New Site, avoid like the plague.....

Actually if you posted your reply in Chinese it would make better sense to some of us. I need the practice.

Jim

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Mike, all your tea are belong to us.

I know Mike, I was just commenting on the ecommerce software they were using, sort of on a tangent.

MarshalN

Mike Petro wrote:

T24gRmViIDYsIDg6NDIgYW0sICJTcGFjZSBDb3dib3kiIDxuZXRzdC4uLkBpeC5uZXRjb20uY29t PiB3cm90ZToKPiBBY3R1YWxseSBpZiB5b3UgcG9zdGVkIHlvdXIgcmVwbHkgaW4gQ2hpbmVzZSBp dCB3b3VsZCBtYWtlIGJldHRlcgo+IHNlbnNlIHRvIHNvbWUgb2YgdXMuICBJIG5lZWQgdGhlIHBy YWN0aWNlLgo+Cj4gSmltCgrlhazlj7jlkI3np7DvvJrlronmuqrlm73pppnojJfojLYK6L+Z5Lq6

T24gRmViIDYsIDExOjMywqBwbSwgIk1pa2UgUGV0cm8iIDxyLi4uQG1pa2VwZXRyby5vcmc+IHdy b3RlOgo+IE9uIEZlYiA2LCA4OjQyIGFtLCAiU3BhY2UgQ293Ym95IiA8bmV0c3QuLi5AaXgubmV0 Y29tLmNvbT4gd3JvdGU6Cj4KPiA+IEFjdHVhbGx5IGlmIHlvdSBwb3N0ZWQgeW91ciByZXBseSBp biBDaGluZXNlIGl0IHdvdWxkIG1ha2UgYmV0dGVyCj4gPiBzZW5zZSB0byBzb21lIG9mIHVzLiDC oEkgbmVlZCB0aGUgcHJhY3RpY2UuCj4KPiA+IEppbQo+Cj4g5YWs5Y+45ZCN56ew77ya5a6J5rqq

My excuse is that my gateway strips the 8th bit and I cannot send anything but ASCII!!!

Sasha.

PiA+IOWFrOWPuOWQjeensO+8muWuiea6quWbvemmmeiMl+iMtgo+ID4g6L+Z5Lq65rCR5rKh5pyJ

You sure your, uh, critic deserves this, given the quality of his or her English? Maybe he or she relied on a Chinese-to-English translation program!

/Lew

OK. Aha.

I've been thinking about this. And. OK.

So. What happened is. Well, I don't really like tea, see. But I read all these messages by Mike Petro (who is a real cheat) and saw the URL to

I've been totally cheated by the Mr Mike Petro, whose website is located at

(disclaimer: for the archive, i'd liked to point out that the above is a 笑话 ...)

"88" - - eights represent good luck (particularly in business), prosperity, wealth - the more "eights" the luckier

Except nothing is being stripped. In your last post of Chinese characters:

the four valid characters (byte pairs for each character) for DiMing each fall in the extended Ascii range of 2**8. The Asian character sets try to stay out of our Ascii 2**7.

In this post somewhere the characters did get stripped to Ascii ? but I'm not sure what caused it.

Jim

Lewis ( snipped-for-privacy@umr.edu),

You've got to be either kidding or just green. What makes you think that I wouldn't know that YOU are the one behind

So, ok, maybe you are an student-entrepreneur with a real business going who is trying to make money on the side while attending college. I respect that. But what you are doing is hardly palatable. You swipe pictures from other bona fide businesses such as Rishi and other reputable vendors and post them as yours on your site. At the least, if you're found out by them, you'll be liable for copyright infringements.

One example...your Sowmee white tea picture is obviously identical to that found at teajunky.com. Assuming it's the same tea (meaning the tea is from the same source and batch, etc.) Tea Junky sells it for $3.96/4oz (bag) or $6.46/4oz (tin can). So this tells me that you are probably a reseller who sells the same tea for $9.99/3.5oz in a tin can with your owl JKL label. Fine. It's just the way your business is run.

Besides, I never said that you are a hack. I said that I've been told that you are a hack. I don't know about you, but I don't necessarily equate the word "hack" with "cheat". A hack you are -- as I have pointed out above by you hacking others' pictures -- but a cheat you may not.

Will I avoid your site like a plaque? No. But will I avoid you? Yes.

Phyll

I wish all cheats are like Mike Petro.

It always saddened me to see how people chase "luck" when its so much more fun to "chase" smart. Which is what our 88 friends desperately need.

Sasha.

re: the number 8, It's not as much about "chasing" as "hoping" or "wishing" for luck. It's akin to why people wear talismans, me think.

Thanks for the heads up, Mike.

LOL!

ROTFLMHO! You just hate being exposed.

Actually the 88 sites both have pretty decent tea, and I think they do a fine business. MarshalN