chinny, i've never had a problem with you (as i don't give enough of a shit to care about anyone on here, i do have a life) until now. you really need to reanalyze what you post, and how you make yourself look if you want to be taken more seriously, which is already hard enough to do. you honestly have no credibility at all after your repeated scamming incidents, then your superfluous attitude about how much money you have; just after people say you ripped them off. me, my family does have money. i know that, so i won't be ignorant and say i have it bad. i don't have it bad, and i thankfully DO know what it is like to live in that situation, however i do not live in such a manner on a day to day basis.
i make my own money by doing my own work. i'm taking pictures of my enclosures with a canon 20d that took me a year to save up for. could i have asked for it as a gift? sure. would i have gotten it? most definitely not. there is no point in getting something that grand unless you yourself pay for it. that is the only way people will take you seriously; if they see the work you put into things and then you can appreciate the rewards of your toil. people try and make fun of me out of ignorance. caulked enclosures? sure. first time modeling a speaker at 14 years old? sure. there is indeed a little bit of an excuse. what is interesting is that people ridicule me, while they see that times have changed as i wouldn't be proclaiming a service with expensive tools and programs unless I was making money from it. people don't buy things that aren't good, and i realize that i must have a certain image ESPECIALLY to those i'll never meet (internet), as they are 40% of my income. there is a drive i have to make sure everything is right, regardless of how much it comes from my own pocket. i see none of that in you.
did i make a thread about my various speakers and about how i wave them in front of people saying NYAH NYAH i have this and YOU don't! i never would do that, as there is no point. am i better than anyone? i think not. whereas we both have our talents (even though i am second guessing that you do have anything to offer to the world), you have these self-indulgences that not only hurt yourself, but ridicule those that actually do things respectably in life. so in summary, i beg you to stop waving your "i'm-good-and-i-have-this-and-you-don't" banner in front of people's faces, especially when it is about disrespecting people and furthering stereotypes of others.
-Dave