TextBladeDenied

WayTools_Support said:

Juli was relentlessly accused of writing a puff piece for money.  She did no such thing.  She reported accurately what she observed about the exciting new capabilities of this technology.  The same capabilities accurately reported by William at AppleInsider, and the same excitement that he conveyed after extensively using the product for many months himself.

It does not matter what you say. Anyone can visit the link above and simply read the thread themselves. Juli mentioned in the thread that WayTools communication with her was poor. If you cared about her opinions so much, why did you gaslight her and lie to her and fail to communicate with her, same as you do with everyone else? Its a habit you cannot break.

People criticized her coverage of Waytools because they did not want to see a macrumors reporter getting publicly used and blatantly lied to and thus discredited as a journalist. People did not want to see you lying to her in the same way that you lie to all of your victims (customers). People did not believe then and they do not believe now that you deserve any puff piece paid placement articles or coverage because you are a liar and a scam artist and a toxic personality who has collected millions of dollars from thousands of customers and you have never shipped any of them any product.

The Waytools_Support character repeatedly asks the same shameless question to the public - Why do they hate us so? It isnt normal! Why why why are we attacked?

Could it be you Mark? Does it even dawn on you for a second that all your lies are the reason why so many of your relationships with so many people turn so sour?

Do not give your money to this company. They are liars and cheats. They have lied to people continuously for 4+ years. Do not trust them.

It really is illuminating to go back in time and read that macrumors thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/waytools-textblade-keyboard-to-start-shipping-to-test-group-users-next-week.1957232/

First, you will remark to yourself upon the fact that the tone of the discussion there is quite similar to here, but it is over three years in the past.

Second, you might note if you read up to page 5 that everything @WayTools_Support said earlier in this thread about @Rolanbek is false.  Once again, Mark Knighton is demonstrably proven to be a liar. Page 5 is also where the macrumors reporter explains why she felt Waytools misled her (3 years ago!) and will no longer give them any press coverage.

Logically, that leads to the questions: Did Appleinsider know about the macrumors debacle from over 3 years ago? Did they take into consideration all the lies and gaslighting and forced order canceling and claims of 'ready to ship' that were researched over 3 years ago by another reporter when they set about writing this current article? Or is Appleinsider just the latest rube in the Waytools propaganda machine?

Third, you'll note the same 'BigKahuna' character there with a status of 'suspended' for behaving badly as an obnoxious member of the Waytools customer service assassination squad, just as he is behaving here.

I had never read the macrumors thread until now. It is amazing. How long can a fraud like this be perpetuated before some handcuffs are placed on wrists?

Return all the money to all of your customers WayTools! Stop the pyramid scheme!

WayTools_Support said:

Pretty sure that no one who trusts you will buy a TextBlade.
With the sole exception of you yourself, of course.

No idea what your point is.

Some of this is so far in the ancient past, it seems ridiculous to bring it up, but this 'Waytools_Support' person is putting on a nice performance so it must be mentioned,

For the first couple years of delays, Waytools did not communicate by saying 'we are encountering tech difficulties A, B, and C and are unable to determine at this time when we will be ready to ship a working product'. They constantly said things intended to indicate that shipping was certain within some very specifically defined window of time. It is all available on the waytools forum and the waytools blog updates if you want to dig into the past and read it yourself (at least I think it is all still there, I have not checked it in quite a while). There was post after post after post from a Waytools rep (probably Mark Knighton) saying things along the lines of 'we just have to fix this 'vaguely undefined issue' and then shipping looks 'on track' 'very good' 'promising' 'certain'  'within the next few hours'  'tomorrow' 'the next few days' 'next week' 'the next few weeks' 'next month'. They were statements that aimed to be vague, misleading, or disprovable, but were still accountable to any reasonable person as articulating a window of time which was, by any sane interpretation, far, far, far less than 4 years.

They were outright lies. Falsehoods. Shameless fabrications. And then each missed deadline was excused with gaslighting attempts to explain that they did not mean what they said the last time they said it. Often they would make promises of updates or ship dates, and then disappear entirely from the forums with no explanation, then appear days or weeks later with glib or inarticulate comments that would be comical if they were not so offensive from the perspective of a customer trying to understand when his product would arrive.

Appleinsider should review the waytools forum and collect some of those posts for a followup article and on camera interview with Mark Knighton. Does anyone here think Mark would have the guts to sit down, face a camera and answer questions about the last 4 years based on transcripts of his past statements? That would be very interesting and entertaining to watch. Not going to happen.

Do not trust these people. Do not give them your money. They are liars.

WayTools_Support said:

The article is pretty explicit that you’ll have to be patient.  It’s in the headline.

So why do customers preorder?  Many join in because they want to accelerate a change for the better.
Tesla took $40,000 deposits from Model S customers

Although it seems odd that someone would do this kind of disparagement campaign, it does go on in industry, no matter how big and established a company is.
Some of these campaigns can get very nasty, at times requiring court restraining orders to intervene.
A cyberstalker has now been called into court by a complaint from Tesla.
These guys are known short sellers, who make money concocting bad news about Tesla.

You are not Tesla. You will never be Tesla. You have never shipped a product, unlike Tesla. Short sellers? Which exchange is your company listed on?

The most plausible explanation for why you have not shipped is that you do not have the money remaining to fulfill orders. You spent it all trying to fix your prototype - which belies your initial fraud in 2015 that you were ready to ship a working product worldwide. You were not. You lied. You took money for a product you knew you could not deliver.

You have a couple of obvious choices. You could seek outside investment to finish the product and deliver it, or you could perpetuate a pyramid scheme to gather more cash from new orders to fund the fulfillment of old orders.

Outside investment seems unlikely. You have not had enough money to fund the engineering resources necessary to finish the product and ship it even remotely near the original shipping deadline. 4 long years have passed. I detect in your personality serious flaws which prevent you from acquiring investors. Investors need to trust the people they do business with. You do not come across as a trustworthy person. I direct you to exhibits A through Z: the first 26 times you said the product would ship, and subsequently did not.

So the alternative: Pyramid scheme. You do strike me as a scam artist or a hustler. So perhaps you try to pump up a little media attention with things like an Appleinsider article. Attract some more suckers and convince them to send you $99. If you gather enough of them, you might fulfill some subset of the earliest orders, or at least continue the trickle expansion of 'treg'. Or you might just line your own pockets. Who knows? With you, it is hard to tell. Believe it or not, you do not inspire a lot of confidence that you are struggling to do as you say and provide the product you promised to your customers. Refer as necessary to exhibits A-Z again.

Ultimately, pyramid schemes fail. You need enough customers and enough profit margin to make it work. You appear to have neither.

As a token of the good faith I have granted you in the past, I offer this - if you had said at any point in the first 3+ years, 'Ok folks, it took us longer, and it cost us more. We failed in that respect. To get it across the finish line we need to raise the price.' If you had simply been transparent about how you were failing, and named the price, and then shipped the product, I would likely have gone along with it. Good will is always extended to honest and ethical people. But you are neither.

You never shipped anyone anything because you are a liar.

I have taken care to explain to everyone how unethical you are, how you lied to all your customers for the past 4 years, and how you have never shipped a working product despite countless assurances that shipping was imminent, so my guess is that the pyramid scheme approach you may be pursuing will also fail, as there will not be enough customers to fund further development or manufacturing.