Chessler... is it April fool's Day already?

I realize that you have to be part of the "crowd" to be believed on this forum.

"Maui whatever your name is,

I just cancelled my supertopo ad campaign. If that was your intent, you achieved it. I recently won a minor battle with the AAC, through the use of public forums and media, so I know how this works. You win, I lose. G'bye.

I did not start this thread, and I do actually have the freedom to say whatever I want, sell whatever I want for how much I want, to whom I want. I am free to disagree with whoever the hell you are, and realize that because this website and forum is so insular, 99.99% of my actual customers will never see or hear about this train wreck.

And they would be puzzled if they did. And the customer is not always right, who the hell said that they were? Nobody is always right. Except me of course. [Sarcasm intended, for the dim-witted who thought I meant that.]

Customers have no allegiance to anybody anymore, so why allow yourself to be used by customers or anybody? Did you know Amazon is now PAYING customers to go into shops and compare prices with Amazon with a free Amazon app on their smartphones that reads bar codes, and if they then buy that items from Amazon they get a $5 discount? That borders on criminal activity, as a store is private property. When this Amazon thing all falls out, remember you heard it here first; "you'll be sorry", and "I told you so."

I tried to enlighten you about the state of the retail world now, especially the book world, using my business as an example of the dramatic destruction of the retail infrastructure in America by Amazon and the Internet, that will make Walmart's destruction of downtown American cities and towns look like small stuff. I guess serious and important is not as sexy as trying to find some negative gossip on somebody of achievement. America's great past-time.

I know that you have to be part of the "crowd" to be believed on this forum, and that is one place you won't find me. I was never a joiner.

As far as losing customers, I also never thought that I would find potential customers on a website forum thread whose purpose started out specifically to ridicule some trivial item that I offered for sale on my own website. I have already lost thousands of customers to the internet, and millions of dollars, as all bookshops did. Punks with threats like you I squish like a bug.

For those of you who thought I was selling fake manila climbing ropes, or offering them to be used in climbing, shame on you. The fact that Werner appears to misinterpret every sentence I write means that either he better go back to English school, or that he was just trying to twist what I said to get my goat. I met him once, I don't think we talked, so such hostility comes from someplace I'd rather not know about. Part of the crowd, so follow the crowd.

There are thoughtful souls who actually know me and who see this forum as the bullshit it is.

So even though I was rock climbing and mountaineering while most of you were in diapers, or not yet born, I never hung with the boys. My bad.

I wish you all a fond farewell.

Michael Chessler "

customers have no allegiance to anybody anymore

Friends..... Yeah this is the Super Topo Forum, if you want a friend.... get a dog.

Chess strategy is the aspect of chess playing concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting of goals and long-term plans for future play.... Chess strategy is distinguished from chess tactics, which is the aspect of chess playing concerned with the move-by-move setting up of threats and defenses.... This distinction affects the immediacy with which a sought-after plan should take effect. Until players reach the skill level of "master", chess tactics tend to ultimately decide the outcomes of games more often than strategy does. Many chess coaches thus emphasize the study of tactics as the most efficient way to improve one's results in serious chess play.