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jonny5 wrote:
Skykid wrote:Aren't you supposed to be in off-topic ripping me to shreds over my movie taste? :)
whats that supposed to mean?

you feel my points arent valid or disagree with what i said?
Whoa dude, that was meant to be a friendly 'hello' type of thing. :shock:

Guess that was pretty misunderstood, as happens on the interweb. Just pleased to see you buddy, no hard feelings! :)
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I sit on clifftop
Like eagle, I watch on him
Soar back to AO

His wrongs I note down
Broken promises and dreams
Not for the first time

I ponder how long
Starkey will delay people
and suggest a ban

Too many chances
Same old excuses again
Heard it all before

Promised superguns
Already paid for, not come
Sigh, how much longer
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You have far too much free time kern. :lol:
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I sent Arasoi some contact info for firebug. There is no reason for this to continue on the forums now.

As I see it, firebugs mannerisms in business are not that good. For a start the projects that are outstanding would take only a small fraction of the time that he's had the monies. In a year a single person could build a whole lot. I'm not going into details but firebug has projects on the go which are nothing to do with these sales where people have been waiting. I've had several reports from him about other projects he's doing and I have actually got reports suggesting that progress was made. If that is the case, then those projects have been green lit by him in front of the projects he's been paid to do.


I will tell you my version of whats happening.

1) He has already spent the funds paid to him on his own projects that are being worked on at the same time as doing your own. Before he gets a sellable product out of that project, he usually hits a roadblock. So he has money tied up in a project that he can't budge for a profit. Meawhile back at the ranch.....

2) He is juggling a lot of people without any cash.. So takes on more projects to get funds to carry on with the old projects that are outstanding.

3) The people from (2) get put in a long long waiting list of people behind those who waited longest and/or moan the loudest.

4) Whilst all this is happening he comes across sincere in his words. He is softly spoken and comes across as genuinely on the case. He came through for me, so I can't really say he won't come through for you.

So in a nutshell its not about time in the sense that he's got a lot on his plate in regards to personal issues. Its that he has to unravel a lot of shit to unearth a little extra cash here and there. What he really needs is a huge cash injection from somewhere and to put his other issues aside.

I might be off on a few bits, but in a nutshell this is what is happening. I've seen him round my house answer calls to people telling them he's on a supergun project whilst he was playing on my astro city. So right there i've proved that he is not totally sincere in his words.

But after saying all that. If he could fix your problems overnight, I think he would. He just has a problem that he won't admit he's got.

The end.
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Skykid wrote:
jonny5 wrote:
Skykid wrote:Aren't you supposed to be in off-topic ripping me to shreds over my movie taste? :)
whats that supposed to mean?

you feel my points arent valid or disagree with what i said?
Whoa dude, that was meant to be a friendly 'hello' type of thing. :shock:

Guess that was pretty misunderstood, as happens on the interweb. Just pleased to see you buddy, no hard feelings! :)
ya...well...hello to you too :x
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Like eagle, I watch on him
Soar back to AO

His wrongs I note down
Broken promises and dreams
Not for the first time

I ponder how long
Starkey will delay people
and suggest a ban

Too many chances
Same old excuses again
Heard it all before

Promised superguns
Already paid for, not come
Sigh, how much longer
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since the sea gull thread
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jonny5 wrote: kern needs employment
It can't be easy buying Ketsui PCB's on the dole. :|
ya...well...hello to you too :x
Good to speak to you again, sincerely hope everything is good with you. :evil:

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ohh the burnn

brb, I feel the need to back up my scamming friend, or flip some forum purchases on ebay after lowballing everyone. :o
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kernow wrote:ohh the burnn

brb, I feel the need to back up my scamming friend, or flip some forum purchases on ebay after lowballing everyone. :o
come now gentleman
we are all friends here you know
now kiss and make up

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kernow wrote:ohh the burnn

brb, I feel the need to back up my scamming friend, or flip some forum purchases on ebay after lowballing everyone. :o
OH SNAPE SON.

