Quote from: coinsquirrel on June 21, 2013, 08:36:55 AM

Quote from: Garr255 on June 21, 2013, 08:21:46 AM

Many people trust me with more money than most people my age can fathom. That's not in the least of my concerns. It truly saddens me that you think me bidding up those auctions deserves a lifetime of flipping burgers.

Quite honestly, it is quite impressive what you've been able to do for your age - but that's a double sided sword. You'be built up a pretty solid operation, but it's also shocking that someone your age would have already developed the self-serving business practices that you've shown. It's not just about bidding up those auctions. You've displayed a hypocritical attitude the whole time you were dealing with BFL, and you've outright lied and misled this entire forum by denying your actions and insinuating that Josh had your hands tied. The coverup is much worse than the actual offense (from my POV, but it's not my coins that you scammed). You came out and admitted your mistakes (congratulations) but you've had plenty of opportunities so far to do so (how about during your first "appology"?). Would anyone here hire you to flip burgers if that meant you would even have a line of sight to the cash register? "I only emptied the tip jar to supplement the dividends I need to pay to Cognitive!!!"

On the bright side, you've probably impressed BFL quite a bit - maybe you could hit them up for a summer internship?

I must agree with most of your post... I don't think I will ever place any bids on Garr's auctions from now on, wouldn't be surprised if he prepared better for the next time (e.g. separate device with a separate Internet connection so it would be difficult to link the two accounts, etc.).

He did come and admitted to his wrongdoings and wants to make it up for the people that overpaid by bidding in his auctions and that is a good thing.
But he still should have done it the first time and he shouldn't have tried to cover it up.

I think he can still be trusted but to a lesser extent than in the past. The other side of a transaction should be a bit more careful in situations where the outcome of a transaction would heavily rely on trusting Garr and very careful with participating in his auctions.

@Garr

There is nothing wrong with greed but there is a hell of a lot of wrong in being dishonest.