Just some comments

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Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:02:50 -0000

Hello Everyone,
  
I've been reading the Wire almost since it started but I've never bothered to post anything before. That is until now. I've been away for a while and I've been catching up on some reading, mainly Wire, to see what I've missed. It seems I've missed a lot. And a lot
of what I've missed revolves around one Mr. Tim Both.
  
Tim, you strike me as a person that loves the sound of your own voice. I see a lot of your little comments littering the archive, most of them are very non funny and virtually all of them are useless. But what really cracks me up is the following: When you started out you stated that you'd *never* sell any boots - you'd only ever charge postage and you'd only ever do tapes as CD-Rs are a total rip off. Then you started charging for your tapes - in order to off set the cost of the boots you bought. Now you're doing CD-Rs and charging a bit for them. Did I miss something? Didn't you either lead, or at least be an active participant in
the attack on people doing CD-Rs and charging more than a few dollars? You charge US$25 for a double? Outrageous! The blank discs cost about $1 each if you buy more than 10 at a time - which I'm sure you are. You're just as bad as the people you once attacked. Funny about that.
  
It's a weird thing - a person starts up, charges next to nothing, gains a resonable name, slowly adds charges without anyone really noticing and then moves into the field they really want to be in.
  
And in order to keep that 'great trader' name you (Tim) seem only too keen to evoke the name of a bad one, and you know who that is. I'm sick and tired of seeing his name on Wire. Let the authorities catch up with him, why don't you just leave it out? Did he rip you off? If he didn't then who appointed you the moral guardian
of Wire? You don't act for me. I can actually think for myself.
  
I seem to think that Tim only brings up the dreaded name just to push himself further into the spotlight as a 'nice guy', thus deflecting light from himself. Mind you Tim claims that he bought a copy of the ZooTV boot from the certain person. Did you Tim or did you buy it from someone else? I remember that the person always
said he had a supplier. Maybe you bought from the supplier Tim.
   
Still I expect to get flamed for these observations, because I also see a pattern here. The same few people go into bat for their friends, thus making such observations pretty null and void. I hope that some people here use thier brains and see beyond the rosey
picture that Tim and Co. paint for themselves. But then it seems that this is no longer the U2 Wire, but more like the Tim Both and Pals Wire.
  
And Tim, maybe only one person responded to your earlier post about you know who (and I certainly don't want to mention the name - it's overdone as it is) because maybe, just maybe, he didn't rip as many people off as YOU claim he did.
  
But then that would be too much of a shock wouldn't it? How about just leaving the dead dogs buried and move on. If you're as half as good as you say you are then you don't need to use other people as a crutch.
  
And this is from a person that was ripped by Geraldo. Where is he now?
  
Nick

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