As far as whoever bought Wowhead from him, and the other owners (And it wasn't just him)... We have no idea of the situation or what he actually did day to day over there, if anything. It certainly should strike anyone as odd that he has to spam DB.com members to get people to look at his product though. He supposidly had a hand in making a top 500 web site, and he's resorting to spamming DB.com members by hand??? Doesn't add up IMO. We have no idea how many people invested in Wowhead, for all we know they might have been in debt $5 million and been bought for $1 mil so they investors could recoup some of their losses. All I know is $1 mil is was a very low price to pay for a site as popular as that one was at the time. That's an indication of a fire-sale IMO - an indication that something was very wrong with their business and/or business management and/or business model. To put it in perspective, Allakhazam.com (a very similar site with less traffic ) was bought for between 7 and 10 million one year earlier by the same people who bought Wowhead. but for some reason they paid 10x less for Wowhead, which was more popular and had more traffic.

The biggest problem I have with the guy, is when he came out with his first product, he said he had Blizzard approval. And he knew people at Blizzard who gave him that approval. That he had "ins" with Blizzard thanks to him "owning" Wowhead so his product had the offical Blizzard blessing. But we later found out, the features he promoted and put in his product were NOT approved by Blizzard, and Blizzard said you shouldn't use a product like because it's CLEARY agaisn't the TOS. So he basicaly, flat-out tried to BS all of us. And he was flat-out busted for it, direct from Blizzard.

So I'm not a fan of the guy personally.



Quote Originally Posted by 'Sam DeathWalker',index.php?page=Thread&postID=201231#p ost201231
Apparently the people who bought wowhead from him didnt have a problem doing business with him ...

All those allegations are basically the same, he is here to make a buck and dosn't care about the community. Well I go to wowhead every day I don't care if the owners care about me or not really ...

Rob and Ellay are the most mature and resonable of the people around here, I am sure they can deal with "insults", like I have in the past. Just because they are leaders in the community dosnt mean that they favor exclusion of potential contributers.

Lets see you claim he is guilty of "slander" yet in this thread I see words like "idiot" "moron" "weasel" "scam" "slander" etc. Very mature and business like of you posters, attacking someone who can't defend himself.

I think that had the community been a bit more open to him origianlly and not banned him then all this would not have occured.

Im just saying if dual-boxing is claiming to represent the entire multiboxer community then it can't ban ligit products or people who are just "trying to make a buck". If dual-boxing is claiming to represent most of the community except for those it considers "weasels" well then whatever.

Also we all do a diservice to noobs if we don't review all products, what if in fact it is the best software solution (Im not saying it is I use keyclone myself) we are going to recomend to noobs a lesser product because we don't like the guy?

Well no real business bans people because "he dosn't care about the community and just wants to make a buck". Lots of owners of businesses cater to people they don't like for some reason or other, mainly becasue its a violation of the law not to. If the goal is to show Blizzard that dual-boxing.com is about maturity and business Im sorry to say that this shows the exact opposite.