If that's how it has to read, then that's it then. This looks on paper as a basic custom batch order with customer specifications to a contract cue manufacturer. This doesn't look like a catalog order with re-labeling. Do you see it as the former or the latter?
Deano does use the carnival barker approach. No denying it, and everyone should know that he sells with hype.
And here I am at home without popcorn and just some old, stale pretzel sticks.
Freddy, you shouldn't denigrate carnival barkers by putting Dean in the same lot.
Dean, somewhat obviously, crossed even the loose ethical standards of the group with his deception and misrepresentation. It doesn't matter about the cues themselves -- it's about the deception. And I think AZPro's observation, about how Dean repeatedly ignored forum's protocols, posting in the wrong forums to garner more attention, is also damning now that we know he was actively scamming.
Lou Figueroa