{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["134968", "4461", "Stoker V machine - Fowler or Anderson?", 27, "Bruce Fowler", "Aug 1, 2018", "2018-08-01T11:25:36-0400", "I just recently joined Jamboards, as the last time I was made aware of the site was years ago and they were not accepting memberships.  Guess the policy changed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n....It's interesting being a 'fly on the wall' tho' hearing your plusses & minusses on past performance, or that your \"glasser is burned out\" or that I'm incapable of getting dims right, or have terrible business ethics, and yadda yadda yadda as the Seinfeld crew would allude to.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThat being said, let's take this opportunity to clear up or at least discuss a few of the comments made in this thread.\n\n\n\n1. Business ethics:  Not sure what my poor performance alludes to, in order to earn such a comment, but my apology for any lack of performance if that is the case.  I always aspire to making every customer satisfied & happy with their purchase as well as the entire process in making their buying decision.  This includes answering multitudes of questions honestly and with as much patience as it takes to satisfy the prospective customer.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are MANY shapers that close a deal citing quick delivery times or whatever it takes to close the deal, then go about their business as usual, which includes:  procrastination of producing the order, blaming everyone else in the world why your board isn't ready yet (damn glassers, blank company didn't deliver, etc. etc. etc.) ..as I have learned, most of it is CRAP.  Most of these guys are surfers first, shapers second, businessmen last.   I can count on one hand the delays I have subjected my many satisfied customers to and in one case, the poor guy wanted his money back. He was on he East Coast, and I told him he was right, and I didn't have a leg to stand on, that I had NO EXCUSE and I was truly sorry for disappointing him. I sent his deposit back inside of 5 minutes of his request via Paypal.  In the distant past, I have been as guilty as any shaper of those BAD HABITS of not getting the work out entrusted to me by customers..... but that changed over the past 8 years when I was approached and asked to build Stoker V Machines.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Glassjobs:  Not sure which years guys are speaking of for less than acceptable glasswork. That's a serious deal. In the earliest years when I was first approached to do SVM's.... and I want to make it perfectly clear that I wasn't seeking doing boards for Randall Rostoker... he came to me asking to bail him out because Brad Johnson, his long time friend & shaper in Goleta was taking five to eleven months to get guys their boards. Randy ( I still call him that, knowing him from the time he 1st latched onto me as a big brother when he was ten and I was 16) told me he had eight orders and he was bummed because BJ wasn't getting them done and people were screaming at him.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo be conntnued"]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["134968"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.5826460001117084, "license": "Public Domain"}