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Dark Horse and Dark Lasers
To all LPF-members:
It has come to my attention about some confusion about my affiliation with "darklaser.com".
I have recently had several newer-members assume that I was somehow part of this other web-store. I cleared the issue with them, but just the last few days I have had some of my closest-friends on LPF assume that I have something to do with him, perhaps even the same person. I have never even had any contact with "DarkArmyOfOne".
One long-time member even complemented me on my "new web-site", not really that "new" anymore now I replied. He explained that he used Google to find my store because he could not remember the address at the moment. He typed-in the basic keywords that many would use to find my store, "dark" and "laser", guess who popped-up, now with the very similar-look, even my associates believed they were on my site!
Another close friend and senior forum-member finally sent me link to his site last night, also confused. I had not visited this site until now, what I seen is that his format is very similar to my web-template, but the kicker is that his background-image is one of the rotating-background images directly from my site. I want to be clear, I do not own exclusive-rights to this image, but I did get it from a rather obscure-location and it would be naive of me to assume that he happened across it independently and chose it for his similar-named, and formatted web-site, selling similar products, with the exact-same background-image, located at a very similar URL.
I am not at all concerned about losing business to this other vendor, as we at Dark Hosre Custom only provide our own products to the forum-members. Our whole web-store was started, (1 1/2 years ago), as a conveience to by beloved fellow forum-member and not as a "profit-center". He can't sell our products, unless we were to sell them to him, because I make them. But it concerns me greatly that my reputation could be associated with someone else, anyone else.
Self-identity is an important thing, but especially when used in a forum-setting or in business. I do not see any other vendors on the forum that have any similarities at all, except possibly in the items that they sell, except for the aforementioned member and myself. In a little quick review of posts, I see that this other member is even referred to as "Dark" for short, which is understandable, given his user-name but another source for continued confusion.
Those who know me, know that I avoid controversy, petty arguments and spamming, even sometimes at my cost. I guess it is assumed that because one does not exercise force, it is assumed that I am weak. I tend only to post to add useful information to this forum. Note my post-count after 2-years, but many of those posts were detailing very unique and "first-of-its-kind" information. But I cannot allow this to continue without me speaking-up and clearing the air. This post is not me "pounding my fist" and saying that Darklasers must develop his own clear-identity. I cannot see any firm-ground upon which to do so, nor is it my style, (hence the name "Dark Horse"). I do however want to inform everyone on the forum that we are not the same person and have no affiliation whatsoever.
I am not "calling" for anything here, there is no "veiled-threat" or "call-to-arms" here, I am however making it distinctly clear, since it seams there are other forces at work to the contrary.
I have attached an image of each of our homepages, judge for yourselves.
Happy building,
Barry
This unfortunate-situation has been resolved
Thanks to Tyler (Dark Lasers) for his excellent cooperation and a special thanks Charlie-bruce for his "mad-HTML skillz" and super-fast response
Barry
To all LPF-members:
It has come to my attention about some confusion about my affiliation with "darklaser.com".
I have recently had several newer-members assume that I was somehow part of this other web-store. I cleared the issue with them, but just the last few days I have had some of my closest-friends on LPF assume that I have something to do with him, perhaps even the same person. I have never even had any contact with "DarkArmyOfOne".
One long-time member even complemented me on my "new web-site", not really that "new" anymore now I replied. He explained that he used Google to find my store because he could not remember the address at the moment. He typed-in the basic keywords that many would use to find my store, "dark" and "laser", guess who popped-up, now with the very similar-look, even my associates believed they were on my site!
Another close friend and senior forum-member finally sent me link to his site last night, also confused. I had not visited this site until now, what I seen is that his format is very similar to my web-template, but the kicker is that his background-image is one of the rotating-background images directly from my site. I want to be clear, I do not own exclusive-rights to this image, but I did get it from a rather obscure-location and it would be naive of me to assume that he happened across it independently and chose it for his similar-named, and formatted web-site, selling similar products, with the exact-same background-image, located at a very similar URL.
I am not at all concerned about losing business to this other vendor, as we at Dark Hosre Custom only provide our own products to the forum-members. Our whole web-store was started, (1 1/2 years ago), as a conveience to by beloved fellow forum-member and not as a "profit-center". He can't sell our products, unless we were to sell them to him, because I make them. But it concerns me greatly that my reputation could be associated with someone else, anyone else.
Self-identity is an important thing, but especially when used in a forum-setting or in business. I do not see any other vendors on the forum that have any similarities at all, except possibly in the items that they sell, except for the aforementioned member and myself. In a little quick review of posts, I see that this other member is even referred to as "Dark" for short, which is understandable, given his user-name but another source for continued confusion.
Those who know me, know that I avoid controversy, petty arguments and spamming, even sometimes at my cost. I guess it is assumed that because one does not exercise force, it is assumed that I am weak. I tend only to post to add useful information to this forum. Note my post-count after 2-years, but many of those posts were detailing very unique and "first-of-its-kind" information. But I cannot allow this to continue without me speaking-up and clearing the air. This post is not me "pounding my fist" and saying that Darklasers must develop his own clear-identity. I cannot see any firm-ground upon which to do so, nor is it my style, (hence the name "Dark Horse"). I do however want to inform everyone on the forum that we are not the same person and have no affiliation whatsoever.
I am not "calling" for anything here, there is no "veiled-threat" or "call-to-arms" here, I am however making it distinctly clear, since it seams there are other forces at work to the contrary.
I have attached an image of each of our homepages, judge for yourselves.
Happy building,
Barry
This unfortunate-situation has been resolved
Thanks to Tyler (Dark Lasers) for his excellent cooperation and a special thanks Charlie-bruce for his "mad-HTML skillz" and super-fast responseBarry
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