I'm finding it hard to believe that someone with a mere 15 posts on Deskthority would be able to recall a conversation that happened like a year ago, so forgive me for writing you off as an alt-account.Gurbsordidity wrote: ↑09 Jul 2021, 08:26Glad to hear Ellipse is now ignoring the "energy vampires". Any enterprise serving the general public gets plenty of them, and ignoring them actually improves the product by keeping the focus on important things like product development, operations, and support.
I read the warranties and terms of service I agree to, and none of BNMFK's guarantees a specific closing date, only that one will eventually arrive, which belies claims of false advertising. If I were Ellipse I might have reacted by changing the notice a little, to something like, "Due to popular demand, the order closing date has been extended to date x", and then just update x every month or so. That wording resolves the specific complaints I've seen here and yet could still be rolled month to month arbitrarily far into the future.
No one should take criticisms like the one I just saw about "shameless greed" too seriously. In that case, Ellipse set a high asking price on the open market for an item in his personal collection—an act no reasonable person thinks is immoral for a luxury good, and the person screaming shameless greed (over and over and over and over) is indeed a reasonable person. Since the user's real motive is not to decry greed, we have to guess.
My best guess is it's retribution for the time Ellipse shipped them a keyboard internationally and they demanded reimbursement of import duties after the fact, which Ellipse refused.¹ And so began their campaign to embarrass Ellipse, the goal being to pressure Ellipse into reimbursing their import taxes, the result being a cavalcade of shitposts here. I suspect that because the user coveted the $4000 keyboard, they decided to restart their campaign by making an issue of it: I am being a nuisance because remember that one time you refused to pay my import costs?
As it happens I had forgotten about the import fee shafting when raising the issue of his $4000 display of pure greed since it was many pay cheques ago, but If you want to write that off as an immature 'fuck you' to Joe for his greed then go right ahead...
I've bought from the guy multiple times, I believe two of those orders were over $1000 in value, and I'd order from him again because greed aside, he sells some good shit. That doesn't mean I wont call him out on his disgusting practices though. Crawl out of his arse.
