TextBladeDenied

WayTools_Support said:

Putting all the quantitative facts in context establishes that some storage period before use is immaterial to the service life.
The short initial statement we made was simplified to go straight to the substance, without burdening it with all the of science drill-down.
A manufacturer with the detailed knowledge would typically not go through all of it, and instead go straight to the bottom line substance that counts.

4-5 years of storage is not 'some' time. 4-5 years is a long time.

A manufacturer puts a manufactured date on a part, and an expiration date on a part that is known to deteriorate. All you have to do is tell everyone here when you bought the batteries, and when the manufacturer specified them as expired.

But of course, you will not tell. You do not answer simple questions with direct answers. You are a blowhard who spends all his valuable time publicly bickering with all the customers you have ripped off and pissed off, instead of finishing your keyboard. You do not know when to shut your big mouth. You do not know how to concentrate on a task and finish it. You do not know how to be honest. You do not care about your reputation.

You just want the money.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.

Mark Knighton said:
If only Phil Schiller had openly admitted the nature of the process all along, and had the courage to play it straight, then we wouldn’t see Apple as disingenuous for promising AirPower and then delaying and canceling it.  Ok. Really?  

You are not Phil Schiller.
You are not Apple.

Apple did not:

• Announce AirPower was ready to ship
• Take 10,000 orders
• Collect the money
• Hold the money
• Announce 500 successive delayed ship dates, each of which was false
• Add a free gift for early adopters and never deliver the product or the gift 
• Promise orders delivered in the order they were queued
• Send test unit AirPowers to 131 people out of queue order
• Lie to people about why the AirPower was not shipping

Waytools (Mark Knighton) did those things. Even if you do not see the differences between yourself and Apple, or Textblade and Airpower, everyone else does.

Mark Knighton said:
Apple didn’t string us along, they simply didn’t know.  They worked earnestly, but it didn’t go as expected.

Correct. Apple didnt string us along. YOU did. And you took the money. And you kept the money. Apple did not do that.

Mark Knighton said:
How can any innovator know in advance of challenges they didn’t anticipate?

They cant. All of your arguments are stupid strawmen - the tactic of a liar. No one ever said no delay is acceptable. No one ever said any excuse is inexcusable. No one ever said every challenge can be anticipated. Quite the contrary - your customers have granted you good faith and the benefit of the doubt countless times, for 4+ years, and at every turn, you have deflected, obfuscated, and/or outright lied to people about what is really going on. You were given oceans of good faith, and mountains of benefit of the doubt, and you depleted all of it with your scammy lying dodgy criminal attitude towards your customers.

Mark Knighton said:
There are no clones on the market 4 years in - what does this evidence? This was indeed challenging new ground, and our team overcame it.

#1 - At best its evidence of nothing. If anything, its evidence that perhaps the product and form factor is too niche to be profitable, or altogether unworkable, hence the possible reasons you have not produced it. Oh, and there is the question of patent issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZBLjxPBUU

#2 - You cant say you overcame it. See, thats another example of the way you lie lie lie. The product has not shipped! How can you speak as if the final goal was reached when the game is almost over and the score is 131 (unfinished treg units shipped) to 10,000 (customer orders unfulfilled). Your team is losing. Big time. You have overcome nothing as far as 10,000 customers can tell. Your words mean nothing.

Even the word 'Yes' is redefined to be a meaningless 'maybe' by your Kahuna propagandist.

In 2020, you will be on the internet with the Kahuna shill arguing that 'Yes' and 'It is' meant 'Probably not' and 'Not really'.

Because you are a LIAR.

Mark Knighton said:
To say “No product shipped”, is an unambiguous, false claim.  To repeat it 30 times -  is purposefully aimed to diminish what has already been achieved, and validated.

You have NOT shipped. You do not have a finished product. 10,000 people have not received a finished product. The only thing you have shipped are unfinished test units with a variety of issues. Stop LYING and trying to spin the situation as if you have succeeded in fulfilling customer orders. You have not fulfilled ANY orders with a finished product.

Mark Knighton said:
The article that spawned this thread exists entirely because of what has already been achieved and delivered so far.  It’s not all orders, but it’s real.

Its not 'all' orders? You are lying again! Its not ANY orders. Every unit shipped is a test unit. Every treg tester has stated that their unit was a test unit. Based on the Kahuna list, not every treg tester even has the final hardware. Why are you such a diabolical liar? This is why people cant stand you!

Mark Knighton said:
All the complex work to refine and ship hundreds of units from production tools, and to achieve high satisfaction for users - that’s not nothing.
This is something, and it’s unique.  No other company has done it.

Strawman. No one has argued that your product is not unique. What we have argued is that you are a liar, you took the money up front, you knew you could not ship, you knew it was not ready, you kept the money, you lied and lied and lied about when it would be ready, you still havent shipped, you still have the money, and you still havent shipped.

You see - it is your avoidance of every specific criticism being directed at you that again makes you a liar.

Mark Knighton said:
To frame all this as “could have been epic ... but no matter how innovative and perfected ... will never be true”.  These are words whispered in the ear of the runner in the last lap of a great race ... to discourage, and goad them to give up.   We won’t.  With 36 months of validation, the record speaks for itself. Demonstrably, we don’t quit.  

