Jafo is Jafo. If you are not aware of who Jafo is...well, I feel for ya

To me, someone who opted to buy the suite because I like it and because I know and respect the authors here, it was very disheartening to get such a request (especially within such a short time frame of the suite having been released). That was bad enough but to wake up in the morning with even more requests in my inbox... that was just a little too much.

The requests also bothered me because it seemed to me that they would have some impact on the way I choose to communicate and deal with people on this site. Requests like this seem to me to infringe on my own sense of freedom by: 1) Causing me to doubt the wisdom of expressing my pleasure and support here on the board (since now I think I should avoid doing that so as not to get these requests) 2) causing me to rethink the advisability of keeping my addy up (something that has allowed friends to contact me more than once).

It just simply isn't a good thing to do to someone any way you look at it. It disrespects the artist or developer, and it also disrespects the person you approach. (and I am not going to go into how it could effect one's own sense of self esteem)

Claiming poverty is no real excuse to me, since I am about as low as one can get as far as that goes. Ignorance, inexperience... well I am writing this so that maybe some people will stop and think a little more about what they are doing. I am fairly new to the Internet and all of these issues are even now becoming clear to me. Little by little, I am catching on. Reading the conversations regarding these issues here on this message board has taught me a lot.

When Old Crab purchases a "sweet" only a cash payment of million bucks could purbsuade him to let go. Sorry Jafo but money is money. In reality though such requests are a dishonest attempt to rip off the artist and duck responsibility for paying for intellectual rights. I've recieved these requests usually right after I've purchase a suite and have often wondered how they got the information of the purchase or if they're just trolling the account section of WC. It is annoying to say the least and a crime at worst.

I'm with Old Crab on this one. When people ask me for a premium suite, I demand one million dollars, and after they give me the money, I do give them a copy of the suite, but to make up for that copy, I purchase another copy. Although it's still wrong, because I'm distributing something I'm not supposed to, at least I'm buying another copy to make up for the free one that I gave to the freeloader.

Jafo, it might help if you would put 'admin' in front of your name

I told you,................ didn't I? 

After purchasing my latest suite (Carbonix) was was peaved to get multiple e-mails requesting a trade with me. I politely declined the request and then blocked the e-mail address. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that even if it's not legal (which it isn't) it is at least unethical. These are suites that we purchase for the sake of supporting those who spend the hours to keep this market advancing. If you supposedly don't have the $$ for the suite, hold off on McDonald's a couple of times in the week and you'll save your arteries the build-up as well as the $$ needed to buy the suite.
Jafo, GM, & others who support this - it's nice to know that in today's world you still have a few people that know what morals are.
Two scoops for the right thing to do! )

How about showing the e-mail addresses only to SD customers, WC subscribers and to all members above the Citizen level? Maybe add this as an option in addition to the two existing ones? It would at least take care of untrackable people. Registered users and subscribers may be less likely to use the practices described by Jafo.

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were they looking to release ownership of the original product (including deleting any/all copies of the original product that they had)?

yeah, right!

Loci.....the request was a straight desire to bypass the purchase price...

This is one of them...

Hi there, was wondering if you will be willing to trade your cursor set for some other exclusive suite of program that you may not have... Please let me know if it is ok with you... regards

PETER

or....

hey! I have a question.......would you be interested in trading the oranda cursor set for another exclusive suite? let me know......thanks!

 

 

that's an excellent question Crae. How are these folks finding out about the purchases?

Would my suggestion help preventing these mails in the future? Any idea?

I'd like to second MadIce's idea about having an option to only show email addresses in a wincust profile to users that are a certain level (say anything either citizen or above or perhaps above citizen altogether). I've been wanting that feature for some time now. I long ago disabled my email address display in my profile.