Let’s just cut through all the bullshit and all the side issues. The reason Tim seems hates me so much (PS – it’s a hobby, buddy, life is too short for this crap) and is because I tend to believe allegations made by Dave Loveland that Tim sold him 10k worth of reseals in or around 2003 and further allegations that Tim referred Dave to an ebay account called “nintendoandmore” that sold Dave another 40k worth of reseals through paypal balance transfers without corresponding ebay auctions.
Dave has his own issues. But one thing he was not short of in 2003 was money and in my opinion he would not have made this up. More importantly, too many pieces of the puzzle fit together, in my opinion, for the story to be too far from the mark.
I have seen both scans of the games in question sold in 2003 and held a few of them in my hands. In my opinion they are indistinguishable from the reseals that Jeff Dailey was selling in 2003 (and now again in 2006 – Jeff consigned some to ebay seller gasgiant1075, per gasgiant).
According to Dave, the packages were not sent from Michigan, which is where Tim lives. They were, however, sent five or ten minutes (according to mapquest) from the town where Jeff lives.
Now, in mid 2003 I really didn’t know anything about of all this. I had simply bought a reseal from jeff and put in a paypal claim which resulted in Jeff’s account being frozen.
This is where things get interesting. Jeff calls me up telling me he needs me to help him get the paypal freeze lifted so that Tim can send him $1,000 (which, incidentally, was the price per game that Dave alleges nintendoandmore would charge on some of these games). I said sorry but until you refund me in another way I can’t help you out. So Jeff arranges for Tim to pay me the refund I was due.
Now, I put it simply to you, Tim. As an experienced collector you must have known or suspected that Jeff’s games were garbage. So why, if you had nothing to do with all of this, why were you and Jeff passing around large sums of cash right at the time Dave was (allegedly) being ripped off? How can you expect any reasonable observer to come to any other conclusion than:
a) you referred Dave to “nintendoandmore” and conspired with Jeff to rip him off, or
b) Dave is outright lying about everything, despite the fact that his account meshes perfectly with the fact that you were transferring large sums of money to Jeff in mid 2003.
Of the two conclusions, forum members can draw their own. I choose a).
In spite of that, I really have no desire to keep talking about 2003 Tim. But you force my hand every time.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Dan Maresca" <a4b52886@telus.net>
Sent 7/7/2006 2:28:01 PM
To: atwoodt@grantps.net
Subject: Hi Tim
I got a message from steve today. It's actually kind of interesting timing
because I was thinking about writing you the other day after talking to Dave
for the first time in close to a year and dealing with him (or trying to). I
basically got frustrated with him for the 100th time and told him off. I
don't want to speak to him ever again - and it did make me think that I might
have jumped the gun in terms of villainizing you over whatever your dealings
with him did or didn't consist of. The fact of the matter is that he's a
severe pain in the ass and I wasn't directly involved so I shouldn't have been
shooting my mouth off. And the fact of the matter is that collecting is
supposed to be a hobby for me, it's supposed to be fun. Anyway... I was going
to send you this a couple weeks ago but thought I should just let sleeping dogs
lie.
However, I understand steve mentioned he had a friend that might be interested
in the nes. Well, obviously that's me, we both know it and there's no point in
trying to be cute so I thought I would just be upfront and write you. Besides,
if I am in fact going to buy anything I'd like for the deal to be on upfront
terms anyway.
So... let me know your thoughts. I'd like to bury the hatchet and might be
interested in some games. Why the nes though? I would have thought that
would be the last thing you'd sell. I might be interested in some the cases
although I don't know if I can afford them. That was one hell of a score on
your part. Anyway, if you have a list for me of what's for sale and/or a list
of the cases I'd be interested in looking it over.
Dan
http://www/atwoodcs.com/index.htm
OK now I'm done. I suppose I shoudn't have even bothered coming here but since I did and read this garbage I had to respond even though it is quite old.