Post #199167 by KuKuAhu on Sun, Nov 20, 2005 5:48 PM

On 2005-11-20 13:18, tikivixen wrote:
Instead of railing against free enterprise, why don't you folks who live locally freaking stake out the place and beat this fellow at his own game?!?

It isn't sour grapes over collections, even if it appears that way. There is a great deal more to it than that.

Your endless streams of abuse aren't nearly as exciting as your coming home with armfuls of Kahiki merch to spread around amongst your family and friends would be.

Again, it isn't about the merch. It is about people using people for money. It is about greed and false inflation of prices for profit.

In fact, if you weren't so busy sitting around writing another po'd post about him on TC you'd probably be out nabbing that stuff!!! :roll:

This is first time I have ever made it a point of addressing him after hearing a mountain of complaint from many others both local and otherwise. It isn't an issue of "stuff".

(And then maybe you'd be kind enough to offer some of it to us out-of-towners who can't get to the outlet! :wink:)

We already do/have done that. You've merely never asked. One of our locals is picking up a volcano bowl for an out of towner (assuming there is one there) currently.

Frankly if this person were not using the tiki culture for profit, out of town folks would be easily able to stop in at the outlet store and pick up items any day of the week for a fair price.

That is mostly what this about, but not all.

It was unfair to unload this here and make someone unwelcome on the forum, I admit that. But purging the community of one who only comes here to line their pockets at the expense of everyone seemed worth the bad manna.

My apologies to those who had to be involved by proximity.

Ahu