Hey Vincent, it's good to see you here.
I appreciate the public apology and all you are doing to rectify the situation. I also appreciate the donation to the fundraiser as I am sure the libraries do also.
I want to apologize myself. I should not have rhetorically called out your masculinity. I should have said, "stepped up" instead of "manned up."
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I canceled my subscription, after a year, a little more than a week ago, about the time Vincent joined the site but before he could post. When canceling the NRB site asks for a reason. I explained myself and Vincent replied...
My comment...
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Since you've asked why I'm canceling my subscription, I'm happy to explain.
I'm a King collector. You have abused the King collecting community. There are people who purchased your April box, so they could have a chance to purchase the King box based upon King signed books probably being available. Claiming King would be signing books was an error in judgment. Whether or not you intended to mislead people about King signing by saying things such as "It looks like we will have a guaranteed quantity," the result was that you did so. I'm willing to wager that King declined to sign books for you because you were already promising he would. He declined to sign for you "as a matter of principle" after all.
You were then insulting to several members of the King collecting community, including calling people trolls and claiming that they were not your customers. I feel that you should have manned up and apologized. Instead you chose to argue and delete negative comments where you could.
Your 'Salem's Lot book is now less collectible than it would have been because of this debacle you've created.
Vincent's reply...
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Hey Brian, I just read your cancellation notice and agree with what you've said. I shit the bed. I disagree about manning up though. I responded to the first 4 or 5 comments where people started saying that I misled them, but after that it got kind of gross. In an error of judgement I deleted comments and blocked people.
I have reached out to a few members affected and apologized, things were good with them. All others I have attempted to reach out to but I've either been blocked or am being ignored. Except, the person I'm sure you saw the aforementioned comments--Simon.
Not as a huge excuse but my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer two days before, my daughter was born a few days after, and I've been under a huge amount of stress. On top of that, major depression and PTSD. I would love to make a more appropriate apology, to the community but I am blocked from the groups, and I've tried to sign up in the forums and have not gotten any authorization emails. So that leaves me without that option right now.
Regardless of what happened I want you to know that I appreciate that feedback and appreciated your past support. I honestly just wanted to do something cool for everyone and it backfired. Live and learn. Now that my daughter is born, and my mom is operational, things are better and I did see the way I acted was shitty and I get that. From now on...people are going to hate me for how nice I am if thats a thing...kill them with kindness
(thats a saying right)?
I dont expect your forgiveness, just wanted to at least try and let you know that I understand how you think of me and agree.
Vincent