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Offline CBCB

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Re: What are your "whoops"
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2026, 06:33:18 AM »
Tony, life sucks and then you die. You can count your blessings or count your problems the simple choice is yours.
We’d all have a lot more blessings if our industry was HONEST and left negative reviews instead of withholding them to be polite.

Friends don’t let friends buy Stampinators, for example.


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Re: What are your "whoops"
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2026, 06:46:29 AM »
As you know, we have been some different times of industry shifts. This most recent one we are seeing is apparently the phase of COVID people getting checks and using them to start a shop and now phasing out (selling their equipment). Still as always, a revolving door.
Best part is you can look them up.

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Night+owls+print&v=1

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Shirt+kong&v=1

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Campus+ink&v=1

https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Ryonet&v=1

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« Reply #17 on: Today at 03:32:29 PM »
My biggest whoops was to get out the industry 20 ys ago before lts cool lost cool,

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Re: What are your "whoops"
« Reply #18 on: Today at 05:11:26 PM »

We’d all have a lot more blessings if our industry was HONEST and left negative reviews instead of withholding them to be polite.


That was always my biggest gripe with the industry magazines. Being afraid to bite the hand that might feed them, they were always cheerleaders, and eschewed honest criticism.
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?