number of tickets, and the following text:
Due to laws regulating ticket sales in this area, the seller in this auction will not accept any bids or offers to buy above the total face value $__ printed on the ticket(s), plus $ permitted in some states. Do not bid more than this amount. Bids that exceed this amount are void and will be cancelled by the seller. The seller will end the listing if, and when, this price is met."

on your auction page:
"North Carolina residents: North Carolina state law limits the resale ticket price for this event location, so your maximum bid cannot exceed $63.00. See eBay's ticket policy."

from ebay's information regarding north carolina:
"Connecticut, North Carolina
No more than face value plus $3."

face value was $10 on these tickets. i bought one at the box office. where does $10 + $3 = $63?

just because you manage to find ways to justify things to yourself, doesn't mean that you are not a disgusting individual. it's amazing the things we can convince ourselves if we repeat them over and over again.

you fucking disgust me and i will love to hear about the day you get what you deserve.

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