Quoted: No wonder things are faltering.
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What in the hell is exactly "faltering" around here?
I think you'll find that the general response to anything to do with ak-47.net is that people here could give a rat's ass less about it.
A good majority of the people here came from that site, due to getting banned or harrassed simply because they had their own opinion, disagreed with someone in "power", or didn't take getting screwed over by sponsors/vendors at that site too well.
I came over here due to the rampant censorship going on over there.
I purchased several hundred dollars worth of merchandise from JoeKen Firearms - if you go there, all you see are a few inquiries about shipping times, or ass-kissing praise about the company.
Joe is a nice enough guy, but still hasn't got all his stuff together in regards to his business - he shouldn't charge your card/take your money until he has all merchandise in stock, packaged, and ready to ship. Instead, he charges you, and you wait for days, weeks, sometimes even months until it's in, and he ships - and this is all after being told "it'll go out this week, I promise!"
But do you see these complaints over there? No. Because the board staff/moderators and JoeKen delete anything negative regarding their business, labeling it "libel/slander" (of which they obviously don't know the definition), delete the offending comments, and get the person banned "for life".
I fully understand the negative effect public complaints have on your business. However, that's something you've got to deal with when you have an online business, a support forum, and you and your staff don't answer the phone/don't return phone calls/don't return emails.
The GG/SAI situation is yet another example, although one that I luckily have no personal experience with.
You'll also find the general knowledge about firearms to be quite a bit better over here. The attitude is a lot friendlier, and in general, this is a much MUCH better website.
We're also free to express our opinions and talk smack about things without getting banned - like the little home video that they're putting out.
I seriously doubt too many people here would want to buy this video and support ak-47.net when they've been shit all over by the same website.
You know what the really sad thing about that site is? I was talking to our drafter at work, and we were talking about guns. Mentioned something about a couple of forums I was looking at, and he started giving me shit about ak-47.net, and the childishness over there.
He's a FAL freak, and a member of falfiles.com.
It's sad that I actually meet people in real life that think ak-47.net is a bunch of crap - I mean, I'd expect to run into them on some other forums, but it's obviously pretty bad when people in real life are warning me off about crap like that...