It is not so quickly and blindly than you think, but yes I admit that in this issue I am biased in favor of Chris for several reasons:
- You Matt unmasked yourself in countless post in PL and on alt.lasers as acting purely based on your hate against Chris.
- You are so obsessed by your hate that you do anything to push him out of buisness, this already reminds me on a crusade.
-You don't seem to contribute much more than your hate to PL and this discussion.
- I and a lot of others which don't speak here, have evidence by myself that trades with Chris can be good and you get valueable stuff for your money.
- buying used laser diodes on ebay is a gamble. what do you think why a 20000$ diode is there on ebay for 200?
So based, and biased by this thoughts your "damning evidence" could also be assambled the other way round: People by stuff just to leave negative Feedback to push the new Seller (who could be Cris, yes) out of business. They not even stop at trying to get access to his account, etc. etc.
The "unfair feedback issue" is certainly there and it was not even done very intelligently as the names are just too similar (which could of course also be a trick of somebody else).
So nothing "airs itself" here. Looked at it from the outside both versions could be right, and my guess the truth is somewhere in the middle. It is certainly true that not all deals of all people with chris where smooth and Chris was rude in serveral of it's replies were he could have just admitted a mistake. Many other deal went good though.
I don't want to accuse somebody on something and I am neither black nor white in this story.
But my view is certainly not as simple as your's Matt!
Greetings
Andreas