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Originally Posted by KW802

It has nothing to do with "defending" them or working for them... I was a vBa Gallery customer going all the way back to the early betas: It was a good product then, remains a good product now, and it continues to be supported and worked on going forward.

You work for them, whether you like it or not that changes the way you feel/talk about them. Wonder what your stance would be if they didn't take you on as staff? The mind boggles. You should give people more credit, we're not the thick masses who believe all we are told - especially from company employees.

Originally Posted by KW802

The product is far from being "killed off" so posting comments like that is just silly. If you choose not to be a PhotoPost customer then that's entirely your perogative but in the real world the product happens to be an excellent choice for vBulletin site owners and has a long life ahead for it, hence the reason why I have purchased several licenses over the years and will continue using it on my sites going forward.

No. It's not silly - I feel they are killing it off slowly based on the fact there is NO mention of it months down the line in their 'Products Availible' area of their site. It takes less than 2 minutes to add such a link!!

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Originally Posted by MPDev

...but we have made the product easily available..

That's Bull - theres no mention of it in your products availible section (the most important bit where it should be), or indeed anywhere else on your site unless you go to the 'forums'.

Originally Posted by MPDev

Business is business, folks and this discussion played out a long time ago. Nobody was forced to do anything and in the end PhotoPost bought vBGallery, end of story.

Slime. Who do you think you are talking to? We are a COMMUNITY. Yes some members make some money out of it, but we don't take kindly to people getting tucked up! It stinks. And we don't like it.

Originally Posted by MPDev

Nobody was forced to do anything and in the end PhotoPost bought vBGallery, end of story.

Double slime. Do you really think Brian would have sold you his product if you hadn't gone to court? How dare you give us that crap!!

Originally Posted by MPDev

PhotoPost continues to look for ways to meet all of our customers needs and will continue to develop all of our products - nobody has been left out in the cold and the product is readily available.

What good is that now? Months have past and people have now got a good idea about what you're about. You've done yourself no favours. Before this happened your own product had a chance, but now, people will flock to recommend other competiting products because they have NO FAITH in your company. Brand loyalty just went out the window and is now replaced by a dislike of you and your business practises.

When a company makes a big balls up as big as this, there's very rarely a way to turn it round - but you do have a choice. Do the right thing. Give back what you have taken and if there are 'issues', work them out amicably.