Anyway, from what neorichie said...

...firebug is the Madoff of superguns? :arrow:
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Firebug isn't a scammer, he's provided plenty of superguns to plenty of people cross forum afaik - but he is being decidedly slack and I'm definitely not condoning that. I'm sure he'd agree it's not cool too.

Tbh, I know him from a while back, but it sounds like Neorichie is more in touch these days (I don't even have his number anymore.)

I've got no response online yet, but if I hear anything I'll let you know.
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I'm sure Rot would say otherwise, starkey still owes him money for a Zed Blade MVS cart from about 5yrs ago. Which he personally told me in a PM months ago he'd sort out.... wonder if he has? :P
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kernow wrote:I'm sure Rot would say otherwise, starkey still owes him money for a Zed Blade MVS cart from about 5yrs ago. Which he personally told me in a PM months ago he'd sort out.... wonder if he has? :P
Like I said, I'm not in touch with the guy often as I don't live in London anymore - I usually see him at the Neo Empire events these days.
It sounds like he's definitely got some issues to resolve though, and he'll need to get his act together. Fingers crossed he turns up here shortly to put things straight.

That thing about Ketsui wasn't meant to get your back up either, I meant I doubted you were unemployed because I knew you had picked up the PCB recently (and it's pretty expensive.)
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Skykid wrote:
That thing about Ketsui wasn't meant to get your back up either
I am unemployed yes, but I sold a ton of PCB's to get it, loads. I'm sorry about my comments in that case. It did get my back up but if it wasn't intentional.. ok.

I really should play it more in that case, hit a wall early on. Sigh.
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kernow wrote:
Skykid wrote:
That thing about Ketsui wasn't meant to get your back up either
I am unemployed yes, but I sold a ton of PCB's to get it, loads. I'm sorry about my comments in that case. It did get my back up but if it wasn't intentional.. ok.

I really should play it more in that case, hit a wall early on. Sigh.
I've neglected it too. Probably because I can still hear my bank balance screaming every time I pick it up. :oops:
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Hi everyone,

The last of four machines are gradually being finished. Forum member CHI recently had a machine serviced by me, and he has seen himself that peoples machines do indeed exist, all in a pretty near state of completion, which I am dedicating time to.

In the last few weeks I have finished CHI’s machine, tony starks and Neorichieb1971 machines. I *am* on the case with the outstanding orders, and after this, I vow never to offer anything in forum sales again, be it here or arcade otaku. The reason is simple. Im a lethargic and complacent idiot, who buries his head in the sand when there are problems to resolve, and quite simply, I don’t deserve to make use of selling facilities. Bloodflowers himself told me ‘dont fall behind or get slack as it will ruin any positive rep you may earn’ when we met last year, and Im only sorry I didn’t take heed. I am not a scammer though. I do not set out to rob people of their money. I do not pretend to hide, I invite people to collect their own stuff or make use of my ‘walk in surgery’. People who know me in person know that a nice guy and love to help and do favours, however its people out of sight here that I have let down, and its therefore entirely unfair and entirely my fault they are unsatisfied. The next posts from me will be displaying the machines that these people are waiting on.

I WILL NOT POST UNTIL I HAVE POSITIVE COMMENTS AND PICS FOR THE BUYERS WAITING.

To the people who vouched for me, thanks, and I am grateful that you for the supporting words, in particular Skykid and CHI, and neorichie, who have personally spoken to me to get me out of the slump Ive been dwelling in, in self pity. These are not excuses, just the truth, really. Over the last year I have been in and out of hospital, lost three relatives and have resorted to alternative methods to deal with stuff rather than just face up to them, a problem I’ve always had. It was ultimately my long suffering partner who pointed out to me that these alternative methods ‘make my goals go away’.

Slai50- I have already reduced your payment and will also forget the £120 that is owed on the project. You will still receive the XRGB2 also, as promised.

Arasoi- Expected there in around 10 days, though I will notify you nearer the time. If I recall, I've already sent pics to you a while back.