Ah, there is one of your favorite words: 'Validation'. Once again, nonsense spoken with no foundation or reference for the listener. No one but you has any idea what you have 'validated', or how 'valid' your 'validation' was. Its a nonsense word like all of your 'updates'. Progress is progressing (how much progress? how much more progress remains?). Moving forward (how much further?). Checking off items (how many items checked? how many more items to check?)

Go back and read my post about listing specifics and start writing answers. Read other peoples specific questions and give direct answers.

You cant do it. You wont do it. All you can do is lie to people and write page after page of pure BS. All you can do is waste your time here not answering questions and making yourself look worse with every post.

Mark Knighton said:
If you truly feel we knew the challenges before they presented, and intentionally made disingenuous estimates - then on moral grounds, the only rational choice is to cancel.

Wrong again. On firmly moral ground, over 4 years ago, I engaged in a good faith transaction with you which had a set of terms each party agreed upon, and I intend to hold you to the original terms, plus the terms you added.

You will either:

1) Provide the product + the gift
2) Refund to everyone who ordered and never received a product: the money + the value of the gift + interest for the 4+ year loan  (wait just a bit longer and a judge will be ordering you to do the same!)

Mark Knighton said:
You’ve always controlled your money.  Just push the button and take it back if you don’t believe in our good faith. 

Strawman. The issue is not that any individual can get a refund. The issue is that you have lied to 10,000 people, kept the money, lied to incentivize people to let you keep their money, then lied some more.

STOP LYING.

On the lithium ion battery topic - more BS. They do have a shelf life, and even if optimally stored, they will degrade to some extent over the course of 4-5 years. How much? It depends. One web source I found says:

• Lithium-ion batteries age. They only last two to three years, even if they are sitting on a shelf unused. So do not "avoid using" the battery with the thought that the battery pack will last five years. It won't. Also, if you are buying a new battery pack, you want to make sure it really is new. If it has been sitting on a shelf in the store for a year, it won't last very long. Manufacturing dates are important.

If you google 'lithium ion shelf life' many articles appear indicating a range of 2 to 3 years. Some articles say 5-10 years, which even so, would statistically suggest that some percentage of the batteries will already have failed, and the rest will be well on their way to failure. No article I found says unlimited shelf life under ideal conditions as the liar Waytools_Support (Mark Knighton) attempted to suggest. No matter how you spin it, a 5 year old battery is not a new battery. Its a 5 year old battery.

Why dont you tell us exactly how many units of Textblade you have produced, and the exact date of production of each unit? That is yet another specific question you will never answer because you are too busy bickering and lying to do anything useful. When did you procure the batteries in the existing hardware? Are they in fact almost 5 years old? Will you be replacing every finished unit shipped with new batteries, or will you be selling your old deteriorated hardware to your earliest good faith customers? If I had to bet, I would bet you will screwing people over at every opportunity, as you have already done for the past 4+ years. Actually I would not bet at all, because I know you are never going to ship this product, no matter how old the batteries are. You are lying.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.

asender said:

Being consistent in what one says can also be a symptom of someone sticking to the truth.

Another way to stick to the truth would be to avoid equivocation on a word like 'shipped'.  In a retail context it means shipping product to its new owners, not sending to testers review units which are explicitly declared not to be their property.

The facts of the Textblade development could have been an epic and heroic story of a great vision supported by people willing to give the benefit of the doubt, if only the nature of the process had been openly admitted all along; if only there had been the courage to play it straight, rather than the apparent belief that being disingenuous to persuade people to give and let you keep money is a means justified by an end, which no matter how innovative and perfected the final product turns out, will never be true.

Amen brother. Sing it.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.

WayTools_Support said:
Arkorott - we’ll post on our forum about the advances we’ve made to our firmware tech.  Look there for more details this month.  

Tomorrow. Next week. This month. Summer. Fall.

WayTools_Support said:

The job of anonymous posts here is to stay-on-message to disparage our work.  

Its not your non-existent 4 year old unfinished product that is disparaged. It is you. Liar. Scammer.

WayTools_Support said:

So we’ll post all product news on our forum, and you’ll find it there.

By 'news' Mark Knighton is referring to his many lies about updates (tomorrow, next week, next month) and lies about ship dates, 4+ years of those lies.

Go to his forum and challenge the sincerity of any of his lies, and you will be banned.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.

arkorott said:

WayTools_Support said:

And fortuitously, we’ve now too been educated about”lying liars” vs. mere liars.  

Sorry. Can you please start posting on topic ? It is in your best interest to talk about the TB.
(Because if you don't you really concede the points of deflecting and obfuscating leveled at you by TBD, don't you see? Talking  nonsense without talking ANY details of project status does not help you)

arkorott - You convey the mindset of a victim.

First, you apologize on behalf of their bad behavior. 'Sorry.'

Then,  'If you dont stop hitting people, you concede the points that you are violent, dont you see?' (hope the obvious point is taken here, you are observing them doing something, but hesitating to concede that they are already doing it).

I am not leveling any new or speculative charges at Waytools here. Everything I am saying is based on 4+ years of their past behavior. Facts. 

 Talking  nonsense without talking ANY details of project status does not help you)

Mark Knighton is oblivious to that observation. He does not care. He does not care about his reputation.

He is not here to help you. He wants your money.

WAKE UP.


Two pallets of aging Textblades with expired batteries.  Millions of dollars collected from 10,000+ customers? 4+ years. No product shipped. No keys for kids. Who has the money? Mark Knighton has the money.