troy: One thing I hav elkearnbed afrter posting nearly 10,000 posts on several industry discussi0on boards over the past 7 years or so, and that is that you cannot count on th esort o replies you get from staanger on the internet. Somethimes they're correct, other times, they're biased, sonmetimes they contain sufficient depth (even for the most combative personality like yours), etc.
Forrest Gumpo said it different, it;s like a box of chocklets, ya never know what you're gonna get! So, when I come here and post my opinion, like anybody else, I give all I intend to give most times.
However, not to be confrontational to you like you seem to love to act towards me, I'm humor your inquiry:
1. The Buy-Back piece I posted contained my own memory of this issue after many years as an owner/operator plus what I have sen in indistry publications a great eal lately. Since I wasn't shooting for a "grade" or anything like that, I felt no need to dig out my own company's old records
2. My fraud remark was in reply to your probe to try and the olds vs today and how much fraud did there used to be, so I reflected what ALL articles on that subject say ... fraud today is at run-away propoortions.
Your conclusion that with me posting all th eelevent supporting data fopr my piece, it must be a "scare tactic" - I think if we let that conclusion be drawn by the grown-ups that read it, they won't come to that conclusion, since it was a suggestion for all who saw it, to prepare to protect yourselves.
Saying that it was intended as a scare tactic is childish.
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