Shaun, you really shouldn't keep arguing with skykid. Arent mods supposed to set an example and encourage harmony rather than consistent arguing? You appear to be intoxicated by the exuburence of your own verbocity also :P. I'd appreciate it if you would let me clear up my mess without throwing on anymore fuel, at least just yet. Were both grown ups after all. When we spoke before in pm, it was nice to finally deduce that beyond the boundaries of open forums, you were actually quite pleasant to chat to. Looking forward to playing some Super Turbo with you one day :D
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ok

:P

When you stop being a bit poo :P
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mark-

when i emailed you a few months ago, you told me that your backlog would be cleared and that you would be giving your full attention to my supergun. It appears that you have been working on other superguns before you have been finishing mine. I really don't think you have any real motivation in finishing my supergun, especially now, since you have dropped the price so much. I say just give me my money and parts back and lets call it a day. Because of your false promises i have missed out on several superguns that i could have purchased from members of this forum and other forums. You told me back in mid june that my supergun was finished and would ship that week and nothing ever happened and you didn't even bother giving me with an explanation. I gave you a month to see if you would respond and nothing. These flat out lies are really getting on my nerves. Why should i believe you when you have been untruthful numerous times?
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I didnt want to post in this thread but I feel its best I throw my 2p in.

I had dealings with Fire bug in the past and although I did eventually get my stuff back I believe his biggest problem is his lack of communication and general shifting about, he needs to either refund the people who have been waiting for so long for their stuff or get off his arse and commit to coming thru on the deals hes done, I lost alot of faith with him on my dealings and told him I would never buy or do business with him again because of all the crap that went on, he seemed to me like he honestly couldnt give a shit about the customer and had a "it'll get done when i can be arsed" sort of vibe going on about him.

At one point I honestly did believe he was gonna make a run for it with my gear and you wont believe how relieved I was when i got my stuff back lol

All in all I'm sure in real life hes not a bad guy but playing around with peoples hard earned money and making promises you do not keep are not the way to do business.
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My 2 cents is that I can only see this in favour of the buyers. You pay your money, you get your stuff, end of.

At the same time, I think it's worth noting that while Fire Bug has failed on a handful of critical orders, he's done plenty of successful ones over the years. Not that that's going to make the select few who are waiting feel any better, but I don't think anyone should feel they've ended up dealing with a scammer.

The only response anyone should expect now is updates/delivery or refunds on their orders over the next coming weeks - I don't think the guy can actually make a more honest response than the one above, so it would make sense to take further enquiries to PM.

I actually managed to speak to him and get the response for you guys on this thread, so if anyone is having trouble contacting Fire Bug, feel free to PM me and I'll see if I can't catch him and get him to answer you directly.

I'll be sure to give him a Tiger Knee in the balls for everybody when I see him at Super vs Battle next month.
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perhaps this forum should instate a new rule. That in the case of fire-bug he can only take an order once the previous customer green lights it. Thats how I would deal with it. Thats if you have any intention of still using his services.
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Skykid wrote:Firebug isn't a scammer, he's provided plenty of superguns to plenty of people cross forum afaik
Yes, including me, but that's not what the Madoff reference was about.

The very fact that we can sit here and discuss whether he is building people's stuff with funds from other people's stuff is sad news. I expect it not to be true, in all honesty, though what Khan said seems reasonable enough. But hopefully he can find the chance to turn things around and get those projects cranked out in fast enough order that he gets some good will back.

I haven't spoken to Arasoi in a while (too long of course) but I would have certainly hit the roof over not having an item in so long. The excuses - some of it was bound to be just bullshit, I'm afraid. But certainly Arasoi didn't pay to put his money in a bank deposit that loses value to inflation, instead of being able to use it, or the fruits of that money.

To be sure - decent work and I quite like my SG, though I'm still hoping to find out what the hell to do with that 9-pin DIN...
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has anyone heard from firebug regarding their superguns lately? He hasn't logged into his account since August.
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