News Problem (apparently) at the Calguns Marketplace

[ZeroFoxGiven]

The scammers are scamming each other!

I truly hope so! Scammers can eat a bowl of !

 

[treelogger]

Honestly, Kes probably should have ...

Have you ever met Kes? Talked to him?

He should have stopped being a-hole about 20 years ago. He has a very long track record of ticking people off. This is one of the reasons that his forum has changed so much over the decades, with a large fraction of the discussion topics and of the user leaving over the years, and a different set of users getting attracted. For a while, this worked pretty well, because (a) there were plenty of users that liked the style of Calguns "discourse", and (b) there were lots of advertisers willing to throw in large amounts of money. Internet advertising is really amazingly powerful; look at how many billions companies like Google or Facebook pull in every week, and with thousands of active users, the forum was a license to print money for Kes.

The problem arose when we combined Kes' difficulty in dealing with people (see above) with his personal life or psychiatric health circling the drain. And giving his personality, I don't see a way out. Maybe in a while his widow will be able to sell the remaining assets, but there will be little left the way things are going.

 

[ikeo1]

This site here crashed for me for about 12 hrs. Anyone else?

This one? I don’t think so I didnt get any alerts. (I get notifications if the site goes down)…

 

[ikeo1]

Have you ever met Kes? Talked to him?

He should have stopped being a-hole about 20 years ago. He has a very long track record of ticking people off. This is one of the reasons that his forum has changed so much over the decades, with a large fraction of the discussion topics and of the user leaving over the years, and a different set of users getting attracted. For a while, this worked pretty well, because (a) there were plenty of users that liked the style of Calguns "discourse", and (b) there were lots of advertisers willing to throw in large amounts of money. Internet advertising is really amazingly powerful; look at how many billions companies like Google or Facebook pull in every week, and with thousands of active users, the forum was a license to print money for Kes.

The problem arose when we combined Kes' difficulty in dealing with people (see above) with his personal life or psychiatric health circling the drain. And giving his personality, I don't see a way out. Maybe in a while his widow will be able to sell the remaining assets, but there will be little left the way things are going.

We don’t need to go that direction. Some people make mistakes. Whatever he’s dealing with now, good luck to him. From my understanding they paid a lot more than advertisers pay here. I try to keep things transparent and affordable because it’s a niche community. In the bigger picture big tech gobbles up everything.

 

[rfgCA]

Update - so it appears one of the Calgunners is stringing a scammer along, and the scammer has lost his patience, threatening via PM's to :

 

[ikeo1]

Brutal.. just saw this one too.. Turns out he was a contributor with age too.. Make sure you update your passwords there...

LaRue MBT-2S Triggers - Calguns.net

Brand new in packaging. $45 each + $5 shipping (buyer pays).

www.calguns.net

Account that was taken

 

[1911whore]

Or, the market place totally disappearing after the last update.